Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth release date announced

[Stg-Flame]

Information: PATCH NOTES AT BOTTOM
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56129
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56366
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56477
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz2Z6hN5YBs

Release Date: October 11th!

Availability: Steam, GoG, and Humble Store

Price: $17.99

If you're a fan of Diablo 2 and Titan Quest, I highly suggest you look into Grim Dawn. The base game has been out a while and everything is pretty much polished to a mirror sheen. Now we just have to wait for the expansion to be released.

I might as well slap the comparison stats on the first post so people can get an idea of how much content is in the expansion: http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15650&d=1506108895

Spoiler: Patch Notes

V1.0.2.0

[Major New Features]

• The game engine has received a major overhaul to its renderer, allowing the game to run on DirectX11. While results will vary from system to system, this will generally result in improved performance.

[Game]

• Rare Crafting Materials (ex. Blood of Ch'thon) can now be placed in the Transfer Stash.
• Adjusted overall loot tables scaling with level. They now drop significantly less Common and Single Affix items as player level increases. This change also applies to the Crucible.
• Increased drop rate of Rare items at all levels, scaling with game difficulty. This works in conjunction with above. Not only will less Single Affix items drop, but more of the Double Affix items will have at least one Affix of Rare Quality. Rare item drop rates remain unchanged in the Crucible.
• Improved results from Random Crafting Blueprints. They will no longer generate single affix items. Items that roll a Rare affix will instead roll a Rare Affix + Magic Affix. In addition, the chance of generating a double Rare item from crafting has been increased. Increased chance of rolling a Rare Affix on Single-Affix Rare quality blueprints.
• Increased drop rate of Ectoplasm from Ghosts
• Increased drop rate of Frozen Hearts and Mutated Scales from Slith
• Increased drop rate of Components from Chthonic Cultists, particularly of Consecrated Wrappings
• Updated many spell and damage effects with more efficient particle counts and less bright spots, reducing the intensity of these effects when multiple overlap and marginally improving performance.
• Inquisitor Creed and Kasparov have received new VO

[Itemization]

• Increased base Conversion on Unique 2h Melee and Ranged weapons by 15%, on 2h Monster Infrequents by 3% and on 2h Rare Prefixes by 10%
• Adjusted skill proc damage on various Legendary items
• Replaced all sources of flat and % Life Leech damage and retaliation on equipment and skill procs. Note: this does not affect sources of Attack Damage Converted to Health, which remain unchanged.
• Epic - Apothecary's Injector: replaced Leech damage with 28 Defensive Ability
• Epic - Bloodreaper's Cleaver: replaced chance of Leech damage with 20 Offensive Ability
• Epic - Empowered Apothecary's Injector: replaced Leech damage with 48 Defensive Ability
• Epic - Empowered Bloodreaper's Cleaver: increased Offensive Ability to 45, removed chance of Leech damage
• Epic - Empowered Headhunter's Trophy: replaced % Life Leech damage with 5% Attack Damage Converted to Health
• Epic - Empowered Omen: replaced Life Leech damage Retaliation with 150 Health
• Epic - Empowered Thirsting Maw: increased % Health Regen to 24% and Offensive Ability to 45, removed chance of Leech damage
• Epic - Eyes of the Reaper: increased Defensive Ability to 40, removed chance of Leech damage
• Epic - Flesheater Legwraps: replaced Life Leech damage with 3% Attack Damage Converted to Health
• Epic - Headhunter's Trophy: replaced % Life Leech damage with 8% Attack Damage Converted to Health, replaced Life Leech damage with Bleed damage / 3s
• Epic - Scythe of Tenebris: increased % Attack Damage Converted to Health to 14%, removed chance of Leech damage
• Epic - Spaulders of Mogdrogen: replaced % Lightning/Electrocute damage with 16% Elemental Resist. Increased Offensive Ability to 34
• Epic - Thirsting Maw: increased % Health Regen to 20% and Offensive Ability to 28, removed chance of Leech damage
• Legendary - Bane of the Winter King: all base damage has been converted to Cold damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Cold removed.
• Legendary - Beastcaller's Cowl: reduced duration on granted skill to 12s and reduced cooldown to 20s, added flat Physical damage
• Legendary - Beastcaller's Shroud: added 22 Defensive Ability
• Legendary - Beastcaller's Shoulderpads: added 22 Defensive Ability
• Legendary - Damnation: replaced chance of Leech damage with 180 Health
• Legendary - Demonslayer's Life-Ender: all base damage has been converted to Vitality damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Vitality removed.
• Legendary - Harbinger of Eternal Suffering: all base damage has been converted to Chaos damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Chaos removed. % Physical/Trauma damage replaced with Health.
• Legendary - Hellborne: all base damage has been converted to Fire damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Fire removed.
• Legendary - Mask of the Harbinger: replaced % Physical/Trauma damage with 14% Bleed Resist
• Legendary - Meatwall: replaced Life Leech damage Retaliation with 6% Attack Damage Converted to Health
• Legendary - Nightshade's Reach: all base damage has been converted to Acid damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Acid removed.
• Legendary - Infernal Brimstone: all base damage has been converted to Fire damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Fire removed.
• Legendary - Leviathan: increased % Physical Resist to 15%
• Legendary - Mantle of Mogdrogen: replaced % Lightning/Electrocute damage with 18% Elemental Resist and 25% Chaos Resist. Increased Offensive Ability to 52. Changed trigger for Lightning Bolt proc to 100% chance when Hit. Added 10 Lightning damage for pets.
• Legendary - Siegebreaker: reduced % Physical resist to 16%
• Legendary - Soulrend: reduced % Crit damage to 14%, reduced % Cooldown Reduction to 16% and reduced Frostburn damage
• Legendary - Stonefist Rebuke: added 14% Cast Speed
• Legendary - Stormreaver: all base damage has been converted to Lightning damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Lightning removed.
• Legendary - Temporal Arcblade: all base damage has been converted to Aether damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Aether removed.
• Legendary - The Deathmark Set: increased % Pierce Resist Reduction on the granted skill to -15%
• Legendary - The Northern Wyrm: all base damage has been converted to Cold damage, values adjusted accordingly. % Physical converted to Cold removed.
• Legendary - Ultos' Stormseeker: increased % Cooldown Reduction to 16%, added 16% Cast Speed
• Legendary - Ulzuin's Flamespreader: increased Health to 300
• Legendary - Ulzuin's Headguard: reduced % Fire/Lightning Resist Reduction on the skill proc to -10%
• Legendary - Warpfire: reduced % Fire Resist Reduction on the skill proc to -15%
• Legendary - Wildblood Crusher: all base damage has been converted to Vitality damage, values adjusted accordingly.
• Faction - Death's Force: increased Defensive Ability, removed chance of Leech damage
• Relic - Primal Instinct: reduced attack rate of Swarmlings, reduced Summon Limit to 5
• Component - Arcane Spark: recipe updated. Rather than requiring a Vengeful Wraith, now requires an Ectoplasm and a Chilled Steel.
• Component - Haunted Steel: recipe updated. Rather than requiring a Chilled Steel, now requires a Polished Emerald.
• Component - Vengeful Wraith: recipe updated. Rather than requiring a Chthonic Seal of Binding, now requires an Aether Crystal.

[Class & Skills]
Devotion

• On Hit and On Low Health Celestial Powers can now be assigned to the Arcanist Mastery's Arcane Will and Soldier Mastery's Fighting Spirit and Menhir's Will. Any assigned powers will have a chance to trigger while the respective buff is active.
• Aetherfire: increased Fire and Aether damage scaling with rank
• Autumn Boar: added 10% Reflect Resist
• Bat: replaced chance of Leech damage and % Leech damage with 10 Offensive Ability, 6 Vitality damage and 30% Vitality Decay damage
• Blind Sage: increased Offensive Ability by 20
• Crane: added 8% Bleed Resist
• Eye of the Guardian: added 8 Defensive Ability and 12 Offensive Ability. Reduced % Chaos damage by 10%.
• Gallows: replaced chance of Leech damage Retaliation with 10% Bleed Resist
• Ghoul: replaced Leech damage with 3% Health
• Light of Empyrion: added 6-10 Physical damage, 80% Physical damage and 6% Health for the player and 6% Health for pets. Reduced % Elemental Resist for player and pets by 10%. Reduced Fire damage to 6-10.
• Obelisk of Menhir: added 18% Armor Absorption, added 120 Pierce Retaliation, reduced % Armor by 1%
• Raven: increased % All damage to 20% and Offensive Ability to 20, added 6 Lightning damage for pets
• Scholar's Light: increased Defensive Ability to 15 and Energy Regen to 2.5
• Vulture: replaced flat Life Leech Damage with 80 Health and 200 Energy. Replaced % Life Leech Damage with 8% Chaos Resist.
• Wendigo: increased Vitality Decay damage to 12, removed % Leech damage
• Blizzard: reduced Frostburn damage scaling with rank, increased Cold damage scaling with rank
• Fissure: reduced Burn damage scaling with rank
• Flame Torrent: reduced Burn damage scaling with rank
• Ghoulish Hunger: increased % Attack Damage Converted to Health to 35% at rank 1, 75% by rank 20, removed flat and % Leech damage
• Guardian's Gaze: increased Poison damage scaling with rank
• Light of Empyrion (Celestial Power): increased % Weapon damage to 48% by rank 10. Rebalanced damage as a combination of Physical and Fire, removed Burn damage. Replaced chance to confuse with 1.8s Knockdown.
• Raise the Dead: now activates on Attack, duration of raised skeletons reduced. Attack speed of Skeletons increased by 20%. Skeletons now charge more readily and are immune to slows.
• Stone Form: replaced % Armor, % Armor Absorption and Pierce Resistance with flat damage Absorption similar to Blast Shield and Overguard. Increased % All Retaliation Damage.

