Good class for first time solo player?

Just hit all the summoning nodes and summon decent spectres... Even if you don't take a single life node or energy shield node you should be fine doing early maps in gear that other builds would vendor.

In normal you'll be spamming skeletons and be relatively weak, if you stick to it it gets much better in the higher difficulty levels... you can rush to minion instability if you dont want to have boss trouble.

If you want to do higher level maps you'll probably wanna use this char to bankroll a real one though... at least in the beginning imo.

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Aegon wrote:

If you want to do higher level maps you'll probably wanna use this char to bankroll a real one though... at least in the beginning imo.

That's the plan :) get something playable for the first one, then use as a jumping point for the rest. The LA archer and EK marauder should give me a taste for the game at melee and ranged

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Reanimator13 wrote:

Zith

A lot of misguided folks in this game. That said look over my " Suicide Build ". It meets all your requirements. I can clear the docks in 8 mins in merci and do maps. All in easy to get low end gear. My build will get a new player LOTS of gear to trade and use for alts.\

LOL - that looks fun - a bit crazy life-wise, but fun. Definitely not for my two mains, but I've got a witch lying around that I was planning to abandon...she has a reroll coming, so might as well use this to experiment with a summoner :D

That looks much less passive than the other summoning builds I've seen (which looked rather boring) - thanks :) ill play with that! Could you post a screenshot of your gear/gems please? Youre obviously using a totem, wraiths, skellies, and zombies, with a couple auras, but a screenie of your linked suport gems and suchlike would be great!

Thanks

Update: Actually, now looking at http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/316124 for the witch -> same idea, but a bit more passive and defense oriented. Plus CI.