I appreciate the suggestion, but Physical Blitz is already covered by the Markovian Set Warlord, which is specifically designed around Blitz. I keep the builds limited to one per damage type, as there are many ways to build around a particular skill, and I don’t want to bloat the compendium too much with multiple builds using the same damage type.
I am adding builds from 1.1.9.0 into the Compendium - I want to say that I’ve removed most of the outdated builds to show that each damage type is viable in the most current patch, but with around 300 builds in my posts, it’s hard to keep track of all of them.
I’ll spend the next few days reviewing all the new Crucible videos from the 1.1.9.0 patch to see if there are any new builds I should keep aware of. If there’s nothing glaring, I will call my Compendium the official 1.0. Thanks to all who gave me the kick in the pants necessary to turn it from the rushed thread it initially was to the more polished version it is today. I wanted to do this as a gift to showcase Grim Dawn’s fountain of creativity and as a thank you to all the experienced builders for making really amazing builds.
EDIT: With nearly all of the builds posted in the Compendium updated to at least Patch 1.1.7.0, I’m going ahead and deeming this the official 1.0 release. The only skill I’m really missing is a good build to showcase nuke DEE; the official forums only have spam DEE, and Youtube makes it impossible to do a good search for nuke DEE. Outside of that, all skills in the game is now paired with a very cool build so that players can search for what to make for an end-game build.
It’s not a skill that really gets built around often since -cd for it is pretty scarce so you almost always have to pair it with something else like a replacer/AA filler. But if you’re curious, the ones I’m aware of are:
Most Physical converted skills will be deleted unless videos are after the 1.1.9.X Physical damage overhaul to ensure that the armor changes are not too catastrophic
The post with the Component skills (Seal of the Night Chillspikes, Acid Purge) is deleted because of the great Nerfening which effectively deleted these components as build-enablers. Not that there’s anything wrong with the builds, the components are simply more supporting cast than the main star of builds.
The main purpose of the update was to add the new Aegis Spam that was introduced by 1.1.9.4.
The Arcanist section is more or less complete with my new formatting. It would be nice to have more videos for Devastation (especially Vitality Devastation), but there shouldn’t be too much of a need to update that section any more.
I will need much more time to complete the other classes with the same formatting as the Arcanist class, but it will get done. Eventually.
Acid Purge hasn’t been nerfed at all, it has been buffed. As for the rest - Crit damage loss is not that big (how often does one Crit on bosses + if you already have Crit damage it’s even a smaller loss). A few % nerf at best, might be even 2% against a boss. I recommend the calculator for estimating the nerf. This is not Diablo 3 where %Crit damage is such a huge deal for every build in every scenario because Crit chance is high and independent of anything where it would be a 15% damage loss I guess.
I haven’t done a lot of math but I believe for example you could make a very strong Pierce Chillspikes build (max casting speed and 2hander) where it can be the main damage source, at least for single target, so might not be build defining in Crucible but on bosses - sure.
Let’s not forget standard component skills can be cast up to 3 times per second and channeling ones can tick up to 6.66… times per second (ideal scenario, less in practice) if I’m not mistaken and this damage adds up.
I don’t mind you deleting this section if you so prefer - just stating my opinion as probably the main component / item skills enthusiast in the Grim Dawn community
Based on my limited casual non-endgame experience with BS, I’d say they were nerfed unnecessarily due to very well optimized Pierce / Bleed builds in Crucible. The Bleed part didn’t even feel that good to me in Act 2 Veteran after I got 18/16 in BS + Scarab Shield and I abandoned the character https://www.grimtools.com/calc/bVAAd0DV but it was my first Bleed build. Also they are dumb and slow and don’t seem to proc devotions as well on dummies for me as I thought. I don’t feel like maxing Nightblade mastery for them (in a Cold build at least). I’m open to be wrong about it though. I’d give them additional base Frostburn damage
Components granted skills nerfs weren’t that severe. The thing is even pre nerf they’re used as just fillers on casters majority of the time. And make sense as such.
But some of them have plenty of damage and they can deal significant percent in proc based builds. I have tried builds with literally just Chain Lightning and Pain as attacking skills. Acid Purge damage can also rival Drain Essence for channeling spell if you have the conversion. Ofc DE and FoI have other perks but Purge is valuable channeling spell.
And in Grim Dawn not every build have one defining skill, which is used. Octavius Warlord stacks trauma with Aegis and FW doing the heavy lifting. In fire Shieldbreaker you can have multiple damage sources with Judge, BWC, Mines, spam skill, Guardians etc but without dominating skill.
I don’t mind removing of this section but want to clarify the usage of the granted skills, like you.
This was the main reason I deleted the post. There was no point in dedicating an entire post to these components when they were mostly used as filler and made it near-impossible to determine if they were instrumental to a build’s success or not. In reality, I had barely seen any builds that made smart use of these components (at least in a damage-dealing sense) for over a year.
Since Nery’s Chaos Acid Purge was up-to-date and utilized the conversions well, I included it in the post above (the “skills granted by items” post). If you think a particular component / item / conversion is competitive, make sure you create a video with the build’s performance and upload it. It’s the only the way to have a fair comparison with the number of builds that are out there.
@Nery and some (quite rare) example of not putting RR devo on your spam attack to have Bat proc chance equal to 1 - 0.8^5 ~ 67% on single target with every Chillspikes cast.
Soldier class is now largely complete. I have a ton of work to do until this compendium can be considered complete, but every class I carry out to completion is one step closer to showing off the complete spectacle of just how many viable/competitive builds are out there.
If I were any good in Crucible, I’d complete a whole bunch of missing builds myself. Alas, the best I can do is share my work and hopefully someone else picks it up for the sake of Crucible completion.
Demolitionist class is more or less complete. Next revamp will be the Shaman class.
If only someone does something with the Acid Fire Strike Conduit meme, Fire Strike will have every damage type completed, not counting Bleeding.
Physical Grenado was removed because the video that had it was removed. Perhaps someone can make a video for Physical Grenado and post it. There’s definitely the gear out there to make it viable.
Shaman is now complete, complete with a new section inside it containing Upheaval builds. I consider Upheaval different from other WPS builds in that it is often the only WPS used in the build and requires you to built entirely around it by gunning for as high of your OA as possible. That makes it stand out compared to, say, a Smite or an Execution build.
EDIT: Now Inquisitor and Necromancer are complete. All that’s needed now is the Oathkeeper class, but it has the most builds out of all the classes out there.
