Do new players have to follow a build guide?

[Shug Dynamite]

Or can you just kind of wing it? I have about 400 hours on the aRPG Grim Dawn if that counts for anything.

[Smellsbad]

Just jump in boots and all. You level fast and can always just start over.

[Demethrite]

Depends what kind of player you are...

With enough common sense you can make a character that works out enough for you to learn the game and later on if you want to push more content lookout some guides as reference.

Or you can just forget anything about learning and discovering by following a step-by-step guide

[Etagloc]

if you wana kill the UBER end game content.. I suggest you read a guide.

IF if you want to see the game, and play some maps and get a feeling for the game, just play.

you can wing it NP.. but if you want learn the game I suggest you read a guide and play at the same time.

[yob.exoc]

You can wing it. Until mid Endgame you are fine without any detailed planning. Same goes for league mechanics in terms of "you want go deep and get insane stuff" you might be better prepared exile. Skill Tree looks more complicated then it really is. Plus, if you at Endgame (Atlas, etc.) you get enough materials for doing big re-skills if you want to.

This league i played ~1h / day (~110h total) reached easy Mid-Endgame and its nice Map-Play, at bosses i have to learn a bit but if you get tatics, its good, good mix for real hard and easier once too. I have done also more character optimizing this league, had done easily re-skill 39 ponits to try out other passives. Does not require single grinding one place/bosses. I do different stuff each time.

[Rafein]

It's good to at least check out a guide.

You can wing it, but you'll have to remember to be heavily focused on defences. Staying alive is typcially most important.

[Ray]

find a build guide and follow it 2nd character wing it, there are so many stuff in this game you need a guide for the first run, understand the basics and how to build or you will waste your time and you wont be able to exp the end game, like that IGN reviewer lol

[Wolfram]

Originally posted by Ray:

find a build guide and follow it 2nd character wing it, there are so many stuff in this game you need a guide for the first run, understand the basics and how to build or you will waste your time and you wont be able to exp the end game, like that IGN reviewer lol

That is a good argument. That review was pathetic and showed once again why IGN has become somewhat of a joke...

[dOBER]

Originally posted by Wolfram:

Originally posted by Ray:

find a build guide and follow it 2nd character wing it, there are so many stuff in this game you need a guide for the first run, understand the basics and how to build or you will waste your time and you wont be able to exp the end game, like that IGN reviewer lol

That is a good argument. That review was pathetic and showed once again why IGN has become somewhat of a joke...

nah i think you missed the real challage he did.. play a weapon based build and want kill kitava act 10 with lvl 1 weapon. didnt you saw he need 10 hits on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mobs to kill them ? 75h was fast in this case !

[Darktronik]

I am playing my first run and I am not following a guide cause I like to sort things out. I mean, that is the fun too playing ARPG: to build your char, is not it?

But of course it is interesting to be experienced at it and you are. Just take a good look at the passive skill tree and plan it ahead and you will be fine.

Then, if you want to be that endgame try harder, wait for the next league, next month, and follow a guide.

[Vimpster]

Originally posted by dOBER:

nah i think you missed the real challage he did.. play a weapon based build and want kill kitava act 10 with lvl 1 weapon. didnt you saw he need 10 hits on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mobs to kill them ? 75h was fast in this case !

I don't know what the typical time frame is for reaching the end game, but for me 75h is indeed fast. I have already spent about that amount of time on the game at this point and am only on Act 5. Though if I were in the business of writing game reviews I would certainly try to up my tempo.

[AdamIsUrqed]

Originally posted by ...:

Or can you just kind of wing it? I have about 400 hours on the aRPG Grim Dawn if that counts for anything.

Sure, you can wing it, but only if you want to waste a bunch of hours just to glean a basic understanding of an overly complicated game.

I suggest you bookmark every guide created in the last 3-4 months. Memorize it all. Your class doesn't matter all that much since they all use the same tree, but just start in different places and then get different "buffs" once you complete labrynths.

Memorize everything. You'll still have questions. Even the in game help is generally useless except to tell you the basics, and it will take you 70 hours just to unlock most of it. Have in mind what you want to do, then ask the community the best class/skills for the specific purpose. Take the best suggestion and then join the grind of a thousand hours as you delve into everything RNG.

The ten acts you play through isn't even the core game. Think of what SHOULD be the core game as a tutorial. The longest tutorial ever created for anything short of training for NASA. Once you have completed the tutorial once or twice, you may know enough to build a somewhat competent character that can do more than farm tier 5 maps whilst stuck at level 80 due to dying repeatedly and losing massive chunks of xp.

There is no respec unless the developers determine they have made too many changes, then you have to respec then and there. If you choose to apply a point, you lose the respec. There are items in game that are rare as hell loot drops you can use to remove skill points, and you get 12 or so respec points from side quests and such while in the tutorial, but don't expect to be able to do some full respec of points until your 3rd or 4th playthrough OR you have roughly 1,000 hours in game and you are playing a perfectly built character and you are lucky with RNG, since RNG is how drops are determined, stats are determined, "crafting" is done, sockets, links, etc. Everything is RNG. Welcome to the best and worst game ever made.

[Nisken]

I'm 400 hours in and I'm only following builds if its a class I've never played, as right now I'm trying a bv trickster in a hard private league with all damage mods, no rare or blue drops and I leveld to level 30 in 1h which is decent since it took my toxic rain 16 hours to complete acts on that league, I'm not a slow level but ♥♥♥♥ is hard with the mods. If you need some starter stuff in delve softcore hmu, or if you wanna punish yourself and play this league with 100 other people hmu, I cant give u starter stuff there though.