Grim Dawn Version 1.1.9.0

[Gnomish_Inquisition]

reduced retaliation, reduced retaliation, removed retaliation, replaced retaliation, reduced retaliation …

HA, nice try Z, you can’t nerf retaliation if i don’t download the update

[Zantai]

HA, nice try Z, you can’t nerf retaliation if i don’t download the update

[x1x1x1x2]

Lul at the people saying retal is dead. The only big loss is beronath for builds who use it. And maybe blacksteel. But honor + sethris + cs damage nerf is very bearable. Crate didn’t touch retal defense here. Messenger of war even got bonus armor. Retal is not dead, but it’ll certainly be less cancerous than before.

and from what I can see zucc should still sub 5

[afanasenkov26]

Component - Prismatic Diamond: removed % Elemental damage and increased Cooldown on the granted skill

time to nerf the only component for helmets, nice

Voidspire: Increased Chaos damage modifier for Execution to 200 and added 8% Attack damage Converted to Health modifier for it.

this does NOTHING, man. I see 0 point why not add lifeleech to the weapon itself or at least to FS. ADctH on a single-target wps with 24% activation chance is just ridiculous. And it doesn’t solve any problems of chaos sabo (already tested, still bad).

Maul: % Attack damage Converted to Health now scales with rank, up to 40%

why buffing adcth when the thing that needs buffs is radius?

[x1x1x1x2]

Disintegration: reduced % Crit damage scaling with rank to 35% by rank 12, 45% by max ultimate rank

Also AAR nerfs. This patch is complete

[Gnomish_Inquisition]

supercharged got AAR’s crit in a UTZ certified fair trade

[fordprefect]

this does NOTHING, man. I see 0 point why not add lifeleech to the weapon itself or at least to FS. ADctH ona single-target wps with 24% activation chance is just ridiculous. And it doesn’t solve nay problems of chaos sabo (already tested, still bad).

Actually %23 chance, even 2x Voidspire and SR set, I can’t harcap it, only 12/8 is possible. I tested aswell. Before the patch 1x Fang 1x Voidspire has almost same dps with 2x Voidspire but Fang provided lifesteal, so I was using that; now atleast Voidspire’s little dps gain has +2 to Nightblade; which I don’t know only makes it easier to build around just that. Didn’t make it tankier or stronger but fixed a lot of other things since you have now +2 all Nightblade skills. Which is I believe the most important need of ‘‘Saboteur’’ class. Skill points. We should have get more on other gears that support the class. But I’ve learned not to be greedy

[eardianm]

time to nerf the only component for helmets, nice

I do believe this comment is self explanatory

Also, looks like I have new pew pew testing this weekend. Don’t see everything I was hoping for but still plenty to help out multiple builds

[afanasenkov26]

Also, looks like I have new pew pew testing this weekend.

I have already tested aether druid with Vortex and Veilkeeper
Probably you can guess how it ended up

[Monceaux]

time to nerf the only component for helmets, nice

No longer the only one since Runestone (head only compo) received 8% racial damage to aetherials. Sanctified Bone or whatever to reach 100% armour absorb remain available. You want moar choice ? Leathery Hide

[CaiusMartius]

Bitter sweet but it looks like a great one! Thanks again, as always to the Crate Team and the massive amount of work they’ve put into this diamond.

[IraqiMaestro]

I don’t understand why was there a need to remove duration modifier for Conjure Primal Spirit for Nature’s Call Regalia Set and then increase it’s cooldown on the skill itself. It’s hard to get 100% uptime for it irregardless.

[grey-maybe]

Okay, now for the patch itself

• Boss aggro behavior has been changed and their spawn positions have been updated in higher shards. Bosses now do not engage until you get closer. It is now possible to avoid pulling all bosses in a Shattered Guardian’s Domain without resorting to camera exploits.
• Fixed an exploit involving rotating the game camera to dramatically reduce the aggro radius of nearby enemies.

that’s good.

• Timer penalty for dying now scales much more aggressively with shards.
• Carnage bonus for the Timer now starts lower but scales more aggressively with chain kills. The max time between kills is now also slightly shorter, meaning the bonus will be a little harder to execute.
• Timer bonus for slaying Hero monsters has been reduced by 1s.

Community: Zantai, farming Crucible makes no sense compared to SR!
Zantai: gotcha folks.

• Component - Eldritch Mirror: increased % All Speed for pets to 10%
• Component - Leathery Hide: increased Armor to 32 and % Health to 6%
• Component - Prismatic Diamond: removed % Elemental damage and increased Cooldown on the granted skill
• Component - Runestone: replaced % Elemental damage with +8% damage to Aetherials
• Component - Titan Plating: increased % Armor to 12% and % Reflect Resist to 33%

Understandable Diamond nerf, yet it’s still two heads above any other helm-slot option. Runestone is nice though, but not even close to diamond.

Ascended Casque: added 6% Physical Resist modifier for Spectral Binding

making them binders even more immortal, aren’t you

Barthollem’s Warmaul: increased Targets modifier for Fire Strike to +4

4 targets in 60 angles. yep.

Blaze Herald: reduced Aether damage modifier for Word of Pain to 50

deserved.

