I run Rapier/Spear with 5x resil, 3 shirk fort 620GS, 10% reduction to all types of damage.
Just wanted to get some opinions here. Do you guys (light melee) feel as if you can compete against the current meta? If so any tips? Not many light melees in my server run arenas and if I see them they typically perform very poorly. I’m 100% solo q in arenas and I feel as if my build isn’t strong enough to compete with FS/IG or BB, Bow/Musket, Bruisers. The only time I see light melees shine in arena is when they have a pocket healer. I’ve always steered away from the meta builds but at the current state of PvP, it seems that I have no choice. Any tips would be appreciated.
I run light melee but with GA/WH. With the same light armor, you can feel the triangle of melee < mage < dex ranged < melee ignoring of the current broken tracking of GS or SnS. Also, you just lose to bruisers with the same build and higher weight class as pretty much a counter build.
The problem with spear is you are stuck in animations and the dash is predictable. If you are chasing people with spear, you are going to have a bad time. The problem with dps rapier will be again the animations and the lack of options. There are more than a few clump fights in 3v3s that you will just lose. Consistent damage is for ranged classes or GS/SnS, and you are missing the cc and the burst damage to secure kills. You want options like how GA’s charge is a attack reset(burst damage), an escape, and the ability to engage with flexible movement.
Meta right now is heavy SnS. It just beats everything mindlessly. GS is much harder to use and has visible animation.
Also, I run a life stealing build to keep me alive in melee combat.
So basically no counterplay unless the person I’m fighting is brand new to pvp. Sucks but oh well. I really like this game’s pvp but if essentially what you’re telling me is I just can’t win against some builds not cause of my skill but how the game is designed then there’s no skill ceiling unless it’s a mirror match.
It should be kind of ok at 1v1 as dex melee, and arena is how you engage most of the time. You have the rend to kill bruisers, but spear is what i call a noob trap in pvp. Spamming skills is actually a bad thing and you want to connect basics while baiting out their stam/skills. Main issue would be the missing grit in melee vs melee.
Just for Heavy SNS. Just try to ignore them and then 2v1 or 3v1 after.
You cant get any more help, if oyu dont post videos showing us how you fight. you can say wat you want, but unless we get a video we can’t assume what your saying is correct. In arenas, you can definitly succeed but spear is a very ‘slow’ weapon to use that is easy to read, keeps you stuck in place, doesnt have any lifesteal/ defense attributes.
Rapeier you cant use riposte anymore. Riposte is a garbage skill. if you kill someone with riposte, it means you could of killed them with flourish and finish. a decent player knows how to counter riposte easy, while floruish and finish is a grav well escape, stagger, and damage.
I would say most people in my server run light as well but not melee especially in arena which is what I run 90% of the time. Hopefully cross server will bring a variety of different builds to go up against. I’m tired of going up against BB all the time lol