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Dr_Gee posted:Baller. With that class combo you can also do a "making poo poo explode like holy poo poo bro" build which focuses on firing off lots of long-ish cooldown skills like a loving crazy bomber rather than holding auto-attack. This is an this is seeming like a very strong contender for the build of rear end Avenger, my second character (the first guy is named Dickslap) (this should give you an idea of how seriously i take this game)
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Probably about as seriously as the game takes itself. It has hats. On fire.
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I'm going through Veteran as a DoT Cabalist. It lacks a bit of punch once you've spent a few levels with Bloody Pox max'd out, but it turns out that if you transmute to Fevered Rage and embrace the spirit of Yakkity Sax, stuff just falls over dead. Make sure you put a few points in Ill Omen, mind you: cast Ill Omen on the first mob in a pack and then Bloody Pox as he(/she?) starts running away for maximum carnage. Just make sure you've got some space in case you find there's a Hero mob in that pack. RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN
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kingturnip posted:I'm going through Veteran as a DoT Cabalist. It lacks a bit of punch once you've spent a few levels with Bloody Pox max'd out, but it turns out that if you transmute to Fevered Rage and embrace the spirit of Yakkity Sax, stuff just falls over dead. Make sure you put a few points in Ill Omen, mind you: cast Ill Omen on the first mob in a pack and then Bloody Pox as he(/she?) starts running away for maximum carnage. ...I loving love this game.
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kingturnip posted:I'm going through Veteran as a DoT Cabalist. It lacks a bit of punch once you've spent a few levels with Bloody Pox max'd out, but it turns out that if you transmute to Fevered Rage and embrace the spirit of Yakkity Sax, stuff just falls over dead. Make sure you put a few points in Ill Omen, mind you: cast Ill Omen on the first mob in a pack and then Bloody Pox as he(/she?) starts running away for maximum carnage. My dude  I've since switched my Cabalist to Pet Lord, but for a good long time I was doing the Bloody Pox/Ill Omen combo. Hordes of monsters running away and exploding at the same time.
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Thanks for letting me know about GD Defiler that was easy and useful. I'll have to get on Discord this weekend and play some games with goons. What are some strong Necro builds, is summoning any good? Axetrain fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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inscrutable horse posted:Probably about as seriously as the game takes itself. It has hats. On fire. Don’t forget the burning skull mask
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It's about one guitar short of being a metal simulator.
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Axetrain posted:Thanks for letting me know about GD Defiler that was easy and useful. I'll have to get on Discord this weekend and play some games with goons. What are some strong Necro builds, is summoning any good?
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Any work of fiction this grim and serious can only be parody or written by a twelve-year-old. It’s the law.
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I'm close to just forgetting the Expansion Acts now, Malmouth is basically exclusive content where most builds are not allowed to function well.
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Justin_Brett posted:I'm close to just forgetting the Expansion Acts now, Malmouth is basically exclusive content where most builds are not allowed to function well. All you need is resists and a solution for burst damage for your build to function well, and there's plenty of those things everywhere.
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Justin_Brett posted:I'm close to just forgetting the Expansion Acts now, Malmouth is basically exclusive content where most builds are not allowed to function well. Link your build. I don't think it's that bad, though the aether resistance check can be a bit unforgiving coming from pre-AoM where it was totally possible to slightly ignore it in story mode.
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Managed to clear the entire Necropolis + gank the Loghornfeghorn without dying once! I think my build works now; thanks guys 
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Justin_Brett posted:I'm close to just forgetting the Expansion Acts now, Malmouth is basically exclusive content where most builds are not allowed to function well.
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I assigned Every one of my non used hotkeys to health pot because it's not like they're in short supply and I'd rather panic miss a refreshing drink than... I dunno whatever skill
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Ol Standard Retard posted:non used hotkeys
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Yawgmoth posted:I don't understand this phrase I'm a lazy four skill user my friendo if my shootguns don't take care of the problem then Mrs. Olexra and Mr. Ereoctes will
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Decided to start a second character but a Demolitonist this time, opposite from my pet build. Holy poo poo it's so much fun. Unknown horror from beyond the void? Meet my friend Mr Molotov. Oh you're immune to flame? Well here's some explosive shrapnel.  Chugging spirit potions at this point in the game but fighting monsters and demons with "human" gear tickles me.
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i'm doing a demolitionist/shaman Elementalist who specialises in fire and lightning damage and it's just an absolute wrecking ball i wandered into East Marsh at level 19, faced a bunch of level 35 trolls, and was taking them down in about three shots
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Yeah out of everything I've tried Demo feels like the most fun and engaging class so far. Running around hosing everything down with bullets while setting off bombs and explosions everywhere feels like I'm playing the ARPG equivalent of Schwarzenegger's character from Commando.
