I should try a dual-class, but I kind of love just filling up all the useful Soldier skills.
If you want a minimal addition to Soldier, one option is to go Arcanist for Inner Focus - just 1 point opens it and it gives you very useful Offensive Ability boost. Or 5 points in Occultist for Raven healer, Curse of Frailty and/or Solael's Witchfire. 5 points in Nightblade gives you Pneumatic Burst. Those would be my selections for Soldier + minimal other class. Whatever works, though - Soldier is very self-reliant class so it doesn't really require dual-classing as much as many others.
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sup bros i crafted a dank video just showing off a few of the stupid builds ive been dicking around with
i have about a jillion characters because the struggle is real rip... ive started naming them "11111" so they are at the top of the list
maybe this video will even work idk youtube my bff jill
get procs up to 25%, max out fire strike and enhanced fire damage, then stack procs. the appropriate devotions are up to you but magus owns and ulzuins torch is mandatory later
get dual wield procs up to 20% (where they cap), get the ele damage and conversion from arcanist weapon buff, get cold damage from dw passive and the %cold damage passive in nightblade, get teleport strike upgrade, then get whatever devotions you want. im using aether fire, rhowan crown and lightning at the moment, but it will change dramatically as i get more devotion points (i frequently respec devotions when i get to diff devotion point counts)
this build really needs maivens to survive and needs proper resistances later on
the retaliation one is literally just shield passives in soldier + every single devotion I could find that has % retaliation, most notably wolverine, hound and herald of war + retal items
So just out of curiosity what does everyone here like to play? Also, anyone attempted to join randoms in multiplayer, how well did it work out?
Just bought it tonight, sunk four hours into a Pyromancer (Demolitionist/Occultist) build, and I'm loving it. Basically just lure w/ my rifle spamming explosive shot, then throw out shock caltrops while my raven blasts people. Only complaint I have so far is that normal difficulty is super-easy. Haven't had to touch a potion yet...never really get hit much at all, come to think of it.
There is a veteran modifier that makes it a little harder, you can select it from the main menu. From what I can tell, it just adds a bunch more champion monsters.
Still crushing it on veteran, which I don't mind, because I'm getting to live out all my Wizard Gunfighter fantasies. Think I just got lucky early: have had four epics drop so far that are putting my health regen and lightning attack through the roof.
im doing a wizard commando at the moment who just dual wields pistols and shits fireballs and volcanoes everywhere its great
they tried to kick me out of wizard school for using a gun but ill show them
also i randomly give people chaos and fire damage flu : (
I can't wait to get one of the dual-wield items. I'm currently rocking one of those Eye of Sauron off-hands that boost my electric attack and stun jacks.
I feel like this class is OP as hell. I drunkenly proclaimed myself Landlord of Burrwitch Estates last night and proceeded to kick in all doors w/ eviction notices for zombies.
I was legit surprised to find out you didn't have the voice of Nicki, Scheck.
Also yeah those builds are lovely. I think after a single playthrough it's easier to understand how to build for devotion procs, because you can more easily understand how devotion point gain relates to level gain.
I do love that Devotion skills let you mess with so much of a build. That's what I've really enjoyed about the game, just knowing that around the corner is usually some odd thing that might make me deal a majority of my damage as poison or fire or frost or whatever for the next few levels because of some combo of devotion and gear.
Though again I tend to go for solid and a bit boring on my soldier build which means my devotions are all +resist/+block/+armor and then one for a bit of AOE on Cadence and one that procs on block and spits out swirly stun hammers which are just lovely.
I was legit surprised to find out you didn't have the voice of Nicki, Scheck.
Also yeah those builds are lovely. I think after a single playthrough it's easier to understand how to build for devotion procs, because you can more easily understand how devotion point gain relates to level gain.
I do love that Devotion skills let you mess with so much of a build. That's what I've really enjoyed about the game, just knowing that around the corner is usually some odd thing that might make me deal a majority of my damage as poison or fire or frost or whatever for the next few levels because of some combo of devotion and gear.
