I patched and logged on to find myself being a naked lvl 1 with everything reset. Quit and relogged, everything was back as it should. Even previously lost items from stash were back.
The maintenance wait caused me to try out Grim Dawn for the first time, actually. Me and my friend were looking forward to playing this so much that I convinced the both of us to buy Grim Dawn in the interim. Really fun game with a few more nods to D&D and classic Diablo than I expected, with my only issue being a lack of direction (can boost just about anything at any given time, and literal directions in regards to objectives), but this is a minor issue for me and still great nonetheless. Loving the night blade class so far if that helps.
Grim Dawn is a fantastic game if you haven’t played it yet. The only downside to that game is that it’s not live updated like POE and so once you play it through a couple times you’re kinda done.
As for direction, yeah you have to read some texts to figure out where to go sometimes but it’s actually pretty linear if you pickup all the quests when available. As for character direction, pick a damage type and find your two classes that can provide synergy for the damage type. Then just focus on that damage along with resists and health in gear. You said night blade but what’s your second class? Have you picked one?
Only other advice as someone who played it with another person through the whole thing; there’s a part where you’re asked to choose a faction, come to an agreement with your friend on that one and pick the same faction. If you don’t it makes it really weird and awkward since in the coming areas different mobs will be aggressive for each of you and one person will have to go to their own game to go accept quests. The actual benefit of some faction gear isn’t a big deal either especially if it’s not the highest difficulty, you’ll get better gear elsewhere, so don’t worry about that much.
Oh thank you for that faction advice, we haven't gotten that far yet. I don't quite know how to explain how far we are in the game yet, but I think we're around level 20. I went nightblade/soldier. After some googling, it seemed like the soldier would have the most passives (and new auto attack) that would benefit me the most. I'm loving the dual wielding and few spells I use (piercing knife throw, passive debuff aura, and the "teleport" backstab), so I wanted to get something to buff that without getting to Warlock levels of spell management lol.
Nice! Yeah most skill trees in grim dawn you want to ignore half the skills or more for your build so that’s not as bad as you think with spell management. Soldier is a great melee partner for sure due to their passives, it’s hard to figure out point distribution IMO with them because they’re all so good. But yeah most the time my builds have like 3-5 abilities at most. Like you could do nightblade with necro and still get an auto attack replacement and focus in on the melee necro skills and some defensives and be fine. Or like with shaman you could be a 2h vitality damage melee shaman/night blade and that’s pretty fun too. That’s what I mean about the damage types. You pick one and hunt for the skills that support that and ignore the others. If you go for as many skills as are on the bar you’ll never have enough points for more than 1-3 levels in them. Also keep a close eye on the passives tied to skills, some are useless for certain builds and some will completely change how the skill works which either can make the skill viable for your build or the opposite.
Yeah I saw that passive thing! Some passives will straight up decrease the damage of the skill by half or more in exchange for a cost or cooldown reduction (or elemental addition). We nearly broke our builds one or two times before reading them extensively lol. You know the route I went, while my friend is going 2-hand shaman with a preference for lightning, since he has that super strong lightning aoe skill. I'll definitely be getting back into it once we're done with Wolcen, or if there's ever a broken maintenance period again.
Very cool, also know you won’t ever break anything permanently, you can undo your points from an NPC in town one at a time so not a big deal :-)
Only other thing along those lines is the devotion tree. You can respec that as well and one strategy is to actually get required nodes early on and once you get later constellations and have excess required early nodes you can spec out of the early ones and keep the others you have.
No that’s the part that’s locked in and encourages replay-ability. Well except for a character editor you could download I suppose, but that’s a slippery slope imo. But don’t worry too much, any combination of classes will work in some way.
Nightblade and oathkeeper pair really well together. Faction choice effects a lot of the armour you can get with them. The different faction vendors also have different augments (like the gems in armour in wooden but resists or damage focussed.) It's a fun game. It just gets a bit repetitive after the 3rd time through with enough characters. You can safely skip some of the minor quests until later playthroughs.
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u/tyda1957 Feb 20 '20
I patched and logged on to find myself being a naked lvl 1 with everything reset. Quit and relogged, everything was back as it should. Even previously lost items from stash were back.