Melee still sucks early

Yep.

Totally absurdly unplayable as solo through campaign, at least with a lighning build, or I am doing it wrong. This is a comparison to a PF poison and caster contagion. <- They were much more easy to progress the campaign, so there must be a balance issue with ranged vs melee still.

Duo is a totally different playground, as melee has quite easy high damage output on bosses.

But oh boy, solo melee.... Terrible.

I never had issues with mob density, but now it is a HUGE issue. :D

lol melee feels like underwater combat, slow and clunky. Better not run into the mobs or you'll get boxed in to those tight little corners of the map.

At times if you get those slow effects on you it can feel like you are Goku fighting at 100 times gravity.