I am not really that new to Grim Dawn, got like 300 Hours already, but I still got the Problem to start a new “Build” and stop playing it after a couple of hours and that over and over again. I think I tried out like 5 different “builds” the last 2 weeks which I leveld all the way up to 60-70 and then stopped playing because I just had no fun playing it (I also deleted them because I got maaaaaaad lol)
My question now is, I only play campaign, not really grinding crucible and I love playing Melee, I am not that much into only Casting, I would love a build with a little from both, melee (like Cadence) but also something to clear trash mobs like OFF. So what could be a Class combination for me? I really want to have fun leveling and then later farm BoC etc. I also hate resetting almost everything after reaching level 94 or whatever. I would love to play a build form start to end, which I have fun with and I see growing.
Thanks for the answers in advance (if there will be any lol)
There are plenty of flashy melee builds that have nice devotion effects going off, e.g spellbreaker with amatok blizzard power, some fire strike build with meteor shower etc.
The difficulty is it seems like you want active spells for you to use. For this it is less common to get good damage from spells as a melee because you are already focused on stacking flat damage + using weapon damage to deliver it. For levelling purposes this is more viable but towards end game it becomes trickier to maintain decent damage on both melee + caster skills.
There are various builds that can make use of non-weapon damage skills. E.g stormreaver can use storm totem + melee skill, there are various melee build that incorporate doom bolt because harbinger head + glove add weapon damage, chaos pyro and witch hunter variants. There is “The Spellscourge” set but that requires gear and lvl 94 before the playstyle comes in.
Best to take a look at the build compendium and look into builds which have caster like active skills on a melee build.
I’d say DualWield Poison. The devotion procs are flashy and tainted eruption works a bit like a poison OFF. Besides, poison/acid builds will have a lot of new items to toy with in FG.
Currently strongest melee/caster hybrid isthis infiltrator. However, the weapons are probably going to be nerfed pretty soon and I see no valid replacement that would make up for RoH natural squishiness to make it viable for melee at this level.
What comes to mind is also Venomblade withchunter (by thejabrixone). It’s based on casts but it feels like melee through and through. Find a link in Build Compendium (“Scream Queen” or sth)
BTW on the margin, abandoning your chars at lvl 80 makes little sense (to me). IMO builds in the true sense of the word begin at level 94.
If you love melee Nightblade is the way to go.Cheap,but good is Silver Sentinel Infiltrator,plus for campaign weapons are flexible.If you can’t find N&O,you ca use Malkadarr or Chillstrife.If you like OFF maybe Spellbreaker-Star pact,combine with Shadow strike,fast and cool playstyle.
Silver Sentinel is not melee gear. Too squishy for proper facetank meleeing even in main game. Like I said above, only N&O provide sufficient kick to make RoH/melee viable as it kills stuff in milliseconds. IIRC there was an oldschool RoH/melee hybrid with Winter Veils but it had to go for MENHIR to work! That, my friend, is the opposite of “fun.”
Besides, Silver Sentinel is nothing like cheap. It takes Alkamos rings to complete it.
Infiltrators are never squishy.I used Silver Sentinel,combine with blue Alkamos rings and two chillstrifes of alacrity and Eastern legs and this build steamrolled dungeons and Gladiator 150.Btw SS set drops like candy and shoulders even have flat,along with conversion.Weyu created that kind of build,even if it is outdated should be good until better pieces are farmed.
Do you have by anychance a link to that? xD couldnt find one while googling. Sound exactly like a new build iam willing to transition my lvl 50 nightblade to.
You don’t need Alkamos rings but yeah it does not provide enough armor in general for facetanking everything.
Most of you still seems to have missed the situation of the OP. He/She is not looking for a build that can clear Gladiator cruci in world record times. He/She have trouble of sticking to one build concept beyond level 50-60. Put things into some perspective.
Well, it’s hard to recommend a build without knowing the items available to the player.
Since I have like 5 dw melee cold dmg chars I can tell, they can stand their ground even w/o endgame gear. You can build a fairly decent cold dmg Blademaster, Trickster, Infiltrator, Spellbreaker, Reaper and even Witch Hunter with farmable MIs, Epics and some Legendaries.
You can at least kill some Nemesis with a toon like this or run BoC and SoT to farm more gear. Changing/optimizing gear is also still possible, obviously.
So you will get Krieg Wrath from the Kriegs Set? Because you will get it like really late game so the only aoe Skill is Blitz then which is not really that great for AoE lol tho.
Farm these https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/7824 then you get at least 45% conversion whenever you have BoD activated (which is 100% of the time I hope) they exists in lower tiers as well so … lol
