Hi at all. Im new in this game and im writing here for some support builds or guide if you can guys help me. I love mage and occultist mage, caster. Love dark mage and caos. Thx at all.
Hi and welcome to the forum 
My advise is not to start a mage class because casters in Grim Dawn are generally weaker than melee builds. The following build of jajaja is very good for starters:
Every class combo has been taken through ultimate, dont be swayed away from something you enjoy becuase it is harder to play at endgame.
Literally any damage type, ability and style is possible for the first 2 runs through the game at least.
If you like chaos damage and spells, take a look at occultist/arcanist aether ray. You take the modifier to make it chaos damage. Also the sigil spell from occultist is extremely powerful and heals you for 1000’s of life every time it ticks
Demolitionist casters are also lots of fun, you basically spam grenades and bombs everywhere and explode the whole screen
Most builds that you find on here are lv85 endgame builds with specific legendary gear and enchantments. If you are less than lv50 there isnt much for really specific guides / builds because you can put points basically anywhere and make it through at that point in the game and you dont have specific gear yeat
Thx at all guys! rlly helpful
I’d agree that the builds published on this forum aren’t that applicable to a new player - Anything can be enjoyable and strong through normal, veteran, and elite difficulties.
The builds in here are mostly for Ultimate, and in an overkill fashion. You can indeed take your randomly generated character through Ultimate difficulty with some skill and effort.
Further, many builds here rely on gear, which is something you wont have access to, and wont be in your control to acquire.
So I figure, if you want to figure out what to play, the way to go is to figure out what gameplay styles feel like they’ll be fun to you. A tricky build, with an interesting set of tactics? A hard brawler who gets into the fight and stays in the fight? A character that wreaks a screen full of devastation around them? Questions like these will be more useful to having fun, and wont compromise your characters long term viability either.
If you’re looking to get to 85 easily, I would highly recommend jajaja’s Cadence Witchblade build. I almost romped my way to cap with that one as a new player
Echoed. Just cadence with deadly momentum and shield gets you lotsa damage output and survivability right off the bat without even considering what shield or weapon you are using (provided the weapon attacks fast enough). With witchblade and CoF debuff and BoD and Solael’s it makes even more sense.
The first character I completed ultimate with and with only just 1 death (which was due to running into acid in Hargate’s Lab without realizing it) was a cadence witchblade, and one tuned against jajaja’s and MortalKombat’s suggestions mid-way. I don’t have a single piece of the markovian set yet. It’s not critical. Just cadence witchblade – you can’t go too far wrong with that.
I know you are looking for a caster but to me most casters I’ve tried actually need nice gear to start getting over hurdles in ultimate. I’m just starting to collect nice gear for them (like agrivix’s malice for my CT sorc which I recently found the blueprint for and also crafted using my 85 witchblade along with some pieces of Callidor’s and Isakandra’s set, Aldanar’s Vanity, etc).
Like you I prefer casters just conceptually and from a fun factor standpoint, but the melee builds are surprisingly, IMO (at least based on my limited experience), easier to use as your initial character without facing brick walls where you’re too squishy or doing too little damage in ultimate.
Always start 1st char with Pet Class.
Boo this man. :D:D
Pets are boring as hell and will never see the light of day in my world, but if that’s what you are into then more power to you.
All classes are noob friendly, just play around and find what skill or skills you enjoy most. The place where you might find issues at will probably be the Devotion Tree at first.
Things to remember Stat points and Mastery Bar points can’t be changed once you make them final.
It’s true that Pet classes are REALLY boring. I stopped playing my Pet Conj. once I got enough end-game gears for another build.
Howerver, I find it’s the most efficient start for most ARPG.
I hear you I just cant get myself to play one for very long. In PoE I will use Zombies while leveling but I don’t actually spec them. They are just there to eat damage and explode.
I actually enjoy pet builds in GD in some respects (I usually hate them in all respects as was the case with Necromancer in D2) cause in GD they actually kill so freaking quickly. Since they’re driven by AI they don’t have to make the player manually focus on one target at a time in a way that can be even more relaxing and quick to obliterate the screen than mass AoE skills you use yourself. With heavy pet-focus they actually do extremely respectable damage output while you just kind of casually sit back and maybe debuff enemies here and there and buff your pets. With the speed at which pets can kill in GD, it’s not like an idle game where you’re spending time waiting in one section of a map twiddling your thumbs while your pets take ages to kill anything. They’re killing stuff almost as fast as your character can walk from screen to screen with the appropriate buffs and debuffs, just leaving dead bodies all around you and loot on the floor.
This game really changed my ideas about pet builds in a way that seems interesting and fun. It’s like I can just walk around and have things dying left and right without targeting them individually… they become my damage source, automatic heat-seeking missiles destroying the entire screen – lovely, actually reducing the sense of the grind instead of emphasizing it as a lot of pet builds do for me in other games.
… except for one thing – when a single pet starts dying. Then it’s like a frantic moment where I’m micro-managing and trying to figure out which pet has died so that I can summon it again and maybe making mistakes where I just re-summoned a pet that is still alive, maybe running around because the enemy aggro has turned to me after the pet has died and my accidental re-summoning of an existing pet, and now it’s really stressful – like more stressful to micro-manage than any other build in those exceptional moments!
It’s like if the idea of being able to relax this way was consistent even when facing Nemesis, then I’d love pet builds all the way (though they might make things too easy without those hectic moments). When it’s like usually super relaxing most of the time and then unbelievably stressful against some bosses, it’s too jarring of a change in gameplay focus to me to adapt and feel comfortable with it – it’s like a “jump out my chair, spit out my drink” kind of build… like flying a plane on auto-pilot but every now and then, the auto-pilot fails and the plane starts stalling and diving straight to the ground while I’m trying to breathe and not fall unconscious while frantically going to manual mode all of a sudden. IMO pet builds with this one won’t make you yawn – to the contrary they’re unpleasant to me because they’re not for the faint-hearted.
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46950
Good tanky caster.
Will need to trade in ultimate to get gear though.
I saw a dark soldier with 2H and a spell that created dark sismic slam in front from the earth. What combo class could be was? Thx and sry for my bad english!
Hi guys, im following the jajaja build for warder. Im at lvl 29 but im find some difficoulty with my life. Im rlly swishy im died like 6-7 times in all story run. Im so tired to use life potion in all fight. maybe im just bad, but it is very hard for me playing…
I don’t know…Shaman based builds seem to work with less gear somehow. Like warder. Can’t vouch for witchblade because i’m yet to try it myself. And i hate leveling with blade arc (as jajaja suggests), last time i tried it the bleed damage was so weak i barely killed anything. even with decent twink gear.
Hi,
I found melee particularly tough as my first choice… It didn’t help I chose the most gear dependant class (blademaster)
I based my second character on this:
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30155
It’s a dual wield pistol class and it doesn’t require much gear to be successful. Been able to go through ultimate in mainly greens with some blues and the odd purple. I’ve tweaked things that fit my current situation; however it gives a good basis on an easy class to play and eventually use to find gear for your alts.