Hello Everyone!
I’ve been working for a few months on updaing an old mod called Darkest Dawn to current GD standards, and decided to share my work! The mod is very WIP, but should be playable enough up the way to 100. Don’t expect to climb SR 75 
Important Note! Previous Darkest Dawn characters won’t work with my version! And starting from v0.4 my mod ONLY works on 1.2 game version!
Mod features:
- 2 new masteries - Reanimator and Illusionist;
- 18 endgame legendary sets.
- 100 MI’s to boost mod masteries;
- 2 belts;
- 8 relics;
- 15 cursed components in waist slot. These do large bonuses, but have a downside(s).
Meet the fully reworked Reanimator and Illusionist!
Reanimator is a god of life and death, suited to keep the group alive via healing skills and high health regen!
Illusionist is a master of crowd control and have a few skills to reduce enemy resistance to CC effects.
How to get new items
When you start a new character, there will be a special smith right near first Devil’s Crossing gates.
Tendo, the Replica Smith, can exchange MI (monster infrequent items) for Replica MI’s, which preserve old skill modifiers and add a new one for either Illusionist or Reanimator skills.
Downloads and Installation
v0.1 at MEGA.nz
v0.2 at MEGA.nz
v0.3 at MEGA.nz
v0.4 at MEGA.nz
v0.5 at MEGA.nz
v0.6.1 at MEGA.nz
Simply extract DarkestDawn folder from .zip archive to the Grim Dawn/Mods folder! If the “Mods” folder does not exist in Grim Dawn directory, just create it 
Keep in mind, AoM and FG DLC’s are required for mod to work.
Changelog
v0.1:
-Initial release.
v0.2:
-Changed replica smith name to Tendo (a honorable mention of the original mod author), updated smith spawn mechanic (thanks to @Ceno again!) so you will no longer overspawn game with smiths. Note: previous item to spawn smith will be lost after you update the mod, you’ll need to buy it again from Devil’s Crossing faction vendor.
-Changed Bone Colossus aura visuals to be less screen bloating and made the aura range scale with ranks, starting from 3.5 meters on rank 1, up the way to 4.5 meters on 22/12.
v0.3:
Game:
-Tendo the Replica Smith: no longer can be spawned (and item to spawn him was removed), now takes a spot of Oxley NPC from Devil’s Crossing (the one who stands near Emissary/Barnabas).
-Removed Tonic of Reshaping from DC vendor (forgot to remove it in previous versions, oops).
-Adjusted button size on class selection window.
-Greatly simplified relic crafting, now it’s way easier to get the needed completion skill bonuses.
Items:
-Replica Bloodsworn Repeater: reduced Devil Mind duration bonus to 1s, cooldown to -0.5s.
-Replica Bloodsworn Codex: removed duration bonus to Summon Living Horror.
-Replica Fleshwarped Codex: removed duration bonus to Summon Living Horror.
-Replica Groble Stone Effigy: increased skill bonuses to +3.
-Replica Groble Toxic Effigy: increased skill bonuses to +3.
-Replica Grundleplith’s Tail: added Fighting Spirit skill bonus and skill modifier.
-Replica Pulsing Shard: added %vitality damage to item.
-Replica Spectral Bludgeon: reclassified as a scepter, base values updated accordingly.
-Replica Ugdenbog Flamestrife: added %chaos damage to item.
-Replica Kymon’s Badge: removed fumble/impaired aim, added -8% ele RR.
-Replica Vilgazor’s Heart: added Pneumatic Burst skillmodifier.
-Replica Lagoth’Ak’s Voidbinding: Added Aegis of Menhir skillmodifier.
-Replica Rag’Nadar’s Maw: added Thermite Mines skillmodifier.
-Replica Packla Skins: added Savagery skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Sparkthrower: added Primal Strike skillmodifier
-Replica Rutnick’s Blaster: added Righteous Fervor skillmodifier.
-Replica Lucius Blade-Arm: added Word of Renewal skillmodifier.
-Replica Death-Watcher Pendant: added Mogdrogen’s Pact skillmodifier.
-Replica Martin’s Crest: added Thermite Mines skillmodifier.
