I’m still playing the game, i just get honestly frustrated at times when I get really far into the game, and then i mess up big and i have no gold to respec or get new gear and so i’m kinda stuck and then i don’t wanna delete the character but I do out of rage cause i don’t know what i’m doing I just bought two support packs. I apologize for constantly posting. I just vent and I know its annoying to see the same post over and over from me. I might just play the CoF guild cause it’s solo and easier i guess from what people said… So, I am sorry for being annoying on the forums and maybe it sounds like i’m craving attention but i’m really not… I just want to understand the game better and learn easier play style.
the best way to learn is throu trial and error. just dont get too stressed out. its not a test and you aren’t getting graded. 
What would you recommend? I tried all of the classes, my only gripe i have with myself is not knowing how affixes work well with builds… And when I see sites with builds and leveling, I see like legendary gear on and i don’t even have that so what do I do?
Ignore sites and builds that don’t offer any milestones of the builds. Also, streamers often post BS builds in the tools that do not represent what they really play. Everybody can make a build work that uses eight LP4 perfectly rolled items.
The bets way to approach that is if you get a unique and think “Wow that’s cool, I want to try that Unique with a certain skill” and work from there.
The affixes and suffixes are pretty forward as soon as you get used to what is additive and what is multiplicative.
And what’s “really far into the game”? Story mode should be possible for everybody, 2000 corruption not so much.
Why do you ignore sites without milestones? It’s rather obvious what you need most of the time and if something special is needed everyone talked or wrote about it in guides.
I don’t know what streamers you reffering to. Could you link or DM me some examples please?
That’s the worst possible advice for somone who posts weekly he ragequit the game because he can’t grasp the fundamentals of the game. Telling him to make a build arround a specific mechanic or interaction is most likely the worst thing to do when he didn’t even get that more Armour is better then less armour.
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To be honest and not going into too much detail, I did not check his history - although I supposed this might be troll/bait because LE is like the most chill and relaxed and forgiving ARPG there is until 300C.
What I meant is, I ignore builds and guides that only give me the “this is my build when I push 1000C”. It’s way more important how you get there.
So first of all I check guides for leveling and transitioning advice, and things like “this is for story, this should be the equip around when you start Monos, this for empowered monos” and so on. At least if I cannot fill in the gaps and synergies myself.
About the uniques: This is what usually triggers an Idea for a build - for me at least and I guess I am not alone. Everything else is covered anyways
Why?
Sure its better, but you’re solely limiting yourself if you don’t look at em.
For OP going with one that has milestones and expanding from there when getting comfortable with the system is also viable, obviously it’s based on individual capability and experience. You don’t use a beginner guide as a professional since 95% of the info there will likely bore you out beyond end… but you’ll also not use a professional guide without much actual guidance rather then being a showcase for direction only as a beginner… because then you won’t know how to actually get there and become frustrated.
But both have value.
OP stated they struggle to progress… your option is awful for that. Many uniques suck. Many uniques can only be made viable with extensive usage. There’s even uniques out there which seem fitting at first just to realize they actually suck a lot in reality.
Keep it simple until you got experience and knowledge.
Follow a piss-easy guide which is explaining stuff extensively, has a simplistic build where you cannot mess up much and is decently powerful too. Then go from there.
‘Play by unique’ is for more experienced players.
I know what you mean with your advice, but cater it to the one asking for advice a bit.
It was an advice for the OP. Builds without milestones are lazy. As I said, I don’t need a “this is my 8 LP4 perfectly rolled build for 2000C”. That I can do for myself. Like most people.
LE isn’t hard to understand, besides some kinks and quirks.
I also stated that discovering a unique that does special things with a skill are a motivation to try these skills and build around it (or look for specific builds using that item).
I try to be polite and not say bluntly what I thought about the opening post and being personal. I’ll do better next time, promise
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Depends on the build. Spekt Beastmaster who just auto attacks and using buffs on CD can carry you to 1kC and it’s not woth to write a lot about it because it’s rather obvious once you see all the buffs are going off.
A runemaster who needs all 5 buttons in a special sequenz with item X to procc item Y to shine is a different thing.
I personaly take the blunt approach. Just use the skills I want to play endgame untill the build works without switching stuff arround more then I need to. If you are no complete fool and try to make a naked rebuke sentinel work you are fine up to emp monos.
I care more about builds where I don’t need anything special to make them work and special stuff only makes things better.
Yeah you don’t need that for any standard build, most of the time I don’t either.
But OP sure as hell does and I also prefer it that way.
