"best" melee leveling skill

Hello all

Havent played in a while but decided to try Nemesis but only thing i know for sure i want to level duelist so can someone recommend me a skill that has the smoothest/fastest leveling?

I think that at some point cyclone was number.1 but was nerfed like 10 times after that..?

Other two would be cleave and Lacerate but no idea how much each have been buffed/nerfed recently.

Personal choice. It really doesn't matter. You're not going to spend all that much time leveling, and the "power" isn't all that important. Go with whatever suits your fancy. Try something for the shits and giggles. It's not like you're not going to level.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3079573/page/1

Any slam + 2H weapon = easy brainless SSF into maps.

I like Smite.

Yeah Smite is powerful, no need to aim the target and it's like a ranged aoe attack, great with hollow palm technic.

Ground slam is pretty awesome

you are a brave man to level with melee

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Exxxiled665 wrote:

you are a brave man to level with melee

Maybe im just simple minded but i know im only going to make one character and in this case it's going to be duelist and i see duelist as a melee character so im going to use a melee skill lol

It's weird tho that duelist seems to be the best bow character, at least with what little iv been reading these forums.

That's simply because defense matters a lot in this game until it doesn't matter at all.

depends if you are right or left tree. The duelist starting steel skill is pretty good imho. Then spectral helix, I mean you put random heralds and added cold and it rekts stuff up to yellow maps it's ridiculous.