🔰 Beginner Build Compendium - 117 guides for AoM & FG expansions

[Encie]

This has been a treasure of a resource for me, as I kept fooling myself by trying to play a finalised build from the start of the game. Thanks for all the guide authors’ work and I really hope this keeps being updated!

[tqFan]

New guide

HC Beginner Fire Pyromancer	Fire	Pyromancer	teppieteptep	1.2.1.2

I decided to go back to posting updates here to bump the thread shamelessly since it’s not pinned anywhere directly.

[Nery]

97 guides? We need just 3 more and we can have our own top 100 chart.

[teppieteptep]

I might cook up a few more beginner guides while I’m on vacation.

[Maya]

Time to sneak this in the BBC while no one is looking - Nocturne – Lazy, Budget, Player scaled Pets, Conjurer & Ritualist

[tqFan]

Announcement!

The beginner guide will be separated into two parts / posts - with and without detail leveling (journeys).

This means you can make a thread with just a budget setup with some decent testing and no leveling whatsoever and have it listed in the 2nd post.

If you want to be 99% sure that your guide is placed in the 1st post and not the 2nd, provide character snapshots (GT links) of your character at various levels from playing Main Campaign.

@teppieteptep

I might cook up a few more beginner guides while I’m on vacation.

Awesome, I wonder what you may come up with.

[tqFan]

Another S tier guide by HonorabruSudoku

Stun Jacks + Storm Totems Elementalist, SR 65 & Lokarr	Lightning	Elementalist	HonorabruSudoku	1.2.1.2

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Beginner Mortar Trap Shieldbreaker	Fire	Shieldbreaker	modal	1.2.1.2

[tqFan]

HC Beginner lightning AAR Templar	Lightning	Templar	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.2
SSF HC Beginner Chaos FoI Purifier	Chaos	Purifier	Cripptid	1.2.1.2

[tqFan]

It’s been 3 years since the last Tactician in the compendium.
And 5 years since the last Elemental build.
S.E.P_Ralf kindly fixes that with

HC Beginner tri-elemental arcane tank tactician	Elemental	Tactician	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.2

However

[S.E.P_Ralf]

[S.E.P_Ralf]

Well, it’s a decent option until droping plagueguard’s BP

[tqFan]

@Cripptid couldn’t stand all Warlords in the compendium being Physical and made

SSF HC Fire War Cry Warlord	Fire	Warlord	Cripptid	1.2.1.2

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HC SSF Beginner Cold Ring of Steel Spellbreaker	Cold	Spellbreaker	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.2

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HC Callidor’s Tempest Spellbinder	Aether	Spellbinder	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.2

[tqFan]

New builds, let me know if I missed something.

Elemental Panetti’s Mage Hunter	Elemental	Mage Hunter	HonorabruSudoku	1.2.1.4
HC Vitality Gunslinger Ritualist	Vitality	Ritualist	Cripptid	1.2.1.3
HC Cold Shadow Strike Trickster	Cold	Trickster	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.4
Elemental PRM Mage Hunter	Elemental	Mage Hunter	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.4
HC Fire Grenadier Pyromancer	Fire	Pyromancer	Cripptid	1.2.1.5
Ranged Primal Strike Vindicator	Lightning	Vindicator	HonorabruSudoku	1.2.1.5
Lightning SB / DB / RoK Deceiver	Lightning	Deceiver	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.5
HC Physical Forcewave Witchblade	Physical	Witchblade	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.5
HC Physical Blade Arc Witchblade	Physical	Witchblade	HonorabruSudoku	1.2.1.4

Also @Nery - you have been beaten:

[tqFan]

Word of Pain DW Melee Elemental Infiltrator	Elemental	Infiltrator	Cripptid	1.2.1.5

It’s WoP focused but I put it to DW Melee as it plays like that.

Leveling characters snapshots are very important but this one gets a pass due to the amount of content and yt leveling.

[tqFan]

Off-hand
HC Vitality Storm Totem / RE Ritualist	Vitality	Ritualist	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.5

Just a warning - there’s only a space for another 5-6 builds (I mean post’s 100k character limit) till FoA when we will need to use a new post

[tqFan]

Default Attacker
HC Physical Fire Strike Shieldbreaker	Physical	Shieldbreaker	Cripptid	1.2.1.5

[tqFan]

New build

Pierce Blade Spirits / WoP Infiltrator	Pierce	Infiltrator	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.5

New category - Hybrid

• a combination of melee / ranged auto attack, pseudo pets, caster and auramancer that’s hard to classify.

Hybrid (7)

Pierce Ranged Blade Spirits / WoP Infiltrator	Pierce	Infiltrator	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.5
WoP DW Melee Elemental Infiltrator	Elemental	Infiltrator	Cripptid	1.2.1.5
HC Vitality Siphon Souls Gunslinger Ritualist	Vitality	Ritualist	Cripptid	1.2.1.3
HC Cold Ring of Steel Spellbreaker	Cold	Spellbreaker	S.E.P_Ralf	1.2.1.2
HC Fire Ranged War Cry Warlord	Fire	Warlord	Cripptid	1.2.1.2
Cold Rune of Hagarrad / Shadow Strike Infiltrator	Cold	Infiltrator	tqFan	1.1.9.7
Chaos DW Witch Hunter with Sigil	Chaos	Witch Hunter	The_Coyote	1.1.9.7