Lets talk about Static strike

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Poutsos wrote:

IMO people should stop refering to ranged AoE skills as melee, only because a melee weapon is being used. Melee means you walk up to a target, you aim and you hit him in point blank range.

Actually static strike is more melee focused than all other melee attacks OP had mentioned. It's essentially the only melee attack in the OP's post that required to actually hit a mob in pure melee range to proc it's effect.

Earthquake can literally dance around stuff and kill them all without ever getting into the melee range, and Sunder is basically a ranged attack.

Static strike does exactly zero (0) damage if you don't go into melee and hit shit in the face in melee. This is also one of the weakness for SS since it's a "real' melee skill and requires a physical connect of enemy to your weapon to have any effect or to deal any damage at all.