Help with devotions on Pyroslinger!

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
1

Okay guys, so I went back from my braindead Sorc-slinger build, which finished ultimate and farmed a bit to provide for my next toon, a pyromancer build. I’m trying out a lot of combinations but I’m a bit confused with devotions mostly, also I’d like some input with what gear i should be aspiring for, now that I’m slowly entering ultimate.

First off, a question. I recently added magi’s Fissure on my CoF and it i see fissures happening when I autoattack with Firestrike, what up?

Anyway, the build looks like this at the momment, at level 65 and having just finished Elite act2 like a breeze. I started on Crucible to get the extra devotions and levels and with some help from my other character materials-wise, and a friend giving me relic blueprints and my wonderful exterminus and medal(I’m told it’s BiS for slingers and tbh I can see it for myself even tho I dunno many of the alternatives), I’m here:

http://www.grimtools.com/calc/4VxlgpV5

[Album] Imgur

Now… My character can kite but it also can faceroll most shit without using HP pots in elite. but i’m worried about how my procs work. I recently added flame torrent on Firestrike and i’ like it for what it’s supposed to be doing (added an extra layer between me and mobs that manage to withstand my ranged hits on top of my toggle) it but I leveled till here using meteors on it and with meteors now on flashbang… Well I don’t see them all that often.

PS: Got oneshotted by an Iron Maiden on crucible 130. Wasn’t fun! Not fun at all!

So how would you recommend I go about this conundrum? I don’t use flashbang much tbh, actually I’d just like to stand and shoot and kite and shoot as much as possible! Seeing as to how ONLY shooting is impossible, i take it it means maxing BWC for duration and radius and biting the bullet using thermite mines seeing as to how it has great RR and duration, maybe twice per pack is enough.

I’m also open to completely removing Fiend in favour of another constelation if anything comes to mind. But I love the thing I got going on with almost finished Hydra-Revennant-Torch, wouldn’t wanna remove that. I’m not absolutely sold on Chariot of the dead as well…

Any advice or input would be hugely appreciated, and I’m open to any type of theorycrafting! I saw a couple of threads about pyroslingers recently using devil+exterminus but I didn’t wanna highjack and personalize those threads.

Thanks for reading all, have fun!

2

Curse of Frailty ticks every second, so each second is a new chance to trigger Fissure. That’s why you are seeing it when you are using Fire Strike.

3

Fun part is… I (think I) see it even without using CoF on mobs! I’m probably wrong and getting confused in the milions of procs

EDIT: Nevermind, it wasn’t Fissure what I was looking at but my new boots’ proc. Fun!

4

I won’t comment about your gear cuz I know it’s hard to get exactly needed.
Anyway, getting augment may help in better resistance.

Stats : Put the point left in physique as much as you can. I literally hate doing all in physique as well. But it’s the best choice for the game now and it is the best for the build.

Skills

  • Static Strike is wasting for the build. very small benefit gain per lv of the skills. I’d weight Explosive Strike more than this though.

  • If you feel it’s hard to encounter dense mobs, 7/12 or 12/12 Flashbang. It’s really good to see some mobs run away. If you feel 1vs1 with boss or nemesis something hard. 7+/12 Searing Light could help. It’ll reduce chance he will hit you. It’ll be good if you can sustain some dmg at a moment.

  • CoF is wasting IMO for the build that don’t prepare to shorten kill time. So I consider it is one of last options for boosting DPS. Spending points in other skills or mastery bar is recommend.

  • Solael Witchfire isn’t worth in ultimate lv. You get smaller amount. it’s ultimate lv. should be considered as one of the last options for boosting dps. It’s scale good for flat in ultimate, though. Just max it after you’re fine in overall performance.

Devotions
You went into more offensive while overall stats isn’t defensive as it should. That’s why something can punish you hard. I don’t mean to convince you to play defensive, but to tell you that it’s something you should accept when you’re going to be offensive. So the trade off is high, may require some good gear to fix defensive things. Hope you’ll enjoy being pyromancer :slight_smile:

PS. Iron Maiden and Fabius is most dangerous threat for ranged and casters build. To fight one of them need good preparation.

5

Solael’s Witchfire is absolutely worth boosting to the max because it isn’t just about the attack speed: It’s also about the flat Chaos damage it adds to your weapon attacks, and that keeps going up. Pyromancer should be about Fire AND Chaos.

On a related note: The OP should max out the Occultist mastery and get Possession for the same reason.

6

Come to think about it. I think I’d edit my last comment on solael witchfire. It gives flat chaos. My mistake.

And to be correct. It’s Ultimate Lv. should consider to be one of the last options for boosting dps while have everything enough.

7

Might be worth looking at InkOsk132’s Pyro build.

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54837

8

his and older builds were the basis of my pyro. I wanna either find a way to make Inkosk’s use of Flame torrent possible without it being bound on my firestrike, or remove it altogether for another proc - preferably a when hit/on hit skill - the main point of my thread.

also i’m open to anything different, like maybe adding a buffing summon from occultist tree? Raven’s heal, hellhound’s explosion with it’s health reduction… But I see them mostly as one point wonders that might get stuff out of my +skills (exterminus + planning on using empowered essence of beronath and so on).

In other words: I’m really not into demolitionists bombs. I can take BWC and perhaps the thermite mines but to put it lightly, i hate their clunky feeling (and that’s putting it likely). Might just be the dota player in me. But I hate how I feel like my character is forced to be interrupted from shooting to slowly throw a molotov or a flashbang instead of shooting. I’m looking for ways to spice things up. And let’s face it, how cool is a dual pistol weilding magic fire and black rays dude that carries a crow with him and wears a black wizard’s hat? In concept, he does sound VERY cool. Seeing him throw flaming bags of fieces like a 13 year old kid being bullied in some american school? Way, way less cooler >.<