How good is Living Shadow for bleed builds?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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I see a number of bleed builds using Living Shadow. As just a constellation in a vacuum comparison, I think I like Mogdrogen the wolf better for a bleed concentric build. I’m playing a 2H Warder build focusing mostly on bleed with physical and internal trauma as secondary.

I found one way that would allow me to get both Living shadow and Howl of Mogdrogen…but…that would mean skipping Kraken…which I’ve read is a big no-no when using 2H. So maybe the answer is easy…just get howl… But I was wondering if it would be worth it to try to get both?

Here are the two devotion builds I came up with:

Living Shadow and Howl: http://grimcalc.com/build/0ipZvG

This also gains assassin’s mark, where the - to physical resists would help (although the -pierce would be wasted)

Kraken and Howl: http://grimcalc.com/build/c7zw0R

So, is living shadow worth dumping Kraken?

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Maybe I should have titled this post devotion help for 2H warder… May explain the lower views.

I updated the grim calc’s to show my currently planned final build (subject to change) if that helps determine sources of damage in decided which would be the better set up… Some skills I showed based on potential + skills and other I didn’t, but the general concept should be along those lines.

I think the basic question is if the extra bleed damage form assassins mark and living shadow are worth giving up the 135% to all damage from the Kraken for a 2H bleed build… Unless I’m also missing something else in those set ups…

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Kraken is the better choice.

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Release the KRAKEN