See attribute distribution, all points go to physique so you can ware the leg armor…
Also phantom thread girdle lowers physic by 10% for armor.
Any spammable skills to use before empowered lightning nova as I don’t have Trozan set? I’m using greater fire blast but find that it’s getting weak in Elite…
Anyone? 
Thank for the great build
Hi,
If by any chance yu come by here Primeval, would you mind sharing your thoughts regarfing the new Time Dilatation node and it it changed your devotion path?
And if yes, what have you changed?
Thanking you in advance.
Kinao
Ok so I am a little confused on the devotion line. How is it possible? It puts one point into primordial, then the only constellation it takes out of that is one that rewards only blue for completion, so how do you get to the rest without more in crossroads or something?
You can put one point into Crossroads, then pick up a constellation that rewards affinity, then go to the spirit guide and refund the crossroads as the constellation now sustains itself with the affinity it grants.
Can someone link me a decent leveling build? I am having a hard time finding one and I’m pretty new to grim dawn so I don’t understand as much as I’d like.
Leveling went pretty smooth for me, though I did have quite some gear stashed that I could use while lvling.
Start with Arcanist, rush to Olexra’s Flash Freeze and max it + its modifier. Pick up Trozan’s Sky Shard for bosses (they are mostly freeze-immune and thus won’t take noticeable damage from OFF) and max it, then get one point into Mirror of Ereoctes, 3 into Maiven’s for some defense. Then continue investing into the mastery bar, 1 point into Frozen Core for the freeze effect, then get Shattered Star and max it. With this you have the basic build up and running. Get Devastation next, it’s amazing against heroes and bosses or dense packs of tough enemies that survive OFF. If you can’t keep up the energy cost (pretty high), you dont have to max it right away.
After that you can start with Nightblade, get the mastery bar up to Shadow Strike for 1 point into it (you can do this earlier if you want the extra mobility, but not before you have TSS maxed). Then invest a few points into Pneumatic Burst for healing.
Next you can finish up the build, by first getting Star pact and maxing it, then 1 point into Veil of Shadow and maxing Night’s Chill.
As for a playstyle, very simple: OFF clears an entire screen of trashmobs without additional input required up to Act 3 or something, after that you can still use TSS to blow up the two-three remaining enemies who are touhg enough to survive OFF - they won’t survive TSS too. TSS clears bosses decently fast, as the impact radius is rather small and all 3 comets hitting a single target deals good damage.
Not a fan of posting after myself, but the patch has been good to this build with buffs to both the TSS skill line and the Trozan set. I’m still in the process of leveling (at the start of Ultimate) but I gave the Crucible a try with the char and got a massive 60k damage crit off on an enemy. This is at lv70, wearing the Eastern set and Shard of Asterkarn as notable items. Got 21/16 TSS, 8/12 Frozen Core and 19/16 Shattered Star.
I wish Crate posted more detailed patch notes than “increased damage”, I’d really love to see the actual numbers since you won’t be able to see them ingame with the various bonuses from gear and devotions applied.
I agree with you on that. They said Shadow Strike was “Nerfed”.
It is my main damage skill on my 100% CDR (Now literally, in the Crucible at least) Spellbreaker build, but my DPS sheet didn’t even report a change on my SS DPS. Hard to see whats different for a lot of things.
I’m not seeing how Scales of Ulcama adds value to this build- almost nothing we’re using has a weapon damage component, so neither flat Vitality damage nor ADCTH are doing anything for me. Am I missing something? Is it worth taking Scales just for the passives, at the expense of Dryad or Tortoise or something else I could get with a useful active?
Keep in mind this build is pretty outdated, and was made when defensive devotions were much better than they are today. The proc on Scales is pretty bad and doesn’t help this build much. If you wanted to keep to the original devotion setup as much as possible I would keep the first node in Scales, drop the rest, pick up Lion, the last point in Tree of Life, and another point in Obelisk.
I went for an almost completely offensive devotion setup on my build. I never take Scales on anything nowadays, it’s become pretty useless.
Here is my build if you’re inteersted: https://grimcalc.com/build/iA98LHD
Hey everyone, I know I have not been updating the build or answering questions and I apologize. I also appreciate the rest of the community jumping all in and doing so. However, I just started my PhD program and obviously will not be doing anything further.
All the best for your PhD programme! Maybe you’ll be back when Grim Dawn 2 comes out? 
Hah who knows, maybe!
Inkaflare, how does this build play in terms of survivability? Do you find yourself overly squishy, or are Pneumatic Burst, Maivens, Mirror, and Giant’s Blood enough to keep you alive and ticking through all content?
I’ve been able to kill the Mad Queen without dieing on Ultimate (took a while though because I had to play defensively, around 2 minutes), but I feel it’s fine for Ultimate. Not enough for Crucible Gladiator though. Having 5 seconds CD on PB and 10 seconds on Mirror is a huge help concerning survivability, but the build is definitely on the squishy side. I feel like it would be much slower clearing speed with defensive devotion instead, the build is a caster after all which are notoriously underpowered compared to weapon damage builds.
Thanks for this I r eally liked playing your build. I myself play with these:
Deathwisper Leggings (cannot post link yet)
Killed Ultimate Log @ lvl 78 with no pots!