Kali's Top 10 Suggestions for MELEE defensiveness & survival (also useful for Hard Core)

[Kalibano]

Just thought it would be useful to add a link to my thread on melee defensiveness and survival in this section of the forum too.

Come and visit, and I hope you find the advice useful!

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Kali's Top 10 Suggestions for MELEE defensiveness & survival
Being killed constantly in melee combat can be extremely frustrating. My aim is to help others by sharing some of the key strategies that have significantly improved my personal experience playing melee characters through the years.
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[Kalibano]

https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/kalis-top-10-suggestions-for-melee-defensiveness-survival-also-useful-for-hard-core.1524/

Main THREAD was further updated to include entries about:
> temporary Hit Points and Legendary Affirmation (in Suggestion 4)
> Deflect arrows clickie (in Suggestion 6)
> Dark Discorporation clickie (in Suggestion 6)
> potions of remove curse/disease/blindness + neutralise poison neutralisation (in Suggestion 7)
> popejubal's advice ref Displacement clickies (in Suggestion 8)
> the removal of the reaper self-healing penalty while out of combat

Several images were also added (e.g. Winter set bonus; Legendary Affirmation description; items with clickies)

Damage Avoidance section has been updated to include extra info on Concealment and Incorporeality.

That thread is looking great, thanks for everyone's contributions so far, please keep them coming!

Hope the advice is being helpful.