I just picked up GD and this is the best video I have come across to make my initial playthrough enjoyable at early level. All the other guides I come across are all in end game gear with like 45 devotion constellations set up
So much great GD info in your vids. Only 2 weeks in with a level 40 pure soldier. Looking forward to trying some of your builds in the future. Just wanted to say thanks.
Got my first character Arcanist to level 81 and Beat the last boss after dying a lot on normal. Thanks to your vids and that I have a slightly better grasp on the mechanics now. So I'm doing my dual gun Purifier on veteran which is hella fun!
I was exactly the same, never tried it because I thought it looked weak and then I tried it about 2 years ago and found out I could one-shot most bosses in Normal - th-cam.com/video/D--HpfP76us/w-d-xo.html
@@Arcadelife1 I took a long time to use it and still more often avoid it in favor of Bloody Pox, but I do have to admit it is stronger than I initially thought. I think the "it's weak" feeling you get when first trying it out is due to you not seeing it do much of anything at the beginning, particularly if you ignore putting stat points into Spirit. More often I go after the pets and then think of what other class I can pair it up with. But I'm beginning to think that it's more useful than I ever suspected and that using this method I can make it extremely powerful. I'm finally getting to the point that I can make characters that don't die before the second or third act reliably. Thanks for the video. I wish you a few million more subscribers, because your video quality is worth at least that.
i'll give this a try sometime thanks! working on my first playthrough, picked arcanist as my first class. i played titan quest quite a bit and glad holding shift still works for casting without moving!
Thanks for the comment, I'm another Titan Quest veteran - lovely game but it feels slow now, even with the game-speed option cranked right up. If you find Shift awkward, you can rebind it. Alternatively you can put your ranged attack skill/spell on RIGHT mouse button and you will stand in place to attack from range without needing to hold shift. If you're interested, here are a couple of my Arcanist/Mage type characters: Panetti's Mage Hunter (minimal skills) - th-cam.com/video/Tp735ahngxc/w-d-xo.html Battlemage using a component skill as main attack - th-cam.com/video/m5byjBfQ6oM/w-d-xo.html
Aw look it's a video about the best starter class. I didn't know Arcadelife was into Deathknight.... why is there an Occultist video here? Where's the Deathknight video? 😁
As soon as there's a single mastery called Death Knight, we'll let you know. It's all subjective; a more cynical person might think I posted this video just for controversy bait ;)
@@Arcadelife1 A more snarky person might point out that your video is titled "best starter class" and not best starter mastery. 😁 I honestly think the game is balanced well enough that any mastery can work as a "best starter". Well, any except Oathkeeper.
I’m struggling man I can’t stay with a character I got 4 at lvl 40 ish 45 ish and haven’t really clicked with any of them.. I dig the demolition wizard class and occultists but it kinda just gets boring af cuz gear is daunting af to sort thru cuz I don’t know what’s good or what to sell or keep or whatever .. I’m aiming for a fire warlock ish game play I dig the cocktail fire skill and the occultist ground dot thing.. idk how it would scale for end end game and it’s demoralizing
@@SlamDance87 The first thousand hours are the hardest 😜. But seriously … what you are describing is my early experience with the game and also the experience of many others. I recommend finding a build guide for a type of character you’re NOT PARTICULARLY interested in, then follow the guide even if you don’t want to follow a guide, and use that character to learn how the basic game mechanics work. If you’re not completely burned out by the end of it, start your own character using the acquired knowledge and you will have much more fun.
I dont know if you have addressed this in this video or another, but ...do you think bloody pox + sigil of consumption make for a solid build? ie those are your only 2 attacks? also how do you think that compares to your blood of dreeg and pox build. Thanks
@@michaeltrull5788 Pox and Sigil would work, but then it depends how far you want it to work. Clearing normal, easy, but then any combination of skills (with moderate gear support) will clear normal. Sigil has life-leech (as far as I remember without checking) so that’s a plus, and I think you’d need to lean heavily into vitality damage on both skills. The combination of Pox and Evil eye works well due to the conversion of vitality damage to acid on Pox which means I only have to buff one damage type plus its damage-over-time variant (acid/poison).
