Does anyone else not feel the incentive to use melee weapons?

[Shaden Kiryuuin]

I can almost clear Reincarnation 1, but i dont feel the pull of a melee weapon outside of aesthetics. On harder difficulties, running up close to an enemy with anyone but Bird Seems like a death sentence, and i find guns and their synergies to be faaaar more potent. Furthermore, I dont like seeing them in the loot pool as they take away a chance for guns to appear. I will keep trying, but i dont see the light.

Am I using swords wrong? How do you gunfire badasses feel about melee in the game?

[Eudicots]

You have to use crown prince any other character will not be able to repeatedly pull off melee. He is the only character in game with ascensions that can massively boost melee weapons. You can easily end any Reincarnation 7 with any fire tower and hit +90 mil dmg (I have not gotten any less with Cat + melee so far). The ascensions you will want are Elemental Rage, any 2 of the elemental dominance, (at least 1) hex smoke, and Energy Blade are the best options.
The gemini shared dmg type is the only one that matters for melee weapons.
As a bonus the Blessing Elemental Maestro will massively increase your dmg output and Smogbound Zone will help keep you alive. I recommend throwing a nade into any group before you charge in.
Best scrolls for this build are Spirit Feline, Coin Shot and deadly counter.

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz]

Theres 3 melee weapons, The Poisonous ghost, Flowing Light and Fire tower, they all have high element chance and a element linked to them, The Poisonous ghost's right click scales based on the enemy level and the 3rd hit in the combo does decent damage, the fire towers hits do high damage, especially the second one. and the flowing light is kinda bad but good for Lei Luo possibly?

[letir]

I have seen several birds using swords, with decent results. Poisonous one is most popular right now.

[Zerixar]

Swords do poor damage, don't synergize, and force you to play dangerously close. Only one character can actually use them to any real effect, and they straight up can't reach some bosses. Imo they need a complete rework.

[Nategore]

I had a pretty good run with Lei Luo with the Fire Tower. The high damage of the attack combines well with Fatal Current, and having an ability to refresh it and have thunder strike nearby enemies whenever I do helped me chain back-to-back kills. The extra movement speed granted by Fatal Current also let me get to and away from enemies faster, making a surprisingly good synergy.

Sadly, I had this run while the Flowing Light bug was present and I had swapped one of my weapons for it and activated it on accident and didn't know how to reset it, so I quit and didn't know how well it'd do past the first level of the 3rd stage.

[Intimus gel]

Originally posted by mar:

I have seen several birds using swords, with decent results. Poisonous one is most popular right now.

Bird is my favorite for swords because of his speed and advanced mobility (kicking)

[Nargubyte]

Originally posted by Zerixar:

Swords do poor damage, don't synergize, and force you to play dangerously close. Only one character can actually use them to any real effect, and they straight up can't reach some bosses. Imo they need a complete rework.

+1 to this. Swords seem really limited in terms of viable builds at the moment.

[Wilfre M.]

Had a good bird clear on RE:7 last night. It was a fire tower that had spread dmg to it along with a perk that ups ROF (that stacks) every time my armor broke. So with some HP / Armour regen on hit, it loops very quickly till i ran out of things to kill. Good 83m total dmg.

[gendanaetmentor]

the fact that some weapons cant touch some bosses is ridiculous, it shouldnt be the case. swords and fire dragon need to touch all bosses, cant touch boat and the flying beast in the desert is a pain too

[Snobby Hobo]

Originally posted by harryx66x:

Theres 3 melee weapons, The Poisonous ghost, Flowing Light and Fire tower, they all have high element chance and a element linked to them, The Poisonous ghost's right click scales based on the enemy level and the 3rd hit in the combo does decent damage, the fire towers hits do high damage, especially the second one. and the flowing light is kinda bad but good for Lei Luo possibly?

I like how you take the strongest sword and call it weakest. The Fire Tower has an actual shell with the Prince, and is the only melee weapon that could be justified using from all of them; the only reason is because it allows for the big multiplied numbers due to its high damage and can kill all bosses. A lot of the inscriptions read things like "upon kill"; which allows for fast clear speed if every swing obliterates creeps. Even then it's far from the best build the Crown prince can obtain.

The Flowing Light is actually a good pick up for any character that doesn't yet have a build defined. It deals a lot of damage, and electricity is the strongest all round element in the game. It just has no shell for anyone to upgrade it. Because swords don't land critical strikes they all fall off in the end game,

[Sono]

Maybe have an inherent damage reduction percentage while having the sword out, or after dealing damage with one.

[Snarf]

Swords need the ability to land critical hits. Problem mostly solved. It's that easy.

[<#9400D3>Dream]

Originally posted by Snarf:

Swords need the ability to land critical hits. Problem mostly solved. It's that easy.

15% chance do deal a crit hit.

[Swordgrin]

+1 for swords to land crits

[kibbnnuyy]

Dude. just play bunny. then melee is braindead easy