Skill Reveal: Lancing Steel and Shattering Steel

out of all the new gem these ones are meh!

Impale no video? :(

not bad

Really looks horrible. Visual design impotence.
Why not inventing a skill like daresso's wave (something similar to wild strike ice wave). Instead we get this "hello 1998" skill. Jesus christ.

Hitting a monster with the initial melee attack ought to buff the skill, like adding 3(++)% of the monster's max hp as additional damage to the projectiles, or making the projectiles do 3/4 the base damage if nothing was hit with the melee attack, or giving it projectile speed, or giving it more projectiles, otherwise it looks too generic.

It just does not look right, when you swing the weapon in mid air and get a ranged attack. At least lightning strike hits the ground and gives a minor bonus on hitting an enemy with the initial strike.

Quite unimpressed.
I mean, I don't have a great idea for new melee skills myself, but these definitely aren't.
Just put melee to bed with a shovel.

This is bullshit.

Let's not get out of our own way to celebrate this.

1) One of the skills is conceptually the same as frost blades, with some secondary difference.

2) These skills are trying to convince people that melee isn't bad by making melee a range skill. The fundamental problem needs to be fixed, not the symptoms...

ya dig?

What about a big 2h sword/axe whatever skill that lets you cut and swipe big arcs and gain speed in the process? I mean, it is not very hard I can think up a million crappy skills that would be 100% better than what we have for 2H sword physical.

Looks like they are pure phys damage and they only work with swords and axes? Most likely broken damage with stat sticks and mediocre without. Don't care though; they look cool. Nice new skills GGG.

Decent self cast spell leech (except on warlords of all things) next pretty please? You've been buffing traps, mines, melee, totems and what not for ages now without selfcast buffs.

So sort of like ice blades but with only physical damage?