>can't launch/black screen Be sure to install everything (manually) from _CommonRedist folder in game steamapps folder. If still no go, then in steam library right click game name > additional launch options add /d3d9 (force use of DirectX 9)
Do you guys think aetherials can make the females they possess into futas?
James Sanchez
But user this is the same edition that I made last thread
reeee
>tfw starting to get burnout
Who /serial reroller/ here?
I actually stopped playing my DK because I found it boring. Its odd, because I have other characters where I use even less skills (like my purifier), but my DK feels even more boring for some reason. Maybe because it actually has good survivability.
Robert Hill
until you get kreig set you don't have that much damage, also the build it's not very flashy
Angel Thomas
Yeah that's probably it. It's the least flashy build I've played.
Nathan Myers
are you just levelling with the soulsplitter or are you going to keep it?
Cameron Parker
>soulsplitter But I hardly even know her.
Charles Collins
Well i'm honestly not sure what else there is out there; I don't really look into end game gear for my builds. It might be a bit dumb but I don't want to put myself off trying a build I might find interesting/fun just because there's no way to make it "competetively" good end game.
It gives me a full 50% phys > aether and right now is the best I have
Alexander Morris
since the set focuses on blitz that has shield damage, so with a shield you get more defense without losing too much damage and bulwark adds flat physical that can be converted to aether
Ryan Sullivan
Ah right; well right now I've been focusing on forcewave as my main attack (because muh aoe); this is a bit of a neglected character that I haven't touched in ages so I've not really gone over the build to optimise it yet.
>find an epic >with pet bonuses >get excited >its shit compared to what you're already wearing
why
Oliver Nelson
Actually it doesn't change much stat wise but gives me another summon, so I might switch.
I go from:
Life: 227 -> 244 Damage: 755 -> 697 DA: 56 -> 63 Vit Resist: 85 -> 78
>when you don't really upgrade but sidegrade
Tyler Brown
>not wanting double birb That sounds super comfy though.
Jaxon King
I changed my mind
>lmao 2 birb
Gavin Taylor
Is it finally time?
Gavin Campbell
bump
Hunter Kelly
Yep. See you guys in /poeg/.
Evan Morris
I don't understand how a general can die when everyone who was playing and discussing before is still playing.
Start posting you lazy fucks.
Evan Powell
Cold-based blademaster. Viable?
Nicholas Moore
Viable, but pierce BM or cold Spellbreaker are better alternatives
Kayden Smith
there is also cold infiltrator
Ethan Morris
I made a cold spellbreaker in vanilla and it was so fucking squishy
Ayden Flores
>not Elemental Spellbreaker
Alexander Lee
>not Elemental Cabalist
Aaron Torres
>not Acid Elementalist
Lincoln Gonzalez
>Seal of Ancestry doesn't make your darkest dungeon ancestor narrate what's going on in the game i want my ugdenbloom back
Jason Rogers
I've been thinking about theorycrafting builds based on fictional characters. With bonus points for gear that looks like the character, and even more bonus points for making it at least somewhat viable. If only for entertainment.
John Torres
>reach level 94 >need to craft 9 new components >need to craft 4 pieces of gear >need to craft the relic
kill me
Hudson Evans
>reach level 94 >"guess it's time to go back to ugdenbog with my DK"
Kevin Mitchell
>want to make a vitality lifeleech 2h shaman+necro >no vitality 2h melee MI or decent legendary/epic
what's a good melee build for lifeleech forever?
Jaxson Hughes
>what is Wildblood Crusher
Grayson Robinson
What's the worst class combo?
Blake Evans
Your favourite one.
Christopher Morgan
It really isn't all that good.
Isaiah Howard
Man, Stonefist Rebuke is fun
Probably saboteur (demo + nightblade) Weak synergy, no exclusive skills
Jordan Howard
>he doesn't knows about the cold firestrike build
lmao
Camden Hernandez
If a class combo needs a specific item to be even close to viable, thats how you know it's bad.
Adrian Morris
>make spellscourge battlemage >cast my physical devastation twice >energy bottoms out
What the fuck is the point of this fucking set? If I wanted to just convert elemental to physical outright, there's the beronath sword with an aura that does that. I can't fathom the point of this set if not for the physical devastation, but the energy regen is complete dick with physical/defensive devotions even with IEE. Even for pure arcanist builds, or some double caster class, Devastation costs a retarded amount of energy to cast on CD; and the only relief from the energy cost is an amulet effect, yet the set has an amulet.
I fucking hate arcanist. It's the most bloated class with the least amount of synergy. Fuck, without this xpac for Necromancer and Inquisitor, there's nothing worth building outside of a pure arcanist build.
Colton Turner
Is Scars of Battle good?
Mason Barnes
Very.
Alexander Young
defiler is by far the worst class
Cameron Powell
bump
Aaron Phillips
Why is the Lokarr set such a meme? the stats look shit even with the exp and skill bonus. Worth getting for an Aether DK alt?
Also sword and board or 2hander for DK leveling?
