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Melee Marauder with 17k armor here, it's A LOT easier even tho I lost ~600hp and a couple of resist. This patch is awesome! Tech guy	Posted by Warrax#2850 on Jun 6, 2013, 9:47:38 AM Quote this Post
" thedestroyerofkids wrote: " Islidox wrote: Similar experience. Took my dual-wield Ranger and specced a good portion of points into the duelist highways for damage than the Templar highway. Lost 1k HP (4.5k to 3.5k HP) and gained 2k+ DPS. Tried doing a Lunaris run, and the lvl 67 mobs are swiping chunks off my life unlike anything I've seen before. And Kole? I used to tank him like a boss. Now, I can get nearly one-shotted. Needless to say, I'm going to round a few mroe regret orbs and just respec out of damage because it isn't worth it. Life is more important than ever before for melee characters. And about Kole, I used to be able to facetank his ass really well since i use a blind support gem in my cleave. I had high enough HP that i could survive one of his attacks getting through even though he is blinded. Now, I must run like a little girl because he still hits just as hard, I have less HP so i cant even survive one big hit, and blind doesnt seem to be working at all. GG guess its time for us all to roll FP. enfeeble is your friend. This + blind. I assume most ppl dont use the enfeeble curse, which takes away 30% of the mobs dmg......this is such a huge number, I dont wanna miss it anymore. Mobs are now onehit anyways. So no need for any dmg curse.	Posted by WUlf1337#0866 on Jun 6, 2013, 9:51:43 AM Quote this Post
Dual Claw, CI, GR Shadow. I seem to be doing a lot better now. Really loving the changes to the 'Raker' section of the Shadow tree. Last edited by decoyed#7468 on Jun 6, 2013, 9:59:04 AM	Posted by decoyed#7468 on Jun 6, 2013, 9:55:55 AM Quote this Post
My dps went up, my survivability went down the drain, i got twice as many health nodes, and half the life. shit patch. Until melee actually gets BUFFED instead of NERFED, i wont play. Good job chasing away players, potential costumers, and free mouth to mouth advertsing. The game was great, melee just needed a better damage reduction buff and/or life buff, this patch just destroyed melee even more.	Posted by Eleziel#6315 on Jun 6, 2013, 10:50:08 AM Quote this Post
i think some people are playing it wrong. which isn't a surprise. i wanna try leveling from normal to the end game and see Last edited by Dudebag#0222 on Jun 6, 2013, 11:12:17 AM	Posted by Dudebag#0222 on Jun 6, 2013, 11:09:49 AM Quote this Post
Guys i think we are playing a different game.As a CI dagger i was what u call a glass cannon.High DPS but very fragile.After the patch my flickerstrike went up from 56k to 82.6K and mobs where dealing WAY less damage.I cant talk about kole and piety cause i killed them in a second but definetely rare mobs on barracks/lunaris are dealing LESS damage to me https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/417287 - Poutsos Flicker Nuke Shadow	Posted by Poutsos#0458 on Jun 6, 2013, 11:33:24 AM Quote this Post
" SL4Y3R wrote: " xenogias wrote: This post makes me sad. I decided to stop playing the game a couple months ago till they fixed melee. Saw what they planned on doing with the 4 month race plus their ideas on "fixing" melee and was happy. I'll still give the 4month a try but if it feels the same (or heaven forbid worse) I'll probably just uninstall PoE at this point and that's a hard pill to swallow. The game has so much potential if GGG could just manage to balance things better. I do hate saying this, but "Give em time". It's not entirely easy to balance a game where each class can do what the others can. This. As I said pre patch, even if the results aren't perfect right off the bat, they're doing things right this time -- changing the meta in a more controllable manner, allowing them to better diagnose where the issues are after the change (as opposed to the mess that was v0.10, where too many thins were changed at once and resulting balance issues could not be easily attributed to any one thing). This is a step in the right direction. Devolving Wilds Land “T, Sacrifice Devolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card and reveal it. Then shuffle your library.”	Posted by CanHasPants#3515 on Jun 6, 2013, 12:13:12 PM Quote this Post
" WUlf1337 wrote: " thedestroyerofkids wrote: " Islidox wrote: Similar experience. Took my dual-wield Ranger and specced a good portion of points into the duelist highways for damage than the Templar highway. Lost 1k HP (4.5k to 3.5k HP) and gained 2k+ DPS. Tried doing a Lunaris run, and the lvl 67 mobs are swiping chunks off my life unlike anything I've seen before. And Kole? I used to tank him like a boss. Now, I can get nearly one-shotted. Needless to say, I'm going to round a few mroe regret orbs and just respec out of damage because it isn't worth it. Life is more important than ever before for melee characters. And about Kole, I used to be able to facetank his ass really well since i use a blind support gem in my cleave. I had high enough HP that i could survive one of his attacks getting through even though he is blinded. Now, I must run like a little girl because he still hits just as hard, I have less HP so i cant even survive one big hit, and blind doesnt seem to be working at all. GG guess its time for us all to roll FP. enfeeble is your friend. This + blind. I assume most ppl dont use the enfeeble curse, which takes away 30% of the mobs dmg......this is such a huge number, I dont wanna miss it anymore. Mobs are now onehit anyways. So no need for any dmg curse. I had Enfeeble up + Granite flask going. After respeccing into more life, taking on Kole was more comfortable, but not like pre-patch. Hard hits will still bypass armor, making life all the more important. For Ranger build tips, tactics, and critiques, visit this thread: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/69224	Posted by Islidox#7754 on Jun 6, 2013, 1:15:06 PM Quote this Post
Actually, it makes AR all the more important. Not life. Before, being able get enough AR to survive large hits was nigh impossible. Now it is actually quite possible to do so. Just takes some gear and AR nodes. Life nodes don't add that much EHP	Posted by SL4Y3R#7487 on Jun 6, 2013, 1:42:20 PM Banned Quote this Post
The damage feels better,but somethings are still needing a look,especially rhoas charge and bosses damage(Chatters nearly pwned me while standard mobs do little damage and even if they can hit my AR/evasion duelists,perhaps just nerfing bosses damage a little while increasing mobs a little would do the trick with less hp).	Posted by avaro#5777 on Jun 6, 2013, 1:53:27 PM Quote this Post