Though again I tend to go for solid and a bit boring on my soldier build which means my devotions are all +resist/+block/+armor and then one for a bit of AOE on Cadence and one that procs on block and spits out swirly stun hammers which are just lovely.
Being able to respec skills/devotion at will is my number one favorite thing about this game. If I can't mess around with builds I get bored quickly. Respeccing mastery points would be neat too but I can sort of see why they didn't allow that, design wise.
@3clipse the Trainer or Cheat Engine table will let you re-set Mastery points.
Yeah I'd seen this around, I don't feel a pressing need to mess with them though. But for example one of the things that frustrated me about Diablo II and the Torchlight games is that there was no (legitimate) way to reset your points. I've always disagreed with that design decision, largely because it's basically a fuck you to new/casual players. Most of the intuitive builds are actually quite bad in late game, so you have all these wasted points and need a new character entirely. Booooooooo.
Real talk, I never would've guessed that surreality was English. Not in a million years.
In other news I started playing this game for the first time yesterday, despite having owned it since pretty much day one of it being available. I like it a lot but I have no idea what I'm doing.
Currently I have a Demo/shaman running around with a shotgun inflicting hot fiery death (with a side of lightning) on all who look at me funny, it seems effective enough for now.
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Real talk, I never would've guessed that surreality was English. Not in a million years.
In other news I started playing this game for the first time yesterday, despite having owned it since pretty much day one of it being available. I like it a lot but I have no idea what I'm doing.
Currently I have a Demo/shaman running around with a shotgun inflicting hot fiery death (with a side of lightning) on all who look at me funny, it seems effective enough for now.
I think one good way to ensure your build makes sense is to check all your damage breakdowns.
If you've got a bunch of +% damage to something, make sure it's actually one of the major components of your attacks. I totally whiffed for a while when i made Cadence 50% Elemental, I went up like 400 DPS when I swapped points and went back to just Physical, because most of my gear was biased toward Physical damage.
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Didn't Titan Quest eventually release a small patch/update that added a respec potion that you could buy from a vendor? I could have sworn they did, which makes me think it quite odd that there isn't one in this game. Or at least just the option to respec for free. That was always my only real gripe w/ TQ, and it'll likely be the same with this game. I can understand the appeal of the no respec to give your character more meaning to you or whatever, but it's 2016 and this is a pretty big game with like what, 36 possible class combinations or thereabouts? I want to try them all, not get attached to one character.
Anyway, up to 55, started playing on elite mode. Getting a little bored of my 2 skill build, which is fire shot/stunjacks with everything else into passives. My damage is pretty good with it, but even pumping up the passives in soldier, my defense still seems too weak.
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Didn't Titan Quest eventually release a small patch/update that added a respec potion that you could buy from a vendor? I could have sworn they did, which makes me think it quite odd that there isn't one in this game. Or at least just the option to respec for free. That was always my only real gripe w/ TQ, and it'll likely be the same with this game. I can understand the appeal of the no respec to give your character more meaning to you or whatever, but it's 2016 and this is a pretty big game with like what, 36 possible class combinations or thereabouts? I want to try them all, not get attached to one character.
Anyway, up to 55, started playing on elite mode. Getting a little bored of my 2 skill build, which is fire shot/stunjacks with everything else into passives. My damage is pretty good with it, but even pumping up the passives in soldier, my defense still seems too weak.
defense is mainly about gearing which makes elite and higher a bit less interesting
gotta cap them resists... rip
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Didn't Titan Quest eventually release a small patch/update that added a respec potion that you could buy from a vendor? I could have sworn they did, which makes me think it quite odd that there isn't one in this game. Or at least just the option to respec for free. That was always my only real gripe w/ TQ, and it'll likely be the same with this game. I can understand the appeal of the no respec to give your character more meaning to you or whatever, but it's 2016 and this is a pretty big game with like what, 36 possible class combinations or thereabouts? I want to try them all, not get attached to one character.
