Ashes of Malmouth starts when you finish the base game. Forgotten Gods starts from any town, there’s a green portal or an Emissary to open one in every main town.
I’d say to play the game in order (Krieg, then Cronley, then Homestead, then head north, then do Ashes and finish with Forgotten Gods), especially if it’s your first time through the game. You can skip things or do them out of order with subsequent play throughs.
As for factions, it doesn’t matter too much for this character.
Thanks again.
Hi there! Great guide, thank you so much for your efforts. Leveling a purifier right now, and your guidance is greatly appreciated. Allows me to think less and shoot more 
I have a few quick questions though. I’m curious as to why you didn’t use Ugdenbog Arcaneweaver while leveling? Seems like a superior option to me, or am I missing something?
Also, I take it Brimstone is too expensive to go for in the late game in general? Seems very pricy to drop all those points just to reach one skill. Is it ever really worth it?
Thanks!
It’s not a pistol, it’s a rifle. That’s why I didn’t use it. Rifles are better supported for sure, but it’s hard to have a pistol in both hands when you’re also carrying a rifle.
It is quite expensive. I did take it while levelling and then took the points out for the Dagallon build.
So it was just a “pistols only” challenge for the sake of it, or is there any benefit to using them over a rifle?
The damage disparity just seems too significant to ignore. And this being the only decent Purifier leveling guide for 1.2 out there( at least from what I saw) - I think it’s at least worth mentioning. It would do more good as a general Purifier guide, rather than a pistols only build.
I don’t think new players should restrict themselves like that just for the sake of it, and the Arcaneweaver animation is better imo, on top of superior dps and being easily farmable. Sure am glad I switched for the time being, so I definitely recommend other newbies to try it out too. Pistols can wait until 94.
Many new players prefer leveling with DW guns rather than with 2h weapon. Don’t tell others how to play this game.
You can use this guide, doesn’t need to be for 1.2 to be usable [1.1.9.1] Budget 2-handed ranged "The Desolator" Fire Strike Fire Purifier
I think it’s better to have separate guides for DW and 2h. Also it’s not practical to make a general guide since you only level one character while making such a guide.
@Paikis Please consider adding character snapshots from your YT series to the OP. A think they would be very useful.
And maybe also at least a tiny bit of formatting, especially to the leveling section (together with these snapshots maybe) to break that wall of text ; )
So ironic, to say this in a guide thread… I guess telling them what to do step by step is fine, but don’t you dare suggest they don’t restrict themselves! Sheesh…
Usable, perhaps, but I’m not going through all the patch notes since then to see what changed. And some of those changes can be crucial, so I’d rather stick to current information. Thanks for linking it anyway.
Exactly, you only have one character, and that character works with either weapon class, so it is in fact not practical to restrict a leveling guide to just one weapon type for said character. If it works - it works. And people don’t know what they like/prefer unless they try it. And the pistols that come after Double-Barrel Pistols suck in comparison.
The benefit is that you get to play dual pistols. That’s it. If you want to play rifles, by all means do so. If we only ever posted builds that are the best, most efficient ways to level, then there would only be 9 build guides in the entire compendium.
The reason I didn’t do that is because I did things a little differently in the youtube series. I’ll put them in when I get time. Might take me a bit, RL being RL currently. What formatting are you asking for? It looks quite well formatted to me. Suggestions?
Your guides below average in the Beginner Compendium is this regard. Just check some other ones. Plain white text everywhere without ever using different font sizes and colors makes it a wall of text where everything is hard for eyes to find.
Sometime a little thing can go a long way i.e only 1 enter / new line after the first sentence in the following text makes a huge difference (1 enter automatically makes all points separated with new lines):
Once you’ve got Duncan online and you can craft 2 Double-barrel Pistols, switch over to pistols. At level 16, you will have 10 points in the Demolitionist bar, 4 points in Fire Strike, 12 points in Explosive Strike, 1 point in Flame Touched and 1 point in Vindictive Flame. In the Inquistor tree, you’ll have 7 points in the bar, 1 point in Ranged Expertise and 10 points in Bursting Round.
Put 1 value point into Deadly Aim and then work towards Word of Renewal. Put 4 points into it for the healing and then work towards 20 points in the bar and take 1 point in Chilling Rounds and Vigor. Chilling Rounds is important as it provides some crowd control by freezing things. It also pierces targets so you can freeze a long line of targets.
