Ignafarts Chaos! - The Tainted Flame Chaos Caster
Me: “I want a new character. A caster would be cool i guess…”
A friend:“Why don´t you create a deceiver?”
Me: "Oh!"Sometimes it does not need much to come up with a fresh take on a build. I started up the game, picked my classes after a few level up’s
and the story of the tainted flame chaos caster began…
General Build Idea
The main skill is the Inquisitor skill
Flames of Ignafar
but we are using its conversion option
Tainted Flame
to convert Fire to Chaos Damage and Lightning to Vitality Damage.
That sounds more complicated than it is. We basically blast everything with a massive, medium-range chaos spell and then we move on to the next group of enemies. Repeat that process until map-clear is achieved ^.^
This build focusses on relatively smooth gameplay with only a few essential skills and lots of potential to make it into your version. It is quite stable and can stand its ground against most groups and bosses. Not much dancing required - depending on your resistances and items as well as your devotions of course.
Skills
Essential active skills are the main attack
Flames of Ignafar
and the
Sigil of Consumption
as a means of getting back some health and dealing extra damage. At which point you activate the conversion depends on the items find. As soon as you have collected some items that boost your chaos damage you can put 1 point in Tainted Flame and start to make things interesting ^.^ Before that you can also play with the fire version of this skill. Keeping your eyes open for chaos damage is a good idea though. You might want to experiment a bit - compare the damage in the character window, II Tab, of your skill with fire and then with chaos. Most of the Skills that follow this short introduction make use of your chaos damage - so you will need them as soon as you switch.
Solael's Witchfire
provides extra chaos damage as an aura while the
Word of Pain
lowers the enemies chaos resistance.
The [u]exclusive[/u] skill Possession
gives another boost of damage as a toggled skill while you actively use
Word of Renewal
whenever you need speed/health - it´s our panic button. Or safety option if you prefer that ^.^
Later in the game we can focus our attention on the
Inquisitor Seal
to further boost our damage while hindering our enemies and providing an extra layer of defense for us. Passively we can make use of
Deadly Aim
to boost our damage, if we deal a critical hit.
Optional skills can be the
Doom Bolt
to strike bosses down. You could try to increase the Burn Damage you deal and put some points into the
Endless Flame
passive for
Flames of Ignafar
[s]and even take one of the exclusive skills
Aura of Censure or Aura of Conviction
instead of
Possession
to further increase your damage output in that area. I have not tested that option yet.[/s]Update: Played through Elite with no major problems and a ton of fun! Ultimate turned out to be a challenge though. This is where Items come in handy to help you out. I focussed Word of renewal and passives to get survivability up. Lower resistances becomes more important (I am looking at you Word of Pain!)
Level 83 now, Damage is in need of some love - survivability is still amazing! Loghorean down! Vanilla content is completed! I call this build succesful at this point. You can gather quite some items for secondary/multiple other characters, in my book it is a viable Beginner´s build even. The stability and diversity this build can allow is amazing and fun! Go ahead and test it!
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Current State of the build - Final Version (The rest is up to you ^.^)
Devotions
This part of the build is always a work in progress for me. Optimizing Devotions is one of my favourite parts of the game!
My reasoning was: I want some extra damage to level easier and then some survivability (life+energy) to not rely on items too much in that area.
Basic Devotions are: Bat (5p), Fiend (5p), Wendigo (6p), Solael’s Witchblade (5p), Lizard (3p), Viper(4p) + Crossroads Chaos (1p) =29p
Options I want: Behemoth (6p), the Wretch (4p), Sailor´s Guide (4p) + Crossroads Primordial = (44p)
Final points: Dying God (7p), Chariot of the Dead (7p) = 58p - So i need to get three points back in the end and do some shuffleling ^.^Update: The Wendigo (6p) has been switched for the Ghoul (5p) and the Throne (4p) has been added, while we dropped the Viper (4p) and went for our final setup. Crossroads are still Chaos and Primordial, these are subject to change.Some shuffleling indeed!What you pick there depends a lot on your items and prefered playstyle. Go for offense or defense as needed! There is no best way here - only the one that works for you.
Items
I´d like to recommend some items that can be found while playing through the game that give you a nice boost, but are by no means necessary!
On your way to the Arkovian foothills, some Bandits(Arsonists) can drop Helmets that can give you a +2 boost to
Flames of Ignafar
and some other related bonusses as well as Shoulder Armor that increases the burn damage you deal. These Items are so called Monster Infrequents (MI) and can help a lot! Those arsonists also have a chance to drop dynamite - really like a loot pinata!
Close to Devils Crossing is an Area called Kymon’s Retreat. You meet an NPC there who can be rescued or left to kill his family. Now, here is where things get grim. Let him burn his family, kill him and pick up his torch. It`s a special 1-H weapon that boosts your (fire)damage output quite a bit and it is a guaranteed drop if you steer the dialogue towards the mentioned escalation. Available on each difficulty too. Only useful before you switch to chaos. Keep that in mind.
Scepters have a high chance to boost chaos damage as well as some Pistols. There are MI, …Bloodsworn Scepter of…, that drop from Cultists, for example on the way to Burrwitch on the eastern side (Burrwitch Outskirts portal and then east), south of where Angrim (The NPC Smith from the Sidequest) waits, is a path that leads east. Follow that and you come upon a cultist camp. Good chance you find something worthwhile there. Also: There is a locked door which opens into an area that contains quite powerful enemies. And a special enemy too.
If you are respected by the Black Legion you can buy a Legion Spellbearer Hat that gives you a nice boost and comes with a
Sigil of Consumption
trigger. They also sell a chest armor that is quite nice since it comes with chaos and aether resistance, the Legion Vestments. There is also a Dagger and a Pistol available. Watch out though, the faction shops do ask quite a high price especially if this is your first character.
Apart from that I cannot recommend many Items since I was just using what I found by playing through the game. In my opinion this is the best way to build up a solid character of your own. Do not rely on a legendary you might never find. Use your components to harden your defenses (except maybe the weapon slots if you can afford that later on). Craft a relic that suits your needs if you have the materials. And don´t forget about augmentation as soon as they are available!
End
If you have any questions feel free to send me a DM or reply to this post. I will try to come back to you as soon as possible. You can also catch me streaming Grim Dawn on Friday´s over at twitch.com/captn3mo. See you aboard!
Good luck and happy looting!
Ahoy and take care,
Captn3mo O7
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