Hecate - Lazy Dark One's Set Budget Pet Ritualist

Foreword:

Budget Pet Build using target farmable items including the Dark One’s Gift Set.
Intended to be the Budget build for Ishtar - Pet Ritualist

Note: Requires both Ashes_of_Malmouth & Forgotten_Gods.

  • [Pet] [1.1.9.8] (budget) (L) (sr) Hecate - Dark One’s Set Budget Pet Ritualist (Maya)

    • Damage: Pets
    • Active Skills: Reap Spirit, Summon Blight Fiend, Devouring Swarm, Wendigo Totem
    • Passive Skills: Primal Bond, Mogdrogen’s Pact, Spectral Binding, Presence of Might (x2)
    • WPS Skills: none

O) image|200 : Ritualist, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator

SR 75 (Ultimate): https://i.imgur.com/sCo2Or4.jpg
No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending.

Callagadra (Ultimate): https://i.imgur.com/AZaAWtK.jpg
No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending.
Around 35 minutes kill time. A lot of Kiting involved.


Build Details

Devotion order:

  • Purple > Shepherd’s Crook > Remove Purple >

  • Red > Jackal > Green > Raven >

  • Manticore > Remove Green >

  • Yellow > Crane > Tortoise > Eel >

  • Sailor’s Guide > Lizard >

  • Ulo the Keeper of the Waters >

  • Ishtak > Tree of Life (4 points for Healing Rain)

Skills (in no particular order):

  • 13/12 Mogdrogen’s Pact, 11/10 Heart of the Wild, 11/10 Oak Skin

  • 17/16 Devouring Swarm

  • 13/12 Primal Bond

  • 21/12 Wendigo Totem, 6/12 Blood Pact

  • 23/16 Reap spirit

  • 25/16 Summon Blight Fiend, 19/12 Rotting Fumes, 15/12 Blight Burst, 1/1 Unstable Anomaly

  • 13/12 Spectral Binding, 13/10 Spectral Wrath

Items:

Benevald is in The Blood Grove.

Hyram is in Steelcap District - Malmouth.

(Hyram also sells Blueprint for Haunt Relic which is needed to Craft Ancestor)

(Blueprint for Mistborn Talisman drops from the boss in Smuggler’s Pass and from Swamp King in East Marsh. Also required for Ancestor)

Edge of Reality is a secret area that is part of the Lokarr Secret quest.
On the Conduit, we are looking for the Blightfiend Prefix.

Augments:

  • 2x Ravager’s Eye

  • 2x Mogdrogen’s Blessing

  • 1x Rotgut Venom

  • 2x Mankind’s Vigil

  • 1x Coven Black Ash

  • 4x Malmouth Soulguard Powder

  • Emblem of the Riftstalker

Components:

  • Seal of Ancestry

  • 2x Seal of Might

  • 2x Mark of Illusions

  • 2x Eldritch Mirror

  • 1x Sacred Plating

  • 1x Bloodied Crystal

  • 2x Ugdenbog Leather

  • 1x Silk Swatch

  • 1x Spellscorched Plating


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How to Level

Since the above build is an endgame build, use the information provided below for leveling.

Attributes:

Everything into Physique, except for when you need to invest into Cunning or Spirit to meet the required stats for equipping items.

Leveling:

Start as Necromancer-

We will be focusing on Skeletons first before respec’ing halfway through, into Blight Fiends & Reap Spirit and then going back to invest points in Skeletons later on. The reason for this is that Skeletons struggle Mid-game and hence the shifting of focus for a bit helps make things a bit easier.

Since we are going for a Ritualist, it is recommended that you put enough points in Shaman early on, to get a 16/16 Briarthorn before going back to focus on the Necromancer Side. However, do note that it is optional and not necessary for success.

