so I was futzing with my warder and quite frankly her ability to be a tank at low level is atrocious. Every time I futz with the character she goes from mediocre to atrocious She hasn’t died yet but she doesn’t clear very fast. So I was wondering are there generic choices you make regardless of character when wanting to get through content quickly? Note, I’m not talking about skips and things, I am still enjoying playing through the game, I’d just like to clear faster than the current snail pace my character is setting. My stash got wiped out so I am a little limited in gear at the moment but I am not above giving myself items I have had in the past and found legitimately. Any advice on best devotion set up or skills to take would be appreciated. The warder is on the cusp of level 35 at the moment.
Level with Devouring Swarm + Savagery or Cadence (with Fighting Form) + Blade Arc
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Beat Normal Difficulty
You asked for leveling advice in your last three threads or so. Why are you opening yet another one?
Take offensive Devotions like Falcon + Assassin’s Blade + Hawk + Jackal, or, if you go the full bleeding route, Hawk + Fox + Falcon + Jackal + Huntress and make Normal your bitch. You don’t have to stick to your end game build ideas for leveling purposes, pick the most effective skills and rush through. Always take Blitz for that matter.
Try to wear items with +AS, +OA, +%OA, +%XP (mainly weapons and jewelry), some yellow Medals, Rings and Amulets can be very powerful in that matter.
Try to farm one or two Cronley’s Signets to boost your DPS and Bleeding Damage, etc.
Finish all Quests to max your XP gain, if you don’t want to use any skip tricks.
Apart from that, listen to the advice given to you in the other threads. As Ceno said, using game knowledge is the fastest way to level up a character.
Leveling through Normal is slow and boring. Sorry. Not much you can do about it. Learn, use components, and you’ll get slightly faster. Don’t waste time on Veteran if you’re trying to go quickly. It adds extra challenge, and nothing else, and if you’re looking to level fast then challenge clearly isn’t your aim at that stage of the game.
Normal just doesn’t go all that quickly, and you can’t do much about it unless you want to get into speedrun level tactics.
when you reach lvl 35 try the faction gears might be a gear there that can help like in my internal trauma soldier there is gear for that in devil’s crossing when I was still low lvl
Anyway, I’ve found it to be a blast to level in Crucible…F A R faster than normal game as long as you can push your damage skills up with gear, Devotion, and mastery.
Wind Devil is Love/Life, and Storm Totem goes great with it as long as you’ve got the gear (and a mouse/KB macro to hit both shortcuts so you can form a windy zappy trap to cull groups of mobs <3 )
She hasn’t died yet but she doesn’t clear very fast. So I was wondering are there generic choices you make regardless of character when wanting to get through content quickly? Note, I’m not talking about skips and things, I am still enjoying playing through the game, I’d just like to clear faster than the current snail pace my character is setting. My stash got wiped out so I am a little limited in gear at the moment but I am not above giving myself items I have had in the past and found legitimately. Any advice on best devotion set up or skills to take would be appreciated. The warder is on the cusp of level 35 at the moment.