lvl 28 melee builds

What are some of the "mainstream" melee builds out there for lvl 28 pvp?

I know the flicker maras are popular with Geoffrey's maul and your facebreaker builds

Im making a sword and board templar using heavy strike, whirling blades, flicker strike and tempest shield

Im at 1.6k life so far with mediocre gear and 800 dps with a 4 linked on my heavy strike

How does that compare to say a facebreaker build? Who has the best Melee vs melee LLD char on standard?

hit me up for a melee vs melee duel :)

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your best chance of taking out a facebreaker with another melee character, probably your only chance is phys crit sword, or elemental sword. This is in regards to 1 vs 1 pvp. Things change alot when its 3v3 and more builds become viable since crowd control effects come into play as well as glass cannons becoming more functional.

My facebreaker maxs out around 5k dps. I usually have around 3500 dps when I am using tankier and more balanced gear. My hp is also around 1500-1800 depending on how I gear.

The reason I say sword is one of the best for 1 vs 1 is, you can use shield and stack block and tanky nodes while penetrating your opponents block by 45% within 3 nodes. This reduces a enemys defense drastically while at the same time u get 18% phys damage within those 3 nodes, and they are next to crit nodes u would want too.

sword builds also stomp everything else by a mile. There are some low life casters that will give u a run for your money depending on how they play, but u asked about melee so thats another subject.

also geofris users are laughable in 1 vs 1. Pretty much anything 2 handed is nonviable because of the power of perandus shield and shields in general.

how does your facebreaker build get so much dps and hp?

Also how important is resolute technique? Is the chance to hit good enough without it?

i currently have the best 1v1 character on standard

try get a double physical/ele sword
wakes are strongest
crest is over powered
1h -block nodes is probably the strongest mara build
facebreakers are usually better unless you get good gear, but are easy to beat because of their restricted playstyle
resolute technique is not important.. although bonus attack rating helps
heavy strike is the best 1v1 because of the knock back
es/life builds are tankier than pure life
don't bother with crit builds unless you try melee witch or caster shadow


800 dps is low, try boosting your weapon elemental damage %
1.6k hp is the least you should aim for, anything above 1.7k is really good

heres my tree as it stands

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUABLMUTRmFGjgjTSSqNuk62EA2RHJKT03YUWBZ82UvZp5yqXzZgW-ExIx2kFWePKIAp4SplayqtPnAGuNq7DjwH_rS

thinking of speccing out of RT, getting a 5 link chest and using an additional accuracy gem on heavy strike then using those 3 nodes on weapon ele damage and an extra sword node, dropping a couple of the armour/es nodes and then aiming for that big sword node

so it will be:

heavy strike - added fire damage - stun - multistrike - additional accuracy

which isnt too bad on my mana

here is my revised tree:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUAAnEEsw0wErwUTRmFGjIaOCNNJKoyiTbpQDZEckpPUWBX4lnzZS9mnnflhMSQVaIAp4SplbMxtPnAGuNq7DjwH_rS

much better dps at the cost of some survivability, but gain regen and spell block

critique?

Pretty much you wanna have a balanced char. 800dps is pretty low so I would get rid of some life nodes and go for damage nodes.
If you are more of a physical dmg build don't use multistrike.
Multistrike for an elemental build is nice tho. Status ailments with double strike linked with multistrike seems to be insanely good.
Don't focus on one element tho. You can stack lightning resistance and fairgraves then shock builds are useless.
Crest of perandus is pretty OP for lld. 40% block 80 life and 7.5 life regen on a perfect one
But it has no resistance and only a little eva. So you gotta compensate.
In my experience its better to stack armor than eva. Energy shield based builds can be good, but you need some crazy ass gear to make it work well. Heavy strike on fast weapons is good. Run speed is very important to counter chill also run away and regen life/ let shock proc go away. Pretty much a standard/cheap build would be (physical ele mixed sword, crest of perandus, chest with armor and 60+health mods, helm with armor/life

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DutchRudder wrote:

heres my tree as it stands

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUABLMUTRmFGjgjTSSqNuk62EA2RHJKT03YUWBZ82UvZp5yqXzZgW-ExIx2kFWePKIAp4SplayqtPnAGuNq7DjwH_rS

thinking of speccing out of RT, getting a 5 link chest and using an additional accuracy gem on heavy strike then using those 3 nodes on weapon ele damage and an extra sword node, dropping a couple of the armour/es nodes and then aiming for that big sword node

so it will be:

heavy strike - added fire damage - stun - multistrike - additional accuracy

which isnt too bad on my mana

here is my revised tree:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUAAnEEsw0wErwUTRmFGjIaOCNNJKoyiTbpQDZEckpPUWBX4lnzZS9mnnflhMSQVaIAp4SplbMxtPnAGuNq7DjwH_rS

much better dps at the cost of some survivability, but gain regen and spell block

critique?

I would switch out multistrike witg wep ele dmg.
Reason being is heavy strike has Knockback so you with one swing you will ok nock enemy back and not even hit them one the extra attacks. Losing dmg effectiveness for no reason really.

yh. what everyone said here is pree much right
however, i think u shud look into what skills u wanna use first b4 plannin ur passive tree/revamping it
reason bein is that ur skill tree shud reflect the skills ure aiming to use for ur build, not the other way
knockback is definately one of the strongest cc currently ingame imo
reason bein is because there is no way to counter it, and with high attack speed, u pree much spend half ur time walkin towards them to try to land a hit
however, as good as heavy strike is, there are some other skills u can use instead and get the knokcback effects tru flasks
keep in mind tho that knockbacks do have some disadvantages
their strong points is against other melee characters and in enclosed areas
however, if ure goin against a ranger or caster, they can somewhat negate the knockback but melees have flicker strike also so : (
but yh. try to pick which skills u want to make the most out of first b4 u create ur skill tree
and most importantly, look at the gear u have and put it on a lvl28 char of the same class as ur newbuild
u gotta make sure u have enuf attributes to support the shit