Alright so with some help from a few people in my last thread about my Elementalist, I decided that I wanted to melee instead of go ranged. So I switched my class entirely and went Warder. I think I did a pretty decent job on this build this time since im using most of the elements from my last build on here, as well as read up on a few other Warder builds that dealt Lightning as their main source of damage [hence the name I gave it] Any feedback and or backlash is welcome!
First thing I see is that you won’t need Hydra if you go 2H melee (it’s only for ranged weapons), you can maybe grab chariot of the dead for a regen proc and more OA
and you should max Military conditioning and Heart of the Wild for a massive hp gain
Hello.
You could try this one:
http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-4n2DZC
Skill points without +skills, so if you can achive +5 or +6 Shaman skill (4 x Ultos, Stormreaver, Guthook belt, Eye of Storm), you should be fine.
Bat to Savagery
Tempest to Wind Devil
Crown to Upheaval
Widow to Oleron Might/Storm Tap if you use Stormreaver
Dying God to Feral Hunger
Also you can go other way and grab Falcon and 5 nods from Revenanth with only 4 nods from Dying God http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-X87u3q
Totally agreed, and for that purpose you probably should remove points from Tenactiy of the Boar. Like, literally leave it at 1-pointer. Once can think that this is a no-brainer for its health regen, oa and such, but in my experience, heavy investments in Tenacity is a noob-trap.
EDIT: Mehnir’s Will at its cap also not needed. Maybe 4-6 points and you’ll be fine. Maybe even reduce Mogdrogen’s Pact and Oak Skin to 1-pointers. In general, I think you’ll face some dps issues without Brute Force, and your survivability won’t be that great despite your capped Tenacity and Menhir’s Will. Some hp passives, Wendigo Totem at 12\12 with +skills, Brute Force and you are good to go.
Trust me, +skills will help you a lot and you WILL respec a lot of your current setup.
GreyDuke
Like so?: http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-BvGLmR
I am guessing you need the second bit of Brute Force for the healing? Or am I not seeing what you are explaining? Also I thought Wendigo leveled with you or am I not reading that right. Learning so much in so little time haha i’m loving it.
Seemann
I changed it over to Chariot and ill test it later on tonight, thank you for your help :>
Fanfaron
I am trying to avoid the dust devils, though your Brute Force points are interesting. Like I asked above im guessing you need the second bit for healing against enemies.
For 3 points investment ot Dust Devil line, you will recive 2x or 3x Tempest procs separatly, 1 proc for each active devil crit for 6 sec.
Yes, Feral Hunger for additional healing, coz you will need sustain to face hard-hitting bosses, like Fabius or Shar Zul.
Both of my devo setup also have %lifesteal, you also can stack additional % from Solael pants for example.
Your updated build looks quite good. I made a few tweaks here http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-3h9W5I
Most importantly I dropped hawk and owl and picked up manticore on the devotion tree for the RR and armor reduction. I also picked up wind devil and primal strike at 1 point each for +skill modifiers to flesh out. Blindside adds 2 extra targets to blitz and should be given at least one point for that purpose only.
For information, it’s my current warder setup (with + skills and devotions) : http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-GUvW6Y
Manticore’s Acid Spray > Savagery
Widow’s Arcane Bomb > Feral Hunger or Zohlan’s Technique
Spear of Heaven > Aura
Behemot’s Giant’s Blood > Aura
As gear, I have full Ultos set and I’m able to reach around 50k dps, 16k health, 1,7k Armor, 2,6k OA and 2,2k DA
EDIT: Some explanations :
- Zohlan’s Technique is for more AOE and we need 9/12 for 25% of activation
- Feral Hunger is only at 8 for 25% chance of activation
- Widow brings -33% Lightning/Aether resist reduction which is non-negociable
- Dying God brings more OA
- War Cry damage reduction is replaced by Kymon’s Chosen Augment Kymon’s Will
- Viper resist reduction is replaced by Black Legion Augment Potent Essence of Cht’thon
Welp, I’m talking about Brute Force itself actually, Feral Hunger at 10\10 with +skills would be nice though. Take a look at Brute Force, it’s really what you’re going to build damage-wise, flat lightning and %physical, which you’ll probably convert to lightning anyway (assuming you’ll go with Ultos’ set). Savagery is…somewhat lacking lightning damage part IMO, so the phys-lightning conversion and flat lightning damage+ %phys dmg on Brute Force will definitely help your build.
In fact, I highly recommend you to check this guide http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43510 (I even think you already took a peek at it earlier). I know you’re going Warder, but you can look at skill point destribution in his Shaman tree. I tried this build with warder, ele and even druid (silly me), and I think that jajaja’s shaman tree setup is literally perfect for almost any savagery build, all essential skills soft-capped or even over-capped, 1-pointers are 1-pointers as well and this setup just feels right when you play with it. Hope that’ll help.