Best class for easy-med playthrough?

[Zero]

Can anyone tell me a couple of classes that are best for an easier playthrough?

[SnakeshyperTTV/Kick]

Confessor
Vagabond
Samurai

[strike478]

Class doesnt matter much. Sure if you pick onewith stats your playstyle uses you will have slightly easier time at beginning but that is all. Well asides for starting equipment and spells but they are all obtainable.

Overall make your mind on build and pick class. You want to use magic but dont want to rely on bleed swords/etc? Choose something with high int and low arcane.

Also at high level difference between best and worst class for your build will be nearly non existent.

[Zero]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von strike478:

Class doesnt matter much. Sure if you pick onewith stats your playstyle uses you will have slightly easier time at beginning but that is all. Well asides for starting equipment and spells but they are all obtainable.

Overall make your mind on build and pick class. You want to use magic but dont want to rely on bleed swords/etc? Choose something with high int and low arcane.

Also at high level difference between best and worst class for your build will be nearly non existent.

What's a good magic build that is simple? I guess arcane will complicate fights?

[Vinnolo]

classes dont matter, what matters is the build, arcane builds have it the easiest for most of the game because bleed is simply broken op, int build with sorceries also come close, as long as you dont leave your vigor at 15 or 20 like most do for some reason

[Clail]

Class doesn't matter. What do you want to play as?
Any playstyle can be made easy with the right cheese equipment.

[C1REX]

To make it easy focus on VIT, learn how to farm runes and if stuck on a boss summon a coop player.

People dismiss VIT advice so I made two simple videos showing how crazy OP defence is in this game.

https://youtu.be/iI_p36hZLLk

https://youtu.be/vVUEolxVlnw

[strike478]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Serenity:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von strike478:

Class doesnt matter much. Sure if you pick onewith stats your playstyle uses you will have slightly easier time at beginning but that is all. Well asides for starting equipment and spells but they are all obtainable.

Overall make your mind on build and pick class. You want to use magic but dont want to rely on bleed swords/etc? Choose something with high int and low arcane.

Also at high level difference between best and worst class for your build will be nearly non existent.

What's a good magic build that is simple? I guess arcane will complicate fights?

Arcane is not really for magic unless you want to rely only on spells which cause frost, poison or other statuses. I wont advice you int build because I didnt played it in any souls game much. Use internet.

Also if you have difficulties with given part of game try to grind lesser enemies and level up or go in another direction. WHen I started my 1st game in limgrave I decided to head stormveil castle because it were the same region and had some difficulties which I wouldnt had (likely wouldnt had) if I ust went first to weeping peninsula.

[tmg]

Confessor, rotten breath.

[ZTL-Altima]

Vagabond is mathematically the best class. Ignore anything else.

But class is not important. Just up vigor first (30 is fine) and you're in easy mode.

[Tim]

I'd say Vagabond or Confessor. Focusing on Strength with a little bit of faith is good cuz you get to try out all kinds of weapons and utility spells early on. The easiest route, I think, is going full INT, but it's only easy if you know how the game works, if that makes sense. It's not forgiving early on, and you don't get many new toys until mid-game.

Starting with a shield that 100% blocks physical damage is a godsend early on. And investing in strength to the point you get to use a greatshield? Super useful early and mid game. Most humanoid enemies' attacks will bounce off your shield. Strength also raises your defenses a bit, so you take less damage.

Keep in mind: using faith for incantation damage (like, throwing fireballs and stuff) doesn't work well unless you invest hard into it. But many weapons have low faith requirements and mostly strength or dexterity scaling. So even if you don't wanna bother with buff and utility spells, it opens up your options for weapons.

[d]

He means a build geniuses
And to answer your question you can just use spirit summons if you want the game to be easy. No build required. "ARPG" btw.

[Norm Macdonald's Ghost]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Serenity:

Best class for easy-med playthrough?

History. The teacher is always too busy yapping about Napoleon to notice you. You could try Math, but at some point the teacher will probably call on you to solve some stupid ekwayshun. lol skool sux

[bluehawk188]

Wretched. That way you can play the character the way YOU want to.

[Yal]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Serenity:

Can anyone tell me a couple of classes that are best for an easier playthrough?

I give everybody the same advice:
- Start as Confessor (medium armor + good shield + good weapon + healing spell + stealth spell), they've got the most options so you can test basically all builds at once.
- Recommended starting gift: Golden Seed (healing flask upgrade)
- Follow the obvious path until you unlock the horse and levelling up, that makes exploration much easier
- Try out all the different gameplay styles and figure out what you wanna focus on
- If you wanna focus on spells, I recommend going for the dragon incantations (though they involve killing dragon bosses and finding two specific churches), they use FTH and ARC,
- If you wanna focus on big weapons, the Tree Sentinel's halberd (dropped by the boss right outside the tutorial area) is awesome
- If you like the shield + small weapon combo and tanky builds, you can stick with your starting weapon and focus on levelling HP, maybe with some STR as well for bigger shields.
- If you like stealth, there's a dagger called the Reduvia dropped by an NPC invader near the lake, you might need to level Arcane a few times to use it but it's completely worth it, it mostly scales with DEX.

[Zero]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Yal:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Serenity:

Can anyone tell me a couple of classes that are best for an easier playthrough?

I give everybody the same advice:
- Start as Confessor (medium armor + good shield + good weapon + healing spell + stealth spell), they've got the most options so you can test basically all builds at once.
- Recommended starting gift: Golden Seed (healing flask upgrade)
- Follow the obvious path until you unlock the horse and levelling up, that makes exploration much easier
- Try out all the different gameplay styles and figure out what you wanna focus on
- If you wanna focus on spells, I recommend going for the dragon incantations (though they involve killing dragon bosses and finding two specific churches), they use FTH and ARC,
- If you wanna focus on big weapons, the Tree Sentinel's halberd (dropped by the boss right outside the tutorial area) is awesome
- If you like the shield + small weapon combo and tanky builds, you can stick with your starting weapon and focus on levelling HP, maybe with some STR as well for bigger shields.
- If you like stealth, there's a dagger called the Reduvia dropped by an NPC invader near the lake, you might need to level Arcane a few times to use it but it's completely worth it, it mostly scales with DEX.

Are these weapons essential for their builds, like, will I find it really hard until I get Op weapons? Or will any old dagger do, for instance, for a stealth build.