Balance

Balance is hard we ALL know this, we heard Chris say it, but that's character strength balance. How about play style balance? nothing crazy but a slam build needs to smash like 8 buttons or so now and be in harms way more where as a caster cast like 2 from a safe distance. I've played ever dam build there is and has been, it seems like but slams! Been wanting to slam for a while. When they first came out I tried em they sucked!! So man was I a happy camper when I saw the reveal. But now after a crap ton of theory building for hrs they STILL look just clunky and funky to play. Especially VS a caster build. I will start a slam but if its bait im done until PoE2 comes out.

Gotta say I don't like warcries and how they work either.

When it looked like you just picked one and done that was better. Stacking warcries offers so much benefit though it was always necessary to have multiples.

Now? Now you'll have minimum 3 wacries as a melee user. Ideally more. I never did more than 3 though. Even knowing it gimped damage.

Could it be fixed? Sure. But I think it's just going to be choice. Some people are willing to put up with a lot of annoyance to get a little more damage. Some won't.

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Now you'll have minimum 3 wacries as a melee user

What?


So apart from the 3 popular slam builds coming out (GS, EQ, ES). Heres a list of melee builds NOT using cries or a single cry.


Frostblades, LS, MS


Lacerate, Flicker, Dual strike, Shield crush, Sweep

Single Cry:
Gorathas Glacial hammer. 1 cry, ancestral.
Rues SST. 1 cry, enduring cry.
Bonezone. 1 cry, ancestral.



So apart from 3 builds that are coming out, every OTHER melee build either has 0 cries or a single one.