I just bought Grazzak and found that he joined the party at the same level AND the same skill points of my highest level party member. In this case it was level 40 and 78 skill points which I was able to assign as I wanted.
I've been somewhat disappointed in how he plays when compared to Z'dar.
Shredder which blasts a yellow light in front of him across the board doesn't do anywhere near the damage that the Protoplast fireball does, The Fury skill which gives him rapid reload is OK and the short cooldown is great. The last special attack called Coma puts a group of enemies to sleep for a full 16 seconds IF NOTHING DISTURBS THEM. Poor choice of name. It should have been called catnap.
The basic problem is that his crowd control only works if you want to ignore half the board for a while. Perhaps my problem is that I usually work with one tank, one healer and two ranged units. Keeping the ranged units from shooting up sleeping enemies is a bit of a problem. I prefer Z'dar's earthquake, greater damage and (my perception here) faster attack.
____UPDATE_____
I got the idea that if Coma would sleep a boss perhaps it would buy 15 seconds of spell recharge time. I tried it against the Ice Demon and of course Grazzak got frozen before he could fire anything off. Tried again and this time I managed to hit him with Coma but no luck.
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I got both O'da and Grazzak before this fix
Glu, can't you fix my O'da skill points? Please...
http://ggnbb.glu.com/showthread.php?50679-Item-Guide&p=85562#post85562
Runic Item Guide here:
http://ggnbb.glu.com/showthread.php?47298-Guide-to-new-Runic-items
DPH, Hero & Party level Guide
http://ggnbb.glu.com/showthread.php?53269-DPS-Hero-amp-Party-level-Guide
Runic item capabilities List ( By rewand )
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aon0kRu72Uj7dEtVUWVRQ0Nsd2FteUJqYUlrVkN1V0E&usp=sharing
Shredder which blasts a yellow light in front of him across the board doesn't do anywhere near the damage that the Protoplast fireball does, The Fury skill which gives him rapid reload is OK and the short cooldown is great. The last special attack called Coma puts a group of enemies to sleep for a full 16 seconds IF NOTHING DISTURBS THEM. Poor choice of name. It should have been called catnap.
The basic problem is that his crowd control only works if you want to ignore half the board for a while. Perhaps my problem is that I usually work with one tank, one healer and two ranged units. Keeping the ranged units from shooting up sleeping enemies is a bit of a problem. I prefer Z'dar's earthquake, greater damage and (my perception here) faster attack.
____UPDATE_____
I got the idea that if Coma would sleep a boss perhaps it would buy 15 seconds of spell recharge time. I tried it against the Ice Demon and of course Grazzak got frozen before he could fire anything off. Tried again and this time I managed to hit him with Coma but no luck.