Out of boredom, lack of ice cream and no sight of the new patch anywhere near, the fwuff decided to finally go back and finish that Solo Pet Shaman level up part of the guide. Only halfway there, but should be done soonTM 
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It is done!!! Done!!! 
Mini guide updated with shaman level up stuff, but you can also find it here:
SEKREET STUFF
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Shaman:
First things first, let me say that I am not a big fan of focusing on Shaman early on while leveling and rather take it as a support mastery. For a Conjurer, starting Occultist first is recommended and for a Ritualist, I prefer to start with Necromancer. The reason is that Shaman only gets 1 permanent Pet and also forces you to focus on physical / bleed unless you get damage conversion for your pets.
Because of those reasons, it is also highly recommended to get as many item based pets as possible (like OgāNapesh, Hysteria / Savage Relic Pets, etc) and farm up an Korvaakās Burning-Blade with a 100% physical to fire conversion for pets, as soon as you can.
Also, Shaman doesnāt really have many useful skills to invest points into if you are going for a pet build. So, at a certain point, you will find yourself with more skill points than you actually need as a solo - Shaman build. Feel free to take up a second mastery at this point for if you wish to stay as a single mastery build, you can invest them in the likes of Tenacity of the Boar or any other filler skills.
Also note that the skill and devotion setup we are going for here assumes that you have multiple item based pets to bind devotion procs to and that you have a Korvaakās Burning-Blade for damage conversion of pets from physical to fire.
Devotions:ā
Purple Crossroads > Shepherdās Call > Remove Purple
Falcon > Nighttalon
Green Crossroads > Red Crossroads > Huntress
Yellow Crossroads > Lotus > Remove Yellow
Rhowanās Crown > Toad > Mogdrogen the Wolf
Crane > Hammer > 5 points in Oleron (for Blind Fury)
Skills:ā
Lvl 10 ā 16/16 Summon Briarthorn, 5/16 Devouring Swarm.
Lvl 20 ā 16/16 Devouring Swarm, 9/12 Ground Slam.
Lvl 30 ā 12/12 Ground Slam, 7/12 Emboldening Presence.
Lvl 40 ā 12/12 Emboldening Presence, 12/12 Mogdrogenās Pact, 12/12 Wendigo Totem, 1/12 Blood Pact.
Lvl 50 ā 1/10 Oak Skin, 12/12 Primal Bond, 12/12 Conjure Primal Spirit, 6/12 Wendigo Totem (-6 points).
Lvl 60 ā 12/12 Wendigo Totem, 1/16 Wind Devil, 12/12 Raging Tempest.
Lvl 70 ā 10/10 Oak Skin, 10/10 Heart of the Wild.
Lvl 80 ā 12/12 Blood Pact, 1/12 Grasping Vines, 1/12 Maelstrom, 1/16 Savagery, 5/12 Tenacity of the Boar.
Lvl 90 ā 12/12 Tenacity of the Boar, 1/12 Storm Touched, Free Skill Points
Lvl 94 ā Respec as needed, according to the build you are going for.
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The PDF guide will be updated much later once I also finish the build diary 
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Soā¦ umā¦ I wanted to Streamline and shorten the pdf guide a bitā¦
andā¦ umā¦ it is now at 153 pages somehowā¦ (was 110 beforeā¦)
and it will grow a bit more in a few daysā¦
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Just realized that I hadnāt updated the fact that you can no longer have 4x Blightfiends in the guide. Fixed that.
Also updated the necromancer level up section a bit (nothing major, just realized I never maxed undead legion after specāing out of it temporarilyā¦ but that was back when I used to hate the boners).
And fixed some typos and stuff (I thinkā¦)
Also, since I didnāt mention it before, the reason why PDF version is bigger now is because I wrote down the skill, devo, item, augments+components for my endgame builds instead of just providing the GT links incase GT is temporarily down and someone wanted to check something.
Andā¦ the mini guide is also now part of the PDF, with its own section at the end.
The time it took to do all this (I am lazyā¦) means that I havenāt played GD in a while and so the build diary for Shaman is still going to take a whileā¦
Anyway, everything should be updated now (hopefullyā¦)
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The Fwuffy: Today will be a productive day
Classless Pet build: 
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/eVLeaR6Z (no longer up-to-date, refer to the post below)
(EDIT: It was more frustrating than I thought to get the attributes to equip the itemsā¦)
Classless Pet build updated: The Fat Fwuffy - Classless Pet Build
and it can now do SR65 :3
Just crossposting here in case.
In the OP, can find it under:
EDIT:
Can also do Crucible upto wave 160 
Healer Trio in wave 161 heal too much 
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Guide updated (Both online and downloadable versions)
Finally the thing is complete (other than any future updates necessitated by balance patches or typos and such).
Now, time to hibernate :3
Btw, since the thing is now 175 pages long, I may have missed stuff, made errors, etc. So, if you guys find any, do let me know.
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@Maya Hello, first of all, Iāve downloaded and partially read your pdf, and two things, one I absolutely love how you write and your jokes. And second you are a legend for writing practically a book of GM pet builds!
Now my question, Iām a new player and want a pet build, but I donāt want pets to do all the work while I sit in the back, I want to do my share with spells (piano if possible, where pets tank and I deal damage). So far Iām lvl 16 Occultist with no second class yet, waiting to find the correct one, but canāt find a build that suits me (Iāve seen many, not all). Any suggestions? Thanks again for your holy work!
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You did that deliberately, didnāt you? Made the guide 175 pages long just to match the number of Grim Misadventures Zantaiās written. 
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First of all, welcome to the forums and ty for the kind words 
Now, personally I do neither hybrids nor piano builds. So, I donāt have any such builds of my own. However, you can have a look at these and see if anything strikes your fancy:
- Topics tagged hybrid (@gargaboloās builds in that list)
- Chaos Hybrid Pet Cabalist by @A_S00
- Chaos Reap Spirit Hybrid Pet Cabalist by @thepowerofmediocrity
And if you have something specific in mind not covered by any of those builds, Iād recommend starting a a new thread with your idea and see if anyone else has already made such a build or might be willing to make something similar for you 
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@Maya Oh, thanks a lot for links to these builds, I didnāt know that those kind of builds were named hybrid builds. I do really like the chaos hybrid pet cabalist you suggested. Iām really grateful, thanks again! :3
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Soā¦
Friendship ended with Gate to Many Worlds, Mythical Codex of Eternal Storms is new friend :3
Guide updated It is now 178 pages long 
, added Inanna- Pet Ritualist to OP.
In case anyone is curious, currently my pets are ranked as following on the basis of their strength:
Fluffy Squishy > Ishtar > Inanna > Will O Wisp > Skulls & Bones
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Not sure if youāve had a chance to look through all the patch notes yet (looks like a lot!), but Iād be interested to know if you anticipate any changes on this ranking now.
The person that posted this thread is permabanned.
like the guy above said, their acc is suspended. so if you wish to reach maya, you wiil probably have to do so through reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/MayaGD
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Why is maya banned??
Hello Maya, which will you consider to be a ssf pet build?