Pure Pierce builds that got hit by recent nerfs

So I have a few

Pure Pierce melee Dervish - solid melee build. Was a part of 70 builds in our top20 testing but despite all the single target pop it has it couldn’t compete. Being pure melee is hard in this meta.

Lost only 7% crit damage from Unknown Soldier.

Belgo BM
- just a solid version of a classical build. Didn’t come close to be considered for testing, but a fun melee nonetheless.

Lost 3% crit from Harpy and 7% crit from Unknown Soldier.

Ranged DW Pierce Paladin

Was a part of our testing, very tanky farmer. But doesn’t have competitive clearing speed. Partly because of the global ranged builds problem, partly because it doesn’t have enough good itemization.

Lost 7% crit from Unknown Soldier.

Now before the usual “those nerfs should do almost nothing to those builds” two things:

- Those kind of builds are in general underperforming right now (game is unfriendly to ranged builds or pure melees)

- There are not many other ways to scale damage on single rr Pierce builds.

Now, does anyone have any more example of builds that got hit by those crit damage nerfs?

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*while i generally get the notion of dialing back crits because sudden new public crit/oa focus that seem to lean towards it

It being a thing in the first place even made me revisit an old meme Infiltrator, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator :sweat_smile:
why must pierce builds always suffer the harshest nerfs :sob:

Made me think of other pierce “memes”/non-memes, Captain Arkovia, Pierce Kalastor etc, stuff probably hardly overperforming/nowhere near the offending top32 list, but everything going to get affected losing a third of their crit etc

or as tq said

/more surgical, less shotgun :pray:

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