To be brutally honest, I really didn't like ANY of the melee weapons. Wasn't really happy with the majority of weapons in general, even with different skill/profile combinations. However, I loved the aerial melee attack. I have used that on several occasions and it works well with a variety of builds regardless of what melee weapon you've chosen (at least from my playthroughs).
To be fair though, I'll be trying more melee on my current NG+ run (once they fix the special items carry over bug so I can actually play NG+). Maybe I'll have a different opinion then.
For me melee is efficient, after a biotic charge and nova, the enemy's hit points should be pretty low, so 1 poke or 2 with a melee weapon should do it, no ammo spent and you dont have to aim.
That makes sense. Charge is not something I've used in my builds yet. I REALLY like the, I think it's Explorer?, profile that lets you warp through solid objects. I'd like to try that with Charge or Nova, then I might have a better opinion of melee.
Excellent points.
LOL this is my 4th playthrough, I played an infiltrator during my first 3, so this time round I am playing vanguard and forcing myself not to select from the tech tree... Still carry a sniper rifle for those architect fights though... I have to say Adepts are hard to use, good for low level crowd control(love throwing a singularity onto one of those guys jumping down from a shuttle... but it's gonna be tough to take down one of those huge nasty ones...
@VitesseLumiere wrote:
To be brutally honest, I really didn't like ANY of the melee weapons. Wasn't really happy with the majority of weapons in general, even with different skill/profile combinations. However, I loved the aerial melee attack. I have used that on several occasions and it works well with a variety of builds regardless of what melee weapon you've chosen (at least from my playthroughs).
That's understandable. You said you didn't play the trilogy, so your melee expectations differed a lot. We mostly based ourselves from the last experience, but if you don't take into consideration you loved the game, melee in ME was always lousy, blunt and pretty much no fun. It was strong, but not really something that screamed: dynamic, fluid, control.
I think ME1 you simply elbowed your foe. Elbow strikes. ME2 it was like this omnistrike, with elbow strikes on fallen foes, or too close. ME 3 had that plus Strong Melee, when you held down the button.
MEA brought a really big improvement in comparison, however, I think it's still too rusty.
Some suggestions on how some existing melee weapons could work and one additional, imho:
OMNITOOL
ASARI KATANA
VORCHA SCYTHE
A melee-oriented power:
BOLT BRAWLING (melee-oriented powers can work with or without melee weapons)
