Melee VS Spell build

[K]

It's just me or spell oriented builds are much superior than melee? Basic attacks are wack and doesn't justitify invest in physical power, all spells you will ever use scales a lot with your spell damage and are stronger than physical damage from the beginning, and mid game you can get a lot of spell damage from V Blood recipes. Anyone managed to have a full physical late game build? I really loved Slashers :(

[theworld]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOuO4lWojk

[K]

Originally posted by theworld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOuO4lWojk

Not bad for PvE. I also kinda of enjoy slashers because of PvE but that build would be worthless in PvP. Also, it is very very dependent of rogue blood.

[theworld]

I don't think it is.

You can go Brute and swap the blood dash into Unholy dash for +25% damage and be okay with DPS and healing. Honestly, if all he does is spam the basic attack I can even see Brute being better.

Not to mention that using only Slashers is weird - E is wasted most of the time, since it can only buy time on bosses, and is mostly good when you're in 2nd phase and 1v2. In 1st and 3rd phase having Reaper on switch to cast E would add massive damage.

[navystylz]

The only thing you really need to do to make your spells strong is have scholar blood. You can then just invest in your physical using the physical shard. I think people just need the control of kite blasting with magic. It's easier for them than having to get in close.

[[CULT] Siren]

i do both my self. some of the bosses i can get in close landa few hard hitting melee then jump back and hit em with some chaos ♥♥♥♥ for just as hard or slightly less damage but the DOT damage makes up for it

[Harris]

Spell builds are indeed superior, because all your spells (even those that got nothing to do with damage) as well as your ultimates scale off spell power. With shard buffs, witch potion and blood key as well as scholar 100% I have 75.8 spell power, which means crimson aegis gave whopping 151 shield.

Spells give you incredible dps, aoe and, crtiically, sustain. Meanwhile melee is vulnerable, not that viable against many of the bosses and is less consistent overall (for example, I don't always hit with blood dash, so my sustain isn't that strong). Also, healing on kill sounds strong, right until you face a single strong enemy without adds.