Best class guides you can find on TH-cam right here! Just started playing tried 3 previous hc chars and act 1 was challenging. Using this guide I’m on act 3 veteran and On my way to act 4. I have been watching guides for the last two weeks and none of them has been half as helpful as this one here! Thanks mate!
Hi. At 46:00 Can I ask how come you recommend Dying God for Cold builds? I understand Revenant but Dying God is Chaos and Vit right? And is there anything you would change for a Korba Trickster devotions/skills with all changes that have been since this video? Amazing guide btw, essential for ppl learning this game.
hey thanks for the guide but what should i with my attribute points? i tried to search for this informatiom in the guide but i think u didnt speak about those points, right? why is that? hopefully you see this even tho the video is 3 yrs old now :-)
@RektbyProtoss I have managed to reach lvl 72 with the pierce build, on normal, died mode than couple of times, noob here. I have a couple of questions, if you have the time: 1. What can I play after finishing the last quest from the campaign? and 2. Where can i find the Slaughter blueprint? Thanks!
Congrats! 1. You should now move on to the elite difficulty. If you don't wanna do all the stuff again, just rush the vanilla main story line until the Loghorrean (act 4 endboss in the necropolis). Killing the Loghorrean unlocks the next difficulty. The real endgame of Grim Dawn starts in ultimate difficulty. 2. Slaughter blueprint is a random drop, but some vendors also have a chance to sell it: www.grimtools.com/db/items/213
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks for replying. I bought the expansions 1 day after commenting and it looks fine now! Thanks for the guide, it has given me a lot of useful info since I'm still a new player.
If you're playing pierce Nightblade you can go about 50/50 in physique/cunning for leveling and in the endgame potentially respec into 100% cunning (depends on the build). For cold/acid I would basically go full physique and only put points into cunning/spirit that are needed to equip gear. Cold Spellbreaker is kinda of a special case as arcanist has huge %spirit scaling so you could put more points into spirit as a cold spellbreaker.
Would you still go for Revenant now when it's 1 second duration? I'm playing no expansions so I'm kinda conflicted with going the upper route. The lower part seems more tempting, higher reduction and longer duration.
It depends, on some builds revenant is still great because of the attack speed and lifesteal on its nodes. Overall crown is probably better now for flat RR for elemental builds.
@@rektbyprotoss sorry! I meant nightblade + shaman leveling. The legendary helm that you get that converts lightning to cold. I just love dual wield in this game!
You always want to at least softcap the first mod for crit dmg and cdr on any SS build. Nightfall is probably only worth, if you have good global cold/vit -> pierce conversion, so it can be skippable on some builds. Also remember that nightfall is a skill entity of its own, so if you have 100% cold to pierce to SS (local conversion), it will not convert cold on nightfall.
@@TheEluminator Depends a lot on the gear that you have, but genereally without gear, it's prolly a little easier to make default attack nightblade with WPS work than SS nightblade orsome kind of hybrid.
Greetings good Lord of GD u do most detailed and accurate content but still i cant get it why do u make RF default auto attack after so many points spent in dual blades masteries i didnt noticed DB passives proc on RF so pls some explanation im dumb :D
Glad you enjoy my content :D It depends mostly on the items that you have and/or the secondary mastery that you choose (or which one you find visually the most appealing). All three dmg types are viable for all content.
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks for the quick answer! i Thought maybe some Enemies got weaker resistances against one of those DMG types later. But good to know :D
@@Kai-mz4gt you'll always find enemies that are harder/easier to kill for every damage type, like e.g. kubacabra is harder to kill for cold or kaisan is harder to kill for pierce, etc., but overall it kinda evens out. As long as you get lots of resistance reduction for endgame you're fine.
Hi RektbyProtoss, first of all say you do a great work with your videos for the Grim comunnity, im from Cuba and i can say you have a lot of followers here, me included LOL, i want to ask if you have done an Inquisitor/Nightblade build? And if that build could kill Celestials like Callagarda or Mogdrogen, thanks in advance and sorry for my English, isnt my native language. Thanks!!!