@@GhostDaddy87 Brightness - no idea, it is what it is. Maybe hardware difference or your monitor? I know of no reason why my game is bright compared to yours. Coloured item and skill text - rainbow item filter (mod), find out all about it here - th-cam.com/video/Lq6sLDytFvE/w-d-xo.html
Can you please recommend good leveling build guide for AOM? And maybe recommend for late game build guide? Maybe in combo of Soldier/Oathkeeper? Thank you
@@drumcorpful Ok, I’ll try to answer the question(s). Tricky, because I’m not aware of a levelling guide or a build guide that is specifically for the Ashes of Malmouth expansion. I thought maybe you meant builds involving the two masteries introduced with the AoM expansion, but then you mention Oathkeeper which was introduced with Forgotten Gods, not AoM. Anyway, simple answer - level an occultist on Dreeg’s Evil Eye and acid-converted Bloody Pox (see the following episodes of this video series) and you will wreck everything until you reach level 100 and then you can think about what 2nd mastery might be fun. If all you want is a Warlord build, there are plenty out there - Blitz, Forcewave, Eye of reckoning, retaliation and all of them can do pretty much everything.
Just got into it and decided to choose Inquisitor and Nightblade(I kinda regretted a bit after reading both of there skills) though I'm having fun being a "I may run out of mana but I ain't out of bullets" play style... I still have no idea what I'm doing
There's not really any wrong choice with mastery combinations, just that some are way more obvious/simple to get working and others rely on experience, lateral thinking or a creative mix of both. With the combo you have, I'd suggest looking at the attack skills and associated damage types, see what sounds fun and go with it for as long as possible before radically altering the build. Nightblade can dual-wield melee weapons and Inquisitor can dual-wield ranged weapons, so there's an immediate decision although you're not obliged to dual-wield anything and could easily play as some kind of elemental caster. Mostly, don't worry about making mistakes, you can fix anything eventually.
@@Arcadelife1 Starting Nec with 3 skellies can't br beat imo. It does begin to dead end if you don't branch. Word of Pain takes a small amount of focus before it becomes supremely overpowered to midlevel. Soldier Forcewave can take you from start to end game almost organically. For building off of, sure. Occultist has the angle its the best of all worlds, IE support, offense and defense out of the starting gate.
@ Yeah, the term ‘starter class’ caused a bit of a stir… I’m recommending Occultist because it is very strong from the start, can easily go to 100 without a 2nd mastery, can diversify into many different builds and damage types (and pets) on its own and is, in my opinion, the best support class for any other mastery.
I love love love occultist, but I don't know if I can face another character where Im smashing blood of dreeg constantly. I even tried a deceiver who depended on BoD and word of renewal and it was a bit of a chore keeping thosee buffs up. He ended up getting one shot from something off screen (in hardcore) and all I can guess is that one of those buffs wasn't up, so I've kinda shied away from depending on those kind of skills. Glad to see you still at it man!
They’ve ‘fixed’ Blood of Dreeg (patch 1.2 I think, possibly earlier) by making the up-time much longer even without the amulet that adds 2 minutes. Wind Devils are also permanent now, although that isn’t an Occultist thing.
@@Arcadelife1 Ah the wind devils update has gone through? I might actually make a shaman now, cause that constant re-summoning was a major deal breaker. Sucks getting arthritis in my gaming hands :D
@@elskirvo I thought it was part of the most recent patch from a few days back. Hopefully I’m not wrong, haven’t tried it yet but I was using permanent wind devils in season 6 and I’m sure they included the latest patch beta in that mod.
@@Arcadelife1 They are permanent now, confirmed. All the healing skills that apply a buff are also extended to 1 minute base as well, which is nice for silly people like me who would forget their head if it wasn't screwed on.
@@elskirvo I'm using the skill right now, too. It works... permenantly. Haha. However, the white noise sound that they constantly make is a little annoying -- but V on Reddit said that they are going to try and hot fix it with new audio soon to test the waters. He was like, 'this sound has been in the game for 12 years, and now its an issue?' haha.
For me many classes are quite good for starting. Every class has it's own benefits and drawbacks. I have watched the video through at least twice and am trying it now. I stopped last night around level 10 and am about to give it a few minutes more before I head out to do some adulting. Enjoying the splash damage by the way. I'd like to see how you do the Necromancer at start.