Anyway, up to 55, started playing on elite mode. Getting a little bored of my 2 skill build, which is fire shot/stunjacks with everything else into passives. My damage is pretty good with it, but even pumping up the passives in soldier, my defense still seems too weak.
I believe there's a potion to reset your devotions for free. No idea where you get it (probably a recipe you have to find).
Didn't Titan Quest eventually release a small patch/update that added a respec potion that you could buy from a vendor? I could have sworn they did, which makes me think it quite odd that there isn't one in this game. Or at least just the option to respec for free. That was always my only real gripe w/ TQ, and it'll likely be the same with this game. I can understand the appeal of the no respec to give your character more meaning to you or whatever, but it's 2016 and this is a pretty big game with like what, 36 possible class combinations or thereabouts? I want to try them all, not get attached to one character.
Anyway, up to 55, started playing on elite mode. Getting a little bored of my 2 skill build, which is fire shot/stunjacks with everything else into passives. My damage is pretty good with it, but even pumping up the passives in soldier, my defense still seems too weak.
You're thinking of Torchlight. If I recall correctly, Titan Quest let you pay to reallocate skill points from the start (but you were charged by the point and the cost scaled up the more you used it, so totally redoing your whole build from scratch would have been cost-prohibitive).
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The Escape Goatincorrigible ruminantthey/themRegistered Userregular
Didn't Titan Quest eventually release a small patch/update that added a respec potion that you could buy from a vendor? I could have sworn they did, which makes me think it quite odd that there isn't one in this game. Or at least just the option to respec for free. That was always my only real gripe w/ TQ, and it'll likely be the same with this game. I can understand the appeal of the no respec to give your character more meaning to you or whatever, but it's 2016 and this is a pretty big game with like what, 36 possible class combinations or thereabouts? I want to try them all, not get attached to one character.
Anyway, up to 55, started playing on elite mode. Getting a little bored of my 2 skill build, which is fire shot/stunjacks with everything else into passives. My damage is pretty good with it, but even pumping up the passives in soldier, my defense still seems too weak.
You're thinking of Torchlight. If I recall correctly, Titan Quest let you pay to reallocate skill points from the start (but you were charged by the point and the cost scaled up the more you used it, so totally redoing your whole build from scratch would have been cost-prohibitive).
That's exactly how it works in GD, except it scales up over time for all your characters. I think like 20 bits per ten skill deallocations or something? Caps at 15k bits per skillpoint.
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took apart a build i found online, tweaked it around somewhat, and created what i've come to think of as a batshit crazy coal miner who loves explosives way too much
ranged weapons, lots of gadgets, a bunch of passive shit
the demolitionist tree is fucking sexy
stuns and aoe shit and fire all over the place and tons of burn damage
Didn't Titan Quest eventually release a small patch/update that added a respec potion that you could buy from a vendor? I could have sworn they did, which makes me think it quite odd that there isn't one in this game. Or at least just the option to respec for free. That was always my only real gripe w/ TQ, and it'll likely be the same with this game. I can understand the appeal of the no respec to give your character more meaning to you or whatever, but it's 2016 and this is a pretty big game with like what, 36 possible class combinations or thereabouts? I want to try them all, not get attached to one character.
Anyway, up to 55, started playing on elite mode. Getting a little bored of my 2 skill build, which is fire shot/stunjacks with everything else into passives. My damage is pretty good with it, but even pumping up the passives in soldier, my defense still seems too weak.
I believe there's a potion to reset your devotions for free. No idea where you get it (probably a recipe you have to find).
Nemesis mobs can drop it, so it's a huge grind to get to the point it can even drop at all. I don't think my lvl 84 Warlock is anywhere near Nemesis with any enemy type.
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I guess it's a mark of how good this game is that I can't settle on a single build. Been working on a Sorceror for pistol spam meteor proc, but I'm also currently leveling a Warder for a Retaliation/Spear of the Heavens shield build. SO MUCH TO DOOOOOOOOOO.
