What are your 3 most important professions to start with?

[Atari 2600]

Hello! There are so many options when starting. I just rerolled to get a good scavenger/scout, all-purpose researcher, and a worker (has huntsman).

What's considered min/max or optimal? Do we need to start with fighters/defenders? I rolled a huntsman which is nice for fighting plus work around camp.

Appreciate any experienced help. I am starting on custom lower difficulty, making demons occur less often overall, but still want to work on efficiency for higher levels soon.

[2much]

Your instincts are fine.
Besides a good science researcher my starting 3 always change a little.
In my next game I think I'll want someone with the medic skill.
The "can wear" and "can use" skills will also be a bigger factor when choosing a survivor.

[smileyill]

I wrote a guide that has my opinion..

[Atari 2600]

Originally posted by smileyill:

I wrote a guide that has my opinion..

Just read it, thanks!

[Borfoid]

Librarian / Lab Assistant / anything that gives a tech/occult research boost primarily.

I like having one guy that has melee bonuses and one that has ranged/bow to create a main tank and ranger for missions.

Everything else is kinda useless as it only saves a small amount of time on jobs which has diminishing returns as time goes on as you level up and get randoms in to your settlement that sometimes outstrip your starting characters.

[wraith_73]

Personally, I try to find people with bonuses to research, occult, and crafting. If i get two of the three I'm happy. Getting people with good bonuses to research and crafting is a huge force multiplier in the long game, and can be frustratingly difficult to find later. Fighters on the other hand are easily come by, and don't have stringent requirements to be decent.

[Aigro]

In beginning you need have a good guy to farm, collect water, crafting.....
In middle you will need 2 kinds specialization : Def structures(build) and Consecration(ritual)...