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Builds
Hand-picked builds with skills, devotion routes, and gear. Start with the ranking if unsure.
Last updated: 2026-07-12
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Cabalist
Beginner Skeleton Pet Cabalist
The classic beginner build: let your skeleton army fight while you support from behind. Lo…
Vitality / Pet · beginner / leveling / pet / farming
WarlordBeginner Retaliation Warlord
Enemies die by hitting you. Simple to play, very hard to kill, great for Hardcore. Getting…
Retaliation / Physical · beginner / tank / sr / hardcore
VindicatorFarming Lightning Vindicator
Drop totems and wind devils, keep walking, screen melts. Great clear speed even before end…
Lightning · farming / sr / leveling
SpellbinderAlbrecht's Aether Ray Spellbinder
A channeling Spellbinder built around piercing Albrecht's Aether Ray (AAR), with Spectral …
Aether · caster / leveling / farming / sr
Death KnightAether Blitz Death Knight
A melee tank that converts physical damage to aether, built around the exclusive skill Men…
Physical / Aether · tank / beginner / farming / sr
ConjurerVitality Caster Conjurer
A vitality caster that shreds resistance with Devouring Swarm and Curse of Frailty, then b…
Vitality · caster / beginner / leveling / farming
PurifierFire Strike Gunslinger Purifier
Pistol damage itself barely matters here — the real payload is a chain of gear and devotio…
Fire · beginner / leveling / farming
DruidTrozan's Sky Shard Druid
A mid-range rotation caster built around Trozan's Sky Shard, which rewards cooldown reduct…
Cold / Lightning · caster / leveling / sr
InfiltratorShadow Strike Infiltrator
A cold melee build that reduces the game to almost nothing but holding down Shadow Strike …
Cold · beginner / farming / sr
WarlordForcewave Warlord
A two-handed melee build built around Forcewave. Push through as pure Soldier first, then …
Physical · beginner / tank / sr
WarderPrimal Strike Warder
A two-handed melee build using the Korvan Storm Halberd to convert physical into lightning…
Lightning / Physical · beginner / leveling / tank / sr
DervishAcid Righteous Fervor Dervish
A dual-wield build that uses Righteous Fervor's Dreeg's Reproach transmuter to turn physic…
Acid · beginner / farming / sr
TricksterShadow Strike Trickster
A Shaman/Nightblade build centered on Cold-infused Shadow Strike, weaving in Amarasta's Bl…
Cold · beginner / leveling / farming / sr
PyromancerGrenado & Canister Bomb Pyromancer
A Demolitionist/Occultist Pyromancer built around the cooldown-based Grenado and Canister …
Fire · beginner / leveling / farming / sr
RitualistDark One Bone Harvest Ritualist
A Shaman/Necromancer build centered on spamming Bone Harvest, with Doom Bolt as a secondar…
Vitality · beginner / leveling / farming / sr
TacticianElemental 2H Cadence Tactician
A Soldier/Inquisitor build centered on two-handed Cadence, dealing a mix of Fire, Cold, an…
Fire / Cold / Lightning · beginner / tank / sr
SentinelAcid Aegis of Menhir Sentinel
A two-pronged Sentinel that fires the Occultist's Dreeg's Evil Eye for direct acid/poison …
Acid · beginner / tank / farming / sr
Mage HunterElemental Mage Hunter
A caster build centered on the Arcanist's Panetti's Replicating Missile (PRM). The missile…
Elemental · beginner / farming / sr / caster
WitchbladePhysical Blade Arc Witchblade
A tank build centered on the Soldier's Blade Arc that wins through raw stats rather than s…
Physical · beginner / tank / farming / sr / hardcore
ShieldbreakerFire Blackwater Cocktail & Guardians Shieldbreaker
A caster-leaning pet-hybrid Shieldbreaker that bombs with the Demolitionist's Blackwater C…
Fire / Pet · beginner / pet / farming / sr
ReaperCold Drain Essence Reaper
A channeling caster build that mostly just holds down the Necromancer's Drain Essence. Res…
Cold · farming / sr / caster