Thanks for trying this one. What I'm trying to demonstrate (more videos to come) is how the Occultist is a strong class (mastery) at the start and can become all sorts of different types of character - Kiting poison damage, big-hit chaos damage (guns), pets, retaliation, and is always a good choice for a strong support class for other masteries, etc.
@@charlesballard5251 I’ve got another video for this character, almost finished editing it. I’m also thinking of doing videos for a few other masteries in a similar style or maybe a comparison video showing three different masteries doing the main parts of Act 1 and equipping their versions of the ‘easy’ gear from Act 1. Then the new expansion will come out and I’ll be obsessed with the new mastery 😜
@@JustIn-mu3nl Fireblast from the level 5 fire searing ember is very strong, has area damage and can be spammed for as long as your energy lasts, also scales well from weapon damage. I’ve used it as my main attack up to level 75.
I started an oath then i moved to a shaman 2h lightning specialization (idn the correct terms) its fun on beggining you kill a large group of monsters with one hit but too weak to hold some punches and bullets 😅
@@perfectshotbot Shaman using lightning damage (I’m assuming Primal Strike but it might not be what you’re doing) is very solid, particularly if you pair it with Soldier for the defensive Soldier skills. Be sure to read and understand the tooltips for the skills because some of the Shaman 2H skills don’t activate from Primal Strike and need a ‘default attack’ to activate. Shaman’s Savagery skill is a default attack - read the tooltip carefully to see info like that, it’s very important as you don’t want to put lots of skill points into skills that rarely or never activate.
I haven't played this for a bit. I might load it up again. Do I need to still use that loot color mod that makes things easier to identify loot or did they revamp how items look when they drop? (Have a new PC now so would have to install it again)
@@bengertzz It should be in the description of every video I post - The mod I use to change item and skill text colours is Rainbow Filter, Find out about it here - th-cam.com/video/Lq6sLDytFvE/w-d-xo.html
I was playing my version of this character last week and looking at 3 days off work. She was probably level 38 or 39 and I wasn't paying attention (I think I was half asleep to be honest) and got her killed. I rage quit and went to bed. 6 hours later I get out of bed and I'm sitting in front of the computer staring at the games character selection screen and I decide to go through my shared stash and clean it out. An hour later I gave up and said "Screw it". I deleted the saved game folder and started from zero. THAT is an act of liberation that should NEVER be underestimated!!!! I created a new Occultist and just now got her up to level 53 without a single death!! I think the best I've ever done was level 48... MAYBE!!! With all my previous attempts at this character I put my stash-stored MIASMA SET on her at level 20. This time though I didn't have it (HELL, I haven't even SEEN a single part of the set and I've already completed the base game and am now working on FORGOTTEN GODS). All is going AMAZINGLY well this time and I've barely put ANYTHING in the stash although I've already purchased all six tabs. This one is named "Anna Mae the Acid Queen". Big props to anyone who gets that. Later.
@@charlesballard5251 Thanks for the comment, always love these lengthy war stories 👊🙂 Without google-cheating, the only Anna Mae I can think of (spelled that way) is Tina Turner so that’s unlikely to be the right answer.
@@Arcadelife1 Actually you are correct. And in the movie version of "Tommy" she played THE ACID QUEEN!!!! As to my character, she got killed about a half hour ago when getting close to 55. I'm continuing to play her though. She just got Crimson's Vile Scepter. I had to run her up to 55 to use it. She's now over 30K damage per cast of DEE.
@@charlesballard5251 I’d be interested to hear how these deaths are occurring - the build should be fairly resilient unless you’re being extremely reckless 😜
@@Arcadelife1 This one in the same dungeon as Sister Crimosn. I went in a second time to see if I could get a better scepter (I did) and there was a random totem. I activated it and started the fight. At least one maybe more of the bosses that spawned were HELLA powerful. I was maybe a bit dragging as well. I could have been more awake. I usually try to stop before I get that tired but when I'm having a good time.... So all my fault. Taking a break from her now and going to create a dual pistol wielding Inquisitor just for fun. Gotta come up with a name though...
