What is actually the 'best' pve setup?

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Seems like the Forums are full of doom and gloom at the moment, but I’m still thoroughly enjoying myself! At level 37 currently so don’t have full attribute points and wondered what most people used/would suggest for midgame pve?

Currently using a great-axe and a hatchet and the sustain with the life steal/healing abilities is really helpful in pve, I predominantly play by myself so it’s now starting to get a little bit more difficult and wondered if there was a better gear setup to start using?

Cheers guys

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Hatchet and Lifestaff. Hands down the best combo for solo PvE.

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Yeah does look like that would be a strong build, what kinda equipment/attribute points would you be looking at for a build like that?

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50/50 focus con.

Kill things slowly with attrition. Never die.

Boring as all hell.

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Hahah, yeah doesn’t sound interesting! Would dex not be better for the Hatchet?

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Would be for damage.

But all you are wanting to do is solo stuff. Then survival and healing will beat any mob eventually.

Personally I prefer more damage.

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Yeah true, I guess it’s more that I don’t usually have people to play with so like being able to explore on my own!

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Bow+spear.

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I don’t think it’s that slow, but I’ve been doing 50 str, 150 focus, rest con and it works pretty well. I also don’t try to optimize in my combat too much so there’s a lot of room for me to increase my efficiency but it still works fine to me.

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Not at all. In all honesty you are only losing out on what 250-300 damage per attack but not stacking str.

But gaining the ability to heal yourself indefinitely.

It’s a worthwhile trade for solo play.

Just not everyone’s cuppa.

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How is this good for solo PVE, do either of those have any abilities for healing?

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I’m just about to hit 40 and have been bow/rapier all game.

Not sure how it’ll fair later. But I’ve had fun. can kill most mobs before they even get to you.

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For solo content, from my own test, the outlier are :

  • Sword and Shield - Swordmanship tree - A great all rounder that actually good in every category. It basically give you an edge by being tanky, great at blocking, nice enough damage …
  • Spear - Right tree (Forgot its name) - Very stupidly high damage and a stun
  • Hatchet - Berzerker build - Very “brain off” build with enough damage and sustain to overcome most things

I’ve only tested strenght weapon so far

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Well I’ve played over 300 hours solo with that so from my point of view, they’re good. As for healing, T3 food and small potions go for 1 cent on the market - really irrelevant. You pretty much don’t take damage with these anyway - keep range with bow, perma-cc with spear.
The advantage of bow + light armor is that you can solo pretty much any enemy. Gl trying to solo mirepaw with heavy armor and healing - you will still get 2 shot. The only way to solo that is to just not take damage at all. Of course bow+spear is not a walk in the park, you need to actually time everything right and be on edge the entire time. A bit more engaging than just standing there and pressing lmb.

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For a while people thought Great Axe for infinite move speed but now I think people are leaning towards hatchet for doing 10x intended damage. There’s a patch coming out right now though so who knows, maybe they’ll accidentally make musket headshots do 1000x damage

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