Grim Dawn | Olexra's Flash FIRESTORM | Crazy Damage Conversion | June 2024

[@LordMagiru]

Oh wow I have to try this out! Been wanting to make a fire build that takes advantage of OFF for a while but I didn't expect it to be possible to make it this bonkers. This is why I love your channel man.

[@Arcadelife1]

Thanks for the support. It's fun to apply a bit of "What if?" to the infinite potential combinations of gear and skills in the game. The possibility of a pure fire OFF at low level occurred to me while I was on the character before this one trying to max out vitality-to-fire conversion using various random bits of gear. The Riftclaw Slicer is incredibly versatile, I'll say that! Necro mastery might feel wasted here, until you factor in the 100% aether-to-fire conversion that comes for free with the Slicer, then it all starts to get a lot more entertaining.

[@Blowfeld20k]

😁👍😁👍😁👍 GUD LAD!!!! Forgot to say, somewhat unnecessarily as am sure you know, there are LOTS of items that buff Flash freeze, a lot of the spectral stuff like the maces often have Flash freeze buffs. My current Nightblade/Arcanist is cold+lightning, and he has a bunch of items that hugely buff flash freeze. Methinks this could get quite silly if you lean into it Keep up the good work m8 😁

[@charlesballard5251]

I watched this vid last week. Just came back again to watch it in preparation for trying it myself. Looks like FUN!!!!

[@Niyabella]

Great video. Love your enthusiasm! Would love to see more weird builds! Im currently trying to make a cold cabalist work for s6. :)

[@Arcadelife1]

Thanks for the support. Keep on experimenting with weird ideas. Nothing inherently wrong with copying builds that are proven to work (I’ve certainly done it) but there’s an infinite seam of pure-gold fun to be mined if we abandon the meta and embrace the silly 👊🙂

[@michaeltrull5788]

Trying this and its amazing! thanks man

[@Arcadelife1]

@@michaeltrull5788 Thanks for the comment, and for trying this out. I took it into Ultimate and it still worked fine 👊🙂

[@Cannovich]

Hell yea man! Good stuff!

[@alexeiboukirev8357]

Brilliant! Before watching I was wondering if it still freezes the enemies as description says. And you demonstrated that it does. A lot of potential with this build.

[@Arcadelife1]

Yeah, once the fire-freeze ability is working, there are lots of options for developing the build. All I wanted to do was demonstrate how the freeze skill could (fairly) easily be converted to fire/burn because I hadn’t seen it done like this before and it seemed like the sort of thing that would interest players.

[@chris34668]

congrats

[@Quoxz]

+1 For weird builds. This is what I love about Grim Dawn.

[@namazu1337]

You are a mad genius 😆

[@Arcadelife1]

Thank you. The insanity, definitely. Genius possibly a little exaggerated 👊😜

[@charlesballard5251]

I've got a Spellbinder I've been working on for a couple of days. I started her as a pure Skeleton summoning Necromancer, and as soon as she had that line maxed I started to add in the necessaries to give her the ability to nuke. I'll let you know how it goes.

[@idontwannaknow0]

Very interesting. Never noticed that item before, it also has vitality to fire conversion too! maybe dual wield it with blightlord set and attach imp devotion to ravenous earth, or even make a melee build. Definitely some inventive combos could be created with this

[@Arcadelife1]

@@idontwannaknow0 It’s one of the most extreme (for conversion) items in the game, in my opinion. Well worth messing about with 👊🙂

[@aroundthefur1210]

@arcadelife Would you consider doing a video that goes over how to filter out items and make sense of all the drops. I know the basic loot filter options but this game has so much gear dropping I find myself getting lost in what is an upgrade/side grade. Do you always prioritize offense over defense? Do you normally find that your damage is high enough and you just need more defense? I know its all on a personal feel level, but if you have any pointers or recommendations, that would be awesome. You have a great voice and your passion for this game really shines through in your videos. I enjoy listening to you talk about Grim Dawn.

[@Arcadelife1]

Thanks for the comment, always great (and frequently surprising) to be told I have a good voice for this stuff! I should do a video about loot and associated priorities. It seems simple to me, but that’s probably because I’ve been playing the game for so long and take many things for granted now. At a basic level: 1 - I only ever use loot filter to turn off white and yellow items. Edit - I use the rainbow item filter (mod) to change the colours of text in tooltips and I’ve learned to subconsciously identify damage types etc from the text colours so I’m technically filtering the items in my head without really concentrating on doing it. 2 - I tend to look at one skill (possibly two if they are both crucial to what I’m trying to do) and see how easy it is to buff them with gear in the early game. Note - I always level these builds naturally for the videos on here, I don’t create level 100 characters in GD Stash with endgame gear. It’s worth knowing that this is how ‘some’ of the ‘best builds ever’ are created. It’s not wrong, just not something new-ish players might be aware of. 3 - I do generally prioritise damage over defence until it feels like I need to improve defence, or I’m heading into Ultimate, or I’m playing in hardcore, or … other reasons. I’ll put all this in a short-ish video; thanks for the suggestion 👊🙂

[@aroundthefur1210]

@@Arcadelife1 thank you so much for the reply! Always excited to watch any of your new vids and I’ll look forward to this one sometime down the road!