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doing a 100% aether damage ranged cadence 2-handed caster build
I guess it's a mark of how good this game is that I can't settle on a single build. Been working on a Sorceror for pistol spam meteor proc, but I'm also currently leveling a Warder for a Retaliation/Spear of the Heavens shield build. SO MUCH TO DOOOOOOOOOO.
The struggle is real!
My sorceress (lv 29) is in an okay spot now by maxing out flash freeze and a single point in aether ray (to keep energy costs down) for champs and bosses. Only issue is she doesn't do well against CC immune bosses.
My conjurer (24) does pretty well against everything now but I'm not a huge fan of the play style.
The proc gunslinger looks pretty neat, maybe I'll do that or a tanky soldier crossed with something else. Maybe I can try to create Geralt of Rivia and make a witcher.
The build options in this game seem ridiculously diverse. I think if I get bored with my doorkicker guy I'll look at building a character to mirror Elric of Melnibone.
Get a sword-wielding caster with a shit load of life-steal and chaos damage going on, should be fun.
I do like the fact that all the casters have a "Just hit them with a magic sword" option in their trees.
and you can get hold of melee procs from gear and relics
so if you go occultist + arcanist you can get the troll relic for a left click replacement, and then various belts and gloves for passive "on attack" procs (like the gloves which give you a KNOCKOUT PUNCH or the belt which gives you a dual wield pistol special etc)
with the occultist + arcanist combo you can convert all your physical damage into chaos and elemental, then add on significant dot as well as extra chaos and vitality, then run massive defensive buffs from the arcanist tree with aoe cc and the damage absorb in occultist final. you will have low max hp but high mitigation, very good regen and can always pick up lots of health and %hp defensive passives from devotions (you can get stuff like turtle shell and ghoulish hunger very easily)
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so if you go occultist + arcanist you can get the troll relic for a left click replacement, and then various belts and gloves for passive "on attack" procs (like the gloves which give you a KNOCKOUT PUNCH or the belt which gives you a dual wield pistol special etc
Since I'm going to start my hunt for that shortly, I thought I'd toss up the info for anyone else interested:
so if you go occultist + arcanist you can get the troll relic for a left click replacement, and then various belts and gloves for passive "on attack" procs (like the gloves which give you a KNOCKOUT PUNCH or the belt which gives you a dual wield pistol special etc
Since I'm going to start my hunt for that shortly, I thought I'd toss up the info for anyone else interested:
As somebody who farmed this recently here's my advice - do it on Normal or Veteran and preferably use a character who is sturdy enough to run past a lot of angry trolls. My Trickster just shadow striked past a lot of enemies, then killed the ones on the bridge and all the trolls from there on. Makes it a lot faster than trying to do it on Ultimate and having to kill everything because even the trash trolls mess my fragile Warlock up if she has to facetank any. Took me over 20 kills so there's a fair difference between it taking 12 minutes or 6 minutes (or whatever it actually took, I wasn't checking the time - just that there was a huge difference).
ETA: I actually got a bunch of nice stuff from the troll boss for my Trickster, a new sword and such. As long as you skip the pointless trash it has a nice time:loot ratio.
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I totally got the mistborn recipe on my first playthrough without even knowing what it was
why I am so good at videogames
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Well i ran in to that challenge dungeon with out knowing what it was. But if anyone of you fine folks around level 35 wanna give it a run. Send me a pm, or something.
Veteran finished with my Trickster, face-tanked the last boss with paltry 12% Chaos resistance with my life steals, Wendigo Totem and Pneumatic Burst. With the way my life bar bounced up and down during almost every damn fight I'm really surprised I only died once and even that was because I got blocked by a high level hero on both sides of me on a narrow bridge way back in Act 2. Managed to score useful legendary from the final quest too, that's always nice.
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Veteran finished with my Trickster, face-tanked the last boss with paltry 12% Chaos resistance with my life steals, Wendigo Totem and Pneumatic Burst. With the way my life bar bounced up and down during almost every damn fight I'm really surprised I only died once and even that was because I got blocked by a high level hero on both sides of me on a narrow bridge way back in Act 2. Managed to score useful legendary from the final quest too, that's always nice.
