Just keep in mind that they are just adding some of the features of GI, which it had a LOT of. It remains to be seen yet what all will be added.
It’s been possible to use GI (and other tools for GD) on Linux for a good long while now. As with a lot of things in Linux it just takes a little elbow grease and know-how. Have a look at the below link…
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/466#issuecomment-483628753
I would also like to bring up another aspect as i saw it was pretty much missing. Here’s the GT in discussion Defiler, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
The general intent would be to help enable fire caster blightlord defiler since this class is the most underwhelming currently. We have the possibility of chaos to vit on set, the aether to fire one via ordas, all cool, we even have ti possibility to fully convert everything to vitality via many item combinations, which leaves us with the fire type. We cannot fully convert vitality to fire and still be a decent caster with decent cdr, unless we totally give up cdr to take blazeheart, blazeseer set (with 2 blazeseer rings) and a relic that enables dual wielding, all of that just to enable fire blightlord defiler. In the end, after all of those sacrifices you’ll end up with bad casting speed, very low cdr for failsafes, semi modded bwc and siphon (which doesnt have any skill points available on fire items) with way too long cooldown for all 3 skills from your arsenal, basically lots of loopholes. Maybe there is something to be done to help defilers see some light too? (this would be just the beginning)
As an initial suggestion i think the offhand should get something like full vit to fire mod on flame-touched or spectral binding (probably for flame touched so if you choose to play fire, you’ll invest points into FT and enable conversion, if not, just dont pick it up) and some burn to siphon souls, and the set should get an extra 1pt in RE to reach 23/16 which will be further capped with one living ring, and also an extra - 1 sec to either RE or siphon on the set too for a better rotation maybe. Generally speaking defilers really need some help.
Yes, very sad that blightlord is a mixture of fire and ice vitality .Even if the actual results are not satisfactory,we unable to convert them into one
I mean, lets look at this Defiler, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Hp barely there, 22% phys res means your phys res is going to get down to - 3% once debuffed by some mean big guys, no really reliable sustain, had to sacrifice harbinger of souls and casting speed to get OA and DA, and i have no cdr to reliably proc turtle, behemoth, pheonix to tank stuff, and the rest of skills and procs to kill stuff faster than they could kill me xD. If i get those blue pants i sacrifice hp and phys res to get RE at a minimum of 24, if i dont I’ll end up. With 23 at best and the ring slots are occupied by blazeseer ones so i can have vit to fire. The medal + gloves combo is just an extra source of leech to hopefully keep it alive. Last but not least, wheres my slow res?! Oh it was on korvaak’s deception relic…at least a part of it.
Did you forget Zantai’s First Gift to Defilers? Korvaak’s Burning-Blade gives 100% vitality to fire as a skill modifier to flame touched, and is biased towards fire damage.
Inquisitor is the og ranged mastery. However during our top20 testing me and other builders found out that the best ranged builds don’t usually contain Inquisitor apart from the famous Evoker build. There are few reasons for that, but here I wanna propose some simple changes that can make ranged Chaos Inquisitor viable at the top end.
I am not taking about Deceivers here because they lack strong AA (ranged Rah’Zin is pretty meh). But Purifiers and Paladins don’t have any reliable way to get enough flat damage. Oathkeepers have Voidsteel gauntlets that enable strong builds like this or this. So with a Shieldbreaker you can at least utilize the power of additional flat physical damage from rebuke plus Smite with added steroids (and Smite is in general pretty stellar as ranged wps, especially for Chaos). With Chaos Inquisitors there is no way to convert all that juicy pierce flat from Conviction and Ranged Expertise and there are no chaos mods for its wps.
i dont see sorc either. Or pets.
What about ranged vit inquisitors? We only have namadea xD
Funny thing someone would mention vit ranged Inquisitor, as I’ve been “reevaluating” some of my theorycrafts just yesterday, and here’s a GT of a ranged Apostate:
Doesn’t look too bad, though one of main issues I see is a pretty damn low weapon damage. I know that Ranged Expertise’s bonus doesn’t apply in GT, but if we substract vit decay portion of damage, we will get about the same number of ~19k vit weapon damage - which is low for a 2h build. This is mostly because of Radaggan and its focus on Aura of Censure - thus no Harbinger of Souls as exclusive.
“Don’t take Radaggan, then” - you might say. But at that point it would be 10 better to go for Oppressor instead, so no, if we talk vitality Inquisitor, then Radaggan is pretty much mandatory. And don’t get me wrong, I personally kinda like AoC part of the set; I find it rather unique.
