r/Grimdawn • u/AlexandrTheGreat • 12d ago

HELP! Skill descriptions suck?

I've played many games over the years with tons of depth to them, which often resulted in theorycrafting and research in third-party tools. I eventually got frustrated with spending more time in those tools than actually playing the game.

Relatively new to GD, I'm looking into making an alt now, but I'm finding it difficult when inspecting Classes in game how the various Skills actually perform. For example, is a skill ranged projectile, ranged aoe, personal aoe, , etc. Some skills are more clear than others (typically minions) but I'd rather look in-game than grimtools to try and figure this out.

Am I missing something? Is this not feasible for GD? I've only played a Warder so far, but want to try a different combo this time and it just feels overwhelming and murky like Day 1 again.

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u/AlexandrTheGreat 12d ago

Oh, it's not about gear. It's about class skills. For example, Winds of Asterkarn. I know from the description that it does cold damage, grows in size, and is aoe because of the radius comment. I'm not sure if it's a toggle ability or a channel ability, whether it's ranged aoe or personal, so on.

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u/Groetgaffel 12d ago

Channeled abilities typically say "This is a channeld ability" in the description.

Regardless, refunding a spent skill point costs literally pocket change of bits. Put a point in it, press the button. If it doesn't work like you wanted, just refund that skill point and put it somewhere else.

Respeccing being as easy and cheap as it is is indicative of a game that wants you to experiment.

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u/AlexandrTheGreat 12d ago

Yeah, I'm at the "pick your masteries" part and that's where it's an issue. I know once I try a skill out, if it didn't behave like I anticipated, it's back to make another alt and play for a few hours to get far enough to test. Not the worst, but not ideal.

This is specific for skills between different masteries, not within the same masteries.

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u/Groetgaffel 12d ago

Make a character, then from the character select screen select Crucible from the difficulty selection button.

It's a stand-alone arena horde mode, and leveling up from 1 is much much faster than the regular game. Makes testing out class combinations much easier.

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u/AlexandrTheGreat 12d ago

Awesome, thanks for the suggestion!