I considered both. My main reason was Pet Elemental Resistance taking a sizable hit with Fiendmaster (along with 1 less Skeleton) and Wildshorn without Fiendmaster making the already low Pet Aether resistance even lower.
I originally used Mogâs Ardor for the same reason since I was concerned about leaving Aether and Chaos resistance uncapped.
But unlike Aether/Chaos, Elemental damage is pretty common and I wanted to avoid struggling against it in SR.
Ofcourse, for superbosses (outside of Moggy) and SR 75-76, both can be considered.
Reason is Ishtakâs downtime + activating only on hit, even ignoring the 10 less RR.
My SR run was more or less standing a screen away while pets formed a wall and slowly killed whatever was on the other side. So, yeahâŠ
But for superbosses and SR 75-76, it might still work.
If needing extra tankiness, switching to Bysmielâs Domination is also an option since it killed Cally in similar time and would be stronger with Fiendmasterâs. Plus, you need to get hit to proc Bysmielâs anyway, soâŠ
Can anyone give me an advice on how to progress, finished the game on Ultimate without much issues. Been farming some totems but nothing meaningful as of now, got some items but no lost set pieces. Tried SR, could potentially get to SR 30, MAYBE, but not above that pretty sure. I have some of the pieces for mayaâs chaos build but without Lost Souls set its pointless and i am better of playing the build i am currently using i assume? I donât really like dying god and revenant at all as they make me very fragile , was thinking of respecing but i will lose a lot of damage, any tips? Thanks in advance guys! My build - Cabalist, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
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 donât really lose that much damage.
I would also recommend some components to your rings and amulet: âMark of Illusionsâ . 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 Godâs HP drain, but will have to give up Shepherdâs 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: ă«ăȘăčç«çăă”ăă ă· 1.1.9.8ăšăăŁă·ă§ăł SR100æéć ăŻăȘăąăgrimdawnă - 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. Shepherdâs gives way more than that for much lessâŠ
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 beastcallerâs 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 bysmaelâs 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 Godâs proc gives +570% damage to both (pets get the entire thing and not just the stuff under âbonus to petsâ since Hungering Void is an aura).
Got most of the gear through trading recently, i was pretty sceptical about it - is mogdrogenâs ardor worth over dirge of arkovia or nah? Asking for your chaos conversion build, i honestly donât like the pet from Dirge, its ugly and has to be resummoned sometimes which is annoying. Mog is just raw power, you canât go wrong with, same thing with Bysmaelâs 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 Shepherdâs 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 Mogâs 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 Bysmielâs Bonds or Revenant, but I donât 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, youâre the best! I also donât 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!
Good to know
