Press F for melee.

Meh, the dual wielding improvement will come with a melee "buff" or even a couple of them starting from next league, as it is now a lot easier to buff ONLY melee...

Besides, the way past due projectile offscreening adjustment will hit sometime in the future, and that will also "improve" melee...

And melee simply needs either a damage or survivability boost to remain relevant (although I secretly hope for both), but characters sbould have really devasting power close to them, and NOT a few offscreens away...

It's funny, but I thought even our resident T-Rex - Walrus "thingie" managed to make "melee" work for a while, before the Shaper/Elder stat stick fiasco...

Do you even "melee" anymore, I_NO?

If you would, you should know, just like everyone else, that going "melee" and I do mean hitting enemies in a <16 radius (aka close enough to "bite their heads off") is simply a "poor man's way to crank the difficulty dial to 11 on a scale from 1 to 10"...

In PoE you get only "side deals" for doing so instead of choosing ranged/cast meta... Not to even mention that dual wielding just became a "viable", but costly alternative to 2H weapons, just as TencentGGG intended...

Do read the "memos" and don't complain about common sense knowledge...

Please enlighten us, what is your opinion on the whole "great launch, great player retention, yet worst QA and rampant bugs since Talisman launch" conundrum - as TencentGGG can't seem to balance the dificulty of the Syndicate encouters even if their life depended on it???

This is just the way GGG typically works.
Instead of testing certain mods, items or skills and THEN deciding whether or not to introduce them to the game, they just throw these things onto the live realm and see what players do with those. Then, after one or a few leagues, they notice things are getting "too powerful" and nerf them in such a drastic way that players actually feel robbed.

So, what will players do if their favourite toys gone missing? They don´t grab an older version of it, they look for something fresh and better.

That´s how many builds have died and their attempts to restore ES or vaal builds are pretty ridiculous considering how bad they nerfed these before.

Now it´s melee time... I thought they invented stat sticks to bring melees out of their corner, but how wrong have I been here. Apparently, they weren´t even supposed to use them!

I bet that I_NO is the kind of person that enjoy throwing lit cigarettes at the gas station..

prove me wrong ;)

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Need ... more ... abyss jewels arrgh.

Step 1 was removing stat sticks, step 2 was buffing melee. I'm glad they did step 1, but where the heck is step 2?

Now dual-wield melee is just as bad as 2h and 1h/shield, but they're all still bad. We're stuck with the half-finished fix to the stat stick problem (and I do think it was a problem) for 3 months... it's like living in an unfinished house with tarp barely covering the gaping holes in the walls.

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demon9675 wrote:

Step 1 was removing stat sticks, step 2 was buffing melee. I'm glad they did step 1, but where the heck is step 2?

Now dual-wield melee is just as bad as 2h and 1h/shield, but they're all still bad. We're stuck with the half-finished fix to the stat stick problem (and I do think it was a problem) for 3 months... it's like living in an unfinished house with tarp barely covering the gaping holes in the walls.

And here is the reason I`m taking a break from the game.

Would love a statement from GGG regarding their plans for the future of melee and the reason why they killed all offhands and not just simply changed the values of the shaper-sticks. At the moment I really don`t see any logic or plan for melee at all.

The thought that this will be status quo for at least 3 more months is depressing as hell.

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jesus, reading this made me so demoralized.... i always play melee

Waiting for the SSFHCMeleeTwoHands league until I play again.