Melee and support gems

ive noticed something that troubles me.

in most games and it seems this way here to

melee chars primary killing method is with normal physical attacks

which leads me to wonder what purpose most of the melee support gems have since they dont affect normal attacks?.

i assume this is no problem for witches or spell users in general as the primary method of killing is with skills/spells.

one option i could think of is to give mellee passives a smaller passive of its own option to normal atks.

Quite a while ago someone suggested moving normal attacks to a gem so they can be augmented by support gems... which might still be a good idea.

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zeto wrote:

Quite a while ago someone suggested moving normal attacks to a gem so they can be augmented by support gems... which might still be a good idea.

That seems like a step too far...

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zeto wrote:

Quite a while ago someone suggested moving normal attacks to a gem so they can be augmented by support gems... which might still be a good idea.

that does seem like a great idea as long as we could lvl it up to do more damage or something as it would be taking up a gem slot.

I don't see why at all. You don't even have to permanently move it... just add a regular attack gem in addition to the default attack.

There are already passives that increase accuracy, damage, and speed... that's all yer ever going to see on a normal attack.

I agree with zeto after playing a bit. I find myself trying to never use the regular attack because it is useless compared to spamming a skill alongside mana potions.

Another idea may be to allow it so placing accuracy, damage, or speed support gems in a weapon add to your normal attack.

I don't think that normal attack needs a support gem.. As meleecharakter you can have better weapons and these can have element damage and other buffs.

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Ryukra wrote:

I don't think that normal attack needs a support gem.. As meleecharakter you can have better weapons and these can have element damage and other buffs.

The problem is making supprot gems useful for normal atks

for instance a spell user with increase rarity support will be using that support gem 99% of the time

but a melee char with increased item drop support gem will not be using that gem 80% of the time.

unless of course the devs just want melee users to focus on mana pots and spam skills just like a spell user.

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Celtica wrote:

unless of course the devs just want melee users to focus on mana pots and spam skills just like a spell user.

Some people have started replacing their normal attack with the Frenzy skill. The mana cost is negligible, you get a boost to damage, and a free frenzy charge. Even if you run out of mana it just defaults back to a normal attack. There's practically no drawback.