Grim Dawn

The rogue-like dungeons are the best place to farm besides shattered realm. However, you need a fairly strong build to finish any of them without dying. Before the rogue-likes you can pretty much just farm anywhere that you can quickly and easily kill elites.

Is a few months group running skele keys and Nemesis hunting for full perfect gear really too slow?

Khane said:

Guess I just missed it when I was looking for it, or just never clicked an item that had a static location.

So what's the farming strategy in this game? Is it like D2 where certain monsters had higher chances of dropping higher ilvl gear with more affixes? There a list anywhere?

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It's pretty similar to D2 in that you just choose places/mobs you like to farm and run them. its a bit less restrictive in that you don't have to kill a mob of a certain level, just kill anything. Getting targeted drops takes little time unless you want a magi ring in which case, good luck. Steps of torment is the go to spot overall. Totems can work but I honestly get jack shit from them, most of the time they just drop common blues but I don't chain them so my perception could be skewed on a time per legendary basis. Start doing SR as soon as your build is decent. Its a fucking slog to get to sr75 from scratch but the rewards are there once you can handle it. At 50 it starts to get pretty decent with drops and 60 gets you full access to the SR set. I did 5 to 10 level chunks to hit the checkpoints in between farming since it can be very difficult to progress when you still don't have a complete build item wise.

This is one my favorite games of all time but don't they have anything better to do than tweak item stats all day long? Lol. I'd rather see them add more areas or something. Those patch notes are crazy.

I know this is an old thread bump, but I just began playing this with a buddy in co-op. Anyone got any good links for co-op builds for leveling up? So far we're level 20 on Veteran (can't use the other difficulties yet) but we're having a ton of fun.

The grim dawn forums are the best place to find builds. There are all sorts of compendiums there.


Tip #1. Don't play on Veteran. It's much, much more time consuming than normal and not at all worth the extra 10% experience.

Zajeer said:

I know this is an old thread bump, but I just began playing this with a buddy in co-op. Anyone got any good links for co-op builds for leveling up? So far we're level 20 on Veteran (can't use the other difficulties yet) but we're having a ton of fun.

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Be wary when you look up builds on the GD forums, lots of people who design builds over there do it by spawning the items required rather than playing and actually obtaining them legit. Some items in GD are rare, hard to get for various reasons or they are are drops from difficult encounters. The website Hateyou linked to by Requnix has some of the best starters available as the items for those builds are easily obtained via faction for the most part. All the builds on the page there are old but they will still get you through to the late game content where you can start farming for some insane build that requires lots of gear. The meltycakes build linked is good and it's also very fun but as i said, all those builds are legit.

The GD forums are full of elitist plebs that don't exactly roll out the red carpet for new players, the subreddits pretty ok for the most part.

Veteran could possibly have been a slog if you were solo as a first run through but if you are co-op should be fine.

Zajeer said:

I know this is an old thread bump, but I just began playing this with a buddy in co-op. Anyone got any good links for co-op builds for leveling up? So far we're level 20 on Veteran (can't use the other difficulties yet) but we're having a ton of fun.

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This was the best build I found out of everything I tried last I played: SIR CRUNCHYBONES Skelemancer Cabalist - David Allen's Website

I never got the full gear set and it still melted screens no problem

Yeah, make sure any build you look up is "beginner friendly". 99% of the builds that people post are with all the perfect gear, which you will never ever find if you play legit.

My favorite beginner build that I tried was a vitality cabalist. Great build and it doesn't require any special gear at all.

Pet builds are meta from my understanding. I had a lot of fun with black water cocktail myself.

There are A LOT of good, beginner friendly builds. There are a few really informative streamers (if they still play) as well. RektByProtoss is a good streamer to watch.

Any build that has the soldier class will be good for starting out. Nightblade was always my favorite class because of its mobility

The nightblade can still use those medal augments as well for even more mobility

I really need to play this again. I always played it like I played Titan Quest, just picking skills I like. I played from release and I don't think I ever made it to the end of the second difficulty.

I should approach it like PoE and, as all you guys suggested, actually look up a build.

I am actually intrigued.

Slaanesh69 said:

I really need to play this again. I always played it like I played Titan Quest, just picking skills I like. I played from release and I don't think I ever made it to the end of the second difficulty.

I should approach it like PoE and, as all you guys suggested, actually look up a build.

I am actually intrigued.

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They added all kinds of totem events and upped the gfx (seems like) since last I played. Fresh rollup.

Slaanesh69 said:

I really need to play this again. I always played it like I played Titan Quest, just picking skills I like. I played from release and I don't think I ever made it to the end of the second difficulty.

I should approach it like PoE and, as all you guys suggested, actually look up a build.

I am actually intrigued.

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My first self-reply.

So this was definitely a highly successful re-visit to an old game for me.

I went to the sites and found a nice easy starter that fitted my play style (Deathknight) and now I am level 53 playing Veteran in the Malmouth expansion, still in the first difficulty.

Let me tell you, it is a whole new game for me following a build. My main skill is 26/16 - I am pretty sure I was just using (juiced) regular attack on my highest character played before (lol). Clearly I am not one of the people that like to min/max these games as a hobby to find the best combinations, but I DO love to follow the product these people create.

Loving it.

It has a bit of the Titan Quest problem, however, that the expansions make the playthroughs take a little longer than one can casually stand. I recall playing to the end of Legendary in the original but once the expansions stacked up I never had the endurance to do it again. I should find a guide on an easy build in that game too. I know you can skip them, but CAN you?

That being said, playing a fast, wrecking build through content makes it far easier to poop-sock through the acts than struggling with some cobbled together skills and gear like my usual playstyle.

I just realized I am not good at games, I just like to copy builds of people who are. I am okay with this.

Anyway, thanks, guys, you have provided me with, easily, 100+ hours of fresh, fun gameplay on a game I have owned for literal years.