I did participate in wars, did fairly well in them. Long story short me and my friend got kind of screwed over by a guild that wasn’t treating us well that we had been fighting wars with and I ended up switching servers and factions so we could play with his brother and their friends. After that I didn’t really do much warring. But yeah, I contributed my share.
Am I throwing a pity party, idk I guess it could be looked at like that. Tbh I think there are others like me who are upset that melee no longer has a chance against ranged players and I’m here because I want to help spread awareness that this is an issue for a lot of us.
It’s not that I dont want to adapt my skills, I dont want to regrind a new set of gear and weapons and spend a lot of time getting good with it (I’d be competing with ppl that have been using these builds for hundreds of hours since day one and honing their skills with it) all for a playstyle I don’t even particularly enjoy (kiting players around and peppering them with damage).
Think of it like this, if they removed lifestaff completely tomorrow, would you tell people who have been using lifestaff since day one and love healing to adapt their skills. No, you’d be like “This is bullshit” just like the rest of us would. To me melee duelist is the same thing, its a role in the game that effectively no longer exists. For those of us who have been playing it for hundreds of hours and getting good with it, it kind of sucks that it was taken out of the game
That is simply not true. The majority of the people that frequent the forums dont even participate in discussion. Those that do, are an incredibly small percentage of the total population of the game.
I have listed multiple fucking reasons as to why the nerf was game-changing and eliminated melee ability to counter ranged players, and all you fucking have to offer with 0 explanation or evidence is:
Bro fuck off or explain to me in detail how what I listed out as being the issues with the GA nerf and what it means for the game is “negligible”
I didn’t spend hours formulating a detailed explanation of why the GA nerf fucked melee over and turned this into a ranged meta only to be told baselessly that the GA nerf was minimal without offering an explanation as to why my points are invalid.
Got left behind. As I mentioned I’m not gonna regrind an entire new dex or mage build just to compete with ppl that have been practicing these builds for hundreds of hours when kiting is not even a playstyle I enjoy. But I’m not the only one getting “left behind” the game is worse for everyone if all the melee users quit and range becomes the only thing useful outside of just sitting on a point getting healed and spamming AOE attacks like maelstorm
GOOD! Stop posting and leave! You said you quit. But you make a troll post with dozens of folks telling you you’re wrong. Your little niche build may be useless, but the tiny reduction in lunge and the loss of a whole 70 points of damage every half a minute is negligible.
You uninstalled. So stop crying and leave. The devs don’t care that you quit—which we all know you didn’t cause people like you cannot stop when they feed on it.
you can literaly do that to every single melee weapon, Gaxe was god tier because it was the only weapon they could stick to people in melee however thta being said axes shouldnt of gotten nerfed (In the regard atleast) and every other weapon should of been brought up to be able to hit somone running away (Some range weapon might need buffed due to kiting being harder to do however but that can be addressed if it is a problem later)
All melee weapons light attacks imo should not be animation locked in regards to movement it should gave split animation so you can light attack while running at normal speed. Attacks might need a dmg reduction/balancing after however it worth it to make weapons able to chase people.
I dunno in OPR the mage is usualy top and does more dmg than all other range classes from what ive seen atleast in my OPR there 2 stupidly good ones one uses void gauntlet+Ice gauntlet, the other uses firestaff and ice gauntlet (He does 3k left clicks) and 450-550dmg burn ticks every second for like 14 seconds (This alone would kill me if i dont drink a pot)
I’m starting to wonder if the reason you only duel was so that you could choose to only duel ranged players where you knew you had a significant advantage…
Nah I dueled melee too. One of the hardest builds to fight was heavy armor sword and shield with hammer or GA. Lots of good melee and ranged duels before GA nerf.
Melee is now completly useless in any open world/duel situation. Versus any decent player you get max. 1 hit (sometimes even 0 because of the weird teleportation/lag issues) and afterwards a dodge is enough to simply run out of range.
The only situation melee is viable rn is spamming abilites with GA/WH when capping a point.
With Hatched i sometimes trigger Leap but i can’t explain how to repeat that deliberatly. Maybe i t has something to do with target on opponent and then when lose target and retarget it will do Leap for the next first light attack.
