Venomancer for beginners?

Venomancers are good as a main class because they do not require that much help when it comes to quests or to a lesser extent, bosses. It's actually a good idea to start as a venomancer because they're able to make money by using less pots (compared to barbs/clerics) and repairs.

As for the build, full str sounds like a bad idea. Even if you go full arcane, you will need at least a base STR of 56 (to be able to wear the highest levelled patakas). Full str sounds like a heavy veno which isn't a bad idea either. b:cute

venos are easy, because you can play them almost any which way. they only become hard if you decide to try to push the envelope on your build; heavy armor veno, for instance, requires you to know what you're doing before you do it.

but a more traditional build is simple as can be to play, right from the earliest levels on up. try a moderate-vit arcane armor veno; every two levels add 1 strength, 1 or 2 vit (and stop adding that eventually, say around when you've got 50 or so vit), the rest into mag. wear arcane armor and learn how to use your pet for tanking. that makes for a much easier early game than many another class or build; you'll die much, much less than (for instance) pure-build assassins or wizards, while leveling faster.

Yeah, Venomancer are a good starter class in any case. Basically, just like every other class, you can't deal with bosses --- so don't get the wrong idea about this. However, almost everything else is easy as cutting through butter with a hot knife, since you have a few strengths that other classes do not have:

• Your pet can (and if you do it properly will) take the heat that other classes have to take on themselves. Not exactly a newbie feature, but people using a $200 cash shop pet can even keep entire monster armies busy and solo bosses too. For a player without this pet it's not quite as shiny, but still good enough :-)
• It doesn't really matter what gear you have. After all, it's the pet that volunteered for getting beat up instead of you.
• Repair shop owners won't be knowing you on a first-name basis. I mean, how could they --- you aren't getting beat up so your dress (you don't get beat, so you don't get armor) stays clean and shiny, and the pet doesn't even have gear.
• Ever wondered how to lure that girl out of the group she's hanging out with so you can hit on her? No problem with a venomancer, you can drag monsters away from their friends for a nice 1-on-1 chat.

I don't know why the "50 vit" keeps popping up all around without ever getting an explanation (I did leave enough points unassigned to cover it, though. You never know, people might be right after all), but as the others said, "full str" is a bad thing. Build it like a mage class, with "Int" as your primary stat, "Str" as required by armor (use "arcane" armor, not "light" or "heavy") and no "Dex"

in my thoughts LA is better than hard armor but thats just me b:chuckle

Venomancers are easy to play for beginners BUT playing them good isn't so easy. If you want easy and good: play a wiz. The game is loaded with bad venos because they're sold on this easy ****.