Grim Dawn | Best Starter Class | Part 2 | June 2024

Occultist is the best class for a new starter in my opinion.
Read on to find out why...

Big damage skill (Dreeg's Evil Eye) unlocks with 1 point in mastery and can be heavily buffed very early in Act 1 with several boss-drop items that have 100% drop chance. Skill scales really well and remains great all the way to endgame.
Another big damage skill (Doom Bolt) can be buffed to silly amounts of damage.
Area damage skill (Bloody Pox) is strong and useful.
Exclusive skill (Possession) provides damage absorption as well as damage buffs and 100% skill disruption protection.
Class has two pets and a generic pet-buff skill (health, damage, speed, energy regen) so can be part of a strong pet build.
Curse of Frailty is a very useful resistance reduction skill with an area effect.
Blood of Dreeg provides great buffs including a massive amount of acid/poison resistance on its 2nd node.
Occultist can be very useful as a support mastery for every other class in the game.

Character at the end of this video Grimtools level 32 https://www.grimtools.com/calc/62a7673Z

Example builds using Occultist
Chaos damage Flames of Ignaffar Deceiver -    • Grim Dawn | Chaos Damage Flames of Ig...  
Chaos damage dual-wield pistol Pyromancer -    • Grim Dawn | Every Act 1 Boss | Ultima...  
Base game (no expansions) Warlock -    • Grim Dawn | Base Game (No DLCs) Easy-...  
Retaliation Witchblade -    • Grim Dawn | Retaliation Witchblade | ...  
Dreeg's Evil Eye Warlock -    • Grim Dawn | One-Shot-Bosses build | L...  
Elemental Pets Conjurer -    • Grim Dawn - Elemental Pets Build - Le...  
Bloody Pox low-level build versus high-level enemies    • Grim Dawn - Bloody Pox With Dual Bone...  
Doom Bolt sniping (Pyromancer)    • Grim Dawn - Base Game Noob Adventures...  
Dual-wield acid damage Deceiver -    • Grim Dawn - Deceiver Dual-Wield Range...  

Link to Crate's patch notes for 1.2
https://forums.crateentertainment.com...

The mod I use to change item and skill text colours is Rainbow Filter
Find out about it here -    • Grim Dawn - Rainbow Filter mod - 2022...