The order in which you take your Augmentations can affect your gameplay tremendously. Here's some simple recommendations, in order of most to least beneficial. 1. * Pick up the Critical Protection augmentation to increase your survivability dramatically; this is one of the most valuable augmentations for the cost, for any character. This makes incoming melee damage much more consistent, and thus more manageable. Also important to note is that this can potentially reduce your chance to be critically hit to 1% (theoretical 0) versus monsters near your level or lower, when combined with high melee defense skill. (Author's note: if I personally had to choose only one augmentation and forfeit all others, this would be the one I'd pick). 2. * Get the Clutch of the Miser Augmentations. Th