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Melee vs ranged

dllddlld Member UncommonPosts: 615
in Secret World Legends

Is there any benefit for being melee over ranged? Many times I thought to myself how x fight would have been easier if I took a ranged weapon instead of a melee one for example any mob that deploys a pbaoe, mobs standing in stuff like toxic waste, mobs slowing and running/teleporting/dodging away and ofcourse you will simply get hit less often during a fight since the mob usually needs to walk up to you to hit you.

 

Haven't really touched any ranged weapon yet.

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  • FaynthFaynth Member Posts: 237

    melee wins if hes smarter

    ranged wins if hes smarter

    so we have a win/win

  • BlackbrrdBlackbrrd Member Posts: 811

    Melee starts with 5 resources, ranged starts with 0 resources. This means you can start the fights with a dash/charge/teleport then go right into two finishers if you have two melee weapons. I think it's chaos that has the ability that teleports the target to you which is nice, probably really fun in PvP too.

  • BloodaxesBloodaxes Member EpicPosts: 4,662

    Just use a pistol as sub weapon, they have some skills that root players/monsters.


  • TalonsinTalonsin Member EpicPosts: 3,619

    I think you should consider one of each.  The melee damage is crazy nuts but it is also nice to pull a mob with a ranged attack or pound him once or twice before he gets to you.  I went pistols at first and hated it.  If I had three zombies on me it would take 9 attacks to kill them all (two resource builders and a finisher per zombie).  With swords, I can do AOE and only need 5 attacks to kill all three (4 resource builders and a finisher).  I decided to go ninja since it gave me both ranged and melee while also giving me single-target and some AOE abilities.

    "Sean (Murray) saying MP will be in the game is not remotely close to evidence that at the point of purchase people thought there was MP in the game."  - SEANMCAD

  • VengeSunsoarVengeSunsoar Member EpicPosts: 6,601

    Personal preferance so far I think.  I went swords/magic - I just like this :)

    Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it is bad.
  • BigCountryBigCountry Member Posts: 478

    i like melee for pve

    ranged for pvp

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  • BigRock411BigRock411 Member Posts: 299

    Just off the top of my head, melee starts with full resources, range must build them first.  Melee can pop a finisher off right at the start of combat while range will have to build.

    Other than that its really preference, and many combine a melee with a range.

  • stromp45stromp45 Member UncommonPosts: 159

    A real good combo is sword and AR great with multi mobs and single.

  • TerronteTerronte Member Posts: 321

    Later in the game it seems ranged is preferable just easier to deal with the the pbaoe ground based damage the mobs/bosses do.

    People drive me nuts that say you should do skill X because...you can. The dungeon in Egypt "requires" 2 ranged dps for one of the bosses (supposedly) i said that's bogus...they said level ranged...really....

    Anyways...I've definitely found it pretty damn useful nearly necessary to get a rangedish build.

     

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