A good class/mastery to try a "Play what you find" hardcore run

I’ve been kind of itching to play the game again even though we’re gonna have the patch in less than a month, so I figure it might be fun to try to a bit of a different challenge than just rolling another character build. I want to do a character found HC run without a specific build in mind. I just want to load up the character, start leveling with a somewhat generic build, but then keep an eye out for uniques or exceptional exalts that might guide me to a build and just sort of see how that goes. Honestly this might work better next patch with the mastery respec anyway, but I’ll be trying out new builds and wanting to get to the new content ASAP at that point.

So the questions I’m interested in:

  • Which mastery has the most uniques that could help define a build once you find it?
  • What are some uniques that can make a build work without needing other specific uniques to function?
  • Which mastery isn’t going to make me hate my life in HC while I’m still looking for that build direction?

I would say necro. Works without uniques in HC, can adjust the playstyle significantly depending on drops without massive changes. Always focuses on generally the same affixes too.

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Yeah Necro or Warlock I would say.

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