Pierce Blade Spirits

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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By no means is this optimal or crucible worthy I’m sure but I like the idea. After I saw on grim tools how low the nemesis pierce resistance was I thought it would be fun to try.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/Q2z4P4dZ

I think elemental seekers on WoP will work nice. Blade spirits for assassin’s mark. I chose nemesis relic so I could bind acid spray to the pet to further the “cast and forget” feel of the build but I’m not certain on it staying alive for nemesis fights in the campaign. I could just as easily bind it to storm box to free up the relic spot but I really don’t know what would be best to use.

My concerns are I have pretty low pierce damage mod at around 1300% but with the amount of RR for pierce, low nemesis pierce resistance, and all the sources of pierce damage due to full element -> pierce conversion maybe it would balance out. I’m pretty sure I’ll end up swapping to a conduit of night whispers for the +1 limit to blade spirits but I kept the whole Blind Assassin set for now until I try it.

I play HC campaign and don’t really touch cruci yet outside of abusing early devotion points. Let me hear some thoughts and suggestions.

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Even outside cruci your damage will be bad. Enemies have low pierce res because pierce itemization and devotion don’t provide much pierce damage, so it evens out compared to others. You have to go all out pierce on devotions here, imo.

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you didnt appoint devotion proc to any skills. Try that

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Solely for the %Pierce damage mods? Only reason I went the seeker route is that they have solid up time on WoP. I’ll play around with the devotion tree later and come up with one with more pierce damage.

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Random thought but I bet N&O would probably further this build saving me those devotion points :smiley: Those swords too hawt