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[tqFan]

You’d have a more damaging build if you moved some points around into Storm Totems or TSS. You couold take points from IEE or MP.

[thepowerofmediocrity]

@tqFan

You’d have a more damaging build if you moved some points around into Storm Totems or TSS. You couold take points from IEE or MP.

My only gripe is that both Storm Totem and TSS require off-hand modifiers to operate at their maximum capacity, and the Wind Devil off-hand MI is absolutely necessary for QoL and having the extra Wind Devil for more damage. I guess if I take points from IEE, Stormcaller’s Pact and Mogdrogen’s Pact I can set Storm Totem to 18/16, but you get a breakpoint at 21/16 and there’s no way to get that without the aforementioned off-hand MI. Don’t get me started on TSS and how many points that would require for it to do damage.

If the equipment was there to support Storm Totem, I’d definitely do it, but the MI support is in direct conflict with each other. It would be interesting to compare 5 Wind Devils against 4 Devils + 3 Storm Totems, but as my character’s dead, I can’t exactly go out and test that.

[tqFan]

@thepowerofmediocrity

I can set Storm Totem to 18/16

I just meant this, taking from IEE and MP, don’t want to change your concept / gear. Your damage will be higher, on bosses you’ll be able to have 3 Storm Totems permanently. They actually stack in contrast to the first node of Devils

@thepowerofmediocrity

There is no Druid in the Beginner’s Build compendium so I tried to level one specifically for the forums, and it got HC deleted by Loxmere Nightmage. It was a Wind Devil Druid and it did fairly well right up to its death, but I won’t be able to take what I have and turn it into a full-on thread.

Please consider moving it to Softcore and continuing. Btw I personally have like 4 Beginner builds in pretty advanced state but not wanting to commit the time to finish them

[thepowerofmediocrity]

@tqFan

Please consider moving it to Softcore and continuing. Btw I personally have like 4 Beginner builds in pretty advanced state but not wanting to commit the time to finish them

I’m considering it, but adding Storm Totems to the mix would make it feel like nearly an entirely new build. When would I add them to the mix? Level 50? Level 60? It would certainly impact the level-by-level skill order and what would result could be entirely different from the playstyle I had been using up to this point. I’m not entirely sure what I will do with the character at the time.

P.S. Hope one of those advanced leveling guides is a Sorcer-er / -ess as outside of Druid that’s the only combination that hasn’t been covered yet.

[Maya]

Red Wisp - Walking Simulator Budget Pet Cabalist

Foreword: Cabalist version of my Budget Petwalker Conjurer :3 It is based around the Desecrator Covenant (Mythical Unholy Covenant) set which is Craftable. (Helmet blueprint is sold by Benevald). So… you will have to do a bit of Crafting and Transmuting… But unlike say, Bysmiel’s Trinkets, this is not some RNG drop that you might take ages to find. So, it is still “budget” in that sense. [Pet] [1.1.9.8] (budget) (L) (sr) Red Wisp - Walking Simulator Budget Pet Cabalist (Maya) Damage: P…

Another one for the list :3

[Maya]

And another one -

Dark Rose - Lazy Dark One’s Set Budget Pet Conjurer

Foreword: A Budget Pet Build using target farmable items including the Dark One’s Gift Set. Note: Requires both Ashes_of_Malmouth & Forgotten_Gods. [Pet] [1.1.9.8] (budget) (L) (sr) Dark Rose - Lazy Dark One’s Set Budget Pet Conjurer (Maya) Damage: Pets Active Skills: Summon Familiar, Summon Hellhound, Summon Briarthorn, Blood of Dreeg, Curse of Frailty, Wind Devil, Wendigo Totem Passive Skills: Bonds of Bysmiel, Mogdrogen’s Pact, Primal Bond, Ancestral Bond, Chilling Weapons (x2) WPS…

[Maya]

IceCream - Budget Forcewave Soldier

Foreword: I wanted to make a lazy Forcewave Soldier on a budget. It is built more for tankiness than damage and with the budget nature of the setup, do not expect much from it other than a relatively lazy build. Also, ideally you do not want to limit yourself to a single mastery, but this is just to show that even if you do, it will still work decently. For an endgame version of the build, look here - Creamy Fwuffy - Traumatized Warlord . [S&B Caster] [1.1.9.8] (L) (sr) Cream Force - Laz…

Idle hands make for the soldier’s workshop

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Cream Puff - Traumatized Witchblade (With Leveling Guide)

Foreword: I wanted to make a non pet build based on DoTs (Damage over Time). And I wanted to make it as lazy to play as possible. It is not exactly optimized and the concept and other things were indeed unapologetically stolen from others. This one, you can also level as either Soldier or a Pet Occultist :3 . [S&B Caster] [1.1.9.8] (g3) (L) (sr+) Cream Puff - Traumatized Witchblade (Maya) Damage: Physical, Internal Trauma Active Skills: Forcewave, War Cry, Doomforce, Blood of Dreeg, …

[Skelemental]

NVM… need a guide.

[Crab_Turtle_2112]

A beginner guide for Rune of Kalastor, at last: [1.1.9.8-1.2] Beginner Lighting Rune Paladin - With leveling guide, budget setup, end game version

[The_Coyote]

With the last two additions, for each class a levelling guide should now be available, or?
(until the next expansion drops)

[tqFan]

Yes, I didn’t know that but your observation is correct

[Gnomish_Inquisition]

highly suggest builders/guides take advantage of this awesome new feature Dammitt just added to GT

[GrimTools] Build Calculator

Build Calculator now supports skill / devotion progression. This could be a really useful feature, because build creators will now be able to include progression paths in their builds and people viewing character builds will be able to check the order in which skill / devotion points should be spent. Here’s how it looks like for skill trees. P.S. Please note that if you want to provide translations for this feature, tags_gt_calc.txt contains new strings at the end of the file. P.P.S. Currentl…

[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

[tqFan]

Beginner Mortar Trap Shieldbreaker	Fire	Shieldbreaker	modal	1.2.1.2