POE2 is a golden opportunity for building your own build.

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Lyutsifer665#1671 wrote:

i'm sure there will be guides put out within the first week by people who already played the game and solved it...

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MrSmiley21#1051 wrote:

There's a reason why I at least take a look to see what others are doing with similar builds, because I almost always miss something important. I'm way too lazy to waste time scanning though a massive skill tree to plan a route, and what seems like an obvious good route from a class starting point often times isn't the best route. I typically take a build someone else posted and might make some small changes to it, maybe they got better gear than me and I need some more life or ES nodes, or maybe I could give up some life or ES nodes for some more damage somewhere, etc.

Experimenting in PoE is costly in both time and currency, you're rewarded for getting it right the first time, so there's no reason to experiment unless you got thousands of regret orbs to splurge. And even then, I could think of a better use for currency than fixing screw ups I could have avoided had I simply looked on a forums to see what others were doing with similar builds. I say let the people with unlimited currency do the experimenting.

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exsea#1724 wrote:

It's unexplored. I m pretty sure the tree is pretty easy to figure out "what is efficient". what nodes to aim for etc. it looks pretty easy to optimize too.

if you've been following builds all thru out POE1's history, if you want to experience the joy (and frustrations) of building your OWN build from scratch. POE2 is a perfect place to do it.

personally speaking i've been tweaking my own build which only became better recently when ggg buffed melee damage.

i would say its definitely not the best build but i've accomplished a lot with it. i've recently hit 100 for the first time ever and i've cleared the feared for the first time ever. all on a temp league without access to my legacy gear.

i m not going to be able to kill ubers with my build. but it is my build, i could optimize it, reduce my offense and add more defences etc. but i m satisfied that ive cleared most of the game. the feeling of making something that "works" is different from just following a build.

to me i come from the mindset where if you follow a build, the game is playing you rather than the other way around. i want to play the game. "solving" the game by making your own build is a puzzle game with 1001 pieces for you to try and fix. admittedly my build only "worked" because of the recent damage buff but still. i ll take it as win. it is MY build. i made this.

and i come from a unique place where i've been playing POE for 10 years where the game evolved to where it is today. if i had never played POE and just started somewhere 1-2 years ago. i think i would never have tried making my own build. theres just so much to learn and theres too many ways to fail. even my recent success is just because of the damage buff, else it would have remained a failure for 10 years.

growing together with the game made me temper my expectations. but if i came in blind from the get go i probably wouldnt have liked POE as the "best" way to play the game was to follow a starter build. then farm up to finally play the real build that you wanted. or something along that line.

if you didnt follow a build, you would progress slower, you would accomplish less, and for newer players playing a temp league, they were on a timer. if you wanted to enjoy the game, you were encouraged heavily to optimize. following build guides is the best way to optimize. failure to optimize meant you could not enjoy harder content and many newer players could get stuck even on yellow tier maps.

in poe2 EA we no longer are on a "timer" per se. we know that we're going to reroll and restart everything when the game relaunches officially. its the perfect time to explore the game at your own pace and not worry about metas.

then again i do realize that some people prefer to just not worry about all the details and just follow a build guide. my opinion is a mere suggestion. an alternate way to experience and enjoy the game. this is the BEST time to experience this. i would implore you not to rob yourself of this joy. this is not something you can experience all the time. dont min max yourself out of this enjoyment.

but if min maxing is your thing, nothing wrong with that too. different people enjoy things differently.