If you enjoy trolling melee players GGG, then I'll just enjoy some other game instead

I can accept waiting for 3.7 to see substantial melee changes. I can endure my favourite playstyle being terrible for three more months minimum. What I can't tolerate is you outright trolling melee players by nerfing overleech, which is the only way melee could survive in the endgame short of stacking life-on-hit on a molten strike build (which isn't a melee skill).

No, Chris Wilson, I won't play as a caster until you Mordor dwellers finally notice that you have melee skills in your video game. If your balance team is so incompetent and out-of-touch that it nerfs Slayer while Fortnite players are running around Uber Elder in circles spamming broken spells while wearing goddamn ACT gear, then I will simply take my money elsewhere until your China-pandering company gets a clue.

Enjoy Synthesis!

maybe a bit hard nerf, but killing worms from a flask and then be immune to delve darkness or labtraps for minutes seems kinda bad.

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ChefoSLR wrote:

molten strike build (which isn't a melee skill)

People saying stupid shit like this is why melee complainers aren't taken seriously. Molten Strike is a melee skill; you have to stand still in range of targets and hit them with your hand-held weapon to spawn the projectiles. That makes it melee, regardless of how it scales.

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ExcretusMaximus wrote:

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ChefoSLR wrote:

molten strike build (which isn't a melee skill)

People saying stupid shit like this is why melee complainers aren't taken seriously. Molten Strike is a melee skill; you have to stand still in range of targets and hit them with your hand-held weapon to spawn the projectiles. That makes it melee, regardless of how it scales.

Honestly yeah.. I always felt like the majority of posters want Melee to fit a realistic dictionary definition instead of actually being good with a variety of options and different styles of skills.

Emmm
What is melee in your mind then? Heroically hitting the single mob with 2-h axe? then next, then next... out of hundreds on the every map?
Are you serious?

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Melee_skill
Molten strike IS melee, like it or not.

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ExcretusMaximus wrote:

People saying stupid shit like this is why melee complainers aren't taken seriously. Molten Strike is a melee skill; you have to stand still in range of targets and hit them with your hand-held weapon to spawn the projectiles. That makes it melee, regardless of how it scales.

Melee has a pretty consistent definition in RPGs and ARPGs. You hit enemies with your short-range weapon and you equip gear that improves those short-range weapon hits. Molten Strike fires projectiles and it's scaled by adding more projectiles. It's not a melee skill, regardless of how deeply one ingests GGG's phallus. Diablo 3, an abominable and shallow game, handles melee skills and melee balance with a level of competence that makes GGG's attempts look like a student project.

When players talk about melee skills and wanting melee to be viable, they mean melee skills like Cleave, Dual Strike, Heavy Strike, etc. Most people are blessed with a frontal cortex and understand that Blade Flurry, Molten Strike, Tectonic Slam etc., are not melee skills and would never be considered melee in any other game.

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VolcanoElixir wrote:

Honestly yeah.. I always felt like the majority of posters want Melee to fit a realistic dictionary definition instead of actually being good with a variety of options and different styles of skills.

If the playstyle is functionally identical to that of a spellcaster, then the distinction of a skill being "melee" is completely irrelevant. If I'm using Blade Flurry, I'm casting a channeled SPELL. If I'm using Tectonic Slam, I'm using a long-range SPELL with a huge AoE. I couldn't give a neutron of a fuck that I'm casting it with a sword and there's a "melee" tag on the gem.

why dont you just take a break then? you're obviously unhappy to the point of being irrational. walk away.

Later.

The overleech nerf is bullshit honestly lol