(New to POE) 741 hours in today (1st project=gut wrenching combat)

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you spam button hoggers will use it for eavelilller... more more more more morm eo mroemroe.

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Fruz wrote:

If you want a melee-like character that can allow you do to most content, Gladiator could be a good choice I think, block is powerful, you could take any 1h weapon and any skill and could go somewhere with it.
It can get pretty tanky and use on block mechanics, which I find pretty cool.

You can get amazing gloves for clear speed on gladiator too ( Haemophilia ).

If you want something more exotic ... that would be from the other side of the three imo, but then it's more difficult, and you can do pretty much anything you want.



If I misunderstood the topic, then mb.

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鬼殺し wrote:

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nanophobe wrote:

Just give a more melee fight feel.

I feel your pain. I've been here since close to the beginning and melee has just declined the whole way. Not necessarily in terms of build viability but in terms of feel, as you put it. I just don't think it's a particularly high priority for the devs when a standard meta-game build is clearing a screen at a time with a click or two. How do you even approach 'melee' when your game has reached that level of disconnect?

Simple: you don't. You apply the tag 'melee' to skills that are, very optimistically, sort-of-melee and very, very effective, so that no one can complain that melee is 'broken' or 'pointless'. But after all this and all this feedback, I've decided it's just not worth discussing anymore. There are other games out there more rigorously built for visceral melee combat. Even within the ARPG genre, although the game I consider the pinnacle for great ARPG melee combat is still in alpha/beta, and there's every chance those devs might drop the ball too.

That said, the revised Elemental Hit is a pretty damn good melee skill. Built in close-quarters AoE, innate damage scaling so you don't have to burn many passive points on weapon damage, excellent status ailment secondary effects...my top character this league is a melee Elementalist with EHit.

But once she gets rolling, even she's clearing packs with a single click and it's only melee because she's wielding two swords and swinging them to initiate the massacre. Once that happens, I get bored and start a new character. I'm infamous for this approach, because 'melee' as I define it just falls off around level 70-75 or so. If your build isn't vapourising crowds by then, you're really pushing shit uphill naked in the snow both ways.