Melee builds as a whole are extremely underwhelming in endgame pve, especially when referring to builds that don’t utilize a ranged melee. With much of the harder and more rewarding content there is absolutely no reason to run a close melee build since they require you to waste time running up to the enemy, who will ultimately stomp you and instantly kill you. Close range melees don’t even offer an improvement of damage when compared to ranged melees and especially grenades. Why would someone run an ability that makes them waste time running up to an enemy when they could kill or damage that enemy the same amount with a wave of their hand. I’m aware that there are peragrine greaves and synthocepts, but those are merely two exotics which still require significant risk when going up against enemies that can one shot you. Furthermore those exotics are only on the titan class so they don’t address the overall issue. Close range melees need to have some kind of payoff or at least a way of surviving to actually make them compete with other builds and abilities. Maybe more melee specific exotics should be buffed/added or maybe the abilities should be changed themselves, what do y’all think? As an exotic idea I think it would be cool if there was a strand titan melee exotic for frenzied blade. The exotic perk for this armor would fully refund one melee charge if you got two powered melee hits (back to back or with a tiny grace period in between hits) this would allow you to get 5 in a row if you were just laying into an enemy or enemies, which in my opinion is more of a frenzy than 3 hits anyways. Additionally this exotic would speed up the speed of each powered melee that hits after the first (similar to the super) and additional hits applied to severed targets deals extra damage and slightly stun/flinch them in pve, so this would be effective against majors or beefy enemies in pve. I also think it would be good if it was added to the game (in the form of an exotic armor perk, fragment, or aspect for strand) that if you killed a severed enemy you would get woven mail, this would help a lot of builds in general. What exotic/ability ideas do y’all have?