Think this is the only ARPG that melee is shit in.

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Legatus1982 написал:

Of course said rework is nowhere in sight so basically it's just posturing. As far as I can tell they don't have any immediate plans to fix melee and it's going to be this way for a long time.

Funny, as they already scheduled the targeting rework ( which supposedly will at least partly fix melee ) for either next league of next expansion ....
And if so, they have obviously been working on it for some time already.

Don't Remember where I heard or read it though, maybe in a Lyoneye's podcast.

Yes I did hear they are fixing name lock "soon", unfortunately this isn't really going to do anything for melee. Fixing name lock is welcome qol change but melee has bigger issues.

Beware if GGG buffs melee then it will be dagger builds on ES again like before. Someone there hated the warrior class of diablo 1 and believed to punish players for that. Which actually would not be a problem if they communicated it like that so that new players dont have to spend hundreds of hours before figuring that out and could either deceide to play another class or just another game.

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j33bus написал:

The main reason for that is that those games have defined classes, while PoE doesn't. This lets them make melee classes tankier than range classes and it gives a balance, and it's much harder in PoE. Now I've only played Torchlight and Diablo but in torchlight everything's awesome and you're always a badass, and Diablo 3 is so over constrained none of your choices matter and both of those are easy to balance, in diablo 2 melee was mostly worse but you needed to single target a boss, people still mostly played melee classes and used the range skills in them.

Imo the main reason is that they added too much OP stuff for ranged. Chain, multiple arrows, and another arrow, and one more arrow, and increased size and more size and more damage, and exponential scaling.

In diablo (whatever version) you actually had to kite enemies and play carefully. PoE ist a race through content.

In this kind of environment one-shots became the only threat for the 10 aps full screen size aoe runspeed meta where melee just cannot compete no matter how much you buff it without making it invincible. But when you mentioned that 2 years ago 90% of the forum attacked you and wanted it that way.


Then someone got the great idea to make armour/melee the slowest moving class and invent unique items all over the place that even reduce that more, putting all the good passives on the ES/EV side of the tree, etc. Just failed on purpose.

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Legatus1982 написал:

Yes I did hear they are fixing name lock "soon", unfortunately this isn't really going to do anything for melee. Fixing name lock is welcome qol change but melee has bigger issues.

You have actually no idea what they have in store about this, and I think that Chris said ( podcast again ) that the previous "mini buffs" were some testing and a first step before the next overhaul.