Blademaster

Nightblade + Soldier

This Grim Dawn Blademaster Build focuses on a dual wield melee playstyle with Pierce and Physical damage, combining Nightblade and Soldier masteries for high DPS and survivability.
Dual wield melee, with a focus on Pierce and Physical damage. The goal is to deal as much damage as possible while heavily investing points into Cunning. This playstyle revolves around rapid strikes and precise positioning, darting in front of enemies and knowing when to retreat once they begin to overwhelm you. When playing in a group, another player can draw enemy attention while you strike rapidly from behind.

The Dual Blades tree provides the largest passive damage boost throughout the build. Veil of Shadows and Night’s Chill play a critical role in debuffing nearby enemies by reducing their resistances to your attacks. Pneumatic Burst greatly improves healing and survivability. While Shadow Strike is a strong skill, it is mainly used for mobility, allowing you to move in and out of combat quickly when needed. Break Morale will serve as the right mouse button ability, directly reducing enemy health. Its second skill in the tree offers little benefit to this build and is therefore skipped. Oleron’s Rage contributes significantly to overall damage, along with Squad Tactics, which further enhances attack speed and damage. The Belgothian set provides the left mouse button ability, building charges as you attack and increasing damage over time.

This will be your starting class, with a focus on dual wielding and Pierce damage. Begin by investing in the Dual Blades tree and placing at least one point into each skill up to rank 32. After reaching this point, slow your progression on the Mastery Bar and invest points into the remaining skills.

Night’s Chill is essential to the build, as it debuffs nearby enemies and increases the damage you deal. Points allocated to Blade Barrier can be reassigned elsewhere if this defensive playstyle is not required. The armor used in this build increases all skills shown here, so having only one point invested in certain abilities is not a concern.

This will be your secondary class, with a primary focus on progressing the Mastery Bar to unlock later skills. Only invest a few points into the early abilities, as the goal is to reach Field Command, Break Morale, and Oleron’s Rage sooner rather than later to significantly increase your offensive power. Once these skills are unlocked, you can return to invest points into the earlier abilities.

The Mastery Bar for this class should take priority over the Nightblade Mastery Bar, as its later skills provide stronger overall benefits than those offered by Nightblade.

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Items

Attributes

Belgothian Mask

Sacred Plating

Mankind’s Vigil

Physique : 15
Cunning : 90
Spirit : 2

Focusing on Cunning, only assign points to Physique and Spirit as needed. While these values are wanted for end game, you can always reset Attribute points with the aid of a potion later on, so feel free to assign points over the stated limit as needed.