Every good thing about Necropolis/Settlers/Phrecia summed up.

Double down on Gruthkul's for serious melee fun

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seems like melee is so forgotten that i will point out melee got a huge buff in settlers.

The top "melee" skills represented by far fire from across the screen filling the screen with projectiles or other AOE. I'm talking about LS and FBK.

Go load up dual strike, heavy strike, double strike, pestilent strike, glacial hammer, etc. stats and see the "dominance".