Mele sucks now days

[wizdarrick]

The part I feel sad about is the melee is my favorite type because you actually get in the action more and requires faster reflexes and timing to play well. On heroic levels melee still works fair you can do reaper 1 and survive but on epics it is hard to survive through any quest without getting killed even with 4 hirelings. Now for the instant death type of player or ranged heck bring it on. You just stand back and kill everything before it touches you and in groups the monsters are dead before the melee even has a chance to help until the end of quest fighting bosses. Another challenge for melee is beating a quest with melee takes much longer than ranged or magic as well so leveling up for a melee is slow as heck.

On epic reaper 5+ feels like the melee using a great sword/axe gets killed in half a second because you just aggroed the whole group and since I am next to a monster it hits you boom your dead. Through the quest you keep dieing and get death penalties simply because you try and help or get a single kill in the quest. Hmm ok guess go total defense so I can actually survive but then I'm going to tickled the monster with 100 damage a hit on criticals. Oh look how good I do compared to the 100k of the magic and ranged or simply use instant kills and get everything dead with one spell. As for the ranged and magic their just having fun playing tag and slaughtering the monsters while running away easily defeating everything while the melee has to either stand back and do nothing or die trying to help. in the end of quest melee has 5% of kills in general.

In korthos then harbor, market and what not melee does good but the higher the lvl the more helpless the melee becomes so when leveling up start making melee to where they get more HP, PRR, MRR or something to help them survive and actually able to contribute and do their part in the party with the quests again.

[Amundir]

"melee"

[count_spicoli]

Its so far out of wack with melee i dont knownif they can get it back. Its a real problem that i dont know updat 45 can fix. Nerf to inauis may help so.e but casters are still way op. First thing i would do is get rid of the stupkd spell pods. Make them have somewhat limited sources

[Zretch]

It's really no different than it has been for the last 2 years.

[feelnofear]

SSG don't know how to buff Melee

[Xgya]

SSG don't know how to buff Melee

Armor Up was an attempt at buffing Melee, but it just made Full Plate-wearing Sorcerers a thing instead, because they attached the survival buffs, which are what melee REALLY needs, to the armor they wear.

Epic Defensive Fighting helped in that sense, but it feels like a band-aid.

[blarhblarhblarh]

Disagree.

Melees didn't got a pass on the "new" eds because they where already in a good tier. But when the casters and ranged got a pass the game got more even. The lack of meld became a bigger problem for melees for obvious reasons and this is a serious issue that we should ask, ops, not ask. We should DEMAND because reaper was build around the older ED. If they limit the ED they should give us something back. Everyone got a power limit but all classes "roles" had something in return, melees got nothing and got more limited with the new EDS so this was really a terrible move by them.

[ChaosBuddha]

yep

[Mindartis01]

The part I feel sad about is the melee is my favorite type because you actually get in the action more and requires faster reflexes and timing to play well. On heroic levels melee still works fair you can do reaper 1 and survive but on epics it is hard to survive through any quest without getting killed even with 4 hirelings. Now for the instant death type of player or ranged heck bring it on. You just stand back and kill everything before it touches you and in groups the monsters are dead before the melee even has a chance to help until the end of quest fighting bosses. Another challenge for melee is beating a quest with melee takes much longer than ranged or magic as well so leveling up for a melee is slow as heck.

On epic reaper 5+ feels like the melee using a great sword/axe gets killed in half a second because you just aggroed the whole group and since I am next to a monster it hits you boom your dead. Through the quest you keep dieing and get death penalties simply because you try and help or get a single kill in the quest. Hmm ok guess go total defense so I can actually survive but then I'm going to tickled the monster with 100 damage a hit on criticals. Oh look how good I do compared to the 100k of the magic and ranged or simply use instant kills and get everything dead with one spell. As for the ranged and magic their just having fun playing tag and slaughtering the monsters while running away easily defeating everything while the melee has to either stand back and do nothing or die trying to help. in the end of quest melee has 5% of kills in general.

In korthos then harbor, market and what not melee does good but the higher the lvl the more helpless the melee becomes so when leveling up start making melee to where they get more HP, PRR, MRR or something to help them survive and actually able to contribute and do their part in the party with the quests again.

Your right, SSG is probably scared to hear all of the whining from the meta players and the people that want easy R10 xp.

[DeathbringerGod]

Fix the saves on mobs in legendary so some melee tactical build could do something....