Builds and Glitches
6 years ago
Podlaskie, Poland
Megami_infini
She/Her, They/Them
6 years ago

So I want to learn the run, currently watching Boarum's run to do it, but I thought I'll ask if you can tell me what build to do(what skills and stats to level and in what order) and what to look for on gear? Also glitches in a run, how to perform them?

Michigan, USA

Hello KrusKader welcome!

The first big question is, do you have ashes of malmouth? If so there is a separate board for that and most of the glitches no longer work.

If not, I think most runs of base game are run on an old version...I'll have to double check with either Freezard or Boarum on that. Most of the runs utilize nightblade for use of the movement skill and Phantasmal Blades. As for other stuff, I sadly haven't run it recently enough to remember. If you have discord, the vast majority of grim dawn speedrunners tend to congregate in Boarum's discord https://discord.gg/AbGyqux . Feel free to join and chat with us there if you want. Otherwise I will get either Freezard or Boarum to check this post and get back with you.

Cheers

California, USA

Hi there!

If you're going to be running vanilla (i.e., not Ashes of Malmouth), I believe we were running that on version 1.0.0.5 before AoM came out. If you have the Steam version there should be a thread I made here somewhere detailing how to downpatch the game on Steam.

The two major glitches are the item glitch and the stat point glitch. The item glitch is pretty easy, just in a multiplayer game (you don't have to have anyone in it, you can just host a local LAN game with just you) you can activate an item that has a duration-based buff and then unequip/re-equip the item and that makes the buff permanent until either you use the skill again or you quit the game. The biggest application of this is the bone talisman you get from the rover elder in act 2.

The stat point glitch is a bit more complicated and kind of inconsistent/hardware dependent, but the main idea behind that is you hold down printscreen or whatever your screenshot button is to lock the game up, and while the game is locked you mash on a button to assign an attribute point. The game regards all of those presses during the lockup as having occurred on the same frame and doesn't check whether you actually have the stat points to assign, basically allowing you to infinitely dupe attribute points. It also works for stuff like crafting, but again, it's kind of inconsistent.

Like Zen said though all of this was patched out before AoM, so if you're going to be running the expansion that's done glitchless at the moment.

As far as builds go, for the glitched vanilla route the fastest build was just pure nightblade with phantasmal blades as your DPS. The optimal build for AoM is still kind of up in the air, we've tried ravenous earth, storm totems, wind devils, and a few other things but nothing has really popped out as clearly better yet. No matter what ends up being the best DPS though, the best build is pretty much guaranteed to use nightblade as a subclass because of shadow strike and pneuma.

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