Suggestions for a build to try?

[Deliya]

Hey folks!

So I’ve been playing the game since a LOOOONG time ago… I think probably EA patch 0.4 or some such? Anyway, I like the game, and right now it’s just around 10 hours away from overtaking Grim Dawn as my #2 most played game on Steam. Total War Warhammer II takes the #1 spot by a MILE, with 2,200 hours, and LE sitting at 811 hours right now… Anyway, I digress.

So I’ve found myself getting kind of, honestly, bored. I have several characters who can run empowered mono’s. That’s nothing new. But honestly, I’m just kind of bored with all of them. The builds are very straight forward. There’s the fire burst WW pally, a VK smiter, a frostbite mage…

Thing is, all of those builds have one thing in common. It’s either a 1 or 2 buttons for attacks, and the rest are just buffs. With the pally, it’s basically whirlwind or nothing, so you hold that button down, and move around the map. With the sorc, it’s spam attack spell, hold Focus to replenish mana. The rogue… hold down blade dance, occasionally click shadow cascade to clear 2 screens worth of enemies. It’s all a “1-2 punch” type deal, with most of the buttons being used for buffs that have to be spammed, or are auto-generated. Really, the graphics are different, but the mechanics are essentially the same.

I was wondering if anyone has a really niche skill interaction, or a really outside the box build to try. No offense to him, but something the opposite of Boardman’s builds. Those are all very beginner friendly, fairly entry level, and that’s definitely something that people need. But I was wondering if anyone has something really unusual that actually performs really well.

Oh, on an aside, I hate minion builds, because you want to talk about un-involved… yea, no thanks!

I honestly find myself not even enjoying the grind anymore. I’ve only just come back to try out this patch, and have put in some 20 or so hours on it, but honestly I just find myself too worn out on the grind to even get to find a Legendary with more than 1 LP, which means I haven’t even gotten to try out the new dungeon, I’ve just been doing Empowered monos, and messing around with a druid a bit. I was a bit underwhelmed with the Druid stuff though… not that it’s not great, but I wanted to try out swarmblade… but it doesn’t seem to have nearly the synergistic support that werebear does. Bear is cool, but again, pretty same-y.

I need something a bit different! Any suggestions?

[Peki]

Lich, reaper form, death seal, rip blood, low life.
The most fun build I played (also got bored with 2 button builds)
It’s both tanky and big damage

[Heavy]

My most fun Build, that utilizes all 5 skills for the “main damage rotation” is a 5-flow DW Fulgurite Shard Bladedancer.

Smoke Bomb (For % Inc. Buffs and Shadows) + Decoy (For 24 Stacks of Armour Shred + Shadows) + Shift (For Another Shadow and big % inc. for next skill) into Lethal Mirage with as many mirages as possible and extra dmg per shadow consumed.

It’s main rotation is cooldown gated and during downtime your AoE is horrific, but single target during downtime is fine.

This build is absolutely garbage for Arena, but stomps MoF and literally 1-2 rotation bosses up to and including empowered.

Here I explain it on twitch and kill a Normal Shade in one rotation.
This Build can even 1-rotation a Empowered Shade and MoF Bosses (depending on the modifiers obviously), but I didn’t had any available for demonstration purposes at that time. (I even fk’ed up the decoy throw and the Shade didn’t received the 24 Stacks of Armour Shred, because I threw to early)

[Deliya]

Hey, I didn’t know that Heavy also streamed! You learn something new every day.

I’ll have a look at these builds, thanks for the suggestions!

[Neokortex]

This all…

@Deliya

I’m just kind of bored

@Deliya

It’s either a 1 or 2 buttons for attacks

@Deliya

It’s all a “1-2 punch” type dea

…plus this…

@Deliya

are auto-generated

makes me a headache.

BTW:
I don’t know of anyone who wants to permanently press 3, 4 or 5 keys themselves, most people are perfectly happy with 0 to 2 keys.

[Vyrzeden]

Can give the new druid a try. Look at something that utilizes shapeshifting between 2 forms and you’ll have a ton of buttons to press. Might be able to make a tri-form work, but I haven’ tried.