This is the first installment in my new Melee-Focused series. These vids may include occasional sprinklings of ranged and mod attacks but will center on melee damage.

This vid showcases a few variations of my new build The King of Swing, a glass cannon scrapper/melee loadout designed to bypass phases or cycles of certain bosses via stagger and/or low TTK. This build is intended for more experienced players comfortable with no-hit boss runs, though future videos will feature more accessible builds for beginners and intermediate players.

I use a pure melee build for Thrall, allowing him only one teleport after the fight starts. The TTK here is on the low side, but 20 to 25s should be doable consistently with this build.

The previous melee only YouTube record for Singe was 26s. The game has changed a bit since then, and this build demonstrates what can be accomplished with the current state of melee. I stay near Singe’s face at the start to bait him into using a melee attack, which keeps him on the ground long enough for me to achieve stagger. Once he staggers, I can staggerlock him repeatedly until death.

I use staggerlocking for Harrow as well, ensuring that he never has a chance to leave the arena and summon adds.

For Ikro, I use veil to survive the orb long enough to get the boss to 50% HP, at which point he begins the casting animation to summon rats. I then destroy the orb with ranged attacks, which causes Ikro to stagger, canceling the summoning animation and thus bypassing the rat phase. My damage output is good enough to consistently finish the kill before he can summon a second orb.

The Stormcaller strat shown here is admittedly less reliable than the other kills, as it hinges on how quickly and accurately the adds engage you. I had some good luck in this run, but if you have a partner with veil slotted instead of cold spear, that’ll protect you from the adds’ ranged attacks and should make this strat much easier. You may not always be able to kill the boss before the storm phase, but his health should be low enough at this point that swarm (and maybe a few ranged shots for good measure) can finish him off.

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