Melee is bad, Monk is worse

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Brzlmo#0565 wrote:

in the end its a symptom of annoying design flaws that seem to be most apparent early on with this class

end of Act 2 is such a horrible experience. I crafted the highest dps staff possible at for my level, fairly high resistances and evasion, kitted him with gear I farmed with the 6 other characters I have, runes, highest lvl skill gems possible, got my first ascension. I even switched my build to meta and still there are is so many flaws in encounter and level design, it just fuses into a pile of bs.

for example
- enemy range attacks just passing through obstacles while mine get blocked
- killing palm not hitting 50% of the time because a vase is between me and an enemy
- essential skills like killing blow or staggering blow getting interupted, leaving you exposed, damaged and without charges to hit back. triple punishment, how fun...
- low damage and defenses despite using best items possible at the time
- enemies respawning after death is the icing on the cake of feeling like rolling a boulder up a hill. let us go back and kill the fricking group of monsters that just killed us! in D2 I can retry a tough mob that might have a tough constellation of modifiers and adds, you can learn from it and get accomplishment of overcoming.

the safe way seems to hang back and using glacial cascade ad infinitum. as soon as you try to use the mechanics the game gives you have to endure so much punishment just to get to the point to being able to dish out some damage. attack wind ups and palm strikes are so slow it leaves you with 1/3 life left before you even land 1 big attack. you either have to use a shield or go full ES which honestly SUCKS and destroys melee archetypes on a fundamental level. it feels so horrible playing melee that switching to a ranged class is like playing a totally different game all together. that should make you think at least a little bit.

here you have to slog through all new mobs AGAIN, destroying all sense of accomplishment and punishing you on top of the punishment. this game is full of anti fun mechanics like this, the honour system, exp loss on death, maps only allow 1 life etc.

if you want a slower, methodical and precise gameplay experience you need to finetune the systems a lot, cause its PoE 1.5 at the moment and I don`t want that tbh

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drkekyll#1294 wrote:

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Brzlmo#0565 wrote:

there`s a thing called class phantasy or archetypes. for example best melee build is wearing a dress and using ES instead of life. I rather not play the game then do that. if witch is a better melee class than monk or warrior there is something seriously wrong with your game.

palm strike teleports me in alright but misses all the time, gets interrupted or blocked by a vase :D. also rolling doesn`t make you invulnerable, no chance doing that without getting hit a bunch in tight corridors.

lol you're defensive, aren't you? no one claimed witch was better. i was just pointing out that your assumption that his witch wasn't melee because it's a witch was wrong. chill, dude.

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Bowtye#7246 wrote:

I respectfully disagree. I am playing Monk on hardcore and find it one of the easier, and most fun, classes to play.

If your gear and skills are truly as good as you stated, then you could either be:
1) not using the correct skills at the right time in fights
2) don't jive with the playstyle

#2 is highly likely. I find the Merc/Crossbow playstyle horrendous but my good friend loves it and is thriving with it. This doesn't mean Merc/Crossbows are bad in general, just means I don't play well with them, and that is OK.

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Brzlmo#0565 wrote:

you are pretty bad at reading people, I am super chill. play your psycho games with someone else please

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drkekyll#1294 wrote:

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Brzlmo#0565 wrote:

you are pretty bad at reading people, I am super chill. play your psycho games with someone else please

lol k bud. if you were super chill, you wouldn't jump to conclusions about what people say because you're too busy looking to double down on your response. but tell yourself whatever you need to.

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WarUchiha#6314 wrote:

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drkekyll#1294 wrote:

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Brzlmo#0565 wrote:

you are pretty bad at reading people, I am super chill. play your psycho games with someone else please

lol k bud. if you were super chill, you wouldn't jump to conclusions about what people say because you're too busy looking to double down on your response. but tell yourself whatever you need to.

you're the only one being so aggressive here attacking him instead of his opinion.