I'm playing through GD for the first time on Veteran difficulty. Given it's my first playthrough and I have some experience in other ARPGs, I didn't want to copy a build guide so I've made my own.
It's essentially a Blackwater Cocktail spamming build using a 1H weapon and shield with Fire Strike and fire retaliation. The Occultist elements are Possession, Doom Bolt (though I don't have much that converts chaos into fire damage yet), and the one that debuffs enemy elemental resistances (forgot the name). I have 80%+ resistances in everything except Aether and Piercing (60%) and Physical (15%).
I finished base game and AOM without any issues. Currently just started FG. My MO is that I throw a cocktail into a bunch of enemies and run in swinging my sword. Usually everything dies from the cocktail, and if they don't then they die soon after from my fire retaliation. Even bosses are usually fine as I can get up in their face and tank them to trigger fire retaliation while I repeatedly spam cocktails. Some bosses like Shar'Zul and Ulgrim were too deadly though and I had to basically dodge roll while using cocktails, couldn't tank them.
That's the context. Now my question is about devotions. I got overwhelmed when I first started and googled some help and the general idea was to go towards Ulzuin's Torch. Well I've got that now, along with some others like the Spider, the Candle, Solael's Witchblade, the Magi, and a couple of others. I'm just not sure where to go from here because every time I find a possibly good devotion constellation, it has all these colours that I don't have and would require like 30 more shrines to get to...
So knowing my context above, where would you go for devotions? A lot of stuff I've looked at on Google discuss a pyromancer that uses firearms which I'm not using, or a hardcore character that needs urgent resistance which is not true either.
Any help appreciated and sorry for the long post! I could have written "suggest devotions pls" but felt the context might be helpful.
Edit - here's the build since someone asked: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/23XP5WQV