What difficulty should I start Grim Dawn on?

For a semi experienced ARPG player or if you want a semi challenging campaign then start on veteran. Enjoy your stay! Grim Dawn is definitely worth it! Normal is easy, with some difficulty curves thrown in with the out-of-way-areas and dungeons that are outside the story progression.
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What is the difference between difficulties in Grim Dawn?

Higher difficulties will challenge you with more powerful higher-level enemies, allowing you to continue gaining levels and unlock the full potential of your characters. As you gain levels, you will start to see better equipment, including Legendary Items, which will almost never drop on Normal Difficulty.
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How do you start the ultimate difficulty in Grim Dawn?

I thought we can now play on Elite and Ultimate difficulty even with new characters. Nope, you need to kill Loghorrean on Normal difficulty which will unlock both Elite and Ultimate now. Before it would only unlock Elite. You can still use Merit Tokens to unlock difficulties from the start.
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What is the level cap in Grim Dawn?

The level cap is 85, increased to 100 with the Ashes of Malmouth expansion. At levels 2 through 50, you earn 3 skill points per level. At levels 51 through 90, you earn 2 skill points per level. Levels 91 and up earn 1 skill point per level.
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Does Grim Dawn scale with level?

You can now play the entirety of the game up to the level cap on the difficulty that's enjoyable to you. To support this, level scaling has been updated on Normal and Elite difficulty. Many areas on Normal now scale up to level 100. Elite difficulty now scales up to level 100 in all areas.
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Grim Dawn - When should you go into Elite difficulty? - New Player Guide - 2022 - v1.1.9.6

How long is Grim Dawn with all DLC?

Depends on how you play and what's your goal. If you wanna just have some quick fun, rush through the story and DLC, killing some monsters, it's around 30 hours. If you want a deep dive into the story, side missions, exploring, lore and maxing your character, it's 60+ hours.
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Does difficulty affect loot in Grim Dawn?

Apart from level scaling, playing on lower difficulties does not affect the quality of items at all. You might not find as many items though, since mob density is lower than on Ultimate.
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Who is the final boss in Grim Dawn?

The Loghorrean, the Voice of Ch'thon is a unique boss creature located in the Edge of Madness.
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What difficulty are the shrines in Grim Dawn?

The base game has a total of 59 Shrines across all three difficulties, 28 in Normal, 17 in Elite and 14 in Ultimate. With the Ashes of Malmouth Expansion, shrines were added for acts 5 and 6, bringing the total to 73 shrines across all difficulties: 33 in Normal, 20 in Elite and 20 in Ultimate.
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Is Grim Dawn still worth playing?

GrimDawn is an exceptional game and the best of its kind as it surpasses Diablo 4 and Path of Exile in one way or another. Tons of content, tons of customization, really unique builds for your character. Beautiful graphics and sound, incredible boss fights etc.
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Can you play Grim Dawn solo?

Single Player

To start a Singleplayer session, select it prior to loading a character into the world.
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What do you lose on death in Grim Dawn?

Hardcore mode

In this mode a character's death is permanent and is no longer playable. Any equipment a Hardcore character has at time of death is lost forever. Hardcore mode characters do not share a stash with Normal mode characters and can only join multiplayer sessions with other Hardcore characters.
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Do choices matter in Grim Dawn?

Choice and Consequence gives you power to shape the world and affect the fate of many. Tough decisions will leave significant impact as strangers on the road, families in need and even entire villages may live or perish based on your actions.
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How important is offensive ability in Grim Dawn?

Offensive Ability increases chance to land attacks and spells, score critical hits, as well as the damage of critical hits. An Offensive Ability lower than your opponent's Defensive Ability will greatly increase your chance to miss (chance to hit can never go below 60% for you or enemies).
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What is a double rare in Grim Dawn?

An item that generates both a rare prefix and a rare suffix is considered a double rare. Double rare items have the potential to be some of the most powerful in the game. Rare items have their names displayed in green.
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Do enemies scale Grim Dawn?

The game balancing is a major step backwards. Enemies have always scaled in the game; just slightly differently in the latest patch probably because of the change to make it possible for people to get up to L100 in Normal or Elite difficulties.
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Is there a stash in Grim Dawn?

The Item Stash is an extension of a character's inventory and can be used to store items which aren't immediately needed by the character. Items stored in the Item Stash can be accessed from any Smuggler in the game. The Item Transfer area is an inventory space which makes items available to all a player's characters.
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How many classes does Grim Dawn have?

There are nine distinct character classes in the game. Six from the base game (Soldier, Demolitionist, Occultist, Nightblade, Arcanist, Shaman). Two from the Ashes of Malmouth expansion (Inquisitor, Necromancer). One from the expansion, The Forgotten Gods (Oathkeeper).
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How long does it take to complete Grim Dawn?

How long does it take to beat Grim Dawn: Definitive Edition? The estimated time to complete all 100 Grim Dawn: Definitive Edition achievements is 150-200 hours. This estimate is based on the modal completion time from 4 TrueAchievements members that have completed the game.
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Do you get better loot on higher difficulty?

There is absolutely no difference in loot depending on difficulty levels. So with +80h into the game with 40h something of those played on Very Hard, and the last 2h of extensivly testing Normal Vs Very Hard in a controlled enviroment, i can tell you that there is 0 difference in Loot or Legendary enemy spawn rates.
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How do you unlock the crucible difficulty in Grim Dawn?

You will begin as an Aspirant, untested and unscarred by the ravages of the Crucible. But once you defeat the first 100 waves of the Crucible, you will earn access to the Challenger difficulty. Likewise, defeating 100 waves as a Challenger will allow you to play on the Gladiator difficulty.
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Does Grim Dawn have an ending?

What you do is go back to the character selection screen and change the difficulty to Elite and then yes, do it all over again. b) There is no actual conclusion to the story. Yes, many of the storylines continue and are resolved in the expansions, but there's no "I've done it, all's right with Cairn now" resolution.
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Does Grim Dawn have a level cap?

The level cap is 85, increased to 100 with the Ashes of Malmouth expansion. At levels 2 through 50, you earn 3 skill points per level. At levels 51 through 90, you earn 2 skill points per level.
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Should I buy DLC for Grim Dawn?

Base game is fine you will have plenty of fun with it, even if you can't afford DLCs. Ashes of Malmouth and Forgotten Gods greatly extend it, if you can afford them, I would definitely grab them too. Crucible is just an arena game mode, definitely not needed, although it's not exactly bad.
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