Dekhara: I was shocked when Mark (or maybe Jonathan?) said in the latest Ziggy interview that's actually intended and they have no problem with gear being so powerful compared to the tree.

Alisir5: It is fine for gear to be more important lategame where you have had enough chance to get that gear. But the first two acts, its up to the whim of luck whether you will have a good time or a shit time

gnoel5722: In Short:

1. Don't use your exalts/regals/alchs to try to make a weapon better - 99% of the time, those 8-10 exalts orb you spent(wasted) on early weapons to try your luck to make it good, you will be able to buy a great weapon on the market for that price instead.

1A. If you need more damage on your early weapon you are better to socket it and add a damage rune than "gamble" by using an exalt orb.

2. Identify and sell everything you don't keep to a vendor (don't disenchant). If you check vendors everytime you level up (they refresh their stock) you will find good items and you will need the gold to buy them.

2A. The first item you should try to find on the vendors are % movement speed boots, game will instantly become more fun.

3. Only exceptions are items with a quality or sockets should be kept in your stash until you can salvage them.

4. Try to integrate Magic find (% increase rarity of item found) as a stat on your items, only a 30-50% will make a huge difference in the amount of exalts and rares you find during your campaign.

learnway8016: Well, yeah... most people that watch your videos will know that. But it's really down to luck in the first eight to fifteen levels at league start. Sure, you can make sure to vendor dive at every level up but if you are unlucky you are still screwed. Which is why i really hate the first act although it is well made.

Acearinos: I notice this today, Started a character and just B line for the worm, It was rough and died. Decided eh its just practice. Put on a rare wep from a vender and killed it in 3 secounds.

LangKatLegenda: Act 3 monkey boss fight tutoprial next pls <3 Great video lolcohol.

danielmaecki3763: should be extra clear that it only applies to attack based character and not spell based

ragragrec1: The goat guide marker <3 Please have a league start !!

yizhizhu5154: I would expect most build without heavy frontloaded damage (looking at you grenades) to kill the boss 2x slower with half the dps. Still cool vid!

officialdabaws5228: this vid does a really good job at showing just how inaccurate the sheet dps ingame is. so next time you hear a bloodmage telling you their doing 10mil dps, you can confidently tell them "no you're not, sit down" :)

theeggdover1243: Much rather have gear being more powerful than tree than the other way around.

I would hate if every build just comes down to "Spec your tree like this and equip these support gems"

that leaves no room for problem solving builds where you might not have the perfect gear yet.

And gear is just another vector of character progression. It might be more rng than tree and support gems which is 100%

deterministic, but as long as you can look past this "illusion of not having control" I think its not that bad.

off-meta-michael: The title that i got is "weapons are too strong" but i see that it's more like "here's your damage if you know what you're doing vs if you don't know what you're doing"

nesra8786: This is what sane people call bad balance and bad design.

kennethburmeister8119: Nicely explained. Thanks!

klak303: love these early game videos u put out near league start. even if you've done the campaign 100 times it helps to have a little refresher

vranox7056: Breaking news: water is wet.

daruqz2247: Damn good video! I like this take of ''content'' it's kinda new in my opinion !

Omisid: Really cool video - side by side comparison was very interesting.

guitaraholic: Yassssss

InvestingZen: what do you do when the game drops no items, the vendor reset has no dmg mods, and every trans/aug adds light radius. this has been my experience going through campaign on multiple chars

martinbrule6873: im waitong your BUILD!!!!! please #1 druide #2 parthfinder hahahayour the best

jasminjager: At the start, everything with flat damage on it is king for every weapon user. And if you are a beginner and use a build guide, use one that explicitly states "beginner friendly" (most likely the best) or "SSF."

theafricanpro658: @lolcohol how do i know what level requirement will be when i essense a magic item?

Dec 08 2025

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