I know it's not classic, but...

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Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Experience has demonstrated lack of solo melees is mostly due to their terrible health recovery. Solo melees, even without fungus tunics, were turning into a commonplace sight once combat bind wound got popularized, until its well-deserved nerf.

Warrior with a good weapon will do fair damage at a level range where the warrior might be hitting for 50's or 60's, not even counting crits or berserking, while similar mobs might be hitting for 40's. Monster damage scales pretty quickly and outpaces the player melee soon enough, but at low levels players can keep up if they're using over-leveled weapons. That same level ~20 warrior with a level-appropriate 6/26 axe isn't impressing anyone.

For the sake of my earlier post, the warrior doesn't have to match a charm pet anyway--few people do--but merely do enough damage to be a useful contribution in that regard. The class definitely has the tools to do that and its offense is probably somewhat under-rated by the community at large.

Danth

So a lot of writing to say exactly what I said, which is that twinkled warriors might be somewhat viable. Like you said overleveled weapons that aren’t realistic that someone of that level should actually have (oh and as DSM says, a haste item too lololol)