Melee attacks, what counts as one?

Scora · November 2015

For Imperials and Redguards, their last passive says it triggers on melee attacks but what counts as a melee attack? I assume basick light and heavy attacks does and i assume weapon skills does? But what about melee ranged abilities such as Templars puncturing strikes or Nightblades Veiled Strike?

Ahzek · November 2015

Basically if it scales off stamina and does damage it is a "melee attack" for most situations. For example bow skills and light attacks still trigger those passives and the stamina morph of templar jabs does as well. However the magicka jabs do not trigger these passives, even though the have the smae range as their stamina counterparts.

Scora · November 2015

so would Biting jabs procc Red diamon then? if i understand correctly

lolo_01b16_ESO · November 2015

Scora wrote: »

so would Biting jabs procc Red diamon then? if i understand correctly

Yes it does.

Everything that costs stamina and has less then 8m range will proc it.

Scora · November 2015

Thanks alot for the info. now to decide if i'd be better of as a Redguard or as a Imperial ^^

ShadowDisciple · November 2015

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

Scora wrote: »

so would Biting jabs procc Red diamon then? if i understand correctly

Yes it does.

Everything that costs stamina and has less then 8m range will proc it.

concealed weapoms is melee.

everything under or 8m regardless of stamina or mag is melee

Scora · November 2015

so is melee less then 8m or everything at 8m and below that uses stamina? ^^

Jitterbug · November 2015

everything 7m or under in my experience

hrothbern · November 2015

it is a bit more complicated....

Teleport Strike has 22 meter distance and counts as melee !
The logic is probably that "you flash through shadows" and "attack" from within the "normal" melee distance.

I think that the used logic is correct. But this example only shows that there is "besides the obvious, the not so obvious"!
I think therefore also that ZOS should expand the tooltip for those cases where the properties of an ability are not so obvious.
In the case of "melee", the shortest way to expand the tooltip is adding 8 positions: 2 brackets and 6 letters (melee).