Blademaster and Spellbreaker

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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The two favorite classes of mine.

This is a standard piercing/cold blademaster built around GeneralCash ideas. Better than the old pre 1.0.0.4 version imho.

Pretty crazy, unbuffed OA and nice damage, plus a fancy 19% physical resistance.

This is a Shadow Strike Spellbreaker. I have “stolen” some ideas from Jajaja and Steelflame’s versions of this char and tried to make one with the advantages of both.

Plays like Jajaja’s one in regular gameplay (albeit the nerf to Belgothian’s Carnage here hurt more than in other cases), and use Aeon Hourglass proc for a 0sec CD Shadow Strike versus bosses.

In her “enraged” status she does well above 1200000 dmg in 10sec (max time you can have Mirror on), and without taking criticals/-resists into the equation (and +150% critical damage/3000+ OA should count something).

Night’s Chill + Acid Spray (bound to SS) introduce an “interesting” new way to deal with bosses. You begin name-locking the target with SS, and when your health drop below 50% you fire up Mirror, without releasing the lock, until the target is dead.

So far i have tested this spellbreaker against a fair amount of difficult enemies, and she’s the FASTEST boss-killer among the chars i have ever tried (in a few instances Fabius was killed in >less< than 3 sec, and Log as well in under 7-8sec.) I even managed to kill the Queen, but her insane damage require a GREAT sense of timing to avoid an embarrassing death.

I have spent ten days farming the items (read: the pants) to finally “optimize” those chars. All i have to say is that the “Empowered Legplate of Valor” is a thing of the past.
Maybe some of you that are more experienced than me can take these concepts and push the line even further.

Update: these are skills for the spellbreaker. I’m still tweaking it, but since some of you have requested this…

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big numbers lol, can u post all the items and grimcalc to bm ?

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I have tried a setup that looks almost exactly like that with ikrix scale as well From testing on dummy, I think black star was still a few seconds faster, but my ikrix isn’t a double dps affix one. Do you have dummy/shar’zul times?

Is there any reason you still keep the 3 piece set instead of going full MI?

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any of u veteran blademasters will trade me a crappy deathmark shoulder?
need to test on new build and these are harder to find than nemo :rolleyes:

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Sure I can later when I get back, what’s your steam ID?

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Mr. ETK thank you for confirming my suspicion that Spellbreaker is curently the most powerful class in the game. I knew this from my own experience but it is nice to see other ppl using it also. Time Dilation on a spellbreaker - be it SS-spam or caster-oriented - is better than on a full caster build.

It is curious to me how this was not addressed before and most people thought Time Dilation in itself is overpowered, when in reality TD becomes overpowered due to the Arcanist mastery that provides you with mirror + skill mana reduction + enormous mana regeneration that is percentage based. To be more explicit, any other class combination that tries to abuse SS during TD will sooner or later either run out of mana (i.e. WH, BM) or be facerolled due to no mirror. Furthermore, the primordial affinity of TD goes hand in hand with the arcanist mastery…

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1-BSoD is the “offensive” choice ofc. But with ikrix i have A LOT more survivability (harmonious / of readiness)

2- No times, sorry. But she’s FAST.

3- Those 3 pieces give me all the things I need atm without farming for another month crazy items that give only marginally better results.

>JAJAJA: I have only one (almost perfect), because I scrapped all the other with inferior rolls. If you don’t mind using a “dupe” of mine, i can give you a mule with it.

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Well in this case the credits should go to GeneralCash for pointing me to the right direction, and obviously Steelflame and Jajaja. I originally planned to make a 2h Blademaster + Menhir’s Will to achieve the same results, but it was disappointing (mostly because sometime MW refused to overcast if the previous one was still running, but also because the speed against trash mobs was only average at best).

Also i would not call TD overpowered. A single bad timing on the first Mirror and you are no more… It’s a “all-or-nothing” proc imho, where you have to take the risks.

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What’s your exact devotion setup, I’m wondering how you managed to squeeze Manticore in.

I toyed around with SB as soon as TD was changed, it’s a natural choice to abuse that skill. I never managed to get over 20k chart dps, I’m guessing yours is higher because of good rares.

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thanks sir!
https://steamcommunity.com/id/meerkatologist/

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CROSSROAD - Yellow and red

Turtle
Eel
Hound
Panther

Rat
Jackal
Viper

Hourglass

Lion - 2 point
Manticore - 5 point
Behemoth - 3 point.

Also the only rare worth mentioning (dps-wise) is the “Frostborn Loxmere’s Frostblade of Shattering”, that IS NOT the best green you can have because I’m still at max 180%atkspd. I need something with more speed.

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That’s also my opinion on it but I think a lot of ppl believed they can pull it off with all caster classes when in fact they can’t ! It’s also not like Agrivix’s Malice used to be…where it was actually a bug that made it enormously powerful.

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thanks! looks like silic has an extra, ill get it from him when he comes back

on side thought, i wish they would make TD similar to BC, like a 1sec of no CD on a 6sec cooldown or something. alot more fun/balanced that way.

but in either case i highly doubt they will keep TD in its current form though. it will probably be revamped or nerfed to the ground.
altho the SB has the advantage of being able to fight ok without TD proc unlike probably the caster builds based around it

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Could you put a Grimcalc of your Spellbreaker ?

If you could tip the names of rare items you use they seems to be the same apart from weapons on the 2 builds, would be really cool :stuck_out_tongue:

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This was not intended to be a guide, but a “proof of concept”, that’s why I haven’t given further info on the chars/items.

base item, prefix, suffix

RING - GOLLUS/CRONLEY, Incorruptible/Warding/Ordered/Impervious, of Readiness.
(pretty rare items, but if you aren’t obsessed as me with resistances, there are MUCH BETTER choices that are also easier to find)

BM GLOVES - EXALTED, Formidable, of Amarasta’s Alacrity.
(you can craft this)

BM BOOTS - EXALTED, Formidable, of Kings
(you can craft this)

SB BOOTS - EXALTED, Stonehide, of Kings
(you can craft this)

PANTS - DREEG’S SECT, Formidable, of Menhir’s Wall.
(Took me around 50 hours of farming:cry:)

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I found one the other day. If I can find it, you can have it.

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but in either case i highly doubt they will keep TD in its current form though. it will probably be revamped or nerfed to the ground.
altho the SB has the advantage of being able to fight ok without TD proc unlike probably the caster builds based around it

TD on this char is simply an “amazing bonus”. When/if they (the devs) decide to nerf/change it, I will simply revert to the original idea (your idea, to be precise), so the char should not be lost.

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Just got one from silic, thanks man!

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well it’s a… good start i guess :rolleyes:

i’m planning a DW cold Spellbreaker as well (tried it out in EA and it was by far my most powerful char), didn’t know i wil have to farm Lowmere to make it even more powerful :eek: (though from what you say, an Exalted Dagger with good rolls could be as powerful ?)

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Does anyone have a good build guide or a grim calc build for a dual wield spellbraker? Im planning on making a spellbraker myself, but havent been able to find a good build for it on the forums.