this is my Storm totem Vindicator. First selfmade build/devotion for me. I know the concept is not new and some of you are the total min-maxing gods of grim dawn.
Can someone take a look and maybe give me some advice what I can get better in form of devotions and skilltree. Not the gear. Beside Vendor Faction gear or farmable MIs. I have no stash full of epics and dont want to cheat.
I know some People do with this kind of build:
arcane bomb devotion and or
Time dilation devotion and or
no ultos
Dont know if time dilation is soo good or if time dilation only for crucible farmer.
for the skilltree I dont know where to put my last points.
I had enough to get storm box skill and get lower with savagery tree.
One guy i saw with rune of haggarad with his stormtotem build…
Dont know what is best.
i’d drop savagery altogether. not seeing any use in going into melee with such a build. you’re wielding a knife and you don’t get a whole lot of flat damage or attack speed so you risk getting killed in melee for negligible amount of extra damage.
if you want something spammable to fill the gaps between storm totem and wind devils, you can always put a seal of skies on your weapon. the chain lightning skill you get from that component is pretty damn powerful for a component skill that costs you no skillpoints.
the points you save from dropping savagery can be invested in storm box. i think the defense shredding alone is worth using it.
not going to comment much on items. looks like work in progress. of course you should max the resistances and get some more DA and OA. but you don’t even have components and augments on all your items yet, so that’s just a little puzzle solving exercise really.
Stormreaver Vindicator is one of the most powerful builds in the game. If you’re looking for melee/totem hybrid this is best. Both my build and Veretragna’s only use melee/ranged to charge up Savagery. I wouldn’t call that a hybrid.
My 5 totem vindicator is very hard to assemble legit (I cheated on the offhand a little bit because I can’t play casters with less than 15 phys res). Without 5 totems at all times and good %dmg and oa from the greens it doesn’t work. And increasing summon limit without the uptime boost from the conduit is pointless. It’s better to go for cataclysm+gun. Easy oa and elemental dmg. 3 totem handle all content just as well as 5.
Good Russian builder showed me his version of Vindicator hybrid. It had Stormreaver + Light Defender Totems but based on Aura of Censure + Thunderous Strike. It was an absolute beast. I wish he could post some of his builds here.
Yeah, I know the build. As far as I know it needs a banner. It might be stronger, idk, but I prefer the Savagery version like the one cccsennn2 put together for Ravager. Just too much to give up for the sake of more AoE, imo, in the particular case of the totemist.
Actually, last nod on Primal Strike offers similiar amounts electrocute as Savagery with Stormcaller’s Pact, maybe a bit less. But the instant damage is just much bigger.
Dmg-wise Primal is better support for totems (probably). I don’t know about DoT. What I meant is that it’s hard to pass on Savagery buffs especially with 2h. Light’s Defender is…well…defensive. Outside the Cataclysm setup totemists struggle with oa. And attack speed (if you want to make that melee support meaningful).
BTW: the spear devotion is this better than the tempest?
oa struggle is true. Without focus on OA on gear i could not crit bosses in ultimate campaign
and the lightdefender 2hand stormreaver build are the same like the one from JAJAJA that everyone knows. Nothing new. Beside that instead going soldier for the defense and extra dot, you go inquisitor.:rolleyes:
