simple, strong build for a beginner to the series/genre?

[twiggy]

im new to this game and to this genre, could you guys reccomend me a fairly straightforward build that is strong early and to the end? also tips on a build and how to level would be great , thanks :p

[Grand]

you can try conqueror (warfare+defense).

if you looking for other, try to browse guide section. there is a guide to help choosing class for beginner.

[Sebastian]

builds that are good early on tend to get worse later on. builds that are good lategame tend to not be that good early on. it mostly has to do with how raw damage skills work compared to weapon-based ones and how scaling affects them.
and on what you should pick, I would just suggest you go with what sounds nice to you, with a few limits to not make any objectively bad choices. as a rule of thumb, hybrids are generally weaker than pure casters or pure melee, so starting off with a hybrid is a bad idea.
caster masteries are earth, storm and spirit. melee masteries (technically melee and bow, but they share a lot) are warfare, defense, hunting and rogue. nature and dream more or less work with either (even though nature is technically a casting mastery).
on stat points, nothing in health or mana unless you know what you are doing. otherwise str and dex for melee (1:1 to 3:2 are good ratios as far as I have heard) and int and dex for caster (3:1 and higher for most builds).
you can refund skill points unless put into the mastery itself, so feel free to experiment with those.

[Aainiikkusu]

To keep up with the monsters, explore all areas and kill every monster to get maximum XP.

Also, completing all quests is also very important.

[Emetann]

To set it clear:

- Dream is totally OP, you can walk and mobs (random monsters) just die in seconds

- Defense makes you extremly resilient with any combination

Both are good early and late game

As a not so new player, the best advices i could give are: set your skill points on leveling the mastery not on skill at first, it gives you stats (HP, Force/Int/Dex) that are more usefull at first, and then allow you to early select best skills first later

What Sebastian said is quite false when you consider playing like this. Also i would say that pretty much the only real challenge of the game is not to die, like not at all. It turns out quite hard in this POV, and Defense is a good way to go

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Emetann:

What Sebastian said is quite false when you consider playing like this.

what exactly? all of it?
because I cant see how you showed how any of what I said is wrong.

[Emetann]

Originally posted by Sebastian:

builds that are good early on tend to get worse later on. builds that are good lategame tend to not be that good early on.

By investing all points in reaching lvl 32 mastery as soon as possible, every build is quite much the same in unlocking powerfull content, don't take it so personnally

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Emetann:

Originally posted by Sebastian:

builds that are good early on tend to get worse later on. builds that are good lategame tend to not be that good early on.

By investing all points in reaching lvl 32 mastery as soon as possible, every build is quite much the same in unlocking powerfull content, don't take it so personnally

uh... I have no idea how those two things relate.
with later on I dont mean at lvl 20 or so, I mean legendary difficulty. any build will have maxed their masteries by then. maybe read what I wrote directly after that.

Originally posted by Sebastian:

it mostly has to do with how raw damage skills work compared to weapon-based ones and how scaling affects them.

but let me explain further.
raw damage spells get stronger as you put more points into them. but once you got maximum points in, thats it. now they just increase with stat points.
weapon damage based skills get stronger the more points you put in. they also get stronger with stat points, because that raises weapon damage. BUT, they also get stronger as you pick up stronger weapons. compare some early epic difficulty weapons with legendary difficulty weapons (not epic and legendary rarity, that is a different thing) and you will see aa big difference.

[Terotrous]

I feel like a pet build is the easiest for a first playthrough because it's not very gear-dependent. You just take Nature + some other class that has pets (Warfare / Earth / Spirit / Dream / Storm) and sit back and heal while the pets do the work. With the buffs to pets in AE, it's very viable even into legendary.

[Emetann]

Sebastian why do you even start all this with a new player... Stay simple

+1 Terotrous, Nature + Any is a good choice

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Emetann:

Sebastian why do you even start all this with a new player... Stay simple

I had no idea you were a new player, but you shouldnt then claim things if you barely know about titan quest.

[Emetann]

OP is a new player

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Emetann:

OP is a new player

and you told me I was wrong, not OP. I quoted you when I explained, not OP.

[Atech66]

Hunter.. 2 wolves one pixie or whatever she is I have thier skill trees maxed out... i walked through my first play through with little hassle.. you can play with the skills and see what you like. I was Bow for a long time got a Purple thrown that dbld my dmg been using that since. You can always respec. But the wolves tend to tank to a degree and using leeching wpns helps.. i rarley use a pot.
my 2 cents. Look through the skill trees see what appeals to you from there.

[twiggy]

i tried dream/storm and it sucked becuase you have to wait like 10 seconds to cast distortion wave and i was squishy if i got hit -.- can someone play with me

[twiggy]

can you guys please reccommend me a strong build? dream is terrible and i was playing on very fast speed too :(