I couldn't leave her alone. So I took her to the end of FORGOTTEN GODS. And she got killed 5 more times. Only 3 to start, but that 3rd was at the same moment that Korvaak died and the game wouldn't let me open the loot chests when I came back. So I exited to the main menu and came back having to kill my way to him again. And then she died the final two times. And the loot in the chests wasn't really worth it. Please make a vid on killing Korvaak. I have no idea what the hell is going on. I'm so busy running away from everything he's dealing I barely have time to attack.
So now I put everything I had, in Dreeg's Evil Eye +, Bloody Pox +, Blood of Dreeg + and Possesion. What I got, is a glass cannon that obliterates everything in the game. I LOVE IT! 10/10 would go for DEE again. 🤣
Thanks for the comment, always great to hear you're trying this stuff out. I'm currently level 96 (hardcore ultimate), skipped Elite completely, haven't spent a skill point since level 65 because I want to do a video all about 2nd mastery. Should be soon...
@@Arcadelife1 Thanks to you, for making these videos. I'm a variety gamer and coming back to play Grim Dawn every now and then. And with your videos it's easy to play along and getting to know the places where to farm/get the items for the "build", and not have to dig around Grimtools myself. (No time for that!) 😅
When a new patch come out, I reset/delete all my old saves (with stash and blueprints too). I often start with bloody pox / sigil occultist. No doubt this is my fav mastery in this game.
Thanks for the Occultist support - it's a great class! The easiest/cleanest way to 'delete everything' is to just rename the save folder from 'save' to 'old_save_056' or whatever. I do that for every 'fresh start' video character to ensure it's a legit fresh start. The game creates the new 'save' folder if it can't find one when you start the game. And you don't lose your old characters if you ever want to go back to one of them.
@@Arcadelife1 thanks so much, maybe next Time. For the moment I like to play with a full reset. But who knows for the next patch or for the further expansion
Yeah, if it's about speed and levelling then Inquis is v good but I spent a while thinking about which class has the speed, the variety, and also the abilities for a support class. Ultimately it's quite subjective but I keep finding new and different ways to have fun with Occultist so it had to be this one.
@@XuroX. Maybe. After reading this comment, I imagined what the game would be like if I used evade most of the time to move around and my first thought was I’d find it nauseating and then I thought the majority of comments on videos would be complaints about me constantly evading 😂
Well ... I do love Purifiers but a Purifier isn't a single class and in my opinion the Occultist is the best class for easy starting, variety of potential builds and quality as a support class.
Yeah, occultist was my very first character when the game first came out. Now i'm getting tired of the hellhound and raven. I want my character to be able to do everything without the need for pets. If you overrely on a pet you can die quickly if it dies.
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I just picked up GD and this is the best video I have come across to make my initial playthrough enjoyable at early level. All the other guides I come across are all in end game gear with like 45 devotion constellations set up
So much great GD info in your vids. Only 2 weeks in with a level 40 pure soldier. Looking forward to trying some of your builds in the future. Just wanted to say thanks.
@@gregorm9559 Thanks for the comment, it’s much appreciated 👊🙂
Always great to hear this stuff is useful.
Thanks for the video! Best build for GrimDawn I've played with! You did a great job, thanks for sharing!
@@TruePanda Thanks for the comment, it’s much appreciated. Great to hear you tried this build and liked it 👊🙂
Got my first character Arcanist to level 81 and Beat the last boss after dying a lot on normal. Thanks to your vids and that I have a slightly better grasp on the mechanics now. So I'm doing my dual gun Purifier on veteran which is hella fun!
@@baddman69 Thanks for the comment, always great to hear this stuff is useful 👊🙂
I have never tried this skill. thanks for pointing it out. It is impressive.
I was exactly the same, never tried it because I thought it looked weak and then I tried it about 2 years ago and found out I could one-shot most bosses in Normal - th-cam.com/video/D--HpfP76us/w-d-xo.html
@@Arcadelife1 I took a long time to use it and still more often avoid it in favor of Bloody Pox, but I do have to admit it is stronger than I initially thought. I think the "it's weak" feeling you get when first trying it out is due to you not seeing it do much of anything at the beginning, particularly if you ignore putting stat points into Spirit. More often I go after the pets and then think of what other class I can pair it up with. But I'm beginning to think that it's more useful than I ever suspected and that using this method I can make it extremely powerful. I'm finally getting to the point that I can make characters that don't die before the second or third act reliably. Thanks for the video.