Anyway, to alleviate the lack of damage, a mod to Word of Renewal with flat and percent vit damage can be added to either the gun or set, perhaps both? Or to Deadly Aim at least.
Oh, and while I’m on the subject of vit Inquisitor: please consider adding 100% aether to vitality to Drain Essence on Leafmane Trophy, as it blocks Skull of Gul’Amash, which means no full vitality DE on an Apostate - probably the only build that would take this off-hand. And considering it also doesn’t have any % vit damage, well… you get the idea.
Adjust skills to reduce the number of shortcuts.
Too many buttons cause many players to abandon the game.
Pffff xD.
Or they cause them to use Scripts ?
My point was that Chaos Ranged Inquisitor could be and should be a thing because Inquisitor has Chaos RR in mastery and a lot of Chaos support thru different items like Chaos Word of Pain conduit or Chaos Rune of Kalastor. You can enable Vitality RR in Inquisitor with certain items but that won’t be relevant to gunners.
from V1.1.9.8 Discussion:
from Grim Dawn Version v1.1.9.8:
I’ve tried unsuccessfully to make a couple of rather boutique builds, mostly pet builds. I’m not sure if people would agree that they need buffs, or that they are very important to support. But the devs asked for feedback so here is mine.
I’m not a super optimizer so it is difficult for me to determine why a build fails (devotions, itemization, etc). What I do know is that sometimes there are items that hint at some kind of build, but I can never make the pieces come together.
E.g. a few items hint at Cold Pets:
Other items hint at some kind of cold or elemental pets using e.g.
Or
But I just haven’t seen how these items come together or could be combined into a build that is not outclassed by other options. E.g. pet trickster is just a bit weird (I like the feel of Korba’s set better for this class combination), Cold Druid would probably be better off by ignoring pets entirely and just using TSS. Obviously Korba’s or TSS are very different from pet builds but because they are so much better they make the items above feel like a trap. Perhaps some of the related items or devotions could use a change?
Another example is the FULL runebinder set:
A build that tries to make the most of the full set just seems to require too much: attack speed for the weapons bonus skill, casting stats for using the runes (and shouldn’t you be attacking anyway?), runs out of energy, is hungry for skill points, lacking resistances, and DA. Meaning it’s jack of no trades, master of none.
At one point I loved the idea of a vitality retaliation life draining vampire kind of Death Knight build. If you squint your eyes at the items below, you’ll see there is almost something to it… But, builds that used these in past patches basically just converted everything to physical, then Azragor’s was changed from vitality to physical regardless of conversion, and then everything was nerfed anyhow.
Here is another item with a strong implication:
It suggests there is some kind of lead-from-the-front pet-based Death Knight. But the PC defences for pet builds are too low to be within field command distance, and trying to add PC defences detracts from pet damage or pet defences and there are better pet weapons and offhands that you miss out on. So I always end up with a build that does no damage and has no defences. Also, if you want to be a Death Knight that is in the fray with their pets, then just use Blood Knight, it’s better and easier. 
I love the way that the game keeps being updated and evolving. If I could ask for anything (and I am very satisfied with the game already) it would be to elevate some of these “trap” options so that they don’t feel so bad.
frostdread cuirasa is a player item, it has nothing to do with pets
heart of the mountain is good because the pet is good
winterking is a bit of trap because it suggests a hybrid style, which isn’t great but doable, but mostly it just takes better slots/stuff with modifiers
as for build using mindweaver Builds using Bysmiel's Mindweaver item - Grim Dawn Builds
bysmiel trinkets was literally one of the strongest pet builds at a time, to the point it got pets nerfed, and has been staple/favourite in Maya’s pet collection in her “Birb” dominated pet build themes The Carnival - A Guide to Pets
Builds using Bysmiel's Mark item - Grim Dawn Builds
Builds using Bysmiel's Grasp item - Grim Dawn Builds
retal drain essence is good
blood knight is not a retal set, never was
builds using guardian’s of deaths’ gates Builds using Mythical Guardian of Death's Gates item - Grim Dawn Builds
i think Avycytes managed to cobble together a half decent player pet hybrid using Guardian’s of Death’s gates recently
anyyway,
then look builds up how other people do it?
