Thinking of starting this game. Should I go in dark or chase an absolute build?

One one hand, I anticipate that a big affairs point to this bold is the assortment in abilities, how you can ability your own altered things, but what's the point of that if humans already ample out the best combinations and acquaint all-embracing builds online? Kinda loses the "so abounding choices" abracadabra if there is a bright Path of every best you should take, which is aloft than just winging it, on poe currency Youtube and forums.

But on the added hand, if I accept the "make your own appearance as you wish it" there's a adventitious that I will accomplish a abhorrent best and my appearance would blot and I would hardly advance and a lot of acceptable quit.

But this is all belief aback I never played it, which is why I'm allurement you, accomplished players, for advice.

I went in blind, and I knew from the complication of the bold that my aboriginal burn would suck.

I absolutely acclaim traveling in dark though.

For one thing, accomplishing it yourself the aboriginal time makes you anticipate things through and gets you adequate authoritative decisions. I went duelest (which is by far the easiest appearance to addition it on), and you alpha addition out what stats beggarly and what they don't mean.

The account of aggravating it yourself (knowing it will not plan out but accepting able to apprentice as you go) is that if you alpha a absolute build, you will bigger accept the body you're following.

The affair is, even if you absolutely try to chase a body perfectly, theres still a 99% you will be affected to aberrate somewhat, just because of circumstances.

Sometimes it's a bulk of money for gearing, but generally times it's a bulk of award a acceptable abstraction from accession body and accumulation into yours.

You don't wish to feel like the Path laid out by the body is your alone adoration for success. The best guides online for beginners aren't even "builds" per se but apart guides that explain the mechanics of all the options they can try out.

I acclaim pathofexile.com duelist forum's abecedarian builds. Duelist is already appealing simple, and Bobbys simple cleaver, and the dual/double bang body are able guides with abounding altered variations laid out that you can experiment with.

The added affair is that it's absolute acceptable that one of the builds you chase in the approaching in actuality contains above flaws. They leave abeyant on the table. They didn't optimize something that calmly could be fabricated better, or the even accept a above botheration with blockage animate because they didn't do abundant for defense.

As a cast new character, even if you address yourself to afterward a build, you're traveling to ache from these oversights and pitfalls anyways, EVEN IF you somehow administer to acquisition the adapted accessory admitting accepting poor.

So, just run it dark yourself and do the best you can. If you ability a point of austere annoyance due to deaths (for me, that happened in act 8 on my aboriginal char), that's if you should alpha afterward a build.

By then, you'll accept currency, and you will not be crumbling admired coins on a bankrupt body and leveling equipment.