Ranged WPS for non-Inquisitors

[Boromonokli]

Now Inq only support mastery. Inq have only Box damage skill that work fine.

I was against the box nerfs, fyi. Also, Buff Horn of Gandalf and Rune of Kalastor.

InqUniqueness or InqUbiquity are different concepts. I’m fine with Inq Uniqueness, but the purifier monopoly on ranged AA builds (or to a lesser extent, pierce ranged tactician and lightning ranged savagery vindicator) needs to go.

Look at the old compendium. What do you see?

Build Compendium V (Base Game)

Grim Dawn Build Compendium V Update: this compendium is no longer maintained due to release of the Forgotten Gods expansion.Please use the new Compendium X if you want to see the most recent builds. Credits Much Credit goes to Missing String and ibugsy as we move into it’s Fifth iteration. I’m keeping much the same as the previous thread’s rules were fine - only some minor changes. If you have any suggestions for improvements, feel free to reply to the post or PM me. Honorable ment…

I don’t mind better support for DW ranged in other wps, but Inquisitor will be the king of ranged regardless. That’s the point of the mastery and this “ranged being the best with Inquisitor” as being bad (you don’t outright state it, but you are thinking it) needs to die.

And it’s not like there’s already DW ranged builds that are not Inquisitor that work, like Darkblaze Pyromancer.

Inquisitor being the king of dw ranged “out of the box” (not storm box), without any specific gearing is fine. Inquisitors being the king of All and Any ranged, 2h, dw, gun and shield, or even gun and focus, is a problem. Why? Take a look at the gunslinger options in Build Compendium V above and see what we lost.

Physical Havoc Witchblade
…and the Elemental Havoc WB
Deviltongue/exterminus Gunslinger sorc
…and Mad Lee’s greenless version of the same Deviltongue/Exterminus sorc
Barrelsmith/Ulzuin’s DW gunslinger sorc
non-darkblaze Pyro (while we have darkblaze, it’s good to keep it in mind)
Or even this uberhybrid conjurer

-1. Ranged WPS should be inq only. DW melee WPS should be nightblade only. Shield WPS should be Oathkeeper only. 2h WPS should be Shaman only. We already have items that provide what’s needed for the other classes to go for those archetypes. And lmao there’s way less options for non nb dw wps, it’s basically just direwolf, while ranged has jaxxons, relics, and stronghold isn’t even technically an inq set.

DW melee can make use of any other melee WPS that exists (and most wps work much better with dw melee than ranged), same with shield. DW melee ALSO has the same relic options as DW ranged, + things like Notched Bone.

Stronghold is technically a universal ranged set, held back by the inherent weakness of gun+shield setups (and lack of +skills). Fun tidbit: it’s considered best with paladins, tacticians and purifiers. No surprises here.