Any melee poison build viable for HC?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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These are 2 builds I’ve been thinking about:

Dagger + Offhand: http://grimcalc.com/build/JP2t5H

Dual blade: http://grimcalc.com/build/ytYl0z

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The first of your builds isn’t HC viable, the second could work.

Poison builds function efficiently with solid resistance reduction. That’s also the only way to remain efficient lategame.
You don’t need to work on single target damage, poison comes in solid numbers, resitance reduction will do the job.
You don’t need to work exclusively on AOE damage, there are tonnes of procs through items and devotions, but of course you’d better have some. The more AOE, the better.

2 proposals:

Hybrid DW melee with transmuted DEE for better AOE and burst damage
Pure DW melee, single target damage is through execution, AOE is a bit tricky, should work hard around AOE procs, but build provides higher base stats.

Both builds stack resistance reduction through night’s chill and CoF, you’ll have to add the flat reduction from manticore devotion or mark of dreeg component, or eventually malediction relic if you got the recipe/cash. Adding a source of % resistance reduction will also help you greatly.

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I’ve been playing this in sc but I suspect it’ll work for hc as well:

No gear: http://grimcalc.com/build/t8ifQR
With gear: http://grimcalc.com/build/4OPVvy

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Here’s my Posion Melee Build in Hardcore. Life & Stun Reduction are definitely Low for what I like, but as long as you pay attention it is fine. Can Get up to 50K ticks on bosses I can face tank 100%. Otherwise usually around 25K to 40K ticks. Build is reliant on +4 Skills to nightblade (I have +3 Nightblade, +1 to All and +1 to Occcultist)

Grim Calc
Video

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Thanks mate. I haven’t played a poison build properly so this is great to know. Will make sure I can stack -%poison resistance skills for the best performance.

I almost shit my pants watching the video, your health bar going up and down like crazy. Geez…if ultimate with this build looks like that I will probably go for caster instead. Though you’re using some green stuff, perhaps your survivability can be improved with more legendary items. It’s interesting to see that your skill build is pretty much what I had in mind with minor differences.

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Yeah I definitely would like more health and reduced Physical damage. But with 900 Life Regen and 9% Life Steal combined with Pneumatic Burst & Giants Blood proc it gets by :slight_smile: