Melee changes in Necropolis?

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Aynix wrote:

You are upset it las ts 6-10 seconds while you can hit once every 6-10 seconds and keep it up all the time? How the hell you play this game to not be able to keep 6 second buff that refreshes every time you hit?

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mnieradko wrote:

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Rework those damn melee totems to not be mandatory buff sticks and melee will feel great. Thats all what it needs.

That's about 1% of the scale of the current melee problem. Based on the combat design and the near zero defensive tools offered to melee gem tag players, melee players are so faaaaaaaaaaaar behind defensively that the POE community is truly delusional about it.

Fortify gives 20% hit damage reduction for 5-10 seconds? Assuming you hit something enough before you are deleted by *insert elemental/chaos barrage here likely from offscreen* ? How about:

- Fortify is baked as a proc into every melee gem tag skill
- Therefore Fortify gem support is removed
- Fortify grants 20% reduction to both hits and dots/degen of all damage types
- Fortify effect is increased to 40% if you are facing the enemy as they are rearranging your face
- Fortify also grants some spell suppression and spell block, subject to tuning

Many people in this post continue to be completely oblivious about the defensive side of things in the gross imbalance present. Having dangerous situations in melee is fine IF the game provides the proper tools, and the player knows how to use those tools effectively, AND those tools don't require an insane currency investment (relative to the average caster or bow or ranged build).

You can't just with a straight face say that the defensive "tools" for a melee archetype in an ARPG are:

1) don't get near melee range
2) don't stand still

The logic there is equivalent to telling a deadeye ranger to drop their bow and go hug the boss in melee.

I played D3 for a while and the 30% passive DR baked into the barb, monk, crusader classes was OK but a lazy method that could be done far better in POE, and no I don't mean playing more melee keyboard piano like the whole warcry abomination currently present.

POE prides itself on "we don't want to lock you into a certain playstyle based on class", so the defensive support needs to be provided through the melee gems themselves and/or certain uniques or rare implicit modifiers that clearly will ONLY benefit a melee range playstyle.

At best POE provides some passive defensive tools through certain ascendancies like jugg and champ, which is why those melee ascendancies dominate, but even they get deleted all the time because they actually want to feel like a melee archetype in an ARPG. Therefore, those defensive ascendancy bonuses are also grossly inadequate.

And everything I just said is 100x worse in POE2 based on recent streamer melee playthroughs. At this point one can only assume this is the intended path and melee gameplay is one big in-house joke of "ya whatever include it in the game, but we don't care really."

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Ivanovv83 wrote:

Melee could be buffed by 300% in all skill gems and Still will be inferior to most ranged skills .

Imagine what garbage it is atm...

Most 1divine ranged builds deal more dps or even far more than mirror gear melee builds.

At this point im pretty sure all ggg devs are high on drugs..

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Ivanovv83 wrote:

Melee could be buffed by 300% in all skill gems and Still will be inferior to most ranged skills .

Imagine what garbage it is atm...

Most 1divine ranged builds deal more dps or even far more than mirror gear melee builds.

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Aynix wrote:

My dude, game is not balanced around delve depth 1000. If you have problem that ONLY appears in those extreme situations, its on player to fix those problems (or deal with them). People are suprised GGG never reacts to those threads but why would they react when people list such ridiculus "problems"?

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Sameen_Shaw wrote:

Your ignorance shows in almost every post.

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Sameen_Shaw wrote:

You ignore SSF, HC and new players with scuffed builds. Yet GGG claims the game is best experience in SSF

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Sameen_Shaw wrote:

You ignore SSF, HC and new players with scuffed builds. Yet GGG claims the game is best experience in SSF, so your opinion about the game balanced around mapping in trade environment is absolutely worthless.