Melee Abilities

Melee Abilities are usually close range attacks that can be performed by using your melee button (R1 for PS3/4). If your melee ability is on cooldown you will perform a normal melee attack. Each subclass has its own unique melee ability. Each melee ability has 3 different upgrades. Your Melee Ability has a default cooldown of 69 seconds. It can be lowered to 31 seconds with Strength stat. If your melee ability is on cooldown, you will perform a normal melee attack, which deals 100 damage in The Crucible.

	Class	Subclass	Description	Perk 1	Perk 2	Upgrade 3
Blink Strike	Hunter	Bladedancer	A powerful melee attack with extended range.	Backstab	Escape Artist
Disintegrate	Titan	Defender	Killing an enemy with this powerful melee attack creates a Force Barrier around you which absorbs incoming damage.	War Machine	Gift of Light
Energy Drain	Warlock	Voidwalker	A powerful melee attack which drains energy from enemies and uses it to reduce the cooldown of your grenade.	Surge	Life Steal
Scorch	Warlock	Sunsinger	A powerful melee attack that ignites enemies, causing fire damage over time.	Flame Shield	Solar Wind
Smoke	Hunter	Nightstalker	Throw Smoke to slow and disorient those trapped in its cloud.	Envenomed	Vanish in Smoke
Storm Fist	Titan	Striker	A punishing melee attack that deals bonus damage.	Overload	Discharge
Sunstrike	Titan	Sunbreaker	Burn your enemies with a heavy Solar Melee strike.	Melting Point	Thermal Vent
Throwing Knife	Hunter	Gunslinger	Throw a knife from a distance.	Circle of Life	Incendiary Blade
Thunderstrike	Warlock	Stormcaller	Deliver an electrocuting Arc melee strike at extended range.	Chain Lightning	Amplitude

Strength and Melee Abilities Mechanics

Players can increase their strength stat to reduce the cooldown of their Melee Abilities.

When you have no strength and thus 0% cooldown reduction bonus to your melee abilities, your melee ability recharges in 1 minute and 9 seconds.

When you have enough strength to have 100% cooldown reduction bonus to your melee abilities, your melee ability recharges in 31 seconds (45% of original recharge).