Help with demolitionist build

I’m new here and i know i come a little late to the party but i’m hoping that someone can help me, i’m on my first playthrough in grim dawn, playind in normal (veteran) difficulty and demolitionist (i can’t remember exactly why i choose this class because i started playing maybe a year ago but then i stopped for maybe 6, 7 months and now returned and decided to continue this game) i’ve come for help because sometimes i have the feeling that this build is weak, don’t know if it is because of the resistances but i noticed that some enemies can take my vitality pretty quick and sometimes it takes a while to kill them, if someone could point me in the right direction, some build that i could follow or what kind of weapons and armor i should look for i would be appreciated. i will leave here the link to my build (hoping that i do it right xD) https://www.grimtools.com/calc/wV19QnnV

Thanks in advance

Between Fire Strike, BWC, and Grenado, which one you like the most?

Grenado is the one that makes more damage but as a long cooldown…BWC and grenado are probably the 2 that i like most, have to admit that i’m not using fire strike most of the time

I see, so I assume the caster demo is the one you’re playing right now. BWC is good leveling skill as it have big aoe damage and quite strong, so might as well focus on it and the thermite mine for resist reduction.

Regarding resist, its no wonder you’re easily dead as your resist is low enough (I assume you’re heading towards homestead at that level, so there is lots of bleed and acid mobs). The easiest to fix that would be to reach Respected status with the Devil Crossing, Rover, and Homestead, so by level 35 you can buy their faction armor which suits you best. Try to reach all resist to 50 by level 35, and 80 or more at level 50.

Oh remember this when choosing equipment, just because the item is blue or purple, doesn’t mean they’re better than green item. If you have outlevel your item by 10-15 level, there is a large chance that there is a better replacement and better dump those blue or store them is stash.

Sorry, forgot about that, i started act 2 recently, i don’t know homestead, but yeah, i think it’s acid or something like that, usually see green stuff from my enemies.
i’ll go to devil crossing and respec, i only have friendly with rovers and devil crossing for now don’t think they sell their faction armor…
Also forgot to say, i still have 7 devotion points, didn’t put anything there yet (also didn’t put all points in class nor attributes, that’s a bad habit that i have in all games xD) but talking about devotion, don’t know if i should put points now or should i wait, didn’t looked at that at the moment.
thanks for the help :slight_smile:

They do sell their faction armor once you reach respected with each faction, just look for the quartermaster npc, usually in the middle of the base.

For devotion, I think you should aim for Viper and Solael Witchfire early, both are real good for fire damage build.

yeah, but i only have “friendly” with them, 2250 points, need 3500 for “respected” how can i gain more points? keep defeating warden? or there’s other places besides the places from the act 1?

thanks, going to try devotion now

edit: already see that have to defeat cronley’s gang

Yeah to cronley gang for DC, I forget that bounty table is unlocked at respected level.

yeah don’t have acess to bounty, time to kill some bandits to change that xD

thanks for all the help : )

There are some beginner build guides here Beginner build guides Compendium (for AoM + FG expansions) look for demo builds :slight_smile:

thanks! going to look at this :slight_smile:

@Ulvar1 I’ve been looking at the builds and i was thinking of trying your shieldbreaker build, it’s a little different from what i have now but it seems interesting, but i have some questions, you say that you use riftclaw slicer and this can be farmed in the Forgotten Gods DLC, but doesn’t it spoil the game if we go there now? or it doesn’t matter?

edit: i’ve played a little now, choosen oathkeeper as my 2 class and i’ve got to say not only i’m stronger but having lots of fun, Eye of Reckoning is awesome!

no not really, the FG DLC is like a stand alone thing. And if we were not supposed to go there like at any time, devs would not have made it accessible this early.

it makes sense :slight_smile:

My build is now this: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/b28Be0DZ can someone help me on this doubt? is it good as it is or should i change equipment? for instance, i’ve got gauntlets of ignaffar: https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8038 and empowered turin’s grip: https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/12239 should i change my gloves?
helmet - i have praetorian faceguard: https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/1344 is it better?
shoulders - i’ve got empowered cindervein mantle: https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/12377
medal - mogdrogen sigil:https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/772
mark of oaths: https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/760
empowered mark of anguished lies: https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/12118

Sorry for all the questions, just trying to understand what is best :slight_smile:

Gloves you always want attack speed roll.

The shoulders you have now are garbage, they convert loads of your fire damage to vitality xD any shoulder is better than what you have now :slight_smile:

The medal you have is a meme, sure good for CC res, but otherwise its junk
Just focus on covering resistnaces first, then +%ele or fire dmg

This was my build at level 60, use that as a comparison https://www.grimtools.com/calc/a2dQdxGV (elite)

Make sure to tell what difficluty you are one also

Ahahah didn’t even noticed that on the shoulders xD only looked at resistances xD

yeah, i was using the medal because of cc res, going to change it for something else.

i’m playing on normal (veteran) as it is my first playthrough i can’t change for elite :confused:

finally farmed bolvar’s amulet xD

edit: only need praetorian shouldergard to have full set, got the chestguard right now, seems interesting for now