rapid fire and glaive throw
That´s pretty much what I´ve started and finished the game with.
I´ve played a pistol dual wielding outlander on veteran, put most points in dexterity, then focus, then vitality, then strength.
Along with rapid fire and glaive throw I was also upgrading long range mastery and akimbo whenever I could. Besides few points in dodge mastery, a point in rune vault ("1 point wonder") and mana-steal-on-hit gems on my pistols that was really all I needed.
I invested more points in some other skills as well (sandstorm, stone pact, repulsion hex), but these turned out to be redundant.
Maybe it´s a consequence of me not really thinking the build possibilities through, but my impression is that, at least when it comes to the outlander class, the skills rather suck. Barely any skills available at later levels were enticing enough for me to look forward to unlocking them and when I finally invested in some of these I was usually disappointed. I´ve finished the game at L54 and, due to the gating system in place, the payoff for investing into the higher level skills would likely come too late, if ever. One active skill I´ve invested more into, sandstorm, certainly had nothing on glaive throw.
As for the game as a whole, I´d say it has a very good itemization (except for the "uniques" which I felt weren´t unique enough), good combat presentation (fluid, flashy, etc) and quite solid attribute/skill system, but mediocre skills (both in terms of balance and "fun", by fun I mainly mean player being encouraged to utilize bigger portfolio of´em), is too long for its own good (I´d prefer they´d cut out the second act altogether and fleshed out the others more instead) and has hilariously half-assed story and lore elements, even for the subgenre (not that I think the subgenre is an excuse to have an uninteresting gameworld and story).
A net result was a quite fun diversion overall, but not memorably so, though I´m saying that as someone who isn´t really a fan of the subgenre in the first place.
Maybe my opinion on the skill aspect will improve when (and if) I try an engineer or an embermage.
Anyway, this is not really an impressions thread, sorry
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