Welcome everyone, got the game few days back and I must say that today, after playing for about 2h i took a week off in work, got myself a big bag of ... apple incense and i plan to do a session with PoE that will last for 3 days at least so me and my hero can finish this adventure. And this is the part i need your help with. I started a fighter but without any experience i think my build is bad so i decided to reroll. I would like to play this with a balanced melee character, in heavy armor with sword and shield or dual wielding. From what I've read here Fighters are mostly heavy armored tanks and barbarians do insane dps but don't wear no armor at all. Could you help me create a fighter/barbarian/paladin that would do some serious damage and wear heavy armor so he won't get instagibed ? Also what talents and class abilities should i pick so they would fit this role ? And if creating such character is impossible what class/build would you recommend for a newbie on his first playthrough.
I plan on playing on Normal but if this proves to be too hard i will change it to Easy.
Please help and thanks in advance
edit: I forgot to mention that i would like to avoid min/maxing on my first playthrough.
So you guys think that Bleak Walker paladin with 15/10/11/16/10/16 would be good for Normal/Easy playthrough ? I'm still thinking about heavy armor dual wield barbarian since it will be an Easy playthrough. Did anyone tried that before ?