Remember that not only do you have to do things like kill awakened bosses or get radiant oathplate, you have to do these things without a fully 40 point build. Take a cue from Path of Exile and design your builds around threshholds of the points you expect to get by certain progression. Start with a 5 point build. Two from the tutorial, one for killing a hill giant, one for reaching combat level 50, and one for getting pray melee. Then with these 5 points try to leech a kill with minimum damage from Huey for your 6th. At 6 points we push to Karamja, we don’t fully know when regions will unlock or how easy echo Moxi will be, but starting with Karamja it should be easy to just kill a tzhaar, kill a steel dragon. Can you do the fight caves with 8 points of mastery with two regions of gear at this early stage of progression? Most people can’t, I would come back for the rest of these. Now as you go into your first region with 8 points, this is probably the point where we’re guaranteed to be able to defeat echo moxi for 9. I won’t go through every region but most regions have 2 to 3 easies and the remaining 4 are endgame specific. Well, except Kandarin, where you will easily get 7 points really quickly. But where I’m going with this is that it’s likely you will be attempting to kill your first choice region echo boss with only 10-12 mastery points. If you are making builds without that context, you are gonna screw yourself. Presumably once you have your region choice echo drop, pvm will be opened and you can use your respec to go from there and do whatever it is you plan on doing, but I would honestly do it in stages of 5 points. To summarize, the recommendation is to focus on a single archetype based on what you believe you will have access to before your first non moxi echo boss drop. Actually think long and hard on that archetype’s strengths and weaknesses. Do you think you can truly get a lot of mileage out of blindbag before getting a lot of really cool weapons? Maybe <1kg dragon dagger and obby dagger is the play until you beat your first echo boss. You want that zaryte crossbow meme? Hey your best crossbow until then is sunlight with moon antler bolts, are you prepared for 92 (or 82 with abundance) hunter grind to be one of the first things you do, and without all the bonus xp from later tiers? Ah, you want rush desert and do blood fire spell meme, but blood barrage becoming fire isn’t until 9 points in, and before that you’re burning HP for two points (for admittedly good damage). Are you ready for that? Don’t blindly follow others, don’t chase meta, figure out what your pacts are gonna do and solve these problems yourself, and only follow other people’s guides if they address issues that come up in progression and solutions for it. That is how you can tell a good path of exile guide from a bad one, and it sure as hell is gonna apply here. If you mess this up, it’s gonna be an uphill battle until you get your first respec. submitted by /u/KShrike
Originally posted by u/KShrike on r/2007scape