Have Guns, Will Travel (cold Paladin scheming)

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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No GrimTools chart up, not yet anyway. I want to first get an idea of what additional skills I’ll want in addition to what I’m about to mention.

In one of the streams, Crate noted that there would be an item that would turn Vire’s Might’s fire damage to cold. So of course I considered that in tandem with Rune of Hagarrad and Chilling Rounds. The basic stratagem I have in mind:

  1. Plant Rune in front of self.
  2. Pelt goons with bullets (Have Guns…) while they approach you (and the Rune).
  3. Once they get close enough, have detonated the Rune, and there’s any still left, Vire’s Might through them (…Will Travel) to put more space between you and them, then plant another Rune.

Granted I put Guns in plural, but I am wondering if Volcanic Might with one gun and a shield would work better, as it turns all the physical damage into fire, and from there to cold that can be amplified with our equipment.

Anyone’s thoughts on this basic stratagem?

EDIT: Okay, have a rough prototype of the skill setup: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/a2dvvYLZ. A little dissatisfied with not having managed to get room for Artifact Handling, though.

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Cold gunning is something to look forward to;)

You will have a lot more to look forward to when items are released in GT

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Have one more movement skill on the medal slot, will travel some more. Shoot mobs in the back of their heads. Plant more rune :smiley:

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Things have gotten odd with the idea since the GrimTools update. Turns out that the item that turns Vire’s Might’s damage to cold is actually a Conduit of Divine Whispers, rather than any fixed-value Rare/Epic/Legendary.

What this means is that anything else that upgrades VM’s damage by itself probably isn’t going to be in the running, since it will certainly try to amplify fire damage (and the relevant Conduit prefix changes the physical to cold).

So for starters, Volcanic Might is no longer in the running, since it’s not fire damage that we can convert.

We’ll need to instead rely on boosting cold damage by itself, along with things that specifically boost Rune of Hagarrad/Biting Cold/Chillsurge/Chilling Rounds.

(Assuming I don’t flip to Archon first…)

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Alkamos` warsword converts 100 phys to to cold, adds flat cold, and gives pneumatic burst 70% fire to cold modifier :wink:

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…Paladin, not Infiltrator or Dervish. Not to mention, I’m expressly using a ranged weapon strategy.

In any case, I did succeed in finding items that increased cold damage and added points to Vire’s Might. New prototype is here (still have yet to apply constellations or augments): https://www.grimtools.com/calc/0V0QbgXZ

Before I found the Belt, I was worried about the gauntlets–Iceskorn for the additional frostburn on Righteous Fervor, or Hagarrad for the boost to Biting Cold? But Nightfire turning a measure of all fire to cold undid that concern.

EDIT: Constellations added. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/O2GDO5lV