Grim Misadventure #83: Your Devoted Questions Answered

[Zantai]

Also any chance of a 1920x1280 image of the constellations for use as wallpaper?

The full-sized image is 4600x4500, crop out the part you like.

Zantai - with the release of this GM I am 100 % confident in supporting you guys, by buying the Loyalist edition.

Thanks for the support. We appreciate it.

I thought B28 could come today, i’m disappointed:cry:
Then i Wonder if full content still can be déployed at the end of 2015?
Act4, 2 more dificulty, légendary item, end game balancing…Many thing and less than 2 month!
End of this year is a little boring for hack and slash, nothing for POE, nothing on D3 and still waiting for grim dawn.

Our scheduled development updates are always these sort of posts, never a build. At times we may include a build release estimate within one of these updates though, such as the November release of B28 in today’s.

We are on track for content complete this year.

Can secondary effects be placed on totems? Like say the secondary effect has 15% chance to be used on attack, if I put it on wendigo totem, will it proc when wendigo totem attacks?

The effects cannot currently be placed on skills not cast by the player, but it’s something we’ll be investigating further.

Why is the wolf and the crow the only animal without a body?

For variety. We liked the way the busts turned out.

Great news ! Thank You ! Just some questions. Are secondary effects for item skill bind to exact item or skill on item ? If I have for example two items with same skill (one for on attack trigger and one for on hit trigger), will be secondary effect applied for both instances ?

Effects can only be assigned to activated abilities, not proc effects. That’d be some sort of…procception.

2. What’s with the galaxy in the top right?

3. If a secondary effect is assigned to a component skill that it’s on your weapon swap will it gain exp?

2. What is it indeed?

3. It would not earn experience as the skill would not be active.

[eralduspr]

Looks awesome! Also thanks for showing the complete Devotion window… that will make a badass wallpaper!

Also, I really hope that there are some really cool lightning oriented Devotion skills there.

[eralduspr]

Also, any other TQ fans here that have noticed this?

:rolleyes:

[Blood_wedding]

We are on track for content complete this year.

Wow, this gets better and better Would this mean 2 builds in a very short time span(B28 in November, B29/content complete in December)? And if so, can we hope for even more content than devotion in B28? Because otherwise B29 would be huge with act 4 and legendaries and maybe even higher difficulties, so I´m curious how the plans are in terms of splitting all that stuff between the (assumed) 2 upcoming builds.

[powbam]

Wow, this gets better and better Would this mean 2 builds in a very short time span(B28 in November, B29/content complete in December)? And if so, can we hope for even more content than devotion in B28? Because otherwise B29 would be huge with act 4 and legendaries and maybe even higher difficulties, so I would like to know how the plans are in terms of splitting all that stuff between the (assumed) 2 upcoming builds.

Just my guess but they have been working on B28 hard for awhile now, I’m inclined to think that Act 4 and Devotion will both be in it at a minimum.

[VirDei]

I don’t think I need to say this has me excited. But I will anyway. This has me excited!

Still had some questions:

What is the maximum level for Secondary Effects?

Are affinities purely additive or will they reduce “opposing” affinities?

Is the experience gained by a Secondary Effect assigned to 2 skills combined into the same experience bar or are they somehow separated based on the skills to which they are assigned?

I need answers! Throws stacks of papers and folders off of desk

[durruti]

this devotions stuff is absolutely bonkers. completely and utterly bonkers in the best way possible.

and please tell me at some point you are including the monster thingy with antlers next to the hydra (middle right left…) as an enemy in the game.

Grim Dawn, #1 ARPG of all time.

Wishlist:

Multiplayer with server side characters for the untainted multiplayer experience. As soon as modding is open, multiplayer will be filled with edited characters.

Grim Dawn is the #1 ARPG, hands down… I have remade so many characters on veteran hardcore and it doesn’t get old. I would even suggest a new kickstarter JUST for an awesome multiplayer system.

let’s put it like that: i would never ever have my chars stored server-side but you bet i would support that kickstarter.

[ReDeus]

That pesky zantai waited for me to log off before posting the update… -.-

Can’t wait for B28 now!

[Zantai]

Still had some questions:

What is the maximum level for Secondary Effects?

Are affinities purely additive or will they reduce “opposing” affinities?

Is the experience gained by a Secondary Effect assigned to 2 skills combined into the same experience bar or are they somehow separated based on the skills to which they are assigned?

