Conversion Frustration

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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So, I was looking to make a 2-handed Fire/Lightning Elementalist build and I’m a bit frustrated with conversion. As far as I can figure, the only way to get full conversion from physical to something else is by being an arcanist. Sword and board (though there are only 4/5 conversion shields) or dual-wielding you can potentially get ~75%, 2-handed maxes out at ~65% from what I can tell (unless you use Iskandra’s Focusing Prism), and both of those require wearing an amulet with conversion, which obviously interferes if you’re using a set that requires an amulet.

If I was making a build using 1-handed weapons, I could obviously use a dagger or wand (though there aren’t great lightning options for such a build), but 2-handed has no such option. So basically I’m looking at either not focusing on fire/lightning or having almost half my damage being unsupported (closer to 1/3rd if I was willing to waste a lot of points to get Ulzuin’s Chosen.)

Am I missing something in regards to conversion, or are 2-handed builds just out of luck when it comes to focusing on non-physical damage types?

Edit: Another quick question…I know Internal Trauma gets converted to burn/frostburn/electrocute with elemental conversion. Do other conversion types do anything to it?

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EDIT**

never mind this post :slight_smile:

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Everything but Aether/Chaos conversion will affect it.

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Besides Fire, Cold and Lightning, Acid and Vitality are the only ‘direct’ damage types left that have a DoT counterpart in Poison and Vitality Decay respectively so converting Physical to Acid or Vitality would also convert Internal Trauma to Poison/Vitality Decay.

Also, while you can’t feasibly achieve 100% physical conversion, another idea would be to simply stack as much flat Fire/Lightning as you can.

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Hmm…I appear to be missing something. I’m unfamiliar with the faction rings of which you speak. I just checked all the faction vendors I have access to (I don’t have a character who chose Kymon atm) and I don’t see any rings, or recipes for rings that have conversion from physical. Graceful Dusk doesn’t show anything either.

Does Kymon’s have access to a type of ring that Death’s Vigil doesn’t have an approximate equivalent for?

That’s kind of disappointing. Probably not enough to make me change my 40% Aether/60% Elemental Battlemage to all Elemental, though.

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I haven’t used them in quite some time, could have sworn they had conversion on them. But you are right they don’t.

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Does a sharp weapons piercing % convert internal trauma to bleeding damage or no? edit: i was thinking bleeding is a piercing damage over time.

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No Pierce and bleed are both their own damage type (which I always found weird)