-Replica Colossal Defender: added War Cry skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Venom Launcher: added Ranged Expertise skillmodifier.
-Replica Gulgazor’s heart: added Horn of Gandarr skillmodifier.
-Replica Wradlith’s Bulwark: added Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange skillmodifier.
-Bonechill: reduced required level to 60.
-Phantasm: reduced required level to 60.
Illusionist:
-Updated mastery training bar/button textures, changed background color when progressing through skill tiers to more aligning with mastery.
-Gyrus Sphere of Repulsion: updated visual fx and skill icon, removed flat electrocute damage and energy absorb, slightly reduced stun retaliation, adjusted dmg absorb to be lower on early ranks and ramp up higher on ultimate ranks.
-Amygdala’s Cut: updated skill icon.
-Edge of Sanity: updated visual fx, reduced max orbiting skulls to 5, slightly increased their flight speed.
-Striat Mindblast: updated skill icon and visuals (less blinding colors now), renamed to Striat’s Vortex and removed projectile throw, now creates swirling vortex at a targeted location, duration reduced to 3s at all ranks, tick rate and damage are slightly increased to compensate loss of duration, radius is also reduced to 6.5m.
-Essence of Madness: renamed to Unbounded Storm, removed additional projectiles, increased total damage modifier to 175%, duration to 3s, added +1.5m radius and 1.5s knockdown.
-Time Stop: updated skill icon, removed fumble/impaired aim.
-Downfall: updated skill icon.
-Summon Living Horror: updated skill icon and visuals, now is a permanent pet, removed -%total speed, added fumble/impaired aim scaling.
-Wrath of the Aether: updated visuals of transmuted pet.
-Burning Horrors: updated skill icon, reduced -%RR values.
-Retaliating Echoes: transmuted version of this skill template has been changed.
-Devil Mind: now activates at 75% health, reduced cooldown and duration to 6s, reduced damage multiplier scaling with ranks to 12% on 10/10 and 22% on ultimate rank.
-Enrage: updated visuals and sound fx, spell spreads faster now, duration also scales with level, energy cost lowered, added taunt and -%taunt RR, removed confusion.
-Hysteria: slightly increased -%OA scaling.
-Void Affinity: added energy reserve.
-Vanish: added energy reserve.
-Growing Shadows: added energy reserve.
-Touch of the Void: redesigned, now converts a portion of physical damage to chaos and adds small speed bonus.
-Mind over Matter: reduced duration to +3s (should be less punishing for healing purposes).
-Decellerate: renamed to Decelerate, changed -%movespeed to -%total speed with less value.
-Veil of Darkness: radius, target amount and tick rate now scales with ranks, energy cost greatly increased, stun now only applies at 20% chance across all ranks.
-Aether Corruption: updated description, removed target amount and radius bonuses, lowered duration bonus to 2s and total damage multiplier to -10%.
-Troubled Dreams: adjusted scaling of %RR, increased energy cost scaling.
-Dream Eater: added duration scaling, increased energy cost scaling.
-Amygdala’s Sight: reduced CDR scaling to be in line with vanilla exclusives.
-Illusion Daggers: adjusted explosion colors.
Reanimator:
-Updated mastery training bar/button textures, changed background color when progressing through skill tiers to more aligning with mastery.
-Reaper’s Touch: updated skill icon.
-Reaper’s Claim: renamed to Frostbite and updated skill icon.
-Reaper’s Call: renamed to Brittle and updated skill icon.
-Summon Restless Wraith: updated skill icon.
–Vampiric Curse: increased vitality decay damage, dot duration reduced to 1s, bleeding damage is slightly increased and moved to Vampiric Blast, -%life leech RR scaling increased with ranks.
-Vampiric Feast: updated skill icon. Removed flat bleeding damage, increased flat vitality scaling, added bonus aoe scaling with ranks, starting with +2m on 12/12, up to +3m on ultimate rank.
-Chilling Strikes: updated skill icon.
-Lord of Bones: updated skill icon and visual fx.
-Desecrated Ground: updated skill icon, reduced skill duration to 5s, increased flat RR duration to 3s.
