Tome of the Arcane Wastes/Obliteration builds viable?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hello,

Does any one have a build arround Obliteration (from the Tome of the Arcane wastes) ?

I could use some advice before starting any new char, because I can’t really figure out what would be best :

Shaman’s Stormcaller pact ? (crit and electrocute)
Arcanist’s Star Pact ? (lightning and cold, electrocute)
Arcanist’s Reckless Power ? (fire and casting speed)

And, of course, Occultist seems just too “good” with a maxed Vulnerability debuff/Curse of Frailty… (Maybe also Storm Spirit from the Summon familiar line ? I’m wondering if it is of any benefit or just wasted skill points)

For Devotion, some choices seem obvious like Rhowan’s Crown and Viper, but what about others ? (Blind Sage looks interesting but I never tried it)

Any suggestions welcome, :slight_smile:

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You could make a build around fire and lightning.

I would use a Warpfire dagger so Obliteration becomes 2/3 Fire 1/3 Lightning, and focus on things like OFF (huge fire resistance debuff, fire damage and CC) and TSS (fire and lightning damage).
On top of that, choosing Demolitionist would give you additional sources of fire/lightning damage and fire/lightning resistance debuffs (thermite mines).

Hopefully my suggestion isn’t too biased, I found this dagger recently and I absolutely love its conversion that opens up so many builds.

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Obliteration damage is very poor. With 600-800% elemental damage, 40% crit damage and ~190% cast speed its tooltip is ~14K and it takes 2-10 seconds to kill a trash mob. I don’t even want to try it on hero/boss :). Maybe you can make it a little better with higher percentage damage boost and multiple debuffs but I think its a little too bad anyway.

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That looks quite interesting ! I will look into it once I have that dagger.

That was also my feeling about it. But then I saw DenisMashutikov’s build arround Conflagration.
He made it work nicely, with Ulzin’s Set and Aldanar. (Though I can’t tell it would compare to an AAR sorcerer, in terms of pure DPS)

I thought, maybe, something similar could be built, and work fine enough to be ultimate viable.
I’m aware it would be a very gear-dependent build, so I will just keep playing untill I get more end-game items (like Warpfire)

Thank you both for your input :wink: