Does anyone melee?Follow

The only reason my weapon skills are up is because I find it funny to smash a rat/toad/roach/etc with a big ol' staff. I think a wand would do better close combat damage then any dagger/sword/staff melee.

My SB hits usually around 1600 and my dagger 60ish..... what do you suppose I should use?

I melee only when out of mana and the mob is immune to my wand's damage type.

The only reason to have weapon skills up is so you can swat down a Shaman totem in one blow, reliably. No cooldown to melee a totem to death (and you can have a macro do it, even faster).

Otherwise, go wand for non-spell damage. Get the best wand you can. The wands made by enchanting skill are quite nice, and are almost always for sale.



You will do WAY more damage w/ that than a dagger or staff. When you first use it, it will be frustrating. Why? Your wand skill is low. Go fight easy greens or grays. Let the VW tank away while you wand wand wand wand. Get that wand skill w/in 10% of max, then go fight real mobs.

A VERY effective leveling/grinding pve method is called Drain Hunting, btw, and a wand is a good part of it.

You want your overall kill/downtime ratio to be as efficient as possible. The more you sit and drink, the more downtime you have - and the poorer your efficiency (and water gets expensive!).

So try this: sic VW, do CoA and Cor. Wait to let VW lands his second taunt (this helps him hold agro). Then do immolate. Tap self to boost your mana back up. Drain Health to repair your health pool. Then wand til target dies.

This is steady, relatively fast overall killing. You vary it depending on the mobs - no immo if the mob is really weak - add DoTs or even shadowbolt at end if mob is really tough - whatever makes sense.

Do get a wand. After the player made one, Cookie's Stirring Rod from Deadmines instance in Westfall is next "best" wand. GL!

Finally bought a wand. Will use it tonite.

I almost never wand, and I most definately never melee. I juggle life tap, dark pact, drain life and improved drain soul to keep my health and mana as high as possible.

Edited, Apr 17th 2007 2:13pm by mikelolol

Melee???? Isn't that what your minions for. I use my wand almost always. Send minion, cast, cast, cast, cast, punish with wand! I have been known to charge in with my dagger when the target is for the most part "Done", but then again, I'm a very angry woman inside!!!! For the most part, if ya have a skill, build it. It's just another tool in the bag, and you never know when it might come in handy

Melee locks make many, many, many corpse runs. Use a wand when you need white damage. I would rather wield a lollipop that does .01 DPS with +STA, +INT, +spell damage, and +spell crit rating than any sword that doesn't. When looking at melee weapons, look for what they give you in the way of bonuses and ignore DPS entirely.

Wands have higher DPS. If the mob comes after you, why would you use something with inferior DPS to try and take them down?

What are you doing to make your VW lose aggro? If you stop doing that, your world will become much better.

If by Melee you mean using a staff/sword/dagger to hurt the mob, then NO i dont, and if i do its not on purpose. If i have to do dmg w/out casting spells i use a wand 100% of the time, because warlocks dont have the strenght to make a decent 1h weapon or staff hit hard enough to make the time of swinging it worth the effort.
Casters usually have the staff/sword/dagger's for stats only, they use spells or wands to kill things.