So melee still sucks, can we get a comment from GGG?

I play 2h a day before sleep. Leveled my char in aroound 20h to 70, 20 more hours to lvl to 80 and gear up for maps. In this state I was ready to farm maps. In 60 more hours I saved up 18 exalts and bought 6L chest. After that I don't care about mods. Pls note I farmed my 6l as a melee on maps. All this solo or duo with a friend.

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mazul написал:

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kazkyzah написал:

Ur trippin balls really
Acting like u have game play tips doesn't answer da question.
We all know how to play and strategize
Kole is just a single example of a hard hitting mob and evn da most experience players die.
Not to mention mob crit.
There r plenty more ways to die to physical dmg.
Dont b acting as if u never died to a physical based hit before

The problem is that you think there is something wrong with the current design. It is great that even the most experienced players need to focus well to not die against Kole as melee. That's great design.

Focus on what? HE DIED IN ONE SHOT INSTANTLY. Melee have to be in melee range.

Just this last week my main died at 76 with 24000 armour 5k life and 80% all resists. Was at full life and running to attack rare bear in map. Pure melee tank with shield and 69% block and 4 endu charges up. He killed me in 2 hits.


That's 100% bullshit.

Just a few days ago with my marauder......39k armor, 8k life, 84% all resists, 42% movement speed......he missed a door and ran into a wall......because of his movement speed he was instantly killed. I was pissed.....left my computer, wanted to go straight for the beer in the fridge......missed the door to the kitchen.....

i play archer now



lawl@melee.


just dont play closecombat and this game is great.

Here's my opinion regarding melee:
One-shot by things = impossible unless heavily telegraphed (Vaal)
Two-shot by things = barely possible, but requires complete solo attention, must clear all other threats from the area first
Three-shot by things = very difficult, careful positioning is of vital importance
Four-shot by things = moderately difficult, death is a concern
Five-shot by things or more = not even really difficult anymore, movement barely necessary, just use flasks

Thus for something like bears to be able to two-shot you is a big problem; getting two-shot by Kole is fine in comparison. Also by shot I mean attack attempts, not attack successes; being two-hit by something when you have 50% chance to evade is filed under three-shot, getting two-hit with 50% evade is filed under five-shot.

aegis aurora + high block + high spell block = u wont die.

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Xavyer написал:

I play 2h a day before sleep. Leveled my char in aroound 20h to 70, 20 more hours to lvl to 80 and gear up for maps. In this state I was ready to farm maps. In 60 more hours I saved up 18 exalts and bought 6L chest. After that I don't care about mods. Pls note I farmed my 6l as a melee on maps. All this solo or duo with a friend.

This is such an atypical scenario that I don't even know where to start...

I guess with the fact that approximately 95% (yes, this number is entirely made up, but I'd wager money that it's pretty close to accurate) of PoE users will never even see 18 exalts worth of currency in their entire game career in PoE.

You got lucky. Very lucky. So insanely lucky that I find it hard to believe.

And I suppose if this is your first experience within PoE I can't fault you for saying what you did, like everyone should be able grind out 15+ exalts worth of currency in a matter of days. But you should know that there are a TON of people, myself included (as a CI sporker no less...), who spend 3-5 hours a day farming and haven't gained that kind of currency over the course of MONTHS.

So no, it's not as easy as you make it out to be, and I'd wager if you had to do it all over again you'd probably have a vastly different opinion.

i can still kill just fine and i still die as fast as I died before tha recent patches....actually MY personal issue with melee was not so much that I can not kill but that I get killed way to fast!

Tanking is fairly easy as long as you build for it. If you go in with a glass cannon expect to die, it's pretty simple.

http://youtu.be/sEdMdWPfR3M

Me face tanking kole. I don't have great gear really. No six links or uber weapon. DPS sucks for the most part. If I ever manage a 6 link and a better weapon my dps will be acceptable to clear stuff in a timely manner. As long as you build for it you will be able to tank most attacks. Some are so telegraphed you deserve to die if you try tanking it. However, I'd almost go as far to say that if you want to tank you almost have to have aegis aura.

You just need to decide do you want to tank and be a damage sponge or do you want to go for damage. In most cases there's no real in between. A lot also depends on if you group or not as well. You are definitely not going to clear as fast as a pure ranged dps build but you should know that as soon as you make melee it's not a secret.

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Vinifera7 написал:

I don't think you're meant to be invincible as melee. You still need to play smart, not just facetank everything. However getting 1-shot even with super high damage reduction is silly. Possibly armour formula needs to be re-examined.

risk as a melee is 10x higher with not much benefit

there is no reason to go melee over ranged
ranged is safer and can achieve the same dps and hp

there is no reason to play melee in this game