I wish you a few million more subscribers, because your video quality is worth at least that.
Just Bought grim dawn this winter sale. Thanks for the Video!
@@slowpoke393 Nice! Have fun 👊🙂🎄
The occultiat is also the frontman on the poster ;-) and thematically it fits the game so well.
i'll give this a try sometime thanks! working on my first playthrough, picked arcanist as my first class. i played titan quest quite a bit and glad holding shift still works for casting without moving!
Thanks for the comment, I'm another Titan Quest veteran - lovely game but it feels slow now, even with the game-speed option cranked right up. If you find Shift awkward, you can rebind it. Alternatively you can put your ranged attack skill/spell on RIGHT mouse button and you will stand in place to attack from range without needing to hold shift.
If you're interested, here are a couple of my Arcanist/Mage type characters:
Panetti's Mage Hunter (minimal skills) - th-cam.com/video/Tp735ahngxc/w-d-xo.html
Battlemage using a component skill as main attack - th-cam.com/video/m5byjBfQ6oM/w-d-xo.html
11:23 how you get that kind of gear?
I just started an occultist today. 16 raven, 12 mogdy's pact, 12 raging tempest. Farm 2 Salazar's blades and you are good to go.
There’s some Occultist variety right there. Have fun with it 👊🙂
That Pusquil fight is why I play HC Veteran. He's not going to give up his tail so easy! Gotta work for it every time.
Season 6 would have pleased you greatly - difficulty turned up even higher.
Aw look it's a video about the best starter class. I didn't know Arcadelife was into Deathknight.... why is there an Occultist video here? Where's the Deathknight video? 😁
As soon as there's a single mastery called Death Knight, we'll let you know. It's all subjective; a more cynical person might think I posted this video just for controversy bait ;)
@@Arcadelife1 A more snarky person might point out that your video is titled "best starter class" and not best starter mastery. 😁
I honestly think the game is balanced well enough that any mastery can work as a "best starter". Well, any except Oathkeeper.
I’m struggling man I can’t stay with a character I got 4 at lvl 40 ish 45 ish and haven’t really clicked with any of them.. I dig the demolition wizard class and occultists but it kinda just gets boring af cuz gear is daunting af to sort thru cuz I don’t know what’s good or what to sell or keep or whatever .. I’m aiming for a fire warlock ish game play I dig the cocktail fire skill and the occultist ground dot thing.. idk how it would scale for end end game and it’s demoralizing
@@SlamDance87 The first thousand hours are the hardest 😜. But seriously … what you are describing is my early experience with the game and also the experience of many others. I recommend finding a build guide for a type of character you’re NOT PARTICULARLY interested in, then follow the guide even if you don’t want to follow a guide, and use that character to learn how the basic game mechanics work. If you’re not completely burned out by the end of it, start your own character using the acquired knowledge and you will have much more fun.
@ the devotion tree is a colossal cluster fuck
I dont know if you have addressed this in this video or another, but ...do you think bloody pox + sigil of consumption make for a solid build? ie those are your only 2 attacks? also how do you think that compares to your blood of dreeg and pox build. Thanks
@@michaeltrull5788 Pox and Sigil would work, but then it depends how far you want it to work. Clearing normal, easy, but then any combination of skills (with moderate gear support) will clear normal. Sigil has life-leech (as far as I remember without checking) so that’s a plus, and I think you’d need to lean heavily into vitality damage on both skills.
The combination of Pox and Evil eye works well due to the conversion of vitality damage to acid on Pox which means I only have to buff one damage type plus its damage-over-time variant (acid/poison).
just got back to playing myself. how is your game so bright? and how do u get the colored words on gear?
@@GhostDaddy87 Brightness - no idea, it is what it is. Maybe hardware difference or your monitor? I know of no reason why my game is bright compared to yours.
