3 hero melee frontline

Gabs88

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2011

In short, does anyone have some good ideas on how to make one?

Recuirements: It has to take good advantage of Great Dwarf Weapon, cause that will be on 24\7. And have some decent survivability.

Dervishes have the advantage of insane damage. But Warriors have increased knockdown time. Which when youre knocking down everything around you all the time, is a pretty neat party trick.

And yeah, im stuck. Cause while I can easely find something that works great i never escape the feeling that it's lacking. And tripchop which I used on warriors im having trouble getting good energy management with.

Olle

Olle

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2008

Ign: Miniature Julia

Teh Academy[PhD]

W/

What is your proffesion?
If your an rit, not only does your GDW last longer, but you can have Earthbind, witch will make your derv heroes as good as warrior Kd's
maybe make all have Avatar of grenth and Grenth's Aura, that will keep them from getting hurt to much.

pakhavit

pakhavit

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Florida

Thai Alliance

R/Mo

If you gonna run Warrior, go Warrior's Endurance.

I hate Adrenaline build because it takes too long. Same with Dervish, I rather spam 5e/10e Attack skill. The fight usually end in 10-20sec anyway

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

Warriors aren't too great. You can't have a decent IAS other than Frenzy/Flail. Neither of those are viable on heroes. That's why the only vetted hero build for warriors is Warrior's Endurance + Burst of aggression, since Dwarven Battle Stance can't even be upkept without Dwarven Stability.

For assassins, without Critical Agility they're semi-squishy, pushing 80 armor with blessed or 85 with nightstalker. Also AI can't chain stuff (anything more than lead-offhand-dual) for crap.

For Dervishes, they can't use teardowns very well, so if you run teardowns only have enchantments you want torn down (i.e. don't use something like Faithful Intervention with Wearying strike). The benefit of the Dervish is you can get 70+15+10=105 armor with 10 Mysticism + 3 enchants, or 70+10+10=100 armor if you run blessed instead of windwalker. Since they can run an IAS and IMS at the same time they aren't at a disadvantage. If you run a Avatar, it usually works better with teardowns than something like Vow of Strength or Onslaught.

Bristlebane

Bristlebane

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

Mo/

Perhaps 3 Avatar of Dwayna Dervishes, limited teardowns, with Mirage Cloak and Shields of Force. Then they would be self healing, heal each other incl any minions, good melee blocking and causing frequent AE knockdowns. Then send them for the ranged foes first with melee foes following so as ranged foes also get knocked down.

Aljasha

Aljasha

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2009

I ran a 3 Avatar of Balthazar build and it was pretty fun in FoW.

Anaraky

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2010

Personally I would get a MM and call it a day, but if you must go with a melee hero the only decent alternatives I know of is the aforementioned WE/BoA Warrior or Dwayna's Derv. Everything else seems horrible IMO.

IronSheik

IronSheik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

Wolfenstein: Goldrush

Zombies Go Nom Nom [Nom]

N/

3 grenth dervishes with sand shards, rit hero with earthbind, smite hero with SoH

EDIT: Orders doesn't work with cold from grenth

Done and done

Owik Gall

Owik Gall

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Guardians of the Light

W/Mo

I'm shocked that no one placed Soldier's Stance into account for a warrior IAS. Though, I digress from most people. There's no real advantage of a KD/SY! spam build, anyway.

X Dr Pepper X

X Dr Pepper X

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

The Mirror of Reason [SNOW]

R/

Crippling Victory, Chilling Victory, Zealous Sweep, Heart of Fury, Sand Shards, Vow of Strength, Intimidating Aura, Res Sig

I use a physway hero set up with 2 more phys heroes, a MM, an Order of Vampirism Necro with Weaken Armor, Mark of Pain and Barbs, and 1 SoS rit with SW and Ancestor's.

I avoid teardown enchants because I cannot find a set up that heroes use well. Hopefully I can figure out a setup that works with Avatar of Balthazar well.

pingu666

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

guildhall

[DETH]

you can use assassins with critical barrage with pet aswell, or http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Build:R/A_Dagger_Pet_Ranger reversed on sin primary, swap a few skills about too