[sdwr]

I've been playing Grim Dawn recently, and feeling the tension between optimizing and exploring, between pre-built and puzzled out.

If you can manage to forget about the answer key lurking on every forum, the core experience of finding synergy, figuring out a build, balancing resistances is surprisingly fun.

> Why interview solely the grognards?

And, I know it's a rhetorical question, but the answer is:

> So the article can serve double duty as a Nat Geo-style jungle expedition, providing glimpses of unwashed tribespeople to intrigued middle Americans.