Archer/Hunter 690k Quake Heavy Melee Archer Build

(The powders in this build are interchangeable for either Thunder or Earth)

https://hppeng-wynn.github.io/build...L0uc09f1f1G-a1O+t1g0000100nZ6SS3333ktlLxPlIXM
WynnBuilder build:
> Obsidian-Framed Helmet
> Taurus
> Writhing Growth
> Dawnbreak
> Darksteel Ring
> Darksteel Ring
> Momentum
> Matchbook
> Plague [e6e6e6e6]
> (Has Tomes)

Since heavy melee assassin got nerfed to the ground by 2.0 changes, Archer is now the best class for melee builds. I often see juju nons doing TNA with Anthracite Ballistas doing up to 200k melee (unsustainable however), it is impossible to gain focus in TNA resulting in them dealing no damage. Even Epoch is a bad melee weapon as it only have 30% more damage than Anthracite.

So here, I made a heavy melee build using the forgotten fire bow Plague. Using 7 focus, and Twain's Arc, Quake, and Chain Lightning to deal damage. It is recommended to keep 2 Plagues in your inventory while using this build, as Quake and Chain Lightning can both be useful in different situations.

Lets look at stats on Wynnbuilder. First, Twain's Arc does a base of 84k unboosted damage. With max focus it does 230k damage. And because heavy melee does not attack often, Initiator triggers almost all the times when using Twain and Power Specials, this damage gets boosted to an astonishing 370k, and with a help of a little bit of Rage health lose, this damage gets boosted further to 420k! With only Twain's Arc, I can consistently 2 tap every phase of The Eye, and one - two tap all LI bosses.

Now look at the powder specials, there are two that we are gonna use, Quake and Chain Lightning, so you will need two separate Plague bows to use it. With heavy melee, charging powder is very fast, meaning you can spam it a lot.

Quake does 160k damage unboosted, which gets boosted further by Focus, making it 430k, and finally, Initiator boosts it to a wopping 690k damage! Which matches very well with Twain's Arc's 420k Damage (Im not lying just look at Wynnbuilder).

Chain Lightning (with thunder powder on the build), does a base of 120k damage, with Focus it does 320k, and with Initiator it does 520k.

I personally use Quake in boss fights like LI to one tap things, and Chain Lightning in dungeon rooms/raids for clearing. Twain's Arc is most important for charging up powder specials and dealing damage from a stupidly long range away, such as when I used this build in TNA, I never needed to get close to the boss because I just snipe it from 60 blocks away.

Rounding it up, I think this build is definitely viable and powerful and all Wynncraft content, but something like Divzer Spellspam would deal more damage. This Heavy Melee build would be very good and fun to use if you get bored of Spellspam or just cant find a good spellspam setup. For certain things like EO, I can do it with greater efficiency with this Plague build than my Divzer/Grandmother Spellspam setups.

Please give suggestions down in the comments if you can improve anything.

 

bummmmmmmp

 

funny
way too much damage lol

 

you could also powder it with wind prison to make your next twains arc deal up to 1.1m damage avg with initiator

 

That's quite long explanation for just full raw melee build

 

Courage is best for heavy melee Twain's Arc (Quake and Wind Prison literally flop)

It didn't.

Archer was nutty even before 2.0 there was just an ill-informed hate train. Stinger, Plague, Anthracite Ballista, Epoch, Heracul, and many more are super strong.

Forgotten?!

 

you mean 20k dps melee build? it was useless before but i did solo LI and hive with plague even though it doesnt feel powerful

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i think spellspam was the only viable archer thing before 2.0

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how is courage good? heavy melee doesnt even attack much

 

plague has always been considered one of if not the best melee bow options, although i do agree that melee archer has gotten quite a big bump in power with the introduction of twink arc

 

time to get 3 more plagues for every powder

 

Heavy melee archer got more than this before 2.0 - and even if it didn't, 15-20k heavy melee DPS was standard for any non-assassin.

I got 9 medallions before 2.0.

Viable does not equal optimal. Anything that manages to get by, even with as little as 10-20k DPS like rawstack builds were viable.

 

wtf 9 medallions

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with what setup lol

 

mannn anthracite nons

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are you sure about this?

 

its close, wind prison multiplies the damage of one attack by 3

 

im gonna get another plague to test it

 

Stinger works too, but why tf does it get less damage

 

Ain't no way Juju nons made it over here too...dear god

 

goddayum

 

is this build still so strog?

 

is there any plague replacement
6 CSST is pain, and that doesn't even include key price and hashr glitching out, inevitably failing the run

 

i did 20 csst its not hard at all

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i have 2 plagues and 1 infidel