Dodge is easier to get than melee with noob gears. You can get 90 dodge and 90 chaos res easily with level one gear and some level 12 gems.
With melee it's a little bit harder. To get good chaos res and good melee at same time you need to spend pretty many, for beginner, on guild res and some holy. It may be some 15 - 20 mil, for the the noobiest gears. So, if you can choose, and in this quest you can, I'm all for the dodge...
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