Soldier

• Markovian's Advantage: increased % Weapon damage to 128%
• Zolhan's Technique: increased base % Weapon damage to 110%, reduced scaling for ranks 2-12 such that the rank 12 value is still 175%

Demolitionist

• Mortar Trap: increased rate of fire by 15%

Occultist

• Ember Claw: increased damage scaling with rank, reduced cooldown by 25%
• Infernal Breath: reduced cooldown by 25%
• Lightning Strike: reduced cooldown by 25%

Nightblade

• Belgothian's Shears: increased animation speed by 20%
• Nightfall: replaced flat Leech damage with Vitality Decay damage and 5% Attack Damage Converted to Health, reduced Frostburn damage scaling with rank
• Whirling Death: increased base % Weapon damage by 5%

Arcanist

• Manifestation: increased % Physical converted to Elemental for pets to 45% by rank 3

Shaman

• Brute Force: increased Lightning damage scaling with rank to 71 by rank 12, 175 by max ultimate rank. Can now be used with Two-Handed Ranged Weapons.
• Feral Hunger: increased base % Weapon damage to 110%, scaling to 160% by rank 10, 210% by max ultimate rank and Bleed damage to 102 by rank 10, 230 by max ultimate rank, reduced % Damage Converted to Health to 33% by rank 10, 40% by max ultimate rank. Can now be used with Two-Handed Ranged Weapons.
• Upheaval: increased base % Weapon damage scaling with rank to 155% by rank 10, 185% by max ultimate rank. Can now be used with Two-Handed Ranged Weapons.
• Emboldening Roar: renamed to Emboldening Presence, now a toggled aura. Bonuses adjusted.
• Ground Slam: reduced cooldown by 25%
• Entangling Vines: replaced Life Leech damage with Vitality Decay damage / 2s
• Mogdrogen's Pact: added flat Physical damage bonus
• Oak Skin: increased % Health Regeneration scaling with rank to 30% by rank 10, 40% by max ultimate rank
• Primal Bond: replaced % Health bonus to pets with % Crit damage, increased % All damage bonus for pets to 74% at rank 12, 154% by max ultimate rank. Increased % Physical damage bonus to match % Bleed damage bonus.
• Primal Strike: increased Physical damage scaling with rank
• Storm Surge: increased Bleed and Electrocute damage scaling with rank
• Savagery: increased Lightning and Bleed damage scaling with rank
• Tenacity of the Boar: increased Offensive Ability scaling to 107 by rank 12, 177 by max ultimate rank and Defensive Ability to 83 by rank 12, 133 by max ultimate rank
• Storm Touched: increased % Attack Speed scaling to 12% by rank 12, 18% by max ultimate rank. Increased % Physical damage scaling at ultimate ranks to 100% by max ultimate rank. Increased chance of Lightning damage scaling with rank to 280% by rank 12, 500% by max ultimate rank
• Storm Totem: reduced Electrocute damage scaling with rank
• Wind Devil: increased Radius by 10%
• Raging Tempest: replaced Reduced Elemental Resistance with -% Elemental Resistance, this is a change meant to make Wind Devils more compatible with other Resist Reduction effects. The resist reduction no longer persists for 1s after the Wind Devil moves away from the target.

 

[cronos]

So this is an expansion pack?

I've always wanted to try Grim Dawn (extremely disappointed with Path of Exiles), but I ended up just wasting my time on Diablo 3 again. Maybe this time I'll actually spend some time playing.

For those who don't already know, the base game is now only $9.99 through the Humble Store, until this weekend.

 

[bystander36]

It's a fun game, but they do not attempt to cater to the "end game" ARPG types, which want endless levels and incentive to play for ever. Not that I haven't played 100's of hours, but it's always restarting a new character and trying different builds, not playing the same character forever.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Yes it's an actual expansion pack. Two new masteries, level cap increase to 100, new devotions, 60(?) new skills, hundreds of new armor sets, etc. It's going to be pretty big.

 

[Stg-Flame]

It's a fun game, but they do not attempt to cater to the "end game" ARPG types, which want endless levels and incentive to play for ever. Not that I haven't played 100's of hours, but it's always restarting a new character and trying different builds, not playing the same character forever.

