How do people play Casters in this game ?

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twittypoopcraft wrote:

I have tried it several times now and have failed catastrophically with each attempt.

I mean with melee/attack builds you can easily just face-tank a whole screen without worrying about anything with very little skill involved.

But with caster, you have all these additional concerns like mana pool, stun disruption, lack of stun immunity, lack of close range defence, wind-up time on spells and gearing in general.

I may be wrong but the philosophy behind caster playstyle as I see it is to be inherently squishy, but do massive damage to account for that- though I can't even get the superior damage component out of these types of builds. So I'm left with an extremely volatile character with anaemic damage.

One other aspect that still eludes me is that attack builds have loads of flexibility and so are typically very forgiving to play. You don't need to follow a build closely at all to get a viable character, whereas all the caster builds I try have to be followed to the letter and rely on very specific items, And also seem to require the most investment.

I just wanted to make this thread in part because I feel so defeated having failed again and also to pay respects to those that succeed in playing casters. My hats off to you guys, sincerely. I have never had any issues playing attack characters, even as a noob, but caster for me is infinitely harder, almost to the point it seems impossible.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

It's honestly evident at this point. Both the first Maven and the first Sirus kill this league was done by melees. In all the SSF HC races last year, melee was a top contender or even outright won it. Anyone claiming melee is bad at this point is either clueless or ignores reality on purpose.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Well, i would consider myself an average Joe and honestly, unless you pick the worst melee skills available, i don't see the problem with scaling. You might lag behind slightly in a league start situation due to having to upgrade your weapons all the time but that's basically it. You can do tier 16 100% delirium maps using 10 c unique weapons easily.

To me it seems people talk like they are comparing spells with melee when they in fact compare Heavy Strike or Cleave with Blade Vortex and Bladeblast.

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gageris wrote:

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Well, i would consider myself an average Joe and honestly, unless you pick the worst melee skills available, i don't see the problem with scaling. You might lag behind slightly in a league start situation due to having to upgrade your weapons all the time but that's basically it. You can do tier 16 100% delirium maps using 10 c unique weapons easily.

To me it seems people talk like they are comparing spells with melee when they in fact compare Heavy Strike or Cleave with Blade Vortex and Bladeblast.

Can we really say that cyclone, which covers full screen, is a melee skill?