Coming back after 2 Year stop. Need build advice.

[Zerkul]

Hello everyone,

I started playing this week after a 2 years break. I would like to do some racial/iconic TRs and I'll probably go for full completionst of all pastlives.

Right now I'm playing with an old date friend and we share same PLs and objectives.

I need suggestions on which class to play to optimize time/TR. I have to do 3 Iconics Gnome and all racial PLs , so I can freely chose the class I want to play. While doing TR I also want to play reaper content and accumulate reaper XP.

Which class should I play? Is there a build or advice for it you can share? Any suggestion is welcome.

Best,
Z.

[Carpone]

For Racial TRs: 20 Fiend Warlock (41 SE/27 TS), 19 Warlock/1 Artificer (for trap XP bonus), or slarden's 12 Artificer/6 Fighter/2 Monk are excellent choices. You'll want to be effective in reaper (3 skull) to gain reaper XP at the same time you're doing racial reincarnations. All three of those choices have high UMD, which is extremely beneficial because everyone is counting on everyone else for heals/raise dead/etc.

[Phil7]

hey boss you can always just ask in guild chat :P

My advice is pretty much what Carpone said along with a few things:
Pure Warlock, max CHA and Necro & Enchant DC using Soul Eater as main tree, Tainted Scholar as secondary tree and a few points in ES. Imo GOO is the best for heroic TRs, but Fey is also great because of Otto's Dance Sphere + Wings and Fiend is meh, but has Hurl Through Hell.
19 warlock/1 Arti for trap bonus exp or 18 warlock/2 Rogue for traps + evasion

Pure Sorcerer which you already know how it works, but imo warlock is much easier to play in reaper. Warlock has higher defenses, rarely runs out of SP, has tons of SLAs and better boss DPS (free also)
Some sort of ranged build like Mechanic, or Arti or Slarden's build using Vorpal repeaters (vorpal + atk speed is op in low reaper)

Now if you always play with a friend you can even play melee with AoE damage, but only if your friend has a lot of CC, otherwise it will be very frustrating. Or you can be the CC caster (wizard/sorc) and your friend can cover the DPS.

P.S. don't forget to use Wand & Scroll Mastery and Heal scrolls

[UurlockYgmeov]

for now - check out my sig for a link to help catch you up. also great new character planner.

my suggestion: keep your existing characters and leave them alone (for now). roll up a vet or vetII or iconic and just play. see what you like, and what fits your playstyle. play what is fun and enjoyable and just delete and reroll if it isn't. try a whole bunch of stuff! After a spell, go back to your character with that knowledge.

welcome back and have fun storming the castle!