Inquisitor’s Seal is our next goal, so 5 more points into the bar and then max out Inquisitor’s Seal.
Continue progressing the Inquisitor bar to 32 points and put 1 point into Steel Resolve.
Take the bar to 40 and put 1 point into Storm Spread and 1 point into Arcane Empowerment. Storm Spread provides us with a cone of lightning when it procs and is great for triggering any damage procs you might have on your gear.
Push Inquisitor to 50 points and then max out Aura of Censure. This is one of our sources of resistance shredding, not to mention a free damage aura.
Now it’s time to (finally) max out the Firestrike line. Take Firestrike to 12 hard points and progress the bar to 20.
You want to juggle skill points (if needed) in Vindictive Flame to keep it at 11/16 total points. Also at this point, take 1 point in Temper and 7 points in Ulzuin’s Wrath for the 69% chance to knockdown targets. Yes, I am a child. If you’re a more mature person, then 10 points will get you a nice round 20% reduced target’s damage number. Boring. Also put 1 point into Static Strike. We’re not doing lightning damage, but a value point is probably worth taking.
Next we push the Demolitionist bar to 32 points and max out Thermite Mines. These are another way we have of reducing enemy resistances. Also important here to take 10/12 in Blast Shield. This is the best circuit breaker in the game, and 10 points is a nice cut off where it starts to give you less effect for more points.
When you start to feel a bit squishy, put 1 point into Flashbang and 6 points into Searing Light. This will cause monsters you hit with it to miss about 30% of their attacks against you. Feel free to skip this one though, as it is an extra skill to manage and you have to throw it out every 5 seconds. Otherwise, push the Demolitionist bar to 50 points and take Brimstone.
From here to 100, put more points into Flame Touched and the Word of Renewal line. Vigor and Steel Resolve are both very strong skills and you should aim to at least soft cap them.
@Paikis I just noticed that the Grim Tools doesn’t contain weapon or jewellery augments and the whole guide doesn’t even contain the word “augment” 
Paikis - I am normally an exclusive pet player but I will give this build a try because it sounds very intriguing - looking forward to the light show. Also regarding DW versus 2 handed rifle - if someone has a better idea about using a different weapon/method of leveling a Purifier then they should create their own build guide don’t you think?
Thanks for answering the question. Thought that maybe pistols have a unique mechanic to them, that I wasn’t aware of, but I guess not.
In a perfect world, yes. What we’re left with in reality, is a single incomplete guide.
Keep it civil folks.
i would like a bit more info on how the gun components work / how to get them as a first time through player
Welcome to the forum. 
What do you mean exactly? There’s detailed info in the opening post on what gear to use, levelling, devotions, etc.
mainly the components and how i should get them. i did take a look and see the components but “For affixes, ideally you want a fire damage proc, so Infernal is the best option. Other damage procs can be used though, Enchanters, Incanters or Aetherfire are probably the next best in that order.” infernal doesn’t make sense to me or how i should acquire the component
Infernal is not a component, it’s a prefix on the gun. You have to craft the gun, so craft a few of them until you get one of those prefixes, ideally an Infernal Shrapnel Pistol, though as I said, Enchanter’s, Incanter’s or Aetherfire would also be OK.
As for components, Seal of the Void is a blueprint that can drop around level 75 or higher and will require crafting. Prior to that, Devil-Touched Ammo is probably the go-to. This is a rare(ish) drop from various monsters and chests. It might take a few levels before you have 2, use Flintcore bolts until then.
Added some pictures and made the text bigger for headings for TqFan. Also added extra line spaces, so now the same information takes up an extra half a screen. Enjoy. It was interesting to see that the formatting had changed from when I wrote it. I didn’t even know that * was the same as - for staring a bullet-point line, but there we go. Also, if anyone knows how to embed video links directly, let me know. Currently just a picture with a link under it.
Awesome replay thank you very much!
You just post a link (sometimes you need to make an empty line before / after it for the hyperlink to change into an embedded video)
The difference is like night and day 
Doesn’t work inside [details] unfortunately. Oh well, fixed. Also added grimtools from actual playthrough.