Or you may reduce its level to one, just like “OFF” in a “Albercht Aether Ray” build. These skills might not even apply to your endgame build, just like “Fireblast”. The build is neither strong, weak or anything yet as it’s way too early in the game for you to make your judgement. Or you could pick up “Fireblast/Greater Fireblast” from components and think it’s a strong build… but you’d be wrong. This can be your focus early on and one hit the entire screen as you begin leveling.
Yes it’s true, you could choose “Arcanist” for the first mastery and pick up one of strongest leveling skills such as “Olexra’s Flash Freeze” or “OFF” as some call it. Endgame Skills Might Not Be The Same As Leveling Skills
I’ll try to go into more detail about some of these differences between endgame and leveling in hopes to give new players an idea of what to expect and what to not to. The reality is: There are many ways to level a build, some of which are easier than others, with the endgame result being very different. I have since come to the realization that Grim Dawn is simply unfriendly to beginners… Although, this I consider is totally fine, as Grim Dawn has a very steep learning curve, as I explained in my Grim Dawn review. Other times I’d play another build, following it’s leveling guide on “veteran” difficulty, and would think, “Wow! This build is going to be the easiest to run.” In both cases I came out with false impressions of the game, as what I thought were hard facts, were simply a lack of understanding.
I was perturbed to find in my searches that there were NO beginner leveling guides, so I instead just skipped to ones covering builds. This concept took me some time to get use to, and when I started playing as a newby, I would spend hours looking at Guides. In this second installment, I will continue to give more advice, focusing on the leveling and endgame aspects, and how they are different. In the first part of this beginners guide, I gave players some useful Grim Dawn tips to help them make their way through in a more efficient manner (and find joy in doing so!).