Hola Luis, estuve en Cuba por tres semanas hace 3 años después del currican irma. Una isla hermosa con gente muy amable! Me hace feliz tener muchos seguidores allí también! Perdona mi mal español lol. I have done a Infiltrator, but that was a long time ago when I was a noob :D I will do another one pretty soon though. Until then , check out this build by mad_lee: forums.crateentertainment.com/t/1-1-7-0-luminari-godkiller-ravager-mogdrogen-callagadra-crucible-5-45-5-25m-sr65-75-belgothian-infiltrator-blademaster/46649 Hasta la victoria siempre!
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks for answer back, im waiting then for that specific build, also i checked the belgothian build and im going to guide by that until you finish your own infiltrator guide. Thanks bro. Greetings from Cuba.
Great video, I really like this series and it's helping me a lot. What's your approach to allocation of points? I have a lot of problems in understanding why people don't max out a lot of skills and only put a few points on some. Is it a matter of scaling? How do you decide putting say 7 or 8 points on a skill instead of maxing it? Thanks!
You usually check the numbers and see how much increase each single point gives you and thus you learn where the skills have their "sweet spots", where you start gaining less return per investment. Also first of all you shoud try to always hard cap max your main ability.
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks a lot! I'm currently building a Bloody Pox Cabalist and have been destroying through normal. I still have a long way to go but it's really cool to understand some of the mechanics a bit better. Cheers!
Hello sorry i am not english so i dont understand all you said in the vid. Here you show us 2 ways to play nightblade right ? one with cold and the other with poison or we have to mix the both for one character ? ^^ Cause i would like to play it cold and i dont know if i have to spend my points like you showed us in poison too. TY if someone can anwer me :)
Depends on the second mastery. E.g. when you play a dervish you want to use Oathkeeper's righteous fervor default attack replacer with acid transmuter asap (lvl 10+), when you use another secondary mastery like Inquisitor for a cold nightblade, you can wait until after you maxed out nightblade and got execution. Most of the time I wait with my second mastery until lvl 35-50. You only choose your second mastery earlier than that, if you want an early accessible skill (at 1-10 mastery points). Attribute points for nightblade will mainly be put into physique unless you are playing bleed/pierce/physical. Pierce/bleed/physical can also go for a lot of cunning (even full cunning).
@@rektbyprotoss I found it shortly after posting this lol. I didnt have the Forgotten Gods DLC. Thanks for the amazing guides also, it has really helped my girlfriend and I murder stuff!
Before last patch (1.1.8) I'd say cold. Put now pierce got buffed and it seems just as strong as cold, maybe even stronger now? Idk haven't actually tested it yet. Acid Dervish is also really strong all around, but probably a tiny bit weaker than cold and pierce. Tbh just play what is most fun for you :)
@@rektbyprotoss one more question: if I am leveling a pierce dw nightblade, would I still want to use pneumatic burst even tho it is cold and acid damage instead of pierce?
@@jeffglaza643 you probably mean lethal assault and not pneumatic burst. Actually since this patch you don't need to use LA anymore for pierce since its OA got moved over to pneumatic burst. What you wanna do now is max dual blades for pierce damage and max pneumatic burst for total speed and OA.
@@rektbyprotoss I'm using death marked set right now which would lend to a cold build but I haven't really made the moves on the necro side. My issue is what to use for cold on necro. Right now I'm using the toggle buff for necro for health and OA and reaping strike for health steal. Thought I could do a health steal build but not sure I see it. Have health steal at like 18% which is really solid at 200% Attack speed plus reaping strike proc plus health steal on shadow strike but thats about it. Dire wolf crest, reaper claw main and offhand axe for deathmark. Also awesome you answered. Thanks bud
@@ArkhonXIX definitely make sure to max out soul harvest (bone harvest's node) for the flat and % cold damage and get the habinger of souls exclusive aura for additional lifesteal later in addtion to what you have so far. Also grab mark of torment as a defensive on demand absorb skill (best at 6/10). Other than that you don't really need more from the necro tree.
@@rektbyprotoss awesome I will give it a shot!! Really appreciate the feedback. Necro felt super underutilized and I only have 2 characters right now, one demo/inq and this one so im pretty new to level 100 for each
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Mate, you are a Godsend even 3 years later. I am having a blast with Grim Dawn because of your insanely good build guides. Thank you and well done!
Best class guides you can find on TH-cam right here! Just started playing tried 3 previous hc chars and act 1 was challenging. Using this guide I’m on act 3 veteran and On my way to act 4. I have been watching guides for the last two weeks and none of them has been half as helpful as this one here! Thanks mate!
