White Item Challenge Melee! Merciless Izaro/Malachai done. Malachai Video inside.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

Maybe just replace ele focus with a red gem (eg: melee phys)?

MPD wouldn't scale up over half of his damage, at least in end-game; Herald of Ice lv. 20 adds avg. 47 cold damage, Added Cold Damage Support lv. 20 adds 156.5

In contrast, white Behemoth Mace at 20% quality adds 57 phys, and Coronal Maul adds 110.4

So, for 1H Mace, his Phys ratio (i.e. MPD effectiveness) would be 57/(57+47+156.5) = 21.9%, and for 2H Mace, 35.2%. Overall, not a good prospect

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But thormida, why not sub in Life Leech Support?

Or perhaps since phys ratio will be so low at gem level 20 anyways, why not switch to Earthquake and use Less Duration Support?

I leveled a Earthquake in Offhand :-), tried it, its not so bad! Didn't expect that!
I will test it further!

Update:

Act 4 Merciless, leveling in Dried Lake

Level 70, 3317 Life, 73% to all Resists

Using Earthquake at the Moment, and Dual Sambar Sceptres for +12% Cold Penetration.
Difficult to say if this Sceptres are better than Vaal Sceptres?

Deathcount: 6

Update:

Buffed damage:


Video Dried Lake:
https://youtu.be/__UmbB-YKRA

Tree with 4670 Life at Level 86 :
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAEBAMbYWGPzjcABPfz0gwbGjM_EWF2k9kjd1V8_Gj7BBBQg8i9VtXlo7w6ezaluUEfSIacwwBp34_JBn8sB53gNAdyCBxRNtfKE2dl8_EtuqjWSR34UcbyfSsj-j9i9vTb46xiRiq9N42VN6hiQEaZXvqd2rPcyguQZtM9-cql82WqTrY2sqkz_WfNOKkMx1lgaOFuvv9XaweCfkFUUdZAKU7t07QVmJy9318jMBS062Fb674967zKJAZHdRt9vd-Ut0mOnV-IRge0ggpvhc6IABLPwH8BmaPINjYd2459KfTrh

Update:

Made it to Level 80 :-)

Offense Buffed:


Defense:

Update:

Level 82, 4213 Life, 76% Fire 74% Cold 74% Lightning Resistance

Tora send me to Death, Mutated Winterclaw in Dry Woods arghhh

Tried Malachai and ripped, won't zerg him down so gave up.

Deathcount: 8

For Mapping up to Tier 6 the Damage and Defense is OK, but for Malachai its to low.
And Earthquake sucks against him.

I will test Sunder + Kite Shield + a new 6 Link with Conc.Effect this should increase the Damage.

So lets get another 6-Link :-(

Try using an ancestral totem against Difficult bosses. It will take a while to kill them but you can just kite around it.

So, just killed Merciless Izaro. Puuuh, that was an intense fight.
Ran around like a chicken LOL.

To do this fight i changed two things:
- a equipped a sword for Whirling Blades + Fortify.
- i fixed the attack in place key, changed it to Page Up and used a piece of paper to hold it down :-)

this way when hitting the ground it is instant and not on an enemy few steps away.

Before, I checked all other Skills + Gem Combinations but nothing was really better.
For example:

- Ice Crash + Conc.Effect instead of Earthquake + Reduced Duration:
10k max. Damage sounds not bad but, the Area is minimal and most is -20% -40% less WTF (this penalty should be removed to make this Skill viable!) so you have to go in and place a direct hit :-(

- Lacerate: Slow and with Conc. Effect barely visible

- Added Lightning instead of Cold Penetration, theoritically a little higher Damage, but had to change my tree, and no Regrets left.

- Added Chaos Damage: this should work somehow but even more tree changes, without beeing sure that it works, but recognized it for latter use :-)

and so on, couln't figure out something really better.



Edit: he was fully buffed, i don't have any clue about the lab. :-(

Merciless Malachai done.
One Death, not good but OK at Level 83.

It was an intense Fight :-) Video: https://youtu.be/J-uNyfpqIXc


Another Death through disconnect.

Deathcount: 10 at the end.

Conclusion:

It was easier than i thought, had some problems but in the End i could clear up to Tier 6 Maps easily.



But to be honest, is Earthquake Melee?

And here I am, having died to malachai alone more then 10 times... I really DO suck at this game.