Brawl vs melee am i missing somthing?

[Ereius]

Am I missing somthing or is brawl a million times better the melee?

I am around lvl 18 I have once character specialised on melee (bladed wepons mostly since they are ap 3) and I have the companion cyborg who is a brawler. There is no comparison in damage output and over all utility.

1. The brawler if faster due to 0.5 extra movement
2. The brawler fillls strike gauge 6 times faster because he attacks more often (6-10 atatcks per turn vs 3-4 meele (and strike is op with aoe stun)
3. AP 1 attack is op and after the first 3 atttacks they all auto crit because of combo bonus

I dunno is there any way to reduce the AP cost for bladed wepons from 3 to 1? otherwise melee seems to suck completly compared to brawl

[Roding]

In my opinion melee is fine, it is brawler that needs to be nerfed.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by robert.roding:

In my opinion melee is fine, it is brawler that needs to be nerfed.

I'd agree that brawl needs to be toned down a bit, especially at rank 10. The 1 ap attack perk is crazy.

[Zeel Ara]

The idea is that brawl is weak at first and the gets really strong later. Which is already a silly idea. Or at the very least unrealistic to the point where suspension of disbelief becomes hard.

But somehow they also managed to botch the implementation, so brawl is just several times better than melee at every stage of the game.

[BigRockWall]

The damage per swing is higher on the melee. Damage per ap higher on a rank 10 perk brawler with power/laser gauntlet. Requires the perk and the weapon otherwise melee is ahead