Best Class For Melee Damage

Hey guys I’m trying to decide which class has the best melee damage (basic weapon damage). As far as I’m aware archer has the strongest weapon damages across the game for the most part, and had excellent range. But I’ve also heard daggers do a lot of dps, what do you guys think? What class has the strongest weapon for melee damage

 

Alkatraz (warrior) for tierstack

Strongest single hit melee damage is hadal (shaman), but for any practical melee build stinger (archer) will be stronger

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Assassin will have even higher single hit melee damage due to vanish's +80% damage though so thats a thing

 

Assassin is best
Then goes warrior/archer (although archer has it worse)
Mage (quite weak but good)
Shaman - worst melee

 

I just did some calculations on this!
In terms of raw dps, assassin has the highest weapon by a long shot (2100 raw dps on cataclysm, vs divzer which is at 1600 or something). However, cataclysm is an outlier, and after that it's mostly bows and reliks. So aside from that outlier, archer and shaman have the best damage. There is one problem with this though, archers often use spell because arrow storm's 600% spell multiplier is too good to pass up, and archer's main attack isn't that good compared to others. It's totally possible and perfectly fine to do, but the sheer amount of damage arrow storm can do makes it difficult to not use. Shaman doesn't have a very good main attack, since it travels slowly and quickly diminishes to 1/3 damage. Its also possible to do, just not quite as good, especially since shamans tend to need crowd control to survive. That leaves us at assassin, which is probably the next best dps. Assassin works just fine with tier stack and whatnot, but vanish makes heavy melee also a good possibility. So I would say assassin is probably the best. Reasonably tanky but also has good mobility (well, for a short period using vanish) and damage. Mage could easily be next simply because it's attack is the best, being able to hit multiple targets at a range without having any downsides like shaman's 1/3 damage. I don't know enough about warrior to say much, although I think its like a tankier assassin but heavy melee is less viable.

 

the shamans main attack gets its damage diminished? How?

 

each beam does 1/3 damage, so unless you are within like 5 blocks of your target (which is punishing due to shaman's base defense) you can't really hit all 3 beams

 

ah I wasnt aware of this, thank you so much

 

I just did my own calculations and impressed how well the weapons fall into the talked about values. Testing level 50 weapons I got this

bows and reliks (if all 3 beams hit) 120%
Daggers 100%
Spears 80%
Wands 60%
Reliks (if one beam hits) 40%

thanks guys this clears up a lot

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also one more thing does the shaman have the same beam range as the mage?

 

It depends. It either is shorter or almost twice as long. The beam gets destroyed once a new beam is made, so shaman tierstack also has the downside of having very limited range.