Here are some tips you should know on how to gear as you level:
- Whenever you start a new difficulty, if you haven’t gotten Ultos’s Stormcaller, always start looking for Hevill’s Greatsword. You can find this very early in the game way before you get to the rift portal near the reanimator in the first quest. The conversion and stats of this item get better for each difficulty, so be sure to get this. You can always find this in the same spot.
- Be sure to get skinner’s ring as you level up. The ring not only provides flat physical damage, it also provides Health as well. Follow this map to find him and then TELL HIM ABOUT DEVIL’S CROSSING.
- Having lifesteal gear goes a long way of helping you live until you get high level Wendigo Totem. When combined with your wendigo totem, you’ll be a force to be reckoned with. Hollowed Fang, and then eventually, Haunted Steel, makes the leveling experience better. Use these whenever you can until you can use Oleron’s Blood.
- 2-piece bonus from Explorer’s Garments makes Early-Game FUN! With vindictive flame, it’s easy to get capped at 135% Move speed. Make sure you’re wearing the footpads when using the 2-piece bonus. That’s the MVP for the bonus. Move Speed really helps to get to areas quickly, especially for solo leveling.
- Use Ectoplasm in your accessories until you can use Arcane Spark in your amulets and medals. These components really help out with the Energy issues that come with Primal Strike.
- Bristly Fur is so good early game. Just keep using those until you can use better components.
- Once you get to level 35 AND you’re respected with Kymon’s Chosen, get Chosen Headguard. This is a nice helm that gives really good offensive stats. The elite version gets even better obviously, so you can use this while looking for ultos’s hood.
- Once you get to level 40 AND you’re honored with Homestead, get Thundering Gem. This will improve your damage output with Primal Strike.
- Once you get to level 50 AND you’re respected with the Black Legion, get Legion Warblade. This is similar to hevill’s, but it already rolls attack speed (which means higher DPS). It’s also recommended to get the elite version of this if you haven’t gotten the axe yet. The only time hevill’s can outdo Legion is if hevill’s rolls with of Alacrity.
- Make sure you side with the Outcast. Anasteria can provide you with resistances on your weapons while you’re looking for your proper gear. In addition to that, she can also help you out with cold resistances, which you will find you will have lacking as you start gearing up properly.
- Always equip 2-Handed weapons with higher DPS. This is given, but it’s especially important since Primal Strike will be a spammable skill. Keep doing this until you have Ultos’s Stormcaller.
- Zealot’s Gauntlets and Rhowari Handguards go a long way of increasing your DPS early to mid-game. The latter does a better job though, so get that ASAP.
I highly recommend using these augments at end-game: