What do you attach the devotions to?
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I tend to change it based on what I need most. Most of the time, I leave RoS to have Elemental Storm, and Whirlpool on Blade Spirit. But, against Moo and Fabius, I often prefer to pop Elemental Storm on Blade spirit and Whirlpool on RoS, so that I can actually ensure I have enough resistance debuffs actually hitting them 24/7 so that when I do go aggro, I’m going aggro on a low defense target, not a high defense target. It enables me to burn down Moo 100% safely (His freeze crystal spam phase is irritating, and I’m not tanky enough to survive if locked down long), but it’s critical to kill Fabius at all, because otherwise his healing is just enough to outpace my damage windows. Biggest difficulty with Fabius is the fact he just loves to Blade Barrier when I use my Mirror, meaning I can’t get much damage at all off on him for another 7 seconds or so until mirror is back up, because I just can’t afford to sit on him long.
The only reason I have to resort to this for both of these two is the fact they are the two nemesis with innate 50% base cold resistance, which means both are resisting a lot of my damage already compared to just about any other target. I can burst Benn’jar down in about 20 seconds safely, just because he isn’t a big risk with my damage carving through him with my ~80% reduced cold resistance debuffs (30% from Elemental Storm, ~50% from Night’s Chill).
And I just leave Elemental Spirit on Shadow Strike, as its really close in CD to a lategame/optimized Shadow Strike.
First time ive seen this thread. did a build like this before. really fun. wish they made more abilities like shadow strike/chaos strike/akumo strike 
soldier has a similar abbility: blitz
i use the following instead:
amulet: unseeing eye of the eye of the blind assasin, 6% cdr +1 nightblade (trading some cdr for alround skill boosts)
122% cold dmg empowered coldsnap (4% cdr, +2 starpact)
using mindwarp, costs me 4k dps… i wonder why you use that?
rings: livegiver signet + empowered starfire (+2 starpact + cold %)
Pants: Valor (HP / DEF)
clairvoyants hat instead of trozans head. 6% crd and +1 skills… dunno if trozans is really better here?
You had a good roll on that belgothians carnage. i managed to craft one of that only, because it uses a stupid amount of mats and farming (kilrian soul etc), but mine had crap rolls, so i stick with my Nemesis with +1 NJE, +1 Nightfall, 93% cold damg%
I wonder, if the belgothian carnage skill is really worth it? Can you give me you allround stats, so i can better compare which items are better?
I have, with the above deviations from your setup 40k dps (SS 0,8s cd). In general i exspect you to have more DPS, because i have fitted some more DEF items. Whats your devo setup?
This looks not only like a fun build, but it looks efficient too. Not to mention, may I say, creative? I’m still kinda new (300 hours) so maybe CDR builds aren’t that rare, but it’s the first one I see making use of CDR, and not simply go after DPS for the sake of DPS. It also makes use of the more neglected items that aren’t as popular. So I love the concept!
Spellbreaker is my first character, and I absolutely love the class.
As with the same idea, I try to get as much devotion procs as possible, but with a DW build. But that failed splendidly as I found myself unable to tank, which is semi-necessary as a melee character.
I read that you are aiming for a lot of devotion procs with your build. I see there is Elemental Storm, the orb, and Whirpool. Are these the only three? And, do you recommend going for more devotion (offensive) procs?
Well, at the time, I only had 3 abilities that could even proc devotions, because OFF couldn’t proc devotions until one of the most recent patches, and the build lacks too many more effective proc skills, as Skyshard doesn’t really work unless you full max invest it (There is a person who has done so for Spellbreaker, the Primitive build IIRC), and everything else is either fire/aether or requires dual-wielding to work. Now that OFF can be proc Devotions, I’d probably add in something else if I could, although there isn’t really any devotion I could fit in with my current point count, without sacrificing something major, be it my Giant’s Blood, which is godlike in keeping me alive through near permanent mega hp regen, Blind Sage procs, Leviathan procs, and Elemental Storm procs. Falcon, especially after the nerf, isn’t worth it for the way this build is.
Hello , how can we Dispatch the stats points in spirit / physical / cunning ?
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Can someone give me leveling tips for skills from level 30-75? Would help me a lot 
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Hello , how can we Dispatch the stats points in spirit / physical / cunning ?
Ironic, that was actually the easiest part for me. Leveling the character to level 30 in the first place was the worst part of it.
Basic leveling just max OFF ASAP, get like 6 or so points into Shadow Strike and 7 points into NJE. http://grimcalc.com/build/JZFBXzU shows the basic start.
