Fun Melees?

[(PSN)dice_thrown]

Wondering what melee weapons (and stances) people run strictly because they are fun. I'm looking to branch out into some non-top tiers that are enjoyable and still usable. 

 

 

[GinKenshin]

ankyros prime with fracturing wind 

kronen 

jat kittag (imao >_>)

kogake with brutal tide 

 

[xlraistlx]

Glaive (& Prime)/Kestrel/The boomerang from Grineer, Jat Kittag and I personally like daggers, don't know why.

[Sacred-Scout]

Glaive and Glaive Prime with Gleaming Talon until the new glaive stance comes back out

 

 

also Skana Prime with crimson dervish

Edited December 9, 2014 by Sacred-Scout

[VKhaun]

Swirling Tiger. Dual swords.

Very fun stance IMO. There's a combo in there that hits a guy a bunch of times, then dashes and chains into itself. Very good for running around pwning lowbies. I leveled a few weapons on Cambria this way and felt like it did reasonably well on the uneven terrain too.

 

Gemeni Cross. Tonfa.

If you look at the combos, the basic combo done by the player is good for normal use and then the others chain off of it depending upon at what point you start blocking. This makes it very easy to pick how you're moving around once you get used to it. I did some T3E / T4E for prime parts using this on a Loki built for Radial Disarm and had a blast. Not sure why I never went back to it,

 

Cleaving Whirlwind. Heavy weapons.

SPIN TO WIN, TILL YOU DIE, TILL THE LIGHT GOES OUT YOUR EYES...

 

Iron Phoenix. Single swords.

The pause combo in Iron Phoenix is very easy to do and the final hit does an AoE knockdown so it basically chains into a ground finisher. You can also run at full speed during the last two hits so you can actually chase or reposition, as opposed to Crimson Dervish where you stand there spinning like a toolbag as things walk away shooting you.

 

 

 

 

I do not enjoy Glaive types for general use as melee weapons. The first move they do is this down-to-up slash to deploy the weapon with a really wonky hitbox and somewhat slow (not REAL slow, just not QUICK) start up. As take down / stealth / finisher / thrown weapons they are great to have to add variety and versatility, but I'm not really interested in their stances. Redeemer is slightly better because of gunshots in it's default combo being AoE knockdown, but I haven't tried High Noon yet.

 

Gleaming Talon has a really nice combo if you just hold backwards that I thought would be great for Infested, but I kept getting my S#&$ tackled after one use, before I could start up the next one because of that one hit...

Edited December 9, 2014 by VKhaun

[egregiousRac]

I love Jat Kittag with Crushing Ruin. It was my favourite melee in M1.0 and now that I finally have the stance it is my favourite again in M2.0.

 

Totally worth trading my Crimson Dervish for.

[Drake_Gunn]

Kronen, probably my favorite melee in the game so far and can take on any level in reality.

[0zryel]

I would recommend, Kroken, Nikata, Glaive, Dual Swords... their stances, they seem to be very fluid effective, look awesome and are fun to use. 

 

Would also mention the Venka, but its stance Malicious Raptor is not only hard to get but also the move set is not that fluid, specially the stealth finisher (borrowed from other stances)... which is rather extremely slow. Hopefully the new stance when it comes out will fix that... ^_^

Edited December 9, 2014 by 0zryel

[(PSN)dice_thrown]

What dual swords do people like? Anything other than Ichor/Zoren? Are Cleavers worth it with the syndicate mod?

[PurpleBomber]

Serro with Bleeding Willow is definitely fun, plays a whole lot different than the Orthos Prime. Also another vote for Kronen (dat spin attack damage).

[(PSN)Magician_NG]

Dual Cleavers are my favorite, both in style and damage.

 

Dual Ichors are better, sure, but they look awful.

[bodyguard121]

Dual ichor is pretty good but i love the look of my zorens.If you mod it right you wont notice a big difference.

[BobaFett]

Dragon Nikana with the stance that drops from stalker

Bo prime/Bo with clashing forest. Good fun.

[-Grizzlye-]

nikana and ash all out samurai costume Ayeeee u see me coming u gotta run.

[bodyguard121]

Dragon Nikana with the stance that drops from stalker

Bo prime/Bo with clashing forest. Good fun.

Its name is Blind Justice.The stalkers stance.

[Monolake]

Venka has fun combos and looks sick

Galatine +Cleaving whirlwind

 

JetKitty has great slam and very high finisher damage, but only 1 combo attack really (spin)

 

Serro status builld is great - electrocute everything

[Noxramus]

It's a three way tie for my personal favorite.

Karyst with Pointed Wind, mainly because it looks sweet and always kills stuff.

Another favorite of mine is the Dark Sword. Haven't sold it, and still go back and use it with Iron Phoenix.

Fang Prime with Berserker. Stance doesn't matter. Go Loki and tear people apart.

[Kasumi-]

Obex.

 

Berserker.

 

Brutal Tide stance.

 

Fury.

 

Breakdance Prime.

[Deidaku]

Dragon Nikana with Blind justice 

 

you'll never used another melee weapon again

[Dirty_H4rr1]

What dual swords do people like? Anything other than Ichor/Zoren? Are Cleavers worth it with the syndicate mod?

 

I'm not fond of the cleavers, I like to use the nami skyla.

[MechaGent]

Jat Kittag, build for blast and berserker procs. All aboard the Turbine Feline Airline!

[EndlessMidnight]

Well, seeing as how stances exist to make melee a lot more fun, everyone has their own opinions.

I personally am kinda old-school, because my favorite is Fang with Sinking Talon. That midair flip always ends up with a chopped up enemy. Perfect for a nice Soup.

[TheGodlyGoat]

Honestly I'd say the fragor. It's completely useless to be used as any kind real weapon but it just fun to use on lower leveled enemies. You feel like some unstoppable person when you wave around a giant hammer one shotting everyone

[d1sc1p1e]

for fun it's the Whips everytime, you look like a Gymnast doing a ribbon dance in high speed. chuck on some Kenny G, mash E and enjoy.