Melee Stagnation

[Tha-Antmann]

Hasn't it been quite awhile since we got a melee set? There's been some proliferation, but no new actual sets iirc. Would love to see something new.

[FupDup]

A part of the issue is that there's already a massive number of melee sets, so making one that stands out from the crowd will be harder compared to set categories that are less crowded. 

 

There's also a number of presently crappy melee sets that really ought to be improved, which would almost be like adding "new" sets since they would see more than limited niche/concept use. 

[Haijinx]

Animations ...

[Shin Magmus]

Please, fix the drastic underperformers (Staff, KM) and completely redundant underperformers (Badsword), with more reworks like what Battle Axe got... before adding more redundant sets.  Making sure all the options available to a player are actually worth considering is more important than adding additional options while the worst sets languish.  This is from the viewpoint of someone who cares about the game, and in the best interest of new players so that they have fewer comparatively terrible options available.

 

"My Staff Flerpderp feels fine to me" - You can just skip leaving useless feedback like this.

[Haijinx]

Fixing sets is of course more plausible

[PoptartsNinja]

3 hours ago, Tha-Antmann said:

Hasn't it been quite awhile since we got a melee set? There's been some proliferation, but no new actual sets iirc. Would love to see something new.

So, tell us.

What sort of melee set would you like to see?

[ThatGuyCDude]

Hydro Melee!  Cold damage attacks, with Tidal Power stacks increasing the chance of knockdown procs.  Though I suppose that would have to be paired with a Hydro Armor, and that's much more difficult to picture.  Somebody was talking about Sonic Melee in another thread, that's something else that could be explored.

There are 22? melee sets currently?  I think proliferation is the most likely we'll see, though, since new animations are so difficult to create or remix.

[biostem]

Storm melee

Non-spines toxic melee (Corruption melee that maybe incorporates the demon MM whip attacks?)

Other such combined damage type sets (thermal shock set that incorporates fire & cold, maybe some sort of "combi-weapon" that has energy, lethal, etc)

 

[megaericzero]

1 hour ago, ThatGuyCDude said:

Though I suppose that would have to be paired with a Hydro Armor, and that's much more difficult to picture.

For what it's worth, I posted a suggestion recently for water-themed melee and armor sets as well as control and support. 👀

[FupDup]

I think Ice Armor is relatively close to Water Armor as a concept, with the main issue being that Icicles needs a proper minfx version that doesn't make you look like a porcupine. Maybe something like the spines aura but shooting out tiny shards of ice instead. 

[kelika2]

3 hours ago, ShinMagmus said:

"My Staff Flerpderp feels fine to me" - You can just skip leaving useless feedback like this.

go fire armor, stack those dots