From here, major priority is in getting Starpact, and getting 11 ranks in it. http://grimcalc.com/build/iNjl6hk
After that, you want to max out the Nightblade half of the tree, getting to Nightfall and 1 point in Blade Spirit. http://grimcalc.com/build/pjK3Dhe
After this, all you need to do is fill in levels on all the other skills until you reach what I showed on the first page of the thread. Major thing to remember, you NEVER want to let Mirror go over 12 points, as it has 0 scaling past that. I personally breezed right through level 30-50, and only had the smallest of roadbumps on early elite due to low poison resistance and the heavy number of enemies abusing poison in early Elite. As I had absolutely 0 issues in elite after that, and was stomping my way through it, I can’t really offer much more unbiased advise. Elite was just a joke for the character though. It only started to slow down in ultimate, mostly because I refused to farm at all in elite and just jumped right in. And did so successfully. Just a reminder, this character was pure self-found, first character in ultimate. And I never had an issue, because most of the power on the character is rather easy to obtain, which is just more CDR. Only 3 slots require any luck at all on getting optimal CDR, and that is your dagger/scepter, amulet, and helm. Everything else can easily be gotten at a vendor and be very effective.
Something else to note, the character sheet reports low DPS, but it isn’t 100% accurate. You have a lot of DPS tied up in multi-cast, and devotion procs, which it doesn’t take into account. (By multicast, I mean you can cast Shadow Strike at range, and the cooldown resets before you reach your target. As you reach the target, you hit them with the first Shadow Strike, and you instantly cast Shadow Strike again because it is off cooldown already). You also have exponential damage growth scaling on CDR, and the character sheet won’t always report it right until after you equip the item, because of how it works in calculating CDR being only done after the item is equipped. Weapons that state they are a DPS decrease may infact increase it if they have CDR, and increase it by massive amounts at that.
Steelflamer , on your private answer maybe i don’t really understand, i can use all my points in physical and don’t put one on spirit ? for your build
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Yes. The attribute points in Grim Dawn, at least right now, are really badly balanced. There is just about no reason to do anything but pure physique pump due to how badly they all scale, and at least physique pumping grants you access to higher end armors/more health and DA. It triples down on it’s main purpose, making you live longer.
Spirit? Grants you energy/energy regen. I have only ran out of energy when going against energy leech enemies, or enemies who can reflect some of my energy leech back at me, that’s it. And it’s rare at that. The damage granted by points in spirit is near nothing, and not worth the wasted attribute points, as you get FAR more spirit than you need just by ranking up Inner Focus. Worthless on the whole to us, after early game. Better to take the minor hit to your early game power and just keep pumping more physique.
Cunning… is less than worthless. It grants a grand total of 4 OA per point spent in it, and physical/piercing damage amp. That’s it. Only Blademaster can use it to full effect, and even then… I could be making myself more durable to use better armors so that I am not playing a game of glass cannon 1 shot with the enemies. Nightblade will already innately give you enough cunning to use any Dagger you might find, meaning you don’t need it to equip anything.
3.2 OA/attribute point, actually, prior to % modifications. (0.4 OA/point * 8 points/attribute point)
Woops, thats what I meant, accidentally did a multiple of 10 instead of 8. So OA is even worse than what I said from Cunning.
Thank you for your answer !
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Actually I find this char really easy to level. I’ve pumped everything into Amarasta’s Blade Burst and either one shot mobs or let them die to the frostburn. Using hit and run tactics at bosses w/ ABB and SS.
Although mine is just level 20 right now and didn’t fight the warden yet.
Edit : This is on veteran mode.
Minor update on the build. It is 100% busted overpowered in the Crucible. Want to know why? You can buy a 15% CDR buff. Putting Shadow Strike at literally 100% CDR optimally. Not even counting the random luck 10% CDR buff from the mutators. Mirror gets up to a 5.4 second CD in this, reduced to 3.6 seconds if you have that mutator (Rolf. Near perfect 100% uptime mirror. Deal with this 6x Nemesis boss), and I don’t know how many blade spirits I had. I just had them ALL.
For the purposes of the Crucible, this build is playing it on god mode almost.
That sounds fun lol. Did you finish gladiator? Wonder how much score you can get with your build. I had to run around, waiting for cooldowns, using clusters, using resist pots etc.
Still working my way towards it, but so far I’m halfway through challanger without using a single potion or consumable. Or, infact, having lost more than 20% of my hp. I keep the score multiplier maxed out 100% of the time, because I can just teleport to every enemy pod upon it spawning, killing it in 1 second or less, unless it has a cold resistant hero. Made it from wave 1-80 with the buff lasting all the way till the last wave of that set. Repop it, and I’m back to god mode. The only time I lose HP is when I dive into the spawner zones, which hurt you by a %age of max hp. Even then, they are stopped by my mirror, so no biggy.