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...
i love vanguards, did that first this time (as i usually do). see a tight group of kett, charge, then nova right after, then run them through with my blade. usually i can kill the lot of em before they even finish getting up. if not, every melee hit restores shields.
