Need assistance for building the most perfect glass cannon build with the HIGHEST SINGLE TARGET dps

Well, when I saw the title I thought of Rah’Zin WH. But if your knowledge is poor, how do you know builds provided “won’t cut it”?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/RVvDPqJN

I theorycrafted Rah’Zin WH a few days ago and just shifted some skills/gear and made some sick greens for more punch. On paper it should deal slightly more damage than Witchblade provided by Shopping, but I’m not sure if it’s glass-cannon-y enough.

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Seems not enough glass cannon sorry :\

If you’re going to do Multiplayer, a melee character would be unwise to use for maximum DPS. You want your second player to be able to hold aggro for you, and if you’re right up in the enemy’s face, all it needs to do is turn around and whack you and you’re dead.

I would recommend Adversary Grenado. The DPS is RNG-reliant since Ulzian’s Chosen grants a % chance to reset the cooldowns, but multiple Grenados thrown in succession could easily grant over a million DPS if your stars are aligned.

For a partner, I’d recommend a Retaliation Witchblade. Curse of Frailty is a huge threat generator (which means the enemies are less likely to come at you) and covers a large area; that + War Cry is easily enough to have even whole groups of enemies focused on the tank. Curse of Frailty also provides stackable RR to help your DPS, and you can build the tank to withstand Fevered Rage, which tanks the opponent’s DA to get even higher Crit damage.

With multiplayer, Witchblade’s Blood of Dreeg gives you additional OA (for more Crits), Physical Resistance, and over 100% Acid resistance, so you can focus on your other resistances in your Armor augments and not have to worry about it in the slightest. Additionally, Field Command gives you more OA, DA (which is basically Crit avoidance to cover against enemy AoE), and casting speed. On the flip side, your Flame Touched and Presence of Virtue buffs gives your Witchblade partner more OA, which is really synergistic as retaliation builds tend to have poor OA on their own.

This is about as glassified as I could get it - the build is already great on its own, so I shuffled some components around to maximize racial damage to Ch’thonics, which tend to have the highest resistance to Fire damage. Anywhere I couldn’t get more damage I covered resistances, as there are no Armor components or augments that affect damage in any way (with the exception of the ones that have racial damage, which I use in the Grimtools). The only resistance that isn’t covered is Acid resistance, which is meant to be covered by your teammate’s Blood of Dreeg.

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You say you dont know stuff but still say you know.

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WH는 WB를 이기지 못합니다 여기 이론적인 빌드가 있습니다

Lokarr 5s

MadQ 3s

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Can you modify a bit that build so it’s more glass cannon and more damage ? or it’s the maximum you can get ? because i see that you leveled up veterancy it give no damage

veterancy = less physique needed = you can spend attributes in spirit/cunning = more dmg/OA (crits)

For single target dps you can lower CoF and get more vulnredability and doom bolt

btw, bosses regain health if you die in this game, so your idea “if I die a lot I will just try again” will not work.

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mmmmmh then i’m hesitating between witch hunter and wich blade, what is the max attack speed cap ? 200% ? that means that fever will not work when activated but i can still benefit from the 25% offensive

note that you can get slowed, which slow res and over capped attack speed helps against.

No, that means you don’t understand that Bloody Pox is a debuff to monsters.

And as Ulvar said, if you’re dead, you can’t deal damage. So your obsession over “billion DPS” seems rather pointless. Shopping already squeezed as much damage as reasonably possible (I guess), but you’re not satisfied still. If you think killing Lokarr in less than 10 secs won’t suffice, then you’re out of luck probably.

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Fevered rage do lower mod DA a lot which is translated to OA increase of yourself.

Dps glass cannons may work in other games but dying in GD is punishing

I suppose OP thinks 150% total speed is a player buff, that’s why he asked about speed cap XD

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if you want to play “the most perfecr glass cannon build”, then you have to chose Witchblade- not Witch Hunter. Witch Hunter have a lot more physical resistance (from Dual-blade skill) and a heal button (P.Burst). On the other hand Witchblade got no healing button, lower physical res, Veterancy + military conditioning will allow you to invest more points to spirit (to further increase damage) without the need of physique points investment. And for the last part, you HAVE TO take Fever Raged skill of Bloody Pox. That Fever Raged will buff monsters and bosses more dam/OA/speed, so you will get crit more often and die a lot faster (so you will be more “glassy”). Hope this help :slight_smile:

does not have blood of dreeg?

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my bad :slight_smile: but i think chaos build without acid convered to chaos can totally ignore BoD, so no more physical res/ poison res/ health regen (for more “glassy” concept). i see the cannon build we got here already had over 3k5 OA, so we dont need more OA from BoD. Witch Hunter still need PB though, since it provide more atk speed for more damage. So Witchblade is still 0 heal button build :slight_smile:

Your two posts have been glass cannons of a meme themselves KEKW

In all seriousness though, you can’t ignore BoD/AotG on any occultist… This and not using veterancy on soldier are classic examples of “saving on the wrong end”. You would need to invest components, augments or even entire gear pieces to fix poison/acid res and the phys res is basically lost and can’t be compensated for.

Most “glass cannon” concepts don’t work that well in Grim Dawn, because a cannon made out of glass simply can’t support shooting heavy amunition.
Chaos Witch Hunter, Witchblade and some stun jacks builds have the highest single target DPS afaik, so you are on the right track.

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He asked for the “most glass cannon build” with definition ALL IN DAMAGE and IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE. Thats exactly what i tried to give him. For Rah’zin chaos concept, all items/ devotions/ skills must have the best chaos dam/ OA/ Crit dam/ atk speed possible. Fr examle we take Gallow instead of Sailors Guide just because Gallow has 24% chaos dam and 6% dam to human (i think some wont even know there is a constellation name Gallow LOL). BoD and AoTG is a waste of skill points, since it gives only tankiness and little OA for a chaos build. You can have a look at @Shopping post (especially the devotion) and then @Skern still want “more glass and more damage” LOL
So. Seriously. This is not a “serious” thread in my eye. Not at all. “Why so serious @RektbyProtoss?”

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No offence intended but playing such build in MP seems a bit egocentric/selfish (not sure about correct word).
I mean while you will be having fun the rest of the team will have to be concentrated on saving your ass from troubles so if somebody is not really into it then they might loose interest in playing with you.
Don’t want to be rude just another aspect of such build to consider.

I thought this ^ would make clear I know this is all not that serious :smiley:
I mean your response what perfectly fitting. I just wanted to remind people of this entire thread being kinda ridiculous I guess.

Haven’t had time to read everything, but either [1.1.7.0] Rah'binger Witch Hunter wins the game: SR75+, Celestials, Crucible consistent <6 mins, 9.5 sec dummy, 3.8 sec MadQueen. All on the same 0 green build this (as banana said this is the highest single target DPS build in another post) or a shadowstrike infiltrator, like the WR one for CR. They basically delete anything they touch