Machae Archers

[Crowcreek]

Geeeeez those suckers hurt

[Tsel13]

Not just the Archers, but all of the Machae's can inflict some serious pain. I always found luring one or two at you at a time away from the crowd, via non-attack means, works best. 😊

[Crowcreek]

Yes! that's what I been doing when pot is on cool down even with 80% pierce resist those brothers lay the smack down.

[darth.crevette]

In my experience, it's less the archers than the throwers. The Machae throwing weapons deal pretty high vitality damage, and most people seem to agree it's much harder to get that resistance to a good level than others.

[WIKI]

dont forget bows has only %25 pierce ratio which means they deal %75 phsical damage so either u need phsical resistance or chance to avoid projectile stat for safer play against them

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Machae can be nasty for sure, pierce resistance is very important for Act 4 lol. Exploit line of sight to lure them into chokepoints where you can burn them down easily. Try to deal with Masters and Grandmasters first if possible as they're really deadly.

[Lobo de hielo]

Machae can take quite a few meetings with them to figure out the best way to deal with the
different types, depending on your build.
Just decided to run a Shaman/ Dual Wielding Berserker which I had in Epic through to Legendary.
Machae normal are no problem at all, it is them Grand Masters and Heroes, who do a lot more than just pierce/physical/vitality. They hit you with so much else, you have to decide is your build good enough to rush in and put them down first or do you just pull 1 or 2 off at a time until you are down to just the Hero or Grandmaster.
To the OP if you are going to go for a strength build for next character and you can handle them, then farm the gigantes etc for green MI's (Hades Palace). Great A/r and some wonderful affixes. There is a place half way through with a save point, you go through the doors and appx 8 gigantes and x amount machae. Took 30 minutes last time I played through and was in desperate need of better armour, but ended up with a full set of green MIs.