"GGG Hates Melee" well now we have EMPIRICAL PROOF that GGG has an Anti-Melee bias

How bold of you to assume that there is a melee guy to be locked up. I am fairly convinced they just don't give a damn, none of them, at least not the people with any say in the matter. From a melee perspective this whole transgem rework is a really bad joke. Lost tons of power for basically no gain.

in the grand scheme of things , yes melee is in a tough spot

but undeniably for how little they fed us over the years this is a nice change in the right direction.

i agree with you folks that PoE 1 might not ever had a fix to stand side by side with spells or bow skills with 100000x arrows .

i fear this may remain in PoE 2 also.

it is easier to build flashy things that dont necessarily have to interact with anything as melee does.

in the short-term i feel like GGG gave us some nice toys to play with. and its cool


but to the thesis of this thread.

the EMPIRICAL PROOF has been there for a while . but yeah they just dont outright say it

all good bro, enjoy the spell/ranged meta for 16th league in a row, 90% of players enjoy it, so should you *wink*

Dual strike is actually badass now, ill be maining it on my lab runner.

while i do agree with op on the state of melee and the lack of fucks given by ggg, i'll be maining that eq of amplification and trying to scale that after shock to meme level. though tbh im doing it more cause i think it will be funny rather than effective. still expect it to be effective, mind.

at least now tec slam has some scaling factor in it. i like the skill but it had nothing to work with :)


and dual strike / earthquake good for memeing/bossing. so at least stuff to play with. will see in the long run.

and double strike impale looks like a buff for two hands.

so it s a bit a tangeant from op's post but there are stuff to do in there.

+1

I play melee because I'm bored of spell/projectile scaling but GGG hates me.

Buff warcries, get rid of totem bonuses (clunky af) and give us a 'mirage archer' support for melee so we can hit while moving.

It is a pretty simple fix but they want to keep torturing us with jank.

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PizzaDelivery420 wrote:

Its been clear for ages that GGG dont care about melee builds for some reason.

I cant even kill exarch with Flicker Strike because of those things on ground that apply -5% to max fire resist while his melee attack is 75% fire so I mostly just die to that.
If I wait for it or him to go away he will just roll me with his balls.

Bit sad that game is oriented just about Tornado shot.

GGG actually cares about melee, a huge lot.

thats why they took a huge lot of effort making melee good and impressive in poe2. unfortunately POE1 is no longer getting POE2's improvements.

so yea...

Earthshatter was my fauvorite skill in 3.13, they ruined it for me and speak now about poe 2, but when poe 2 will be working, my es build dont.

They do not think about the consequences and possible future, thinking that poe 2 will correct the mistakes of poe1.
Many people make expectations that everything will be ok later, but when they see dump from a stalker game, they will be gloomy

People just lack the creativity to make good melee builds. Mathil proves it with Cleave/Rage Vortex and Syno shows that slams are back on the menu. Not meaning to call anyone out in this thread but maybe you can take some inspiration from that for your next build(s) if you are interested in playing melee in 3.23