Copying other player's builds...

Speaking as someone new to the game right now, I was intimidated by the skill tree when I started out. Made a witch first, but she didn't feel very strong. Clearly I was doing something wrong so I glanced at the forums and found a gajillion different builds.

Instead of starting over with the witch, made a ranger and I'm using a build I found on the forums here. I'm still totally unsure about how I'm going to get all these fancy and elaborate skill links up and running but that's also not really a big concern yet I figure.

At the very least after reading the guide (and it's one of the detailed ones rather than the ones that tend toward 'here is build here is why it's good, go kill stuff') I have a better understanding of what is generally important to have. On my witch I logically assumed I wanted damage and mana regen. Act 1 may be a poor way to judge but I fixed the mana problem really fast through passive regen but didn't do any actual damage and I hadn't invested at all into life or resistances.

So at least if I make another character, I know life and resistances are important. I kinda feel like it's something that should have been stressed as being really important somewhere. My only other experience with hack and slash games like this is with Diablo (1 and 2, not 3), and resisances were kind of optional in those until you got to the hardest difficulty.

Still, I would like to thank those souls that go out of their way to make builds that dumb newbies like myself can copy paste for their own use while they're all lost and confused and stuff. :3

By now everything has been done before, can't really call anything new in the truest form of the word...now you could allocate points without looking at the forums, but in the end the odds are someone has done it before, even if it seams like a fail...it's someones fail...thus we are all copying someone, except for the original individuals whom made the build in the first place...which could very well be GGG employees for all we know!

I'm not sure what this thread is about, because:

- How (if ever) you're going to prevent people from copying other's builds?
- Let people do whatever they want

/thread? : O

Those who dont read and want to jump into the game- they are basically on their own. they will figure it out or quit.

on the otherhand players who are willing to read and research will have a much easier time making it over the hump.

When i first started POE i made a groundslam marauder and made it to act 2 before i rerolled. could have made it much much further but i wanted to expand my options!

As it is now ive played and dabbled with almost every build but i still have some skill gems i havent really tried yet and ive been playing for almost half a year.

Basically we need a really well thought out and explained, easy to understand guide for newbies to break them in quick style somewhat.

first off your going to have to just play to figure out what you like to play. no way getting around that. otherwise the most viable starting builds could be laid out. looking in the builds forum the vast majority of those builds are not for new players and that really screws people up when they are trying to figure out how to progress.

a central game guide of some sort would be really useful to new players as well. basically explaining boss fights would help too. mainly pointing out the encounters that are most likely to instagib a vet let alone a newbie goes a long way.

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justinmm1988 wrote:

By now everything has been done before, can't really call anything new in the truest form of the word...now you could allocate points without looking at the forums, but in the end the odds are someone has done it before, even if it seams like a fail...it's someones fail...thus we are all copying someone, except for the original individuals whom made the build in the first place...which could very well be GGG employees for all we know!

This is a foolish, fallacious argument I see in MTG all the time which ignores both that there are functionally infinite possibilities for builds and also that the damn tree keeps changing.