They are pretty rare. I didn’t find my next one until Act 4 I believe. But, not all relics require Tainted Brain Matter either. Some of them require other main ingredients that you haven’t come across yet. Only the starting few relics that you can see require the Tainted Brain Matter, and you won’t see the brain matter again for a long time.
LeeAbe
1683
I had to farm the Warden for Tainted Brain Matter. And he only seems to drop it 1 in 10 times or so.
I lucked out, then! Let’s hope the relic I crafted was worth it.
Those drops will be a bit more common later. You can also obtain some from faction quests. And, in Act 4, you will eventually be able to convert between TBM/Blood of C’thon/Ancient Hearts
I leveled up my Pet class (Conjurer) a little by getting that one through Act 1.
Then I got my Nightblade through Act 1. That character has to chug potions faster than he uses skills, it’s kind of crazy. He is a killing machine like no other though. I was going to make his second class an Occultist, but since I have such trouble staying alive, maybe I should make the second class a Soldier for survivability instead. Or maybe I should keep going as a Nightblade. After all, potions are cheap, and I’m not actually dying, just getting perilously close all the time.
And then I went back to my Arcanist who got a little bit into Demolition. With that one I’ve maxed out Freezing Nova, maxed out Devestation, and maxed out the aura that enhances Devestation. Now I’m just putting points into the enhancing of fire damage in Demolition. I figure that’s better than putting points into Demolition, since I can always get these points back and do that later. I think I was aiming for Blast Shield, so I have to wait until I have enough points that I can reclaim from other skills once I have enough of them to put into Demolition so that I can get to Blast Shield. I still don’t really understand how getting Blast Shield is going to be so awesome, but I’m trusting you on this @Gendal.
I’m up to the point now where I’m asked to pick a side between the two factions. I was going to pick the opposite side than I picked with my Warder, but I looked up the two sides, and the Wiki says this:
[quote]The main reason for choosing one faction over the other is for the faction-specific equipment each offers. Kymon’s Chosen offers support for Physical, Fire, and Lightning damage builds, while Death’s Vigil equipment gives bonuses to Cold, Vitality and Pet damage.
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That’s a little conflicting, considering this character build does both cold and fire damage. Though I guess the cold damage is just to prime them for the fire damage. So I guess I should pick Kymon’s Chosen again. My Conjurer and Nightblade can both pick the other faction.
I haven’t been posting about this game recently, because I’ve been too busy playing it. I’m still obsessed. Currently all my characters except my Witchblade have finished Act 1. My two main characters, the Warder (Druid + Soldier) and the Sorceress (Arcanist + Demolitionist) are both level 52 and are both at the Necropolis.
My Stash is at maximum size and completely filled with ingredients and Blue Items. My characters’ chest inventories are also full for the most part. (The younger characters still have some room).
My Sorceress even has a full regular inventory filled with blue items on top of all that, so only her four “goody bags” are empty on every run.
This game desperately needs more room in the stash! I’ve gotten too used to my almost infinite room in Path of Exile. Especially after buying two Premium Stash bundles.
Gendal
1688
I use GD Stash:
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23414
You can use it to cheat I guess but you don’t have to. I just use it as an infinite bag of holding and move stuff back and forth. Not the easiest thing in the world to use though.
So on Friday, I finished the game using my original character that I first started playing as, the Warder. At first I didn’t know the game was over. There’s no concluding cutscene. But I noticed my quest log was empty. And I discovered a way to go forward and got one more devotion shrine, and found another dungeon.
Is that it then? That was my thought. I backed out to the main menu and was able to start a game on Elite difficulty.
Kind of anti-climatic when I didn’t even realize that I was done. So bizarre.
LeeAbe
1690
IIRC I got credits. Don’t remember much else though.
I want Credits! I wonder why I didn’t get Credits? Did I accidentally click past after I was clicking frantically to kill the final boss?
LeeAbe
1692
I just did a search to see if I am remembering it wrong, and I must be. Other people are complaining of a weird abrupt end.
I finished the game using Gendal’s Glass Cannon build. It was much, much harder than with my Warder. I actually died a few times during the second last battle, and a few times during the last battle as well. That’s the problem with the glass cannon. A lot of damage, but very vulnerable, and I don’t have enough points yet to get Blast Shield yet at level 53, but if I take points away from other skills, I could get there. I’m wondering if I should do that as I start playing Elite @Gendal? Lower my damage output in favor of starting to put points into Blast shield maybe?
Tonight when I get home, I’ll be starting Tyranny, the new game by Obsidian, so I’ll likely put this on hold for a while. Having finished the game on Veteran with two characters does seem like a decent time to take a break.
Gendal
1694
Right before the end of the first difficulty I switched over to Callidor’s Tempest + Blast shield, which it sounds like you are overdue for - Flash Freeze starts to quickly lose stopping power in Elite. I face tanked everything and was still face tanking half way through Ultimate. No more glass cannon. Note this end game build depends heavily on a rare crafted rune I still don’t have for ULTIMATE POWER but I haven’t needed it yet.
Maven’s protection is good if you are still taking too much damage.
Hey, question for the Grim Dawn pros here: I just re-picked up GD and am playing - hit level 11 this morning, so it’s obviously still quite early. However, I’m trying to figure out where I can buy mana, uh, energy potions. I have only found one vendor in town, the guy who’s gated by Town Faction Reputation. Is he the only place where you can buy items in the first Act? I played through to the low 20s a while ago and I vaguely thought there were other vendors around. Am I crazy?
That’s a good question. I haven’t bought potions in a long time. But there are other vendors. You find a vendor in Act 1, and he sets up close to that guy that you’re talking about. And when you do a quest or two, you’re able to open that gate and get into a second area, and there’s a vendor in there too, but he’s a faction vendor and he doesn’t sell that type of potion.
I wonder if that’s the quest to rescue some woman’s brother who’s trapped in the basement of some place or other. I haven’t done many quests yet … I collected something like 8 quests and most of them are still undone - I keep wondering if I’m missing stuff but IIRC most of the quests happen near the mansion grounds that mark the end of Act 1, before you go down, down, down to the boss dude inside.
Maybe I’ll rescue the dude and see if he (or if his sister) becomes the vendor I was thinking about.
Thanks!
I think I need new glasses. I completely missed a vendor in the first town, to the left of the gates. I think the vendor icon is simply not visible enough for me. Problem solved!
Obviously I’m late to the party since most people played this last year and have moved on, but in case anyone is thinking of getting this from the Humble Bundle: I’m really digging it as of now. Almost to the end of Act 1 and having a good time. So these impressions are from the early game for sure.
Pros:
- love the character building.
- killing bosses and having them explode in a shower of loot - always a lot of fun
Cons:
- the areas you traverse are so convoluted, with all sorts of side areas and basements and caves - I’ve found it moderately difficult to complete quests where I’m looking for different mobs, since the areas all seem to intertwine.
- I’m never quite sure if there is a shrine in the area (maybe I just don’t understand how to read the world map? It seems like they show up after you cleanse them but I don’t see them prior to that, so I’m always wondering if I missed one somewhere)
- I don’t find the music particularly engaging.
- they love their drab colors. everything feels way too dark.
- and (as has been discussed above a lot) there are too many resistances!
Don’t be swayed by the number of pros and cons. The pros far outweigh the cons here, and it’s a lot of fun.
LeeAbe
1701
Shrines show up on the map once you get close enough to uncover them. On your first play through, you should be scouring every corner of the map for bosses, treasure, shrines anyway.