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How much physique should I be aiming for in that case? I really want to use guns but splitting between all three stats, rather than a few in spirit with the rest in physique, feels like it'll be a bit clumsy long term. Using a sword for bomb throwing doesn't fit my  class fantasy
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Running a demo/arcanist, I think I've dumped a grand total of 10 points in cunning/spirit, and I've never had any troubles with being able to equip any gear apart from the very first levels. Pouring 2 points into the masteries every level ensured that my stats were always suitable, so my stat points could go into physique/HP.
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poptart_fairy posted:Decided to start a second character but a Demolitonist this time, opposite from my pet build. Holy poo poo it's so much fun. Unknown horror from beyond the void? Meet my friend Mr Molotov. Oh you're immune to flame? Well here's some explosive shrapnel. If you have some Ectoplasm, stick it in your helmet. It will help a lot with the energy regen.
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So, I’ve recently discovered the joy of the second hotkey bar. You can swap to that by hitting “y” or clicking on a tiiiiiny button. I put all of my passive skills on there now. I have also finally grokked that unlike many other ARPGs, Grim Dawn much more heavily favors defense. If you have a choice between more armor/resists/hp and more damage, if things are dying at an “ok” pace, take the defense. I’d call that a general rule, and one that I’m sure you can break in many cases with high end gearing or whatever.
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I don't actually know how to use skills outside the hotbar (or if there is a way) so it's good to have that second one for passives.
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I gained 9 levels in 2 hours thanks to that +100% experience potion. It costs 40k bits but it is so drat worth it and I have effectively infinite bits thanks to GD Defiler
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CJacobs posted:I don't actually know how to use skills outside the hotbar (or if there is a way) so it's good to have that second one for passives. You can go into options and assign skills to your middle mouse button or any other side buttons on your mouse. What I did was change 3 and 4 to MM and M4 and then 5 to 3, 6 to 4, etc.
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Stokes posted:You can go into options and assign skills to your middle mouse button or any other side buttons on your mouse. What I did was change 3 and 4 to MM and M4 and then 5 to 3, 6 to 4, etc. Why not just change 5 and 6 to MM and M4, you lunatic?!
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The Mash posted:Why not just change 5 and 6 to MM and M4, you lunatic?! Because I use those for passives. 1 and 2 are heal and energy, 3 and 4 are for those 8 second secondary support skills you sometimes get on constellations or items and/or emergency button skills, MM is for Pneumatic Burst or Nova skills, M4 is for bomb-like skills or doom bolt or whatever. 5-8 are for passives. I've been playing like this for 1000 hours now. Don't judge me, ok! Stokes fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Nov 5, 2017 |
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I have a programmable keyboard. I throw my Toggle Powers on Hotbar 2. I set one of my 18 programmable keys to run the following keypress sequence: Y 1 (wait 0.5 seconds) 2 (wait 0.5 seconds) 3 (wait 0.5 seconds) 4 (wait 0.5 seconds) 5 (wait 0.5 seconds) Y 1 button press to enable all of my Toggles.
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Any suggested builds for a new player? I have the base game and expansion. Necro, Occultist, Nightblade, and Inquisitor seem fun as base classes.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:i just stab randomly at my keyboard in the hope that it triggers a skill Same, but for posting
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RobotDogPolice posted:Any suggested builds for a new player? I have the base game and expansion. Necro, Occultist, Nightblade, and Inquisitor seem fun as base classes. Dahbadu has some builds linked in the 3rd post, and he denotes which ones are new player friendly.
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I've been playing a minor variation of the Forcewave build and it's taken me halfway through Elite without any major issues so far. On an unrelated note, I was more than a little shocked to learn that the tiny icon above the level display at the bottom of the screen, when moused over, displays an in-game clock. Click on it and the clock remains permanently visible. 
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Using Grim Goonette (seriously, thank you for this) I made a Ritualist (Necro/Shaman) drain build that hasn't broken a sweat against anything in Ultimate yet: http://www.grimtools.com/calc/dVbK5qgZ I'll probably get rid of Ill Omen (it doesn't work on things that matter, and everything else dies to the Ravenous Earth/Wendigo/Storm Totems + Drain Essence channeling) and Reap Spirit (Aether Tendril from Aethersteel Bolts is a devastating LMB, no need to double up). I'll probably take those points and redistribute them into Aether-converted Siphon Souls for one more DoT damage source, or possibly even Grasping Vines (for larger area and stronger snare).
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RobotDogPolice posted:Any suggested builds for a new player? I have the base game and expansion. Necro, Occultist, Nightblade, and Inquisitor seem fun as base classes. What type of character would you like to play? Sword and Board? Caster? (Which kind?!) Ranged weapons? Dual-wield melee? Two-handed melee? There's builds for everything buddy.
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