How was it? Trickster was going to be my next class. Enjoyable?
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Veteran finished with my Trickster, face-tanked the last boss with paltry 12% Chaos resistance with my life steals, Wendigo Totem and Pneumatic Burst. With the way my life bar bounced up and down during almost every damn fight I'm really surprised I only died once and even that was because I got blocked by a high level hero on both sides of me on a narrow bridge way back in Act 2. Managed to score useful legendary from the final quest too, that's always nice.
How was it? Trickster was going to be my next class. Enjoyable?
Yes, it's tons of fun. Very active gameplay, you have to pay attention constantly to live. Takes a while to get going and you are quite weak early on before you have a few devotions* and the defensive stuff from Shaman but once it all clicks together it feels powerful. I've even grown to like Wendigo Totem now that I have more points in it and know how to use it, though it remains kinda weak in the late game with all the enemies that spew fire and crap on the ground so you need to move and can't stay within its small area. Helps if you have some decent gear in the stash, especially weapons.
Started Elite and it's smooth sailing so far, feels so much easier than Veteran. I killed the end boss at 48, got half a dozen required lvl 50 pieces I just put on that made my dps jump 30% which might be a part of it.
*I went for Wendigo as soon as I could, then Behemoth for more hp and the heal, Bat and Revenant for more life steal.
Just wondering if there is any reason for skipping Hidden Hand? I'm working on a Trickster right now, in the 20s, I'm finding all the modifier skills on Dual Blades to work quite well.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
Just wondering if there is any reason for skipping Hidden Hand? I'm working on a Trickster right now, in the 20s, I'm finding all the modifier skills on Dual Blades to work quite well.
It converts piercing damage (which I have +354% for) to acid damage (damage bonus +73%). Doesn't seem worth it to me.
Got to level 51 and put one point in Veil of Shadow and Night's Chill to take advantage of the +2 Night's Chill bonus I have on an item. Looks like the tiny cold damage portion of Night's Chill can crit and those crits can proc my Ring of Steel on crit -items. :P
Edit: Checked my actual damage values.
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Just wondering if there is any reason for skipping Hidden Hand? I'm working on a Trickster right now, in the 20s, I'm finding all the modifier skills on Dual Blades to work quite well.
hidden hand doesnt increase prox and if u dont have stronk poison/acid bonus es not much of a deeps increase
Man, @surrealitycheck , your video prompted me to give a Boomromancer a try and lord'a'mercy am I ever impressed. Booms are being courted up in this house of love.
I've got booms on my booms so I can boom while I boom, and there are only more booms on the horizon. I have boomed a man in reno just to watch him boom. I've seen booms you people wouldn't believe. Booms booming off the shoulder of booms. I watched booms in the dark near some other booms All those booms will be lost in further booms, like booms ... Booming.
They should have sent a poet, is what I'm getting at here.
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If you want a minimal addition to Soldier, one option is to go Arcanist for Inner Focus - just 1 point opens it and it gives you very useful Offensive Ability boost. Or 5 points in Occultist for Raven healer, Curse of Frailty and/or Solael's Witchfire. 5 points in Nightblade gives you Pneumatic Burst. Those would be my selections for Soldier + minimal other class. Whatever works, though - Soldier is very self-reliant class so it doesn't really require dual-classing as much as many others.
i have about a jillion characters because the struggle is real rip... ive started naming them "11111" so they are at the top of the list
maybe this video will even work idk youtube my bff jill
Mind posting at lease skill builds and major Devotion constellations for those?
