Grim Dawn: One Button Man Ep1

I don't count the dash 'ability', the health potion, or the mana potion as 'button uses' as they're not technically skills you use equipped to a skill slot, for the purposes of this playthrough.

I'll probably just have this generic description text for most of the playthrough but keep a look out as if there's anything worth noting on an episode I'll put it at the top of the description box above the disclaimer clarifying what the 'one button run' is about. Anyway:

This is my first commentated playthrough in a long while and, I've decided to record myself attempting to beat Grim Dawn in a 'one button run', meaning only using a DAR - https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/369648/how-can-i-tell-whether-a-skill-is-a-default-weapon-attack - aka a 'default weapon attack replacer', among skills that require pressing a button to activate.

Now, this is a relatively common way to play the game but I figured I'd record myself doing it because I particularly like the way Grim Dawn handled this particular aspect of its design. Maybe I'm weird (I am) but I love, LOVE the idea of having a way to replace a default attack in an iso-ARPG and then more or less lump on a bunch of %-based procs onto that default attack replacement. Especially in a game where you can use chunky bolt-action rifles, muskets, and massive axes.

I randomly decided to try and roll through the whole game on veteran for our titular hero One Button Man's journey. I'll try to go through the whole thing on Veteran - including DLC - and while I'm fairly confident it won't be -that- bad I can sometimes have a low tolerance for tedium so it might not pan out as a full Veteran playthrough. However... if it does I'm thinking of maybe doing more playthroughs starting on veteran where I do similar specific kinds of niche (but not uncommon, though afaik there's not really any 'uncommon' builds thanks to how amazing this game's class system is!) characters.

One last thing for this opening description that will probably not be present in the description text for the following episodes: I want to clarify that this isn't a completionist run nor do I have what I'd call 'amazing' knowledge of every little thing in the game. I do like the game a lot and have played through to the end of the normal game a few times on different characters (I explain in the video a bit about that) but I've not really done the DLC, I one time ages ago got to Malmouth and I've only ever gotten anywhere near significantly into the Forgotten Gods area twice iirc, so when I get to those areas I'm going to more or less be playing if not blind darn near to it. I definitely will have a lot more trouble trying to get through that stuff!

Anyway, thanks for reading this description in full if you did. My other channel, which is non-gaming content related, is here: https://www.youtube.com/@Logic-Mysticism

Rumble Alternate non-gaming channel: https://rumble.com/c/c-7776076?e9s=src_v1_cbl

This video is a reupload from YouTube. It is not Rumble-exclusive content.