Grim Dawn thread

How about you tell us about your build and playstyle?

it's been a while
I'm not a good ARPG monster clicker player and tend to spread out my skill points too much so I inevitably run into a wall of enemies I simply don't have the dps to take down even if I use all my tricks.
My first character was a magician focused on dealing as much damage as possible and chugging energy potions like an alcoholic with a lead liver. Then I tried creating a character with as many summons as possible. With the exception of the useless Raven I can summon 3 dudes + 1 Revenant granted to me an underleveled off-hand tome, and I spawn teeny tiny skeletors when I kill/finish off stuff with my Eye of Dreeg grenade. So it's just me running around, sicking ? my pets on weakened mobs from my AoE and throwing a toxic eye grenade for more extra skeletons. The dog is sometimes used as a suicide bomber.

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Shit, I considered running a necro with an army of skellies, but sound like you can't have 30 summons rummaging around like in good ol D2.

As amazing as it fucking sounds, Ashes of Malmouth is maybe the first actual, literal video game expansion I've seen in fucking forever that was a real expansion and was genuinely worth the ten dollarydoos I dropped for it.

The skellies you do summon to scale with certain talent tree skills though so you can have a tight knit group of 3 to 5 ripped as shit skellies among other summons that necro gets.

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You can still have a pretty damn good army of summons with the right classes and devotions and gear. Using a full pet build was the most fun I had in the game.

It's a great expansion on it's own. Compared to the mountain of dog shit DLC that is the norm now, it's a masterpiece.

I have to say that the absolute most fun I've had in this game was playing with 2-4 other guys as necromancers through the first two acts of the game, just swamping everything in a sea of stuns and statuses so our tsunami of boners could wash over them.

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Blademaster used to basically be the premier class of this game. It's probably still pretty good, but I haven't played GD in awhile.

You should probably try to max out one of the main leveling skills first before you plan on spreading your points out. IIRC for Blademaster that would be either Cadence, Blade Arc, or Amarasta's Blade Burst. Pneumatic Burst is also one of the best skills in the game because it has +Total Speed and healing.

This is so nice. Having to use third party programs for this was and is a pain in the ass. I've lost more than a few items to those and the backup process is sketchy at best.

Last I checked you can have 20+ pets with the right build and items. Unfortunately they won't all be skellies, but it's still nice for those that like summoners.

That was a long time ago. I think it was mainly due to a set that got nerfed very early on and caused half of the GD forums to bitch and moan for several months (some are still not over it).
Many of the top level builds are still soldiers (due to the tankiness), but Nightblade is a fairly rare second pick.

Is there a point in keeping low level set items around?
Stuff like explorer set has some cool abilities, but it's generally worse than regular gear.
Do I just sell it?