[@Capa330]

Hi, that weapon drop very well during solael quest north of vanguard of the three (bloodied wastes). The boss in there (Onarix) drop it almost every run.

[@Arcadelife1]

Thanks, yeah I’m sure someone commented this in the first Fire Eye of Reckoning video. My intention here was to get the 100% conversion as soon as possible so the Bysmiel quest in Conclave was the quickest, even if the drop rate there is very low. I’ll probably go with Solael in Ultimate because I can slow-farm the Bysmiel quest area in Normal until I unlock the Solael quest area in Ultimate.

[@sp10sn]

Interesting. I play pet builds. Maybe this is what a pack of fire skeletons needs to push over the top.

[@Arcadelife1]

You could try it. But when it crashes and burns, I didn’t say that 👊😜

[@SimbaXp]

aether ray and devastation would be converted to fire damage only that way as well, right?

[@charlesballard5251]

Have you done any more with this build? Can we get a vid?

[@Arcadelife1]

@@charlesballard5251 thanks for the interest There are these two, a couple of short ones - the 2nd one is mostly in ultimate kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJDEYZuBqdJkeqs kzbin.info/www/bejne/j37Kh32AYrWEjK8 I will probably go back to this character at some point.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

do you have a guide on damage conversions etc. i can imagine thereis something of a priority system, because lots of items convert type, adds %, it gets confusing at times.

[@Arcadelife1]

Basic guide is conversion first, buffs after. So if you have an item converting cold to fire (damage over time versions included) you will want to be buffing the fire damage, not the cold damage. I do have a damage conversion video or two on here somewhere; I’ll find them and link them in another reply.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

@@Arcadelife1 cheers man, appreciated!

[@Arcadelife1]

An old video about damage conversion - kzbin.info/www/bejne/maXNZ35vlNtpmqM

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

@@Arcadelife1 cheers!

[@renzocolombano2343]

wow nice build, i want to see the full planner

[@Arcadelife1]

Thanks for the interest. I’ll figure out the rest of this character, just wanted to prove (to myself) that it’s fairly simple to convert Olexra’s to full fire/burn without needing random endgame sets or whatever. Nice when an idea actually works out 👊🙂

[@renzocolombano2343]

@@Arcadelife1 im watch out when u stream

[@bpfrosty4124]

I want to combine this with Kyzogg’s Skull and Callidor’s Tempest for double NUKE

[@Arcadelife1]

@@bpfrosty4124 Yeah that will certainly work. The converted Olexra’s is a decent starting point, then just go with whatever else looks like it will be fun 👊🙂

[@charlesballard5251]

Been through the VEILED DEN 4 times or more, and I have yet to see ANY form of RIFTCLAW SLICER!!! AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

[@Arcadelife1]

@@charlesballard5251 Yes, it’s a very (very) low drop rate since patch 1.2. I did about a dozen runs at level 23 a few days ago and got three drops, one level 24 and two level 40s. Good luck 🤞

[@charlesballard5251]

@@Arcadelife1 I started the game this morning and started ACT II so I could get the 3rd inventory bag. Once I did so I emptied my inventory and went to the VEILED DEN. I went through once and when I went to empty my bags I discovered I had one!!!! It's not the same prefixes and affixes you have, but it does the 100% conversion to fire. Came here to watch the vid again. Later.

[@Arcadelife1]

@@charlesballard5251 Well done - don’t worry about the affixes, it’s too much hassle to get any kind of a drop to think about farming for good affix rolls … until you get to Ultimate 😜

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Is it combinable with the devotion that reduces cooldowns? the hourglass? boom, boom, boom 😂 i had maaaany hours in this game, and it still surprised me

[@Arcadelife1]

Anything reducing cooldown (including that hourglass) will work with it. Unless it’s specifically reducing cooldown of a different named skill, of course. Cheers for the interest in this 👊🙂

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

@@Arcadelife1 oh i love this stuff haha. played a Lot, then few years break, picked it up recently. its a really good game

[@TeslaRifle]

neat!

[@alexanderpal476]

I found this scepter,but now it is only from level 40.Not 24

[@Arcadelife1]

Depends what level the enemies are when you get the item drop. Also the affixes (prefix and suffix) roll randomly and can increase the item level depending on their rarity. Trust me, the item drops at lower levels than 40 and this hasn’t changed any time recently.

[@alexanderpal476]

@@Arcadelife1 I will test it.Thank you.

[@ratatoskr1069]

I always thought that olexras effect reduces the fire resistance, not the frost blast itself. So you do the blast, the enemy gets hit, and while frozen, its fire res ist reduced. The way you present it is, that while the enemy is hit by the first shockwave of frost, that his fire resistance is reduced simultaneously. Is that the case?

