Greetings and thanks in advance for any help.
I am level 88 2-h warder. I am having a hard time killing Loghorrean on Ultimate.
I can get him down to 20% his health - but when the grimdawn loghorrean tyrants spawn, I am unable to finish him off or take them on.
Most of my resists are capped with + way beyond 80(Except bleeding, Ather and poison those are not capped). I have tried killing him with all my resists maxed but went for gear that gave me extra fire and chaos resists.
I can do the damage needed to get him to 20% but I am getting one shotted when facetanking him with just maybe one or two grimdawn loghorrean tyrants near me as well.
18k hit points. Have giants blood, Mehirs Wil (17), Wendigo Totem (not very useful against Loghorrean).
When Tyrants are coming,try to lure them and focused on them.Fron all things Log spawns they’re only dangerous ones.Also Log is doing multoliple damages(check monster database in grim tools).You need damage and RR for quick killing.When your Menhir will is on CD try to avoid his main attack.
Thanks for the help. I am in love with this game and this is my highest lvl character.
Gim Clac will be in post below. Since I am new to forum it wont let me post a link.
I can switch skills and adjust resists as needed.
I have tried to just focus on the Tyrants and kill them but it seems there is an infinite amount of them. I’m assuming once I get Log down to a lower hp they stop spawning but right now they are the bane of my existence.
I hope you have been enjoying GD! It can be a little difficult to understand how to improve your character so don’t feel put off. I think you need to choose on a damage type and stick to it. Currently you take savagery but have a physical damage weapon (where cadence would make more sense) and you have no resist reduction at all for phys, bleed or lightning.
There are skill point allocation that don’t make a lot of sense to me, like menhir will which is usually a one point skill because the return per point gets low fast. I wouldn’t recommend max oak skin or mogdrogen pact either.
Devotions seem to have a lot of unused points (guess this means you missed a lot of shrines).
In order to give proper suggestions I think you should say what damage type you want to deal (pick one; multi-damage hybrid rarely work well).
This is helpful. Thank you. No clue as to which damage type to select but understand what you mean. I think I would go with physical or one type or elemental. I can see why cadence would be better but the bonus I get from my 2h seemed ideal and for the most part, Savagery felt better. But again open to suggestions and want to learn more about tweaking that following my own specific pref.
I think lighting resist was way maxed. But not wearing much with physical resistance. Would it make sense to put points into Scars of Battle and one in merhirs?
I have not done many shrines in Ultimate since I did not have the components needed. But have made sure to hit every shrine in Normal and Elite.
Lower Menhir’s Will to a few points, and put 10 in Feral Hunger instead.
Skills like Mogdrogen’s Pact and Oak Skin aren’t worth maxing either in your case, you should get Soldier mastery to 50 so you can get Oleron’s Rage for some much needed OA.
just what i see from a quickview:
your res are kinda ok, you are way too much defensive in everything and really low in damage. (my level 40 chars do more dmg, no offense, maybe bleed damage isn’t shown properly on grimtools tho) this happens since you don’t have any synergy between the skills/items/constellations you chose. atleast try to focus on one type of damage. you also have no source of resistance reduction.
your devotion points are all over the place, you didn’t pick any good tier 3 constellation (they give you much better stats and procs). for example you have 3 completely useless points in ghoul, the 4th would give you the best possible defensive proc for a melee char, but just 3 points are better used elsewhere for much better stats
about skills:
you are kinda deep in both masteries but haven’t chosen a single exclusive skill from the 4 you can chose from. they are really good passive skills that empower your character a lot. pick one and max it. for example since your main weapon deals mostly bleed damage and you like to be tanky you could go primal bond, that gives good bleed damage and good damage absorption. (but imho oleron’s rage is way better for the offensive ability).
you put 12 in mogdrogen’s pact and 9 in oak skin, leave those to 1 point, imho not worth more, since you can get the equivalent of ~10 skillpoints with a single devotion point in some cases…
put points in feral hunger, it has tons of lifesteal and multiplies off your savagery attacks! same for markovian’s advantage (and zolhan’s technique).
you have lvl 17 menhir’s will. i’d leave it to 1. same for squad tactics.
if you want to focus on bleed damage, max devouring swarm and use it as a sweet debuff for that juicy -40% bleeding resistance, even doubling your damage in some cases.
there’s a ton to discuss here, hope this will suffice for now
oh i didnt notice you only have 35 devo points. gt said 55 unlocked, sorry. they are still heavily misplaced tho and at level 80 you have an easy way to get all 55 of them.
ok this does help though ill be back with lots of questions.
Will get my head into the details, settle on dmg type.
Not sure how to unlock all the shrines though but will look that up.
TY!
well, you even have ashes of malmouth. the shrines are way more than 55 with the expansion, if you really can’t find them just check where they are on some guide, expecially the ones you already know of that can be found on multiple difficulties. if you have crucible you can play there for devotion points.
was going to add but forgot. My damage at min is 33k, 50+k buffed. One question, I chose gear based on resists. I am assuming at somepoint I want to select gear that balances damage buffs with resists?
I do have the expansion but have not played through it yet. Got it when I made it to Ultimate with this character and waited to try it. Why I want to get past Log so much. Lol. So good to know more shrines.
ok, 50k is ok, not that that value means much. it’s just your left mouse skill’s dps and in your case i think it doesn’t count the savagery charges.
anyway you really should already have 55 devo points at the end of ultimate.
keep in mind ashes of malmouth’s content is way harder than the previous acts, maybe you should try act 5-6 on elite before doin it on ultimate. the aom shrines are mostly in normal and ultimate tho.
your gear shouldn’t really be based on resistances, at most a few pieces if you have a hard time gettin all res to 80. even in this case devotions help a lot. anyway you should be able to balance everything with augments and components alone with almost any gear piece, given you have the factions reputation and the component recipes.
can you please update your progress/give us an updated gt when you manage to go further?
ok here is a grimtools with my suggested version of your build, for bleed damage. it isn’t optimized in any way.
the devotions are mostly offensive yet you overcap all resistances by a lot, with the same items you already have.
from devotions you get a lot of buffs to your bleed damage, rend and manticore reduce bleed resistance (plus your skill devouring swarm), for a total of -100% bleed resistance!! (yes it can go negative and amplify your damage)
this should atleast double your damage (not the number shown but the actual damage) but I’d say you’ll do like 4 times the dmg you do now
the point with bleed damage is it’s a dot and you can’t lifesteal over it, you need strong hitting skills more than fast attacks since bleed doesn’t stack from the same skill (in your case savagery attacks), that’s why I would use blade arc instead of savagery, but that’s your choice.
when i have time i can post a physical damage alternative. also oleron’s rage as a skill is better than primal bond imho, expecially since you need more offensive ability to crit properly.
and last thing: warcry is one of the best skills in the game, reducing enemies damage and having 100% proc chance on devotions like howl of mogdrogen. it’s possibly the best defensive skill you have and aren’t using.