oh yeah that would be useful wouldnt it
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i blame everybody else
this is the core of the dual wield fire pistol wizard:
http://grimcalc.com/build/tZOzKs
get procs up to 25%, max out fire strike and enhanced fire damage, then stack procs. the appropriate devotions are up to you but magus owns and ulzuins torch is mandatory later
this is core of dual wield wizard
http://grimcalc.com/build/fmFkH9
get dual wield procs up to 20% (where they cap), get the ele damage and conversion from arcanist weapon buff, get cold damage from dw passive and the %cold damage passive in nightblade, get teleport strike upgrade, then get whatever devotions you want. im using aether fire, rhowan crown and lightning at the moment, but it will change dramatically as i get more devotion points (i frequently respec devotions when i get to diff devotion point counts)
this build really needs maivens to survive and needs proper resistances later on
the retaliation one is literally just shield passives in soldier + every single devotion I could find that has % retaliation, most notably wolverine, hound and herald of war + retal items
I can't wait to get one of the dual-wield items. I'm currently rocking one of those Eye of Sauron off-hands that boost my electric attack and stun jacks.
I feel like this class is OP as hell. I drunkenly proclaimed myself Landlord of Burrwitch Estates last night and proceeded to kick in all doors w/ eviction notices for zombies.
Revolver I got a few levels back:
Also I wouldn't be opposed to joining any/all of you fine folks in discord or any other chat client.
I was legit surprised to find out you didn't have the voice of Nicki, Scheck.
Also yeah those builds are lovely. I think after a single playthrough it's easier to understand how to build for devotion procs, because you can more easily understand how devotion point gain relates to level gain.
I do love that Devotion skills let you mess with so much of a build. That's what I've really enjoyed about the game, just knowing that around the corner is usually some odd thing that might make me deal a majority of my damage as poison or fire or frost or whatever for the next few levels because of some combo of devotion and gear.
Though again I tend to go for solid and a bit boring on my soldier build which means my devotions are all +resist/+block/+armor and then one for a bit of AOE on Cadence and one that procs on block and spits out swirly stun hammers which are just lovely.
or do i
Being able to respec skills/devotion at will is my number one favorite thing about this game. If I can't mess around with builds I get bored quickly. Respeccing mastery points would be neat too but I can sort of see why they didn't allow that, design wise.
Yeah I'd seen this around, I don't feel a pressing need to mess with them though. But for example one of the things that frustrated me about Diablo II and the Torchlight games is that there was no (legitimate) way to reset your points. I've always disagreed with that design decision, largely because it's basically a fuck you to new/casual players. Most of the intuitive builds are actually quite bad in late game, so you have all these wasted points and need a new character entirely. Booooooooo.
In other news I started playing this game for the first time yesterday, despite having owned it since pretty much day one of it being available. I like it a lot but I have no idea what I'm doing.
Currently I have a Demo/shaman running around with a shotgun inflicting hot fiery death (with a side of lightning) on all who look at me funny, it seems effective enough for now.
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I think one good way to ensure your build makes sense is to check all your damage breakdowns.
If you've got a bunch of +% damage to something, make sure it's actually one of the major components of your attacks. I totally whiffed for a while when i made Cadence 50% Elemental, I went up like 400 DPS when I swapped points and went back to just Physical, because most of my gear was biased toward Physical damage.
Anyway, up to 55, started playing on elite mode. Getting a little bored of my 2 skill build, which is fire shot/stunjacks with everything else into passives. My damage is pretty good with it, but even pumping up the passives in soldier, my defense still seems too weak.
defense is mainly about gearing which makes elite and higher a bit less interesting
gotta cap them resists... rip
I believe there's a potion to reset your devotions for free. No idea where you get it (probably a recipe you have to find).
That's exactly how it works in GD, except it scales up over time for all your characters. I think like 20 bits per ten skill deallocations or something? Caps at 15k bits per skillpoint.
ranged weapons, lots of gadgets, a bunch of passive shit
the demolitionist tree is fucking sexy
stuns and aoe shit and fire all over the place and tons of burn damage
i like it quite a bit
Nemesis mobs can drop it, so it's a huge grind to get to the point it can even drop at all. I don't think my lvl 84 Warlock is anywhere near Nemesis with any enemy type.
arcane bomb is gud!!
