How can anyone play melee?
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Life, armor, and resists. The only time I've died to Desync on my Glacial Hammer Scion was in Maps, surrounded by 4 Rares of those bone dinosaur things with massive crits. I leap slammed away and got desynced back into the pack and died.
Otherwise my leech and tankiness negates all attempts to take down my lady. IGN: Caessa_Undying - 4 FPS Immersive Rain 4 Lyfe!
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" I don't 1 shot mobs, and I don't facetank them. There exists a fine line between running into the middle of a pack of mobs and hiding behind doorways Skirt the edge of the pack, keep moving, don't run into pillars/tree's/doorways and use (un)common sense no facetanking, no 1 shotting, no desync death Never said it shouldn't be fixed but it's not a big issue IGN: OldManBalls (Warbands)
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" I'm doing dual wield melee axes build because I picked up a Wings of Entropy on my Witch. So 39% right now with 49% once I finish getting to level 60. Which I'd be at if I could take back all of the desync related deaths I've suffered in Merciless. Aside from Piety and Dominus, I can only recall dying twice all this entire Merciless run that wasn't desync related. Its just extremely frustrating for me that platform stability issues are causing such problems for my ability to actually play the game. |
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"This morning I have died three times due to desyncing. That is 30% of my level. A good half hour of time lost because the server cannot keep up with things." Self found meleer here to be honest I might get desynced one or two times out of 3 hours playing. If happen to have it that bad you may want to look at other causes of desync other than it's the server. Stuff like are you using wifi, open task manager up while the game is running go to the performance tab is your cpu and memory use peg up. If desync was really that bad for you there were other things going on in the back ground.
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I find melee to be a lot more powerful right now than anything else, due to being able to max out block and life. As for desync, you can't do much. I use /oos, but that won't stop it all the time.
If I can make it to 93 without dying and doing every map boss other than Dominus, solo, then it seems it is a good option. I'm not some master of PoE, that's my point. If I can do it, you certainly can too. It just takes some getting used to, and some practice. Try /oos, and play cautiously. Current IGN: TheBearerOfLight
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I can afk my melee just about anywhere, come back and he just be sitting there while 8 guys attack him. Block Chance + Life regen. Perandus until you can afford an aegis. Way easier than sporkin ever was.
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" Use ablities that dont require targeting, preferably with shift-attack. Why do you think Reave, Spectral Throw, Lightning Strike, Cyclone and Flicker Strike are so popular? Sorry there, but tossing AoE left and right, or using homing skills like Flicker is the only good way to manage desync (when mobs arent where you see them). IGN: MortalKombat
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" ikr lol |
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positioning and mobility are very important for any melee build. You dont need uber gear or 10k health like alot of the baddies say. You just need to do more than smash your face on the keyboard.
fight packs of monsters on your terms not thiers. funnel them though doorways, seperate them, or whatever else you can think of to give you an advantage. If you are looking for facetanking builds though you are gonna need alot of gear and a lot of time to trade for it. |
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