A meta Melee Build has to have the advantage in both damage and tanky, otherwise, you'll either get an easy one-hit kill on close encounters with a monster, or you'll have to swipe your hands countless times to kill one boss. So if you are building up a melee physical damaging build in Diablo 2 Resurrected, check out this guide first to learn which are the best D2R Melee Builds as well as how to build an unbeatable melee build!
Diablo 2 Resurrected Best Melee Builds for Each Class
Although the melee build is generally considered the most gear-dependent in Diablo 2 Resurrected and not recommended for beginners or not recommended for the first character, it is always a good idea for players who are not good at kite ranged combat or simply prefer melee combat The build that you want to choose most for your character. In order to help you create a OP melee build, here we go over the best melee build for each class, as well as break down how to set up each one.
1. Best Melee Paladin - Auradin Build
The strongest Melee paladin build is Auradin with insane AOE elemental damage, and one of the best melee builds in the 2.4 patch. With it, you have great mobility with charge and the freeze on target on striking and the hip blinds target actually provides ridiculous safe crowd control when you're surrounded by monsters. Now unfortunately this is a stupid expensive build.
Build Setup Base Guide
Stat Points (Attributes)
Strength: Enough for gear
Vitality: All Rest
Dexterity: Enough for max block with holy shield
Energy: 0
Skill Points
Salvation: 20
Resist Lightning: 20
Resist Fire: 20
Conviction: 18
Sacrifice: 16
Zeal: 1
Character Gear
Weapon: Hand of Justice Phase Blade
Shield: Dream Sacred Targe
Offhand: Call To Arms Military Pick
Body Armor: Dragon Archon Plate
Helmet: Dream Bone Visage
Amulet: Highlord's Warth
Rings: Raven Frost, Bitter Spiral
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Gore Rider
Belt: String of Ears
Charms: Paladin Hellfire Torch, Annihilus Small Charm, Different Grand Charms and Small Charms assorted max damage, attack rating, plus life
2. Best Melee Druid Build - Reaper Wolf Build
The new variant of the fury druid that we are calling reaper wolf is insane with a ton of damage decrep procs nearly 20k with 100 deadly strike, so almost every hit is doing 40k and that's not even taking into consideration the extra damage that you get from the crap as well as the slowdown and reducing enemies physical resistance.
Build Setup Base Guide
Stat Points (Attributes)
Strength: Max
Vitality: 0
Dexterity: Enough for gear
Energy: 0
Skill Points
Lycanthropy: 20
Werewolf: 20
Feral Rage: 20
Fury: 20
Heart of Wolverine: 20
Summon Grizzly: 1
Rabies: 1
Character Gear
Weapon: The Reaper's Toll Thresher
Shield: Dream Sacred Targe
Offhand: Call To Arms Military Pick
Body Armor: Fortitude Archon Plate
Helmet: Guillaume's Face
Amulet: Highlord's Warth
Rings: Viper Whorl, Raven Frost
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Gore Rider
Belt: String of Ears
Charms: Druid Hellfire Torch, Annihilus Small Charm, Different Shape-shifting skiller grand charms, max damage charms
3. Best Melee Necromancer Build - Poison Bomb Necro Build
It's a really good melee necromancer build because you don't have to spend time summoning all your skeletons when you start a new game, so you don't have that down time of maybe a couple of minutes killing monsters. This is a build that you can go and kill whatever you want. Also for a melee build, this has a lot of area damage thanks to corpse explosion and also quite a bit of solubility because of bone armor.
Build Setup Base Guide
Stat Points (Attributes)
Strength: Enough for gear
Vitality: Dump the rest here
Dexterity: Enough for 75% block
Energy: No need
Skill Points
Corpse Explosion: 20
Bone Wall: 20
Bone Prison: 20
Bone Armor: 20
Clay Golem: 1
Summon Resist: 1
Blood Golem: 1
Golem Mastery: 1
Amplify Damage: 1
Weaken: 1
Iron Maiden: 1
Life Tap: 1
Character Gear
Weapon: Grief Phase Blade
Shield: Homunculus
Offhand: Call To Arms Military Pick
Body Armor: Chains of Honor Archon Plate
Helmet: Guillaume's Face
Amulet: Highlord's Warth
Rings: Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, Raven Frost
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Gore Rider
Belt: String of Ears
Charms: Necromancer Hellfire Torch, Annihilus Small Charm, Different grand charms with recovery, plus summoning skills, plus poison and bone skill
4. Best Melee Assassin Build - Kicksin Build
Kickers are really fun characters that can clear the entire game. Since you don't need to grasp martial arts fundamentals or perform combos for this build to work, it's the most straightforward martial arts build for an assassin. To kill the enemy, simply endlessly spam Dragon Talon. Instead of using weapons to deliver damage, this build focuses on footwear. But weapon affinities continue to function.
