Thoughts on melee and hardcore?

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pneuma a écrit :

The safest "melee" builds are the ones that are not actually in melee range at all, only using melee weapons.

Sad but true!

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raics a écrit :

- And after playing this last mixed league as a melee I'd say the annoyance level is up there with the best. You have the distinct pleasure of having beyonders spawn right on top of you with some pretty nasty anti-melee tricks like 'poisonous tar' or 'unrighteous flamesurge'. I mean really, who designs this shit?

Exactly my thoughts with molten srike duelist in 1w HC, currently in a2 merciless and the level of annoyance has reached the threshold, where I consider not going further with this char

have no idea why they have penalized melee even further with this mods

I want game to be challenging and hard but I dont think that "challenging" has to mean "annoying"

Melee is great up to mid 70 maps. At that point the spike damage starts to get pretty high and the most common way for people to deal with it is to be out of range. Which is no easy task for a melee char. It is certainly not impossible to progress past that as melee. I have seen blenders destroy high maps and atziri. I have seen builds face tanking every map boss. But it is much easier to progress late game as a ranged character. If you like playing HC and melee then go for it. I just cake walked through hc merc Dom with a 2h groundslamer but that char would struggle in mid maps. Still had a blast.

Edit: full disclosure, I stun locked Dom. :D