Concept Shield Breaker Build

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Firstly, English is not my native language, please forgive my possibly mistake if the wording cause your inconvenience for reading.

The idea actually comes from OK’s skill, Ascension, it’s a good buff imo, however the duration time is short while the recovery time is long, so input point to Ascension always makes me struggle, thus my dervish and sentinel are both only input one pointer.

But I had found the Virtue set is desigend for ascension perfectlly, extend Ascension 4 second, and provide a lot CDR.

Since I had’nt find a similar build in the thread, so I would like to share a theoretical shield breaker and want to listen to suggestions from others.

Here is the link, want to name it Hephaestus, and hope it can perfome like a fire god :D.

Hephaestus SB
Hephaestus SB Updated-Thanks to Nery


Without Ghoulish Hunger, Resilience, Blast Shield


Fully Proc Buff

Pros
Steable 3,000 DA
Almost permanent Ascension, 3,200 OA
AOM - 1.5 second recovery + 100% phy to fire convertion.
Judgement - 1 second recovery + 100% phy to fire convertion.
Shield Wall - 27% CDR, makes it more solid proc buff.
RR - Fire 63%+ Elemental 60% + Elemental flat 32
10% ADCTH
Item Proc skill

Cons
No reliable OA shred skill
Low Block chance & no additional Block recovery buff
Low Cast speed

Cause I only played GD before AOM expansion, and had’nt finished my new OK in veteran diffuculty, so if any one can help to test this build to see if viable, you will have my grateful thankness.

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You said is not done,but I post SB with Virtue set http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82982 Also Thrasheur have Paladin with it,your theorycraft is little different though,mine was around Aegis skill,absorb and healing,you use more block procs and Judgment.Kudos for green less version,but you need to test it.

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Apologize for not noticing your thread, I only checked the the FG theory compedium.

After reading yours, and understand your point is way more focusing on survivability, I suddenly comes a question.

Since you already got 45% vit to fire, how about choose Blazeseer Signet and pick TIS devotion?

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I think TiS is a little out of my way and maybe am wrong,but even if I convert some of the vitality to fire,base damage will be scaled with my vitality stats.I tested scales pre expansion with different conversion and was not impressed,but is nice idea.I tried different rings,this one not.If you go with scales though it makes more sense.I play with different build now,but at some point will go back and test different specs for SB.

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Yes, I guess maybe it’s more suitable for sentinel.
Really thanks for your reply, and I made a mistake to think Dryad is bad cause I didn’t notice it’s an attack proc now.

I will probably change hyrian to dryad and combine absolution to improve my qol.