Media Wynncraft Legendary Island Challenge - The Lethe

What kind of melee builds are there on wynn?

- Tier stack Alkatraz
- Tier stack Eidolon
- Tier stack Grimtrap
- Tier stack Braker
- Raw Melee The Rainmaker
- Heavy Melee Stinger

..and more.
Melee builds are various like that, but did you notice something from there?

'Tier stack', this is the thing you can see from most melee builds.
Of course tier stack is fine, since boosting slow and strong weapon can make good damage anyway.

But what I've noticed is..


Many melee builds are just using same items, in short, 'Generic'. The first thing I want to point out from current melee meta.

Of course tier stacking melee item itself is fine.
Just like @Shots mentioned to us, even if it's generic or something, if they are usble, it doesn't matter.

But whatever it is, I can't accept their ignorance on various, underrated melee items just because tier stacking is good(like raw melee).
When raw melee items were buffed, not so many people reacted for it. Moreover, some people are still thinking raw melee items are bad.


Fine.

Let's see the current state of underrated melee type, 'Raw melee'.
+ Earth/Fire/Air melee type

(For this, I decided to craft an item which fits for the build) :









With the advantage of defense and agility, it worked well!
What's your opinion?


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@SilverMirror rly

 

PoIsOn RtE

 

I know you don't want to do spider build.
So I thought of an alternative:
CORRUPTED SPIDER BUILD.
Use items from U.S.A. congress, not walmart

 

If I bother to put the 100+ raw melee armor buffs/changes in the game then your challenge would be much easier and enticing but cba

Also yw on frenzy

 

My opinion is you should do spider build solo LI.

https://wynndata.tk/s/HlVrLK
before I am forced to do it with web spitter I mean what.

 

Crafted armor has way too much health.

 

It's level 101 tho. That HP is consistent with the trend for leggings assuming crafted items are equivalent to mythics. Like warchief's massive earth damage and HP, these leggings are giving similar amounts of damage and HP *but* leggings typically also have more HP compared to boots. Choosing to use high HP leggings was a good idea.

 

your build has been stolen

by me

https://wynndata.tk/s/VeDTf2

 

Why doesn't this trend hold for e.g. accessories? Crafted accessories are certainly not overpoweringly good in their field the way crafted armor is looking to be.

 

That is what I've been wondering. I think accessories aren't ready to have mythic counterparts yet. Balancing would be really hard, similar to armor and weapons, but they've had a good long time to simmer in the hands of the IMs. It's really only hard building around mythics with high requirements, but most crafted items seem to have low reqs or easily manipulated reqs instead. I can see how the leggings are really good, and I think that's the point. I don't think OP accessories is the point tho. I agree that many of them are actually a fair bit worse than accessories we already have in-game tho. That thread on air rings was funny. Overall I don't think rings are supposed to have mythic counterparts, which means crafted accessories don't get nearly as crazy as the weapons or armor. Someone please prove me wrong tho. I want all the professions to be good.

 

Yeah, I haven't been able to identify any rings that don't have a good counterpart, excepting a few situations like walkspeed and such. They have uses for sure, but nothing as strong as armor (imo the accessories are how it should be).

Really the main problem to me is the base health being extremely high, to the point where you can afford to use (for example) Thunder Sanc and Steamjets because you can make up the lost health very easily with a good crafted chestplate or helmet, and still have good damage... just because the base health is so high. Consider, for example, the fact that there are exactly 13 leggings with more than 3000 health, and only 2 with more than 4000 (Heph-Forged at 4.5k and Greaves of the Veneer at 5.2k). Yet this crafted leggings has over 4000 health base.

 

horizon has been robbed so hard press f

 

I bet there's more Divzer owner than Horizon owner

 

I used horizon until they changed it

 

I agree the accessories are a better model, but very strong armor is commonplace at this point. Mythics and crafted armors are simply more powerful than lower tier armor. It makes sense, but it isn't as balanced. The IMs are clearly working to balance them tho. I have faith.