You just haven’t looked hard enough.
Introduction
Another day another glass cannon. This one more so than others. Cold damage builds have been struggling a lot these days, and TSS builds are generally strong, but fairly balanced. But when you are able to convert TSS to one damage type with hardly any sacrifices, things get a little crazy.
Details
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/62aPMKON
Current affixes on the off-hand are BiS, but they’re not super important, just get some cold/elemental damage with whatever stats you can. The b…
1.1.5.2 Update
Ignore everything I said about cold AAR in my original version, this build is broken. The last patch gave cold AAR some new tools to play with, as well as a conduit buff and some refinements to the build. It results in an extremely strong version of AAR second only to full glass cannon Aether.
Thanks to @ya1 and @mad_lee for help optimising the build.
Details
BiS GT: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/M2g14pYZ
Realistic GT: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/b28d3Az2
Full glass cann…
Introduction
I’m back with yet another build based around cold converted Arcanist abilities. Cold PRM has typically been the weakest of the bunch by a large margin, but I’ve managed to pull it up to be a quite competitive option. The key once again was to use the new conversion options for lightning to cold like in my TSS Druid.
Credit to @Nery for the original cold PRM build.
Details
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/p25dKXGN
Craft everything for physique to reach the gear requirements. If yo…
Introduction
I’m making my first actual melee build by bringing an old classic into the modern world. Nex & Ortus isn’t seen very often these days, and Mageslayer is seriously underappreciated in my opinion. It might not look like much at first glance and some of it might seem weird but it all fits together perfectly.
Thanks to @sir_spanksalot for helping me improve the build.
Original concept by @mad_lee
Details
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/p257LmPZ
It’s a legitimately obtainable build …
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State of the enemies after I hit’em
Introduction
Spellbreaker caster, what year is it now? CT as skill doesn’t look strong on paper and cold casters usually sucks. Furthermore very often you will encounter Nemesis and bosses resistant against cold and Spellbreaker class have limited potential for - RR. And also as you’ll notice, it’s 2h caster and without even CDR granted by the weapon. So you are at huge disadvantage. But still doesn’t mean this build won’t work.
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Today I bring you the second horseman, Death. I wanted to use Soulrend on a character. Original idea was to be infiltrator, but dmg was wierd. Then it was swaped to arcanist and boom. The dmg from points put into spirit is insane.
Build also has %26 attack damage converted to HP. Main Skill is Shadowstrike with 1.2 second cooldown. By the time we spam burst and ring of steel shadowstrike is already back up!
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With Procs we are sitting at 3200 OA and 3000 DA with lots of freeze…
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Foreword
Young girl had a cold stare. She was one of the few ones who wasn’t scared to look Olexra directly in the eyes. “This is not your war. I can’t have another one of my followers death on my hands”. Girl kept staring at her. “You hear me? This is not another one of your knifes throwing show, a lot of our people died for this”. Sometimes Olexra thought she never knew this girl despite nurturing her from young age and teaching her the art of Spellbreakers. Long ago she found her - a…
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"Ice, Ice, Baby" - Vanilla Ice, poet, circa 1990
Foreword (some mad murmur you probably want to skip to Grimtools and videos below)
Maaan, spellbreakers. Beautiful creatures, hated so much by Crate and loved by veteran Grim Dawn gamers. Nerfed so many times yet still powerful. I waited for quite some time before I dared to assemble one of my own. After all, it’s the most expensive character to assemble. Here it is, by the way . Cold beauty. Green items to kill for. Fine tuned under the…
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GT link and in-game stats if you are lazy enough to read the whole text
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Skills and devotions explanation
There is no trick in skill distribution:
15 points in Vulnerability - you need as much RR as possible
Maxed Trozan’s Sky Shard is a main source of damage
Maxed Sigil of Consumption is an additional source of damage and a source of lifeleech.
Other things are pretty default like maxing Maiven’s Sphere or cap 10/10 Nullificati…
Foreword
My reason for posting here – as opposed to the Feedback section, as I usually do – is to fill a gap in the lineup of builds available in these fora: although more than valid in their own right, the current takes on TSS tend to rely on creative or variegated setups that don’t fully reflect the potential of TSS, which can be better realized by a more focused (and thematically fitting) approach.
So, for the purpose of this post, I am a TSS monomaniac. I have two builds to offer: a Druid a…
Since the game is pretty much complete now there’ll be no additional masteries added to it. Conversion does play a big part in making builds these days.
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