Ok I really.....really don't know what else I can do.

using lots of summons for all my damage doesn't work......
tried using a normal caster build, that's even worse.....
I'm getting gear people tell me to get....

Maybe mage types aren't for me.....
I dunno....

I just don't know what to do anymore.
I think this game is only built for people who are already good or something because this is just getting silly.

Storm+Dream maybe......there are pets but you don't rely on them....
Storm+Rogue, sounds like fun to use the knives+magic
I dunno...

and here it goes.
Claims I'm a troll.....

Yeah, I get it, I'm a shitty person.
No skill in anything, even things I like, no redeemable qualities, good personality traits, nothing....
I get it, nobody can be that awful so troll right?

also I guess the advice I did take didn't count since I'm not automatically better.

I'm sick of it but what can I do right?
Except for just suddenly being better, I guess I'll always be considered a troll.

It's like it's inevitable that no matter what I do, this will happen.
I can be positive all I want before I enter a community, means nothing in the end.

Can't even ask what the easiest mastery combo is because there isn't one except for personally.

I still don't even get why it's there.
Purple name like a quest monster but just seemingly there by random for no apparent reason.

I'm just going by what I see on your vid.....

It's hard to even know if I'm picking the right masteries or what.
Are casters even a good idea for me?

I just feel like I'm beating my head against a brick wall trying to get through the first DLC. It just feels like, if I'm resorting to doing that, I'm doing it seriously wrong and it's not going to really help.
Like, just struggling with the bare minimum and just brute forcing my way through stuff with the worst efficiency ever. Sure I'm getting through it right now but that doesn't mean I can continue and still have it work.
I have no idea what'll happen with the second dlc.

Cannot get through normal Hades palace at all.
Pets die to everything, Dactyl is always around the corner.

I don't understand how anyone can beat this game at all.
The difficulty is absolutely insane.

and yes, I am getting gear I need from merchants.
I even found a hallowed headpiece so I can always have a 3rd wolf.
But it's not enough, even with three wolves, the nymph, the wisp, plague and squall, everything takes too long to take down. Enough time for debuffs to run out and maybe even kill a pet and almost kill me. I never get the chance to reapply debuffs without something almost killing me and that goes for madly trying to heal pets.

What is this game.....this is masochism.

Ragnarok....money well spent...

Do you know a build I could take a look at?

Also rune of life seems like it could help with strength requirements too along with feather.

Honestly whenever someone mentions a build and talks about it, it always makes me want to try it.
Always seems interesting.

Sword and shield too.....hmm....

Deeblue i will be breaking my promise of not posting in your thread anymore.. I'm mad at myself

Then why? You aren't obligated to do so. I don't mean it like I don't want help or answers or in a "You don't want to be here so get out you aren't welcome" kind of way, I just mean you clearly don't want to, so you shouldn't have to.
I get it, I'm not wanted here and all I had to do was exist, all I had to do was register, didn't have to do anything to cause this but be myself. I guess I'm just desperate to see more of the game like I am with any game I ever play and since I was in the old forum and I've just started AE, this would be the best time to start a thread to talk about all the new stuff, ask about stuff, that sorta thing.

but i did start this game as a self-found caster.. and i did finish the game albeit with some deaths but that should be expected from a new player

So you figured out pretty early what suits you best, I can imagine everyone did this as well. Obviously this would make things a hell of a lot easier.
I still can't, I can't figure out what suits me because I like everything and I don't even know what my playstyle is, if I even have one.

After playing the game so much and playing pretty much every mastery in one combo or another, I do have an idea what few mastery combos I like best though.
But I don't know which one works best for me. The one for me.

to know which types are hardest to play, you should try the different types yourself

I think I've tried every mastery possible at this point, I've played this game a hell of a lot to the point where some people think I'm only playing this game and asking if I actually like anything else...

have you ever started as an icesharder? an earth auramancer? a distortion wave dream caster?

That's getting very, very specific.
I'd just look at builds and see what looks like fun and try it.
Having no idea if the build I'm trying is a good one or not.

but as I've said before if you know what you're doing it will not wane

Oh......I mean.....I have the very basics down but reading through threads here (as well as in the old forum), I'd see posts where I have no idea what anyone's talking about because, as far as I'm concerned, it's all super advanced stuff.

to answer your question: the hardest to play are hybrids imo.. those not specializing on the fighter part nor mage part, but attempts to balance both worlds

Yeah I'd figure those would be hard. At least I've never had the nerve to try them.
Might have tried a sword and shield juggernaut at one point but not for long.