This game desperately needs swords or axes. It needs a viable MELEE option that is decently fast and responsive.
>Maces
Utter dogshit. Slow. Clunky. Attack time built into the skills. They're for gigantic slams.
>Staves
They're a borderline melee/ranged hybrid. The most popular builds involve shitting out projectiles with every attack or straight up projectile attacks.
>Spears
Actual melee/ranged hybrid. The melee skills also mostly suck and the best skill is LS.
>Transformations
All of the ones they've shown are gigantic slow slam attacks again. Basically maces but you're a bear now.
It is WILD to me that they made this its own separate game in large part to fix melee and they've included one pure melee option (that is awful) and then two melee/ranged hybrids. You'd think quick and responsive swords, or large cleaving axes with decent reach and medium speed would be better to show off melee combat. Even quick daggers, though I assume daggers are gonna have a lot of ranged skills too.