Grim Dawn | Shop & Smith Gear Only | Hardcore | Challenge | Part 1 | March 2023
Tha roolz: Hardcore. Fresh start (rename save folder). Any mastery combo.
All gear (except the default starter stuff) must be bought from a vendor or crafted at the Smith.
Anything can be looted and sold, or used as a crafting material for 'bought' Smith items.
All blueprints can be learned (from any source - vendor, random loot, quest rewards, etc.)
Components can be used when looted, you don't have to buy those.
Quest reward items cannot be used but can be sold.
The purpose of the challenge is to demonstrate the viability of shop and Smith gear, it's not a demonstration of how to make the game tedious and boring (apologies if that ends up happening).
Timestamps
0:01 Describing the challenge
1:10 How to create a 'fresh start' game the easiest way (in my opinion)
1:52 Starting the challenge
2:40 Level 2 - first mastery choice
7:07 Level 5
8:00 First shrine, first devotion point
8:22 Reanimator fight
9:11 Level 6
11:00 Shopping - searching for useful gear
12:13 Wightmire rift
12:48 Buying a ring
14:06 Shrine in cave (Wightmire)
14:41 Buying a gun
15:55 Level 9
16:35 Talking about component attack skill (Searing Ember)
17:11 Totem fight
17:18 Level 10
18:00 Buying a second gun (dual wield)
19:18 Milton Hart
22:42 Cashing the Slith Necklace quest
23:01 Buying a belt and a second ring
23:30 Rescue Luther Graves - adds a second vendor to Devil's Crossing gate area
24:24 Buying an Amulet
26:41 Viloth fight and a shrine
27:49 Buying a medal
28:17 The Isaac's Stash quest
29:01 Buying all the remaining items I don't have yet