Matthew Lewis
There are approximately zero good 2h melee builds in this game. Even a Warder is pretty shit.
Ethan Robinson
If you can get lokarr, you might as well, because it probably eliminates the need for any other leveling gear from 1-50 and maybe a little longer if you decide to put components on it to make up for the lack of armor.
I leveled my DK with ravenous earth, transmuted forcewave would also work. Transition to proper aether DK when you have a decent weapon for it
where do you guys have the best success farming chthonic seals of binding? just run through darkvale gate?
Camden Walker
Show me a melee 2h build and I'll show you a shield variant that blows it solidly out of the water.
Ryder Davis
That and Blood Grove.
Carter Wood
juse because there is something better doesnt mean that it isnt good but yeah if you're doing cruc its easier to go sword and board
Carter Peterson
Avenger Warder
Connor Walker
>Get a blueprint for a great relic for your build >You're missing anotherrelic blueprint you need to make it Erry time
Kevin James
I for one would be very interested in a shielded lightning savagery build that does more damage than my stormreaver does
Blake Wilson
Does this build have a class?
Jackson White
warder.
Lucas Foster
When any sword and board build can meet the damage of a 2h build plus retain the massive defensive boon of having a shield, then yes it means 2h melee builds suck shit.
Jace Ward
On the other hand, if you can't deal more damage with a 2h weapon than you can with a 1h weapon, you're doing something terribly wrong.
Andrew Davis
Blade Arc+Savagery Warder, give me a sword and board option that's better than Guillotine+Might of the Bear+Feral Hunger+Upheaval Shar'Zul's Worldeater Fire/Chaos Pyromancer Soulrend SS Spellbreaker
Daniel Cox
You're going to find a massive attack speed difference between 2h and 1h builds (even with muh kraken). On top of that, it's one less weapon slot component. It shuffles out to a 10% mandatory damage difference, at most. It's never worth it and why 2h melee builds are shit.
Drop Primal Strike, pick up overguard, use something like mythical crystallium and a shield that's purely defensive or something like mythical skybreach or mythical Templar's Faith. Your build is now much better.
Carter Watson
You grab any sword and board that fits the build; that's literally all there is to it. With the Warder builds, you free up a bunch of points from those 2h only skills.
Wyatt Perez
>its craftable at least you know youll have it eventually
Oliver Hernandez
You fundamentally change the build at that point. Ignoring the rings on this build since it's a theorycraft (and stuff like Laceration not being 22/12, my in game's Oleron has a laceration bonus), but you remove Guillotine and take out of the 2h skills, you basically half the usefulness of the bloodrager set, you lose burst potential on Blade Arc, you lose sustained bleed damage, etc. grimtools.com/calc/b28nOpGZ It shit's all over the build and at that point you're better off playing a different build. There is nothing better for it, and this combo isn't shit whatsoever.
Anthony King
>being this retarded kys and don't post your dumb shit here again
Owen James
you honestly remind me of the guy who thinks that DK is shit because it has soldier but it doesn't go Internal Trauma damage.
Caleb Kelly
maybe they're the same guy
Ethan Turner
Silverbolt blademaster.
Lucas James
Silverbolt is ranged, the user asked for melee builds.
Dominic Edwards
Well that's his problem, isn't it you dumb bitch.
Josiah Watson
>other user asks for melee build examples >you show him a ranged build >you get called out for being a retard >he has a problem, and I'm a dumb bitch you're a fucking brainlet. It's a wonder you didn't noose yourself with an umbilical cord on your way out of your mother.
Andrew Davis
vindicator or warder?
Grayson Sanders
Here you go, faggot.
DK only has one build and it's Krieg's. Outside of the Krieg's set, DK fucking sucks. DKs without Krieg's are just run of the mill Soldier's with Spectral Binding for some more health. The two classes don't mesh at all and it requires specific damage conversion items for it's single useful build.
>150 less Bleeding DPS >500% less Bleeding Damage >i-it's just 10% less damage overall and not worth it I swear! LOL
Tyler Davis
>finally get blademaster to 94 and put on belgothian's holy shit this clearspeed
Oliver Martinez
>Scaling Internal Trauma and Phys Damage on a meant-to-be Bleed build >Overcapping Oleron's Rage for essentially 2% OA, and taking it for a Bleed build >Break Morale for again, what is meant to be a Bleed build >Losing the percentage Damage Absorb on Primal Bond >Losing 6-7k damage per hit on transmuted Blade Arc, which doesn't rely on Attack Speed >Bleed Damage goes from 6k down to 1.6k not counting temp procs >Bleed Duration goes from 305% down to 70% Huh, like I said, you completely changed the build, AND it's shit. Good job
Lincoln Carter
just to prove my point, although I'm shit at stitching images together
Jackson Barnes
>dualwielding on your Elemental Spellbreaker when sword and board is objectively better Just swap in a fitting shield user! It's that easy!
Caleb Watson
Do you retards realize that Bloodrager's Blade Arc build does a fucking ton of internal trauma and physical damage as well as bleed damage? I also didn't touch your devotions, and you're tankier.
