How do i survive as melee

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Peterlerock wrote:

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Zekk wrote:

Or play a max bloack gladiator (like mine, you can see it on my chara page). You won't have max dps, but you will survive 90% of the damage the game throws at you.

Your gear is weird.
Why would you multimod such a ring (dex and low fire damage)?
So many low life rolls... Jewels with useless mods...

I don't have tons of exalts to have the perfect mastercraft items, nor tons of chaos to reroll 1000 times the items to have the best rolls.

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Zekk wrote:

I don't have tons of exalts to have the perfect mastercraft items, nor tons of chaos to reroll 1000 times the items to have the best rolls.

Neither do I.
I'm talking about upgrades for like 5 chaos a piece on poe.trade, if you somehow do not manage to find better stuff just by playing 2-3 maps or throwing alchs/essences on random base items.

I can facetank them in t15 in their fortress and burst them down quite quickly. Molten Strike CI Jugg here.

Some melee specs still perform well. Try Tectonic Slam Jugg is your not a fan of MS.

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toyotatundra wrote:

Even if you buff melee by 5000000%, it's still gonna clear slower than any ranged skill.

That's not actually the point being made though.

If melee cleared slower but was tougher, safer, and better on bosses that would be an acceptable tradeoff.

But melee clears slower and is not meaningfully tougher or safer without extreme investment and is worse at killing bosses as well.

*Get a solid EHP (effective hp - means the total amount of life or es) pool.
*Get some form of sustain, like leech, life gain on hit, regen, life gain on kill etc.
*Fortify
*Capped resists (chaos ain't important usually)
*Flasks that have defensive uses
*Upgrade pantheon
*Decent evasion or armor, block and/or spell block when making a block char
*Endurance charges
*Various effects from gear/ascendancies that mitigate damage
*Don't stand in fire lmao

You don't need all of this btw, it's just a list of what you can get.

Dunno, i play melee mostly and i'm fine. Just learn to build in a way where you have layered defenses and you'll be more than fine.

Assuming you want to for some forsaken reason play jugg against syndicate, here's some tips you can do.

-Play lower tier maps
then:
-break weapons
-dont get anyone rank 2 or above
-roll 0-1 dmg mods
-Get aura support
-get curse support

If you go high enough map, a betrayal mob will use ranged attack without projectile or telegraph and hit well over 8k without needing weapons or ranks. Isn't even top3 most lethal mob.

You don't even have the Indomitable keystone in your passive tree, and non of your gear is even 20% quality, plus passive tree is fucked. Invest in defense.

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seryemkin wrote:

You don't even have the Indomitable keystone in your passive tree, and non of your gear is even 20% quality, plus passive tree is fucked. Invest in defense.

Why should he?

It only reduces crits by like 5% (20% of (130-100)).