playing close range melee endgame without Armor suck

playing melee in poe is not the best experience right now without a real heavy armor , is mind blowing how close range melee suck in poe and have no choice to turn melee in a aoe wanabe mage with stack up area to dont get touch , def armor life nod ect...all nerf , but on the other side you make sure energy shield is again broken op for range and caster , i think you just hate melee

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charley222#3935 wrote:

playing melee in poe is not the best experience right now without a real heavy armor , is mind blowing how close range melee suck in poe and have no choice to turn melee in a aoe wanabe mage with stack up area to dont get touch , def armor life nod ect...all nerf , but on the other side you make sure energy shield is again broken op for range and caster , i think you just hate melee

I think that even armor formula will not help you very much later on because it is not computed like resistance and it highly depends on how big the hit was. At least that's how I understand it.

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Puliver#7825 wrote:

I think that even armor formula will not help you very much later on because it is not computed like resistance and it highly depends on how big the hit was. At least that's how I understand it.

That's also my understanding. Unless GGG [radically] changes the functionality of armour AND also changes the armour formula so that there is a reasonable floor in the protection armor provides I don't see it being useful against large hits.

Pray your block is lucky or you see an attack coming in time to dodge roll out of the damage.

i know this about game mechanics this is not my issue

other monster hit hard but heavy armor is just not good vs hard hit


i drop heavy armor a longtime ago for cloak of flame with inferno clasp 90 fire resist with around 2900k life , i dont die in 1 hit but i die again very fast small hit , the time stampede get stuck :( vs the claw guy

i have np too have a slow class but without armor this is bad this really limited the gameplay

you need to touch before to get touch and die .this just boring to have stacking area build because the purpuse of heavy armor is useless

dont try to build a close range frenzy barb in poe lol r.i.p

i dont craft anymore always get garbage and also dont trade anymore the economy is screw

i guess i will reroll a other class