The maximum level depends on which Celestial Power it is. Generally, the ones you earn access to earlier have more levels.

There are no Constellations that penalize your Affinity values, at least currently.

Celestial Powers can only be assigned to one skill at a time. Likewise, a skill may only have one Celestial Power assigned to it at a time. Assigning another overwrites the first.

and please tell me at some point you are including the monster thingy with antlers next to the hydra (middle right) as an enemy in the game.

The Wendigo? Perhaps in the future…Wendigo spirits are not something to be trifled with.

[Blood_wedding]

Just my guess but they have been working on B28 hard for awhile now, I’m inclined to think that Act 4 and Devotion will both be in it at a minimum.

That would be soooo awesome!!!1

[ReDeus]

A question: do you need to unlock each star of a constellation following a predetermined order or you can unlock them randomly until you unlock them all?

I see there are constellations that don’t have an obvious path, like the spider, so I’m wondering.

[system]

And with the release of B28, we get Toko exit of devotion, or anything else, that is, act 4, dungeon is a roguelike, and the remaining difficulties???

[ibugsy]

A question: do you need to unlock each star of a constellation following a predetermined order or you can unlock them randomly until you unlock them all?

I see there are constellations that don’t have an obvious path, like the spider, so I’m wondering.

IIRC, there is no path. You can either unlock a constellation or you can’t.
Some constellations require Affinity points, which are gained when you complete a constellation.

So you complete a constellation that doesn’t have any Affinity point requirements in order to gain Afinity points. Then, based on the type and amount of Affinity you have will determine which Constellations you will be able to access.

[ReDeus]

IIRC, there is no path. You can either unlock a constellation or you can’t.
Some constellations require Affinity points, which are gained when you complete a constellation.

So you complete a constellation that doesn’t have any Affinity point requirements in order to gain Afinity points. You then gain access a Constellation that has a requirement for the Affinity type and amount you have, i.e. more powerful Constellations.

I’m not talking about the constellations, but the single stars inside of them.

Since they each give a little passive power, I’m wondering if I can choose which one to unlock first or if I need to unlock them in a certain order.

[durruti]

The Wendigo? Perhaps in the future…Wendigo spirits are not something to be trifled with.

so that’s the grim dawn wendigo. very cool monster in the rotten, distorted abomination-style way. props to the artist(s).

edit: on that note, can we get an abomination wallpaper? i’ve seen screens of it around, was it on your pax booth? maybe wallpapers for all the wicked boss monsters?

[T72on1]

Looking really cool !!! Call me excited … still …

I do hope that B28 will contain more than only Devotion. Act 4 hopefully?

O yes, and November … that could be really soon (less than a week) or still more than 4 weeks … quite the gap …

I really have to draw more people in our guild to GD for sure. They don’t know what they are missing !!!

[Syphin]

Man, what a amazing amount of customization, already know i’m going with aetherfire with my PPR build. Hands down…absolutely amazing job guys

So while we got news of Devotion is b28 in November, content complete by december. Fairly quicky updates back-2-back but i seriously hope we get a4 to chew on with this Devo.

[mamba]

There is generaly about 2 month betwen each build (am i wrong?).

the time between builds is more variable than that

We still have seen some news about devotion, act4, legendary last week. And here there is again a news about devotion. End of year is near, we have seen many news about content. No one said that build 28 come today but we could hope about it.

not realistically, we usually find out when a build goes into internal testing and it then usually takes another two weeks before it is rolled out.

As B28 is not yet in internal testing, there was no way it would be released today, 2nd half of November sounds realistic

[ibugsy]

I’m not talking about the constellations, but the single stars inside of them.

Since they each give a little passive power, I’m wondering if I can choose which one to unlock first or if I need to unlock them in a certain order.

Based on Zantai’s sentence in the OP,

Whenever you spend a devotion point, you will unlock one of the stars in a Constellation.

There is no requirement for which one you unlock first.

[mamba]

Wow, this gets better and better Would this mean 2 builds in a very short time span(B28 in November, B29/content complete in December)? And if so, can we hope for even more content than devotion in B28? Because otherwise B29 would be huge with act 4 and legendaries and maybe even higher difficulties, so I´m curious how the plans are in terms of splitting all that stuff between the (assumed) 2 upcoming builds.

I definitely expect part if not all of act 4 as I expect that the guys working on devotion are not the ones working on the acts, so work was done there in parallel