[Melee weapon...]

Speaking of shield, I'd like a lance-shield combo from MH-series.

[Mastery Rank 22]

My tactic:

 

[How do you play: 3rd person shooter or hack n' slash?]

For me, it has been Hack & Slash since Closed Beta (only charge attacks were viable back in the days, until Damage 2.0).
My main melee playstyle has been fast-slide.

 

Killing 20 Manics of LVL135 with fast-slide melee playstyle: http://plays.tv/s/Kuqc864fQGA9

 

The best gun for my playstyle is Sonicor, which allows you to CC dangerous targets if necessary.

 

Orthos Prime build:
- Primed Pressure Point
- Primed Reach
- Blood Rush
- Organ Shatter
- Berserker
- Maiming Strike
- 2 elemtal / physical mods depending on factions you're facing.

Lately, I've been switching Organ Shatter with Primed Fury for that crazy fast-slide speed. The damage output is reduced, but it's much more fun for me.
I still switch back and forth between Primed Fury and Organ Shatter (or one of the elemental mods) depending on scenario.

[DE NERFED NOGGLES, WHY THOUGH?]

I still have my mid-air floating Clem that I placed before the ship got upgraded.

[Login affinity boosters removed?]

After 200 login days, I'm getting boosters like every other day.
Usually credits and resource boosters. 

Affinity boosters don't show up as often for me. Latest affinity booster I got were on:
- July 23
- June 25
- May 29

Basically, once a month.

 

(yes, I keep track of my dailies)

[Anyone have a good build for Orthos Prime?]

Best Orthos Prime build if you're into fast-slide playstyle:

Spoiler

Switch the 2 elementals depending on the faction you're facing. 

Demonstration agains 20 LVL 135 Manics: http://plays.tv/s/KuHm_4iF5O9L

[Is it just me or is my Orthos P under performing]

Orthos Prime is a great meat blender, so I personally recommend building it around fast-slides.

Demonstrations of fast-slide playstyles:

 

For Fast-Slide, this is the build I'd recommend:
- Primed Pressure Point
- Primed Reach
- Blood Rush
- Organ Shatter
- Maiming Strike
- Berserker
- 2 elementals / physical mods depends on faction you're facing.

[Power Creep]

3 minutes ago, Rolunde said:

If you use them for Quick Melee and they have a low attack speed then they're "slow"

At least In My Opinion. And until those Berserker procs have a chance to boost that less than 1.00 attack speed they will remain so.

I tried to CYA that when I said " Especially when a weapon is Slow, you can get hit a lot before you get the chance to wind up that Berserker mod or get your Naramon in effect.  "

Melee weapons aren't always used for high Body Count stacked melee swings. Sometimes some people will also use their other weapons and then bust that melee out for some Close Quarters work. And that's when, again at least for me, that lower than 1.00 attack speed really feels slow.

Cheers ~R~

With Maiming Strike, you can actually go invisible / trigger Berserker with one swing: http://plays.tv/s/Ktn-35OsQxgj

[Power Creep]

Then again, Orthos Prime has been the King of Melee since Damage 2.0. (since U11)

[Is it the game or my PC?]

By lag, do you mean FPS or latency? 

If you're referring to FPS drops, it could be that your Laptop has 2 GPU's.
Usually, when you unplug, the laptop switches to the low-end GPU to increase the battery life.

Possible solutions: either disable the low-end GPU in the BIOS or change the battery state to high-performance.

[Failed my MR22 test]

20 hours ago, Senketsu_ said:

I watch a video with a player whu used a Othos prime and a rhino and copttered everywhere. Looked pretty spiffy.

Something tells me you may be referring to my run.

Spoiler

 

You can give this playstyle a shot. It could be a bit tricky at first.
Anyway, I recommend practicing this test a few times in the Relays with the different suggestions mentioned in this thread.

[Medallions should be worth more]

That's the reason why I no longer bother farming them.
I think they are only worth for those who aren't high Mastery Rank yet.

[Prime Time #126: Vandal Reaction Poll]

With the return of Lato Vandal, we can already expect Excal Prime at some point. Nice.

[Mastery Rank 22]

30 minutes ago, IamRageypoo said:

I love your syandana! 

It's still my favorite!

[Mastery Rank 22]

This is what I did.

 

[Does the new Archwing system give you motion sickness?]

For me, the two main issues are:
1. Camera is zoomed in too much, even with the FOV at max.
2. The 2D map doesn't seem to work well. A 3D map would be better.

[First Person]

53 minutes ago, NeithanDiniem said:

The moment you start doing a melee combo, you would never use first person again.

You can sometimes have a bug where you can play first person.
From my experience, first person worked amazingly well. Even parcouring was satisfying.

Other than the bug, the closest you can get to FP-mode is setting your FOV to the minimum and running with Loki with a black energy color.

[Melee Counter Milestones]

Something around 1300. When I was experimenting with Body Count.

[Mag Prime Vault Feedback]

Waiting for the accessory pack, since I already have everything except for the armor set.

[Primed Fury]

I'm surprised to hear you saying that DE won't help.
They always resolved these kind of issues for me and my friends.

Perhaps you didn't manage to explain them the whole situation correctly?

[The Gorgon issue --']

Would be nice if I could trade them.

[What melee type has the worst stance (or stances)?]

The only stance I found to be very useful are Brutal Tide and Tempo Royale. 
Blind Justice (although, I prefer stanceless), Seismic Palm and Crushing Ruin are also good.
Then there are some, like Atlantis Vulcan, that can be helpful in Conclave. But majority of stances don't really improve the weapon viability that much.

[Conclave Melee - Many Problems, and no it does not deserve to be in its current state]

Indeed, the main issue with balancing Melee is Parcour 2.0.
Skilled players could easily escape the melee-fighters, beginners, on the other hand, struggled against them.

As far as I remember, the melee has always been balanced around people that aren't too familiar with Parcour 2.0.
Perhaps we should think of balancing it around average and skilled players as well.

Anyone else tried to take the melee combat into the air?
It's pretty fun, but not exactly viable at the moment, since we only have two moves we can perform in the air. (slide and aerial attack).

A fleshed out aerial melee combat is something that would have been best implemented with Parcour 2.0.
I don't see that happening any time soon (if at all), so we should probably look for some alternatives.

 

1. Mods that enhance aerial melee combat:
- Aerial Reach: Increased melee reach when airborne.
- Block Trap: (Channel) blocking while both players are airborne, will knockdown the opponent.
- Aerial Magnetism: Just like the old Martial Magnetism, but only works when both players are in the air.
- Counter Teleport: Channel blocking when both players are airborne, will teleport you behind the opponent. (uses 25 energy, also, can't be equipped with Block Trap)

2. General passives on all frames
- When airborne, players with melee equipped have an increased resistance.
- Melee performed in the air has an increased damage (with melee equipped)
- Melee needs priority in its moves. Allow block, jump and roll to cancel combo's.

 

Another approach is to give melee-oriented players the tools to take the combat to the ground (like the Block Trap suggested above).

[Soon: Prime Vault Unsealed! (June 28)]

Really got my hopes up for a separated accessory pack. 

[Next Deluxe Skin Discussion]

1 hour ago, Etan-gK said:

a frost skin, preferably this one

_frost_img_

I prefer this one for Frost:
It's the same guy that did some of the other Delux skins.

 

EDIT: And I wouldn't mind getting that weapon skin for Orthos.