Build Setup Base Guide
Stat Points (Attributes)
Strength: Enough for gear
Vitality: Dump the majority of your points here
Dexterity: Enough for max block
Energy: No need
Skill Points
Dragon Talon: 20
Venom: 20
Burst of Speed: 20
Shadow Warrior: 20
Cobra Strike: 1 or more
Dragon Flight: 1
Death Sentry: Remaining skill points
Character Gear
Weapon: Lacerator Winged Axe
Shield: Phoenix Monarch
Offhand: Call To Arms Flail, Lidless Wall
Body Armor: Enigma Dush Shroud
Helmet: Harlequin Crest Shako with enhanced damage jewel
Amulet: Mara’s Kaleidoscope
Rings: Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, Raven Frost
Gloves: Bone Hand
Boots: Shadow Dancer Myrmidon Greaves
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Charms: Assassin Hellfire Torch, Annihilus Small Charm, different grand charms with plus martial arts skills
5. Best Melee Barb Build - Frenzy Barbarian Build
As far as the build strengths, the frenzy barbarian is a very tanky melee character as long as you have a decent amount of life leech and you’re striking with a fast increased attack speed breakpoint, you’re constantly going to be replenishing your life, so it’s very different to die. The build aslo has insane mobility, it’s one of the few characters that can actually keep up to teleporting builds just because you have an insane amount of faster run lock. The third benefit is that you can use the skill Berserk to handle physical immune monsters, Berserk is magic damage, and Frenzy is physical, so you shouldn't really run into any immunity problems.
Build Setup Base Guide
Stat Points (Attributes)
Strength: Enough for gear
Vitality: Dump the majority of your points here
Dexterity: No need
Energy: No need
Skill Points
Frenzy: 20
Double Swing: 20
Sword Mastery: 20
Taunt: 1
Bash: 1
Stun: 1
Concentrate: 1
Berserk: 1
Increased Stamina: 1
Iron Skin: 1
Character Gear
Weapon: Dual Grief Phase Blade
Shield: Phoenix Monarch
Offhand: Duel Heart of The Oak Flail
Body Armor: Fortitude Archon Plate
Helmet: Guillaume’s Face with rare jewel
Amulet: Highlord's Warth
Rings: Raven Frost, Wraith Hold
Gloves: Dracul’s Grasp
Boots: Gore Rider
Belt: String of Ears
Charms: Barbarian Hellfire Torch, Annihilus Small Charm, different grand charms with max damage, attack rating, plus life
6. Best Melee Sorceress - Passion Dream Sorc Build
The Melee Passion Sorceress is one of the most confusing builds in Diablo 2, you can hit Diablo, pulse AOE take out monsters in the pits, you have arguably slow clear speed in the Chao sanctuary, but you can take out build waves no problem but at the same time, you're very squishy build. Here we break down a 62 000 damage zeal passion melee sorcerer build - the only melee sorc build.
Build Setup Base Guide
Stat Points (Attributes)
Strength: Enough for gear
Vitality: Everything else
Dexterity: Enough for 75% block
Energy: No need
Skill Points
Enchant: 20
Warmth: 20
Fire Mastery: 20
Lightning Mastery: 20
Static Field: 1
Telekinesis: 1
Teleport: 1
Frozen Armor: All rest points
Character Gear
Weapon: Passion Phase Blade
Shield: Dream Monarch
Offhand: Call To Arms Flail and Spirit Monarch
Body Armor: Skin of The Vipermagi with 15 IAS and All Res Jewel
Helmet: Dream Bone Visage
Amulet: Corruption Heart
Rings: Raven Frost, Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band
Gloves: Immortal King's Forge
Boots: Immortal King's Pillar
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Charms: Sorceress Hellfire Torch, Annihilus Small Charm, different grand charms assorted with FHR, plus life, all res, plus mana, and other small charms
7. Best Melee Amazon Build - Lightning Strike Amazon Build
This melee Amazon build can fully clear Chaos Sanctuary, Ubers without respect. The rotation of this build is quite simple, use a lightning strike on monsters and use the charge strike on bosses, so ideally while the lightning strike is chaining all the monsters, switch the charge strike to clean up the rest. This is the farming setup focusing on magic finds.
Build Setup Base Guide
Stat Points (Attributes)
Strength: Enough for gear
Vitality: Dump the majority of your points here
Dexterity: No need
Energy: No need
Skill Points
Power Strike: 20
Lightning Bolt: 20
Impale: 20
Charged Strike: 20
Dodge: 1
Avoid: 1
Critical Strike 1
Penetrate: 1
Evade: 1
Character Gear
Weapon: Infinity Matriarchal Spear
Shield: Phoenix Monarch
Offhand: Call To Arms War Scepter and Spirit Monarch
Body Armor: Enigma Mage Plate
Helmet: Griffon's Eye with 15 IAS and 15 All Res Jewel
Amulet: Highlord's Warth
Rings: Raven Frost, Wraith Hold
Gloves: Dracul’s Grasp
Boots: Goblin Toe
Belt: Thundergod's Vigor
Charms: Amazon Hellfire Torch, Annihilus Small Charm, different grand charms
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