The overall DPS difference will be less than 10%, and you're more durable. Good luck in the future, faggot.
>I only build around a single type of damage
Brayden Sanders
>I need increased duration so that I can constantly clip my DoTs
Are you retarded?
Isaiah Roberts
But that's not the screen grab, you incredible faggot.
Brandon Robinson
welp, im burnt out on the game, and i dont even have a character to 100. soldier/x is the best general build, everything else needs very specific items which i cant be fucked trying to farm
Nathan Morris
>I build around multiple damage types There is no fuckton of Internal Trauma Damage and it's worthless without also getting Resistance Reduction for it. Just because you dumb nigger specced into Oleron's Rage for even more Internal Trauma doesn't mean that it's a good idea. And you also dropped out of Primal Bond and got rid of that nice Damage Absorption so your build isn't even tankier. There's more Health, yes but it's effectively worse. Don't even get me started on the metric fuckton of Life Leech you eliminated. Your build is utter shit. It does both MUCH less damage and has worse sustain on top of that, too. Absolutely pathetic attempt.
Noah Collins
What do you imagine that other damage type on Laceration is? Is it internal trauma? Holy shit, it is. What's the other damage bonus on the bloodrager set and on the 5p bonus proc? Is it fucking internal trauma? Holy fucking shit, it is. What's that reduction on Break Morale? Is it physical reduction? Holy shit, does physical reduction increase internal trauma and physical damage dealt to an enemy? Are those the other two damage types packed into this bloodrager set? HOLY SHIT, IT IS.
You fucking retard.
Leo Bennett
>people actually stacking Trauma Enjoy random boss monster in crucible reflecting your sweet 20K trauma damage back at you when you have barely 30% physical res
At least for bleed you can have bleed duration reduction and more than 80% damage res
Dominic Cook
oh I'm sorry I didn't enable the temporary proc portion because it's not realistic to have every proc up at once, here's the screengrab for mine with the procs up Oh look at that I have more phy damage per hit AND Bleed Damage per hit. If I scroll up, I do 14610-17398, compared to your 9006-10864 >I only build around a single type of damage Yes, because I can grab a metric fuckton of rr for it, so it doesn't matter if I build towards one? That's like complaining AIDSmancers only go for Vit. >fuckton of internal trauma damage >you actively remove bleed damage on your build and there's STILL less Internal Trauma damage than bleed >more durable without Overguard up I gain a 55% chance to block a whopping 990 damage, which I give up 25% damage reduction for. Fucking useless. With Overguard up, it's 2475, which is better, but I'm not going to have 100% uptime on Overguard like I will with Primal Bond. I don't know if this is news to you, but Grim Dawn always takes the higher DoT anyways, clipping isn't that much of an issue Huh you wanna know what's funny? Your build actually invests less into Laceration than mine does. And holy shit, what's the flat damage on the 5p proc? Is it bleed damage? Yes it is! You know what's the highest percent damage on that proc? You guessed it, bleed! Holy shit, you wanna know what damage type is less represented in your build than bleed. Internal Trauma? HOLY SHIT IT IS. You wanna know what you dropped? Devouring Swarm, aka resistance reduction for bleed? Holy shit no way!
Justin Morgan
Fucking neck yourself you dumb shitter. You can't even do your own dumb shit right. At least take Menhir's Bulwark and an actual good shield like Mythical Untouchable instead of stacking Health like a clueless retard. I wish the game weren't braindead easy so dumb shitters like you would actually realize how terrible your builds are. Get cancer.
Aaron Fisher
Korba's or Darkblaze, which set should I build around first?
Austin Perry
Might as well elaborate on what I meant grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51898 From my understanding of this post, since Grim Dawn's DoTs prioritize higher-damage versions of themselves, the highest damage DoTs you apply will never get clipped and deal their full damage. If you refresh the DoT when it is buffed higher than its current instance, you'll only be gaining damage, since every tick will be doing more damage. If you deal the DoT again when it's lower than the current instance, it will only take effect when the higher damage is done, meaning you can have constant DoTs on an enemy, and every reapplication will look for the highest damage it can deal per tick and per reapplication. So in that sense and in my understanding, Clipping DoTs is a non-issue.
John Sanders
Depends on how much you hate Thermite Mines as Darkblaze will definitely need to grab it. I would personally go for Korba's.
Mason Torres
Is Death Knight still decent in Ultimate without Mindwarp but with full Krieg's set? Is there some MI weapon to grind for and use?
Juan Harris
Anything with decent conversion to Aether will still probably work, even Rare items
Jonathan Lewis
If you go 2h there's this: grimtools.com/db/items/8783 But Mythical Mindwarp and Mythical Will of the Living are pretty much BiS for survivability and damage, since Mindwarp has so much rr and they both have good conversion
Oliver Harris
try edge of sanity if you have it
Luke Turner
Does Edge of Sanity Forcewave work well enough? Idc if it's top tier or not, but I have yet to try it and it looks kinda fun