I’m talking about the Gavel of Ravenous Souls: Mythical Gavel of Ravenous Souls - Items - Grim Dawn Item Database
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Here’s the build I tried Oppressor, Level 100 (GD 1.2.0.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
And here it is in SR 80 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIBK_qcthlc Even with cooldown reduction mutator, the build feels clunky and single target damage is pretty bad.
Some thoughts:
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The % vitality makes no sense since the item converts away from vitality.
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If one wants to have full fire to physical conversion, the only option is to dual wield these (but needs to sacrifice medal slot + VM doesn’t hit with both weapons) or to play Grey Knight, which makes the build seem like a worse Targo setup where you can’t play the mace.
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The fire ->physical conversion would be useful for Volcanic Stride, but the weapon gives +2 Tectonic Shift, which is not needed and is easy to find (Earthshatter Threads, Kuba pants, Obsidian Grasp). Volcanic Stride points are hard to find.
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I also thought to use the conversion for guardians, but it’s virtually impossible to reach 24/16 guardians here.
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The weapon has no attack of cast speed, so EoR and RF are out of the equation.
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Another use of this weapon would be some weird Octavius Oppressor setup but then the conversion is still useless and then the weapon competes with Ugdenbog Repeater and Pummeler which are both better options.
Suggested changes:
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Replace % vitality with % bleed. It would thematically make sense since Siphon Souls and Vire’s Might both deal bleed damage.
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Replace +2 Tectonic Shift with +2 or +3 Volcanic Stride.
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Replace leech to VM with flat cooldown reduction modifier. Every fire VM item has some, but none of the physical ones do (see also Steward’s Halberd), resulting in clunky gameplay.
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Change fire to physical into elemental to physical conversion. This would open up more possibilities (Octavius pieces, Korvan Spaulders) for conversion and allow for use of other shields (like Kalis Ka or Stone Wall defender) without losing conversion.
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Replace +2 Storm Totem with literally anything.
