Gendal
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Yep, when I said ‘much later’ I probably didn’t emphasize that enough and should have specified Ultimate. A lot of the builds you will find will be aimed at ultimate and late crucible. For us mere mortals you can do whatever you want up to that point.
I will say I played a highly rated zoo keeper variant that was absolutely overpowered until Ultimate, at which point it just fell apart.
I think Brian will be fine if his build falls apart in Ultimate if he can kick this much ass through Normal and Elite. What say you @BrianRubin? And as you pointed out, he can always respec in Ultimate if he wants to change it to a different build at that point.
I’m having violent fun. That’s what matters.
DeepT
2786
I was really looking for a caster / nuker character. The skeletons are there to distract the enemy. I am just concerned about their survivability at later levels. I can sure max all their skills, will they be able to tank at higher levels? Is there a way to set them to be aggressive rather than waiting for me to be attacked?
I noticed the above builds in the forum posts do not use skeletons, which I kind wanted to do, to have something to hide behind.
Gendal
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This is generally when I quite playing. I have multiple characters at lvl 69. Lots of builds require obscure pieces that take lots of farming to get and I apparently don’t have the patience to go for that. So it’s not till mid game Ultimate difficulty that I have to throw in the towel. That’s a whole lot of play time up to that point though.
I bought the expansion and plan on playing it some next week on my vacation.
Until you get to Ultimate just stacking Lifesteal should work. If you don’t have any a quick way to get some is to use Haunted Steel in your weapon(s) and Restless Remains in the gloves.
I guess it’s just who you play with or whatever, but most of the people who I play with on Ultimate the endgame don’t cheat. There is also a vibrant trading community in Discord and on the forum if you wish.
I have almost every legendary mythical set (pre-new expansion) and I didn’t grind for most of it, it just drops organically.
However, if you want to Crucible farm you can which can be extremely fast with better builds. You can literally get 20+ mythical legendaries in 20-30 minutes. And of course you can play it multiplayer.
The only thing I think you really need to grind is Malmoth Rep for the Experience Potion if you haven’t gotten it yet on a character (I had the reputation after Elite just playing normally and buying the faction bonus item). Greens are not needed unless you have no way to fill your resistance gaps and you need a Stonehide or a “of Kings” proc.
Note: This isn’t Hardcore. There may be a rampant cheating Hardcore community I am unaware of. When I play Hardcore I don’t play with other players since sometimes it lags and boom, your dead.
Every time I see this I think it says
FARMING PUPPIES
The problem is skill points really. To make an effective caster character, you need really heavy investment into those skills. There really aren’t enough skillpoints in the game to max 2 “main” lines. If you’re going to play a pet build, it sort of really needs to focus on pets, and the same with a caster. In earlier difficulties you can sort of hybrid things and get away with it, but it will get tougher the higher you get.
It’s not just the skillpoints either, it has a lot to do with gear. In order to make an effective pet build, you need bonus to pets on all your gear, and gear that has that, doesn’t have the bonus you’d need to make another skill effective. A build in GD is really a combination of gear, skills chosen, and devotions, if all 3 of those aren’t in agreement, the build will fall apart in Ultimate.
The whole trick to GD, is if you’re going to use a main skill that relies on Vitality, then everything you do has to support that or use that stat. If you try to do a build that needs 3 or 4 different damage types, it will always fail, it’s a very min/max kind of a game ultimately.
lol. Here I was imagining kids with unlimited free time clocking in tens of thousands of hours. I should have realized…
Well I think that the Vindicator is not for me. Got him up to level 30 and just can’t see myself staying in one spot on the inquisitor seal while fighting. Shame that, as the lightening effects were neat.
New hotfix came out, has fixed all the crashes for me. Also they stealthy fixed a huge gameplay annoyance. Made the game much better. There is an Audio option that you can turn off the guy who says you stuff is on cooldown.
Thanks for the info! Will try it out this weekend.
Bateau
2796
Does the game still have like 20 different damage types? I remember being turned off by that when I played it at release.
Also, are there any DLCs right now that can be safely skipped?
There are still 1 billion different damage types. That part hasn’t changed.
The Crucible DLC can probably be skipped. It adds a game mode where you try to survive wave after wave of monsters where the waves get progressively harder and harder. You survive as long as you can and get loot based on how long you lasted. Although it’s entirely optional many people like it as a way to level up those first levels really quickly.
The other two DLCs add new areas (and classes?) to the game so I’d say those are both must haves.
Right - very large areas, with lots of quests. As to classes, Malmouth adds the Inquisitor and Necromancer, while the new one adds the Oathbreaker.
After my first raw playthrough i use char editors on the arpgs like TQ and GD and some RPGs like BG2.
My current Grimarillion char has 100ish devotion points (because i wanted to see what they did), a good few extra skill points (not enough to max out all skills) and some extra hp/mana/stats. Although its not quite godmode i can still die if im not careful on harder levels.
Its more about the journey than the challenge with the TQ series, there’s some lovely scenery and mob types and loot roulette along the way.
You could skip crucible, but I find it really handy for starting new characters. You can get 5 devotion points and about 15 levels really quickly by starting a character in crucible, as well as some decent gear. It’s also a good place to grind for loot upgrades at various points if you’re having trouble in some part of the main quest.
That being said, buy all of it, because they deserve the money :P If you take enough time to get into this game to the point where it hooks you, there are hundreds of hours of play easily. It rivals POE in terms of…hmmmm, what about this kind of build.
So I finished beating the Warden last night. But before I could check out the new person in town who will send me to the new expansion area, a bunch of my friends came online and invited me to multiplayer.
So this time I created a hardcore Templar, and we played the Crucible together up to level 16. I have to admit, Arcanist class in combination with Oathkeeper is way more fun than the Soldier class.
EDIT: I doubt my hardcore Templar will get this far, but if she could, here’s a decent plan. Light on the Arcanist, heavy on the Oathkeeper:
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/gZwOrKnZ
Started playing my Cabalist as a ranged fighter but couldn’t stand that if a mob died and I clicked again without a target he would run right into the middle of the pile. So I switched to melee and it’s much better. Five pets right now with another one coming as soon as he gets one more level. Lots of fun!
