Ultimate Sorcerer build, highest dps, AoE, aggro

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi all,

I thought a while for the best build for maximised damage, especially through AoE damage. It’s a completely insane, all-offensive build where you have to kite and use 8 skills constantly, but it’s fun as hell, and I can clear enemy heroes in less than 5 seconds on ultimate.

Here’s the grimcalc: https://grimcalc.com/build/1006-SNFdbE

*A note on the attribute points–need at least 510 physique for the best shoulders in the game. Put rest in spirit for energy and damage, you’ll need the energy for all the skills you’ll be using.

And here’s how it works:

I kite around using thermite mine and blackwater cocktail to lower resistances then do massive fire and aether damage, helped out by the devotion points.

I put skills 1-6 as devastation, thermite mine, mortar trap, trozan’s sky shard, and mirror of erectes respectively. Left click as canister bomb, right click as greater fireblast (granted by flintcore bolts).

Spam everything, right clicking on cooldowns inbetween, saving mirror for when you are about to die.

Every Devotion skill is an on attack skill, and there are 6 to apply, apply them to everything but devastation because it has the longest cooldown.

The build is quite fun, and the only downside is you might die sometimes when it’s difficult to dodge enemy attacks. The other problem (for me anyway) seems to be piercing and acid resistance. Right now (halfway through ultimate, level 67) my resistances are great, but my acid is 8% and my piercing is -50%. Even so, I die from acid/poison damage much more than piercing.

The order i get skills in for maximum effectiveness:

Get fireblast and greater fireblast from the items asap. It’s so useful for clearing to do this on almost any build.

You can get the skills you’ll only put one point in inbetween, but max Arcanist first, then max devastation, then max reckless power. Just having that will destroy anything on veteran difficulty very quickly. Next max thermite mine for -fire resistance, agonizing flames for -all resistance, vindictive flame for speed/stuns, and finally blast shield for overall tankiness.

If anyone wants to remake this build guide into the correct format for posting, please feel free.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,
Orion

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This build needs a real attack, greater fireblast is downright bad. Also skills at one point like your mortar trap and sky shard aren’t even worth casting relative to the bad fireblast.

If you focused on getting some good offense skill together you could reduce/eliminate your kiting.

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The one point skills and greater fireblast are to proc the devotion skills, as well as something to use between cd of other skills. They don’t do a lot of damage by themselves, but together it adds up quick. Devastation is really the damage dealer here, while thermite mine blackwater cocktail and eldritch fire all reduce fire resistance to just annihilate mobs in seconds. the rest of the skills just add on some extra fire/burning/chaos damage