I have been craving a game with lots of loot and lots of clicking, so I have been thinking about starting to play Grim Dawn, which just received a big update. Now, I'm asking the fine folks on Hexbear what they think about Grim Dawn in the year of our Lord 2023. Fun builds? Tips or tricks? Things I should know, etc.?

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I haven't touched it in years, but I never did finish the second DLC. Might start a fresh playthrough and do another laser necromancer.

    It really is an amazing ARPG. Has more layers of customization and skill/equipment synergy than in any other game I've encountered. You can make all sorts of crazy builds. Buy it. It's damn good.

  • strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    It's a great game, feels very complete.

    Excellent build variety, good loot progression, story is nice and soundtrack is excellent the game was meant to be inspired by now, but the studio just can't help themselves.

    For something similar and more modern think about Last Epoch

  • Lmaydev@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    The new update is really good. Potions being a cool down skill is great.

    The in-built evade can be a game changer as well. Loving it for giving my casters more mobility.

    The beginners tips you find online still apply.

    While leveling make sure you put points into your class's mastery bar. I normally do 2 points in mastery, one in an ability.

    Choose one ability to max out first, rather than spreading points too far.

    Choose one or two damage types to focus on.

    Defense is often more important than offense.

    Keep your health at at least your level * 100. Minimum.

    Resistances are everything in the harder modes. They will also make your life much easier in the first mode. So it's worth figuring out the main damage types of the area you're in and use components to up those resistances.

    Of the 3 attributes physique is often the most important for the health. The other 2 do give some health now. If I'm doing a caster for instance I do 2 points in physique and 1 on spirit. But I think the general advice is put it all in physique except what you need for equipping items.

    Keep an eye on your defensive and offensive power. With defense make sure you can't be critted and for offense make sure you have a good hit %

    All class combinations are viable. Some do better than others in the end game or are more gear dependent.

    Everything can be reset (if you have all the DLCs) except your class choices. But you can often make max level without choosing a second class so there's no pressure.

    It's easily one of my favourite games and each expansion so far has been great.

    So much customisation through class combinations and items.

    The new DLC is going to introduce another class so that's a lot more combinations on the way.

  • Grebgreb [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    It is by far the best arpg out there at the moment. It's performance can be worse than it should be depending on hardware. You can copy paste an explored map on an old character to new one, there aren't any randomized maps like in D2 so this is just a quality of life thing rather than a cheat.

    There are 2 stats called offensive ability and defensive ability that are very important, they determine your chance to hit, be hit, crit, and receive a crit.

  • WholeEnchilada [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    It’s a really good game. It’s hard to figure out, though. I’ve played it off and on for three years and recently got more serious about it. Now that I’m more serious, I consult grimtools.com to figure out when to farm for shit and when not to. It’s a handy web site because the game kind of expects you to know stuff that you don’t know about what you’re supposed to do. I can get in the zone with this game for hours because of how balanced the random stuff is. It’s definitely designed to try out various characters. The only downside is that there are definitely character types to avoid. That’s why grimtools.com is available. You really don’t need anything more than that at this point. The game is old and the tools website gives you the info you need.

  • magi [she/her, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    It's better than most and where diablo should have gone after 2 the developers keep improving it. New expansion is due or out? Haven't checked but enough to have me excited to get back to playing. Just going through stuff atm that has gaming taking a backseat

  • cctaacc [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    You can also give it a free try if you don't care about the multiplayer; https://www.1377x.to/torrent/5889572/Grim-Dawn-v1-2-0-0-Hotfix-1-GOG-ALL-DLC/

      • cctaacc [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        1377x.to works perfectly well, just use the magnet links as you would on 1337x.to just as an edit: alot of ISPs block 1337x.to and similar sites, you can either change DNS or use one of the alternative sites where the torrents are scraped from 1337x.to, just don't download anything directly from any of these sites and use the magnet links instead

        • zkrzsz [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          I've seen people got virus from 1377x.to. If your ISP blocks 1337x.to, use a VPN.

          Even if you use magnet link, you still do not know how safe the files you download is, you need to know if the uploader is trustworthy, and uploader from 1337x is more trustworthy than 1377x. Even then, still need to be careful, 100 good torrents and 1 bad one sneaks in occasionally is how they get u.

    • Comp4 [she/her]
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      Im pretty sure im gonna play it in multiplayer "soonish" seems like a perfect excuse to gather the bois for some coop gaming.

      • WholeEnchilada [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        I’d love to multi player with someone from here. My only caveat is that the game isn’t my go-to, so I’m developing a character that’s a piece of shit. If you’re into multiplayer with peeps that suck, here I am!

        • Comp4 [she/her]
          hexagon
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          7 months ago

          Im might make a thread if im looking for people to play. If you really want to play with me though send me a dm and I can add you on discord.