No Crit Melee Build

[warm scaffold]

Ill start this by saying no idea if this is good or not, its worked fairly well for me, a friend and I managed to get to 50+ on boss rush before choosing to stop, could have gone further but we got a sheliak and sheliak takes ages for our builds, highest hit i have managed is 7.5mil using weighted eminent card and hitting something weak to hammer. It is also fairly squishy, but has a lot of injury resist so can block a lot, mainly used with hammer, axe there for the few that resist hammer

couldnt post all pics so doing couple more here

[mellow salmon]

Followed. I was looking for a build exactly like this so thank you for working on one

May I ask how you're taking advantage of charm of sisyphus and atlas? Does being extremely overencumbered benefit melee damage?

[warm scaffold]

so not extremely but yeah, sisyphus caps out as soon as you hit overencumbered, so you just have to reach your weight limit, i have a huge stack of wood to make sure im always above it, the higher my weight the higher sisyphus ramps, but i have hit a point where i have to balance melee dmg and weight to get optimal dps increases

[mellow salmon]

Ohhhh, so that's why there are two sheliaks

[warm scaffold]

did some changes after learning some new things, adding the 1 hander hammer purely as a heal, get 1300ish ticks of heals with salvation so enough to just power through anything, changed a few gear pieces out, and used shadowfin perch to get some extra stam with same melee as beezleboar, with morale buff + weight buff from herbivore + buff from venom, hitting normal hits of about 2.1mil, also kinda nice thing, the emote gets animation cancelled when you are poisoned

[mellow salmon]

What is your source of poison?

[warm scaffold]

charm of herbivore

[mellow salmon]

Ooohh, right you get poisoned when eating meat. Thanks

[warm scaffold]

yeah that and the weight buff when u eat vegetables makes it great

[mellow salmon]

But that's rng right? Or do you just keep on eating veggies until you get the weight buff?

[warm scaffold]

eat 3 and u get all 3, it nevers doubles on 1

[mellow salmon]

Oh wow that's nice

TIL then, thanks

[warm scaffold]

changed the surf and turf to this for 10% more melee, and after a bit of testing and some number magick done by a friend, found out its basically as good as its getting, could possibly min max to get some minor increases but i think this is as good as it gets for now untill something changes

[warm scaffold]

No Crit Melee Build

[mellow salmon]

The choice of pellucidic over bismaltus is for the injury resist, right?

So you can block more = charm of discharge goes brrr?

[warm scaffold]

pretty much yeah, helps that its also easy to farm

[warm scaffold]

also helps to not break your legs if you use the weighted eminence card for more dmg

[mellow salmon]

Oh right I forgot about that card

[mellow salmon]

What's the fabled yex for in the axe? To enhance ring of empowerment?

[warm scaffold]

before the heal hammer i was trying to put some magick in to boost self healing, thought it gotten rid of it, apparently hadnt checked the axe

[mellow salmon]

Oohh, I see

[winter herald]

Have you considered using Geist Mushroom instead of potato for the hearty stew, and just using 3 hearty stews with 3 different flower aromatics?

[warm scaffold]

I use the vegetable medley to get the 15% weight buff from herbivore, could get buff then switch to another food for some more stats, would be more dmg but more of a hassle than i care for

and i may be wrong, but im fairly sure the potato was a spice and since we cant seed tier 5 things, cant swap it for geist mushrooms

[winter herald]

I read the tags on the foods wrong too, you have pumpkin not potato. What did you put into the "raw edible plant" slot for the hearty stew then, because I think you can put Geist Mushroom there?

[warm scaffold]

i use carnute ichor for more melee

my stats are at a point where melee increases were worth about 20% more to total damage then weight increases

so actually 30 points in weight might be better using my own maths lol

but yeah its a difference of like 10-20k when im hitting for over 1mil, so technically better, but its getting very min maxxy

i do have max weight food that i tried but it ended up dropping my damage, without a significant gain of either stat, only way build gets better is maybe swapping out some charms, a friend was doing some testing and said that momentum was better then morale

[winter herald]

Oh yeah, charms can have a huge effect. I've got a list of the magnitudes of some of the charms at the end of the critstab guide if you want to check that out. Though I never bothered listing or figuring out some of them, like momentum.

[warm scaffold]

i havent done a lot of maths or anything on them, but i was using a few hitting something and seeing damage differences, charms and spells take the little over 1 mil base hit and ramp it up to like 4mil ish, then if i add in weighted eminence and weakness to that damage type i managed a 9mil hit before recent upgrades so can probs get a bit higher now, and havent tried with ice ammo aswell, if its a straight double damage might be close to hitting 20mil solo, which isnt bad for a no crit build

[autumn abyss]

Thanks for build. Relevant?

[jagged monolith]

I'm in end game, really about to quit... but I'd love to make a great build before I go. I thought I was doing well at 4k melee and 20x crit, then I saw this... but I dont fully understand it. Why does it show just melee and no crit in your player stats? I'll have to study the rest of the build but I do see you have crit in many places.

[warm scaffold]

charm of ferocity makes you do more damage by default, but you can no longer crit

[warm scaffold]

havent played in a while but I dont think its changed. There are much better crit builds then no crit builds, but this build for sure works. It's a comfy build, I could just swing without worrying about aiming. Got through first 40-50 waves easily enough which was plenty for my farming needs

[autumn abyss]

Could you please save the config of your build (fully clothed and armed)on the website https://nightingale.rayleon.net and put it here. It won't take long. And did you use the standard forge and greenhouse maps when crafting?

Here is an example of another build with a critical hit. Could you do exactly the same?