Mage/Dark Wizard Help Mid-lategame Melee Mage Builds (lv. 70-100)

Hi all, I've been thinking about changing up my Mage play style a bit and going for a melee build rather than a spellspam build. How would I go about this?

 

The first thing is what kind of melee you want. Are you looking for fast melee, where you can attack many times, or heavy melee, where you have super slow attack speed, but deal lots of damage per hit? Or are you just looking for a hybrid build where you use both melee and spells? For now I'll make three basic builds off of these playstyles using no crafteds or mythics fir the sake of simplicity.

 

Oh! I actually had no idea there were that many different kinds of melee builds. I'm not quite used to running melee on any of my classes in general--I normally default to spellspam on any class I have. I guess I'm looking for heavy hitters, and hybrids, if that's suggestible?

 

If you're looking for heavy hitters, here's a heavy melee build. Generally most people don't like using heavy melee on anything not Assassin due to Vanish, but it still works.
https://wynnbuilder.github.io/#4_0K30oY0CE0640EE0EE0SL00g0DO270y-o1d-71g00001001Z6
The idea is that you have the slowest attack speed but you deal lots of damage in one hit, and typically don't use spells.

 

lv 70 melee build eeee
https://wynnbuilder.github.io/#4_0T00cY0cX0cW0o80o80070AN0KT0h0f001u0I16000010006C

this probably sucks idk
21k ehp and 4.7k dps
use heal spell to stay alive

 

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Thanks, the both of you! I'll see how these work in game!