Best solo melee class?

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

I carry an Earthcaller and Swarmcaller and seldom use either outside specific situations. The Meljeldin is a 43% better ratio so I’ve always just assumed consistency is more important than gambling for a slow. It makes sense though the HP loss on average from a slowed mob would be less (lots of early procs which let you swap to the dps weapon). Add in a melee or two and your own drop in DPS is inconsequential.

I dont think a ranger is a “better tank” than a monk but it’s a good example of how rangers are best at surviving when they are “cheating”. Don’t stack AC when you can stack the cards instead.

Kudos to Tytos for doing a 30 Geo parse of each class for sake of science. It doesn’t seem they are biased outside trying to compare two very different approaches. It’s definitely making me think on this a bit more.

Yea early slow procs are nice but I like the idea of embracing the dps would be interesting to compare kills per hour with using Meljeldin 100% of the time vs leading with swarm/earthcaller first and swapping to Meljeldin after the slow proc.