Coloured item and skill text - rainbow item filter (mod), find out all about it here - th-cam.com/video/Lq6sLDytFvE/w-d-xo.html
Can you please recommend good leveling build guide for AOM? And maybe recommend for late game build guide? Maybe in combo of Soldier/Oathkeeper? Thank you
@@drumcorpful Ok, I’ll try to answer the question(s). Tricky, because I’m not aware of a levelling guide or a build guide that is specifically for the Ashes of Malmouth expansion. I thought maybe you meant builds involving the two masteries introduced with the AoM expansion, but then you mention Oathkeeper which was introduced with Forgotten Gods, not AoM.
Anyway, simple answer - level an occultist on Dreeg’s Evil Eye and acid-converted Bloody Pox (see the following episodes of this video series) and you will wreck everything until you reach level 100 and then you can think about what 2nd mastery might be fun.
If all you want is a Warlord build, there are plenty out there - Blitz, Forcewave, Eye of reckoning, retaliation and all of them can do pretty much everything.
YAY!!!! Let's GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Awesome video, I've learned so much from this and the one about how to ruin your character.
Just got into it and decided to choose Inquisitor and Nightblade(I kinda regretted a bit after reading both of there skills) though I'm having fun being a "I may run out of mana but I ain't out of bullets" play style... I still have no idea what I'm doing
There's not really any wrong choice with mastery combinations, just that some are way more obvious/simple to get working and others rely on experience, lateral thinking or a creative mix of both.
With the combo you have, I'd suggest looking at the attack skills and associated damage types, see what sounds fun and go with it for as long as possible before radically altering the build. Nightblade can dual-wield melee weapons and Inquisitor can dual-wield ranged weapons, so there's an immediate decision although you're not obliged to dual-wield anything and could easily play as some kind of elemental caster.
Mostly, don't worry about making mistakes, you can fix anything eventually.
@@Arcadelife1 Starting Nec with 3 skellies can't br beat imo. It does begin to dead end if you don't branch.
Word of Pain takes a small amount of focus before it becomes supremely overpowered to midlevel.
Soldier Forcewave can take you from start to end game almost organically.
For building off of, sure. Occultist has the angle its the best of all worlds, IE support, offense and defense out of the starting gate.
@ Yeah, the term ‘starter class’ caused a bit of a stir… I’m recommending Occultist because it is very strong from the start, can easily go to 100 without a 2nd mastery, can diversify into many different builds and damage types (and pets) on its own and is, in my opinion, the best support class for any other mastery.
I love love love occultist, but I don't know if I can face another character where Im smashing blood of dreeg constantly. I even tried a deceiver who depended on BoD and word of renewal and it was a bit of a chore keeping thosee buffs up. He ended up getting one shot from something off screen (in hardcore) and all I can guess is that one of those buffs wasn't up, so I've kinda shied away from depending on those kind of skills. Glad to see you still at it man!
They’ve ‘fixed’ Blood of Dreeg (patch 1.2 I think, possibly earlier) by making the up-time much longer even without the amulet that adds 2 minutes. Wind Devils are also permanent now, although that isn’t an Occultist thing.
@@Arcadelife1 Ah the wind devils update has gone through? I might actually make a shaman now, cause that constant re-summoning was a major deal breaker. Sucks getting arthritis in my gaming hands :D
@@elskirvo I thought it was part of the most recent patch from a few days back. Hopefully I’m not wrong, haven’t tried it yet but I was using permanent wind devils in season 6 and I’m sure they included the latest patch beta in that mod.
@@Arcadelife1 They are permanent now, confirmed. All the healing skills that apply a buff are also extended to 1 minute base as well, which is nice for silly people like me who would forget their head if it wasn't screwed on.
@@elskirvo I'm using the skill right now, too. It works... permenantly. Haha. However, the white noise sound that they constantly make is a little annoying -- but V on Reddit said that they are going to try and hot fix it with new audio soon to test the waters. He was like, 'this sound has been in the game for 12 years, and now its an issue?' haha.
For me many classes are quite good for starting. Every class has it's own benefits and drawbacks. I have watched the video through at least twice and am trying it now. I stopped last night around level 10 and am about to give it a few minutes more before I head out to do some adulting. Enjoying the splash damage by the way. I'd like to see how you do the Necromancer at start.
