The Pyro-Monster 68k DPS

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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THE PYRO-MONSTER

UPDATE 16/05/16: I decided to adjust my build listening to your comments/suggestions and also I uploaded videos to show that 7.2K HP is not a problem at all when you have 23% Damage converted to Life

Gears, Skills+Devotion: https://youtu.be/MsYDMN9SM_Q
Step of Torment: https://youtu.be/tGT0Qkr-Y28SoT
Killing Loghorrean: https://youtu.be/CswSnsS-Cns

DAMAGE OVERVIEW: I like to see BIG dps number but at the same time NO so many tombs around :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

1)[b]65706 DPS![/b] The highest DPS I have seen so far, at best of my  knowledge.
2)	50/50 Fire and Chaos (+5 Skills to Demolitionist +3 skills Occultist and more than 1000% to each Fire/Chaos dmg)
3)	ALL Damage oriented devotion Points, (i.e. Meteor Shower and Fissure associated to Firestrike and Flasbang respectively)
4)	Mob Resistence reduction (Mark of Dreeg + Agonizing flame, Vulnerability, Eldrich fire, Exterminus, etc…)

DEFENCE OVERVIEW: I am a former Blademaster and my only and main defense strategy is Life Steal!!!

  1. 15-23% damage converted to life (Lifegiver signet + Haunted steel + Revenant devotion)
  2. Max out ALL Primary resistances + vitality and chaos. Compromise on bleeding 11% (see next point)
  3. Pretty high Life regeneration 436 Life Per Second (blood of dreeg+vendicative flame+mark of divinity, etc…)
  4. Flashbang for stunning and stopping the “brave” mobs

Skills-Devotion power associations:

Firestrike-Meteor shower
Flashbang-Fissure
Dreeg´s Infinit gaze-Eldrich fire
Blackwater Cocktail-Flame torrent

GEARS:
1st Pistol: Eterminus 12% Attack speed (Haunted steel–Outcast bastion)
2nd Pistol: Deviltoungue (Mark of Dreeg–Outcast bastion)
Head: Clairvoryant’s hat (Prismatic Diamond-10% Pierce)
Shoulders: Shadowflame mante (Silk Swatch-10% Pierce)
Arms: Voidsteel guantlets (Consacreted wrapping-7/10% Pierce/Venom)
Legs: Golemborne graves (Mark of Mogdrogen-10% Pierce)
Belt: Ulzuin’s torment (Antivenom salve-7/10% Pierce/Venom)
Legs: Arcane Harmony Leggings (Silk Swatch-10% Aether)
Chest: Emp. Gunslinger Jacket (Kilrian’s shattered soul-10%Pierce)
Ring1: Entropic coil (Corpse dust – Mogdrogen’s sanctity)
Ring2: Lifegiversignet(Corpse dust – Mogdrogen’s sanctity)
Amulet: Empowered essence of beronath (Arcane Lens – Mogdrogen’s sanctity)
Relic: Ulzuin Pyroclasm
Medal: Mark of divinity(Dreed Skull)

PROS:

  1. Huge damage… not only on single target but specially on area (meteor shower all the time)!
  2. Life steal account for almost all your survivability
  3. Super-fun to play.
  4. SoT and BoC runs goes really fast
    CONS:
  5. Short Life 7200HP (still enough for a ranged/life steal character imho)
  6. Stunt is a problem for everyone but specially for a life steal build :stuck_out_tongue:
  7. Last boss of BoC is our worse enemy… but also your long lost twin :smiley:

IMPROVEMENT:
Any suggestion is welcome! I tried to move dev point around and I found this to be the best… even though I really do not like 3 points for pierce dmg spent in hydra costellation…
I would like to have more HP… but I also like DPS… so is an internal battle… and guess who won…!? THE DEAMON :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Hope you will try and enjoy this build as well… :smiley:

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Life Steel :P.

I love me some life steel.