GT builds make is relatively simple to see how/if some builds are put together or if exits at all
maybe that monster infrequent was already considered quite strong for Chaos ranged gunners (you basically have to take it with “of Abyss” suffix), maybe adding a mod to Deviltongue - pistol without mods would be more realistic
or maybe we get nothing again 
Frostdread would surely grant a nice flat damage bonus and pct damage to allies (i.e., pets), no? Wouldn’t you agree that this item and some of the others imply that one could build some kind of cold pets build? But if you did try to build a cold damage only pets build, I bet you’d be disappointed. Hence my argument that it is misleading. 
Note that many of those builds are old. Many don’t use a full set, or fully utilize the bonuses that the item implies it should be useful for (e.g. physical cadence with Guardian of Deaths Gates seems quite unintuitive to me!). And many are not proven in the areas that we measure successful builds by (Crucible, SR).
So, while I can see why you interpreted my post as me being too lazy to use the builds function of grimtools, I think my position that some items are a bit misleading, is still reasonable.
it has no pet bonuses/skills, thus basically worthless
sure it has an aura/party buff, but that’s not really enough to carry or consider it over an actual pet item boosting your pets additionally (imo)
aside from not having pet skills, pet bonuses (ie you’re sacrificing a slot purely for flat dmg gain), it’s also a chest slot which means potential pet set bonus is being lost, that’s overall a lot of losses for a mere 20 flat dmg
i would not, which is why i’m pointing it out, it having a fat 0 relation to pets anywhere, means it’s obviously a purely dedicated player item; winterking doing hybrid stats illustrates this when something is “suggested” for pet
it’s not misleading because it’s not remotely suggesting what you’re saying. You’re taking an item and voluntarily choosing to infer X, when nothing suggests this. You inferring X also makes less sense when the items that does suggest this, does so way more clearly, again winter king example.
irrelevant?, unless a build is dead, it being a few patches old means nothing, that’s not how GD patches/builds work; and not all builds are kept uptodate all the time, the concept of a whole is still something to take away from unless a patch straight up killed a build
which is different from what?, this is normal in GD, it’s part of the build freedom in GD; that you are not forced into a set or full set everytime
again, normal, this is part of the variety in GD, and you not being able to see what other see is not an issue with the item but just means you haven’t opened your eyes “enough” to the possibilities GD allows your or all the silly builds/memes that are available
i don’t know where you pulling that from? did you actually bother to look at the builds? just guessed it? or cherrypicked the couple that had no performance metrics listed? because several of those builds have their performance straight up listed in the title eg SR75 clear
^i feel like you’re trying to “reach” a bit
i did not suggest you were being lazy, i was more implying you had blinders on/totally unaware of the build worlds/possibilites, again because of this →
which is then becoming objectively incorrect, simply by how many builds exist, and you being the “only” one attributing a property to X item, that other people don’t or generally wouldn’t (again frostfread obviously not being a pet item)
and most of the items are not misleading or have misleading suggestions and suggesting it is then misleading; simply because it comes from you being unaware/unable to see the builds possible (or already existing) with those items; ie those items are working, and doing what they suggest fine
the main part you’re correct on is Winterking, and it has also been brought up several times before by the community/playtest patch suggestions.
But the rest of it, is just on you/not paying attention; and if the item itself doesn’t illustrate this, the forum builds/YT or Grimtools should easily highlight it
I think gnuffi just likes a good argument/discussion. 
Kidding aside I see what you’re saying in this instance @Gnomish_Inquisition
i know i nitpick a bunch or interject alot 
but here it just seemed like most of it was totally unfounded, stark contrast example could be when/if you see complaints about lots of loot to filter through, and the ingame loot filter was ignored
while frostdread cuirass could totally be used as a pet build/“because of teh aura”, it think it’s totally unreasonable to imply the item suggests a pet approach/and then call the item misleading because of that
likewise blood knight has never suggested retal, i don’t even recall it having retal stats/being altered to remove retal ??
Zantai nerfed pets/raven? like 2x in a row? back in early FG days because Maya and pet builders repeatedly used it with bysmiel trinkets and beastcaller to break SR - iirc a comment then was sorta along the lines “wait a moment so i can nuke your Birb resists” or something? , and most of her builds featured Birb with trinkets
etc etc etc, lots of “obvious” stuff, that would be super easy to notice/know those items are being used “in their suggested way”, if just kept somewhat slight taps of the community builds/or looked for builds, or on ex GT
so to me seemed more like not so much “not seeing the forest for the trees”, but “not seeing the forest because having back turned and looking at the beach instead” - and then the “but ackshually”guy OCD in me just gets prickled enough to spring into action 