There are several things I would recommend.
I would respec the devotions to this: Cabalist, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator it is less damage but will feel much better and with korvaak recently being buffed you don’t really lose that much damage.
I would also recommend some components to your rings and amulet: “Mark of Illusions” . Your DA is quite low. You also need components on the rest of your gear pieces. Note, constitution is basically worthless.
As for farming. Totems are pretty good when you have nothing. If you are going to do SR then I recommend leveling up in SR normal it is much easier and when you get up to SR-75 you will still get lots of legendaries, etc.
Skeletons are also not one of the best pet builds in general. They seem collectively to perform as well as any other single pet with the exception of having better AOE but much worse survivability. When you get them geared they will do fine but you will still have to micromanage them to keep them alive.
Imo, just switch to Normal and farm SR 75-76 there. You can take Tree of Life if you want a bit of healing to offset Dying God’s HP drain, but will have to give up Shepherd’s for it though - Cabalist, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
I will politely disagree with your assessment of korvaak. 150% all damage 5% OA and 6% crit damage is not useless by any stretch of the imagination. As well the petrify on the proc does wonders for keeping things rooted which allows the pets to do unabated damage.
Please see the following as evidence to my argument: カオス火炎ハサミムシ 1.1.9.8エディション SR100時間内クリア【grimdawn】 - YouTube A SR-100 run with time left utilizing the Korvaak devotion.
That is not Tier 3 devotion stats by any stretch of imagination either. Shepherd’s gives way more than that for much less…
Petrification is useless against everything except trash mobs since bosses get CC resistance.
That has nothing to do with Korvaak and that build is… not using the full beastcaller’s when no slot is blocked is a straight up crime. Korvaak is the least of the issues with it.
Cabalist, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator, can i switch over to this build if i only have the boots, potentially craft bysmael’s domination, legs, the offhand for full chaos conversion from physical, the amulet and the chest. NO rings or lost set pieces so probably a No go? Gonna feel not having 2 hellhounds probably… And thanks for the previous advice, will try it althoughi will lose some pet elemental resistances!
Without the rings, might be better to go with Dying God since your damage will be split between chaos/vitality and Dying God’s proc gives +570% damage to both (pets get the entire thing and not just the stuff under “bonus to pets” since Hungering Void is an aura).
Got most of the gear through trading recently, i was pretty sceptical about it - is mogdrogen’s ardor worth over dirge of arkovia or nah? Asking for your chaos conversion build, i honestly don’t like the pet from Dirge, its ugly and has to be resummoned sometimes which is annoying. Mog is just raw power, you can’t go wrong with, same thing with Bysmael’s domination but there you gotta get hit so… Also, i am probably better off with manticore if i dont wanna keep the uptime of that annoying Shepherd’s crook, will probably deal a bit less damage but its probably worth it : D
you can go for it if you wish. I used to have Mog’s Ardor in the build before and switched to Dirge only recently because I wanted an extra tank.
Actually, manticore is kind of necessary regardless since you need it for the RR. Well… that or Bysmiel’s Bonds or Revenant, but I don’t like relying on the Bys bonds Pet for RR and Revenant is not that great on a pet build.
Thanks for the quick responses, Maya, you’re the best! I also don’t like revenant, will replace it as soon as i get all the gear pieces. Its really nice that most people trade a legendary for a few blooms, which are very easily farmable btw :D. I mean, i got the whole lost set for 8 blooms per pieces and i can farm 32 blooms in like what? Below an hour and thats guaranteed!
Hi Maya. Can i ask you the devotion order for this masterpiece? (idk with the new version, but i saw nice buffs on Tree of Life) also is this build better than the ghol cabalist with the gun? Thanks a ton in advance
We are not going Tree + Ishtak here because Mogdrogen route provides much more Damage atm while Behemoth offering comparable safety to the player even without Tree.
I haven’t really played Ghol based pet builds since Unstable Anomaly Blightfiend playstyle got nerfed back in 1.1.8.1, so can’t comment on that
i see. i tried a bysmiel set conjurer with tree of life, maiden ecc and it works quite well, now leveling a lost souls cabalist (i think it has more damage than my conjurer but kinda squishy). Was curious about ritualist, but it’s hard to miss all the good skills on Occultist.
