I usually don’t get weigh in on balance discussions because I’m nowhere near a good player. I’m basically a 1 armed player with 4,000 hours in the game. The idea of nerfing retaliation builds disappoints me for maybe selfish reasons. I have a very hard time playing pianos, or the PoE flask type mode. With about 40 maxed out characters, retals are comfortable enough, but the trade off I’ve found is they seem to be very slow killers, some I made a year or 2 ago don’t work at all. Crate has been great at buffs and not too many nerfs. I keep all my characters and the non-viable ones just have to be rebuilt , which can be very expensive in materials. Whatever they decide I’ll happily accept and be thankful for, but I hope there remains room for players that are nowhere near “elite” and still reach maybe recognized end game…i.e Nemeses, 60 or so SR, some of the Celestials.
Or maybe don’t update your game and create The 1.1.8 Resistance Group in retaliation for the 1.1.9.0 retaliation nerfs.
Next, you make your own 1.1.9.0 patch / mod with various buffs compensating for old nerfs to lure thousands of players.
When eventually all play The Community Patch, 
has no choice but to abdicate once and for all.
Yes, I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.
Update for Aether DE Spellbinder:
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/bVAmMPwV
Class: Spellbinder
Author: Alkamoshater
Patch Version: 1.1.8.1
CR timing: 5:20
SR: 110
Naked CR: -
SR speedrun -
Superbosses: Ravager
Changelog is updated. Haven’t yet included there tqFans acid WK WH, because i want to test this one in SR. (and because it’s similar to Valinov’s one.)
It seems like you’ve failed the paladin challenge, so how about a new one: make non lightning vindicator. The diversity of this class is garbage.
For Crucible actually fire Totems can be fast but I don’t expect great results elsewhere.
great class of lightning and totems. And totems and lightning.
If it’s vindicator then it’s totem box devils. No matter the damage type 
I have fire vindicator (desolator). Will play it more next patch
Cold ranged savagery is close to being possible, but needs some +savagery love (can’t wear korba helm and complete stormserpent set; northern wyrm doesn’t give +2 shaman; lightning -> cold to manually balance is then limited to 1 shoulder for 30%). Lord knows pierce can stack savagery to +50 by the time you get items completed somehow, so cold could use some love outside korba weapons carrying it all
Not sure how you reset Tributes but I used GDStash and found it very tedious / immersion breaking while doing Crucible runs.
Here you can find GDHacker that can freeze Tributes so that you can provide 
with even MOAR build performance tests to balance builds better or at least test MOAR comfortably.
You can either
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use it alone as a command line tool / shortcut with arguments to freeze Tributes for one launch of the game
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combine it with GDAutocaster that detects the game automatically and freezes Tributes when the game’s window is active
- can be fully automated so that Tributes are always frozen without user’s interaction whenever you play Grim Dawn even after computer restart if you add GDAutocaster to startup with proper arguments
All this assuming it actually works on machines other than mine which I’m not sure yet and be grateful for feedback.
Video
GDHacker + GDAutocaster can also dynamically change game’s speed while in-game.
- you can try to cheat Crucible with it by speeding the game up here and there
to spare a few seconds hoping nobody can notice that in the recording
Video
I suggest to make visible on-screen what cheat is enabled like Grim Internals shows when you speeded game.
Updated
Added “Author” and “Game Version” columns so now it’s easier to navigate.
Deleted SR Speedrun, because only one person have submitted them, and i didn’t want to lower the reqs, hence that would be meaningless.
Added a couple of builds that i’ve found on forum since 30th of November, yet i’m more than sure that i missed some of them. Also I almost didn’t add anything from builds people i’ve seen from “”“official (not official)((and now it’s official again, goddammit))”" discord. Sorry for that, my memory is quite a garbage.
Just reminding that submission form is still available and saves me a lot of time.
it’s not all the changes, since i want to introduce major ones when the 1.1.9 is out, so it’s not 1.30 yet.
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/62aQv7k2
Class: Shieldbreaker
Author: Retal_Abuser
Patch: 1.1.8.1
CR: 4:57
Naked CR: 6:03
SR: 100
Superbosses: Crate, Callagadra, Ravager
Obsidian Tremors Commando: [1.1.8.1] 1,900 Base Regen Obsidian Juggernaut Commando
Class: Commando
Author: thepowerofmediocrity
Patch Version: 1.1.8.1
CR timing: -
SR: 85
Naked CR: -
Bosses: Avatar of Mogdrogen
My last builds that I did not submitted:
Physical caster Sentinel: [1.1.8.1] Physical Caster Sentinel -> Crucible 5:05/ SR 100/ Ravager 1:30 + Crate
Class: Sentinel
Author: Alkamoshater
Patch Version: 1.1.8.1
CR timing: 5:05
SR: 100
Naked CR: -
Bosses: Ravager, Crate
Semi-beginner Devastation Spellbinder [1.1.8.1] Semi-beginner target-farmable Outcast Spellbinder -> How to farm/ Crucible 5:15/ SR 100/ Ravager + Mogdrogen/ safe 75-76sr farmer
Class: Spellbinder
Author: Alkamoshater
Patch Version: 1.1.8.1
CR timing: 5:15
SR: 100
Naked CR: -
Bosses: Ravager, Mogdrogen
Hello everyone,
you might be interested in this updated sheet of mine, and maybe @grey-maybe is interested in merging it:
I have copy-pasted nearly all of the items contained in the GRIMTOOLS links into the sheet
I also have added a new tab, where you fill out your already found items (maybe exported as list from GDStash) and there’s a matching logic in the sheet, which then shows, which items from which builds you already have. An improvement would be, to conditional format the original item columns, not the copied ones, but I didn’t get this working.
I hope you like it 
wow, that’s quite a lot of work.
i like the idea, especially the list of found items. the only thing - a bit widen those columns, like here:
As for formating - as i’ve said, i’m dumb with excel, maybe @Stupid_Dragon will help with this, if he’s interested.
all items as text are actually very useful for data harvesting, which we are improving with every update, so thank you for this update.
Yeah, thanks. It was several hours of work. I had hoped to automate it somehow with the GrimTools API, but is disabled. So I started to see, that copy/pasting is disabled and started to type everything, because of that most of the items are not colored. After quite some time with that, I found, that a Chrome Extension “Allow Select And Copy” helps to copy paste the items, after clicking them in GrimTools.
Thank’s I’ve widened it. Despite the formatting in-place, also the VLOOKUP could maybe improved to match partially, the export of GDStash else needs data cleanup (e.g. it lists the amount of the items found).
In case someone is interested, how to get a “clean” data output out of GDStash (because Export Epic items out of GDStash is formatted for the forum):
I downloaded Apache Derby (which requires Java), and started ij.bat in the bin directory, then I opened the Derby Database file of GDStash, which is located in my case in
C:\Users\Melina\GDStash\db
so in ij, you type:
connect ‘jdbc:derby:C:\Users\Melina\GDStash\db’;
and then:
select name_full from gd_item where item_id in (select item_id from stash_item_v8 where rarity in (‘Epic’, ‘Legendary’) AND item_class != ‘ItemArtifactFormula’) ORDER BY rarity, name_full;
which outputs the list of all Epic and Legendary items.
For Magic items, it’s more complex, because Pre- and Suffixed need to be joined, which I currently didn’t do.