PLEASE give us an offline only mode for people without internet!

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

grim dawn has a pretty intense loot system tbh, its far more complex than a game like say diablo 3, probably more complexity and depth than torchlight 2. I dunno, gd players out there would u say grim dawns loot system rivals poes? I mean Ive seen people say its a better loot system, I dunno if Id go that far but theres definitely a massive amount of mods, you got trash, magic, rare, unique and legendary tiers. the usual life, core stats in both flat and % forms, 5 primary and 5 secondary resists I believe? cooldown modifiers, % damages, flat damages, crit, attack/cast speed, move speed, minion stuff, leeches, + to skills type mods, offence and defence rating I believe? regens of mana and life, retaliations etc, so much stuff.

Retaliations are actually pretty legit in that game, u can pack a punch with thorns. On the database for example theres 1000 prefixes for hats, with 600 suffixes. Most of them are bunched too, like 1 rare prefix may have 8 different mods, so ur getting 1 prefix and 1 suffix but the prefix is a group of 6 mods and the suffix might have 6 mods. Mods on rares etc can include skills built into the item the way whispering ice has, but on almost any slot it seems, both active skills and aura type things.

You then got a component system where u put together components from pieces which give a set of mods kind of like the jewel system in poe, u might get 2, 3, 4 mods on one of these, and u then apply them to items like a lab enchant. you can put one of these on every item slot. Some of these also come with active skills, mana reserve auras, retaliations basically like a cwdt type skill attached to the enchant that also has 2 forms of flat added damage, a % added damage and a physical to elemental % conversion and youre applying this to a 10 mod rare weapon that also has its own active or passive skill that comes with it.


example of a prefix on a rare mace:

54 Electrocute Damage over 3 Seconds
+50% Lightning Damage
+15% Stun Duration
+50% Electrocute Damage with +50% Increased Duration
15% Physical Damage converted to Lightning Damage
+56 Offensive Ability

Granted Skills
Lightning Bolt (20% Chance when Hit)
A pure bolt of lightning strikes your target.
2.5 Second Skill Recharge
1 Meter Target Area
6-44 Lightning Damage
12 Electrocute Damage over 2 Seconds
Stun target for 0.5 - 1 Seconds


example of a suffix:

12-20 Fire Damage
10% Chance of 420 Burn Damage over 3 Seconds
+5% Crit Damage
+76% Fire Damage
+76% Burn Damage
+2 to Fire Strike

example of the mods on an enchant you can then add to a weapon

5% of Attack Damage converted to Health
18 Vitality Decay over 3 Seconds
+18% Vitality Damage
+18% Vitality Decay
10% Physical Damage converted to Vitality Damage

Granted Skills
Blooddrinker (Granted by Item)
Empower your attacks with vampiric energy.
50 Energy Cost
26 Second Skill Recharge
8 Second Duration
20% of Attack Damage converted to Health
25% Chance of 162 Bleeding Damage over 3 Seconds



Youve then got a d2-ish type skill system and then a poe skill treeish type star chart system of other passive buffs that also come with skills and triggers etc you can attach to your other skills in a kind of cast when channeling/cast on kill/cast on crit type affairs.


Grim dawn has definitely got some stuff going on, if its less complex than poe then its not by a great deal and its definitely the second most complex arpg Ive seen in terms of items and skills.

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Honeybadgers wrote:

Same issue I have with Elite dangerous. I'm a paramedic and routinely go long stretches sitting in my ambulance with no access to any internet at all (we are set at a location and not allowed to move, so there's no just popping over to the local starbucks and leeching wifi)

It's just asinine to demand all players be online at all times. I know that of course offline characters must be walled off completely from online players (Because cheating) but I just want to be able to play the game in super-casual mode when I'm not able to go online. Same for when comcast just drops dead. I hate how every single game nowadays just insists I be online. I have to play torchlight (which I really don't like the feel of) or go back to diablo 2 if I want an offline dungeon crawler. Elite Dangerous removed their single player mode, so I basically had to quit that game outright, as I only ever played it at work (as a full price game that pissed me off more than anything else)

It can't be that hard to put into the game. Hell, charge $10 as a one time fee for it. I'd happily pay. It would also be nice to know that I could play this game long after developers abandon it.

Of course there will be people calling me an idiot for suggesting anything, but consider this a simple opinion from a paying customer.