How to buff Melee

[Slomo4shO-1943]

@Jhaerik-1897

Still no idea ehh?

We all can’t be as brilliant as you…

@Jhaerik-1897

TBH the biggest buff they could do for melee… would be making upped weapons come with higher ED. Adding 100% for each upping would making upping weapons viable. People keep coming up with crazy unique items reworks… but that one is the most simple lol.

Oh wait…

@Slomo4shO-1943

The addition of recipes to upgrade sets has very little utility for these sets. With the exception of Arctic Furs, the attributes of sets don’t scale well (this is also true for Uniques). The upgrade recipe needs to do more than change weapon base damage or the base defense value of armors to be useable beyond just belts to obtain more belt space. One option would be to also upgrade the affixes to higher level affixes. For example, Attack Rating on weapons has specific prefixes available based on the ilvl of the weapon. These are the available AR weapons prefixes for magic and rare weapons (there are magic only ones that exceed these values):

• Bronze, ilvl 1 = +10-20 AR
• Iron, ilvl 4 = +21-40 AR
• Steel, ilvl 8 = +41-60 AR
• Silver, ilvl12 = +61-80 AR
• Gold, ilvl 17 = +81-100 AR
• Platinum, ilvl22 = +101-120 AR
• Meteoric, ilvl 27 = +121-150 AR
• Strange, ilvl 32 = +151-300 AR

Based on this value, lets see how Angelic Sickle might benefit from an affix upgrade. The Angelic Sickle has a level 12 requirements and adds +75 to Attack Rating. This is in line with the Silver Affix. The Sabre upgraded to exceptional jumps from qlvl 8 to qlvl 35 with a minimum level requirements of 23. Upgrading the set will add another 5 levels to the minim requirement of the Shamshir. Therefore the final product would require level 28. Based on this, the upgraded piece should roll with Attack Rating somewhere between 121 and 150. Alternatively, we can simply go up 2 tiers. That would put the AR at Platinum level of 101 to 120.