Dad wanted to play poe again ''I wanna be a badass melee user''

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鬼殺し wrote:

DAoC

Oh, man, I miss DAoC so very much. The last time I played (4 years ago or so) they had enforced the "zerg or get zerged" meta to the point where it was literally zergs of 40+ RR10+ which just isn't fun to me.

Give me the game at the release of New Frontiers and I'd never stop playing it.

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_Tiem wrote:

And tbh, if it's said again and again, what's the fucking point. Like I said originally, this is posted ad nauseum. If melee is dead, then STFU and play a ranged hero.

that is one dumbass suggestion and its missing the point.

take this point :
there is one melee skill viable and its projectile based so its actually not even melee.
you may ask so what? play range.
great, delete half of the current skills exist ingame and go with range.
good idea pal. you figured it all out.

I still defend the stat stick nerf but only as step 1 in a 2-step balance change. Step 2 was buffing melee all-around to make up for the nerf to specific setups that could use stat sticks. Without them, balancing melee of all kinds with all skills is much easier.

But they never did step 2!!! So now we’re left with melee being garbage.

I’m sure they’ll just nerf CoC and MS and call it a day. Or do something pointless and tangential like buff some kind of melee totem interaction nobody wants to use. Or even introduce one new good melee skill while leaving everything else untouched.

6% increased sweep damage... hello?!

Also look at cyclone, Melee can t be so shit if they nerf it each patch right, must be so strong right.

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鬼殺し wrote:

She's right, you really do project quite a lot.

That I dislike "it"? I don't think I could be more obvious even if I took out a giant ad on a fucking billboard bro. Your powers of deduction serve humanity well.

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_Tiem wrote:

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鬼殺し wrote:

She's right, you really do project quite a lot.

That I dislike "it"? I don't think I could be more obvious even if I took out a giant ad on a fucking billboard bro. Your powers of deduction serve humanity well.

A div card is completely and utterly irrelevant to how well one understands the game when it is outright stated to not have been made for the purpose of showcasing anything of the sort.

That you would fail to acknowledge any other reason for adding something to the game even after the fact that one is given literally in the post immediately following your silly little jab is, however, actually a sign of a lack of understanding; just not hers.

Hopefully they're all consenting adults of their species.

I had interpreted its meaning as she has a boyfriend. But maybe you guys are actually right and we're in the realm of bestiality now lol (hope I'm not breaking forum rules by using the "b word").

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kompaniet wrote:

One melee skill that's viable? And which one is that? And viable for what?

I've seen people do just fine with any melee skill. Mathil even used arguably the worst out of them all on his champion, glacial hammer.

Sounds like you just don't know how to play a melee charachter no offence.

This logic is so disgustingly flawed it makes me want to hang myself on the off-chance that I won't see any more "melee is fine" posts in hell. You can kill Shaper with basic attacks thanks to all the powercreep that was added last year. Just because you can technically play melee in PoE doesn't mean that melee is in a good spot. In every other online game, gross imbalances like melee vs spells/projectiles in PoE would be treated as a massive issue by the community. There would be front page threads every day asking the developers what their plans are. Only in PoE can you see people defend blatantly terrible design because their cousin played fucking Dual Strike once and it "looked okay".

Melee right now has no "niche". There's nothing that melee does better than other archetypes. Melee isn't tankier than an Occultist, it doesn't kill bosses faster or safer than Arc/Brands/Ele hit/etc., it doesn't clear fast and it isn't budget friendly. Statsticks, hate them or not, were melee's niche. They were the only reason to pick melee over other builds because they guaranteed you would outscale most other archetypes at the top end. Now they're gone and melee got zero compensation for the removal of their ONE advantage.

Melee is in dire need of changes in 3.6 and I hope GGG aren't as delusional as the forumers here about the state of melee.