First playhthrough blind?

[moody]

Started a League character Witch and is it more fun to just play and do whatever for your first time?

[Nico]

If you don't care about reaching the endgame or maybe even having troubles to just finish the 10 acts of the regular campaign you can certainly go in blind. But the endgame is pretty hard, so if you go in there without a proper build and some decent game knowledge you will probably just get destroyed. And while reskilling is possible, it is rather expensive for new players, so not really realistic.

I have no idea what would be more fun for you, but if you go in blind, simply expect to not reach endgame and having to make a new character that follows a proper build if you plan to actually get to the endgame.

I personaly would guess that going in with your first character in blind can be quite fun for many players, but it depends on how easily players get frustrated by the high difficulty. And even though the campaign is considered to have a very low difficulty compared to the endgame it still can be quite hard if you have a terrible build and no clue what's going on.

So yeah, it's up to you what you prefer I guess. Just be prepared to die over and over again if you go in blind and to eventually encounter a wall you can't seem to overcome.

[player7112]

Originally posted by moody:

Started a League character Witch and is it more fun to just play and do whatever for your first time?

It isn't, at least read some guides, or you are going to waste lots of time doing trial and error, with 10,000 possible choices and 90% of them are trash choices.

[acirb]

Ignore the troll answer from player above.

It is fun. You can do it if you are willing to read some text on the screen.

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In fact, the game will give you a handful of Skill Gem options to choose from when you complete certain quests. You can pick any of them that seems like it could be fun, or you can get 1 and buy another one from a Vendor in town. (The vendor will also sell other skill gems, outside of the suggested ones.)

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You can change out yous skill gems at any point, but like Nico mentioned above, reskilling can be expensive later. You should try to pick a specialization or "theme" for your character relatively early (for example lightning or fire or minions). Then, changing to a new spell from the same element or to a different minion won't be a problem, usually.

You can have multiple skills, so you can start out by trying multiple different things. Your main skill does *not* have to be equipped in your weapon, it can be anywhere on your character. Throw around lightning bolts, icicles and fireballs, see how they feel.

As I mentioned about the quest rewards, you will get access to stronger spells as you complete quests. The first few are around level 2, 4, 12 and 28. They are not always direct upgrades, they might be used along your existing skills.

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The 2 things you need to know before starting (although the game will tell you):

1. You need to link Support Gems to Skill Gems for them to work. They need to be on the same item and the sockets need to be visibly linked with a line connecting them.

2. You will lose 30% resistances at the end of Act 5 and Act 10. This combined with monsters getting stronger at those points, means you will start to die more. It's not your build sucking, it's not your skills lacking, it's just a jump in difficulty. Use the crafting bench and upgrade your gear.

[El Jabon]

I started last league blind as a Witch and it was lit, cleared the whole Atlas, (cleared most endgame maps) without any guides.

[Codester]

Originally posted by El Jabon:

I started last league blind as a Witch and it was lit, cleared the whole Atlas, (cleared most endgame maps) without any guides.

[Ghin]

Really it's whatever is more fun for you. If you don't want someone telling you what to do, following a guide won't be fun. If you don't want to spend a lot of time exploring and figuring things out, playing blind won't be fun.

[Modest Mauser]

I start a witch every now and again, when the mood to play strikes me. I enjoy the summoner, and it doesn't really take a ton of research to do anything, so that's nice. Also, the gear requirements aren't as high generally. I'd say, give it a try, if you want.

[Blahramewe]

One other useful tip what the game won't tell you: If you're not going to use the secondary weapon set you can put weapons/shields in there anyway and put in gems that you want to use but don't have room for in your main build. They will still gain experience even if they're not active.

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by moody:

just play and do whatever for your first time?

Absolute worst possible thing you can do in this game, coming from a few hundred hours of experience doing that.
You'll be weak, have a mixed gem loadout with no synergy since you're trying different spells to find what you like, and the game is not easy enough to get through that. In the midgame every death drains your exp, the only saving grace is bosses don't regenerate their hp when you die so you can die to them 50 times and still finish, but if you die that much you'll be severely underleveled and be even weaker against what is to come.
These types of games you almost always need to find an optimized build close to what you want to play.
If you're doing witch I'd suggest necromancer I actually had a lot of fun playing a guided necromancer build. Infernal Legion skeletons alone did more damage than any of my previous builds, combined with a health potion that healed minions too to keep them up longer.

[El Jabon]

Originally posted by Lunacy:

Originally posted by moody:

just play and do whatever for your first time?

Absolute worst possible thing you can do in this game, coming from a few hundred hours of experience doing that.
You'll be weak, have a mixed gem loadout with no synergy since you're trying different spells to find what you like, and the game is not easy enough to get through that. In the midgame every death drains your exp, the only saving grace is bosses don't regenerate their hp when you die so you can die to them 50 times and still finish, but if you die that much you'll be severely underleveled and be even weaker against what is to come.
These types of games you almost always need to find an optimized build close to what you want to play.
If you're doing witch I'd suggest necromancer I actually had a lot of fun playing a guided necromancer build. Infernal Legion skeletons alone did more damage than any of my previous builds, combined with a health potion that healed minions too to keep them up longer.

He only has 300 hrs, i wouldn't take this too seriously.

[Merilirem]

I always play blind because I like doing my own thing. People consider it a waste to try things but I consider it the whole point of games like this.