History VideoGame / GrimDawn

* GunpowderFantasy

** Cunning: Allows you to do more damage with physical weapons (melee and ranged) and increases your offensive ability. It also improves your piercing, bleeding, internal trauma damage and gives a little bit of health.
** Spirit: Allows you to use mage's gear, gives you more energy and increase your energy regeneration. It also improves your damage from non-physical damage such as spells and gives a little bit of health.

%%* CrateExpectations: There are barrels and crates aplenty to smash for loot.

* CrateExpectations: Not JustForPun either; there are barrels and crates aplenty to smash for loot.

** The 1.2 update added an Evade move (with a cooldown) for all characters, as that feature has become standard in modern action-[=RPGs=]. Just as many players use the Evade button to charge ''towards'' enemies as away from them.\\

** The 1.2 update added an Evade move (with a cooldown) for all characters, as that feature has become standard in modern action-[=RPGs]=. Just as many players use the Evade button to charge ''towards'' enemies as away from them.

* FlashStep: Shadow Strike does this causing your character to disappear and quickly rush to your target dealing heavy damage and stunning them. There are also monster versions of this, primarily Alkamos' Spectral Strike, and Haunted Nobles also use shadow strike.

* CrapsackWorld: The world of Cairn is a very good place to avoid at all cost. Between invading eldritch abominations, [[ApocalypseCult apocalyptic cults]], [[RapePillageAndBurn raiders]], undead monstrosities, cannibals, [[BigCreepyCrawlies giants vermins]], mutated wild beasts and [[JerkassGods angry uncaring gods]], there are very little places where you can be safe [[EverythingTryingToKillYou from harm]]. And what of the defenders of this world? They are [[GoodIsNotNice fanatical armies]], [[FantasticRacism zealot orders]], amoral necromancers and coven of witches. Real nice.

** v1.2.0.0 replaces the [[HealingPotion Tonic of Mending]] and [[ManaPotion Elixir of Spirit]] consumables with an equivalent innate skill for both, each with their own dedicated hotkey, thus freeing up even more space for loot.

** Elite. Unlocked after completing either Normal or Veteran.
** Ultimate. Unlocked after completing Elite.

** Patch 1.0.0.8 adds in a few more. One example is showing how much you've over-capped a resistance when you mouse over specific resistances.

** 1.0.1.0 Added in a slew of new icons for the various debuff effects in the game so you now know what is affecting your character as well as what the exact values are.

* BonusBoss: Plenty, given that there are many side areas not required to progress the main story in Grim Dawn, as well as all of the Faction Nemesis bosses. Notable examples are Ravager, who is usually impossible to beat by the time you first encounter him, and Lokarr, an end boss of a secret quest chain, who's even more difficult to defeat.

** The [[HeavyMithril music ]] from the secret passage of ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'' plays when you reach the Edge of Reality of the base game.

** One secret area is filled with anthropomorphic Dromedaries hostile to you, just the Secret Cow level in ''VideoGame/DiabloII''.

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Many places have unsettling names like Blood Grove, Deadman's Gulch, Infernal Wastes, Rotting Croplands, which understandable since it's roaming with monsters. But why people would actually name their hometown Burningwitch village or Darkvale before the Grim Dawn hit the world?