Glad you enjoy the content! :)
Thank for these videos, you have changed my Grim Dawn Experience! Followed on Twitch and can't wait to catch you live!
Hi. At 46:00 Can I ask how come you recommend Dying God for Cold builds? I understand Revenant but Dying God is Chaos and Vit right? And is there anything you would change for a Korba Trickster devotions/skills with all changes that have been since this video? Amazing guide btw, essential for ppl learning this game.
The infiltrator is hands down my favorite now. Thanks for you guides man they are really awesome.
hey thanks for the guide but what should i with my attribute points? i tried to search for this informatiom in the guide but i think u didnt speak about those points, right? why is that?
hopefully you see this even tho the video is 3 yrs old now :-)
Is it possible to do a greatsword night blade build
Very good information here and explanation and goes into detail. Great video
Thanks a lot man. Amazing video!
thanks this is very helpful
I don't get maxing (or even getting) Lethal Assault if you're going pierce damage?
@RektbyProtoss I have managed to reach lvl 72 with the pierce build, on normal, died mode than couple of times, noob here. I have a couple of questions, if you have the time: 1. What can I play after finishing the last quest from the campaign? and 2. Where can i find the Slaughter blueprint? Thanks!
Congrats!
1. You should now move on to the elite difficulty. If you don't wanna do all the stuff again, just rush the vanilla main story line until the Loghorrean (act 4 endboss in the necropolis). Killing the Loghorrean unlocks the next difficulty. The real endgame of Grim Dawn starts in ultimate difficulty.
2. Slaughter blueprint is a random drop, but some vendors also have a chance to sell it: www.grimtools.com/db/items/213
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks! So if I switch to elite, and after to ultimate, then the campaign will restart? (similar to Diablo)
@@alexandrupatru4 Yes.
You're welcome :)
As I played most characters... I find the nightblade to be the most squishy...The single-target damage is pretty good but still feels very fragile
The dual wield melee auto attack animation is the most goofiest in the game in my opinion
it does look stiff, blade burst and wps from nightblade or other classes male it better.
Is Azrakaa removed from the devotions? I cannot see Murmur as well.
Do you own the expansions AoM and FG?
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks for replying. I bought the expansions 1 day after commenting and it looks fine now! Thanks for the guide, it has given me a lot of useful info since I'm still a new player.
Thanks dude
Good stuff, hard to find good GD leveling vids out there. Can you tell me what do you mean by soft cap and hard cap?
soft cap = natural cap, e.g. 12/12
hard cap = natural cap +10, e.g. 22/12 (achieveable through items)
@@rektbyprotoss Thank you!
For poison Dervish, what about the fire damage that is converted to vitality? is that just useless to that build?
Really great video thank you!
What about attributes??? Have no idea where to spend my points on
If you're playing pierce Nightblade you can go about 50/50 in physique/cunning for leveling and in the endgame potentially respec into 100% cunning (depends on the build). For cold/acid I would basically go full physique and only put points into cunning/spirit that are needed to equip gear. Cold Spellbreaker is kinda of a special case as arcanist has huge %spirit scaling so you could put more points into spirit as a cold spellbreaker.
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks mate! Liked the video and followed you for more content. I'm enjoying playing the game
first time player and watching this is so funny. because I just maxxed my dual blades and other passives
I'm a bit confused about the devotion points because there are too many options :/ I'm lvl 32 at the moment.
Hey man, what about attributes allocation?
pretty much all into Phys, maybe save 1-2 for cunning if you need to use a weapon that requires more cunning.
Which build is best nightblade+soldiers or nightblade+inquisitor?
Thank you for this. It is very useful.
good tutorial, do you have a poison gameplay? thank you!
Would you still go for Revenant now when it's 1 second duration? I'm playing no expansions so I'm kinda conflicted with going the upper route. The lower part seems more tempting, higher reduction and longer duration.
It depends, on some builds revenant is still great because of the attack speed and lifesteal on its nodes. Overall crown is probably better now for flat RR for elemental builds.
@@rektbyprotoss I'm soon on ultimate and going ham with Revenant so I will probably keep it. Will see how it translates into ultimate.
Can you still do cold DW for leveling? If you don't have the helm? Otherwise it's faster to level as shaman with primal strike? edit: I gave up lol.
