🌌 Beginner Build Compendia for Fangs of Asterkarn

[Kaine]

Welcome to the new Guides Compendium for Fangs of Asterkarn!
To pickup where @tqfan left us off, moving forward I will be updating this new compendium for new build threads.
I have made some adjustments in formatting, and an inclusion of an endgame builds section!

To keep added information fresh, only newly created build threads after Fangs of Asterkarn release will be added in. Older builds that receive full overhauls with updated information will be added in too.

I will try my best to add in builds manually, however if you have posted a guide on this forum, tag me to have it added in! Beginner guides must contain levelling snapshots, endgame builds must contain gameplay footage of either SR/Crucible/Celestials.

For better accuracy representing builds in more balanced states, I will only start adding endgame builds post 1.3.1. Any endgame builds prior to that will not be added in.

▧ Guide Formatting

Beginner Guides 1.3+

Melee (11)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author	Hardcore Recommended
	Physical	[S&B] Auto Attacker	Savagery	Conjurer	S.E.P_Ralf
	Pierce / Bleeding	[DW] Caster	Rip & Tear	Runekeeper	S.E.P_Ralf
	Chaos	[S&B] Hybrid	Cadence / Doom Bolt	Witchblade	RSnoomak
	Lightning	[S&B] Retaliation	Counter Strike	Warder	RSnoomak
	Pierce	[DW] Caster	Ring of Steel	Blademaster	RSnoomak
	Chaos	[DW] Caster	Rip & Tear	Mystic	GIJW
	Cold	[DW] Hybrid	Ring of Steel / Onslaught	Reaver	GIJW
	Vitality	[2H] Caster	Blade Arc	Warder	S.E.P_Ralf
	Cold	[DW] Caster	Shadow Strike / Trozans Sky Shard	Spellbreaker	S.E.P_Ralf
	Physical	[S&B] Skater	Blitz / Vire’s Might	Warlord	S.E.P_Ralf
	Physical / Bleeding	[2H] Auto Attacker	Savagery	Primalist	S.E.P_Ralf

Ranged (1)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author	Hardcore Recommended
	Pierce	[2H] Auto Attacker	Onslaught / Storm Spread	Runekeeper	Kaine

Caster (3)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author	Hardcore Recommended
	Lightning	Cooldown Caster	Grenado	Sorcerer	RSnoomak
	Pierce	Spam Caster	Phantasmal Blades	Reaver	Legrad
	Cold	Channeler	Winds of Asterkarn / Trozans Sky Shard	Evoker	GIJW

Pet/Summoner (2)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author	Hardcore Recommended
	Fire	[DW] Summoner	Rip & Tear / Guardians of Empyrion	Zealot	RSnoomak
	Bleeding	[S&B] Summoner	Ring of Steel / Blade Spirits	Reaver	S.E.P_Ralf

Endgame Builds 1.3.1+

Melee (6)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author
	Physical	[2H] Auto Attacker	Savagery	Warder	mad_lee
	Cold	[2H] Auto Attacker	Onslaught	Reaver	BubaJones
	Cold	Caster	Rip and Tear	Veilwalker	maimu_chan
	Cold	[2H] Auto Attacker	Onslaught	Veilwalker	mad_lee
	Chaos	[DW] Hybrid	Cadence / Doombolt	Witchblade	afanasenkov26
	Pierce	[DW] Caster	Ring of Steel	Reaver	x1x1x1x2

Ranged (1)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author
	Cold	[DW] Auto Attacker	Onslaught	Reaver	mad_lee

Caster (2)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author
	Acid	Spam Caster	Rune of Kalastor	Apostate	AetherPistachio
	Cold	[S&B] Spam Caster	Doombolt	Mystic	Xervous

Pet/Summoner (5)

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author
	Elemental	Pet	Summon Familiar	Conjurer	sk_choi
	Acid	Pet	Summon Blight Fiend	Ritualist	Duskdeep86
	Chaos	Pet	Raise Skeletons	Cabalist	Duskdeep86
	Cold	Pet	Summon Hellhound	Mystic	Gendizer
	Fire	Pet	Summon Hellhound	Conjurer	Duskdeep86

[Kaine]

reserved 1

[Kaine]

reserved 2

[S.E.P_Ralf]

[RSnoomak]

Good job , I am glad we are back for another compendium

[Kaine]

First new build added in!

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author	Hardcore Recommended
	Pierce / Bleeding	[DW] Caster	Rip & Tear	Runekeeper	S.E.P_Ralf

[GIJW]

nice done I thought I was gonna be in charge of this new FoA compendium but happy that someone else stepped in haha

Working on a couple of more budget friendly builds but wanna wait for some more patch updates first

God bless zantai and madlee

[Kaine]

The first endgame builds make it in! @afanasenkov26 @x1x1x1x2 @Duskdeep86

Link	Damage Type	Archetype	Main Skill	Class	Author
	Chaos	[DW] Hybrid	Cadence / Doombolt	Witchblade	afanasenkov26
	Pierce	[DW] Caster	Ring of Steel	Reaver	x1x1x1x2
	Fire	Pet	Summon Hellhound	Conjurer	Duskdeep86

[ch1zra]

Are endgame builds missing HC checkbox intentionally, or are they considered to be viable being the endgame build…

[Kaine]

I intentionally omitted since Im not sure how hc viable most endgame builds are and most authors usually dont indicate unlike beginner guides. I can give my own personal rating to them if people are fine with that

[ch1zra]

I believe leaving it up to players would be best option, come to think about it now.
It is ok as it is.

[x1x1x1x2]

My builds at least are never for HC, even when HC people vouch for it sometimes, like the pierce reaver.

[GIJW]

Is there a common forum agreement what “HC viable” means?

Like, RBP’s HC builds he does are less tanky on paper that most of my builds that I play in SC but he is a way more skilled played than me so he can pull it off.

[x1x1x1x2]

@GIJW

Is there a common forum agreement what “HC viable” means?

This is another problem. I won’t have any real say on it cause I’m no HC guy but still I’ll give an opinion and imo HC is more about player skill. No reason to have an endgame HC build when you can’t even get to endgame cause you make a lot of mistakes while levelling and die even with a guide.

[GIJW]

Often in ARPGs we speak of “builds” as they are autonomous entities. But the A in ARPG stands for “action” - i.e. there needs to be a player who pilot them.

And, the spectrum of content difficulty is gigantic.

All builds must die at some point.

[Kaine]

Generally for levelling guides its much easier to tell whether a build is viable or not, like a mystic is not going to be HC friendly lol. But a ritualist or warder will.

For existing endgame builds, theres no community consensus. Thats why I omitted

[GIJW]

@Kaine

mystic

yeah no Damage absorb, free phys res or DR from skills SC glasscannon material for sure

[Kaine]

starving for HP though. Maybe not the best choice but you get the idea

[GIJW]

You can get HP on gear easier than dmg abs and DR and if you do not have to worry about getting any acid resistances then this opens up huge opportonity.