dereektheler 1 Posted October 22, 2024 Hi everyone, I am new to Sacred 2 and looking for advice on the best character builds for beginners. I have been playing around with a few characters but can’t seem to settle on one. I have heard the Shadow Warrior and Seraphim are solid picks for newbies but I am not sure how to build them properly. Should I focus more on offense or defense for a first playthrough: :) Also, are there any must-have skills or gear that I should prioritize early on: :) I am mainly interested in a build that’s fun but also manageable for someone who is still learning the game’s mechanics. I would appreciate any tips or links to guides that could help me get the most out of my first run. I have also read this https://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/21492-builds-for-people-new-to-sacred-2-tensorflow/ but couldn't get enough solution. Thanks in advance for any help !! I am really excited to get deeper into Sacred 2 but I want to make sure I start off on the right foot. Looking forward to hearing from you all !! Derek Theler 1
SLD 524 Posted October 22, 2024 2 hours ago, dereektheler said: Hi everyone, Hi, welcome to the community. 2 hours ago, dereektheler said: I am new to Sacred 2 and looking for advice on the best character builds for beginners. I have been playing around with a few characters but can’t seem to settle on one. I have heard the Shadow Warrior and Seraphim are solid picks for newbies but I am not sure how to build them properly. Should I focus more on offense or defense for a first playthrough: Also, are there any must-have skills or gear that I should prioritize early on: I am mainly interested in a build that’s fun but also manageable for someone who is still learning the game’s mechanics For a "real" beginner I don't think you can do anything right or wrong. I'm certain there is currently no guide out there that covers everything in the required detail, including stuff like where what kinds of monsters are and what they do etc. For the start playing around with stuff, looking at how things work and just trying to play through a bronze campaign is probably the best advice here. No matter what guide you would follow, some misunderstanding would always screw up your first characters. If you already want to read some more advanced stuff you could take a look at this thread, It is however mostly aimed at players who play with the community patch. I did post a BFG Seraphim guide there that would also work with the normal game and would certainly make for a good beginner build, but it was not really written for a completely new player to understand and might create more confusion and raise more questions in you than it answers. My suggestion remains, play the game and once you find out what questions to ask, ask them here. So far the only questions you asked where: -"give me beginner friendly builds" - I linked a thread for you that links to some more builds and contains some of its own. Read all those guides and you'll get some inspiration for that. -"are there any must-have skills or gear that I should prioritize early on" - I would say yes there are must have skills like armor lore, but prioritizing them early on is not necessarily a great choice. Also choosing skills and putting many points into them might also be an important difference. I don't really have a universal answer to this other than that armor lore is definitely a skill that will be chosen in every single build and certainly not as one of the last skills. In the linked thread there is a bfg sera guide I wrote on page 2 or 3. It has a short explanation on every skill the bfg sera can choose, but again it was not really written for a beginner perspective. -"should I focus more on offense or defense for a first playthrough" - this one quickly gets super complicated as you obviously need some of both. It would also entail explaining every single way to scale offense/defense in the game, because some ways might be good, but others are not. Maybe I'm too lazy to explain it all in more detail. Maybe I'm still burnt out from writing so much in that other thread. I hope I still kinda helped
gogoblender 3,406 Posted October 26, 2024 On 10/22/2024 at 6:36 AM, dereektheler said: Hi everyone, I am new to Sacred 2 and looking for advice on the best character builds for beginners. I have been playing around with a few characters but can’t seem to settle on one. I have heard the Shadow Warrior and Seraphim are solid picks for newbies but I am not sure how to build them properly. Should I focus more on offense or defense for a first playthrough: Also, are there any must-have skills or gear that I should prioritize early on: I am mainly interested in a build that’s fun but also manageable for someone who is still learning the game’s mechanics. I would appreciate any tips or links to guides that could help me get the most out of my first run. I have also read this https://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/21492-builds-for-people-new-to-sacred-2-tensorflow/ but couldn't get enough solution. Thanks in advance for any help !! I am really excited to get deeper into Sacred 2 but I want to make sure I start off on the right foot. Looking forward to hearing from you all !! Derek Theler Welcome to the forums Mister Derek! If you're starting off and looking for robust and easily manageable, you have spoke to one of those so-mentionned build up above, SLD... check out his build here, you can try it on for size, and before doing so...check out his splashy vid! If Seraphim works for you, theres plenty of other ranged builds out there, and melee is your thing...well I never really played much melee buuuuuuuuuuuut.. i'm sure we can find something. Delighted you found your way to our happy boards and again... Welcome to DarkMatters! gogo 1