Which helm are you talking about exactly?
You don't need any helm for cold DW leveling, you just need two weapons and a point in dual blades.
@@rektbyprotoss hi, I thought the auto attacks sucked? I have savagery but it's lightning. Should I just drop it?
@@rektbyprotoss sorry! I meant nightblade + shaman leveling. The legendary helm that you get that converts lightning to cold. I just love dual wield in this game!
Are there any pierce nightblade builds that would max shadowstrike and if so , would you max all the shadowstrike support passives too?
You always want to at least softcap the first mod for crit dmg and cdr on any SS build. Nightfall is probably only worth, if you have good global cold/vit -> pierce conversion, so it can be skippable on some builds. Also remember that nightfall is a skill entity of its own, so if you have 100% cold to pierce to SS (local conversion), it will not convert cold on nightfall.
ah, thank you. That's seems like shadowstrike is quite heavy point investment, so that i might be better of just using the weapon pool skills. hmm
@@TheEluminator Depends a lot on the gear that you have, but genereally without gear, it's prolly a little easier to make default attack nightblade with WPS work than SS nightblade orsome kind of hybrid.
You describe pierce very thoroughly. What would be the main changes to Nightblade skills for a cold Infiltrator?
Check out the timestamps in the description, I explain cold nightblades starting at 32:49.
@@rektbyprotoss sorry, my bad.
So, pierce acid or cold for leveling?
Yes
@@rektbyprotoss but the most viable currently, sir
Greetings good Lord of GD u do most detailed and accurate content but still i cant get it why do u make RF default auto attack after so many points spent in dual blades masteries i didnt noticed DB passives proc on RF so pls some explanation im dumb :D
All of the passives from DB line proc on RF.
@@rektbyprotoss ty
Damn bro i literally inhaling your Videos :D but i wonder if there are any benefits choosing cold over pierce or acid?
Glad you enjoy my content :D It depends mostly on the items that you have and/or the secondary mastery that you choose (or which one you find visually the most appealing). All three dmg types are viable for all content.
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks for the quick answer! i Thought maybe some Enemies got weaker resistances against one of those DMG types later. But good to know :D
@@Kai-mz4gt you'll always find enemies that are harder/easier to kill for every damage type, like e.g. kubacabra is harder to kill for cold or kaisan is harder to kill for pierce, etc., but overall it kinda evens out. As long as you get lots of resistance reduction for endgame you're fine.
Hi RektbyProtoss, first of all say you do a great work with your videos for the Grim comunnity, im from Cuba and i can say you have a lot of followers here, me included LOL, i want to ask if you have done an Inquisitor/Nightblade build? And if that build could kill Celestials like Callagarda or Mogdrogen, thanks in advance and sorry for my English, isnt my native language. Thanks!!!
Hola Luis, estuve en Cuba por tres semanas hace 3 años después del currican irma. Una isla hermosa con gente muy amable! Me hace feliz tener muchos seguidores allí también! Perdona mi mal español lol.
I have done a Infiltrator, but that was a long time ago when I was a noob :D I will do another one pretty soon though. Until then , check out this build by mad_lee:
forums.crateentertainment.com/t/1-1-7-0-luminari-godkiller-ravager-mogdrogen-callagadra-crucible-5-45-5-25m-sr65-75-belgothian-infiltrator-blademaster/46649
Hasta la victoria siempre!
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks for answer back, im waiting then for that specific build, also i checked the belgothian build and im going to guide by that until you finish your own infiltrator guide. Thanks bro. Greetings from Cuba.
Great video, I really like this series and it's helping me a lot. What's your approach to allocation of points? I have a lot of problems in understanding why people don't max out a lot of skills and only put a few points on some. Is it a matter of scaling? How do you decide putting say 7 or 8 points on a skill instead of maxing it? Thanks!
You usually check the numbers and see how much increase each single point gives you and thus you learn where the skills have their "sweet spots", where you start gaining less return per investment.
Also first of all you shoud try to always hard cap max your main ability.
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks a lot! I'm currently building a Bloody Pox Cabalist and have been destroying through normal. I still have a long way to go but it's really cool to understand some of the mechanics a bit better. Cheers!
