1h shield pointless for melee?

Hi all,

I keep trying to make 1h shield melee builds (cause I love them) but it seems their DPS is soooooooo terrible compared to dual wielding that it's pointless?

I have given up a maurader one and a gladiator one because by about lvl 45 I can't even dent a boss in incursion before I run out of time, and the survivability trade off isn't that great?

My dual weild champ just does soooo much more damage without that much of a drop in survivability.

Am I missing something or doing something wrong here?

My builds are pretty standard stuff, Here is an example of a gladiator one I tried and gave up on because it was so slow

https://poeplanner.com/AA0AANkADSQDAGm5HRXsivDEgrCrvqdlTb02R36E2S_MwYJNRmLshO_awXTtBS1670CgRrfTb8C_qZUM96yvMk4Eh4-ZIWBEnlO7dPGPYG8nAdx346lueWjBBF8_FCDvDlBH5FEaPvIvfuJ5OenVns3SIfJBggfZfBRx-OvqGPcyfNl2rM9-891oZcAabzt4DbXyNZLYvf4KZFJOMhfhJvgTTMGj4mEwd1n-GNumjXVOZfByqayqWfMaOJBVJy862DKJd-VX4oKb7SDhc6IABLPAZvAfaPJyD5RvZlQAAAAAAA==

any thoughts or hints?

Cheers

1h melee and sheild is meant for defence? Can’t expect big deeps

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Dafii wrote:

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1h melee and sheild is meant for defence? Can’t expect big deeps

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Hey dude, thanks so much for giving me a sensible reply, I'm gonna try this build out.

Cheers