[@Arcadelife1]

Yeah, it’s not exactly straightforward and (as usual) I probably don’t explain this stuff clearly. The cold/frostburn damage is separate from the resistance reduction. Some enemies are very resistant to being frozen so their time affected by the resistance reduction is limited. This is why I get so excited about being able to convert the damage of the skill to fire/burn - there’s no need to try spamming a fire/burn attack in the hope of hitting an enemy in a 1-second window when they’re affected by the resistance reduction of OFF because the OFF skill itself is now applying fire/burn damage to them. This makes a big difference to how effective the skill is, and how fire-damage buffs can be stacked without even thinking about buffing cold damage because it’s no longer involved at all. The ‘freeze’ effect is not associated with the damage type, it works with the default damage type and it works with 100% fire conversion. Edit - you can see in the Necropolis fight that the larger enemies are being frozen and then taking fire/burn damage, while the smaller enemies are instantly vaporised due to the lowered resistance and immediate damage from fire. The small ones are probably being frozen but they’re dying so quickly it’s not easy to see.

[@ratatoskr1069]

@@Arcadelife1 Thanks for explaining.

[@ufke]

oh the posibilities

[@datbui0]

How can we kill some boss with this crazy skill? :D

[@Arcadelife1]

@@datbui0 Yes

[@epyjacek]

How much CDR can we realistically stack?

[@Arcadelife1]

CDR? The minor loophole I’m exploiting here is the fire damage resistance reduction active while enemies are frozen by Olexra’s, by changing the flat damage dealt by Olexra’s from Cold to Fire. The resistance reduction itself is one type (out of three) and it’s the type that can stack (the percentage with a minus sign in front of it). In addition to stacking this -n% value, there’s also the n% value which doesn’t stack and the flat value (example on Roman’s Crown skill) which also doesn’t stack but both these other RR types can be applied at the same time as the -n% value.

[@epyjacek]

Oh sorry, Cool Down Reduction. Old habit from the Diablo 2 days.​@@Arcadelife1

[@Arcadelife1]

@@epyjacek Yeah, sorry, I figured out CDR after replying but it’s not really a primary concern for this build. There are ways to significantly reduce the cooldown using gear but my weapon slot is taken by the only thing that gives 100% cold to fire and 100% aether to fire. I’ll do a ‘crazy CDR’ build at some point, it should be fun 👍

[@epyjacek]

​@@Arcadelife1 flash freeze with nearly 100% CDR would be bonkers. Is there a cap on CDR?

[@Arcadelife1]

@@epyjacek It’s challenging to stack a lot of it. Bloodlord Thalonis drops a weapon that has a 12% chance to do 100% cooldown reduction (generic) so in theory you could dual-wield that item and, again in theory, double the chance for the CDR. However, equipping the weapon would tend to restrict you to fire/chaos damage but that’s not necessarily a bad thing (Doom Bolt obviously). The item is this: www.grimtools.com/db/items/2779

[@travissullivan6575]

I wish the damage wasn't related to the freeze. I'd use that skill way more. It has great damage, but if it doesn't freeze, none of the damage goes live T.T (this is one thing I wish they would change in the next patch)

[@Arcadelife1]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Most enemies do freeze, if only briefly, and having the skill damage as fire/burn means they take max damage even if only for a tenth of a second or whatever. Enemies massively resistant to freeze would probably need a single-target skill aimed at them anyway. I’ve been using fireblast as RMB attack and I’ll put Eldritch Fire devo on it - should be decent until I decide what else I’m going to do with this character.

[@bertmanize]

High score on weird builds: Rektbyprotos. buzzz no. The grandmaster has arrived, it's... Arcadelife once again. Brilliant! If only Olexras would hit bosses, this would be soo great. Bt I've been thinking about it to do an Olexras/Blade trap build, because both don't work on bosses. What are we doing to ourselves?? Where having fun!!😆 Is it gonna work?? Who cares, the funfactor makes this playable by a lot. That is why I did the aether Mortar trap buld, because there isn't a single item in the game that supports that and it worked! But we are still not gonna discuss the physical Panetti build. legal issues are at stake here! Anyway I can see the fun yr gonna to have with this. kuddos to you weird man. keep the weirdness coming, it's like a bright light on an otherwise bland meta. I hope this was enough of a big comment for you. (otherwise I could explain the antropy principle, or explain why the closest disctance between two dots isn't a straight line. Damn you schools for teaching us such lies!) Anyway I'm gonna have a sip of my beer and look foreward to more insanity that you are going to concoct. Stay gold Ponyboy stay gold.🤗

[@Arcadelife1]

As always, huge thanks for the huge comment. The one big thing this Olexra experiment has taught me - it’s never too late to find even more stupid stuff to do in this game. Beronath Reforged might be the key to extreme silliness, who knows?