Quick heads up: Melee is completely terrible.

Mace is just horrid. Stuns are weak. Skills are boring and take a lot of setup to make it work. Long-ass non-reducible (but debuffable with slows) attack animations don’t scale that well either.

And that’s not to mention the fact that the entire game seems to be set against melee:
1. Mobs explode or leave dot puddles all over the place on death
2. Boss mechanics include but not are limited to: shotgun projectiles, radius around themselves explosions, littering entire arena with projectiles and AoE puddles that you need to avoid and deal no damage while you’re at it and etc etc.
3. Trials that require you to avoid any and all damage. Really?..
4. Attacks targeting random enemies on the opposite side than you’re aiming. Often resulting in deaths that could be otherwise easily avoided.

Quarterstaff is a lot better because you can just freeze all the annoying stuff and more than double the free damage phases of mobs and bosses.

But mace my god… wtf were they thinking designing it?

Quick heads up: melee is great.

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Sandcubicle#5745 wrote:

Mace is just horrid. Stuns are weak.

And here I thought that most players will be able to at least make some most primitive builds like "monkey sees anything about stun, monkey picks it".

But no, doesn't seem like they can.

A build that simply obliterates any boss by stunlocking it at least twice while dealing heavy damage doesn't even require much setup, only a good weapon and titan ascendancy.

Apparently, it's STILL way too complex for certain players who claim "stuns are weak".

Go figure.

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just_dont#6539 wrote:

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Sandcubicle#5745 wrote:

Mace is just horrid. Stuns are weak.

And here I thought that most players will be able to at least make some most primitive builds like "monkey sees anything about stun, monkey picks it".

But no, doesn't seem like they can.

A build that simply obliterates any boss by stunlocking it at least twice while dealing heavy damage doesn't even require much setup, only a good weapon and titan ascendancy.

Apparently, it's STILL way too complex for certain players who claim "stuns are weak".

Go figure.

Imagine thinking stuns are great when you can’t even stunlock bosses when they’re in the middle of their animation. Imagine thinking stuns are great as opposed to say freeze. Imagine thinking stunning a boss twice is a great accomplishment when your skills take 2s+ to wind up. Imagine thinking everyone playing mace is a warrior with all the supports in passive and ascension trees that make maces better.

Please my dude, stop smoking that copium. It’s bad.

Hey Sand,

Have you tried to basic Mace Attack? The default skill? You can do a lot with that skill. It seems like it's useless because the auto attacks always are - but this one isn't. You can use this with aoe supports and stun entire packs in a couple of swings. Sometimes one, depending on your weapon.

Stun and boneshatter is a great combo.

Stampede is also awesome for stunning.

I'm in maps now and currently I am Stampede -> Boneshatter

Against hard mobs and uniques I am added Hammer of the Gods and Perfect Strike in rotation.

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KoSh9984#2725 wrote:

Hey Sand,

Have you tried to basic Mace Attack? The default skill? You can do a lot with that skill. It seems like it's useless because the auto attacks always are - but this one isn't. You can use this with aoe supports and stun entire packs in a couple of swings. Sometimes one, depending on your weapon.

Stun and boneshatter is a great combo.

Stampede is also awesome for stunning.

I'm in maps now and currently I am Stampede -> Boneshatter

Against hard mobs and uniques I am added Hammer of the Gods and Perfect Strike in rotation.

I’m well aware boneshatter is pretty good when clearing mobs. It’s pretty trash against bosses.

And basic attack then roll, repeat is literally the only thing that I could do against Act 2 boss when I played a melee mercenary. Everything else was taking too long to cast so I would take damage. Stun bar also took like legit 2 mins to fill up. 1000 dps felt more like 100 too.

Meanwhile, on monk I could just drop the boss with a couple of bell durations.

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Sandcubicle#5745 wrote:

Imagine thinking stuns are great when you can’t even stunlock bosses when they’re in the middle of their animation. Imagine thinking stuns are great as opposed to say freeze. Imagine thinking stunning a boss twice is a great accomplishment when your skills take 2s+ to wind up.

Imagine thinking something is bad because you're so bad at the game that you can't make even basic "do hits with big stun and damage" build. With the only available melee weapon that does big stun and damage.

I can't even comprehend someone can be this bad.

Melee is great, even 2h builds. Literally just build some stun and increased AoE and rolling slam through every pack and stunlock every boss. Extremely easy and tanky.

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just_dont#6539 wrote:

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Sandcubicle#5745 wrote:

Imagine thinking stuns are great when you can’t even stunlock bosses when they’re in the middle of their animation. Imagine thinking stuns are great as opposed to say freeze. Imagine thinking stunning a boss twice is a great accomplishment when your skills take 2s+ to wind up.

Imagine thinking something is bad because you're so bad at the game that you can't make even basic "do hits with big stun and damage" build.

Pretty much

I forget if I commented on this melee terrible thread but I’ll just say build issue again if I haven’t.



Yea no idea what they are going on about lol sounds like they just can’t a melee build so they think it’s bad

In maps as warrior and doing just fine with EQ.
Filling in the EQ delay with ES

I gotta say POE2s earth shatter is just so satisfying holy shit and I’m doing it with a 1h since I have a halfway decent 1h now.

I have a 2h but save it for bosses as it’s all over damage with it. The weapon swap trees makes this so chefs kiss it’s insane

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just_dont#6539 wrote:

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Sandcubicle#5745 wrote:

Imagine thinking stuns are great when you can’t even stunlock bosses when they’re in the middle of their animation. Imagine thinking stuns are great as opposed to say freeze. Imagine thinking stunning a boss twice is a great accomplishment when your skills take 2s+ to wind up.

Imagine thinking something is bad because you're so bad at the game that you can't make even basic "do hits with big stun and damage" build. With the only available melee weapon that does big stun and damage.

I can't even comprehend someone can be this bad.

I can’t even comprehend someone can be such an elitist. Want a medal or something for ‘figuring out’ the game that’s still in early access? No? Then piss off and let people share their feedback.