-Atonement: updated skill icon.
-Blood Ritual: updated sound fx, slightly increased healing at early ranks, increased energy cost.
-Flesh to Power: increased energy cost.
-Ritual of Flesh: reworked, now restores slightly more health and decreases skill cooldown, requires a shield or caster off-hand to work.
-Boiling Blood: reduced -CD scaling with ranks to -2s on 10/10, up to -3s on ultimate rank.
-Exoskeletal Armor: updated sound fx, slightly increased health regen values on higher ranks, added energy reserve.
-Bizzare Shell: added energy reserve.
-Circle of Protection: bonuses reworked, now it grants %damage absorb, flat health regen, phys resistance and +%healing effects, energy cost increased.
–Repulsion: changed skill template, the damage still can be stacked when applying multiple Circles of Protection.
-Corrosion Wave: updated visuals and sound fx.
-Flesh Rot: updated visuals and sound fx.
-Synergetic Link: removed energy leech, reduced total damage multiplier to -15%.
-Malkadarr’s Teeth: removed damage multiplier.
v0.4:
Items:
-Added 6 new endgame sets: one for Reanimator only (Bonelord’s Vestments), one for Illusionist only (Amygdala’s Legacy) and 4 assorted sets for multiple mastery combos. They can drop anywhere, if enemy is above 90lvl.
-Replica Bloodsworn Scepter: nerfed Curse of Frailty -15% chaos resistance skillmodifier to -10%.
-Replica Martin’s Crest: now also changes fx of Time Stop (lightning one).
-All custom mastery components that were applied to waist slot (e.g. Illusionis’t Glory/Reanimator’s Wrath) were reworked, now providing few positive effects (such as +%health, max movespeed cap, OA/DA) with a negative effect (like -%energy regen, -%damage) for player stats and no longer require any custom mastery. Also, the number of components were increased to 15.
Illusionist:
-Retaliating Echoes: adjusted description for transmuted version of this skill.
-Enrage: changed casting animation.
-Halo Effect: toned down sound fx to be less annoying.
-Troubled Dreams: reduced chaos damage scaling.
-Dream Eater: reduced vitality/decay damage scaling at early ranks.
-Summon Living Horror: summon limit and spawn amount is always 3 now across all ranks, reduced fumble/impaired aim scaling but increased their duration to 3s.
-Striat’s Vortex: updated skill icon to better resemble what the skill does.
-Touch of the Void: removed total speed bonus.
Reanimator:
-Conjure Rotten Mummy: updated mummy visuals and it’s slam skill visual.
v0.5:
Game:
-Added a random legendary DD set crafting to Tendo smith. Requires player level 94+ to be usable.
Items:
-Added 8 more endgame sets. As usual, they can drop from any enemy above 90lvl.
-Amygdala’s Veilslicer: increased base weapon damage to 50-82, slightly nerfed added flat chaos damage. Added granted skill - Timeless Void: reduces enemy vitality/chaos resistances.
-Amygdala’s Legacy Set: changed granted skill to Phantasmal Skulls: up to 5 skulls may orbit around player striking nearby foes with vitality and chaos damage.
-Hexer’s Sacrifice: removed cold->vitality conversion from Flesh Rot skillmodifier.
-Replica Spectral Warmaul: removed acid->vitality conversion from Flesh Rot skillmodifier.
-Replica Grundleplith’s Tail: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% chaos->vitality conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Colossal Defender: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% vitality->fire conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Packla Skins: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% physical->vitality conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Sparkthrower: removed Gyrus Sphere of Repulsion skillmodifier, added 100% chaos->lightning and 100% vitality->lightning conversions to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Rutnick’s Blaster: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% vitality->aether conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Lucius Bladearm: removed Mind Cage skillmodifier, added 100% vitality->aether conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Death’s Watcher Pendant: removed Mind Cage skillmodifier, added 100% chaos->aether conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Wradlith’s Bulwark: changed Chilling Strike skill bonus to Raise Bone Colossus, removed -%freeze RR and added -70 DA instead to Bone Colossus skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Howler: removed -10% vitality RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier.
-Replica Viper Hemorrhager: removed -10% bleeding RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier.
