Best beginner builds

[MagicMoist]

What are some recommended builds for beginners?

[SlamTown]

Getting told what to build kind of ruins most of the fun

[Scrub]

Look for something that will give you healing and then look for something that will trigger that healing

[MadArtillery]

You'd be shocked how strong simply taking no skills at all ever is. Pick some baseline summons and just win. The no skills prestige class is really really really busted. The god Dumuzi is pretty much free wins once you unlock it, I don't think I've ever come close to losing taking it.

For the ultra basic though, warrior into champion is pretty good. fat armour, fat block, all the speed you could ever want, and the poise stops going away. Mash points into stand ground in martial, pretty simplistic build, hard to mess up. You just zip around at high speeds while being hard to kill after standing still for a bit.

[HeraldOfOpera]

It's worth noting that the prestige classes all have their own achievements. The completion percentages aren't a perfect barometer of how easy a given class is to win with, but they're at least an objective measure.

Anyway, Shantih (Lightning/Martial) tops that list, with Champion (pure Martial) not too far behind. The highest non-Martial class is Briar Mage, hard to argue with in terms of straightforward power.