Lets talk.

As the game progresses from patch to patch, things only get worse. The loot is bad, the game continues with poorly calculated and underdeveloped mechanics; technically, the game is awful, with constant crashes and freezing.

There are so many bad and poorly developed things that I'm really losing the will to keep playing, and look, I played thousands of hours. I played little of this league because the mechanics are bad, in addition to the reports of exploits and an inflated economy. I did what I wanted in the league and left.

But speaking of the standard mode itself, I've noticed for a while now that this game interrupts combat against bosses a lot, to an exaggerated degree. Situations that should take a maximum of seconds take minutes. The one-hit killing continues, and this is an indication of poor development and lack of creativity. There's an excessive number of maps with narrow passages, which isn't fun, and the game remains slow. Seriously... what's the point of listening to a boss talk for almost a minute???

They created the druid, and I must say I liked the wolf, playing pure melee (which is how you should play a wolf), very good damage and relatively good passives. But the druid is still another character that suffers from the problem of all melee or ranged characters in the game: lack of HP, defenses, and efficiency. And again, I will continue repeating this point until I die, or until you finally understand: a melee character with low health is not effective, and I want to play with a minimum of balance and stability in my toon; I don't want to play the way you think is right.

In general, melee in PoE2 remains bad because the devs still haven't understood, or perhaps don't even know, what a melee character is and how to play it. No defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient. Gameplay isn't just about damage; I don't like playing with glass cannons.

The manipulation of gameplay and character evolution went wrong in Diablo 3. Standardization doesn't work in ARPGs because this category is about variety, and what you intend is to have control, which is why this game has tons of penalties. And soon someone will come here and remove this post because of negative comments. You are causing people to give up on this game in an astonishing way because your ideas are bad. You're not impressing anyone because the rarest thing in this game isn't Mirror of Kalandra, but rather you getting something right in this game.

It's disheartening and surreal what you're doing to this game.

Melee doesnt lack defense

People that build no defenses as melee have no defense.


Health isnt their only defense.

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

Melee doesnt lack defense

People that build no defenses as melee have no defense.


Health isnt their only defense.

i have 77% armor and caped res... 3200 ES and 2400 life all this on druid. chaos res is 75%.

again, a weird reply.



To further illustrate the absurdity of your comment: if life isn't another form of defense for melee combat with other means, what would it be for?.

Extra mana, perhaps?.

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

Melee doesnt lack defense

People that build no defenses as melee have no defense.


Health isnt their only defense.

i have 77% armor and caped res... 3200 ES and 2400 life all this on druid. chaos res is 75%.

again, a weird reply.



To further illustrate the absurdity of your comment: if life isn't another form of defense for melee combat with other means, what would it be for?.

Extra mana, perhaps?.

Your reply shows how much you understand defense.

"big number go boom" doesnt mean anything. 77% armour is not much defense, and then your hybrid ES/life is pretty small as well.


Your message

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In general, melee in PoE2 remains bad because the devs still haven't understood, or perhaps don't even know, what a melee character is and how to play it. No defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient.

This statement is probably true specifically for you, but its not true in the general sense by any stretch.

When you dont build or layer your defenses, your character will feel squishy.

I can tell you I have less health put together than your life and ES and my character is about 40x more tankier than what you just posted.

Hybrid defenses on gears for giga juiced endgame maps is a noob trap, you either go all-in into a defense stat from gears then add on another layer by your passive skill tree or asdendancy. Tried wolf build Armour/ES but it feels super squishy without pouring tons of currency to make it work. Swapped into new buff witch hunter sorcery ward, go full EV on gears, full EV gears with insane stats are dirt cheap, now I have 22k EV rating(66%) and a pseudo ES of 5k. Never died again unless it’s because running with HH buff teleport you into a mob and instant stunned.

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

Melee doesnt lack defense

People that build no defenses as melee have no defense.


Health isnt their only defense.

i have 77% armor and caped res... 3200 ES and 2400 life all this on druid. chaos res is 75%.

again, a weird reply.



To further illustrate the absurdity of your comment: if life isn't another form of defense for melee combat with other means, what would it be for?.

Extra mana, perhaps?.

Your reply shows how much you understand defense.

"big number go boom" doesnt mean anything. 77% armour is not much defense, and then your hybrid ES/life is pretty small as well.


Your message

"

In general, melee in PoE2 remains bad because the devs still haven't understood, or perhaps don't even know, what a melee character is and how to play it. No defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient.

This statement is probably true specifically for you, but its not true in the general sense by any stretch.

When you dont build or layer your defenses, your character will feel squishy.

I can tell you I have less health put together than your life and ES and my character is about 40x more tankier than what you just posted.

you just talk. You have a habit of saying nothing constructive or useful and always try to belittle and ridicule other players.
You are incapable of debating because you have zero knowledge, and if you've learned anything in this game, it's all from watching exploiters and YouTubers.

