melee class with magic

If i want to roll a melee style class that can use some burst magic attacks which class would be best?

templar/shadow?

Want it like a WoW DK.

Thanks!

It's hard to get a hybrid build working, but yeah, templar or shadow are probably your best bet.

Unfortunately that type of build usually doesn't work very well, as most builds maximize power by going all in on one or two abilities. (Of both melee or both magic) This is just how the passive tree is setup...You don't have enough points to split between magic and melee, so if you use both one is probably going to be very weak.

Low life witch using double:

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for good drops while you play. Elemental hit for main melee attack which destroys bosses so quick, and then ethereal knives to 1-hit all the whites. Almost level 50, not sure what I'll do once the two swords stop scaling so well into endgame... It's been an awesome ride but, probably my favourite/second favourite character yet.

see thats my only issues with this game.


you can have so many diffrent build combos but some just dont work end game at all.

Man, I know that feel.. When I first fought the rogue exile Eoin Greyfur, I really wanted to make a build based off of that, so..

Glacial Hammer (Single Target)
Cold Snap (AoE, CC) (easily THE coolest fucking skill with hand grasp MTX)
Cyclone (Heavy AoE)

64 levels later in merciless difficulty, killing stuff takes fucking forever.. I specced into cold damage (I thought it would be enough to buff both GH and CS) and health nodes.. Dont have enough passives to get enough crit chance to be able to spam Cold Snap, my spell damage sucks, my melee damage sucks my defenses suck.

I really wanna play a glacial hammer / cold snap templar, so thinking now.. maybe go downwards from templar area and stack strength+melee crit, to build up power charges with melee attacks then use cold snap linked with Iron Will..? But meh, thats probably not gonna work either, as I need way to much accuracy to make melee viable, while also needing loads of crit for cold snap, and not to forget all them health nodes + defensive nodes I need..

Easier to just go pure physical with resolute technique and spam Lightning Strike all day everyday...

Whoops, @OP, nah man, hybrids aint worth a fuck.

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HannibalK1ng wrote:

see thats my only issues with this game.


you can have so many diffrent build combos but some just dont work end game at all.

You could do something like Dual Strike or Double Strike depending on dual wielding and then EK for AoE since it does physical damage but is considered to be a spell. This way increasing physical damage benefits both. A Shadow would be the easiest for this.

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Without_Pause wrote:

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HannibalK1ng wrote:

see thats my only issues with this game.


you can have so many diffrent build combos but some just dont work end game at all.

You could do something like Dual Strike or Double Strike depending on dual wielding and then EK for AoE since it does physical damage but is considered to be a spell. This way increasing physical damage benefits both. A Shadow would be the easiest for this.

There are no 'increased physical damage' nodes on the tree that affect both EK and weapon attacks.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

There are no 'increased physical damage' nodes on the tree that affect both EK and weapon attacks.

Sorry about that. You could still use EK as a utility skill(Life Gain on Hit/Blind) or use Lightning Strike as a way to use your weapon to cast lighting in an area so to speak.

Life gain on hit doesn't work with spells :P