nice melee buffs

Is ggg really ok with those half arsed melee buffs? A couple 15% damage boosts to mechanically flawed skills, and only a slight nerf to earthquake? With the Voidheart nerf, melee builds are probably losing DPS with this patch. IMO this was the most lazy way to buff melee, they could've at least reworked name locking or adding some new abilities to skills, but instead we got some lousy damage buffs. Thoughts?

Reave got buffed, all aboard the vaal reave train.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Any and all buffs to melee are going to fall flat until namelocking is adressed, period.

The "nerf" to earthquake can hardly be called a nerf in the first place, so its still going to be the only thing used.

Dont forget monster life buff too... Wouldn't that also be a buff to volatile?

What a time to be alive in 2016

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Cataca a écrit :

Any and all buffs to melee are going to fall flat until namelocking is adressed, period.

The "nerf" to earthquake can hardly be called a nerf in the first place, so its still going to be the only thing used.

EQ got triple nerfed.

- more multiplier

- AOE

- 10% aoe from slayer

So now you forced to travel to AOE nodes or get int + aoe gem to compensate, which directly hurts dps + defense scaling.

@Dethklok

no, volatile blood is based on main damage of the mob, not it's health.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Cataca a écrit :

Any and all buffs to melee are going to fall flat until namelocking is adressed, period.

The "nerf" to earthquake can hardly be called a nerf in the first place, so its still going to be the only thing used.

Or at least add some sort of AoE function to some skills. Like a cone area, or a radius around the attack. Forcing people to use Melee Splash is stupid.

Sad part is that even with those area buffs, they wouldn't put namelocking skills even near Earthquake.

Maybe we can get away with calling blade vortex melee?

It's physical damage, right? And your like, totally in melee range.

Yeay melee got a 63% more damage buff!



oh man, so many giggles.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Boem a écrit :

Maybe we can get away with calling blade vortex melee?

It's physical damage, right? And your like, totally in melee range.

Yeay melee got a 63% more damage buff!

Spoiler

mind -> blown

oh man, so many giggles.

Peace,

-Boem-

Well, pathfinder blade vortex, a tank build, now gets 815k dps while mapping, so I guess melee is better than ranged now

'More melee damage'

That's it... pathetic.