Totem or Summon for first ever character?

Decided to give PoE a try. Dead set on playing these two since they're my favorite types. Not worried about endgame right now, just want something I can semi easily learn the game/survive with the first 30 or so levels.

Been reading poenbuilds, but it's a ton to take in. Any suggestions would be great.


TIA.

Summoner most def.

Summoner yes, and go HC, you'll feel the best of it that the game has to offer
(not kidding)

dont go hc

First time every playing, DONT go HC. you'll get blown up very randomly and it will leave a sour taste in your mouth.


Totems OR summons are both fairly safe, easy to build options. For totems, you'll probably want to pick one spell, supported with spell totem, and focus on making that spell very strong. after that its just make totems and run around not getting killed.

summons, you have a bit more variety. Spectres, zombies, and golems are permanent minions, you only resummon them if they die. Skeletons and raging spirits have to be continuously summoned, because they have a short duration. The permanent minions give you more time to run around not dying, so i would start there.

Zombies +skeletons were very strong when i played them in a flashback league. running around with a big 2h sword and then commanding an army felt a bit silly but it was good.

I'm not trolling or trying to give him a bad advice
If you'll start playing HC - you'll learn faster, get better faster
When i first ever saw POE, downloaded it, and when i was picking a league i was like : eh, some blue flag and a red flag with a HC tag.. fuck yes im going HC

If a game has to offer two sides - casual with rainbows and a pink pillow, or a dark and not forgiving with a big "fuck you" when you make a mistake - one has to choose what will make him stronger faster

Totems are best for beginner. Managing summons is very time consuming and annoying. I suggest this build for any new player:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1694250

Playing totems is like being the disabled guy irl, don't go builds that make you feel mentally ill
If you can't handle a build that requires managing X things or something like that - still do it, and learn it

HC is for people that have too much time on their hands and have a alt-F4 macro on their left mouse button.

@topic Summoner, either start as witch or templar. Both have good ascendancies to use. Focus on Skeletons first, and then switch to zombies. Both have the same DPS, but in early acts zombies die kinda fast so better to use skeles.

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Asmosis wrote:

HC is for people that have too much time on their hands and have a alt-F4 macro on their left mouse button.

@topic Summoner, either start as witch or templar. Both have good ascendancies to use. Focus on Skeletons first, and then switch to zombies. Both have the same DPS, but in early acts zombies die kinda fast so better to use skeles.

It's not about having free time
Having a macro is not bad, what's better - death to a stupid shit or a fast relog? you decide
Plus u're getting skilled in seeing things that are about to happen..
For every plus of playing SadCore, there's 3 pluses