Hello sorry i am not english so i dont understand all you said in the vid. Here you show us 2 ways to play nightblade right ? one with cold and the other with poison or we have to mix the both for one character ? ^^ Cause i would like to play it cold and i dont know if i have to spend my points like you showed us in poison too. TY if someone can anwer me :)
It's actually 3 different ways: cold, acid and pierce.
Only the first ~20 levels are the same for all 3.
@@rektbyprotoss Ok ty so much bro :)
Hello. Thanks for an amazing guide. What do you think about Nightblade + Necromancer cold build?
Cold reaper has very high DPS, but can be a little squishy. Overall it is certainly viable :)
ok but when take second mastery? I what invest main points ?
Depends on the second mastery. E.g. when you play a dervish you want to use Oathkeeper's righteous fervor default attack replacer with acid transmuter asap (lvl 10+), when you use another secondary mastery like Inquisitor for a cold nightblade, you can wait until after you maxed out nightblade and got execution. Most of the time I wait with my second mastery until lvl 35-50. You only choose your second mastery earlier than that, if you want an early accessible skill (at 1-10 mastery points).
Attribute points for nightblade will mainly be put into physique unless you are playing bleed/pierce/physical. Pierce/bleed/physical can also go for a lot of cunning (even full cunning).
@@rektbyprotoss THX :)
Hello, when to start second mastery considering soldier and pierce? Thanks!
@@alexandrupatru4 Soldier :)
@@gilo7171 Yes yes :) Nightblade with soldier, sorry for typo.
Does Ulzaad constellation not exist anymore?
Oh it does and it's really good for pierce Nightblade.
@@rektbyprotoss I found it shortly after posting this lol. I didnt have the Forgotten Gods DLC. Thanks for the amazing guides also, it has really helped my girlfriend and I murder stuff!
in your opinion, which is strongest? cold, pierce, or acid nightblade?
Before last patch (1.1.8) I'd say cold. Put now pierce got buffed and it seems just as strong as cold, maybe even stronger now? Idk haven't actually tested it yet. Acid Dervish is also really strong all around, but probably a tiny bit weaker than cold and pierce.
Tbh just play what is most fun for you :)
@@rektbyprotoss thank you for thoughtful reply :)
@@rektbyprotoss one more question: if I am leveling a pierce dw nightblade, would I still want to use pneumatic burst even tho it is cold and acid damage instead of pierce?
@@jeffglaza643 you probably mean lethal assault and not pneumatic burst. Actually since this patch you don't need to use LA anymore for pierce since its OA got moved over to pneumatic burst. What you wanna do now is max dual blades for pierce damage and max pneumatic burst for total speed and OA.
@@rektbyprotoss Thanks again. Watched a ton of your videos so far and definitely enjoying them. Well done!
Ever try a nightblade necro build??
I have made two reapers, one cold dmg with soulrend and one aether dmg with blaze herald daggers.
@@rektbyprotoss I'm using death marked set right now which would lend to a cold build but I haven't really made the moves on the necro side. My issue is what to use for cold on necro. Right now I'm using the toggle buff for necro for health and OA and reaping strike for health steal. Thought I could do a health steal build but not sure I see it. Have health steal at like 18% which is really solid at 200% Attack speed plus reaping strike proc plus health steal on shadow strike but thats about it. Dire wolf crest, reaper claw main and offhand axe for deathmark. Also awesome you answered. Thanks bud
@@ArkhonXIX definitely make sure to max out soul harvest (bone harvest's node) for the flat and % cold damage and get the habinger of souls exclusive aura for additional lifesteal later in addtion to what you have so far. Also grab mark of torment as a defensive on demand absorb skill (best at 6/10). Other than that you don't really need more from the necro tree.
@@rektbyprotoss awesome I will give it a shot!! Really appreciate the feedback. Necro felt super underutilized and I only have 2 characters right now, one demo/inq and this one so im pretty new to level 100 for each
@@ArkhonXIX Good Luck! :)
A Grimtools link would be nice!
For which level and damage type exactly?
Nightblade/Oathkeeper=Dervish is best, 2xBlade Spirit, 2xGuardians of Imperiums, dual wield, righteous fever, whirling death, ABB, Shadow Strike and Phantasmal Armour poison/acid damage.
10:35 LUL
Dude you have alot of knowledge and I Love the vids but please slow down.
I'll try :D
it would be better if you show some gameplay.