melee skill / support gem ideas

Thank u GGG, I enjoy this game so far, even my marauder cannot live without OP decoy totem in cruel A3; IMO the biggest gap between melee and range character, is the lack of melee skill variance/functionality.

with fork/chain/multiple projectile, range just blast everything through, as their roles are damage dealer. Instead of giving melee flashy bad ass damage skills, maybe provide more combat maneuverability for melee via skill gems is a better approach, also let melee be more useful in team games.

To make melee skills have more addtional effect:
weaken monsters (physical damage, armor, attack speed, move speed)
self buff (+armor, +% mitigation, +resist)
create distraction/absorption

so, following are my few ideas about melee skill/support gems (numbers are not well thought-out, just to provide a direction of design), feel free to criticize!

chain attack (support, melee)
chain melee targeted attacks such as heavy strike, glacial hammer..., one monster can only be chained once
- good to deal with monsters in small pack/likely to move randomly
- good with life leech gem supported.

volcano hit (support, melee)
your attack drops a fire trap on foot of the targeted enemy; fire do not stack.
- suits for hit-and-run. maybe good supporting lightning strike.

cripple (support, melee, AOE)
skill damage -50%, targets hitted are slowed 30%, very short duration (20% area effect)
- more crowd control than pure damage
- good at supporting ground slam and leap slam, to control fast moving mobs

forceful hit (support, melee, AOE)
target hitted -25% physical attack damage, very short duration (-15% area effect)
- good at supporting sweep, leap slam, and whirlwind (in later patch?)
- improve tankiness when surrounded by packs of melee fast mob or heavy hitter boss

cleave (melee, *modified)
+20% attack speed
- cleave have no advantage comparing sweep and ground slam
- faster attack make it more mobile and good with life gain on hit

terror (support, endurance cry, melee, AOE)
enemies in shout range -25%(10%) attack speed, -25%(10%) cast speed; no longer generate endurance charges.

war cry (support, endurance cry)
allies in shout range +10% attack speed, +10% cast speed; no longer generate endurance charges.
- buff, good for melee summoner

shadow image (minion, Dex based)
summon an image(like those black ghost warriors in act 1 caves) flicker striking to targeted enemy. Image inherits 30% numerical stats of your character.
- have cooldown
- image counts as minion
- all melee support gems support basic attack of images

warrior image (minion, Str based)
summon an immobile image(like those ghost warriors in act 1 caves but with glowing yellow look) leap slaming to targeted location and basic attacking enemies nearby. Image inherits 50% numerical stats of your character.
- all melee support gems support basic attack of images

shield fort (aura, shield)
small radius, enemy within its radius that attacks you will stunned; you and allies within range gain extra armor. you suffer -40% movement speed penalty
- more survivabilty for melee shield character
- good for melee groups to tank miniboss/boss

shield strike (shield, melee)
no damage, melee single target attack that slows enemy attack/cast speed 30% for a short duration, and gain a endurance charge
- safer to facetank miniboss/boss for melee with shield

Warlord's Mark (curse, *modified)
no randomly generate endurance charges (very unreliable), but resets all charge timer on every hit.

whirlwind, hydra, hammering, frozen orb, guided arrow etc.
skills in diablo 2 are way better than poe.

Take a look at my thread because I want to add some of your shield abilities to it. These seem like pretty great ideas, the details are much appreciated.

Thread: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/140833/page/1

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Warlord's Mark (curse, *modified)
no randomly generate endurance charges (very unreliable), but resets all charge timer on every hit.

Very reliable, if you add quality. My level 18/20% has a 58% chance to give me a charge, that's a pretty high chance. No need to use Enduring Cry often.

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cripple (support, melee, AOE)
skill damage -50%, targets hitted are slowed 30%, very short duration (20% area effect)
- more crowd control than pure damage
- good at supporting ground slam and leap slam, to control fast moving mobs

I like the idea about this, though you could argue about the numbers.