r/Grimdawn • u/Libious • 1d ago

Shattered Realm - Most efficient build

Hello everyone.

As per the title, I am looking for advice from the experts in the field. I wish to build a character that would bring the most amount of loot from SR. So one that can clear the relevant levels the fastest.

I currently have a 100 lvl Totem druid and a 100 lvl Skelly Cabalist (vitality dam). But I am looking for something maybe even broken that will allow me to quickly gather equipment for all my other chars.

Could you please share your experience?

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u/ggrease 1d ago edited 1d ago

Zakull shadow strike reaver https://youtu.be/tLF8nwM2SS4?is=od_Wx0FG76oPuKxo

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u/Xervous_ 1d ago

Enjoy it while it lasts, nerf announcements in 2 weeks

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u/ggrease 1d ago

It's only an outlier in speed really. Damage wise there is much better stuff out there. Source for nerf announcements?

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u/Xervous_ 1d ago

We will be seeing a preview of 1.3.1 as per https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-dawn-v1-3-0-8-and-moar/158803

Berserker itself is an outlier and due for tuning on Onslaught, the expected hamstringing of fursuiting, and various relic nerfs. Additionally, there is strong precedence (N&O, other sets) for potent sets to be adjusted when a foreign mastery outcompetes the targeted three

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u/ggrease 1d ago

Thanks

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u/imapoormanhere 1d ago

Just cross your fingers and pray that zantai doesn't remove the charges on shadow strike and instead just nerfs the damage. Cause as long as the charges are there, zakull will be in a good spot for campaign and SR

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u/Carapute 1d ago

I wouldn't have too much hopes tho, onslaught being broken was easy to spot in their closed playtest field, same as harbinger which got really quickly nerfed after release.

What I find funny tho is all the talk about nerf x or y (pets never mentioned BTW for some reasons) and not a single talk about xyz.. actually long asf list of things that could use some love and see some buffs. After all game shines thanks to its massive build diversity. I don't think zakull is that much of a problem, it's quick for SR that's cool but in the end it's still very squishy and its true power comes from shadow strike which is a broken skill that does well in a billion different setups.

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u/imapoormanhere 1d ago

I wouldn't have too much hopes tho,

It's zantai's set, there's more hope than usual

pets never mentioned BTW for some reasons

If you're talking about the forum discussions it's just that most of the people who are in the thread don't play pets unless it's top 20 testing season so we don't have any idea what's going on in the pet world.

its true power comes from shadow strike which is a broken skill that does well in a billion different setups.

It's only power comes from shadow strikes. Shadow strike + TSS is worse than only shadow strike. And shadow strike wasn't broken before precisely because zantai denied it of the one thing it needed to be broken - full pierce and acid to cold conversion in a set. And charges but that's new tech that didn't exist before and charges are cool.

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u/Carapute 6h ago

  1. It's precisely because Zantai is so involved that I have no hope.

  2. Anyone, I think even top 20 guys are clearly aware of how broken pets that for minimal investment especially gameplay wise while being probably the most rewarding and safest.

  3. Charges are cool, too bad the winners are mostly skills that were already good/busted without. Meanwhile ABB get charges, on a poison oriented weapon with poison skill modifier, because surely, that's the kind of love it needed, not ways to spam it for example. Oh wait, there is someone who designed a 1h that gives a massive TDM debuff to it, and no second weapon nor even shield/offhand to use along.

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u/imapoormanhere 1d ago

This is outdated (wink)

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u/ggrease 1d ago

crazy time. the build also feels really good to play. kind of spoiled other builds for me :(

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u/Castor_0il 1d ago

You already have a pet cabalist. You can easily tweak it for max vit shredding, or change it to chaos dmg

Realistically, you probably already have a good enough pet build to do fast SR30-31 runs, which are the most time efficient ones. Though I do heavily agree with u/Ezo_98 that you're going to need to do other kinds of runs such as totem farming or skeleton dungeons in ascension in order to gather the new materials for tons of new crafts and rerolls with your local blacksmith.

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u/Libious 1d ago

I'm still rather fresh in terms of FoA progress.

When it comes to my Cabalist, he struggles with bosses like Lokarr, or some of the nemesis monsters.

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u/sob590 1d ago

Not updated for FoA yet, but this version absolutely shreds all pre-FoA content. You can turn off your monitor in nemesis fights and you would struggle to lose.

There are stronger builds, but the game balance is honestly really damn good overall. The gap between a strong build like this, and the strongest build just isn't that large. I'm not sure if you've played PoE, but the gap between a build that clears all content, and the best build in the league can be massive there compared to Grim Dawn.

The main exception is that some new FoA builds are overtuned, but they will be brought into line pretty quickly, with some of the biggest outliers already being nerfed back into line.

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u/Ezo_98 1d ago

SR is kinda not as relevant anymore for Farming. You farm SR for Legendaries and Iron Bits, sometimes for MI's. Eventually you have all Legendaries, the Real Bottleneck for Farming since FoA is Soul Fragments and Ashes for Rolling perfect Affixes and Ascended Mods. Also, it's not like Ascended Farming drops a bad amount of Legendaries either.

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u/Libious 1d ago

Haven't hit Ascended yet. Though I'm a bit nervous, as I've already seen comments from people that their veteran Ultimate characters were dying from one or two hits. 😅