In Expeditions Rome, you get to choose from a variety of classes to play with. Depending on your playstyle, these classes may prove to be useful during certain parts of the game. If you’re wondering what the best class is in the game, what is the best one to pick during the early stages, then check out this guide to know more!
If you think about it, there’s no best class here in Expeditions Rome. It highly depends on what you want to play as. You should also know that no one class is strong on its own. You need to to play with the strengths of the other classes to get through the gauntlet of battles here. You’re mostly outnumbered in encounters, so might as well get all the help that you need. Once you decide your class, you can then build a character with skills that work well with how you play. Below are some suggestions that you can use in building your characters:
Get the Principe class and select the Veteran tree. The Veteran tree provides good crowd-control skills with its good selection of stun skills and passive buffs. With a good combination of skills, your tank can block choke points while providing devastating damage to anything that moves around them. The stuns also help in securing kills for both your Veles and Sagitarii, or for keeping down bosses for focused attacks.
If you want to go down a super tank build, you can also branch out to the Defender skill tree. For a a more offensive-oriented tank, you can choose the skills under the Vanguard skill tree.
The Marksman and the Walk Your Shots under the Sniper tree are skills that provide damage and range bonuses to your archers. Having these two ultimately sets the Sagittarius to be your artillery in the game. Always place them on elevated platforms to maximize their attacks and to assist your Veles in landing killing blows for Bloodthirsty stacks. You can also progress further down the skill tree to get the Assist skill to do devastating tag team attacks from afar.
Getting 2 or 3 more Snipers in your team is highly recommended. Also, prioritize giving them items that increase their critical chance and high-level bows. A Sniper that kills untrained enemy units can fire continuously. This means that if you find yourself at a favorable vantage point, you can probably take out more than a quarter of the enemy team in a single turn!
Get a Veles that is a mix of Duelist and Assassin skill trees. Duelist gives your character the Shiv, Dodge, and Bloodthirsty skills, all of which are important in sustaining a madman dash during the first few turns. Assassin grants the incredible damage boost during the first 2 turns with Sneak Attack, Prowling, and First Strike.
With both skills in synergy, it’s not far to have a well-built Veles that can kill 5 or more enemies in a single turn provided that most of your enemies are soft and unarmored. It just keeps going and going.
You can equip the Veles with Pilum to counter shielded enemies. You can have this type of Veles to run to the enemy backline to devastate archers and healers.
The Triarius is an important part of the team as it is the only one that can reliably heal and revive fallen teammates. Under the Medic tree, you can get skills that bolster your Triarius’ healing capabilities and the incredibly important Revive skill. You can then branch off to Destroyer if you want a more aggressive Triarius that can wreck shields or go to the Flagbearer skill tree for more support skills.
The best way to get the most out of every combat situation is to have a good balance in the team. In the battles that I’ve faced, I was able to come up with the following lineup to easily clear situations:
The 2 Principes can block choke points while the 2 Sagitarii can rain down havoc from behind them. The single Triarius can support the team while the Veles can roam to take down softer targets like archers and pawns to get more Bloodthirsty stacks for the big ones.
If we only base on the fixed classes of the story allies, we can determine the best starting class for your personal character in the game. Since we have Caeso and Deianeira as Princeps, Syneros as Triarius, Bestia Tabat as Veles, and Julia as Sagittarius, you can have your character built as a Sniper under the Sagittarius skill tree.
This gives you the extra ranged attacks during the early stages of Act 1, making it easy to breeze through most fights as you have two characters nuking enemies from afar. This also helps during story character-only missions as two Snipers doing ranged attacks can quickly assassinate or incapacitate most targets in 2-3 turns by focusing their attacks.
As Expeditions Rome has a very lengthy campaign, it is recommended that you get what you want to play as instead of chasing the easy way through the game. While having a Sniper helps, you might have trouble appreciating the game more if you don’t even like to play as a ranged character. Do keep in mind that in the middle stages of Act 1, you can replace story characters with more customizable Centurions to fill in your team.
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