I'm Surprised to Find that Melee is Easy

There is no spoon.

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KayosLegion wrote:

There is no spoon.

But if there was a spoon it would be holding a bow

the only melee character that worked for me was perma IC ele cyclone
grabbing pretty much every life node on the left side of the tree.
lgoh + cyclone is a pretty nice combo for sustain and IC prevents getting
bursted. but even then, comparing it to crit casters, prolif builds or coc,
it kinda makes you cry. worse clear speed, okayish single target, dependent
on not messing up on Ic while being not considerably cheaper than the casters.
also, in highlvl maps you mostly get fked by ele dmg which is naturally less
risky playing a build that has some ways of reducing ele dmg because of reflect.

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Odoakar wrote:

Where's your high level hc melee character?

Playing melee causes more desync for me, so I'm disinterested in playing high level melee in HC. It seems like the more damage I take, and the more actions I try to carry out per second, the less the game wants to respond. That's a recipe for a rip.

I'm on satellite internet btw. League of Legends is completely unplayable. But PoE is decent enough. So it's not all PoE's fault. Relatively speaking the servers are better than most games for me.

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mattsemega wrote:

okayish single target

I actually think one of the few upsides of melee is the crazy high single target, especially with 2h allowing double 6L.

Why do you want 2 6L if you are tanking damage and can't block ...

You block with your face, obviously.

Like real man.

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OJ8_Graz wrote:

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khemintiri wrote:

It is very comfortable playing high armour meele , not alot of things are dangerous at all , and you can mostly just ignore all mobs .

So i can see where Bearcares is coming from , there is a lot of hate on melee (and armour) saying its not viable and just plain bad, when you actually try it you see that its not the case.

But no , im not as efficient as when i was playing nadoshot last league or eleprolif burning arrow.

melee is a lot more fun though imo , and anyone who wanna give it a go should =).

just my view on things.

All true about the current state of melee, but on the same investment, compared to ranged builds (nado shot, Ice shot etc.) melee could have had a lot more bonuses to it considering its a face to face build, more desync prone, armor doesn't do shit on big hits compared to evade ranged builds, less elemental mitigation because of removal of diamond skin, and horrible normal leech mechanics.

why wouldnt you have evasion on a melee character? 4 layers of defense that are equally as important as each other for melee, armour, endurance, evasion and ondars. Most good builds span 2 or 3 starting positions, marauder, duelist and ranger all have serious melee nodes. If you feel like your melee build is so tanky that you dont need all 4 of those things then fine, dont spec them, but dont blame melee if you make bad builds that cant tank content when you are not speccing into the defenses that are on offer.

Spellcasters dont have loads of max res nodes that melee cant get, theres 2 max res nodes in the bottom of the tree and 1 in the top, theres more all res nodes in the bottom of the tree. Melee have same access to elemental auras and elemental flasks, melee has the same opportunity for ele resist as a caster. Again, if you dont include it in your build that is your choice and your build, that is not the fault of melee. Melee have access to the same ele res, casters do not have access to the same armour, endurance and evasion.

on another note, people talking about melee cant do hard map mods, well I have a lot of seriously gg characters specced out and when a map is rolled absurdly hard theres a point where I would only put my melee witch into the map because she can take more punishment and face off way harder mods with ease than any other char I have.