Usefull beginning 1.10 builds?

[Crystalion]

It could be an idea to think of builds that could be good for starters, and not especially item dependent, when you begin on the ladder and have nothing to twink to your characters.

This is an excellent line of thought, but not, imho, specific enough.

You see, there are probably well over a dozen significant builds that aren't especially item dependent, but what those builds can accomplish (i.e. what tasks they do well) and in what difficulty vary widely.

Ferengi has, for example, brought up this issue with the additional qualification of "bootstrapping" being the motivation. So, for his problem, you would tend to think of useful things characters can do, even if they aren't destined for act 5 hell. Examples would be: location rush other characters; do countess runs; hellforge runs; item runs; high clvl shopping; etc.

If, OTOH, your goal is merely to have fun and play for a while until your character has incidentally found some nice gear to bequeath to new characters, then you have a lot of options. Probably you should just follow your whims.

But if your goal is to complete the game (hell) with your initial character, without ever necessarily getting good drops (or gambles or runes), while not finding the experience too difficult or time consuming, then there are probably only a few builds (solo) worthy of consideration. Some more if you're willing to play an "unbalanced" build that does well except in certain circumstances (e.g. vs. Fire Immunes) when things become temporarily awkward.

I know this is all platitudinous, but if you clarify your intent, you'll probably get a variety of more specific suggestions.