Devotions:

  • Purple > Shepherd’s Crook > Remove Purple >

  • Blue > Eel > Red > Viper > Remove Blue >

  • Green > Raven > Murmur >

  • Yellow > Lotus > Remove Raven >

  • Manticore > Remove Green >

  • Panther > Crane > Sailor’s Guide > Hound >

  • Ishtak > Tree of Life (4 points for Healing Rain)

Skills:

  • Lvl 10 – 16/16 Raise Skeletons, 1/12 Undead Legion.

  • Lvl 20 – 14/16 Summon Blight Fiend, 12/12 Undead Legion, 1/16 Ravenous Earth (RE).

  • Lvl 30 – 16/16 Summon blight Fiend, 12/12 Rotting Fumes, 6/12 Will of the Crypt.

  • Lvl 40 – Remove points from RE, Raise Skeletons and its nodes, 12/12 Blight Burst, 1/1 Unstable Anomaly, 16/16 Reap Spirit, 11/12 Master of Death.

  • Lvl 50 – 1/12 Spectral Binding, 1/10 Spectral Wrath, 16/16 Raise Skeletons, 1/12 Undead Legion.

  • Lvl 60 – 12/12 Master of Death, 12/12 Undead Legion, 8/10 Spectral Wrath.

  • Lvl 70 – 10/10 Spectral Wrath, 12/12 Will of the Crypt, 8/10 Call of the Grave.

  • Lvl 80 – 10/10 Call of the Grave, 10/10 Mark of Torment, 1/16 Bone Harvest, 1/12 Dread, 6/12 Soul Harvest.

  • Lvl 90 – 12/12 Soul Harvest, 1/16 RE, 12/12 Decay.

  • Lvl 94 – Respec as needed, according to the build you are going for.


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Maya’s Reddit Profile - https://www.reddit.com/user/MayaGD

Carnival Guide - Issuu Link

Carnival Guide (Reddit Edition) - https://www.reddit.com/user/MayaGD/comments/qel59g/mini_carnival_pet_guide_reddit_edition/


Reddit links -
1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdawn/comments/votcv4/hecate_dark_one_budget_pet_ritualist_3/

2 - https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdawn/comments/vzd6x4/ravager_killed_with_hecate_dark_ones_set_budget/

3 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdawn/comments/w0gphz/hecate_budget_dark_one_pet_build_updated_now_more/

4 - https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdawn/comments/w3a0cb/hecate_dark_one_budget_pet_ritualist_callagadra/

Second and final one.

Necromancy meta in full force :rofl:

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Mogdrogen also killed. Pic taken from Reddit post.

Build was updated with new amulet and belt.

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Build updated, Callagadra kill time reduced by half :3
Build is now both faster and safer than before. Major change was Vitality Blightfiend Conduit, since you can buy the blueprints from Morgo dungeon merchant.

For those wondering why Ancestor instead of Mortality on a Vitality Pet build, well… I originally had Mortality, but it was kind of subpar interms of actual performance. Ancestor proved to be more useful in practice. Perhaps if Mortality’s skill was a toggle instead of proc :thinking:

I noticed you swapped out the shield for a Pulsing Shard, is that for the ADctH on Reap Spirit?

Was for the cooldown reduction and +2 to Reap Spirit (need to keep it at 23/16 atleast to get 3 spirits).
Also, since it is an off-hand, mana regeneration (the mana cost reduction to reap spirit also helps).

build works fine in 1.2
:3

I noticed in the devotions guide, it says to take Murmur, but it doesn’t show up in the final devotion setup, and the guide doesn’t start to remove Murmur. Was this a typo?

You are looking at 2 different things.

Murmur is used in the setup for leveling.

We use a different build once we get max level and items.

Ah, thanks for the clarification, I’ll remember to grab a skill to bind Murmur to.

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No issues in the current Public Test Patch (1.2.1.0).

Can easily do sr 75-76.

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Hello there!

Is it still a viable beginner build? My plan is to try your “Isthar” build when I get there.

Kind of… I don’t really recommend it these days because it has lost a good bit of its power and I haven’t been able to come up with a satisfactory way to update it.

Okay, thanks for the info.

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