Quest Rewards for Melee Ranger - Chance to Flee?!

If you are a melee Ranger, you will get cleave or Reave (ie: cleave) in a race. You also will probably not use projectile attacks.

For the 'siren's cadence' quest in act 1 Normal, you get these rewards:
Added Cold Damage
Faster Projectiles
Fork

So, you will pick Added cold damage if you are melee, since the other two probably aren't useful unless you happened to get a lucky Lightning strike drop. Nothing wrong with this so far, added cold dmg is nice for dual-wield cleave if you can afford the mana.

Then in Act II Normal, for the 'Sharp and Cruel' quest, these are the rewards:
Fork
Faster Projectiles
Added Cold Damage
Lesser Multiple Projectiles
Pierce
Chance to Flee
Melee Splash

Melee Splash probably isn't useful since you already have cleave. (Unless you got a skill gem drop like Infernal Blow or something)
Also, you already have Added Cold dmg. All of the others are projectile supports.
This means your best option is 'Chance to Flee'. Seriously?
There are a large number of support gems that would be useful to the melee ranger about now. But that is not one of them.

tl;dr: Sharp and Cruel needs a good melee ranger race reward. (Or, 'Chance to flee' needs to not be the worst gem ever in a race for melee.)

what makes you think that melee ranger needs a buff? There are far more severe issues with bow rangers, melee ranger is absolutely fine, this is a "bottom of the list" concern.

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SlixSC wrote:

what makes you think that melee ranger needs a buff? There are far more severe issues with bow rangers, melee ranger is absolutely fine, this is a "bottom of the list" concern.

I usually find bow ranger easier; melee ranger has potential for higher lvl but is much more likely to die. I don't think that is bad.

I was just trying out melee ranger and noticed that there's no good choice there, so I thought I'd point it out.