Hero Siege League Starter Builds: Best Season 10 Classes for a Fast First Week

What Makes a Good League Starter

A league starter has four properties, in priority order:

1. Works naked. The build’s engine must run on its skills and cheap gear, not on a specific unique. If it needs a drop to function, it is not a starter — it is a project.
2. Fast campaign clear. The first character’s job is to cross the acts and the difficulty ladder quickly. Area damage and mobility beat single-target perfection.
3. Forgiving to play. Your first hours back in a season are sloppy. Durable or long-range builds convert mistakes into lessons instead of deaths.
4. Scales without a rebuild. The same character should reach endgame and become your first pushing or farming build, not get abandoned at 100.

Every season, dedicated creators publish their starter recommendations after playing the launch. For Season 10 (Ebontharn), the community’s convergence point is clear — and it happens to match our Season 10 tier list top group.

Starter 1: Viking — Whirlwind

The community’s default answer. Graxy_TV’s Season 10 starter-and-progression guide and DonTheCrown’s week-one series both built around it, and for good reason: the Viking is durable enough to survive learning mistakes, and a spinning area-damage core clears the campaign without aiming.

• Playstyle: walk into packs, spin, walk out with the loot. Positioning pressure is low; the build carries you while you learn systems.
• Why it starts well: native tankiness means fewer deaths on the difficulty push, and Whirlwind’s clearing speed scales with cheap gear.
• How it scales: into a full melee clearing machine — the same shell later farms gold efficiently and pushes comfortable wormhole depths.
• Reference: Graxy_TV’s “Whirlwind - Viking | Starter & Progression Guide” (Season 10) is the canonical video walkthrough.

Starter 2: Marksman — Gunner Drone

The ranged starter with the highest ceiling. JuxtAPoser’s full zero-to-hero guide made the drone Marksman the season’s most-documented build: drones do the aiming, you do the positioning, and the build scales from level 1 to deep wormhole pushes without changing its spine.

• Playstyle: deploy and orbit. Your job is map movement and threat avoidance while drones melt packs.
• Why it starts well: ranged safety plus passive damage output means the build works even when your mechanics are rusty.
• How it scales: drone count and quality scale hard with gear; imortilize’s endgame showcases show the same build nuking Ebontharn content that the starter version walked through.
• Reference: JuxtAPoser’s “Marksman Gunner Drone FULL GUIDE!! Zero to Hero.”

Starter 3: Pyromancer

The caster fan’s starter. Pohx’s Season 10 build guide anchors the Pyromancer’s case: strong area damage, satisfying clear, and a talent tree that came out of the Season 10 rework in good shape.

• Playstyle: screen-clearing fire with classic caster positioning — the safest-feeling ranged playstyle once distance control clicks.
• Why it starts well: area damage from early levels makes the campaign fast, and casting range keeps you out of most danger entirely.
• How it scales: into one of the smoother endgame casters this season; watch the tier list page for how the class holds up as hotfixes land.
• Reference: Pohx’s “S10 Pyromancer Build Guide.”

First Week Plan (Any Starter)

1. Day 1: Campaign on Normal. Skills before gear; upgrade anything that is numerically better.
2. Day 2–3: Push Nightmare and Hell. Spend your first Ether Quest points on economy and density nodes.
3. Day 4–5: Hit 100, open the Incarnation Tree with the defensive spine, attempt your first wormholes.
4. Day 6–7: Convert the starter into its endgame shell and take your first Uber attempt — see the Uber bosses guide for what to expect.

FAQ

Can I league-start on a DLC class? If you own it and know it, yes — but the three starters above are documented step-by-step by multiple creators, which matters more than a small power edge on day one.

What if I hate my starter by level 40? Switch. A starter’s whole job is buying you information cheaply. The tier list page covers the rest of the roster’s consensus.

Do these builds work in co-op? All three co-exist fine — melee holds attention (Viking), drones and fire cover area (Marksman, Pyromancer). A full group of starters is a perfectly valid first week.

When should I stop following the guide exactly? When your drops disagree with it. Gear you actually find beats a build’s theoretical shopping list — adapt the skill points around what the season gives you.