There are ways to route the devotion path that end up removing points fewer times, but this route gets you RR (Assassin’s Blade), movement speed (Sailor’s Guide), and ADCtH (Toad) early as well as relatively early Dire Bear and Ulzaad. Toad (This is our choice for the extra greens we’ll need for Berserker.) (Remember, you can remove devotion points!)Īlternately, if you’re looking for a complete devotion route, here is one (but not the only) possibility: One thing we might do is take Hawk first, complete Berserker, and then remove Hawk, since we no longer need the 3 extra greens. So in this case, in order to get Berserker, we can acquire Ulzaad first for 2 greens, but in order to start putting points into Berserker, we need to temporarily get 3 more greens from somewhere else. and used Poison Res augment where that Kymon’s augment was. I used Lightning Res component in Belt instead of Ugdenbog Leather. In general, devotion completion bonuses for a given constellation can count towards its affinity requirement, but only AFTER the constellation has been completed. Anyway, here’s a fix for the character in the OP if you have such problem Oppressor, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.7) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator. There are 5 total greens taken in this devotion map, 2 coming from Ulzaad, and 3 coming from Berserker itself. I quite like the S&B BA leveling, it’s fun but not as efficient as FW or Shaman’s Primal Strike in early levels. So, level with two-handers (either BA or FW) first and get the items, then switch to S&B BA. It adds the so needed flat phys to the base skill. Rush the Laceration node in the skill tree, too. However, the whole setup really clicks in around level 35 - 40, when you have all the core items: Slicer, Harvest, Fangs and Baltha’s medal. Both give flat dmg to BA, which is what the skill needs a lot. On the other hand, BA has a slew of easy-to-get support items, like Mogara’s Fangs (amulet, available at lvl. Better go with 2h BA or 2h Forcewave (likely the spam version, even though CD FW got some nice buffs). And sice early 1h weapons have a rather low damage… yeah.

No flat phys dmg like on Forcewave or other bonuses.

If you look at its tooltip carefully, you notice the skill only takes weapon damage and adds some bleed dmg to it. However, both the helmet bonuses and Safeguard flat phys got nerfed in 1.1.9.6, making this way of leveling even more lackluster. It was… quite lackluster in early levels (before getting the Slicer and Harvest), despite highly noticeable damage support from Milton’s Casque (Shield Training mods) and Safeguard.

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