The struggle is real!
My sorceress (lv 29) is in an okay spot now by maxing out flash freeze and a single point in aether ray (to keep energy costs down) for champs and bosses. Only issue is she doesn't do well against CC immune bosses.
My conjurer (24) does pretty well against everything now but I'm not a huge fan of the play style.
The proc gunslinger looks pretty neat, maybe I'll do that or a tanky soldier crossed with something else. Maybe I can try to create Geralt of Rivia and make a witcher.
Get a sword-wielding caster with a shit load of life-steal and chaos damage going on, should be fun.
and you can get hold of melee procs from gear and relics
so if you go occultist + arcanist you can get the troll relic for a left click replacement, and then various belts and gloves for passive "on attack" procs (like the gloves which give you a KNOCKOUT PUNCH or the belt which gives you a dual wield pistol special etc)
with the occultist + arcanist combo you can convert all your physical damage into chaos and elemental, then add on significant dot as well as extra chaos and vitality, then run massive defensive buffs from the arcanist tree with aoe cc and the damage absorb in occultist final. you will have low max hp but high mitigation, very good regen and can always pick up lots of health and %hp defensive passives from devotions (you can get stuff like turtle shell and ghoulish hunger very easily)
also bird healing
BIRD
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Since I'm going to start my hunt for that shortly, I thought I'd toss up the info for anyone else interested:
http://grimdawn.wikia.com/wiki/Mistborn_Talisman_(relic)
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As somebody who farmed this recently here's my advice - do it on Normal or Veteran and preferably use a character who is sturdy enough to run past a lot of angry trolls. My Trickster just shadow striked past a lot of enemies, then killed the ones on the bridge and all the trolls from there on. Makes it a lot faster than trying to do it on Ultimate and having to kill everything because even the trash trolls mess my fragile Warlock up if she has to facetank any. Took me over 20 kills so there's a fair difference between it taking 12 minutes or 6 minutes (or whatever it actually took, I wasn't checking the time - just that there was a huge difference).
ETA: I actually got a bunch of nice stuff from the troll boss for my Trickster, a new sword and such. As long as you skip the pointless trash it has a nice time:loot ratio.
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How was it? Trickster was going to be my next class. Enjoyable?
Yes, it's tons of fun. Very active gameplay, you have to pay attention constantly to live. Takes a while to get going and you are quite weak early on before you have a few devotions* and the defensive stuff from Shaman but once it all clicks together it feels powerful. I've even grown to like Wendigo Totem now that I have more points in it and know how to use it, though it remains kinda weak in the late game with all the enemies that spew fire and crap on the ground so you need to move and can't stay within its small area. Helps if you have some decent gear in the stash, especially weapons.
Started Elite and it's smooth sailing so far, feels so much easier than Veteran. I killed the end boss at 48, got half a dozen required lvl 50 pieces I just put on that made my dps jump 30% which might be a part of it.
*I went for Wendigo as soon as I could, then Behemoth for more hp and the heal, Bat and Revenant for more life steal.
http://grimcalc.com/build/jQfosX <-- here's my current build at 50.
It converts piercing damage (which I have +354% for) to acid damage (damage bonus +73%). Doesn't seem worth it to me.
Got to level 51 and put one point in Veil of Shadow and Night's Chill to take advantage of the +2 Night's Chill bonus I have on an item. Looks like the tiny cold damage portion of Night's Chill can crit and those crits can proc my Ring of Steel on crit -items. :P
Edit: Checked my actual damage values.
hidden hand doesnt increase prox and if u dont have stronk poison/acid bonus es not much of a deeps increase
I've got booms on my booms so I can boom while I boom, and there are only more booms on the horizon. I have boomed a man in reno just to watch him boom. I've seen booms you people wouldn't believe. Booms booming off the shoulder of booms. I watched booms in the dark near some other booms All those booms will be lost in further booms, like booms ... Booming.
They should have sent a poet, is what I'm getting at here.