My current character takes ages to kill bosses because he has to kite them across thermite mines. I would like to build a melee char. who can manage a straight-up fight. I’m guessing I need lots of life leech, but suggestions would be welcome. [NB. I don’t necessarily need a full build – just something like “try Soldier/X and have a good look at skill Y”.]
Fire Strike is presently ridiculous. Give it a try.
Demo/Nightblade works if you put points into Physique and have OA gear.
Demo/Soldier works if you have decent lifesteal/health regen gear.
Try Soldier/Demo and have a good look at Vindictive Flame.
Firestrike is only op if you take it to ultimate lvls, which is likely not possible with bad gear.
ret builds are probably the least gear intensive that is capable of facetanking and killing (most) bosses.
How are ret builds not gear intensive? They literally require gear to function.
Thanks, everyone!
ret = retaliation? How do you stay alive? I’m used to one melee hit from a boss putting me in serious trouble…
Yeah, ret would be retaliation. Staying alive usually comes from lowhealth procs on gear and considerable resists from gear. Also, your damage primarily comes from gear. So I’m fairly confused about that suggestion.
I can see that soldier/demo gets me a lot of damage output, but will I need to be lucky to find decent life leech gear? It is a safer bet than using ???/occultist and using sigil of consumption?
PS. I have found a death omen and a crimson spike. On the whole I strongly prefer not moving items between characters, but a.t.m. purples are so rare that I wouldn’t mind actually making use of them. If I have read ‘execution’ correctly it should slaughter bosses … ?
it needs gear but its easier to find than +skill gear to cap out firestrike subskills, which needs alot more legendaries.
ret gear can be done mostly with just blues.
survivability on a ret is easy because you naturally build for it in ur masteries. i mean you always have a shield on and menhirs bulwark etc defensive masteries/devotion tend to be linked to survivabiliy stats as well.
i wasn’t really refering to the items themselves
ret needs gear but its easier to find than +skill gear to cap out firestrike subskills, which needs alot more legendaries.
ret gear can be done mostly with just blues.
survivability on a ret is easy because you naturally build for it in ur masteries. i mean you always have a shield on and menhirs bulwark etc defensive masteries/devotion tend to be linked to survivabiliy stats as well.
i wasn’t really refering to the items themselves