Druid Build

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi !!

Im new in this great game, and I want to level a druid build, but I Don’t Know how to spend the skill points, I’m a lvl 9 Arcanist.

Any build recommended for druid build? Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!!!

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Check out a cold/lightning sky shard build. There is a lot of synergy between arcanist and druid for the purposes of cold/lightning. You will want points in flash freeze, sky shard, lightning totem and wind devil are optional and not always popular. Star pact is a must, mirror is a must, consider also getting maiven’s sphere and some points in IEE for energy regen.

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There is almost exists little to no synergies between Arcanist and Shaman

If you’re a level 9 Arcanist then pick Demolitionist to go Sorcerer.

The skill he mentioned Cold/Lightning, it’s called Trozan’s Sky Shard. Trozan’s Lightning Variant works best with Sorcerer and Cold Variant works best with Spellbreaker (Arcanist + Nightblade)

In the current state of the game Druid is the worst class combination in the game due to lack of synergies.

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I’m with Chthon here. I also have a level 85 TSS Druid so I speak from experience. The class is actually very weak because it has very poor access to resistance reduction, and Shaman actually provides very little for a caster build aside from Stormcaller’s Pact. Except Star Pact is way better for a TSS build, rendering Druid just an Arcanist with Wendigo Totem, Heart of the Wild and Wind Devils that can proc lots of Whirlpools.

I also think that TSS suffers from the Trozan set being pretty mediocre. Now if Crate reworked Wind Devil or buffed Trozan set…

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  1. Wind Devil’s strongest ability is Maelstrom, Raging tempest is only used by newbies. 1 second of RR, really? Fucking really?

  2. Trozan’s Set is designed for Druid which has shit elemental RR has the granted skill called Comet whose RR doesn’t stack with Elemental Storm or other sources.
    Trozan’s Set is a shining example of bad design

Since i am almost out of build ideas i’ve been running tests by booting up some old chars to use some of these items, skills and devotions

Devotions that need work - Light of Empyrion and Blind Sage.
-Nodes are decent imo the granted skills need fixing. Especially Elemental Seekers which is about as useful as Throw Feces is in an Elemental build. They need to improve it


Items that need work - Too many to list here.
-Trozan is a good start considering we lack Druid meta builds (zero meta Druids exist at the moment)
-Some pants have plus skills but have zero resistance bonuses.
-Demonslayer Set gives bonus to Blade Spirit and Blade Trap but is actually designed for Chaos/Vitality PB. They need to change plus skills
-Nex v Ortus is intended for Dual Wield but gives bonus to ABB which doesn’t support DW playstyle

Skills that need looking into -
-Blade Trap (late game skill that has zero usefulness in a practical battle)
-Canister Bomb, good shotgun skill but transmuter is poorly thought of and damage is too low with respect to the large CD
-Primal Strike, Torrent doesn’t contribute to single target damage making this the most useless skill in the shaman mastery. Even Grasping Vines has some use, but PS is shit.

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Actually the RR proc on Trozan set is %reduced enemy resist so it stacks with Raging Tempest or Elemental Storm, the problem is that this type of RR sucks and does almost nothing, especially in that kind of tiny amount :D. TSS druid is 50% cold damage yet has a max of 35 flat cold RR + 16% multiplicative. Thanks Crate for no -% cold RR in devotions :rolleyes:.

As far as the Wind Devils go, their main use is to use overcapped Maelstrom and proc a ton of Whirlpools from Leviathan. If my Druid weren’t a cooldown build with lots of downtime though I would just skip them since recasting when playing a weapon or spam build is a big dps loss.

If I had to do this over I’d do a Stun Jacks/TSS hybrid Sorcerer using Spark of Ultos. Or at least I’d try, no idea if that’s actually good. I’d stick to untransmuted Stun Jacks too, Codex of Eternal Storms active + OFF + Tempest mines should be good enough AoE anyhow.

Stun Jacks focused build would prob have to be Elementalist though for % phys to lightning conversion.