Builds that just scale because you increased crit by 2% and HP 50 may be the bread and butter as league starters.
But things only get interesting when you can build some new and cool synergies and mechanics because of some items.
To be clear about that: I don’t like skills where I gotta rotate all buttons like clockwork and need half a dozen special uniques just to get started. That should be the endgame.
As I said before, maybe you should try playing D3, since that’s the most basic version of this genre. It has less options and things are more straight-forward.
But if you want to keep trying this game, then just go necromancer with a minion army. It’s the easiest to get you through to early endgame, since all you need to do is slap on defense affixes and minion affixes.
By reducing the amount of affixes that are useful for you, maybe you’ll be able to succeed more easily.
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I am not a troll or baiting anyone. The first few leveling parts are to me the easiest but after that in my humble opinion I feel overwhelmed with the affixes. You guy’s are much smarter than I am and you’re probably younger than me. I’m 41 disabled, blind in one eye, and I have a hard time with understanding ARPG games but I do love playing them. I don’t mean to post so much I really don’t and I apologize for my postings and ticking everyone off at me… I just get frustrated because I don’t know what I am doing and I don’t know what type of character to play because when I pick oh lets say a mage right? I start great the first few levels and choose fireball because that has better stats than lighting damage. I do great and then then at level 25 it gets confusing with affixes and what to use cause i’m not savvy with it or maybe I just overthink too much and get annoyed with myself and not take the time to read it…
lol. i might derail this topic, but this is why i dont like the state of the game,
if you cant clear c300 you likely wont clear c500.
the best way to play the game with minimal loss of time and effort is just to follow a build guide.
i can relate to being frustrated, spending a lot to craft gear and end up with a shitty build, and then what? you’re only left with a shitty build that doesnt work too well.
a lot of people say shit like “its a forgiving game” “you can make your own build and make it work”. i would say true but at the same time, different people have different experiences. different builds and skill combinations can yield VERY different results. sometimes i find any person saying the game is forgiving and we can build our own build as people with VERY skewered opinions. sometimes people make builds that align with something that performs well, and they might do that multiple times. their experience will be smooth sailing. but some people choose a different combination and end up with a very much inferior build. their experience is very much different.
this game stopped being about exploration and organic growth the moment they introduced abby
For this you need the fundamentals he lacks. Without those he should stay away from late bloomer builds or special interactions.
Then he’ll be back in a few days because he hit the same wall. Equipping a minion army necro well is an art of it’s own.
That’s another thing with fundamentals. He sounds completely lost and I would not be supriced if he ever writes stuff like “I use a mace why is + dagger damage not working?”. I talked to him once about defences and it seemed to be a lost cause because beasicly more = better was a hard concept to grasp.
I have a hard time getting the last part. When you rage on about it and have obviously a bad time as you said often enough in different posts why do you keep something that gives you bad experiences again and again. it’s like staying in a toxic relationship to me.
It’s a forum it’s there to be posted on. Most people wouldn’t mind if you keep one thread going because you are bit like Odysseus and on your journey but it’s kind of sad to read because it looks like you try but you have some issues with the basics.
Since when? Did they patch Fireball from being a crappy skill to levels of Lightning Blast and i missed it?
Overthinking might be an issue here. At level 25 i think about nothing else but getting some armour and resistences here and there and to smash keys mindlessly while sleepwalking through the content.
I guess you overvalue stuff that isn’t helping you and you don’t see obvious stuff to use that makes you far stronger. I sometimes pick some QoL stuff up like movementspeed for example and leave a lot of dmg behind I could realy use just because I want to get through stuff faster. MS isn’t helping me that much because I know how to dodge stuff or how I use spaces so MS is kind of wasted and with more dmg and the improved killspeed I might be faster ^^.
On your character sheet look for your resistences, armour, HP, Ward retention when you play a mage and get those in order. In the capaign you don’t need that much dmg and much of it is coming from the weapon base and your passives anyway.
After this you can look at your skill to see some tags. Fireball has fire, spell and intelligence tags it scales with basicly. So fire dmg, cast speed, more int more spell dmg and modifiers that work with those tags are important to you. You can neglect everythign else.
Would it help you if we give you some kind of Questß Tell you what mastery to pick, what skills to use and what to aim for and then you tell us how it worked out? Making it some kind of project so everyone is talking about the same things and problems are identified much quicker?
Who or what is ABBY
Abaroth the big bad boss I guess.
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just play the game. eventually it starts to make sense.
I am playing it now. I made a paladin, I am just gonna go with it and see how I do. I’m reading the nodes now … I’m trying out a warpath ignite pathway…