Melee damage
 

Just wondering how other melee are experiencing the beta?

Discuss.

I think the melee range could be upped slightly.
Casters that have several levels on you are murderous, naturally. Perhaps my cloth isn't cutting it.

You really want to know how the naked melees with shit weapons are finding beta? There's like 10 posts that demonstrate noone worth a shit is spending 5 played time days for beta, therefore noone knows.

ez with gatorsmash maul

those fragile gnome bodies can't hang

O thought thats what beta's all about.

Eh... haven't really got enough evidence to prove much, but my level 14 ranger can't melee for shit. I'm pretty sure I couldn't solo a low blue mob if I tried. It doesn't seem significantly different from p99, though, and I don't think it's far from how it was back then. Just the hit rate seems kinda low. Pretty sure my ranger does less than 1 DPS on average, no joke. Killing a blue mob (with my cleric healing) routinely takes minutes of just swinging and swinging.

I agree with the hit rate. If the mob is db or lb you should be hitting 99/100 times. 100% if green mob. Then missing more as even con+

im playing a 20 ranger now and i hit for shit. Im lucky to hit someone for 10 dmg even with double attack and DW my dps is still shit. dont remember if it was ALWAYS this bad... i played a rogue on SZ so melee isnt new to me...