

Only self-found equipment and self-found crafting materials were used while levelling. In this case, epic gloves and crafted boots were also used for the final character, but the faction gear alternative should also work well enough. Especially the latter can be quite tedious and time-consuming. The damage with a single rare should be roughly comparable (higher attack speed but less damage), with no rare affix weapons the damage will be lower.Ī few of the final character’s items are a bit tedious to farm, including the amulet ( Zaria’s Pendant), the medal ( Rylok Crest) and the girdle ( Chains of Brandis). No single rare weapon with the desired prefix (Tyrant’s) was found - but two other double rares. The character uses a double rare weapon twice, the first time the weapon was used much longer than reasonable (until level 100 - end of the main campaign and until all items for the final character were found), the second time the farming for a worse weapon was stopped after the self-defined maximum farming time.

Leveling up was relatively smooth, an increase in strength was constantly noticeable and the character rarely felt weak (and than likely self impossed). Savagery is therefore the standard attack, Feral Hunger is the regular “area of effect” nuke - and works well in this role. The key item here is Troll Bonecrusher, with its bonuses to Feral Hunger and Savagery. Shaman offers special two-handed weapon skills, Oathkeeper brings the resist reduction and minor buffs. This budget character is a physical damage two-handed melee build. The here proposed way to level - given the strong Shaman focus - should also work for other classes with shaman and physical resist reduction, i.p. There is no specific guide, but this Beginner's Lightning Warder should help to get the general idea. Īnother good option to level an Archon should be no cooldown Primal Strike. However, while i can’t really say anything about the current state regarding endgame goodness, there are at least some endgame option listed in the Build Compendium X (Forgotten Gods) - #2 by Stupid_Dragon and also in the GrimSheet: Endgame Build Table - ETE edition. Probably because other class combinations offer the same only better. However, the class is not that popular lately and relatively few endgame builds are posted. As a class with dual resist reduction (vitality, bleeding, elemental), two attack skills of its own, as well as a few support skills, it’s theoretically not a weak class. This untenable situation is hereby to be brought to an end.

Archon (Shaman, Oathkeeper) is one of the few remaining classes without budget build / leveling guide in the Beginner build guides Compendium (for AoM + FG expansions).