-Replica Bolvar’s Pendant: removed -%5 life leech RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier, removed granted skill.
-Replica Lagoth Ak’s Bloodbinding: removed -%12 bleed/vitality RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier, added 50 vitality damage instead.
-Replica Bloodsworn Sigil: removed duration bonus from Striat’s Vortex skillmodifier, increased chaos damage bonus to 29.
-Replica Alkamos Warsword: changed Lord of Bones skill bonus to Chilling Strikes.
-Replica Warden’s Judgment: removed -%energy cost from Halo Effect skillmodifier, increased %healed to 10%.
-Replica Crimson’s Arcane Scepter: reworked previous Decelerate skillmodifier, now grants -0.4s CD and 160 reduced target’s DA for 5s to Through the Veil.
-Replica Spectral Bludgeon: added 2s duration to Circle of Protection skillmodifier and increased cold damage to 120 and frostburn damage to 600 over 3s.
-Replica Bound Wraith: removed physical resistance and summon limit from Circle of Protection skillmodifier.
-Replica Death’s Whisper Hood: increased cold damage to 250 and removed OA debuff from Circle of Protection skillmodifier.
-Replica Illgor’s Eternal Vigil: removed 1 summon limit from Circle of Protection skillmodifier.
-Replica Spectral War Shield: removed additional projectile from Bone Lance skillmodifier, instead added 40 vitality damage.
-Replica Night Herald: removed additional projectile from Bone Lance skillmodifier, instead increased granted cold damage to 45.
-Replica Ulraprax Sting: removed -CD and weapon damage from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier, added +1 projectile instead.
-Replica Ascended Diadem: removed -3m radius from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier.
Components:
-Aetheric Blood: removed negative flat energy regen, increased negative energy regen to -60%.
-Chthonic Lens: reduced negative phys resistance to -6%.
-Solael Mirror: increased %OA to 6%, reduced -%DA to -12%.
-Tainted Diamond: reduced pets negative %health to -30%.
-Void Spark: removed negative flat health regen, increased negative %health regen to -60%.
-Warped Plating: reduced negative max resistance to -3%.
-Yugol Essence: reduced pets life leech bonus to 8%.
-Korvaak Scale: added 10% block recovery reduction.
Illusionist:
-Weight of the World: adjusted description to avoid contradiction with Amygdala set having a dagger as prime mastery weapon instead of 2hander. Also removed melee target radius and chance to pass through, added 15% crit damage bonus.
-Edge of Sanity: reworked, now grants some flat chaos/vitality damage and makes melee attacks splash nearby targets.
-Enrage: removed vitality damage.
-Hysteria: removed -%OA and vitality decay, reduced %fire/burn scaling, added flat vitality damage and -DA debuff.
-Striat’s Vortex: removed chance to disrupt, reduced duration to 1s, increased tick rate, now deals 2 ticks of damage per cast.
-Unbounded Storm: reduced damage multiplier to 125%.
-Veil of Darkness: increased vitality decay duration to 3s, target amount no longer scales with ranks and now defaults to 5.
-Troubled Dreams: removed %RR, added +3 target maximum.
-Dream Eater: reduced life leech scaling, now starts with 7% and goes up to 15% on ultimate rank.
-Halo Effect: reworked, now has 5s duration/cooldown, activates when you’re hit, grants %DA, maximum run speed and %healing effects, raised up sound volume.
-Mind over Matter: reworked, now a part of Amygdala’s Cut skill line, adds some retaliation and crit damage to Amygdala’s Cut, names as Retaliatory Strike.
-Devil Mind: removed total damage multiplier, added +%all damage scaling.
-Decelerate: reworked into teleport skill, does no damage though, now named as Through the Veil.
-Reckless Abandon: reworked, now debuffs enemy damage and OA when teleporting into them, renamed to Tearing Rift.
-Void Affinity: changed skill fx to previous Decelerate one.
-Vanish: increased DA scaling.
-Summon Living Horror: removed fumble/impaired aim, added -%total speed, -%slow/petrify/stun RRs.
-Time Stop: reduced cooldown to 5s, toned down slow debuff and petrify scaling.