Thanks for trying this one. What I'm trying to demonstrate (more videos to come) is how the Occultist is a strong class (mastery) at the start and can become all sorts of different types of character - Kiting poison damage, big-hit chaos damage (guns), pets, retaliation, and is always a good choice for a strong support class for other masteries, etc.
@@Arcadelife1 I just got to level 13 or 14. Are you going to do a follow-up with this character going up more levels or are you leaving it to us?
@@charlesballard5251 I’ve got another video for this character, almost finished editing it. I’m also thinking of doing videos for a few other masteries in a similar style or maybe a comparison video showing three different masteries doing the main parts of Act 1 and equipping their versions of the ‘easy’ gear from Act 1. Then the new expansion will come out and I’ll be obsessed with the new mastery 😜
@@Arcadelife1 Yeah!!! Looking forward to "Fangs of ..." whatever. Can't wait for your first vids on that.
My pref is Shaman and most of its variants.
Shout-out to the Primal Strike massive and the Briarthorn Protection League 👊🙂
Cool, my first character ever was a dreegs eyecultist
With bloody pox. Explosions and confusion and poison everywhere. Fun
@@video_ouija7114 Choosing that as a first character is some kind of ultra-genius move 👊🙂
I think all classes work, but for me the chilled steel component is what I use to lvl up with pretty often.
@@JustIn-mu3nl Fireblast from the level 5 fire searing ember is very strong, has area damage and can be spammed for as long as your energy lasts, also scales well from weapon damage. I’ve used it as my main attack up to level 75.
@@Arcadelife1 I know, I just prefer the ice spike for early levelling.
I started an oath then i moved to a shaman 2h lightning specialization (idn the correct terms) its fun on beggining you kill a large group of monsters with one hit but too weak to hold some punches and bullets 😅
@@perfectshotbot Shaman using lightning damage (I’m assuming Primal Strike but it might not be what you’re doing) is very solid, particularly if you pair it with Soldier for the defensive Soldier skills. Be sure to read and understand the tooltips for the skills because some of the Shaman 2H skills don’t activate from Primal Strike and need a ‘default attack’ to activate. Shaman’s Savagery skill is a default attack - read the tooltip carefully to see info like that, it’s very important as you don’t want to put lots of skill points into skills that rarely or never activate.
@@Arcadelife1 Ty bro
I haven't played this for a bit. I might load it up again. Do I need to still use that loot color mod that makes things easier to identify loot or did they revamp how items look when they drop? (Have a new PC now so would have to install it again)
Still need the rainbow item filter mod.
@@Arcadelife1 how do you do that? is there a guide somewhere?
@@bengertzz It should be in the description of every video I post - The mod I use to change item and skill text colours is Rainbow Filter, Find out about it here - th-cam.com/video/Lq6sLDytFvE/w-d-xo.html
I was playing my version of this character last week and looking at 3 days off work. She was probably level 38 or 39 and I wasn't paying attention (I think I was half asleep to be honest) and got her killed. I rage quit and went to bed. 6 hours later I get out of bed and I'm sitting in front of the computer staring at the games character selection screen and I decide to go through my shared stash and clean it out. An hour later I gave up and said "Screw it". I deleted the saved game folder and started from zero. THAT is an act of liberation that should NEVER be underestimated!!!! I created a new Occultist and just now got her up to level 53 without a single death!! I think the best I've ever done was level 48... MAYBE!!! With all my previous attempts at this character I put my stash-stored MIASMA SET on her at level 20. This time though I didn't have it (HELL, I haven't even SEEN a single part of the set and I've already completed the base game and am now working on FORGOTTEN GODS). All is going AMAZINGLY well this time and I've barely put ANYTHING in the stash although I've already purchased all six tabs. This one is named "Anna Mae the Acid Queen". Big props to anyone who gets that. Later.
@@charlesballard5251 Thanks for the comment, always love these lengthy war stories 👊🙂
Without google-cheating, the only Anna Mae I can think of (spelled that way) is Tina Turner so that’s unlikely to be the right answer.
@@Arcadelife1 Actually you are correct. And in the movie version of "Tommy" she played THE ACID QUEEN!!!! As to my character, she got killed about a half hour ago when getting close to 55. I'm continuing to play her though. She just got Crimson's Vile Scepter. I had to run her up to 55 to use it. She's now over 30K damage per cast of DEE.
