Raise from level 85 to 100

To easily climb these last fifteen levels, if you are short of quests or you are tired of doing them, here is how to take 2 levels per hour:

1. Achieve Revered Status in Malmouth Resistance (bounty in Ultimate if needed)
2. Buy Potions of Clarity from the official merchant, increasing your xp by 100%
3. Catch or take skeleton keys with you
4. Max your resistances via green items and / or augments, even if you lose DPS it's not a big deal
5. Go to the Necropolis interior, go all the way north, build the bridge and take the Bastion of Chaos rift
6. Go north, kill Balok'Anatu, Bloodfiend, then open the area with the Skeleton Key
7. Go as far as possible in the dungeon, when you die start again! (create a new game)

By repeating steps 5 to 7 you will have about one level every 30 minutes! Be careful to do points 1 to 4 to maximize efficiency! If necessary, consult our guide on the Bastion of Chaos dungeon!

Potions

At the end of the game, some potions will come in handy to stay alive more easily, here is the list. The list is not exhaustive, if you have a cherished potion that you use all the time, do not deprive yourself of it! The advantage of the potions below is that they last a long time !

Regeneration of life:

• Royal Jelly Salve: 12 hp regeneration / second, increases regeneration 25%
• Royal Jelly Ointment: 20 hp regeneration / second, increases regeneration 25%
• Ugdenjuice: 38 hp regeneration / second

Increase life and energy:

• Royal Jelly Essence: 8% life and 8% energy
• Ugdensalve: 800 life and energy

Damage Buff

• Elixir of the Void: Vita / Chaos damage buff
• Elixir of the aether: aether damage buff / casting speed
• Elixir of the ancients: physical damage buff / offensive ability
• Elixir of Modgrogen: pets life buff
• Elixir of Dranghoul: offensive and defensive abilities buff

Challenge Dungeons

There are 5 special dungeons in Grim Dawn, which you need to have a Skeleton Key in order to pass. Skeleton keys can be crafted from the blacksmith if needed. Be careful if you die, you have to start all over again and you will no longer be able to recover your grave and any remaining items. Once the door is open, it remains open for ten seconds and then closes again forever; So be careful if you play co-op or want to make yourself a coffee!

Here is the list of dungeons, they all have a complete guide to help you!

• Act 2 Steps of Torment
• Act 3 Port Valbury
• Act 4 Bastion of Chaos
• Act 6 Ancient Grove
• Act 7 Tomb of the Heretic

Shattered Realm

The Shattered Realm, also called SR, is a dungeon with a timer and several levels. You must quickly clear one level to move to the next. After three zones, a boss then you will go to the next level. After 5 levels you unlock a waystone, allowing you to teleport to the validated level (be careful all 5 only).

In English, 3 chunks for the level, a boss (chunk 4) gives the next level shard!

The most profitable method is to do the SR 75 and 76 run corresponding to the maximum loot. If you stop your progress, you get the loot in the form of a chest.

The Nemesis

Nemesis, as their name suggests, are big bosses assigned to each faction. They appear randomly in specific areas once you reach the faction's "nemesis" status. There are seven possible Nemesis, with the following factions:

• aetheres
• Beasts
• Cthonians
• Cronley Gang
• Arkovian Living Dead
• Vanguard Aethere AoM
• Eldritch Horrors FG

If you want to know more, check out our complete guide to nemesis (coming soon)!

HiddenPath

You potentially already have the information, but I prefer to re-specify it so that you don't miss out on 3 stats and skill points ! There is a hidden quest in each difficulty level (normal, hard, ultimate), completing it will give you these points.

If necessary, the guide full hidden path is here !

The Celestials

Well already that Nemesis is scary, then Celeste is even worse! You might think they are nice, but if you look for them you can face them; and obviously they sting! This part is reserved for the most try-harder and ask for specific builds to overcome it! In any case, do not hesitate to measure yourself against them in order to give you an idea!

Here are the "normal" Celestials in the game:

• Avatar of Mogdrogen : act 4 Asterkarn Valley - Rhowari Legacy
• Ravager of Flesh/Minds/Souls : act 5 Barrowholm - Barrowholm factions quests
• Callagadra, Scion of the Sands : act 7 Korvan Sands - altar and celestial essence

You also have three Celestials (base game and the 2 DLC) following hidden quests requiring much more research!

• Clone of John Bourbon : act 4 Edge of Reality - Daila's Secret Quest
• Lokarr : act 6 Crucible of the Dead - Lokarr's Secret Quest
• Crate of Entertainment : act 7 - Crate Secret Quest

Build

To help you in your endgame journey, you have our builds on the Grim Dawn homepage!