Any Acid/Poison Ranged Builds Out There?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Also, there is the possibility of retaliation ranged Auto-attack. This could look like this: Sentinel RF ranged retaliation AA

RF spams a % of the total retaliation in the attack, and Jaxxon rings add the rta to each projectile, when activated. 27% of the total retaliation amount can be quite a bit of damage. It is possible that a pistol such as Morguul’s Mortality would work as well or better here, as the attack speed and RR would compensate for the relatively smallish loss in %retaliation damage.

Oleron’s Blood on the shield is simply for the damage reduction on tough enemies. Bosses and such.

Edit:

After reading x1’s comment in the Burning Devil build thread, I realized that Degallion’s Destroyer pistol could be optimal for this suggested build. 100% chance to pass through enemies is potent. The gains far outweigh the small retaliation dmg and % loss.

Tweaked and wth Degallion

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I can verify that ranged acid Sentinel with venomlance works decently well. It won’t be setting any records, but it can do SR70-ish.

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Bumping to shamelessly promote my new build. Maybe it’s what you’re looking for.

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I know this is really late to the conversation, but I was looking around for any other poison range builds to see if others have tried this route. I haven’t really seen any support for it, seems like a very niche thing. I thought I’d post my build just for those so they could see it. I’ve made it through Elite without much of an issue, but I haven’t put forth the time to play Ultimate. Only on level 93 with him, got a little more work to hit 100.

I copied my character over, but not all the resistances are showing up correctly and the damage isn’t showing correctly, either. I’ve been trying to find a second Empowered Slimebolter or even hoping one of the legendary acid/poison guns would drop for me, but no luck yet.

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this is something I scribble from grimtools some months ago, so untested yet

It uses fantasy green affixes, but the core item basically the same, that guns and radaggan set on beronath fury. Also Acid does not have good option for ranged auto attack, so dual wielding is limited to that green gun mostly.

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@Nu_Waves

For the campaign - they’re good. I haven’t tested them in SR or Crucible. Not sure, if I would attempt to kill any Celestials with them, but here you go:
1] Acid Witch Hunter - DW ranged - Witch Hunter, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.2) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
2] Acid Witch Hunter - 2H ranged - Witch Hunter, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.2) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator

And to be honest - many ranged builds are missing in the Compendiums, because they don’t match up the standards of “killing everything you look at”.

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Not sure about endgame, but there are two of them Any Acid/Poison Ranged Builds Out There? - #26 by Sir_Mac

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You can easily do a DW Ranged Acid/Vitality Righteous Fervor/Smite Sentinel like I have here:

Leveling is pretty straight forward especially after you can DW pistols. Start off with a 2hander and max Smite ASAP. With the RF transmuter and Smite you’re pretty good until you can craft a DW Relic. :sunglasses:

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