New player, Asking for Tips!

Not new, but sort of feel like it since I started playing again. Figured I would just put some questions here instead of a new thread.

I have tried searching for a perilous game a couple times and haven't seemed to find one. Don't know if it is my ISP since I have moved and have a different one since the last time I really played. How easy is it to find public lobbies in the US (Eastern) time zone? I had been killing time just leveling the Silent Sister in solos, but that is kind of slow and inefficient.

I played one solo with the Reaver (Level 15 or 16) and I had forgotten a couple things that bothered me on her. First is that her movement speed feels too slow outside of Rampage, especially if enemies are panicked. Or if try to be lazy and not panic, jedis like to block nearly everything. I was running Dragon Rage, Rampage, Combat Roll and War Horn. Do most use War Horn, or is it more popular to keep Devour or Mighty Blow? I don't have much in the way of end game gear, so no Physical Immunity to let me skip Roll.


And although not a real question any new player might have, I don't suppose anybody managed to make a mod that lets you select the enemy faction did they? Getting certain factions 10000 times in a row isn't fun.

Yeah I was running crit damage rings on her. I do generally go with the build as posted earlier in the thread as far as passives.

Yeah Devour is good for shield guys. I sort of had to get all their animations down to do the solos with the SS though, so I am sort of just used to baiting them to swing at me. Of course if you Panic them it isn't a huge deal.

Also was messing around with the Lego a bit, but there is another one where I can't really settle in on a build. I have the Hakkon sword, which along with Siege Breaker change made me want to drop Walking Fortress, but I haven't really ever found anything I like to replace it. Counterstrike seems like the duration is a bit low. I like to keep Shield Wall on for animation canceling and support XP. I don't really like Lunge and Slash as much as just upgraded Payback Strike and Shield Bash.

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I didn't really contribute much besides questions, but going back I do have some comments about some of the other builds.

Besides something relatively obvious like "arcane warrior" for low promote, there are some things I remember about being low stats with crap gear as it relates to some of the builds.

First off is the Archer, where Longshot is thrown in there. Really the best thing it does for a low promote player with a low damage bow is aggro half of the map. I guess if you have high promote team mates it doesn't matter, but maybe consider skipping it for Knockout Bomb. Also Caltrops aren't too bad in the current state of the game. Of course since this guy is sort of squishy, probably better with halfway decent crit, and a whole lot easier with something like Heartstring.

I don't know about Reaver for low promote, low gear. But I had halfway decent gear after they buffed it with heal on hit. People said things like "better tank than nerfed Lego with Edgewise" but you have to have Edgewise.

Arcane Warrior is probably the safest bet, seems like if you can pick up Heart of Pride relatively early it will be nice. I think I played him a long time with Fury of the Veil though. I would probably just go Chain Lightning, Fade Cloak, Fade Step/Stone Fist/Blade skipping PotA. Especially if you are grinding promotions because PotA is too far down. I run the CL and Barrier rings on mine since I have only really played solos anytime in the past couple years, don't know how long it takes to get those on a new account.

Also, although Sleep is nice, would point out that might be worth it for early players to avoid that and open with Stone Fist to weaken groups before hitting them, at least with the restore mana damaging weakened targets passives since you need to spam more abilities to kill the mobs when damage isn't there from low staff and low will power.

I just run Silent Sister with Throwing Blades, Charging Bull, Hidden Blades and whatever. The whatever often is War Horn, but it can be Spinning Blades. I did notice that roll is not needed to level her up for me solo so I skipped it. Of course I can spare Healing pots if I really need to get up, so there is that. At low level a CC cleanse would be nice, but can't really afford it. She is a lot more tanky after the first guard passive and Bear Mauls the Wolves of course. Especially since BMTW reduces all flanking melee-range damage to 1.

Hunter Build already posted was something I ran a lot when I started out, and I thought Hunter was cool. He seems to have gotten a little left behind after the buffs and new characters though.

OP probably already got it all sorted out though, so my rambling probably wasn't necessary.

That sounds suspiciously like teamwork.


You need to L2scrub