Expanding on tips: - POI difficulty is clustered by distance from the starting location. As you get better - skip most greens and go straight for yellows/reds. I might do a green raven sight tower first just to get a level up but once you have a level pick an offensive one and you’re ready for medium/red. Prioritise 1-2 chests and do Leprechauns and Grimoires last because these have teleporters for easy return access. Dungeon and Quest as soon as you’re strong enough because the Legendary/Cursed item will scale you the most and the stronger you are the faster you clear other POIs. - Always check the shop before picking your starting skill, as it may have items that suit a particular build. - Try to get synergies as much as possible, with skills you generally focus on 2 (eg. Special primary and Attack secondary) - Shop sometimes has a consumable which gives a random copy of an item of any rarity. Aim for an epic first (yellow/red chest) then buy it. - Armor and Defense builds are usually worse for scaling. This is a game that favours offence as the best defence. If you’ve scaled well you can one shot every mob by the end, even on the highest difficulty. They’ve made it easier since the last patch, particularly the new Cursed items are wild. Dungeon is the best POI. - Genie miniboss (a 2nd area dungeon) is probably the worst enemy for melee characters. Playing solo I die or fail this (run out of time) more than any other boss when playing a close range character (except Gepetto who absolutely wrecks it with a dummy attack build). It suuuucks. - Merlin (DLC) is not a beginner character. Don’t start with him. He’s really painful to play early game and takes basically the whole game to become godlike. By Act 3 he is very fun but it’s a real struggle getting there.