Blood Rose - Budget Dark One Pet build (with superboss kills :3)

Foreword:

A Budget Pet Build using target farmable items including the Dark One’s Gift Set, capable of killing all superbosses except Crate and some versions of Ravager.

Note: Requires both Ashes_of_Malmouth & Forgotten_Gods.

Note II: Build is damage focused and not recommended for Hardcore.


  • [Pet] [1.2] (budget) (L) (sr+) Blood Rose - Budget Dark One Pet build (Maya)

    • Damage: Pets
    • Active Skills: Summon Familiar, Summon Hellhound, Summon Briarthorn, Blood of Dreeg, Curse of Frailty, Devouring Swarm, Wendigo Totem, Grasping Vines
    • Passive Skills: Bonds of Bysmiel, Mogdrogen’s Pact, Primal Bond, Ancestral Bond, Aether-Ward, Void-Ward
    • WPS Skills: none

DoT – – https://www.grimtools.com/calc/YVWABJGN

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Mogdrogen: https://i.imgur.com/PRUeZJH.jpg
Took around 9 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending and Elixir of Mogdrogen.

Ravager of Souls: https://i.imgur.com/ko5FmJg.jpg
Took around 13 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending and Elixir of Mogdrogen.

Callagadra: https://i.imgur.com/CCn2AYY.jpg
Took around 7:30 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending and Elixir of Mogdrogen.

Crucible 150-170: https://i.imgur.com/nrUD24l.jpg
Took around 7 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending.

Shattered Realms, Shard 80: https://i.imgur.com/LaFLxiB.jpg
No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending.



Build Details

Factions:

  • Kymon’s vs Vigil = Entirely upto you.

  • Witch Gods = They are not mutually exclusive and you can max your reputation with all 3.

  • Barrowholm = Join. We need access to their faction merchant.

  • Anasteria = Doesn’t matter. Upto you.

Devotions:

  • Purple > Shepherd’s Crook > Remove Purple >
  • Yellow > Stag > Panther > Remove Yellow >
  • Falcon > Nighttalon > Toad > Red >
  • Behemoth > Remove Red > Bysmiel’s Bonds >
  • Typhos, the Jailor of Souls >
  • Mogdrogen the Wolf >
  • Huntress (minus the node that gives pierce resistance)

Skills:

  • 14/10 Curse of Frailty, 5/10 Vulnerability.
  • 16/16 Blood of Dreeg, 12/12 Aspect of the Guardian.
  • 5/16 Summon Familiar, 5/12 Storm Spirit, 5/12 Lightning Strike.
  • 22/16 Summon Hellhound, 12/12 Ember Claw, 5/12 Hellfire, 5/12 Infernal Breath.
  • 5/12 Bonds of Bysmiel, 12/12 Manipulation.
  • 24/16 Summon Briarthorn, 19/12 Ground Slam, 12/12 Emboldening presence.
  • 2/12 Mogdrogen’s Pact, 10/10 Heart of the Wild, 10/10 Oak Skin.
  • 12/12 Wendigo Totem, 6/12 Blood Pact.
  • 16/16 Devouring Swarm.
  • 2/12 Grasping Vines.
  • 16/12 Primal Bond.

Items:

Benevald is in The Blood Grove.

Hyram is in Steelcap District - Malmouth.

(Blueprint for Hysteria Relic, which is needed to Craft Ancestor, can be bought from Homestead Faction Merchant)

Edge of Reality is a secret area that is part of the Lokarr Secret quest.

Components:

*Purified Salt & Imbued Silver are Craftable at any Blacksmith without requiring Blueprint.

Augments:

Crafting & Transmuting NPCs:

Crafting -

Transmuting -


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How to Level

Attributes:

Everything into Physique, except for when you need to invest into Cunning or Spirit to meet the required stats for equipping items.

Leveling:

There are primarily 2 ways to go. Either focus more on Occultist or Shaman. I would suggest going with an Occultist focused setup since it is easier to level with. You can ofcourse, focus on both equally, but then would be spreading your points too thin and that is not recommended.

Devotions:

  • Purple > Shepherd’s Crook > Remove Purple >
  • Yellow > Stag > Panther > Remove Yellow >
  • Falcon > Nighttalon > Toad > Red >
  • Behemoth > Remove Red > Bysmiel’s Bonds >
  • Typhos, the Jailor of Souls >
  • Mogdrogen the Wolf >
  • Huntress (minus the node that gives pierce resistance)

Skills:

  • Lvl 10 – 16/16 Familiar, 1/16 Hellhound.
  • Lvl 20 – 16/16 Briarthorn, 1/10 Curse of Frailty, 4/16 Hellhound.
  • Lvl 30 – 10/10 Curse of Frailty, 10/10 Vulnerability, 16/16 Hellhound.
  • Lvl 40 – 16/16 Blood of Dreeg, 8/12 Storm Spirit, 1/16 Devouring Swarm.
  • Lvl 50 – 12/12 Lightning Strike, 1/12 Grasping Vines.
  • Lvl 60 – 12/12 Aspect of the Guardian, 12/12 Storm Spirit, 2/12 Ember Claw, 1/12 Bonds of Bysmiel.
  • Lvl 70 – 3/12 Manipulation, 1/12 Possession.
  • Lvl 80 – 12/12 Manipulation, 12/12 Possession.
  • Lvl 90 – 12/12 Infernal Breath, 12/12 Ember Claw.
  • Lvl 94 – Respec, according to the build you are going for.

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Save file

_BloodRose.zip (1.0 MB)



Endgame Setup – https://www.grimtools.com/calc/D2pXOG12

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Crate of Entertainment: https://i.imgur.com/MkSTg7v.jpg
Took around 1 minute. No potions/consumables needed except for Tonic of Mending & Elixir of Spirit.

Mogdrogen: https://i.imgur.com/xJ0sDBv.jpg
Took around 2:45 minutes. No potions/consumables needed except for Tonic of Mending & Elixir of Spirit.

Ravager of Flesh: https://i.imgur.com/Omhehou.jpg
Took around 2 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending & Elixir of Spirit.

Callagadra: https://i.imgur.com/oOLU8vh.jpg
Took around 2:15 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending & Elixir of Spirit.

Shattered Realms, Shard 95: https://i.imgur.com/sKEHtH1.jpg
No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending & Elixir of Spirit. Pretty easy :blush:

Shattered Realms, Shard 95 - 96: https://i.imgur.com/LXWiGTz.jpg
Took around 13 minutes with Elixir of Mogdrogen used as a makeshift clock. Pretty easy :blush:

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Final reserbirb and done

Save file added in case someone wants to try it out without leveling it :3

There’s already a thread for this Dark Rose - Lazy Dark One’s Set Budget Pet Conjurer

2 different builds in terms of devotions.

That one is the lazy version with Ishtak+Tree

Update - Added Endgame setup to the OP.


2:15 min Cally & 1 min Crate -


2 min Ravager & 2:45 min Mogdrogen -


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SR 95 done with the endgame setup :blush:

and a 13 min SR 95 - 96 -

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Superbosses got harder with 1.2.1.0 playtest patch, but doing SR 75-76 is as easy as before, even with the budget setup. No changes necessary


Cally took 9+ minutes, nearly 2 minutes slower than before on average, but is still doable with the budget setup -

Potential update once the upcoming patch goes live - Conjurer, Level 100 (GD 1.2.0.5) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
(Build is a bit more defensive oriented than before)

7min Callagadra kill -

5:30min Mogdrogen kill -