


This included my page full of item ingredients, damn it. I exited and went into the game, and all my transfer stash was gone! I hit import, and found my transfer stash file and chose it, but still nothing. I stumbled around in their interface, and couldn’t find my items. I turned off cloud saves in Steam and in the game, and I moved my save game over to the directory they wanted, and I ran the assistant. OK Gendal, I downloaded this Item Assistant thingie. Given that drops are completely random it’s far more necessary in GD to have unlimited inventory than something like Diablo 3. The key point is it’s much easier to look through than the normal grim dawn interface. You leave all your crafting in your normal shared inventory and put the rest that you want to keep (blues and purples for me) in the external program. If I had unlimited space, I’d be mired down in inventory even more, I think. I’m over 100 hours with Grim Dawn, and like with Titan Quest, sad to realise I’ve only scratched the surface of the possibilities that character development provides. Or I could start a whole new Necro toon and mix in a bit of nightblade or soldier with the necro’s sweet attack buff skills that he/she has. Of course I could put points into shaman to get more pets and utilise the bonuses. Looking over the skill tree offers so much potential. With devotions to keep on buffing the stats of my pets, everything dies quick. All I’ve done so far with my character is a strict pet based class where I’ve maxed my skeletons and have also levelled up my blight fiend. With the necromancer, all I can say is “Wow.” Actually, I have more to add than that. Once I reached Ultimate, I was dying too much, didn’t care for doing another massive respec and decided to try out the Necromancer class. The killer was the lack of meaningful loot progression for that character through the end stages of Elite difficulty. I ended up retiring my own Purifier for the time being.

Both should be interesting to try out with the gamepad. One uses two handed weapons (the warder) and the other dual-wields swords (nightblade). I think the next character that I’m going to try with the gamepad will be either my Warder (Soldier + Shaman) (level 61), who I haven’t played since last year, or my Nightblade (level 25 or so). It can be done, but it’s so much easier with the mouse. You can trade with merchants and sort inventory using the mouse while in town, so don’t try to mess with that stuff with the gamepad. You can put up buffs that toggle on while you’re in town. No use wasting buttons on the gamepad for buffs when the mouse will get the job done. So for example, when I first start up Grim Dawn for the evening and log in as a character, and I need to put on my buffs, I do that with the mouse. I’m pretty sure there’s a default assignment for the d-pad already, but I hate d-pads in general, and the 360 d-pad is notoriously not great anyway.įor everything else I switch to mouse and keyboard. The sticks are not all that convenient to click all the time.Īnd I definitely don’t assign or use the d-pad for anything, though I suppose I could. Stuff that I need to do relatively rarely. I use these for abilities that I don’t use as often as the main 6. You could change them, but I figure that’s a pretty good setup. These are really easy to press, and should be the main abilities you use. If you regularly use more than 6 abilities, it gets a bit iffy. I can see the gamepad working well with any class where you only need to do 6 abilities at the most. It’s very satisfying to put your main attacks on the triggers and pow pow pow, the monsters are pushed back before they get to you. Basically the Purifier is a dual-gunslinger. Unfortunately, I haven’t tried other classes with the gamepad yet, so I don’t know who else works well. The Purifier works beautifully with the gamepad. Any suggested builds that work well with a gamepad? I think in the next month or two I’ll pick up the expansion and get back into this.
