Build Diary Ultimate difficulty
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Level 66 for me (starting Ultimate): Evoker, Level 66 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
pierce, cold and bleed resistance are way off… will be fixed at level 70 when I can use some new items and augments. It will work for the first act in ultimate. Chaos res is not needed for a while either.
Level 70 for me (with armor augments and 1 point in TSS for proccing devo): Evoker, Level 70 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Level 71- 80
Now the goal is to just keep going and adding skill points to Trozan Skyshard. That skill will start to deal real damage when it gets rank 22 or something so for now it is basically just a devotion proccer. Make sure to upgrade armor rating and health here and there.
You do remember to drink this potion before aetherial bosses, right?
Aetherward Oil - Grim Dawn Item Database
Level 80 for me Evoker, Level 80 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Level 81- 90
Plan is to go to FoA area and do quests until you are at the Black citadel, then go back and finish the base game campaign and start doing Ashes of Malmouth dlc in ultimate. When Ashes of Malmouth is completed, we start Forgotten Gods dlc in ultimate.
Now it is all about getting to level 94 and getting the Mythical Eastern set
The Eastern Oath - Item Set - Grim Dawn Item Database
and finally awaken it (we’ll do that later just wear the set as it is for now).
Almost got murdered in the icebound passage caves 
only have 13kp and 1.3k armour… need more of that but gonna keep going so we can use the M. Easter set!
Level 90 for me: Evoker, Level 90 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator (not so much change in gear, if you play HC I would have focused more on health and armor upgrades)
A little farming route. Yellow = our caster off-hand, Blue blooms that can drop the material Frozen Aster. Note, there will be creatures there that throw rocks at you for 10-15k dmg… beware!
Plan is to go to FoA area and do quests until you are at the Black citadel, then go back and finish the base game campaign and start doing Ashes of Malmouth dlc in ultimate. When Ashes of Malmouth is completed, we start Forgotten Gods dlc in ultimate.
Now it is all about getting to level 94 and getting the Mythical Eastern set
The Eastern Oath - Item Set - Grim Dawn Item Database
and finally awaken it (we’ll do that later just wear the set as it is for now).
Almost got murdered in the icebound passage caves only have 13kp and 1.3k armour… need more of that but gonna keep going so we can use the M Easter set!
Level 90 for me: Evoker, Level 90 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator (not so much change in gear, if you play HC I would have focused more on health and armor upgrades)
Level 91-100
A little farming route. Yellow = our caster off-hand, Blue blooms that can drop the material Frozen Aster
Farmed a new belt in Ulo’s springs, the caster off-hand can drop there too.
Level 94 for me: Evoker, Level 94 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Again, would love to have more armor (chest and pants) but we are only one piece missing for Eastern set so we will just bite the bullet and continue farming a piece of it (we can transmute it). Monster totems is the way! You can google “Monster totem farming route Grim Dawn” and you will get many good ones. Pick up greens, sell for iron bits. Dismantle legendaries at inventor for materials (scrap, so we can transmuter other set pieces)
Screenshot in game at this point
Farming totems and random bosses for about 4 hours, we finally got the M. Eastern set! Two pieces were straight drops and the third piece we got by set-transmuting at the inventor.
We move on with the campaign now, first base game, the FG (so we can upgrade our Faction shoulders to higher tier) and then do AoM… we will wait with doing the final campaign boss in Fangs of Asterkarn for a later patch/hotfix (this is 1.3.0.3 patch) because that guy seems almost bugged.
Level 100 with M. Eastern set Evoker, Level 100 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator (pierce resistance is scuffed, need to fix…)
Getting Awakened Mythical Eastern set Awakened Eastern Oath - Item Set - Grim Dawn Item Database
Steps:
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Get Mythical Eastern set. Farm totems in ultimate, save set items.
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Transmute high level (82 or higher) epic set pieces into another set at inventor, you need to have done this quest first (easiest to just to it in Normal) https://grimdawn.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tome_of_Eanatum
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If you get multiple set pieces of M. Eastern, you can also transform them into another pice of the same set at the inventor.
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Awaken them by using “Ashes of Awaken” materials, you will be given some as quest rewards in FoA Ashes of Awakening - Grim Dawn Item Database it can also be farmed (use the ascension altar, pay Frozen Aster How To Farm Ashes of Awakening )
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Go to the Noktukari faction and click the “Runed orb”, there you awaken your Mythical Eastern set pieces, in total you need 8x3 = 24 ashes of awakening to make the complete set
Level 100 with Awakened M. Eastern set Evoker, Level 100 (GD 1.3.0.0) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
(fixxed pierce res a bit, took attribute reset pot, will add Nullification next) (time played 21h) (might also transition into more TSS nodes and have hail storm as 1 point wonder…)
Finished the campaign of AoM and FG, farm reputation where needed to buy augments. Farm some upgrades like a new medal, amulet and so on. Craft a higher tier version of the belt is also good when you get higher reputation with Kurn. Also a new relic if you want (blueprint from Noktukari)
Devotion plan
- Red crossroads
- Jackal
- Refund Red crossroads
- Yellow crossroads
- Turtle (bind to Amatok’s pact)
- Purple crossroads
- Toad (good for racial dmg to beasts which often has big cold resist)
- Eel
- Harvestman
- Refund Purple crossroads
- Bards Harp (bind to Heart of Asterkarn)
- Refund Yellow crossroads
- Green crossroads
- Behemot (bind to Iskandras Elemental exchange)
- Refund Green crossroads
- Murmor (bind to Winds of Asterkarn for now, change to Trozan Skyshard TSS later after you get Amatok)
- Rhowans crown (bind to Bonechilling cry)
- Amatok (bind to Winds of Asterkarn, take one point in TSS to bind Murmor if you do not already done so)
- Refund Eel
- Blue crossroads
- 4 points in Ultos (for the +% cold dmg and OA boosts)
Now you have 2 points left which you can spend where they are needed.
Ideas: 2 points in spider for casting speed, 2 points in sailors guide for freeze and slow res, 1 point ultos for chaos res/life + 1 point dryad for energy / pois res. I first took first node in Hyrian and Phoenix for a total of +80% cold dmg and the switched to 2 crossroads for health.