It has been a long time since I last play Grim dawn so I don’t know well itemisation but do you think that a Necromancer based on [b]ravenous earth /b is viable ?
Occultist seems to be a go second class (Curse of F, blood of dreeg, bloody pox, Solael witchfire ans possession).
May be using blight fiend with rotting fumes to help us managing threat and spectral binding+spectral wrath for more tankiness
My thoughts are…you need to pick a skill. The Blight Fiend is a waste and will be totally useless, You got Bloody Pox, Siphon Souls AND Ravenous Earth. It’s a lot of waste points and there’s no focus.
Bloody Pox and Syphon Souls ( Blood Boil) Synergize well but not so sure about Ravenous Earth. By focus I mean concentrating on a theme, and having skills benefit from the same things/each other.
For me :
1/ Ravenous = Vitaly & Poison dmg (and a bit aether)
Bloody pow = Vita & poison dmg (and bleeding)
So same elements
2/ Ravenous has some CD (3 seconds between 2 Ravenous) and hit by himself so during this time you can cast Bloody pox which reduce life % and also put a DoT on mobs.
My Char is level 18 and Ravenous is enough for the moment but I’ll try Bloody asap.
I also gonna try to see if I can find a better second class!
Basically Ravenous Earth destroys packs, Blood Boil when surrounded, default attack w/ Necrotic Strike/ Reaping Strike and drop Bloodboil on bosses/mobs for single target dps.
Ultimately I want to use the Deathguard set ( http://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8539) , but ya…that’s a ways away, and need the pieces to drop ( fat chance)
Anyone have Devotion recommendations? Right now I’m using Windigo’s Mark, ( Ravenous Earth) ,Goul, Behomith and Manticore.
Ravenous Earth is an extremely good skill, I have had great success with it. But I would say thinking of as anything other than a Vit skill is wrong. Its main damage is Vit, the poison is a side show. And in reality it is both good AOE and good single target due to fragment mechanics and its amazing devotion procing rate.
Its basically a volcano that spits multiple fragments out every second or so. When the Fragment hits it does vit damage. So if you put it at something’s feet you can get multiple fragment hits. These will do pure vitality so that is magnified where as poison isn’t.
I would say a pure RE pure build is not optimal. You need some other skills to use between casting and preferably the damage is Vit based as well and you probably want a -Res for Vit (i.e. occultist or shaman or the odd corner case of the Inquisitor item that puts -vit on word of pain).
Then take something like Drain essence or transmuted Eye of Dreeg (via conudit amulet that transforms acid to vitality) or even transmuted Flame of Ignaffar, I dunno. Pure Uruborok set with just DE and RE might be really strong with shaman I would think. I am unsure of DE’s best DPS but a Vit focused build DE on paper looks decent and doing RE at their feet should bump it to excellent as a boss killer move, maybe not the best, I dunno.
Doing a double focus build of RE + something to spam might work pretty well, but it seems to have to be Vit based unless you find some crazy vit transmuter of course. It seems RE is not actually that good on a poison/acid build although the itemization seems to imply that.
Necro is weird, it has posion and cold stuff in it, but they synergize very poorly. Cold at least can be leveraged via other masteries since the transmuters basically create a new cold attack not previously available. But poison is actually extremely meh. However RE itself is amazing, just not at poison.
Look under the prefixes for that amulet, but I dunno about depending on such a thing for a build without actually finding it or just making it via GDstash or something.
Yeah the Dark One set seems like one of the better options, whether its the best I haven’t really done the math. There is also a scepater that takes 0.5s off of RE recharge I have been considering ttrying to make a build that dual wields those, but I have my doubts would turn out good enough due to itemization.
I would say its mathematically impossible to make RE do anywhere even close to the damage by focusing poison instead of vit. If two frags hit you are doing double the vit damage but the same poison. However you can make it do a lot of poison damage, but then you are losing out on probably its best feature.
Occultist is still pretty good for various reasons, but if you use DE you will probably run Harbinger of Souls since it also has Aether and Occultist doesn’t and it also has cast speed which occsultist doesn’t. So you are mostly doing Occultist for some extra +%dam on Vit and some resistances and Curse of Frality vs Shaman superior -res on devouring swarm. Probably shaman comes out a bit ahead but Occultists is pretty close too it really depends on preference. But if you do want to leverage poison some then Occultist is better.
I think you can go either way really. Shaman has Wendigo/Vit storm totem while Occult has Sigil of consumption/bloody pox. Personally I think I would prefer shaman but Occultist is pretty tempting too.
I don’t think that dual wielding is a good option because you can loose some good bonuses for just -0,5 CD. And for dark one’s I don’t think that it’s the most optimized stuff but it may do the work ^^
I’ll go Necro/occu and try to do some feedback on my leveling (which is really smooth for the moment ==> Act 3 veteran).
Do you have any advices for the constellations ?
I’ll try to make a new stuff taking into account legendary prefix! (Such a shame that I miss that…)
Pure build? Impossible since its has a hefty CD but if u use it as a boss killer then its viable. I recommend DEE cabalist with 1:1 ratio but tbh its better as a nuke. Drain Essence is much better at bosskilling but RE can work decently
Impossible? I’m basically doing it now. Ravenous Earth does its thing while the CD timer runs. It’s more than 100% uptime. The CD is up before Ravenous Earth is done spitting. It annihilates groups and does well on bosses.
Use Bone Harvest as a buff and go to town with default attack. It’s pretty great. I’m just starting act 2 Ultimate and getting annoyed with gear though. All the sets I’ve looked up are…Dreeg’s stuff or cold Nightblade stuff.
What I want is Vitality, poison, acid synergy outside of Dreegs with useless set bonuses. Deathguard obviously sounds great but it’s 95. But it does well despite and until then.
It must have a chance to trigger on each fragment, because it keeps me topped off and alive even in the middle of late Bastion. I even kited the Bastion boss with it.
For my part, it combo’s decently with Bone Harvest (at least so far in Elite), and I’m wondering if Devouring Storm + Wendigo/Blood Pact would seal the deal.
