Veteran Difficulty is not too hard and I am willing to prove it

Pick any class and I’ll make a video leveling it to 15 in Veteran. I’m open to suggestions on which skills to make my main source of damage too, but I won’t accept suggestions of skills that were already memes for early game pre-1.1.4.0. It’s veteran difficulty so it’s implied you try to not to hamstring yourself. This will also simultaneously prove that Normal is manageable as well.

If there is true insistence that I should level it further than that, I might do a lvl 16-30 video continuation if someone can actually make a case to me that it’ll get harder from then on out. I won’t likely be going all the way to Loghorrean because by then any cohesive build and the videos before then should showcase everything being pretty handle-able.

Videos (click to open category)

Occultist
Inquisitor
Nightblade
Shaman
Arcanist
Necromancer
Demolitionist
Soldier
  • Use your brain
Oathkeeper
  • Use your brain

Queue so far:

  1. Drain Essence Necro
  2. Nuke stun Jack’s Demo

Okay, here are some rules I invented that I will be applying to my runs. You can break whatever rules you like if you post videos in this thread, but please detail in your post which rules you broke.

  1. You can’t multi-class until you hit mastery 50 in your main class.

  2. No twinking allowed whatsoever, completely solo-self found. No mandates. No EXP pots. No pass me down anything from your other characters.

  3. No reloading the game to abuse vendor farming. And no other tricks of this nature. You have to play the run straight through. Obviously if you stop because you played for like 30 minutes or actually had to stop that’s fine.

  4. No relics until level 35, excluding bone talisman from elder quest. Then you’re allowed to craft 1 of the lowest level relics.

  5. You have to pick a skill to main, and rush to it. You can pick up 1 point in anything on the way but you have to start maxing it immediately. From There you need to go down the line maxing it, but you can put up to 3 points into parallel active skills on the way, up to 5 in passives.

  6. If you decide to go further and beat Warden, no popping into FG for a movement rune. Can only do that after Logh. Noobs don’t have that sort of brain power.

I was just about to start Veteran with Demo.
Are gonna go with some Stun Jacks to begin with and then change to BWC like level 20-25 ish

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If you want to record it you’re welcome to post it here as more evidence.

Perhaps this thread can turn out to become some kind of “early veteran leveling compendium” xD

ok what “rules”? Exp, health and energy pots, and mandates is what I usually go for.

Cadence :scorv:

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I’ll save the slowest leveler for last. Soldier’s safe as heck.

How about Bloody Pox with Fevered Rage?

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Retaliation

I said I’m open, not suicidal. But alright, we can do bloody pox first, minus the rage.

I said no meme suggestions!

why discrimination? :anguished:

Inquisitor…

…without Word of Pain.

Not difficult, I’ve never used it on any of my Inquisitor characters. :rofl:

@malawiglenn no twinking whatsoever. No mandates. No exp pots. Only getting thru enough of veteran to show it’s fine.

@ceno alright, first 15 lvl run bloody pox. Second will be Inquisitor without WoP.

Gambit, baby!!

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Phantasmal blades Nightblade

I don’t know how many videos I want to do/upload a day but sure, phantasmal blades will be third.

Actually pretty easy tbh, if you don’t transmute it. The bleed you get is no joke, and easily mops up Act 1 mobs.

ABB Nightblade leveling would be something I’d be interested to see, as it was usually my skill of choice but I could foresee it struggling in melee now.

Transmuted it is then.

Shaman Lightening Savagery build, please.
(Since that is the new toon I started and have to Lvl 12 now, but I don’t do video, and I want you to show me how bad I am fucking it up, so I can laugh at myself, and keep doing what I am doing, anyway. Self-found, no Shared Stash or Mods, if you would be so kind… same way I am playing it right now.)

I’ll give you ice cream if you do it. :ice_cream:
(I won’t though, since I am not sure how to send you an ice cream file transfer… )
:gazer:

Leveling with % Weapon Damage in general is already fucking up.