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

Strike

Main page: Strike

Strike refers to a subset of melee attacks. Strikes either target a single enemy or all enemies within a swing.

Slam

Main page: Slam

Slam refers to a subset of melee attacks. Slams affect enemies within a radius and hence always have the AoE tag and are often good for crowd control.

Combo

Main page: Combo

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. Final Strike is the final hit of a combo.

Gems

A list of gems with the Melee gem tag:

Skill gems

Gem	Tier
Parry	0
Raise Shield	0
Disengage	1
Whirling Slash	1
Frozen Locus	1
Glacial Cascade	1
Killing Palm	1
Vaulting Impact	1
Boneshatter	1
Earthquake	1
Rolling Slam	1
Cull The Weak	3
Fangs of Frost	3
Rake	3
Staggering Palm	3
Tempest Bell	3
Armour Breaker	3
Shield Charge	3
Shockwave Totem	3
Rapid Assault	5
Spearfield	5
Wind Blast	5
Ice Strike	5
Perfect Strike	5
Tempest Flurry	5
Resonating Shield	5
Blood Hunt	7
Primal Strikes	7
Earthshatter	7
Siphoning Strike	7
Storm Wave	7
Wave of Frost	7
Leap Slam	7
Shield Wall	7
Thunderous Leap	9
Hand of Chayula	9
Sunder	9
Volcanic Fissure	9
Elemental Sundering	11
Shattering Palm	11
Stampede	11
Supercharged Slam	11
Whirling Assault	11
Wind Serpent's Fury	13
Flicker Strike	13
Gathering Storm	13
Ancestral Warrior Totem	13
Hammer of the Gods	13

Spirit gems

Gem	Tier
Wind Dancer	4
Magma Barrier	4

Support gems

Gem	Tier
Combo Finisher	1
Crescendo	1
Pursuit	1
Bloodlust	1
Fist of War	1
Impact Shockwave	1
Jagged Ground	1
Rage	1
Unyielding	1
File:Excoriate inventory icon.pngExcoriate	2
Practiced Combo	2
Aftershock	2
File:Ancestral Aid inventory icon.pngAncestral Aid	2
Ancestral Call	2
Brink	2
File:Desperation inventory icon.pngDesperation	2
Heavy Swing	2
Rally	2
File:Spar inventory icon.pngSpar	2
Culmination	3
File:Punch Through inventory icon.pngPunch Through	3
File:Barbs inventory icon.pngBarbs	3
Behead	3
File:Clash inventory icon.pngClash	3
File:Quill Burst inventory icon.pngQuill Burst	3
File:Retaliate inventory icon.pngRetaliate	3
File:Reverberate inventory icon.pngReverberate	3
Rip	3
Syzygy	3
File:Tear inventory icon.pngTear	3
Tremors	3
Unsteady Tempo	3
Upheaval	3
Volcanic Eruption	3

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.