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[tqFan]

That and I wanted to thank OP for the rather insightful advice - it’s hard to navigate a new game when everyone just assumes there’s only “one correct way” of playing you know? ^^

Not everyone. It’s just natural the forum is more focused on mix-maxing. Here are 3 players expressing similar opinion on the subject

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Overwhelmed

Play the skills/masteries you like/invent build on your own, don’t read any build guides. Since you can respec your skill/devotions points pretty cheaply, there’s nothing you cannot fix in case you screw up. It’s boring to play a perfect build that doesn’t have any hiccups along the way (I mean too little defense or something like that) And if you for some reason feel like full respecc, don’t want relevelling, you can do that easiliy with i.e. GD Defiler.

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"Monitor" - A Witch Hunter Build Diary

I salute you for this. You can extremely limit your i.e. devotion/components/augments/skill choices by following optimized builds. You then shorten the whole journey/narrow your vision and deprive yourself of decision making process, experimenting, finding your own also very well performing setups and may never be satisfied after seeing that one cookie cutter configuration. Especially that Grim Dawn apart from squeezing every last second out of Crucible or every level out SR doesn’t require it. …

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Looking for Lightning Warder Devotion advice .

Looking for Lightning Warder Devotion advice

Sometimes following an optimized guide forces playstyle a bit and I don’t think it’s good for a new player (it takes some fun away I think from experimenting, taking decision by yourself, developing own playstyle).