Have more respect for other people's opinions.

Everything you said is nonsense. And I really want to make that very clear.

I just leveled up to 95 with my druid. You're still here bluffing .

All you're looking for in this forum is to say: "I'm the best." I'll delete my account if your druid beat a T3 Simulacrum like mine.


yea boy... try it and get toasted xD.

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XxxPssySlayerxxX#5201 wrote:

Hybrid defenses on gears for giga juiced endgame maps is a noob trap, you either go all-in into a defense stat from gears then add on another layer by your passive skill tree or asdendancy. Tried wolf build Armour/ES but it feels super squishy without pouring tons of currency to make it work. Swapped into new buff witch hunter sorcery ward, go full EV on gears, full EV gears with insane stats are dirt cheap, now I have 22k EV rating(66%) and a pseudo ES of 5k. Never died again unless it’s because running with HH buff teleport you into a mob and instant stunned.

tyvm for reply.

i spent on my druid also, and am using HH with 22% armor. my toon do no get 1 hit killing, but the toon could be far better if HP max life and armor get improved, melee is not to do 2 or 3 hit and run aeay or dodge roll every time monster prepear a hit. i have an excellent char, What I'm questioning is the way these developers interpret melee characters and their mechanics.

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

You are incapable of debating because you have zero knowledge, and if you've learned anything in this game, it's all from watching exploiters and YouTubers.

Have more respect for other people's opinions.

Everything you said is nonsense. And I really want to make that very clear.

I just leveled up to 95 with my druid. You're still here bluffing .

All you're looking for in this forum is to say: "I'm the best." I'll delete my account if your druid beat a T3 Simulacrum like mine.


yea boy... try it and get toasted xD.

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

In general, melee in PoE2 remains bad because the devs still haven't understood, or perhaps don't even know, what a melee character is and how to play it. No defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient.

You have no idea what melee is capable of.

T3 simulacrum ? You think thats impressive? Is that your metric for whats hard in this game? And what will test a character? Lol




This isnt ridicule, this is correction. For you.

You have no idea what you are talking about when you say "no defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient"



Try a pen map, with added damage as extra element, -max res and stand in a boss slam. And tell me how that goes.

Ill survive.

Your character wont.

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

You are incapable of debating because you have zero knowledge, and if you've learned anything in this game, it's all from watching exploiters and YouTubers.

Have more respect for other people's opinions.

Everything you said is nonsense. And I really want to make that very clear.

I just leveled up to 95 with my druid. You're still here bluffing .

All you're looking for in this forum is to say: "I'm the best." I'll delete my account if your druid beat a T3 Simulacrum like mine.


yea boy... try it and get toasted xD.

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

In general, melee in PoE2 remains bad because the devs still haven't understood, or perhaps don't even know, what a melee character is and how to play it. No defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient.

Spoiler

You have no idea what melee is capable of.

T3 simulacrum ? You think thats impressive? Is that your metric for whats hard in this game? And what will test a character? Lol




This isnt ridicule, this is correction. For you.

You have no idea what you are talking about when you say "no defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient"



Try a pen map, with added damage as extra element, -max res and stand in a boss slam. And tell me how that goes.

Ill survive.

Your character wont.

you are ignored.

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

You are incapable of debating because you have zero knowledge, and if you've learned anything in this game, it's all from watching exploiters and YouTubers.

Have more respect for other people's opinions.

Everything you said is nonsense. And I really want to make that very clear.

I just leveled up to 95 with my druid. You're still here bluffing .

All you're looking for in this forum is to say: "I'm the best." I'll delete my account if your druid beat a T3 Simulacrum like mine.


yea boy... try it and get toasted xD.

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

In general, melee in PoE2 remains bad because the devs still haven't understood, or perhaps don't even know, what a melee character is and how to play it. No defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient.

Spoiler

You have no idea what melee is capable of.

T3 simulacrum ? You think thats impressive? Is that your metric for whats hard in this game? And what will test a character? Lol




This isnt ridicule, this is correction. For you.

You have no idea what you are talking about when you say "no defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient"



Try a pen map, with added damage as extra element, -max res and stand in a boss slam. And tell me how that goes.

Ill survive.

Your character wont.

you are ignored.

Nice disengage from conversation when you get proven wrong. As well as your accusations.



Advice to you OP.


Learn a bit more about the game before trying to definitively say something wrong like

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Kaiserblade42#2817 wrote:

In general, melee in PoE2 remains bad because the devs still haven't understood, or perhaps don't even know, what a melee character is and how to play it. No defensive resource that a melee character uses in this game is efficient.

Learn or try something else. Melee doesnt have defensive problems. Just the ones you made do.