Nerfs to casters are fine and warranted, but how about some buffs to melee?
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Especially in the early game/campaign, melee (especially on warrior) is rough. No good access to AoE, weapons upgrades are hard to find/craft, Trials (Honor Loss) disproportionally effects melee, bosses are tuned to be anti-melee more than anti-ranged...
GGG promised that they fixed melee in this new game so I was going to give them a chance, but damn, it's still pretty horrendous. Last bumped on Dec 12, 2024, 4:56:23 PM
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I got a warrior build can 3 strikes kill act3 boss.
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I think how well a warrior performs can be dependent on gear/builds but leveling for sure is a bit painful for a new player, most skills are not impactful enough and mace strike usually out performs while leveling
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I am really enjoying the game...that said....warrior in particular feels rough to level til you can kill a boss in 5 seconds a dozen ways. Could use some help early.
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" That's great, but it is more than likely entirely gear dependent. Sure, Warrior is decent after I crafted a weapon that had 200-280 damage at Level 38, but before I was using a weapon that did 70-120 and was struggling with pretty much any skill. Further, it doesn't solve the problem of long cast times/animations on Warrior AoE skills making it impossible to play anything that's not basic mace swing when fighting hordes of mobs, the garbage honor design in trials for Ascendencies, and that bosses are designed to attack melee characters more than ranged ones. |
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" The end using of 70-120 damage weapon was painful. |
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Just buy a leveling weapon for 1ex, stop playing SSF in tradecore.
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" The fact that Warriors are super weapon dependent is only one issue -> the design of the entire game that favors ranged over melee is the real problem. |
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" Casters are as well with the introduction of +level to gems up to an insane +3 for even sub level 30 staffs. And again, you can probably find a +2/3 staff with your element and nearly 100% inc damage for a single ex right now, infact lets look. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/aDzP738ue And heres 2h maces https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/Yr48kVgUY Playing tradecore and not using the tools you have available and complaining is just retarded. Play SSF and at least I could call you a masochist instead. Last edited by BossOfThisGym#2062 on Dec 12, 2024, 4:57:22 PM
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