UwU – Player-Scaled-Pets Archon

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Foreword:

Dark One’s Vitality Casters are by no means a new or original concept. This is a Meme non-piano build with the idea being to go for a Pet build playstyle without using proper pets.

Build has zero optimization other than being viable for a headless chicken style of piloting. Still, you can kill every single thing ingame, including superbosses, with a bit of patience.

Note: Requires both Ashes_of_Malmouth & Forgotten_Gods.

  • [Pet] [1.1.9.8] (g3) (sr+) UwU – Player-Scaled-Pets Archon (Maya)

    • Damage: Vitality
    • Active Skills: Summon Guardian of Empyrion, Wendigo Totem, Storm Totem, Devouring Swarm, Grasping Vines
    • Passive Skills: Path of the Three, Presence of Virtue, Mogdrogen’s Pact, Presence of Might (x2)
    • WPS Skills: none

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GrimTools Link – https://www.grimtools.com/calc/O2GxawnV

GrimTools Link if you want more Skeletons – https://www.grimtools.com/calc/O2Gb546N

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Shattered Realms 75-76 - https://i.imgur.com/uwi9yUj.jpg

No potions/consumables used.

Ravager of Souls - https://i.imgur.com/IgErDUY.jpg

Took around 3:30 minutes. No potions/consumables used. Pretty easy fight and fully facetanked.

Mogdrogen - https://i.imgur.com/BFos7du.jpg

Took around 3:30 minutes. No potions/consumables used. Pretty easy fight and fully facetanked.

Callagadra - https://i.imgur.com/RDOUY44.jpg

Took around 8:30 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending. Needs some kiting.

Crate of Entertainment - https://i.imgur.com/ZMS0u6C.jpg

Took around 1:30 minutes. No potions/consumables used except for Tonic of Mending. Needs some kiting.

Devotion Order –

  • Yellow > Crane > Remove Yellow > Tortoise > Lotus >

  • Scales of Ulcama (4 points for Tip the Scales) >

  • Red > Green > Bat > Vulture > Revenant >

  • Remove Red > Spider > Raven > Rattosh >

  • Abomination (5 points for Abominable Might)

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Save File – _Ria.zip (803.8 KB)

Save File for more Skeletons – _Riaz.zip (2.1 MB)

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Grim League Shattered Realms -

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Final reserved post and done.

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“Devotion setup slightly changed for more OA” __ :red_circle:

Changes to OP -

  • Grimtools link updated.
  • Devotion Order updated.
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How do you think this would perform without Dark One set?

And I assume raw ADCTH is useless for this build?

And on that topic the build has Fangs and Wendigo’s Mark bound to the 2 totems. Will those skills still heal me when they proc?

Thanks; depending on your answers I might go for this one, looks quite fun and more interactive than most pet builds.

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You will be less sturdy. But it should be doable.

Correct.

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Might be worth to mention, Wendigo’s Mark devo, when attached to player scaled pets, doesn’t heal player
same for Maul, devos procs need weapon dmg in the skill proc to apply heal to player when attached to pseudo pet

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Wendigo does not heal based on the flat on the proc?
With neither swarm nor vines having weapon damage, wendigo’s mark is useless here for healing then?

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wendigo heals based on the flat of the proc, but the effect doesn’t “transfer” to player, when triggered/applied by pseudo pet
having it on swarm or vines, an actual player triggered skill, confers the healing to player like normal, weapon dmg on the trigger skill itself is irrelevant
it’s the devo proc that needs %weapon dmg for player scaled pet to “transfer” the healing to player if you will,
since bat has %weapon dmg in the proc, totems triggered bat will heal player when twin fangs is triggered, since wendigo proc doesn’t have %weapon dmg, it wont heal player when triggered by totem/player scaled pet

*(supposedly the behind the scenes technical reason isn’t really the weapon dmg, but how devo interaction is set “manually”, the proc having weapon dmg part is just how the “rule” appears with our current devos/a way to remember)

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Devotion setup changed.

Wendigo’s Mark swapped for Scales of Ulcama.

Superbosses made easier as a result :+1:

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if you wish you can keep wendigo mark, while having scales (since you now have both revenant and scales RR) and then slap mark on vines, or swarm Archon, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator / Archon, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
ex keeping crane Archon, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator

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I believe Revenant is being kept mostly for the Pet theme.

Even Yugol was tested simply for the sake for having more pets.

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:+1:

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How much of the Bat proc damage will be converted to health? All of it or just teh wepaon % part?

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all of it as usual
the weapon dmg part is just a “trigger”/the “rule” for pseudo pets to transfer lifesteal devo proc heal to player

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Build updated - https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdawn/comments/yjg9uu/uwu_mayatm_nonpet_pet_archon_tentacle_edition/

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I like this devotion setup: Archon, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator

Twin Fangs on Guardians heals me, right?

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yes

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PSA - Facetanking MQ is more dangerous than facetanking Raburger.

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