Basic Math - The Failure of Diablo Melee

[Elric of Grans]

When did the Lounge become only about what was possible and good? I thought this was the place where the Varient Scum™ hung out in the D2 days?

Lies. There are no variant scum here!

For what it is worth, while I predominantly played a Bowazon pre-LoD, most of the people I regularly played with were running melee Paladins. This was long before the Hammerdin build was popularised. Since bows were heavily bugged back then (read: utter trash), they were far more effective than I was. In fact, I clearly remember they relied more on me post-LoD, to deal with things like Frost-Aura/Lightning Enchanted/Physical Immune type Elites, which made mince meat out of melee characters.