Rogue : What am I doing wrong?

[Bonez]

So, I decided to start playing a rogue a couple days ago, and it is just straight pain... I don't know what to do or what i'm doing wrong... I can barely fight normal mobs, and usually have to use all my health potions just to get through it.. bosses or elites essentially one shot me, and i just have to keep respawning to whittle down their health (which is actually something about this game i don't really like or understand, ie. the persistent enemy health even after you die).

I've played the paladin, the mage, and the primalist, and had zero issue getting through the starting areas, but with the rogue, it's like pulling teeth...

Does anyone have any tips? Is there a level corner I just have to get around, or a gear hill i have to crest??

Mucho appreciato.

[Lemmiwinks]

Get the shadow cascade passive for Shift, then eventually get shadow cascade and melt everything. Around 25 passive points is when you will be chilling for melee

[Twisty]

Melee or ranged?
Puncture and acid flask to good work early on, if you can get a bow they both work well too.

[CyberDown]

i would watch a few youtube videos, then do an internet search for last epoch builds for specifics.

[pruitcake]

Hard to say what's going wrong without knowing anything about your build. What skills, which mastery, what kinda gear, etc.

[A TIN OF JAR]

Early on dump as much into physical resist as you can, spend points into skill nodes that give you health on kill/crit, look for gear that has health and/or health regen.

If you use Shift for example there are a few nodes on the left side of the skill tree that heal when you shift.

If you are using the Falconry skill there is a node that gives you health on kill or when it hits a boss or rare enemy.

But as pruitcake said, its really hard to say without knowing anything about your build.

Don't make the same mistake lot of people do and just go for pure dmg/crit, it will just make you a glass cannon.

[Djozar]

There are some pretty decent leveling guides out there. I hate using leveling builds, as I prefer leveling into the build, not respeccing after I hit a certain breakpoint. However, sometimes, they are useful. This might be one of those times. If not, maybe wait until you have a few more items for a Rogue (set loot filters to show the Rogue items you want to see dropped, along with your current class' filter enabled) before diving into it.

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Bonez:

So, I decided to start playing a rogue a couple days ago, and it is just straight pain... I don't know what to do or what i'm doing wrong... I can barely fight normal mobs, and usually have to use all my health potions just to get through it.. bosses or elites essentially one shot me, and i just have to keep respawning to whittle down their health (which is actually something about this game i don't really like or understand, ie. the persistent enemy health even after you die).

I've played the paladin, the mage, and the primalist, and had zero issue getting through the starting areas, but with the rogue, it's like pulling teeth...

Does anyone have any tips? Is there a level corner I just have to get around, or a gear hill i have to crest??

Mucho appreciato.

rogue sucks first 3 levels, you attack with melee weapon and back pedal away from mobs so they don't hit you, or regen up between mob groups until you level up a few times. once you get past first 2 screens you should be level 4.8 and reach the starter town that has the vendor and your stash, upgrade your gear here from both

then switch to bow and it gets stronger faster

since you leveled some other stuff, give it some low level gear / uniques and stuff

pick cinder strike as your fist skill and skill into the +fire dmg node (north one) , this will raise your damage from 100 to like 300 on the first blast, which greatly helps clear packs of mobs

You want to use the +3hp relic on all classes to start with, and put some +hp regen on glove/boot/helm if you can/have space and shards / need more regen

any +dmg you can get at this point will greatly empower your character

by the time your rogue is 10 it should be outperforming most of the other classes (give it +dodge, +dmg and +hp regen)

[Bonez]

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who posted to help out. I took most of your suggestions and advice in to mind, but I restarted my rogue after getting to level 9/10... my restarted rogue I kept to ranged, specced in to the dash (shift?) and poison throw, and I am now level 25 or so (don't have a ton of time to play lately), and it was SO much more enjoyable.

I have no idea what I was thinking/doing in my first run as a rogue, but it was absolutely terrible.. main difference was melee loadout I think.. but I'm pretty sure I specced in to things that didn't help early on as well.

thanks again to all!

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Bonez:

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who posted to help out. I took most of your suggestions and advice in to mind, but I restarted my rogue after getting to level 9/10... my restarted rogue I kept to ranged, specced in to the dash (shift?) and poison throw, and I am now level 25 or so (don't have a ton of time to play lately), and it was SO much more enjoyable.

I have no idea what I was thinking/doing in my first run as a rogue, but it was absolutely terrible.. main difference was melee loadout I think.. but I'm pretty sure I specced in to things that didn't help early on as well.

thanks again to all!

glad you found a way forward that was fun