-Downfall: removed OA debuff, added fumble/impaired aim for 5s.
-Amygdala’s Sight: removed freeze/entrapment/knockdown durations.
-Gyrus Sphere of Repulsion: reduced flat absorb scaling with early ranks.
-Illusion Daggers: reduced cooldown to 3s, adjusted drop radius, angle and height, increased explosion radius scaling.
-Dispersion: removed projectile amount and target area bonuses, now slightly increases projectile explosion area so they shotgun better.
Reanimator:
-Circle of Protection: reworked, now the summon limit is 1, cooldown is 18 seconds, duration is 8s, circle radius is doubled, %damage absorb removed, health regen and healing effects are greatly increased.
-Raise Bone Colossus: removed skill cooldown, reduced model size by around 30%, adjusted controller to make pet more responsive for surrounding enemies, added scalable pet amount, 2 by default and scales up to 3 pets on ultimate levels (from 20+ ranks), increased base attack and move speed.
–Chilling Presence: removed from base skill and now takes place of Shield Throw skillmodifier (skill points previously invested in Shield Throw are preserved and kept in Chilling Presence, no respeccing is needed), reduced -attack/cast speed debuff, removed -freeze RR, added reduced target’s damage and -slow RR.
–Chilling Strikes: now only affects base skill, removed OA debuff, added +%crit damage.
–Lord of Bones: swapped skill icons with Shield Throw, removed +DA and +all damage, added +%attack/cast speed.
-Conjure Rotten Mummy: adjusted pet controller, reduced model size by around 10%, increased delay between Desecrated Ground casts to around 4s.
-Summon Restless Wraith: reduced model size by around 20%, adjusted pet controller, reduced visual aura fx a bit, casting no longer has a super-bright red effect.
–Vampiric Blast: adjusted fx lightning colors to be less blinding, and toned down cast sound, added vitality decay scaling.
–Vampiric Curse: removed.
–Vampiric Drain: reduced tick rate to 2/s and halved life leech scaling, added small life reduction.
-Flesh Rot: reduced vitality/bleed RR and -%health regen scaling, range no longer scales with ranks and reduced to 4m, duration scaling reduced and starts off 5s now.
-Synergetic Link: reworked, now converts 100% of acid and cold damage to vitality damage.
-Chilling Death: removed frostburn damage and -DA debuff, added +2s duration and -OA debuff.
-Infestation: removed poison and vitality decay, added acid damage scaling and +3m radius.
-Exoskeletal Armor: reduced flat cold and flat health scaling, removed health regen and pierce resistance, added flat armor and OA scaling.
-Bizarre Shell: removed bleeding resistance, flat OA and %health regen, added +%armor.
-One with Death: reduced health scaling on ultimate ranks, reduced flat cold and %damage scaling, added energy reservation.
-Bone Lance: projectile amount no longer scales with ranks and is now 1, damage adjusted accordingly, also added fragments on hit so there’s some splash from the get go.
-Splinter: fragments amount was standardized to remove rng, now starts with 2 fragments and goes up the way to 5.
-Bone’s Marrow: reduced life leech scaling, reduced crit damage scaling on ultimate ranks, added some flat vitality damage.
-Malkadarr’s Teeth: removed chance to freeze targets.
-Blood Ritual: reduced %healing and flat vitality/decay scaling, removed attack/cast speed bonuses, added DA and flat health regen.
-Flesh to Power: removed crit damage bonus, added %health regen.
-Boiling Blood: removed duration scaling, reduced flat health healing and life/energy leech resistance scaling.
v0.6:
Items:
-Added 4 more endgame sets. Hunt down 90+lvl monsters to get them! Or use a random legendary crafting at Tendo smith if you’re swimming in rare crafting mats.
-Sky Seer set: removed +1 projectile from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier, added 160 lightning damage instead.
-Replica Ulraprax’s Sting: removed +1 projectile from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier, added +3 targets chain and 90 lightning damage instead.
-Replica Ascended Diadem: splitted aether damage to Illusion Daggers into 55 aether/lightning damage, added 20% chance for 100% cooldown reduction to Illusion Daggers skillmodifier.
