After 1700+ hours I just had my worst poe experience

You mention bows in one sentence with wands. Bows are really strong with much lesser gear requirements than a good wand build would have. Especially since there are a few cheap unique bows that can be used for endgame stuff.

Otherwise your statement is actually really interesting with all the hate for melee that usually fills the forum.

I find melee to be easier to play. It takes far less skill. It makes sense.

Your wander doesn't use the same principles as melee. Don't put all your supports into KB without thought to other skills. Spells tend to scale off their level rather than scaling off increased damage and mods from supports. You sound like you didn't understand this. You built your wander like it was melee. Doesn't work.

Uh wands use attack skills though. Not spells.

Kinetic blast sucks if you don't know how it works I think is the conclusion here :P

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I find melee to be easier to play. It takes far less skill. It makes sense.

Your wander doesn't use the same principles as melee. Don't put all your supports into KB without thought to other skills. Spells tend to scale off their level rather than scaling off increased damage and mods from supports. You sound like you didn't understand this. You built your wander like it was melee. Doesn't work.

Wander is attack skill not spell, only aura scales off lvl. Btw this isn't my first wander at all, i probably did my first wander before you started the game.

The main reason I quote wander and bow user is because they both sucks at lvling, experienced it on the beta. The main issue is that there is not enough life nodes on the right side of the tree. A proper wander will build low-life/vaal pact which I didn't wanted because of future changes.


With the frost wall nerf we have 7-9% of the nodes of the tree who are useless and can be used only with two gems: frenzy and kb.

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arknath wrote:

Kinetic blast sucks if you don't know how it works I think is the conclusion here :P

KB sucks since we can't use it with frost wall that's all. Learn mechanics before posting.

This is advanced Shagsposting.
Maybe he's drunk.

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EzBreesy wrote:

The main reason I quote wander and bow user is because they both sucks at lvling, experienced it on the beta. The main issue is that there is not enough life nodes on the right side of the tree. A proper wander will build low-life/vaal pact which I didn't wanted because of future changes.

they dont.
blast rain rocks
seems you just need a lot of research before claiming ignorant noncence

Personally, I find I get more damage from wands by doing elemental damage. That opens up more damage nodes on the tree and flexible pathing. Also, the only real single target for wands is barrage, and it really needs additional projectiles to work.

In short, I find wanders require a lot more gear for their damage output to be reliable. I don't have this problem so much with bows at all. You could even use lioneye's glare and covert a bunch of damage to elemental, stack additional "more" multiplier support gems and probably do decently well without stressing over accuracy.

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Manondorf wrote:

In short, I find wanders require a lot more gear for their damage output to be reliable. I don't have this problem so much with bows at all. You could even use lioneye's glare and covert a bunch of damage to elemental, stack additional "more" multiplier support gems and probably do decently well without stressing over accuracy.

Yeah this is an other issue I didn't mention you also have to invest so much into accuracy that it's not even worth to invest into accuracy+crit comparing with melee who just take one nodes and have 95%accuracy.

It is true that wander is worst that bow but my main issue is both bow and wander when you compare them with meta melee skills.

MELEE?!?!?!?! META?!?!?!?! XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Melee is by no means meta. Almost all endgame builds are not melee. It's just one of the easiest classes to build from scratch.