Devotion Help: Abomination or Dying God, Worth It?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi folks, I am running a 2H chaos rifleman with all three pieces of Harbinger Set. I am already converting MORE THAN 55% of my damage into chaos damage via Harbinger of Eternal Suffering w/ Void-touched ammo and Consecrated Blade modifier.

Abomination and Dying God both requires substantial amount of investment in affinities, esp. some that are only remotely helpful to my build.

I wonder if it is worth investing a few points into either one or just leave my build with FIEND + Solael’s Witchblade passives for chaos damage buff.

If I went with the latter, I would have about 7-8 points remaining for HP nodes/resistance nodes.

Thoughts?

Anyone think the two top tier Constellations are any good?

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I used Dying God on a BWC Pyromancer with blood orb of Cthon. It is excellent but you need at least 300 hp/sec regeneration to support the proc. 400/sec is more comfortable. The blue and red affinity devotions on the way offer some nice defensive stats too.

Something like that doesn’t look too glassy to me:

http://grimcalc.com/build/PYlfvU2

Edit says you could also cut solemn watcher and get a bit more offense instead.

I’m not sure about abom. I was a bit disappointed by Tainted Eruption on my DEE warlock, but that says nothing about the chaosbuff.

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hungering void is very stronk.

abomination good also but more so on DW’ers. for 2h , stack with hungering void probably. neg regen is easily offset with LS and what not.

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I doubt you can have both - too much points are required.
Abomination rocks for DW builds, that can utilize chaos damage (otherwise, too much points is wasted for affinity). Also for 100% physical-2-chaos conversion builds.

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i meant stIck with hungering void oops

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I think I will go with Abomination.

It has 20% acid/poison resistance and 300 HP boost, which is nice.

Which skill do you recommend I attach the proc from Abomination to?

I think I’ll attach Abominable Might to my Doom Bolt so it’ll trigger after I kill a grunt with it.

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If you wont kill anyone, be ready to face 8 sec cd :). Doom Bolt is great to trigger something with high CD and low proc chance (it will raise proc chance to 100%). Abominable Might has 100% proc chance anyway.

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I know that it does work that way, but do we know why? Is this mechanic documented anywhere?

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Read 1.0.0.3 patch notes.

In short - abilities with cooldown get a bonus to contellation proc rate. The higher cooldown, the higher is the bonus.
It was made to compensate for their infrequent usage.

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Why not attach it to your LMB attack, or don’t you melee?

I have it on shadow strike which generally kills so will proc the skill

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Actually you can get both. Just have to give up a lot other things…

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Yeah, A LOT. In fact, if you want to get Giant’s Blood and both Abom Might and Hung Void, you have to give up on Eldritch Fire.

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Well maybe about 5 and a half seconds now the cooldown was buffed. I don’t actually find there are that many devotion procs that Doombolt is good for, especially in a typical build. I think the bigger problem with doombolt and abominable might is that it doesn’t guarantee a kill. I’m trying out a pyromancer at the moment that will put Abominable might on Grenado (to help convert a chunk of that physical into chaos). It deals heavy damage but is frequent enough that when it doesn’t kill you get another go pretty quickly.