KojiroNakamura

Indeed but being able to move at all with the shield and the one handed weapon would be nice at all. Also using the one handed weapon feat while the shield is also equiped be nice...

Hah good one. After a while everyone will just give up and become naked bowmen...

I mean ... server crashed a while ago i ended up STUCK in someones random foundation i was nowhere near and lost all my items. With all these HUGE bugs they should atleast not be removing the free respec option. Aside from making every weapon ingame lame, well other then bow.

Idk all this arguing aside i think that weapon balance is extremely out of whack and whoever keeps trying to balance it out is doing a really bad job. Just had an Alpha spawn on my othervise calm island (never seen an alpha here so far) and when i tried to shoot for the Alpha Tigers head with my Carbine from low range it just hit it like i didnt hit the head... 35 damage full 35 bloody damage. I would only need a larger miracle and about 250 bullets to kill it. So now after this patch, aside from the already completely useless melee weapons (did anyone from the staff actually attempt to use it on just about anything other then birds and bees?) anything other then the bow is mostly bad and a waste of points. And then we come to the respec issue. Still not sure if its a bug or intended but not having regular respecs, or a way to respec in a game thats in early access and has regular balance changes and bugs (just had to break 4 foundations to get from under my house after the server crash). Kinda not a very good thing. Should be something like a trip to the freeport and 500 coins to be able to respec your character other then the leveling (which atm i am not sure if its working or not).

Sooo essentialy melee is not viable anywhere? Well ye melee is viable and REALLY good for killing low level birds and bee's. You just have to swing like a maniac and they will die. Not something i would see anyone spending loads of skillpoints on. Demands loads of stamina also. But after this latest nerf Carbine, Pistols and Blunderbuss are not worth it either. Cost to much to make (especialy upgraded), lots to fix and make ammo for and only possible in your main base (unless you are crazy enough to carry alloy anywhere you go). Carbine does about 125dmg to a mob and then reloads for 20 seconds (provided you hit all the minigames) when the bow with normal arrows does 35 per arrow (again on normal mobs) and with just fast fire you can shoot about 12 arrows in 20 seconds which would make it about 400dmg provided you hit everything. Seeing as how you cant have both Carbine/Blunderbuss and the Bow in your hotkey's in the same time what would you use? A bow you can get ammo for and repair anywhere on the go that does x3-4 times more damage and you can sprint with (Carbine removes your ability to sprint while reloading for the 20ish seconds) or the Carbine? Did not test the Blunderbuss as i didnt see the point after testing the Carbine. At this point anything other then the bow is useless. Someone in the staff must really, really love bow's.

Melee weapons need fixing badly. Same could be said to plate armor. Nobody is saying it needs to be beastly one shotting kind of thing but atleast usefull to some point where one can use it in any way possible. Atm not usable. EDIT: also be nice to have a two handed SWORD ...

Well i agree but was mostly going for the Weapon and similar BPs where the fact it was be made only 20 times means nothing to me since they weapon has 125% dmg and 14 upgrade slots... Thats what i was going for. Edit: and ye melee weapons are easier to make then others thats why i was wondering if anyone tried it yet.

Tried the immersive taming mod on Ark ? If not i recommend it. Also i wouldnt say tames are "better" here then in Ark. Did anyone actually try to make a 120%+ melee weapon with or without shield with 120% plate armor and do anything that way ?

Last time i tried it a few days ago flame arrow was OP as hell. Arrows in general need to have ZERO damage on armored targets and much lower damage on bigger targets.

Anyone who says melee weapons are not garbage should spec out in full melee and give it a shot. Will notice very quickly why we all use mostly the bow ... And stop comparing this with Ark. Its not Ark. Melee weapons need to be usefull for something and at the moment in this balance they are just not.