Nightblade stopped being a good mastery for DW melee

Well, that’s a good effort congrats!

DW Cold Reaper - Reaper, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator I think it’s quite good, surely your version have much more damage and killing speed but this one is still better than other DW Cold builds.

Deathmark Dervish - I think it’s in a good place right now. Since AoE is bad, CR times won’t be great but shouldn’t be that bad either.


Acid DW parts is still depens on Nightblade which should be counted as DW archetype.


Rah’zin Witch Hunter was good enough but nothing extraordinary either, it can use some buffs.


Belgo Inf’s damage was nerfed a bit but defense is increased so can’t say it’s status change. Belgo Blademaster should be the same aswell.


On the other hand, my latest test on Deathmark Blademaster was pretty bad. Damage wasn’t great, defense wasn’t great; it was just a mediocre build. So it can use buffs.

I also like to see some DW Melee Spellbreaker variants… So far Spellbreaker is either SS or Caster; or pretty meme melee.

I can’t disagree on Execution nerf reverse, I’m sure Whirling Death and Belgo Shears can use some buffs aswell because most of DW nightblade builds counts on those for AoE but most other builds’ low performance is not really about the nightblade WPS, it’s just the gears and lack of support. And Cold melee especially suffers since a lot of enemies have high resistance on that.

And I’m pretty sure that no %100 WPS DW Cadence is sucks!

DW Sabo should have more options than Chaos and Nex & Ortus aswell, like Aether!

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