beginner builds

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CAKE wrote:
Spell and bow builds are best, spell is easy and cheap to build for and bow builds have good clear for newbie it is best to combine these qualities resulting in Explosive arrow ballistas or Poison Ballistas that also provide defense and tank damage.

it also makes it safe to play even on pinnacle bosses, because you throw down your 4 ballistas, they auto-attack boss while u run around in circles.

As it was mentioned RF (righteous fire) is noob bait, it does have best build guides ingame, whole webpages dedicated to it BUT it is not even top 50skill to use unless you plan to farm white maps forever.
And as noob you have no idea how to push that build in to endgame, because it gets real expensive. And its clear speed actually sucks even when you invest 30mirrors in to it, while lightning or tornado shot or kinetic blast clears 3 screens, you clear little circle around you. It is comfortable and fun but not efficient.

Meanwhile for poison ballista u need tabula rasa, lvl1 bow and you can go straight to red maps. Ofcourse i'd recommend to get some defenses first(cap your resistances)

But explosive arrow is even cheaper to build than poison ballista for endgame because it is cheaper to scale fire damage for bossing, so i recommend that.
And if you get tired of the game being too easy you can regret orb in to other witch build.

My personal observation is that tankiness by far the most important stat for newbies, because for a new player, things taking longer doesn't feel bad at all due to not having comparison. But dying feels terrible to a new player, because that just sucks, especially combined with XP loss.

So, I wouldn't recommend archers for anyone new as they are rather squishy - an experienced player doesn't die with them much due to mechanical experience with the game. Take that away by handing the character to a new player, and an archer character dies twice per map.

Also, EA totems feel absolutely horrible to play early, which is the most important part for a new player. The typical gameplay is the player running face first into mobs, starting to summon ballistas too late, and die before the ballistas even fire.

So, imo RF and cold dot are by far the better recommendations.

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jimmyneutron1997 wrote:
what about other fire skills/spells like burning arrow?

Those builds exist but are very much new player unfriendly and much weaker than the top builds. From fire stuff, there're righteous fire builds (pohx kappa on youtube), and fire trap elementalist (subtractem on youtube).
Last edited by Xyel#0284 on Aug 14, 2023, 5:51:19 AM
Pohx's Righteous Fire Juggernaut
For beginners, it's a chicken and egg problem. All builds require some sort of investment to be fun but you can't acquire the currency unless you play at a high enough level.

Minion was good for beginners because it could do well just with gems until it was continuously nuked leaving no good build for beginners atm.

RF might be the best option right now but again, it's a bit complicated and require a lot of investment to feel good.

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