-Replica Night Herald: removed pierce->cold conversion from Bone Lance skillmodifier.
-Replica Bonespike: removed pierce->vitality conversion from Bone Lance skillmodifier.
-Replica Balegor’s Crusher: removed increased radius from Corrosion Wave skillmodifier.
Components:
-Aetheric Blood: removed -60% energy regen, added -60% healing effects.
-Whispering Skull: increased negative movement speed to -15%.
-Korvaak Scale: removed -60% health/energy regen, now reduces block damage by -50%.
-Dreadstone: increased negative attack/cast speed to -15%.
-Blight Crystal: removed -12% physique/cunning/spirit, added -15% total speed.
-Void Spark: removed -60% health regen, added -15% resistance to life reduction.
-Desecrated Ground: removed -50% crit damage, added -50% slow resistance.
-Eldritch Remains: removed -25% slow resistance.
Reanimator:
-Bone Lance: reworked and renamed to Rip Blood. Now fires a single tendril to enemy, spawning a Blood Orb which hovers to nearby enemy and detonates itself after 2 seconds or after reaching maximum spawned orbs.
-Eviscerate: reworked. Now adds a bleed damage, life leech and increases vitality decay damage for the tendril.
-Splinter: reworked and renamed to Crimson Flood. Now adds more burst summons/max summon limits to Blood Orb, increases vitality decay damage and %vitality damage for main tendril.
-Bone’s Marrow: reworked and renamed to Marrow Drinker. Now adds flat vitality damage, crit damage and increases bleeding damage for the tendril.
-Boiling Blood: cooldown reduction removed.
-Corrosion Wave: reworked and renamed to Corrosive Swarm, now spawns a trio of foul ravens that expand outward, cooldown increased to 3.5s. This skill rewards positioning if using a non-transmuted version, and may deal up to 600% weapon damage (6 raven hits on softcapped skill rank).
Illusionist:
-Mindfray: reduced weapon damage and flat fire scaling.
-Void Affinity: made fx colors darker.
-Halo Effect: activation chance is now always 100% at all ranks.
-Touch of the Void: now converts 30% physical->vitality damage, also added a petbonus for 45% physical->vitality and 20 flat vitality damage.
-Illusion Daggers: reworked, now fires a single dagger which chains between a few targets before returning to player.
-Shocking Arrival: reworked, now creates a dot ground below enemies hit by Illusion Dagger.
-Dispersion: reworked, now adds crit damage, bonus %aether/lightning damage and has a chance to do additional aether damage.
-Summon Living Horror: summon amount and max limit reduced to 2.
v0.6.1:
Game:
-Fixed source files not having recent updated versions.
Reanimator:
-Atonement: removed increased range modifier, since it does nothing for the skill now.
Known Issues
- Striat’s Vortex FX can get bugged and become too dark, restarting the game usually helps. I will rework this fx in next versions.
Roadmap
- MOAR legendary sets!;
- more polish for skills VFX/Audio;
- balance tweaks and adjustments for overpowered/underpowered skills.
FAQ
Q. Why make Reanimator pets player scaled?
A. I wanted to make Reanimator not-another-necromancer and decided to keep pets reliant on player stats. Sorry about that 
Q. Is itemisation final or my items may change/disappear?
A. Itemisation is a big WIP, there’s a chance the items you’ve earned will have different skillmodifiers.
Q. Can you change how X skill works?
A. I can adjust stats of a skill, but there’s very low chance i will change skill template.
Q. How to contact you?
A. You can find me in GD Community Discord by name #Banemason.
Credits and Sources
- @Grimer for a few selected VFX and audio from D3 Mod.
- @ASYLUM101 for nearly infinite knowledge about GD Modding.
- @Ceno for Augur smith which i copied and renamed (shame on me haha).
- T3nd0 for original Darkest Dawn mod.
- Midjourney for generated image of Reanimator!
- ArenaNet for Guild Wars 2 skill icons which i adapted for my mod.
- Grinding Gear Games for Path of Exile item icons which i adapted for my mod.
That’s all for now! Enjoy and don’t forget to share your feedback! 
