What's the easiest class for me to get through this game with?

[ARTHUR]

Please kind sirs.

[joebyronlee]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Archon:

Please kind sirs.

Ranger Hands down, very good builds out there, sometimes you'll get one shot but just work on your res's and you'll be okay

[Commando]

Clearly warrior. It's the best.

[wulfster42]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Commando:

Clearly warrior. It's the best. :lunar2019laughingpig:

Grin

Totally agree, but kind hope everyone doesn't figure that out anytime soon:)

[Astral Projection]

I'm in my 40's on a Ranger in Act 3.

1-shotted the majority of bosses. Any boss I died on, i just got a level and some gear, then came back and killed them.

Game isn't easy but with Ranger I've yet to encounter anything unkillable without a few tweaks.

[Detergent]

Shockwave Totem Warrior. I don't think you can get a easier mode than that. Truly.

Happy New Year!

[wulfster42]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Astral Projection:

I'm in my 40's on a Ranger in Act 3.

1-shotted the majority of bosses. Any boss I died on, i just got a level and some gear, then came back and killed them.

Game isn't easy but with Ranger I've yet to encounter anything unkillable without a few tweaks.

Ranger (deadeye) honestly has a ton of defense. It is by far the easiest class to get a ton from acrobatics, while still having significant DR, fast movement speed and faster skill usage. It has high damage/fast attacking cold/freeze attacks (far superior in my opinion to a cold specced sorc). It even has more movement speed (which is especially useful early on and on your first character.

It was my first character to end game and my favorite out of the first characters I played. Back then that was a mace specced warrior (hadn't figured out using q-staff on a warrior yet), minion specced infernalist, crit spell and minion specced Blood witch, witch hunter with an actually xbow (had not figured out using a bow on one yet) and a crappy very dissapointing chronomancer sorc.

Sorc was lesser to me in every way than the witches, who did more spell damage while having much better/stronger minions (still used SRS on my chrono but they were far weaker).

Ranger was faster (attacking, I went with both the dex and accuracy boosts to attack speed, tons of evasion + acrobatics). His movement speed literally seemed twice as high as the rest since I only had 15% boots back then and didn't have the 10% movement speed armor yet. He was...ranged, with strong ice attacks, extremely strong snipe, amazing basic attack and good over all defenses. Barely any eshield at all (couldn't use ghost), he still survived endgame pretty well, rarely dying and dealt with all the trials (although failed quite a few times).

Still think for a brand new character ranger is pretty good choice if you go deadeye. The truth though is that titan is better at everything a ranger can do, especially late game (more tree skill points you have, bigger the difference is).

That being said, for a PURE bow user, who doesn't want to use a q-staff, the difference isn't as big. Titan with both q-staff and bow is insanely strong, but ice strike with a q-staff is like 2x as good at ice shot. If you are only running with a bow as a titan, all the melee nodes go out the window, you still get WAY more attack/physical and two handed damage nodes, and then boost all the small ones with hulking form. That will STILL double your damage with your bow (outside of all more etc bonuses, just straight up double the base damage bonus or more). That is hard to compensate for as a deadeye or any other bow based build.

But unless you KNOW that, and know that hulking form will be that strong, you are probably gonna have an easier go as a ranger, and it's more intuitive since it's natural skills are bow focused.

In a crazy weird twist though, my initial favorite bow using ascendency, ended up only 3rd on my list of bow users with Titan being the best than witchhunter and finally deadeye.

All 3 are amazing though and nobody should really have a hard time playing any of them as their first character.

[Lu2]

mercenary is broken at lvl 45 . no idea why flash grenade deal actual dps when it blinds and stunlock everthing already which is way too usefull . ridicilous with grenade nodes

[opAw←G]

Just don't pick a melee class, and you will be fine.

[Step Sis Proof Appliances]

Minion Infernalist

[Kul The Swordsman]

Ranger. Or use bow with mercenary if you want to start as a male and pick gemling (or whatever) ascension.

[Warsign]

Początkowo opublikowane przez wulfster42:

Any weapon type user (xbow/bow/mace/qstaff) you are waaaaay better off starting as warrior. It's way easier if melee to go warrior with q-staff than mace. Way easier to go warrior bow than xbow.

Warrior can be good for spell/minion as well, but honestly witch is really great at both and alot of people do well as sorc as well for those.

If it was me?

I would start as a warrior and go with Q-staff, focus on melee/attack/two handed/physical damage nodes as much as possible initially, and grab some rage nodes as well. You will walk through the game with ice strike barely ever being hit, and bosses will freeze in seconds and die before they unfreeze.

The nice thing is such a build can have a bow on the other weapon slot, you can even set that up with it's own nodes that avoid melee bonuses (you can have a different passive tree for each weapon slot). Bow offers a few things q-staff doesn't and has a couple of very high every so often abilities like Ice Salvo that makes taking down bosses even easier.

The combo of q-staff/bow on a warrior titan (titans get 50% more bonuses from small nodes), is insanely strong and the easiest way to get through the game before you get a ton of really strong equipment.

So yeah, that ishow I would start at this point.

Why are you trolling this guy asking for direction?