End game defenses

I have big expirience of playing melee chars, tryed many different builds for ranger and duelist based on swords 1h and 2h. While this game have chaos damage, CI or toons of hp is best defence, also block and eva very helpfull, DR is nice option for lvling but do nothing at endgame, resist must be capped soon as posible. If u play melee character with fast atacks u must have lot of lifeleech, 5+% amulet and warlord mark cuese must needed options and lifeleech support gem if u havent luck with roll amulet, 3-5% lifeleech 1h wepon save ur character better then any shield. Phys damage weapons>ele damage weapon if u play that way. Forgot about any defence mods on ur gear expect hp, stun recovery and resists, if u want play melee char.
Item that have 1500 armor or eva but have no hp worser than item with 80 hp and 400 armor\evasion.
Screen of defence tab in my curent melee ranger.

In order to survive you must stuck (by priority):
1. Life
2. Resistances
3. Armour
4. Life regeneration
I have tested life+life regen+resists Marauder on hardcore and I was able almost easly get to the 3 difficulties and died because of lack of armour. I wanted to build a full defence Marauder which uses shield and one-handed mace, but I saw that he's not so effective as Marauder with two-handed mace, because of the lack of damage. Damage which I received usind shield and one-handed mace while I killing monsters was more than damage which I recieved when I used two-handed weapon.
I tried to build damage Duelist and Shadow builds, but they worked only for first 2 difficulties. I remeber that I even couldn't kill reworked Oak with my Shadow on the second difficulity.
My Maradure was more effective than my melee damage builds that use dual-wield.

I wish that not only HP builds was able to survive all the dificulties, but other too (like armour+resists, evasion+damage etc).

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ykyshaeq a écrit :

I have big expirience of playing melee chars, tryed many different builds for ranger and duelist based on swords 1h and 2h. While this game have chaos damage, CI or toons of hp is best defence, also block and eva very helpfull, DR is nice option for lvling but do nothing at endgame, resist must be capped soon as posible. If u play melee character with fast atacks u must have lot of lifeleech, 5+% amulet and warlord mark cuese must needed options and lifeleech support gem if u havent luck with roll amulet, 3-5% lifeleech 1h wepon save ur character better then any shield. Phys damage weapons>ele damage weapon if u play that way. Forgot about any defence mods on ur gear expect hp, stun recovery and resists, if u want play melee char.
Item that have 1500 armor or eva but have no hp worser than item with 80 hp and 400 armor\evasion.
Screen of defence tab in my curent melee ranger.

I agree with the life leech part. Playing a 2hd sword duelist and I had to respec a bunch of points in life passives and had to start using warlords mark to even have a chance of staying alive in merciless act 2. Once I got a good life/mana leech going though I almost never have to use flasks.

Oh I'm level 61 as well with around 2.2k HP