Melee is pretty crap to level

[Maddawg]

The 1 flask even with regen charges and some decent gear for lvl 14 ..game play just is not fun at all..bosses are terrible for melee..can beat them but just not fun. Anyone else not enjoying melee?

[AtmanB]

my friend is melting bosses on warrior. Check your support gems and create a valid strategy.

[Delta]

I had to drastically change my strategy to make it work.. I'm doing sword and shield now and it's a ton more viable.

[cruzvilseck]

nope have fun on putrid wolf

[miki]

It feels like PoE ruthless with some gimmicks to me. I also felt a delay which made using the shield pretty useless.

[Gienah Corvi]

Glad I picked ranger, it's great so far.

[sgtkoolaid]

went from sword and board to 2hd as it was stupid to try to shield/block actively multiple mobs when its faster to just kill them. now knocking small mobs with 1 hit, some wolves with 1-2 and those poison tree things that explode in greewood in 3-4 ish. the loot drops suck though or else i have bad luck on drops for my class.
good luck killing devourer at lvl 3 with sword and board or even with a 2hd at that level.

[Malygos]

Originally posted by AtmanB:

my friend is melting bosses on warrior. Check your support gems and create a valid strategy.

Show us a video.

[Vespertellino]

Originally posted by Maddawg:

bosses are terrible for melee

You're kinda cringe
Bosses seem to be the best thing about poe 2 so far, even for melee
Learn to dodgeroll

[wulfster42]

Melee is harder but you can make it work. You don't have to only use 2handed or weapon/shield. You can switch back and forth with x, so if you are moving with wasd then it's very easy fast to hit x and switch.

Shield block...blocks everything, so switching can be useful, but your damage with a shield is paltry and it's a waste of skills. 2 handed with good supports destroys stuff, including large groups of stuff. Dodge roll is generally better than shield but sometimes there is a large aoe etc and block is all you can do.

If you are going warrior aim for the health regen (don't go down the side with armor though, get the damage and then go down from there to get the .9% max health regen per second). Get health and health regen on your equipment as well. High max health with plenty of health regen makes it MUCH easier to handle melee. The devourer can be done quite well with a 2 handed weapon, decent health regen and a good high damage skill with damage mods on it.

You also can just cheat and use a lightning staff and orb of storms, it destroys everything but isn't melee. It does make the early game super easy for any class though and lets you focus your nodes on defense initially (it's cheap to redo them later) .

[BlkTA]

Melee is absolute ♥♥♥♥, on bosses. There are simply no attack openings. Every animation that a boss seems to do will damage you in melee, mix in additional aoe and you'll simply be drained on the health pot. Rerolling the next time I play.

[Talimancer]

Stun is your friend. Also roll a lot.

[Zanaki]

It felt ok, until 100 enemies on screen started spamming needles at me and if I take any time to kill 1 group the other group melts me down..

Yeah, melee sucks, at least early.

[JayDeerTay]

I realized if you spam keys it auto cancels the skills, you cant play it like diablo. I was canceling many attacks.

[Decoys]

Just played warrior, and it feels really bad compared to the ranged classes. I don't think I'll ever play melee in this game if it's going to be that crap. This game does not seem melee friendly at all for leveling. I spend more time dodge rolling and blocking than attacking because the attacks are so slow. I salute anyone who has put up with the warrior experience, yall Gods amongst men.

[gungadin22000]

Doing fine as a giant 2-handed hammer warrior. My attack chain involves hitting an enemy ONCE, priming them for stun and then using boneshatter to clear half the screen of enemies. All my skillpoints are in survivability, mainly armour and I'm sorta rushing through levels without any issues. Only level 25 so far though.

Bosses take a little longer, but the dodge windows are very generous compared to a Fromsoft game so I'm also not having that hard a time here. Nearly all go down in 1 attempt.

I recommend checking the vendors in town every level. If you can get a decent 2hander, it will make progression a breeze.