Looking for low APM melee builds...

Is this a thing?

I have some wrist problems, and generally have started to switch fingers/hands to play games like this along with hitting the gym.

That said, I love this game... and desire to play this game lots and lots. I usually full clear everything and spend 250+ divs most leagues.

What melee builds would you suggest that have very low APM? I usually play SRS which is click every now and then and run around to let everything die.

Thanks!

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Surandra wrote:

Is this a thing?

I have some wrist problems, and generally have started to switch fingers/hands to play games like this along with hitting the gym.

That said, I love this game... and desire to play this game lots and lots. I usually full clear everything and spend 250+ divs most leagues.

What melee builds would you suggest that have very low APM? I usually play SRS which is click every now and then and run around to let everything die.

Thanks!

Shockwave Slayer, can go strength stacking for endgame.

Melee builds will anyway struggle, even this league.

The changes will benefit strength, accuracy or any kind of stacker more than pure melee builds. Melee builds are still tied to the tree and weapons, stackers aren't. They scale much better.

Dont you know. The new melee meta is to hammer the keyboard repeatedly in hopes that your retaliation skill is procced and ready to smash.

smite armor stacker.

The ultimate low APM skill gotta be Earthquake of Amplification

You can't go lower than that, surely. :D

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H3rB1985 wrote:

Shockwave Slayer, can go strength stacking for endgame.

I second this. Despite what people think, Shockwave Cyclone can actually be scaled pretty far (60-100 mill DPS), and those numbers should be reachable this league. And the build is probably the least button-heavy melee build there is; you press and hold one button.

If holding down right click counts as one action, then Flicker Strike can clear most of a dense map in one action, sometimes. No need to aim, or walk. At least until you need to loot. I don't think it gets any lower APM than that, aside from lightning warp or minions.

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Phrazz wrote:

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H3rB1985 wrote:

Shockwave Slayer, can go strength stacking for endgame.

I second this. Despite what people think, Shockwave Cyclone can actually be scaled pretty far (60-100 mill DPS), and those numbers should be reachable this league. And the build is probably the least button-heavy melee build there is; you press and hold one button.

Cyclone really? lmao going to be a great meme.

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Phrazz wrote:

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H3rB1985 wrote:

Shockwave Slayer, can go strength stacking for endgame.

I second this. Despite what people think, Shockwave Cyclone can actually be scaled pretty far (60-100 mill DPS), and those numbers should be reachable this league. And the build is probably the least button-heavy melee build there is; you press and hold one button.

Any guide on how to scale it well? Would really like to start with a shockwave cyclone slayer, but in my testing it just doesn't seem like single target dps will be there later in the game.

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shishkabob wrote:

Any guide on how to scale it well? Would really like to start with a shockwave cyclone slayer, but in my testing it just doesn't seem like single target dps will be there later in the game.

I watched this random video from a random guy the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnzxlCt_wXI&t=3s

Have no idea who it is, but he goes pretty in-depth, and shows you different ways of doing/building Cyclone at different stages in the game. The last example has way better gear than I'll probably be able to get, but he pushes the DPS beyond 60 mill.

Anyhow, crit staves have been the way to build Cyclone for several leagues. And as I see it, there are two main ways to scale your damage (besides a good staff and crit):

1) Very good clusters
2) Impale (which also got a buff this league).

Cyclone will not be the best, fastest or most popular melee skill this league. It will probably never be a very good boss skill, and hasn't been since Delirium. But Cyclone did get a noticeable buff (it doubled the effectiveness of damage, but lost the flat phys). Shockwave also got a very noticeable buff, and the shockwave damage/DPS is of course not calculated in the Cyclone DPS in PoB, so you have to add it to the total damage.

What Cyclone excels at, is being a very comfy mapper, which seems to be what the OP is asking for.

Edit: Going Hollow Palm is of course also an options, and maybe the best way to scale damage. Hollow Palm is probably also buffed this league because of all the buffed dual wield block nodes and Versatile Combatant.