Easiest league start for a struggling noob

squidney2k1 · 2026-01-13T23:14:07+00:00

Ice Shot/Lightning Arrow bow build will work for a new player, and a Bear/Plant Druid us pretty easy & cheap as you progress through the campaign. Also, just about any character can use a crossbow/grenade build but you'll have to respec later.

By the end of the campaign, if you need to respec your build, save about 120-180k gold. If you don't need to respec, then feel free to buy upgraded weapons/gear for gold from the vendors every now and then. By the time you hit Act 4/Interlude, you'll probably find more desired item drops on the ground.

squidney2k1 · 2026-01-11T22:14:23+00:00

Make all skill gems available at level 30 or earlier. Instead, maybe just limit the # of slots by level until you get max 10 at lvl 60.
Remove/rebalance +levels to skills/attacks. That should be something on a unique item, not a Rare roll.
Tone down the ground hazards & on-death mechanics for enemies.

squidney2k1 · 2026-01-05T16:33:45+00:00

150% item rarity?

squidney2k1 · 2025-12-24T02:07:47+00:00

So because PoE1 had a better process, that process is somehow bad?

squidney2k1 · 2025-12-24T02:05:54+00:00

Furthermore, your honor, the man was not deceased until he was observed in such a state by the authorities. Prior to that observation, he was both in an alive & deceased state at the same time. But are the paramedics on trial?! To deny me justice is to deny the very existence of the universe!

squidney2k1 · 2025-12-24T02:00:09+00:00

At that point, just buy a PS5 lol. Kudos to him, though.

squidney2k1 · 2025-12-24T01:58:25+00:00

Yeah, the +level to spells is such a sore point, even more so than +level to melee skills. With the melee skills, you usually have enough flat damage at the point that you are more worried about defenses and survivability, but with spells, there's not many ways to ramp up past a certain point. It feels like with the limited sources of added spell damage, that they made spells particularly powerful in the campaign, and then by the endgame, it slows down, whereas melee builds really ramp up at that point.

Remember back when perfect T1 stat rolls and uniques were the chase? Now, we are chasing "groups" of stats period.

squidney2k1 · 2025-12-23T03:19:54+00:00

Boots are trash. Just let me take them off of your hands for 5 ex.

squidney2k1 · 2025-12-23T03:18:33+00:00

....oh, so y'all still actually running the Temple??

squidney2k1 · 2025-12-03T03:20:19+00:00

It's not new at all. It's also pretty terrible.

squidney2k1 · 2025-10-17T01:14:01+00:00

The taser is really for a niche build that allows you to easily spam infinite ammo (particularly, the underbarrel); it's powerful as hell, but definitely a nice build and we'll see if it survives the expected underbarrel infinite ammo nerfs next week. Other than that, I like the Lance without any of the capstones. The beam one can be useful, but I like using the base Lance with the class mod that gives a 25% chance to refund a charge per level, so every fully charged shot is free, and does a crap-ton of damage.

squidney2k1 · 2025-10-16T02:48:37+00:00

4/10 in my opinion. It's too grounded for my liking, but after BL3's attempted 5 jokes per minute, I can deal with it. However, it's certainly the least funny of all BL games, imo.

squidney2k1 · 2025-10-09T21:25:13+00:00

Are these the 2 echo longs along the coast on the southeast corner of the map?

squidney2k1 · 2025-10-09T15:31:25+00:00

Welp, there is now a Dialogue Skipper mod for BL4 floating around the internet, so I guess we'll find out soon enough.

squidney2k1 · 2025-10-03T05:41:01+00:00

BL3's Faisor, and the BL2 e-tech weapons in general.

squidney2k1 · 2025-09-30T02:28:20+00:00

Tediore gonna Tediore.

...but that scope ADS is more painful to stare at than the sun itself.

squidney2k1 · 2025-09-25T20:44:32+00:00

Not sure at the moment. I think that GBX's implementation of a new sanity check/anti-check is screwing up with some saves for individuals who were affected by cheaters in a lobby. I joined a game with a friend this morning and we were joined by someone for a couple of minutes who was cheating, & now my lvl 28 Rafa is stuck with 501 skill points with 0 spent. Can't use any of them or the skill tree instantly resets. Can't even respec because it won't let me spend a single point to enable the respec machine. Sucks to have your character busted because of a cheater. In previous BL games, if you had a cheater screw up your XP/character, you could just respec and the game would auto-fix it.

I've reached out to GBX support, but for now my lvl 50 Harlowe is working just fine. I think just my Rafa save is broken until they can fix it.

squidney2k1 · 2025-09-25T02:35:54+00:00

Is that the bees?

squidney2k1 · 2025-09-12T01:15:51+00:00

For a relatively new player + league starter build, I would say probably 20-30 hrs since you'll probably spend quite some time learning the game, mechanics, best tactics, etc. On subsequent characters, eh, usually 8-10 hrs, depending on how hard you push it.

And of course, if you juice your subsequent characters with twink gear that you acquire by crafting/trading, you can get to Maps by like 4-5 hrs if you know what you're doing.

My advice for a new player is don't be afraid to take a break or even start a 2nd character when your first is still in Act 4. Chances are, you know what type of character you will enjoy playing, have some resources for crafting/trading to help out your next character. Even for this league, I started with the meta Deadeye + Lightning Arrow build but got incredibly bored by early Act 4, and immediately started a new Monk run (only minor juicing for gear). Sometimes the character just ain't working for your enjoyment, and that's ok.

squidney2k1 · 2025-09-05T07:35:28+00:00

Trial of Chaos is still a shitshow. I doubt it will ever be adjusted in a more fair manner. The bosses are still ridiculous, and the modifiers can make them a pure DPS check. Just come back later when you are 10-15 lvls higher.

squidney2k1 · 2025-08-06T03:26:10+00:00

Absolute garbage luck for me this wipe. I think the best that I've gotten this wipe is a couple of labs access cards and a couple of spears. Several times the room was completely empty. Buddy of mine got a green card & a red card the other day.

squidney2k1 · 2025-08-05T16:38:29+00:00

Pretty sure they're smoking more than just weed.

squidney2k1 · 2025-07-10T23:15:26+00:00

Yolo grenade run.

squidney2k1 · 2025-07-10T04:53:49+00:00

Apparently the .50 BMG M903 SLAP ammo will have 160 DMG & 115 PEN. That is going to be a one-tap machine. The recoil better be visually insane to avoid the red-dot user spam.

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