Grim Dawn | Snow Queen | Cold Damage Caster | Build Guide | Jan 2025
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Basic build guide for a cold damage caster character.
Never going to be 'the best build ever' but if you want a fairly easy caster/magic build that can also be viable in the base game (no DLCs), try this one.
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As usual I'm not using enough components - get those resistances up!
Timestamps
0:29 Attributes
1:29 Skills
3:29 Devotions
6:32 Real-time allocation of skills points (lore-note levelling in Ultimate)
7:12 Gear overview
9:26 Chillstrife (weapon) location walkthrough
14:09 Wradlith's Bulwark (shield) location walkthrough
16:32 Ellena's Necklace (amulet) location walkthrough
18:59 Spectral Bludgeon (base-game viable weapon)
19:55 Discussing and looking at potential endgame gear
31:00 Olman's Axe (early game weapon) location walkthrough
31:50 Outro
Original short video showcasing the build
• Snow Queen Teaser Trai...
The mod I use:
Rainbow filter - tooltip text colour changes for items, skills, etc - • Grim Dawn - Rainbow Fi...
With all the editing and re-recording footage, I think I managed to omit the part where I talk about the two one-pointer skills (one from Arcanist, one from Nightblade) that both give 3 seconds of total invulnerability. Grab those, obviously, particularly if you’re risking this build in hardcore.
PoE1 news got me so bad that I went back to this game. and remember the good old times.
Welcome back. Spellbreaker was my first level 100 Nightblade, and it felt giga-squishy... then I played a Reaper and discovered what squishy really was.
Yeah, I'm not even going to admit to the number of deaths on this but it's really just a cosmetic-theme build, no aspirations of being particularly strong in any department.
i only just bought the game and its been such a great time so far
Happy new year Arcade! Glad to see you back!
Thanks!
Love to see ya back! Cold spells are some of my favorites in every game so I'll have to try this!
@@phyisics5375 And it actually works, reasonably, without any damage conversion that I usually can’t live without 👊😂
@@Arcadelife1 I don't remember which video it was in, but the most fun I've had in Grim Dawn was your Leafmane Trophy for inquisitor sigil. That build was so good. I played it 3 times to lvl 100 with different friend groups because it just felt great to me.
@ Heck yeah, that was funny - I originally did it on an Apostate (Inquisitor+Necro) with Namadea’s Eye and a vitality pistol but I’ve since done it on a Vindicator (Inquisitor+Shaman) and that was just as silly. Great to hear you’ve been using that build/concept and having fun with it 👊🙂
Welcome back, Merry christmas and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I thought I was about done getting STEAM achievements until I raise up through the difficulty levels, but suddenly I got a couple of handfuls. Now I've got 111. I think that's 74 left to go. I started this build today, named mine "Winter". Good to have you back. Ciao for now.
@@charlesballard5251 Happy new year to you too 👊🙂
@@Arcadelife1 I thought your Nuclear Olexra and your Acid Damage build were powerful!!! I'm running this one now and she's kicking some SERIOUS ASS!!!! I also farmed Janaxia (sp?) for the Chillblade, but although I got one with +207% Cold Damage and... I think it was higher than +170% Frostburn, I stuck with the Spectral Mace I'd gotten from Wradlith. The bonuses to skills on that thing make it SO much better. Maybe if I get bonuses to the same skills on other gear the Chillblade may then become viable so I'll hold onto it. So far nothing has killed her. I hit at least level 55 before I stopped a few hours ago due to fatigue. Hope you are staying warm. Later.
@ Nice, good to hear you’re enjoying this one 👍
welcome bac, this build looks really good!
thank you and have a great beginning of the year
Cheers, you too.
Thanks, playing GD for the first time and following your build. Enjoying it.
@@timh5962 Cheers for the support, always much appreciated. I hope you have fun with this one, just be prepared to be slightly underwhelmed when fighting ‘cold’ bosses 👊🥶
Craft Deathchill Bolts instead of using Chilled Steel once you hit level 15, it gives you Greater Ice Spike and nice bonuses to cold damage.
Early levels, a few points in iskandra's can help with energy regen. Also, if you have spare points, ring of frost and the pneumatic burst tree are nice additions.
Really cool, interesting build. Thanks for sharing! I'm looking for one more class to push to 100 before the expansion comes out and I may try running this to level the Spellbreaker.
love this ! more snow/ice/cold builds please ! :)
@@akimbo5u Cheers for the interest in this stuff; here’s an older video where I was starting a cold/acid concept build - ruclips.net/video/Vv-soMkT6kY/видео.html
yay! You're back!!
Eventually ;)
Happy New Year John 🎉
Cheers, you too :)
Grim Dawn is an awesome game. I heard they have an Xpack coming later this year.
@@abbynormall207 Yeah, ‘Fangs of Asterkan’ with all sorts of new stuff including a new mastery (class) Berzerker.
Happy new year, happy new gear (yup it's abba) happy new occultist flash freeze evil trozan's.. uh I mean Arcultist, no it's dreeg of shadows. It's a new year, new start! Have fun and fortune in 2025;
Cheers, you too buddy 👊🙂
Awesome work, what build do you consider OP?
@@brianormsby4138 The ones the ultra-expert-pro players create in GD Stash 😂
Sorry, just kidding.
Due to balancing, there are no really silly OP builds, however it is very easy to create an Occultist build using Dreeg’s Evil Eye that can one-shot bosses while levelling in Normal - that’s about as broken as I can get a build in this game.
@ appreciate that 🔥thank you
i love cold damage builds, it's unfortunate it's one of the least supported damage type masteries-wise. Like you got nightblade, arcanist, necromancer and inquisitor, sounds a lot, but it's not the best of synergies, like nothing compared to vitality or fire. At least the devotions and skills are so good it makes up for it somewhat.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@docbacon975 Indeed 👊🙂
Nice build Bro!
This character is from the Loalist Pack 2 right? Can you explain to us what the added value of that DLC is.
€9.00 in the Steamshop.
For just a different outfit I think it's a lot of money! Lol
@@Portawolf It’s a loyalty pack, so yeah it’s just cosmetic stuff that can be bought to give the devs a bit more cash/support. I only bought pack 2, it has a few nice gear illusions that I’ve occasionally used.
OK .. What about just starting AT LEVEL 1🤔 ... showing it from lvl 50 is nice, But.
@@GCDragonfli I’ve done full walkthroughs for other builds, didn’t do one for this one because honestly it’s very straightforward. Ok, might not be ultra-straightforward for a complete beginner but I have other guides on here that I’d say are far more suitable for a complete beginner. And trust me, full walkthroughs get comments such as “An hour??? You could say it in 5 minutes” so there’s no pleasing everyone.
@@Arcadelife1 Understood .. new to your channel and I normally play as Cult and Necro .. But was looking for something different. Thank You for the response. The OldGamer👍
Purely out of interest, what was the loyalty pack with that appearance used, please?
Loyalist pack 2
@@Arcadelife1Thank you :)
Funny. I was trying to make a snow queen for poe2 but the game is unplayable. So maybe i'll try it on this.
why is it unplayable? was gonna get it this week
Is it just me or is no one on line I never see a single game up on multiplayer
@@SlamDance87 In my experience, multiplayer is usually ‘co-op with a mate’ and random glitches. There are probably a few exceptions but I doubt you’ll find many open games where you can join random players. You’d need to be similar levels with similar (preferably exact) quest progression for it to actually work out ok. As I said, ‘in my experience’.