When to melee?

When to melee?

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Posted by: Raesin.2908

Raesin.2908

So my little Ranger’s only level 53 at the moment and so far I’ve only been using SB/GS with a Jungle Stalker/Bear because… faceroll…

Anyway, I know this isn’t the most effective way to play a ranger and since I’d like to drastically improve I’d like advice on when to use what weapons.
Browsing these forums I’ve gathered that the better weapons would be S/WH and LB but I’d like to know when you should be using melee and when you should be weapon swapping.

When to melee?

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Posted by: Molch.2078

Molch.2078

You should melee everything you can. Try melee, if you fail, try again. You can swap to the cookie cutter Longbow/Bear combination anytime, but melee > range in, idk, 99% of the PvE content?

When to melee?

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Posted by: Xenomortis.5972

Xenomortis.5972

If you can melee without dying, you should be meleeing.
If you die whilst meleeing then one of three things are true:
1. You’re facing one of the surprisingly small number of bosses for which meleeing is suicide.
2. Your team totally sucks.
3. You’re doing something wrong and need to improve.

3 should be your default outlook. 1 is the least likely.

When to melee?

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Posted by: ilr.9675

ilr.9675

all day, err’y day

…it’s basically the only way you’ll ever get good at 1h sword b/c that thing’s just got a kitten mind-of-its-own half the time.

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