Newbie Build Questions (Pets, Pure-Necromancer)

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hey there,

I’ve been muddling along with a necromancer, and things are working for now, but I have a few questions. For reference, this is the build so far:

(will put the grimtools link back in when the forum lets me. it’s calc/mN4ye052 after the usual bit) https://www.grimtools.com/calc/mN4ye052

I’m intending to go back to cruicible after I’ve picked up 2 more devotion shrines and finished veteran. Pure necro till 100 is just because I want a personal challenge. (And not at all down to decision paralysis cough) Intending to pick up blizzard with the last points.

So, build questions-

  • Is there an optimal way to assign active devotion powers to pets? I have two pets from items that I’m aiming to replace with high level gear sourced pets.
  • How does -DA -RR and -%RR work in terms of stacking? One of the reasons I dropped scorpion because the necro pet’s aura has -DA and as I understand it that won’t stack. Is this correct, or am I supposed to be having both?
  • How do pets that scale of player bonuses work? Should I be avoiding them as a build running things that “buff all pets”?
  • Are there any major issues I need to fix by gladiator? eg “you need x amount of -RR or your pets wont be doing damage vs Mr. Annoying, and you don’t currently have that”
  • Is there any gear I should try and pick up before 100 to help the build along? Most of her gear hasn’t changed much in a while.
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% Debuffs can stack while base debuffs only choose the highest number. So one skill lowering an enemy’s DA by 50 will always override another skill lowering it be 35.

The only reason to have more ways in lowering baseline DA is if it isn’t a constantly up debuff like an aura or something.

Player scaled pets don’t work well with pet bonus focused builds and I would only ever choose such a pet if it had a % debuff or buff that could help with the build in some way. Otherwise your build might have to be more of a hybrid in trying to focus both on player and pet stats instead of usually just 1.

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If I put a %resist reduction like rumour on the skellie pets, would each skellie have an individual debuff stacking on the target? (I’m assuming no, but… )

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No.

Each skeleton has a chance to proc it in which case the monster will be debuffed by the skill. The debuff can’t stack multiple times but instead just have high up time due to no cooldown and high proc chance with multiple skeletons.

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Is there a similar restriction for blizzard? ie if I put that on the skellies and one of them triggered it, then the skill is on cooldown for the team? (I assume yes)

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Devotion Skills have their own separate cooldowns and can only proc once at a time (for the most part). Even if you have a 100 skeletons Blizzard will only proc once every 3.2 seconds or so at max level.