2H melee skills ranking?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi guys,

TL;DR:
** - what 2H melee skills / builds are viable for Ultimate+? is it only Soldier? **
- 1H+Shield are on a level fo 2H dmg-wise?

What about Primal Strike , Fire Strike? And NightBlade BladeBurst / shadowstrike build?

I like charging into foes and smash them later :smiley:

Btw, EoR feels funny / clunky as I had a chance to fool around with it at a friendā€™s but somehow it feltā€¦off sometimesā€¦like not responsive a littleā€¦cant quite put my finger on it.

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Just look at the dragon build compendium for examples.

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OK, will do!

But what would be your personal opinion about best melee skills?

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2H melee would probably Blade Arc, wide aoe and many target.

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Top tier:
Blade Arc
Primal Strike

Medium tier:
Bone Harvest
Callidorā€™s Tempest
Forcewave
Eye of Reckoning
Savagery
Shadow Strike

Bot tier:
Cadence (has some lifesteal inconsistency issues due to high damage spread of 2Hs)
Righteous Fervor (on paper not worse than Savagery but Iā€™ve yet to see a good build like that)
Fire Strike (pretty much a beta version of Primal Strike)
Amarastaā€™s Blade Burst (needs strong modifiers, especially cdr one, to be viable).

Edit: after some consulting Savagery steers towards top tier while Forcewave steers towards bot tier at high end play. Funny because for non-highend play itā€™s opposite.

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RF with bone harvest is pretty good. In particular bonemonger oppressors

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thank you guys for the insights!
levelling 2h shaman atm
I tried / I am trying to acquire a taste for 2H ranged PS butā€¦somehow cannot
otoh 2h melee ps feels soooo goood
and the dmg output in melee weapons is ridiculously huge
lvl 94 MI melee dmg range starts whereā€¦lvl 94 MI PS gun damage range ends :frowning:

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Try and get yourself an Ugdenbog Sparkthrower.
It will make playing a ranged PS so much more fun.

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Just checked it out - good specs on the gun!

This makes me think - it could be a weapon swap actually and it might be (Shaman) one of the cases where I can actually make use of weapon swap button :wink:

I am going Arcanist as second mastery but after all since gun would be only a support weapon the loss of ranged expertise from Inquisitor will not be so impactful :wink:

cheers!