1h saviour is better than any 2handed unique weapon

First of all calling this sword the saviour is pretty funny because melee is not in a great shape in poe and the sword name sound like it been made to save melee.

Sadly the sword is a 1hand weapon and I wonder why such sword was not possible to be made as a 2h.

I feel like GGG should buff 2 handed unique melee weapons a bit.

I heard in poe2 we can use a bow as a melee weapon , should we consider bows a better alternative than 2 handed melee weapons?

Please buff 2 handed unique melee weapons or please create better and more interesting high level 2 handed unique melee weapons.

The saviour saved melee by making it minion.

You just know that GGG’s gonna simply nerf Savior now. And impale. And maybe cyclone again for good measure.

melee.. they dont care about. like 1 or 2% of entire population plays it, GGG caters to the most common playstyles for rather obvious reasons

2h melee is THE worst archetype in the game. nothing pales in comparison (to the WK: it can work. but EVERYTHING else works better, cheaper, faster, safer etc). 2h was THE worst archetype even pre-nerf (what a dumb nerf that was) of crafted 2h - as if that 7th link fortify made melee suddenly stronger than mines (yet for some even dumber reason 7th link cast on crit is ok?)

GGG made a token gesture towards loud minority - relased broken as f.. 1h sword. and that was it for melee viability update


in the same update they have relased ring for Strike skills that.. doesnt work. literally. they have released a unique ring that does nothing. imagine the uproar if Astral Projector worked only with Conversion Trap. but with Warrior's Legacy? noone noticed. nobody cares about melee and for a good reason

2h is even less important (ofc before someone brings in xxxforge + Abyssus and yell 'but it works!': cool, now show me a single build using rare 2h that wasnt crafted during the duping period early this league)

All the more experienced melee players are all dual weapons. No one really uses any 2h. Voidforge and Starforge may look expensive on trade but it is mostly players that are speculating on it and farming it with 1h weapons.

The reason: Dual weapons have more dps.

In the previous league I played Jugg / Slayer Ground Slam under Stun, stun mechanics works almost only on 2h (actually the only effective weapon under Stun is Tidebreaker because it gives 49% REST which is huge), I was able to introduce any target in Stunlock that is not immune to stun (including Sheaper and A8 Sirus). Now I plan to do this build again its super fun when all enemy stay in stunlock and I like to do unpopular builds.
The problem of 2h is speed, a good 2h supported by appropriate nodes and skill with high effectiveness does amazing damage but players prefer speed. The second thing is all the mechanics on hit, like Impale, CoC, LGOH, every proc with % at hit/kill works better at high attack speed, even leech playing with slow attack speed between attacks can be killed because leech is too slow and works best at high attack speed, the only option that works is overleech from Slayer. Listing further we have low pool of skills, 2h have much less skills in the pool than 1h and strike thats suck so hard, which is sad. I think the dual wield bonus is too strong and more attack phisical damage should be removed from the dual and thrown within 2h, 2h is weapon to make strong hits. After that, I love melee in games and I always try to put something under melee and you know what is annoying, that more than half of melee skills must be converted to some element and that any physical skill can be converted to elemental but the game does not allow the conversion of the element to physical which closes when it comes to pure physical melee more than half the skills.

hu yea I hate that many melee skills have conversion to elemental. Why not "elem gained" instead.