Ground of Pain
Build Summary
Certified Zeke 11, Arkovian Undercity farmer.
Inquisitor + Diablo 2 Necromancer
Character uses multiple skills with duration and AoE to trigger many procs, each used to trigger as much AETHERFIRE as possible. Main damage comes from the 3 AETHERFIRE procs. Devotions give us 1, for the other 2 there are component we can use on rings.
To deal with crowds there are Word of Pain (15m radius), Dim Vision(11m), Amplify Damage (8m) and Aether Corruption, which can affect everything on the scree.Also auras and procs for even more AETHERFIRE.
To boost single target damage we have storm box, which with one cast will hit 3 to 4 times a second.
Pros:
- Very fun to play, you are finally able to take revenge. Thousand fold for each aether ground death
- Easy to execute
- Screen clear is out of control
- Stand in Seal and win
- Has a lot of growth potential with affixed gear
Cons:
- Energy hungry, energy potion addict
- Bleeding and vitality can be an issue with the full meme setup
- No mobility
- Not the best sustain vs single bosses
- Deals lightning damage, not aether. But cosplay is all about the looks
Leveling
Leveling:
- Your favorite Inquisitor leveling with squeezed in lower resist line from necromancer
OR - Leveling with the build concept and aether damage
- Start with word of pain.
- Once you reach level 10 or have the DoM vendors unlocked shop and purchase 2 AETHERFIRE COMPONENTS. This can be a very long process. Restart the game every 30 minutes to reset the RNG.
- Rescpec & level into
- 1 point word of pain, max word of Agony
- 1 point into Storm box and flames of Ignaffar
- 5 points Inquisitor Seal
- 1 point Censure
- 1 Amplify Damage
- 1 Point Dim vision
- Max Censure
- Max Death Sentence
- Max Weaken
- Work towards Lower Resists
- Max the rest of the skills, FoI is a 1 pointer (Teeth can also be pick up instead of Flames but will require maxing)
build can do Zeke 3 while leveling, FG is very spicy with all the magi’s everywhere. Proceed only if your resistances are good. - This build up is for increased density adjust as you play
- For devotion use the same as the end build ad go for spear. Other devotions can be chosen instead of Ultos.
notable leveling items:
Haunted Vestment - Items - Grim Dawn Item Database
Ascended Shoulderplates - Items - Grim Dawn Item Database
At level 50, non Mythical Temporal Tempest daggers can be used and transition to end build will be smother.
Build
Items:
- 2x Mythical Temporal Tempest, Seal of Corruption + Mal Rune, 2x Creed’s Cunning
- Divine Eye of The Storm, Skill Rune of Fateweaver’s Raiment, Skyshard Powder
- Divine Ring of Taranis, Devotion Rune of AETHERFIRE, Skyshard Powder
- Divine Eurydice’s Wedding Band, Devotion Rune of AETHERFIRE, Skyshard Powder
- Andariel’s Visage, Prismatic Diamond, Priman Mana
- Mythical Dawnshard Hauberk, Esoteric Alteration, Crystalized Earth
- Mythical Hammer Jammers, Scaled Hide, Crystalized Earth
- Mythical Hardened Power Shoulderguard, Sacred Plating, Wendigo Bloodscent Powder
- Mythical Wyrmbone Handguards, Ugdenbog Leather, Wendigo Bloodscent Powder
- Mythical Scales of Beronath, Spellscorched Plating, Wendigo Bloodscent Powder
- Mythical Mark of Calamitous Desires, Heart of Corruption, Essense of Destruction
- Funk Threads, Spellscorched Plating, Primal Earh
- Ignaffar’s Combustion
Conversions: 100% aether → lightning. 98% fire → ligtning
Most items are chosen to have low cooldown procs to enable AETHERFIRE, and achieve ultimate chaos, cover conversions, damage and defense.
Weapon enable a strong Word of Pain, not a single wasted stat on them: cast speed, aether conversions, procs.
Chest and Shoulder are needed for fire conversion.
Help - +2 to all skills, covers acid res on its own, 10% adcth
Legs & gloves - low cd procs with weapon damage, help us sustain in a big fight
Belt - Inquisitor skills and vitality resistance
Medal - Needed for OA to not be negative
Rings/Amu - great mix of offensive & defensive stats, procs with RR
Boots - because no other boots exist in the game
Devotions: Imp, Bat, Sailor’s Guide, Eel, Hound, Hammer, Jackal, Widow, Behemoth, Crown, Spear, Ultos
Resist Reduction:
- Widow -35%
- Censure -35%
- Lower Resist -34%
- Word of Pain -20%
- Divine Ring of Taranis -12%
- Divine Eye of The Storms -12%
- Ignaffar’s Combustion -10%
- Ultos 20%
- Elemental Storm 32
Total: 190%
Enemy with 0% lightning will hit -220% resistance ,ouch!
Enemy with 100% lightning resistance with be at -100% when we are done with it
Gear & Skill Alternatives
Alternative Skills
- You can use Teeth & Bone Armor instead of maxed Storm Box. Build will gain 1 meme point and greater single target dps. Dummy kill goes down to ~13-15 seconds. AoE damage will suffer though.
- You can 1 point Flames of Ignaffer with the Storm Box setup, excellent filler for the 6s downtime we have inbetween recasts. One of the empty skill slots won’t be so lonely.
Links And SuperBoss stuff
Achievements:
- 20s Dummy, ~24s 4x Dummy group
- Burbon Clones
- Lokkar
- Diablo bosses (none SR version)
- SR 80
- Mogdrogen
- Ravager of Souls
- Crate
Clones all die at the same time, 8 clones do not even scratch the build.
Lokarr & Mogdrogen are facetanked.
Diablo bosses can be dangerous in SR, summoned in the world, they are mostrly non threats, with the obsious exceptions
SR can be scary with flat 80% vitality resistance, especially vs Zantarin and Dravis.
Ravager is very scary fight with this vit res, hit and run. Used 2 clusters to tank up and do damage when he was below 50%. Definitely should have died on more than one occasion.
Crate success rate is not impressive like 30-40%, but also have not done that many runs.
Calagadra might be doable with a less rekless approach and clusters to tank up in below 50% stage
This DA is scary vs the super bosses though.
build:
https://imgur.com/a/HQsmC9E
diablo bosses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibBIBDGjyYE
SR 76 at 0 min - 8 min, Zeke 11 Undercity & 1 FPS at 9:30 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxsgqLxt9no
Crate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piBv7paW980