passive active skills (square icon, energy reserved mention): passive skills (round icon): permanent buff We'll take a closer look at both of these classes in a bit.Įach time you level up, that gives you 3 skill points to spend into masteries, and 2 stats points to spend on your character You can easily finish Normal with 0 deaths (which will net you an achievement) worst case scenario: a couple of deaths. But a hit that makes you say "time for a potion" would turn out to be fatal to other classes. I'm not saying that you'll be nigh unkillable as Haruspex or Warden, especially if it's your first character. Aside from that, Brigands are the most gear dependant out of all classes. If you think about it, the only real challenge of the game is not to die. However, be aware that Brigands are glass cannons and you'll die a lot by picking this class. Some players prefer to have a high DPS count and would choose to play as a Brigand (Hunting + Rogue), which is a viable option, too. So if we take the spear as our best weapon, then the best classes to start off with would be either Haruspex (Dream + Hunting) or Warden (Defence + Hunting).īoth are not the biggest damage dealers in the game, but are extremely balanced, providing benefits as follows: Now choose one or two of them, but consider this information: the spear is the best weapon in the game (because, as I stated earlier, the pierce damage is the best kind of damage). Stun, entrapment, sleep and disruption resistant.
Harder difficulties are, indeed, harder, but your character becomes stronger way more significantly than the game becomes hard, at least when you pick a good Mastery (we'll cover that in the next section), so you may not even notice the difficulty spike.Almost all of the Masteries start to shine on harder difficulties, so make an informed choice when it comes to picking a Mastery on Normal that will define a considerable amount of fun you'll have when running through it.The situation changes for the better on Epic and even more so on Legendary. There's not much fun to have in running through the game looking like a hobo.
Most of the gear drops you'll come across will be trash and it will look like trash, too. That's the main reason why people drop the game after beating it on Normal or even before that. Equipment and items that you will find on Normal are exceptionally cringy.When you first beat the game on Normal you might begin to wonder how much of a masochist one should be to do it all over again on harder difficulties and that's a logical thought process, but actually the real fun starts on Epic and let me tell you why:
The game can be considered truly finished when you beat it on Legendary.
You will have to beat the game on Normal to unlock Epic and then beat it on Epic to unlock Legendary. When creating your first character you will be limited to Normal difficulty only. There are 3 difficulty levels: Normal, Epic and Legendary. The game is broken down to 4 acts (5 with the Ragnarok DLC).