Just sharing

I really hate trying to manage stacking enough armour, resists and life in order to survive as a melee character. Its expensive and cuts into being able to afford damage stats making gameplay feel very slow.

That led me to these two builds.

Spirit efficiency/life stacking: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/uvdut0o3

And life overflow/life stacking + spirit efficiency: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/8ee8q0le

The first of the two I have played with some changes because Im a poor boy and cant afford some of the gear so I run titans blood and a 2 hander (i lose a little over 1k max life because of this but maintain decent damage). The damage screenwipes on t15 fully juiced maps, map bosses drop in a hammer + 2 sunders (better gear or setting up a weapon set 1/2 and a hammer would 1 shot them). The only weakness is that it is a bit squishy unless you can afford a strong 1 hand weapon so you dont have to sacrifice max life with titans blood to keep your damage relevant.

My actual titan for gear comparison: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/zakular-1879/character/Odinson_Thor

After playing with that I came up with the overflow build which I think would be slightly less damage but a fair bit more tanky and a little cheaper to build.

Just sharing for anyone else who loves melee.

Comments

silversurfer022•5 months ago•2

Don't get it. You have +60 all res from your chest and shield yet use veil to waste all that. If you simply not wear veil you would be at 20% all res already. Wearing a rare helmet would easily get you to 50% all res, which doubles your ehp vs elemental instead of just the 50% from veil, not to mention you also get a lot of extra life/armor/es from the rare helmet. So the only benefit of veil seems to be some extra spirit efficiency. But looking at your spirit buffs you are running stuff like elemental conflux, which only ever affects one of your three heralds and doesn't do much for your mainly phys melee attacks. Seems like you just want to ignore res for the sake of it. Sure you can make it work but it is not optimal.

Shadilinn•5 months ago•1

Have you tried evasion based defences?

cori2996•5 months ago•1

You guys realize that melee does not just mean maces, yes?

I hear so many complaints about melee being terrible, yet melee spears are fine, quarterstaves are amazing, shapeshifting is fine.

It's just maces that suck. And yeah that is a problem in itself, especially when we still dont have swords and axes to switch to. Still just saying melee is worse than casters in poe2 is just blatantly not true.

cowrevengeJP•5 months ago•0

I had 12k es on like a 5ex budget. GG just hates melee.

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