Melee characters done right:

So for anyone sick of caster builds, wanting to play out a melee character here are good builds!

My 100% favorite melee build (so far, i still haven’t tried everything) is the Infinity spearazon!

I think Infinity spearazon is great because she can kill anything (with a sunder charm), has great single target damage and aoe effects, isn’t overly complicated to play, she’s really fast, and fairly tanky. She’s sorta expensive, you need an Infinity in a +3 elite

Spear base, probably a griffons and Enigma, but … yea end game stuff is expensive.

If you have a great melee build, post a quick description here!

Key skills, gear and play style!

Like

Charged Strike or like

Fend?
I tried both and

Charged Strike one felt way more fun and enjoyable tbch.

The most melee you can get while activating more than 2 neurons at the same time is the furydruid. Only you are the mastermind behind how "hard" (read inconvenient) you make it for yourself.

No

Teleport? Check.

BO, BC needing human form? Check.

Metamorphosis needing form swaps? Check.
(Bonus points for swapping to

Jalal's Mane after)

Hurricane every 50s recast? Check.

Cyclone Armor every other instant? Check.

Juggling

Feral Rage on top? Check!

At least three endgane weapons of choice, each with a specific area/targets to excel at? Checks all around!

Looking absolutely badass in

Sacred Armor (forti) and a pelt of your choosing in the char selection screen with a monstrous two-handed polearm, hammer or axe? Megacheck!!!

Queegon wrote: 2 years ago

Looking absolutely badass in

Sacred Armor (forti) and a pelt of your choosing in the char selection screen with a monstrous two-handed polearm, hammer or axe? Megacheck!!!

The bear paw on the shoulder of the

Sacred Armor is the best looking, but the shiny metal armor looks too paladin to me. It seems more appropriate something cheap and leathery like

Wire Fleece for a druid, gives a more shabby look combined with a wooden

Thunder Maul. Really gives a straight-out-of-the-woods Beast appearance

I have a Strafezon, Infinity Spearzon (respec from Javazon which I didn't really like), Maulbear (converted from Fury Druid to try and ended up with great pleasure),

Double Throw Barb (got bored from WW Trav horker so respecced), Zealer. Almost all of them are more satisfactory than casters.

Loved Fury druid, loved my

Frenzy - zealot was okay, would you do the infity jav with +light DMG charms? Always wondered what they were good for. My jav throwing zone is poking half of the time so I guess how it would play different.

I’d save the lightning damage charms for a tesladin, or a sorc tesladin.

By-the-by anyone ever made a

Frenzy barb with Grief in the main hand and Passion in the off-hand?
Seems like you could get your attack speed up super high with

Frenzy then up it even more using

Zeal?!

Didn't realize this was a question for everyone... Haha Nate never cease to amaze!
Anyway, I would definitely love to add a build or two that was for me a very neat balance between pure non-caster and physical melee:

No.1 is definitely Fire Bear

No. 2 would still be Cold Ranger Paladin (with Ice) had so much fun with him

Before D2R Druid was my the most played class always but I never ever tried SS. Not so long ago when I finally decided to see what SS is all about, it genuinely massively surprised me (in a positive way) and I kinda loved experimenting with it.