Development Manifesto: How We're Approaching the Melee Rebalance in 3.7.0

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JIuBeHbOrH9I wrote:

How about letting melee skills be used together in a chain instead of support skills and let them have additional support effects when used in a chain like that?

This will make melee skills have interesting combos, maybe additional mobility when one of the skills in the chain is whirling blades, for example, or another new skill gem(s) design specifically for providing mobility for such melee combos with different such mobility skills having different additional effects, passive or active?

Such a change opens up a whole new level of new things that can be added to the game and it can be specifically tailored for melee skills and make them less "clunky" and more action oriented, instead of melee skills being either inferior to ranged, or like Reave and BF "stealthily" ranged themselves.

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lagwin1980 wrote:

The biggest thing about melee is that in comparison ranged builds get it all.

Ranged have the extra free defensive layer of being at range while melee get fortify at a cost.

A lot of the mitigation to damage just dose not seem to matter at melee ranges

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kalbright wrote:

One thing that is seldom brought up is that real melee builds require the player to move to the monster, during this time, the player is not DPSing and is usually being hammered / slowed, etc from off screen ranged stuff. So even if a melee skill has the same DPS as a ranged skill, its effective DPS will be much lower.

Melee skills (at least the non-ranged 'melee' skills) need to have significantly higher DPS than ranged skills just to be about the same effective DPS due to the loss of DPS by having to move to be in melee range.

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Twinkss wrote:

If there is really only a change on melee and no changes an range attack gems, i will end this game. this is the biggest joke i ever read from u.