Witchblade Critique

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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Hey all this is my second hardcore character that I am working on. Really wanted to make something myself and use some of the things I have learned about character building over the past 200 hours.

Would really appreciate some feedback at the hopes it improves my understanding of devotions and skills. I don’t need this to kill celestial bosses I just want to endgame farm anywhere i please without too much worry. I especially want to be able to deal with nemesis bosses.

Thanks in advance guys!

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Reread my post. For clarity I wanted to do a two handed scythe boy and landed on this bleed and vitality damage lad.

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Well unfortunately a lot of problems and gaps in your build :

  • every two hander goes for Kraken ( it’s not even debatable)
  • every vitality setup goes for Ratosh for the RR
  • every melee toon goes for 100% Armor absorption , especially Soldier setups
  • 2 x Mythical signets of the fallen don’t stack ( RR that comes from the same source don’t stack ) you need Cursebearer if you want another ring with vit RR
  • Crowd Control resistance are quite low as well
  • Behemoth makes no sense in this setup ,overall stacking life regen on a Vitality setups is huge mistake
  • not enough Resistance shred and vitality builds are very punishing already when single RR masteries combo

It looks like you got inspired by Crab_Turtle Death Knight and turn it into something less optimal ( I might be wrong but both specs pretty close )

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Some great tips! Thank you. Mind answering a couple follow ups?

Why is Kraken considered so good for 2Handers? To my eye it just looks like attack speed, health and damage.

I dont understand the life regen and vitality setup point. I am thinking by vitality setup you mean vitality damage. From context it sounds like an HP thing somehow but i dont understand.

I thought resistance shred from the axe and curse would be plenty. I adapted from a build that was not another witchblade, but I found crab_turtle’s death knight and see he used Rattosh and had spectral wraith and the axe. So is three sources enough for vitality? I love that Crab_Turtle Death Knight build btw, thanks for the clue in on that.

Thanks!

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Kraken it’s not just good it’s amazing for the price of 5 points , massive attack speed ( two handers comes with huge penalty to attack speed Kraken fix that ) , massive damage , crit damage multi , massive life boost and physical resistance, Kraken is not something you taka around on two hander - you build around Kraken . Vitality damage setups don’t stack life regen cause pointless you stack leech and other deffensives also without cooldown reduction Behemoth is bad move . There is not such thing as “enough vitality resistance reduction” cause enemies keep high vitality resistance especially bosses and bigger targets ( some of them have 12 and 0% + Vit Res) every devotion map should take it’s -%resistance option in your case Ratosh

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In grim dawn we say health when we mean health, not vitality.

Rattosh also grants life leech resistance reduction, which mean you will have better attack damage converted to health.