Melee

Melee

Tooltip

Melee Attacks are those that directly hit with a melee Strike or a Slam, dealing Melee damage. Melee attacks usually scale from Weapon or Unarmed damage.

Any Projectiles these attacks create do not count as Melee damage.

Melee generally refers to one of two things:

• A playstyle defined by a set of skills (usually attacks) performed while either unarmed (meaning to have no weapon equipped), or with a martial weapon, where your character either performs an attack at a target within your strike distance, or performs a slam on the ground to hit all enemies within the slam's area of effect.
• A gem tag denoting skills that use the aforementioned melee playstyle

Melee weapon types

Weapon class	H	Martial	Dual Wield	Off-hand	Strength	Dexterity	Intelligence
Maces	1/2			Mace, Shield/Foci, Sceptre	100%	0%	0%
Axes	1/2			Axe, Shield/Foci, Sceptre	75%	25%	0%
Flails	1			Shield/Foci, Sceptre	75%	0%	25%
Swords	1/2			Sword, Shield/Foci, Sceptre	50%	50%	0%
Spears	1			Shield/Foci, Sceptre	25%	75%	0%
Claws	1			Claw only	0%	100%	0%
Quarterstaves	2			—	0%	75%	25%
Daggers	1			Dagger, Shield/Foci, Sceptre	0%	50%	50%

Melee skills are limited to specific martial weapons, meaning that bows, crossbows, sceptres, staves, traps, and wands cannot be used for melee skills. Any specific melee skill will generally be limited to one weapon type- for example, Ice Strike requires the use of a quarterstaff.

Terminology

Combo

This page is about the keyword. For the support gem, see Combo Finisher.

Combo is a counter that tracks the number of melee hits done by the character in the last 8 seconds. Some skills can only be activated by achieving a certain combo count (for example, Tempest Bell can only be activated after achieving a combo count of 4). Some skills can be transformed into combo skills using the Combo Finisher support gem, which causes the linked skill to deal 40% more damage, at the cost of requiring a combo count of 5.

Gems

A list of gems with the Melee gem tag:

Skill gems

Gem	Tier
Frozen Locus	1
Glacial Cascade	1
Killing Palm	1
Vaulting Impact	1
Boneshatter	1
Earthquake	1
Rolling Slam	1
Staggering Palm	3
Tempest Bell	3
Armour Breaker	3
Shield Charge	3
Shockwave Totem	3
Wind Blast	5
Ice Strike	5
Perfect Strike	5
Tempest Flurry	5
Resonating Shield	5
Earthshatter	7
Siphoning Strike	7
Storm Wave	7
Wave of Frost	7
Leap Slam	7
Hand of Chayula	9
Sunder	9
Volcanic Fissure	9
Shattering Palm	11
Stampede	11
Supercharged Slam	11
Whirling Assault	11
Flicker Strike	13
Gathering Storm	13
Hammer of the Gods	13
Ancestral Warrior Totem	13

Spirit gems

Gem	Tier
Wind Dancer	4
Magma Barrier	4

Support gems

Gem	Tier
Bloodlust	1
Fist of War	1
Impact Shockwave	1
Aftershock	2
Heavy Swing	2
Practiced Combo	2
Behead	3
Culmination	3
Tremors	3
Upheaval	3

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.