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No points in cunning, yet he has huge OA, which is ostensibly the only real purpose of cunning. He tanks better with a two-hander than my warder does with a shield because of his DA (3k with toggles, ****in' seriously?) and has crazy good damage output with physical to fire conversion on forcewave (which btw he has two different items doing that conversion for him, wtf Crate stop making so much gear for demos and start supporting other classes why not make that convert to aether/vit for death knights or something smh) and a big fire resist reduction debuff from thermite mine and another resistance debuff devotion proc on forcewave so nothing really stands up to him. He has 0 points in cunning and isn't lacking in any other stat, like resistances or defensive ability. When fighting spirit pops he pushes over 3100. With just his toggled buffs, this guy's build has over 2800 OA. Most of your flat and percentage OA will come from gear, buff skills, and constellations. Well there it is, right? The reason to level cunning! Except cunning gives small per-point returns on offensive ability. Now, OA is a critical stat for any build (except pet builds, maybe?) because it governs your chance to hit and your chance to crit. So, what does cunning do? It increases physical & bleed damage and Offensive Ability. You can find plenty of builds on the GD forums that are 10-20 points into spirit and the rest in physique, even ranged builds. So, you probably won't need many (or any) points in cunning to equip your stuff. Ranged weapons and one-handed melee weapons require it, but accessible devotion constellations and gear that is often useful for your build will reduce those requirements anyway, not to mention all of the flat cunning bonuses you'll get from constellations and gear. Spirit is also a rather inefficient use of points but you'll take some anyway, though only because you'll probably need some for accessories. Cunning is a garbage stat, a waste of points you could just put into the god-stat that is physique. Why is cunning a stat we can put points into? It isn't necessary.

It's been a couple days, so I'll make a new post instead of an edit. Looking on the DB made me realize there are some kickass components I haven't found blueprints for yet. I'm also considering swapping the relic to Eternity once I get the blueprint. Just looking for mythical versions of everything but the medal. Rings are meh, amulet is meh (I really want the mythical one), gloves are meh, medal needs to be replaced too. I only manage to stay alive by constantly moving when I'm not using blade barrier. With how much armor & physical resist both of us don't have, you're going to have a helluva time using Albrecht's. Damage output is through the roof, I nearly took out the boss' first stage with one devastation and a couple sky shards. This is his current setup (toggle off the 2h, I don't actually use it) and with some decent kiting I took on the last boss of the expansion with one accidental death (I ran myself into a corner). They added movement ability's not so long ago, it keeps getting better and better.I hope enemies just decide to hit you less than they hit my arcanist. So it is easy for me to make up my mind and tell you Grim Dawn will never disappoint any arpg fan.

and yes its better than d3, i have about 1200 hours in grim dawn and have also played poe since closed beta. Grim dawn is simply better than poe in many ways, lets just face facts here most people that play poe play it solo. you no longer need to play through the story three times, you can buy unlocks in the game for new characters. Its not hard to farm the gear you want if you play it enough or trade on the GD forums.Ĥ. resists are kinda easy to get the more you play.ģ. not really true, since game launched melee has shined. Probably more I could think of if I had time. Still, it's a tedious and boring process that gets old real quick when rolling alts. (There are potions to skip some of this if you have the FG expac). You can guess how many legendaries you want that you will actually get.you know RNG and all.Ĥ) You have to play through the story THREE times on Normal, Elite and Ultimate for every character you want to level. Becomes tedious to gear especially when you can't roll stuff on to your gear like in POE.ģ) It's hard to farm the legendary gear you want because there aren't any real boss specific drops.

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There are 9 types plus you need stun resistance especially as a melee character. You will have a much less frustrating experience playing ranged/caster.Ģ) There are just too damn many damage types that you have to have resistances for. All in with the expansions you're talking $60ish.ġ) Melee is a real challenge (Read: P.I.T.A) for whatever reason in this game.

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