So, I’ve had a bit of a hiatus from GD, part of it forced, part of it just because I overdid it a bit. Anyway, I’m back for now.
I’ve been leveling up a couple of characters, and tweaking some old builds, and I have to say;
I’m really terrible at making/leveling/equipping primary spellslingers. In most games, I don’t like them - I’d rather play a tank or a classic ‘Bowazon’. The Bone Charmer in TQ was one of my favorites.
But with GD, I’ve really liked the Occultist and DEE from day one. It has that feel of the elegant and tactical ranged characters that I always liked. Back when the level cap was 40, my DEE Warlock was my main (since lost, she was on an old machine). But that doesn’t change the fact that as far as Grim Dawn goes, I am absolute crap designing and leveling spellcasting characters.
So, I really like untransmuted DEE. It levels up well to at least 50, from what I’ve done. On top of that, Doom Bolt is an OK nuke for dealing with bosses. But, it doesn’t synergize well with poison damage and RR.
I’d like to take a DEE caster at least all the way through Elite. What’s my second class? Nightblade and Necromancer both look pretty solid. Can I stack gigantic amounts of poison damage onto Phantasmal Blades? I know I can probably do something cool with Shadow Strike and Nidalla’s. Ravenous Earth doesn’t seem like a great source of Acid damage.
Untransmuted DEE. POISON!
Prefer to play as primary caster, not melee/shooty. A little hybridization is okay, not looking for another electrocuddle Warder. SPELLS!
What’s you favorite song with the word ‘Poison’ in the title. Mine is Bel Biv Devoe, especially as lip-synced by Turk on Scrubs
I think that’s it? How’s everyone doin’? How’s yer moms 'n them? Anyone try the new Stardew multiplayer patches? Battletech? I need a new GPU for the latter.
Hi.
I bet you missed me. And my impenetrable misuse of the English language.
Nightblade best secondary unless you have gear to to convert dee to vitality, freelo poison rr + some ok defense make it great even if you don’t use nidalla strike for more dot. If you do have blood orb or the right conduit then cabalist + dee with weapon damage mods seems like a good idea
If you don’t wanna spam theres lots of interesting thing to try with ugdenbog venom launcher + putrid necklace.
There are, for sure! I’ve thought about tinkering around with a couple of those builds, too. But I really want to level up a DEE spammer. So much so that I subjected myself to potential public, international humiliation by starting a thread about it.
So there you go.
And here we are.
I’m surprised there’s no poison conversion for phantasmal blades (or a necromancer or shaman skill. A poison totem would be siiiiiiiiick) - Doom Bolt would be a little too ‘1 stat Ranger’.
> Go Vitality route
> Pick Necromancer/Conjurer as secondary mastery
> Use Blood Orb, Conduit, Pandemic and a legendary medal with DEE skill mod
> Have fun
Acid spam is viable but I don’t like it personally for acid spam it’s the same but your secondary class is Nightblade and you need to use Plaguebearer instead of an off hand
I’ve never had a problem with energy to about level 55, with really high-level DEE and nodes. It’s the damage/RR that doesn’t stay consistent. Per first post, there’s no Acid/Poison ‘Nuke’. They are all vitality.
Have you considered trying Doom Bolt with the Conduit of Eldritch Whispers? No Poison but a lot of Acid, even more if you go Time Dilation for double Bolts too.
Edit: Speaking of which, this topic might give you ideas on how to work it in if you do decide to use it.
Back around b17 (?), my first DEE spammer was a Warlock. Now though, that class is much more suited to elemental damage than poison. In fact, I think with the right combo of pet auras and whatnot, it’s one of the best pure-damage casters around (that may have changed in the last couple of releases). Between the pet auras and the RR of CoF, you could produce some staggering amounts of damage with AAR. Or you can have some fun with just the hellhound and Tainted Ray*.
But I suck at pure casters.
*Tainted Ray’s sounds like a bar for biker witches.
I’m still retooling, and obviously I need some different gear to support primary poison. For the most part, running as Acid/Vitality was working. Not so much these days. Yes, I’ve overinvested in Spirit, and YES I know I need a different relic - she was probably only my second character over level 50, so I didn’t have blueprints for many relics. I need to put a couple of points into Pneumatic Burst. Other than that, I think she’s pretty rockin’. I’ll probably wind up keeping some Vitality sources and RR. (there’s probably some chaos stuff in there too, I dunno what I was thinking).
Well, Warlock was my first build in GD and I made a lot of weird and fun stuff with it - DB and AAR, Missles and Devastation and etc.
The time has come for DEE. I have 2 builds on acid and vita DEE - the buids are not in final state, but maybe it will give you some ideas for your build.
