Asterkarn Typewriter - Cold PRM Wereraven Theorycrafting

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi there!

Was trying different raven builds with FoA release, wanted to make something that capitalizes on wereraven, does not rely on WoA because I kinda don’t enjoy channeling spells, and is simple enough to play from controller.

After tinkering a bit, came up with this idea:

The gist is, since PRM has tri-element dmg + aether from proliferation, lets convert the elemental damage to aether through skill modification from slathsarr, and then add 100% aether to cold.
And since distortion does RR, we can save on second RR devotion.
There’s some residual elemental dmg from distortion/supercharged, but nothing to care about.

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Alternatively, this cool hat can be used: we’re trading medal slot for a hat slot, and some nice + to skills, at the cost of still needing to convert aether.
Since we need aether conversion anyway, we can go Star Pact instead of Heart of Asterkarn + Form for cold dmg buff and casting speed.
This actually saves us 12 skill points from beast form, frees the belt slot, and gives CDR for mirror.

I think, the star pact one is somewhat better, but it kinda depends on gear availability - with head free, I can slap on the paragon set for panetti buffing.

Also, the devotions - everyone says Ultos is op, but I felt that lighning to cold conversion is kinda meh on items, so went with Yugol. For the rest, picked Rumor for RR and the rest for survivability/cast speed.

Would like to hear your advice - this my first kinda-decent build.

Cheers.

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Converting elemental to aether and then aether to cold doesn’t work like that. Conversion is applied once so you can go from x to y to z damages.

If you want to play totally cold PRM than just use faraths cube and wight hags horns. Doing it this way also converts all flat elemental and aether damage applied to PRM via skill modifiers.

Ultos is op bc it grants 20% reduced elemental resistance. Also there’s no need to go so deep into greens to play yugol when the relic icebreaker has the same DR value and isn’t inconsistent like yugol.

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Interesting, thank you.

I was thinking about the cube, but with Ultos picked, it looks like I’ll need lightning → cold anyway.
Does hag’s horns conversion apply to the whole prm damage, or only the first node?

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It applies to all the skill nodes