Chosen Mask: added % Fire damage and added +1 Radius modifier for Thermite Mine

Neat mod.

Ellena’s Necklace: reduced Frostburn damage modifier for Star Pact to 30 / 3s and reduced Cold damage modifier for Veil of Shadow to 70

seems like quite a random nerf.

Gargoyle Gaze: added modifiers for Rune of Hagarrad

was expecting some cool acid RoH. Ended up with generic +30 cold damage. Feelsbadman

Namadea’s Horns: added 5% Physical Resist modifier for Vindictive Flame and increased its Cold damage modifier to 160. Added 45% of Fire dealt as Cold modifier for Pneumatic Breath.

might actually help cold sabo.

Vilgazor’s Heart: added modifiers for Pneumatic Burst

unironically good.

Mythical Vilescorn Bracers: added +2 to Cadence and removed % All Retaliation damage

not the support i expected, hoped for any changed to MQC, but w/e i guess.

Amarastan Crusher: reduced % Attack Speed to 10%

deserved?

Conduit necklaces may now also roll with % Conversion, depending on the modifiers it comes with.

that’s really cool.

Mythical Dreadscorcher: added 45% of Physical dealt as Aether, moved % Chaos dealt as Aether modifier for Fire Strike to modifier for Flame Touched

not going to help.

Mythical Flames of Wrath: added -8% Fire Resist Reduction modifiers for Aura of Censure and Summon Guardian of Empyrion and added 50% of Fire dealt as Aether modifier for Spectral Binding. Removed 25% of Fire dealt as Aether.

might be good for fire paladins.

Mythical Havoc: added 15 Physical damage modifier for Fighting Spirit

Mythical Northern Wyrm: added 80 Cold damage and +1 Radius modifiers for Veil of Shadow

certainly not overpowered, not in the slightest.

Mythical Sash of the Immortal Sage: increased Health to 980 and added % Fire damage. Reduced % Retaliation added to Attack on the skill proc…

i understand the appearance of this three dots.

Mythical Tome of Atonement: replaced bonus to Dreeg’s Evil Eye with +1 to Occultist Skills and added 8% Cast Speed. Redesigned Dreeg’s Evil Eye modifiers to allow for both cooldown and spam playstyles.

15% total damage modifier speaks for itself. item looks good though.

Justicar Guard Set: added 50 Fire damage and 180 Burn damage / 3s modifiers for Blitz

definitely will help blitz.

The Cyclone Set: increased Lightning damage modifier for Eye of Reckoning to 24-80 and reduced % Physical Resist bonus to 10%

@Retal_Abuser they can.

Scales of Ulcama: Increased Health Regeneration to 30 and % Energy and % Health Regeneration to 33%. Reduced Health to 150 and % Attack damage Converted to Health to 3% and removed Offensive Ability.

right in time for scales meta! (it was over with 1.1.8.)

Deception of Dreeg Set: removed Acid and Poison damage modifiers for Dreeg’s Evil Eye. These bonuses have been added to the base skill.

• Dreeg’s Evil Eye: increased Acid damage scaling with rank
• Blood Burst: increased Acid and Poison damage scaling with rank
• Terrifying Gaze: increased % Acid and % Poison damage scaling with rank to 144% by rank 12, 264% by max ultimate rank
• Vile Eruption: increased base Number of Fragments by 1

still looks like rubbish to me, even with all nodes buffed, but here i actually need to play-test rotgheist.

• Steel Resolve: increased damage against Chthonians and Eldritch scaling at ultimate ranks to 24% by max ultimate rank
• Vigor: increased Health scaling with rank to 1000 by rank 10, 2800 by max ultimate rank

this one might help.

overall, i think that patch is okay, but genuinely don’t understand why did it take 4 months to make. seems like you’re really burnt out and need some rest from GD. I’m glad that this is the last patch, good luck with FF and certainly looking forward any news regarding GD-related game and sequel to GD.

(do expect a lot of balancing feedbacks though)

[Purlpo]

I looked in GDStash real quick and it seemed like the chaos DEE conduit affix remains unchanged, which I find odd because I thought we couldn’t have Conduits be absolute BIS for anything (new Ember’s Callin set)

It’s problematic, really, because I know there’s people out there that would actually spend hours trying to roll that amulet with the right affixes, only to have it removed/replaced in some later hotfix like it happened with that one blade spirit conduit.

[afanasenkov26]

Obelisk of Menhir: updated distribution of bonuses

so, the idea was that builds taking Obelisk need flat phys retal in the first place and should not take any additional DA?
otherwise I can’t explain why DA was moved to the hardest-to-get nod.

[Retal_Abuser]

@Retal_Abuser they can

? 10/chars

[grey-maybe]

[Nery]

New patch released, bingo…

From what I can gather from patch notes, change I like the most is SR bosses behavior. For me and lots of players I guess is straight up win and will result in better shards experience.

[Retal_Abuser]

Can’t break the traditions at this point.

[CaiusMartius]

overall, i think that patch is okay, but genuinely don’t understand why did it take 4 months to make. seems like you’re really burnt out and need some rest from GD. I’m glad that this is the last patch, good luck with FF and certainly looking forward any news regarding GD-related game and sequel to GD.