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If you drop your Devil touched Ammo for a Mark of Dreeg you increase your resistance debuffs from -77 fire / -40 chaos to -92 fire / -45 chaos. Also you might not want to claim “More than 100% Mob Resistance Reduction” because you aren’t even to 100% (Viper will stack with what you already have, but not additively)

Edit: Actually, forget Mark of Dreeg - even better would be to swap the build for something like: http://grimcalc.com/build/oQdFbT
That gives you over 60 flat resistance reduction that will stack with all your pre-existing fire/chaos reduction. It will be some drop in sheet DPS but a very large jump in real DPS - also it’ll reduce any enemy physical damage by 25% while they are debuffed.

*Not entirely sure I took the points from the ‘best’ source - static strike - but I’m sure you can figure out some good place to take them from.

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TY I will correct that

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Thanks for the advice.

EDIT: I never consider that agonizing flame, but actually will be good for binding fissure and do it all the time without high potency modifier

TY again

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  1. Mob Resistence reduction (Viper, 2X Exterminus

Darkflame doesn’t stack on 2 Exterminus pistols, you’ll be better off using something like Exterminus + Deviltongue.
I’d also drop some points from Familiar tree and completely get rid of stun jacks, then put those points in Blast Shield and overcap Fire Strike tree.
In devotion I’d drop Fissure and tried to get Targo’s nodes (7k HP is not good even for casters).
Also, why not Chains of Oleron in the chest armor? And I’d suggest trying out Blood sigil of Chthon, I’d say it’s a BiS medal for any Pyro build because of the proc it has.

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Hey mate - how did you distribute your attribute points?

Cheers

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From what I see.
Enough Physique/cunning for wearing equipment, all other point dumb to Spirit.

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Thanks mate - I went to the extreme of looking at this items +attr and points spent in build and then subtracting it all from the total in his char view, dividing by 8.

Got something close to that. I have yet to get to 85 so knowing how much phys/cunning/spirit for gear is hard to gauge.

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thanxs for the guide. one question. for chaos/ Fire is better kymon or vigil? thanxs

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Thanks I hope you find it usefull!

I went for the Vigil since I was looking for lifesteal while the Order was more Electricity/shield based…

But for the end build/gears actually I do not use any of the Vigil aguments/items anyway… so I guess just as you prefer :smiley:

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Right! Just enough Physique for the Harmony leggings since they are the gear requiring more physique and then Spirit.

BTW I will add this info in the build soon thanks for let me notice that was missing :smiley:

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ok. thanxs for the answer

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Thanks for this - hate allocating attribute points poorly.

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Thanks for the advice mate! So I tried your variations… And actually you are right about the increase of the “Real” damage due to higher resistances reduction :wink:

The problem is the slow animation/casting of black water cocktail that Really slow dawn the runs! If was not for this problem, I liked your solution because allow me to spawn the fissure volcano all the time by associating it to black water cocktail…

I will do some more testing specially on Bosses where I suppose your solution will be better

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Thank you for the advice! So…About 2X ExTerminus I didn’t know but still by testing on the dummies and on Mob is better than ext+deviltougue combination (from24k to 27k on average critic)

7.2k of HP is not much I know… But I still never die in BoC, SoT and Log… So I suppose is fine (soon I will post videos)
To arrive at Targo constellation I will need around 9-10dev point + the 4 to put there… And I will not get to Ulzuin flame and specially meteor shower (where there is most of my AoA…

I will do some more testing to try increase my HP anyway… Because I agree that more is better!

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I like life steal too, but the problem is that it doesn’t do crap against bosses, which is usually when you need it the most. Some life steal is always good to have though.

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just wondering why did you make this thread? there is already a thread on this build under the brimstone gunslinger.

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I saw your build time ago, and I also went to check it now.

I thought, and still think, this build is much more damage oriented, as you can see from the distribution of the devotion points and final DPS (68000), thats why I decided to share it.

I didn´t mean at all to make another thread just to overcome your build :wink: and BTW the reason why I start to make a Pyromancer is because from your videos/build was looking really powerfull :wink:

To short answer you question… is not the first time there are more builds for the same Classes combinations (i.e. Blademasters).

That´s also why we like this game so much :smiley:
PS: I really would like to ear your comments BTW about what you think :wink:

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I am going to pull your code for your post and add it in as a variation of the Brimestone. I don’t want it to get lost as you do have good info and all. I’ll work on doing that tonight.