Theory Crafting Guide

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Guide: Recommended stats for end game

Introduction Different players have fun playing the game in different ways. Being primary a single player game, your real opponent is just yourself and whatever self imposed challenges your create. But when you finally reach the max level, what should be stats you are aiming and how you decide why a build isn’t satisfactory. That’s what I am trying to create, guide with some baseline advises about the details on the character sheet panel. Of course universal stats for all character classes don…

Guide for helping how to choose your build!

Introduction One of the most common questions among new players is “Help me choose a build”, Grim Dawn indeed has wide variety of class combinations, styles and other. With them is real challenge to select a proper build for you. My guide is meant to help players choose what they like but also to choose wise! I will use some terminology, if you are unfamiliar with it, you can ask or check the acronyms list https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/gd-acronym-and-abbreviation-list/29433 NOTES: …

Grim Dawn's dual class system

Introduction After I saw question about dual class system in GD, wanted to make guide about it. It’s truly one of the unique features in the game, which separates Grim Dawn from the others action RPG’s. So I want to provide some information to all the new players getting into the game. And as you can see there is steady flow of incoming players. What’s dual class? In Grim Dawn you start with one mastery, but at level 10 you can select second one. Unlike most of the games, where your job is …

Local and Global Modifiers and Skill Types

Introduction As a quick replacement for the now missing guide on game mechanics with info you’ll probably not find elsewhere. No plans to make it one guide to rule them all, but everything not covered by the official game guide that I consider important I plan to cover here. Thread name might be changed later on. WIP, if something isn’t covered you’re free to ask. Local and Global modifiers There’s a variety of bonuses and modifiers a player will find on gear, skills and constellations. Vari…

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Gear dependency of builds in Grim Dawn

Introduction This is a guide on how to ascertain whether build needs any specific gear pieces to function. Ideally that’s something to ask the build author about, but some quit the game long ago already while others already have every single legendary stashed. The guide is example-based, because I felt like it’s an optimal format. It is also a work in progress – there’s room for improvement (suggestions welcome!), but I decided it’s fine enough to post it as is for now. Conversion Builds Con…