Grim Dawn has always followed the D2/TQ route and made the game about the story/leveling process. There's rogue dungeons that are extremely difficult and a few hidden quests you have to go out of you way to find that keeps players interested. Most people just enjoy getting to the end-game and tweaking their build, because aside from completely broken builds (looking at you 100% Retaliation Warder), the rogue dungeons can still be pretty hard.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Here are some comparison statistics posted by the devs just in case anyone was wondering if the price of the expansion is justified by the content: http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15650&d=1506108895

Short answer: Hell yes.

 

[Stg-Flame]

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56366

October 11th. Official release date.

 

[Elcs]

Calendar entry made. Purchase on 11th, play on... 20th October.

Sweetness and Necromancy.

 

[you2]

So many games so little time.

 

[R81Z3N1]

This might have to wait for the bargain bin, also on the release date not that happy as well as it falls after a holiday. If they release it say on Friday, and gave folks a long weekend to play then that would be nice.

I do believe in supporting the studio, that is one reason I bought the game. But paying almost the same for DLC is almost a no no in my book. Granted if you look at other games it might be a bargain but just have to wait until it reaches like $5-$10 then might reconsider it.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Almost all expansion packs have been $20. Titan Quest and Diablo 2 were both $20 at launch. This is cheaper than $20 and will extend the game's life by hundreds of hours. I don't see how that's not worth $18.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Four more days!

Also, GrimTools was given the green light to added AoM content so you can theory-craft new builds. It seems with the new Mythic tier, PRM (Panetti's Replicating Missile) is going to get a massive buff and should be completely viable again, if not completely overpowered. The first few months should be balancing patches out the ass as players find new ways to break the game, but Crate are confident they have most of the balancing issues taken care of.

Patch notes have been posted.

 

[Chaotic42]

Uh oh, this means one of my friends is about to disappear for the rest of the year. There goes our three player DOS2 run

 

[Stg-Flame]

First impression... holy hell this is awesome. The new classes, the new skills, the balancing on items (now it's actually useful to hunt for Nemesis MIs and craft greens with the guaranteed double affixes), the new devotions, the new areas, the new enemies.

To anyone saying this isn't worth $18, you are dead wrong.

 

[BFG10K]

70% off the base game @ GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/grim_dawn

 

[you2]

70% off pretty much everywhere.

 

[Stg-Flame]

It's still on sale on Steam for another 18 hours at the time of this post. I'm sure Crate have it 70% off everywhere for the same time frame, so if anyone has been looking at this game but can't decide, it's only $7.49 and that's a steal for the base game.

 

[Elcs]

Expansion is looking good. Really enjoying my 2 Necromancers (Pets) and (melee)

Shame that not enough people are buying into Grim Dawn. It's probably the best game of it's type out there at the moment, online or not.

 

[bystander36]

I'm playing it too. It is definitely fun. I like that you have so many possible builds.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Expansion is looking good. Really enjoying my 2 Necromancers (Pets) and (melee)

Shame that not enough people are buying into Grim Dawn. It's probably the best game of it's type out there at the moment, online or not.

It was in the top 5 for Global best sellers almost all of last week. There are plenty of people playing, but since it's mainly a single player game, most people are just playing single player.

 

[BFG10K]

Still on sale @ GOG in case anyone missed it. I picked up the base game as its been on my wishlist for a while.

 

[Majes]

Expansion is looking good. Really enjoying my 2 Necromancers (Pets) and (melee)

Shame that not enough people are buying into Grim Dawn. It's probably the best game of it's type out there at the moment, online or not.

Most people play single player so they can manipulate saves and cheat a little (or a lot). There's almost no reason to play online unless you really want to group with friends.
I personally find Path of Exile to be MUCH better, but I guess my main reason is that an economy exists otherwise it would be a pretty close comparison.

 

[Elcs]

Most people play single player so they can manipulate saves and cheat a little (or a lot). There's almost no reason to play online unless you really want to group with friends.
I personally find Path of Exile to be MUCH better, but I guess my main reason is that an economy exists otherwise it would be a pretty close comparison.

Grim Dawn, in my opinion is the better game... but the lack of the online features that Path of Exile affords dulls my enthusiasm for GD.

Even if my guild solo plays Path of Exile, that social aspect within the game just makes the world of difference.

Must play more GD

 

[Denithor]

So, for those playing, how is the expansion?

I haven't played GD since late beta/early release days, I would imagine big changes from that point to today?

 

[Majes]

I've been playing a bit of the necro. It's okay, but I ended up going back to my Nightblade. I'm just beginning to get to the new content on ultimate but it's mostly more of the same. Still, it's a fantastic break from Path of Exile for me.