all around good guide but i wanna point out some crucial things you are missing and checked all pages no1 mentioned yet sadly
take these as just feedback or friendly crictism
first of all you have ZERO 0 stun resistance as melee char, its not accetpable in my book… you have no point in conversion on maiven part… is there any spesific reason why you didnt put even 1 point there, or w/e you really need to get some decent stun resist.
dont even try to enter valbury with this char, you will mostly get stunlocked to death and no your hp regen wont save you.
no points in lethal assault as melee cold spellbreaker? esp when you have 2.2k OA ? well i highly advice get at least 10 ptsi would max it, it gives huge OA + flat cold dmg is awesome and %cold and frostburn…
lethal assault is X5 more valuable then points you spent on elemental awekening
i dont think both nighfallss part and elemental awekening needs that much commitment as points… they are just decent where there are tons of more valuable points you can spend
elemental balance is way to good and simply sky rocket dps of this build… you should invest some points there imo
maybe some points or at least 1 pt in merciless reportoire??
overload on IEE is not worth points, not even 1 imo… its maybe 1 point wonder thats it
you might consider getting more points at least max on inner focus, you need more OA already… and more spirit is simply more cold dmg
for devotion, i am simply not a fan of tree of life even it gives 1000000 hp regeni mostly get it for energy regen, leviathan meanwhile 13 green 13 purple sux so hard is just so good to pass… just test it imo, i dont want to talk about devotion points since it really depends on player playstyle
you have no FLAT RR… this is also huge for build imo… any reason why you didnt get rhowans crown ? which is simply broken in this build or at least try black star of deceit… -30 cold RR to -75 cold RR has hugeee difference
not a fan of elemental balance rings either… but its proc is just way too cool so dont know i have tested and alkamos rings are again min X5 better… or band of eternal haunt for more cold rr, or simple high flat OA viloth mi rings
cronley rings etc
for medal, mark of dreams is plain trash sadly i would even get okish roll rare medal compare to that… but its your choice i find mark of dreams plain waste of slot
you have no physical resistance and armor absorb as melee char again pretty meh to me dont know mate.
i would continue if i had timeworking atm, i hope you can get some decent improvements on your build… its still working this way but my point is it can be better:)
ps: 35k dots is not that much, i have seen +50 60k dot ticks on my melee spellbreaker which has ZERO legendary items…
also another PS: tbh cold related items has WORST design and itemization in GD lol… nearly all cold dmg items you wanna wear will have 40 cold resist and simply nothing… its super hard to balance resist as cold char thx to GD uber duper legendary item itemization
Interesting feedback from Stoya. I’m not sure if KoalaeiO is still reading this, no replies for a few days.
One thing I was surprised at - I wasn’t really reading this as a melee character build (I can’t try the skills because they’re item-based and I don’t have access to the items).
I saw that the video shows the toon close to the enemies but I thought the orange/blue swirl was doing the damage i.e. as a caster - so he was only close to the enemies because… he could be, because he wasn’t in danger.
So maybe there was some hacking and slashing going on that I didn’t see.
BTW I also saw that the health bar drops to about 50% now and again - is the refill due to using pots or is it skills causing that? Pneumatic Burst maybe?
the orange blue swirl you saw is proc of elemental balance set rings
well melee spellbreaker is not tankiest char in game ofc, your hp drops and goes up quite often compare to other chars
he has tree of life proc and i guess behemoth it might be around 800 to 1.2k hp regen per second…
well w/e its so so hard to die with dw melee spellbreaker due to 4 sec pburst + mirror + blade barrier ofc unless you play poolry.
Just kidding man! your advices are very interesting and also we have to take into account that you are a great player and build maker! I love this build and I want to try your advices. Thanks!
I have to agree with zitro, you are kind of suggesting a totally different build feelgodstoya: taking Leviathan/ABB/Lethal Assault/Alkamos rings and dropping Tree of life/Nightfall/Elemental Awakening/Elemental Balance rings… but feel free to do so for yourself.
Now you say I have no flat resistance reduction, but I don’t know where you go that from. Sacred Strike hits with both weapon and one is socketed with Mark of Dreeg so it deals -28 to all resistances.
No physical resistance you are right, but whatever I have 30% dodge and 35% fumble so only ~half of the incoming damage does hurt.
I do believe RR on the caster off-hand does not affect the weapon anymore, but are you sure about a weapon with innate RR not stacking with Sacred Strike? After all, both RR (from %weapon damage and from the skill itself) are applied in one hit.
i have tested and alkamos rings are again min X5 better… or band of eternal haunt for more cold rr, or simple high flat OA viloth mi rings
i would even get okish roll rare medal compare to that… but its your choice i find mark of dreams plain waste of slot
