ok, gave it solid effort. Lvled from 1 to 40,
Why would you spend stuff on ES helmets while leveling?! All you need is a good weapon(s). You only gamble to get that, especially if you play slowly and outlevel content, gold gambling always gives you your level items.
because i didnt have a helmet and were missing some resistances? This is ssf, what would I spend stuff on otherwise?
You use crafting table to give yourself needed resistances while leveling..
Crafting table gives exact results for few alts. Buying shit takes longer. And I wonder if anyone even bothers now with selling anything for 1 Alch. Now everyone is rushing to maps so they can start farming.
I personally didn't craft anything (apart from league mechanic) before I was done with the campaign (and farmed needed trans-gems), not really worth doing it unless you play hardcore. Also, it seems the ship loot is highly rolled (i've yet to see items with lower than t4 rolls), so it's actually very useful especially if you get lucky with the new base types of gear.
You're not buying leveling uniques for 1 alch at league start, and after league start nobody is going to bother selling you 1 alch items.
Melee sucks like always. It was a trap.
Seems best way to tank is still to not get hit and if you do get hit get as much Converts Physical into X element gear. Being "Tanky" armor based character still sucks.
In the previous league there were unavoidable extra mods like "mobs fire 10 extra projectiles" / "mobs have 90% ele res" / "mobs have 1200% extra life" / "mobs penentrate X res"/ "mobs have 90% attack speed", so the current league is very tame in this respect. Also, they've nerfed T17 maps by 30% damage and 50% hp, so it should be much easier now (i didn't feel comfortable in T17s on both my zhp barrage ballista / IS deadeye or pretty tanky poison holy relic necro until I got 30M+ dps (probably won't be easily achieved now because there is no harvest 2.0 to pump out all-T1 items).
Neither of these are close to melee, or even "melee".
Most of those mods were removed in this patch
Zizaran said you can still get like 75% of physical converted into Elemental damage.
With holy relic you have to stand in the mobs to receive the damage buff and to proc aegis as often as possible. In any case, melee chars probably had it worse (not as bad as deadeye though with zero ehp and miniscule recovery from life on hit)
Do you need to craft your awesome two handed melee weapon that is worth few divinations (without counting 6L) just to be able to clear red maps? And still are too slow to dodge anything while attacking.
No idea about trade, but it's definitely more achievable than getting Dialla dropped or Covenant dropped in SSF (got them only once in basically three months of almost daily farming). Also, if your build can't clear red maps with bad gear, maybe it needs some tweaking (I screwed up with DD last league and had the same problem, still no idea what I've done wrong, boss dps was like 100k or less, i think)
AG is a cursed thing, a few days before 3.25 started I was trying div card farming with the scarab that got deleted, popped in 'back to basics' and went to the Ziggurat map (new T17). Cleared the map, then I've entered the boss room (and I thought mods were fine, just 'bosses get random shrine buffs), bursted Katarina to the first lich phase, he spawned and immediately deleted AG (which had doppelganger, decent gloves, was res capped etc), golem and all my relics in a second. Simply poof and they are gone, lol.
I have not reached end game yet with my current melee slam guy but I've been reading comments from many that did and they are not happy with two handed slam, even Juggs. They either die too much or do bad damage.
The melee buff was obviously for enemies :D
I'm not yet in red maps but I can tell you that new glad is very tanky as of right now at least. I don't think I have ever had this shitty gear at this point of the game and yet with just res cap, block/spell block cap(which is very easy to get) and a bit of suppression I'm facetanking most things. The only problem are dots but those can be fixed in various ways.
