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What Are The 3 Best Melee Builds In POE 3.23 Affliction League?

Jan 12, 2024

Hello, Builders! I will show you my favorite 3 melee builds in Path of Exile 3.23 Affliction League. If any of these build catch your interest, give them a try without hesitation. Don't forget to bring enough POE Currency with you to afford the budget. No time to waste, let’s dive right in and discover these exciting builds together.

What Are The 3 Best Melee Builds In POE 3.23 Affliction League?

3. Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider

In third place, we have a super-fast Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider with the Ranger class. This is the kind of build where we can have it all. It easily achieves over 10 million DPS, is super tanky, and in the gameplay, it is incredibly fast.

Pros & Cons

To get the pros of this build, I have to pretty much repeat what I just said. I have never played such a well-balanced build before. It has super speed, damage, and survivability. It also has satisfying gameplay with explosions, and Flicker Strike is just super cool.

Now, the cons: This build isn’t cheap. You need some mandatory unique and rare items that will exceed the divine price. Another issue is that you have little control over your character, which might be a problem in bosses like Queen Atziri and the Shaper.

Budget

Moving on to the budget, this build is expensive and not a starter. You need at least 6 divines to put it together. You need 3 mandatory unique POE Items for this build: the Farrul’s Fur for body armor, which guarantees that you always have your full frenzy charges.

The Yoke of Suffering amulet that causes all of your Elemental damage to shock enemies, causing them to take a lot more damage.

Finally, the Perseverance belt that turns stun immunity into damage, granting 1% increased damage for every 200 of the lowest between armor and evasion. Good thing that this build counts with over 30,000 of it.

Clear Speed

For clear speed, this build is surely a 10 out of 10, and I didn’t even need to tell you that.

Path of Exile 3.23 Nightblade Flicker Strike Raider

Boss Damage

The boss damage is also great, especially when you can use a Vaal Blade Vortex skill. It kills Guardians in less than 2 seconds. But I will only give it a 9 out of 10 because this damage is reduced to pinnacle bosses where it’s harder to stack our rage.

Survivability

For survivability, I’ll also give it a 9 out of 10. This build has almost 100,000 effective HP because of high armor, high evasion, stun immunity, over 30% chance to block, and a high chance to avoid elemental ailments. I just took one point out because you have low life regeneration, making it vulnerable to poison.

2. Boneshatter Juggernaut Marauder

Next, in second place, which is also fast and strong, the Boneshatter Juggernaut with the Marauder class. This build is perfect for the mine enthusiasts out there. Boneshatter hits enemies so hard that it hurts your own character, accumulating trauma stacks. For each trauma, you’re going to deal with and take more damage. That’s why gathering attack speed and armor is essential for stacking traumas and withstanding their damage.

Pros & Cons

To the pros of this build, I would start with survivability. Even with the self-inflicted damage, this build's abundant armor will shield you from feeling anything. Because of that, you might think that this build had to sacrifice speed or boss damage, but it’s still super fast and can kill Guardians in just a few seconds.

Now, to the cons: The first thing that comes to mind is that you need to keep an eye on your accuracy. This is because of the Keystone 'Precise Technique' that grants 40% more damage if your accuracy is bigger than your life.

Path of Exile 3.23 Boneshatter Juggernaut Marauder

Budget

As for the budget, this build is cheap. You can get it started early in-game maps with only around 60 Chaos Orbs to comfortably advance to yellow maps. I recommend investing around 120 chaos, and for easily completing red maps, I recommend investing around 4 divines.

Clear Speed

For clear speed, I’ll give it a 9 out of 10. Bone Shatter also creates a big pulse of damage when stunning enemies. A single strike is enough to annihilate an entire pack of monsters. Other than that, you stack a lot of attack speed that causes your Leap Slam to almost teleport you through the map.

Boss Damage

The boss damage is also great and deserves a 9 out of 10. Using Blade Flurry against bosses causes you to accumulate a lot of trauma stacks and do huge amounts of damage.

Survivability

For survivability, this build is surely a 10 out of 10, and I would even like to say 20 out of 10 if I could. This build achieves almost 200,000 armor and over 83% of all elemental resistances, all of that combined with The Juggernaut Ascendancy grants his character over 300,000 effective HP. It’s crazy.

1. Cyclone Of Tumult Slayer

Finally, in the first place, we have the new and incredible Cyclone of Tumult Slayer with the Duelist class. With the new POE expansion, players now have access to Transfigure gems. This means an alternative version of active 2 gems. The Cyclone skill got the Cyclone of Tumult that is a wider and more powerful cyclone, but with the downside of being a lot slower.

However, with an easy trick, we can remove this downside and simply have a cyclone with 33% more damage and 40% more area of effect.

Pros & Cons

To the pros of this build: I would start with speed. It’s just amazing to be always moving and massacring all the poor enemies on the way. The boss damage is also incredible. Once the build is done, you are going to kill even the big bosses in just a matter of seconds. Above all of that, this build is very simple and easy to put together.

To the cons: I would point a few important issues, and I’d like to ask you to pay close attention. This build has great survivability once it’s done, but when you’re leveling your character, you need to pace your progression because you’re always very close to enemies.

Without proper preparation, the outcome is fatal. Make sure to spend some extra time leveling up before moving on to more advanced content. Dealing with stuns is another valuable survival tip. On this build, we get a stun immunity with a charm on the new Wildwood Primalist ascendancy. It’s super cheap and easy to get, but if you forget it, you’re going to have a bad time.

Path of Exile 3.23 Cyclone of Tumult Slayer

Budget

As for the budget, you can get it started early in-game maps with only around 90 chaos to comfortably advance to yellow maps. You need to invest around 150 chaos, and for easily completing red maps, I recommend investing around 6 Divine Orbs.

You only need 1 mandatory unique item for this build: Stampede boots that guarantee that your movement speed will always be 150% of its base. This means that the downside of Cyclone of Tumult will mean absolutely nothing to us.

Clear Speed

Our clear speed will give it a 9 out of 10. The cyclone has a significant area of impact and is always in motion, enabling you to farm your maps without having to cast or do anything else. It’s just outstanding and very satisfying.

Boss Damage

The boss damage is just amazing and deserves a 10 out of 10. When this build is done, you’re going to easily achieve over 15 million DPS. That is more than enough to destroy bosses in just seconds.

Survivability

For survivability, I’ll give it a 9 out of 10. This build achieves over 100,000 effective HP because of high armor, evasion, stun immunity, 45% and a lot of instant Life Leech. Now, with the huge area of effect bonus from Cyclone of Tumult, you don’t even need to stay very close to enemies in end game, which gives you even more survivability.

That’s all. What do you think about my selection of melee builds? Don’t forget to keep building!

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