I am trying to level and I honestly do not know how to fit a proper suit of armor for my character build. I went forge guard. The guides I see on YouTube honestly to me suck. It’s mainly end game and that’s not what I am looking for. I even typed up LEVELING and still same results. I’m just frustrated that it’s difficult for me to understand how armor works with matching sets. I have a learning disability and I wish games where a tad bit easier to explain stuff.
Can confirm the tutorials in this game are lack lustre. And guides generally skip leveling because it’s boring.
Gonna provide some tips. These will work up to lvl 75-80
- health recovery of any kind will make questing easier. Either health per second, heal on hit, leach, heal effectiveness, more potions and %find potions
You want around 2000 health by the time you do act 9. And you want to be able to restore around 80% of your health per second to avoid a lot of stuff. This can carry you to empowered where your builds can be kicked off with exalts
- Use what ever skill. Most of them are decent with notable exceptions. High burst skills will work fine.
Look at a stat on a skill. It will tell you the base and the damage scaling effectiveness. You want something like meteor. It has high base damage and a lot of added effectiveness
You want at least 1 tier 5 affix per tag on this skill.
Eg: Meteor. You will want 5 pieces of gear as you level. As low lvl gear can usually only fit 1 tier 5 affix. In this case, take spelldamage, fire damage, area of effect and intelligence, and then health recovery on hit
3: for leveling. Use what ever. Use best base that drops. You are unlikely to get good uniques or anything above 1lp.
If you do want something. Farm out small maps for nemesis. These can drop some busted gear
Hope it helps
Couple of things:
You don’t have any meaningful amount of health on your character. Only one of your gear pieces has T2 health, nothing beyond that.
You only have 3 skills specialised. So you are not using your 4th and 5th specialisation slot.
One easy addition for some defensive/utlity would be Shield Bash, its a guaranteed stun and you can make it, that it gives you a temporary block buff after using it, so its very good against large groups of enemies or dangerous bosses/rares.
Your amulet absolutely does nothing for you. The implicit is bad and the affixes are bad as well. A amulet with a proper base type, that gies you useful stats will be better even without any affixes.
Most of your base types are really low level and outdated. More high levle base types even with less affixes will be better in most cases. (especially Helmet, Body Armor and Boots)
Your specialised skills are all over the place. You invested into 2H Stuff for Multistrike with Void Cleave Synergy, but you don’t (and can’t) even use that skill.
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