AOC Monk Melee Suggestions

it would be really cool to have an ability with the moveset of ice strike but you can socket essence drain and contagion into its support gem slots. then enemies you hit with the melee attack get the statuses of the two abilities put onto them. you could even have it so that when you hit the bell with this ability it would deal a chaos AOE and put the status of the slotted gems onto enemies around you. it would help with the feel and viability of a melee chaos character. maybe go a step further and have the slotted spells scale with physical damage, or critical damage so the dots dont rely on spell damage with a melee focussed character.

All love though. Game feels awesome and weve only gotten a taste of whats to come. <3

It just needs a Chaos type quarterstaff attack, also darkness per level and mini nodes need a buff. What you sacrifice by giving up the ability to effectively reserve body buffs/minions the trade off isn't worth it except for niche ranged builds. To play a melee AoC you are going to need an shit ton of evasion and either CI/MoM or other forms of mitigation layered to even consider not being a greasy spot even then i don't think its worth it. You're better off going invoker.