@@charlesballard5251 I’d be interested to hear how these deaths are occurring - the build should be fairly resilient unless you’re being extremely reckless 😜
@@Arcadelife1 This one in the same dungeon as Sister Crimosn. I went in a second time to see if I could get a better scepter (I did) and there was a random totem. I activated it and started the fight. At least one maybe more of the bosses that spawned were HELLA powerful. I was maybe a bit dragging as well. I could have been more awake. I usually try to stop before I get that tired but when I'm having a good time.... So all my fault. Taking a break from her now and going to create a dual pistol wielding Inquisitor just for fun. Gotta come up with a name though...
I couldn't leave her alone. So I took her to the end of FORGOTTEN GODS. And she got killed 5 more times. Only 3 to start, but that 3rd was at the same moment that Korvaak died and the game wouldn't let me open the loot chests when I came back. So I exited to the main menu and came back having to kill my way to him again. And then she died the final two times. And the loot in the chests wasn't really worth it. Please make a vid on killing Korvaak. I have no idea what the hell is going on. I'm so busy running away from everything he's dealing I barely have time to attack.
So now I put everything I had, in Dreeg's Evil Eye +, Bloody Pox +, Blood of Dreeg + and Possesion. What I got, is a glass cannon that obliterates everything in the game. I LOVE IT!
10/10 would go for DEE again. 🤣
Thanks for the comment, always great to hear you're trying this stuff out.
I'm currently level 96 (hardcore ultimate), skipped Elite completely, haven't spent a skill point since level 65 because I want to do a video all about 2nd mastery. Should be soon...
@@Arcadelife1 Thanks to you, for making these videos. I'm a variety gamer and coming back to play Grim Dawn every now and then. And with your videos it's easy to play along and getting to know the places where to farm/get the items for the "build", and not have to dig around Grimtools myself. (No time for that!) 😅
playing along now what beast this is
Thanks for trying it - one of my favourite ways to play the game.
Nice
When a new patch come out, I reset/delete all my old saves (with stash and blueprints too). I often start with bloody pox / sigil occultist. No doubt this is my fav mastery in this game.
Thanks for the Occultist support - it's a great class!
The easiest/cleanest way to 'delete everything' is to just rename the save folder from 'save' to 'old_save_056' or whatever. I do that for every 'fresh start' video character to ensure it's a legit fresh start. The game creates the new 'save' folder if it can't find one when you start the game. And you don't lose your old characters if you ever want to go back to one of them.
@@Arcadelife1 thanks so much, maybe next Time. For the moment I like to play with a full reset. But who knows for the next patch or for the further expansion
@@materafa957 What I’m describing is a full reset. I don’t know how you’re doing it but the save-folder renaming resets everything every time.
@@Arcadelife1 ah ok, my bad. I delete the files in the directory (userdate/steam). It works too
Still love inquis myself because of how powerful it is early on with 0 gear, and after the rune buffs, it has gotten even crazier.
Yeah, if it's about speed and levelling then Inquis is v good but I spent a while thinking about which class has the speed, the variety, and also the abilities for a support class. Ultimately it's quite subjective but I keep finding new and different ways to have fun with Occultist so it had to be this one.
I think you are so used to playing without the evade skill, you forget to use it haha even to speed up moving around
@@XuroX. Maybe. After reading this comment, I imagined what the game would be like if I used evade most of the time to move around and my first thought was I’d find it nauseating and then I thought the majority of comments on videos would be complaints about me constantly evading 😂
Purifier is said to be the easiest
Well ... I do love Purifiers but a Purifier isn't a single class and in my opinion the Occultist is the best class for easy starting, variety of potential builds and quality as a support class.
To be fair all classes are the "Best" starter, except for oathkeeper.
The 'Part 1' in the title and the '?' on the thumbnail might be a clue...😜
@@Arcadelife1 i'm a bit dense 😆
Yeah, occultist was my very first character when the game first came out. Now i'm getting tired of the hellhound and raven. I want my character to be able to do everything without the need for pets. If you overrely on a pet you can die quickly if it dies.
Try Dreeg's Evil Eye with or without Bloody Pox support. Ditch the pets, see how it feels.