what build should i play as a casual to beat all the content in the game?

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Orbaal wrote:

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Marinxar wrote:

Not a good argument at all.

How many hours have BalorMage in this game overall ? 15k... 20k ?

He had to play 16 hours a day for years, to have the knowledge of crafting and game mechanics and boss mechanics, to be able to pull that off.

So?

He did it in less than a month, last I checked leagues do last 3 months.
Besides being knowledgeable he is a mediocre player at best. He isnt crafting at all aside from flasks but he is trading. Anyone can do that, doesnt require a lot of knowledge.

The rest you mentioned, like game mechanics and boss mechanics, I´ll simply ignore. If you dont know this stuff, you have zero business in endgame let alone beating the toptier bosses in this game, which was the stated goal.

I agree with Marinxar here. BalorMage was not a casual player playing casually. He was an expert player, with expert player knowledge gained over 10s of thousands of hours of playtime, playing expertly for 90 minutes a day. His series showed what an expert player could do with limited play time, but that's not the same thing as showing what a "casual player" (which can have many meanings) can do.

Personally, I don't think it's possible for a "casual player" to "beat all the content in the game" in this game. Some content is simply out of reach of casual players, and if a player plays enough to "beat all the content in the game" then they are, by my definition, not a casual player any more.

Here is my reply.

If you say "All Content", meaning "All Endgame maps and Bosses".

There are few builds and classes that can clear "ALL".


These are the mechanics that prevents other classes to complete:

1) Reflect (Maps, Atziri, Uber Atziri, etc.)
-Non-Anti Reflect Classes will have a hard time clearing this and sometimes making it impossible to finish

2) No Life/Mana Regen (Maps)
-RF Builds and Mana base Defenses will suffer from this mod.

3) No Leech (Maps)
-Most of build is heavily reliant on leeches to survive.

4) End Game Bosses Fight Mechanics
-Some of the Build will have a hard time, especially a build that the damage scaling up is very slow, or need a ton of currency to make competitive.


Given the options that can clear the game content with very less issues:
1) Summoner Build (Highlikely a Necromancer)
2) DOTs Build (Tons of Viable Classes)
3) Elementalist (Elemental Build) or Slayer (Physical Build) Classes
4) Trapper Build (Highlikely a Saboteur)
5) Brand Build

I agree that Power Creep was mentioned, which widens the gap from t16 to the end of everything in the huge canyon.

The key to success is perseverance and efficiency employee monitoring, because even 2-5 hours on the weekend is the same time as someone who hasn't spent the first week, so you can do the same they can in three months.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

You don't need to learn any of that to do the game though aside from how the Atlas works everything else you've listed is how to make more currency which you don't need if your following a cheap guide on SC.

The point of playing is to have fun though not beat all the content i don't really know why you'd set yourself up in such a way.

Agree 100%. The only thing a casual 'must' do is have fun. And the best way to do that is to ignore everything said above the quoted post, disconnect from the forums/reddit, and play explore and learn in the least social environment possible. The worst thing a casual can do is spend time trying to emulate (and thus compare themselves to) power gamers who are trying to optimize the fun into the game (and ironically, in that pursuit, end up optimizing the fun out of the game instead).

Blade Blast Assassin

I've been playing POE for the past 6 years, on average about 30 minutes a day. (Sometimes a lot more, sometimes a week or more without playing at all.)

I'm SSF, and only just got to level 100 and beat Sirius.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

You don't need to learn any of that to do the game though aside from how the Atlas works everything else you've listed is how to make more currency which you don't need if your following a cheap guide on SC.

The point of playing is to have fun though not beat all the content i don't really know why you'd set yourself up in such a way.

I don't disagree but thats not what OP asking. OP asked to beat all on casual time/budgets. I presented that. Running meta systems and cheaper meta builds

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Sintactical wrote:

I've been playing POE for the past 6 years, on average about 30 minutes a day. (Sometimes a lot more, sometimes a week or more without playing at all.)

I'm SSF, and only just got to level 100 and beat Sirius.

100 is about biggest waste of time in the world. You can build 6 GG lvl 96 toons in time it takes to make 100. Thats cuz takes 3000 maps for 100 as opposed to 500 for 96. 4 pts never made a difference in sirus or not. I've done him at 88 at 472K dps.

PS perfection is the enemy of profit. Trust me as a fellow casual SSF player.

That applies in business too if you're ever interested.

I couldn't do it, I had a fairly godmode character in ritual I even ended up with a HH so i could clear faster and I still couldn't face the mountain that is 99-100.

If your clearing all the content and not faffing about you'd end up 93/94 imo really isn't any point going further

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Aim_Deep wrote:

PS perfection is the enemy of profit.

GGG is rich af then.