Lighting damage is too powerfull against melee (I am noob)

I am a bad casual pvp player and I usually just enjoy running around sarn looking at people builds.

However each time I really tried to 1v1 a caster I always get 1-2 shot by Lighting spells like arc or from reflect tempest shield.

Seems "all" a caster have to do is crit shocking with light pen to insta-gib you.

It doesn't help this game have 0 elemental reflect items for Melee users. So Casters can Tempest shield, can reflect phy damages with curses or items, can use IC but the invers is not true.

I am asking advices of PVP players (I enjoy HLD), what do to with a melee when facing a lighting caster using tempest shield and shit like CWDT? Tried trap but seems very slow and weak.

I would also suggest the Dev to add elem reflect items in-game or Nerf big time the Pen gems.

TL/DR

I am a Noob melee and get 1 shot by arc.

Thing with lightning damage is that it has a really wide x-y, which means it either tickles or hurt a lot(however shotgun spells still do more i.e fireball and fp)

Ues BCR and slow hard hitting skills, lots of people don't think about it because the pve part of the game is focused on hitting as fast as possible wich tempest excel against. Some are also running added chaos on top it so check those chaos resists of yours.

A lot of spells hit really hard atm. You really need spell block/spell dodge to fight casters effectivly As melee.

Also if your being cursed with ele weakness and or conductivity you'll want to make sure your resists are over capped to 150 lightning resistance.

Last thing is flasks which can help raise your max resistance to reduce the effects of penetration gems. You have to be smart about usin you fasks Don't just spam them all the time. You have to pick the right time to use then.

Thanks for the advices.

After the block nerf and the addition of the block gems and block reduction on items, is it really useful to go block for a melee in pvp?

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lolozori wrote:

Thanks for the advices.

After the block nerf and the addition of the block gems and block reduction on items, is it really useful to go block for a melee in pvp?

I had good results with my duelist but you have to switch between shield most of the time to adapt the situation. My favorites are Perandus, Saefel and Raphtid Globe. You can probably do something with Aegis as well but it recquiere some special pathing.

thks,

Beta kind of scare me when I think about pvp balance XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re_H4tbqfsg
This for example look op.

Projectiles cannot shotgun anymore so most of the stuff on this video is not really dangerous with the exception of spark in small arenas.