I suck at warrior - any advice?

[Quadsword]

As embarrassing as this is to admit, I suck so hard with the warrior that I died multiple times to the burrower. No, I'm not joking. Feel free to clown on me all you like, but I'm genuinely asking - what am I doing wrong? I feel like a lot of the time, my only choice is to just tank hits and out heal the enemy's attacks. I really don't like his first skill, the one that forces you forward in the direction you're facing and doesn't track the cursor when playing with WASD (I'm not changing it because click to move feels way too unnatural for me).

(Also, why am I not able to bind block to the left bumper when using a controller? The game will let me bind everything else to that button, just not block. It's really odd)

[Kashra Fall]

Odds are you're only using a club and shield if you're at the devourer. If that's the case, raise shield will negate a ton of the damage you'd be taking, even from the devourer (Not the red attacks.) Get bone shatter as early as you can, and watch enemies start to explode.

[WeaverDuck]

You might wanna try shield, hug him, dodge roll behind him on that green slam attack.
Shield is awesome.

[Drifter]

Put supports into the mace attack and bonk him, skills are kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ early as warrior, especially for single target.

[Jinx]

Try stun build up nodes + boneshatter with aftershock support for normal monsters. Use one hand mace + shield. Even 25% block make wonders. Upgrade your accuracy.
For single target perfect strike is perfect, great damage and burning dot.
Leap slam with holy descent and stun support can help you build up stun for boneshatter safely.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by Drifter:

Put supports into the mace attack and bonk him, skills are kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ early as warrior, especially for single target.

Skills are kind **** forever as a warrior tbh

[FlappyDappy]

get better gear. care less about sucking

[El Jabon]

warrior OP

[TwoTonTuna]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

As embarrassing as this is to admit, I suck so hard with the warrior that I died multiple times to the burrower. No, I'm not joking. Feel free to clown on me all you like, but I'm genuinely asking - what am I doing wrong? I feel like a lot of the time, my only choice is to just tank hits and out heal the enemy's attacks. I really don't like his first skill, the one that forces you forward in the direction you're facing and doesn't track the cursor when playing with WASD (I'm not changing it because click to move feels way too unnatural for me).

(Also, why am I not able to bind block to the left bumper when using a controller? The game will let me bind everything else to that button, just not block. It's really odd)

Here's my experience as a newbie low-level warrior that killed the burrower:

1: facehug + active block + basic melee
hugging the face of the boss will often prompt them to use a basic melee attack instead of a special aoe attack. active blocks will negate the damage of these basic attacks. your own basic melee attack is fast enough to get a strike in before you either block the next melee attack or dodge-roll out of the unblockable ones.

this method is slow and tedious, but it will get the job done over time. just remember to roll/run away when the boss starts winding up for big attacks.

2: reserve your heavy, slow attacks for when mobs are summoned
many bosses will eventually throw mobs at you, burrower included. they will often ease up on the heavy-hitting attacks when they do, so you should be free to execute a couple big attacks and combos.

[Jinx]

Also - you can use any weapon with any class. At the beginning of the game when you don't have support gems and many skills or good armor and shield - try use something ranged - bow, crossbow, staff or wand.

[RollerPig]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

As embarrassing as this is to admit, I suck so hard with the warrior that I died multiple times to the burrower. No, I'm not joking. Feel free to clown on me all you like, but I'm genuinely asking - what am I doing wrong? I feel like a lot of the time, my only choice is to just tank hits and out heal the enemy's attacks. I really don't like his first skill, the one that forces you forward in the direction you're facing and doesn't track the cursor when playing with WASD (I'm not changing it because click to move feels way too unnatural for me).

(Also, why am I not able to bind block to the left bumper when using a controller? The game will let me bind everything else to that button, just not block. It's really odd)

unfortunatley melee insanely suck in this game bro. re roll minion builds EZ mode or the mercenary or wind up hating the game

these forums have THE WORST community of egotistical people that will tell you git gud, try another build , you suck etc... mean while there running the most OP meta minion builds that are basically POE2 on cruise control

I loved Monk but it is simply too painful to play melee and im not even out of cruel act1.

I can kill stuff just fine but the punishing damage, scarcity of gear and crafting mats to increase resistances and skill and support gems gated behind enemy level and high level requirements means you cannout "out level" the content if your struggling until you can find gear

Good advice from twotontuna but it is still incredibly unforgiving =(

amazing base game... hopefully they'll make some major changes in the next year but I cant see melee ever competing with anything ranged with the current game mechanics

[jano el pajero]

get a 2 hander and use the basic attack

[Ray64]

I wonder if its the WASD scheme that is the problem, I still use the classic poe control scheme and don't have any problems with positioning and dodging and aiming.

I could see WASD scheme being better for ranged through but for melee? I don't see why it would be better.

[All Day I Dream About🪓]

It was some time ago and my warrior already in the maps, but if I remember correctly I just rolled around and used my shield a lot. That boss has some pretty obvious telegraphed attacks you can avoid/block. I also slammed the ground to create earthquakes which pretty much acts as a trap and triggers several seconds later given you plenty of time to gain some distance and still dish out some damage. You can also cancel attack mid animation with roll. With rolling slam skill I would trigger it a bit before reaching the target and with mouse you can absolutely control the direction of it by holding the button to which it’s assigned. Not sure what’s up with WASD but sounds like a bug. Boneshatter is a must for heavy stuns.

Warrior is a bit challenging in the beginning but he’s an absolute machine in the endgame. Earthquake aoe covers entire screen, sunder sends earth spikes off-screen killing stuff and Hammer of the Gods can pretty much delete any boss or rare. Just need to be patient with this class.

[Luckiernut]

Try to build up stun and then use a finisher

[Shade30Seven]

idk man I think this class is border line OP.
Maybe watch some videos of the worms patterns, or play with a friend, mercenary and witch are good starter classes, the are bye far the easiest fol level, sorc is to just firewall sparks!