What is considered melee damage?

Savage_Audacity

I originally posted this under combat and character mechanics but figured id repost here in hopes of a higher chance to getting an answer from developers or perhaps a pc guru who has extensively tested this.

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https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/333165/what-is-considered-melee-damage-please-read-entirety-before-answering#latest

GrumpyDuckling

I never understand the classification, and there are specific instances that I hope a dev will delve into during their definition, such as:

- supposedly 7 meters or less is a melee (from what I gather from forum posts)
- but then there are gap closer ranged skills (like Ambush or Shield Charge) which are technically considered melee, which have a tooltip of more than 7 meters
- and what about a skill like Puncturing Sweeps, which is considered a dot, I guess? Can dots be considered melee?
- which makes me wonder about Rapid Strikes being a melee skill, because isn't that only a dot?
- and if skills that are considered melee skills have dot components, will each tick of those dots proc melee consideration?
- speaking of procs, do short range AOE attacks also proc melee instances (ex: DK talons)?
- and weapon enchants or poisons on melee weapon light and heavy attacks... if they fire in close range are those considered melee attacks?
- and will damage from a set like Night Terror, which damages enemies who melee attack you, also count as a melee vs. the attacking enemy?

leepalmer95

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

I never understand the classification, and there are specific instances that I hope a dev will delve into during their definition, such as:

- supposedly 7 meters or less is a melee (from what I gather from forum posts)
- but then there are gap closer ranged skills (like Ambush or Shield Charge) which are technically considered melee, which have a tooltip of more than 7 meters
- and what about a skill like Puncturing Sweeps, which is considered a dot, I guess? Can dots be considered melee?
- which makes me wonder about Rapid Strikes being a melee skill, because isn't that only a dot?
- and if skills that are considered melee skills have dot components, will each tick of those dots proc melee consideration?
- speaking of procs, do short range AOE attacks also proc melee instances (ex: DK talons)?
- and weapon enchants or poisons on melee weapon light and heavy attacks... if they fire in close range are those considered melee attacks?
- and will damage from a set like Night Terror, which damages enemies who melee attack you, also count as a melee vs. the attacking enemy?

Melee is basically anything not a beam or projectile

acw37162

Almost anything within 7meters

There are some exceptions.

DannyLV702

Spambush is melee

Sneaky-Snurr

Need a definitive answer for this one. So, bump!