How come all the Infiltrator characters have a ton of Melee ability paths?

Infiltrator is all about sneaking in quick burst and getting away. Why do you think it makes no sense?

Now think about other characters.

How many of them r better than infiltrator to melee with?

Just tried the melee human Infiltrator on Plat for the first time tonight. Pretty much demands an efficiency booster III or IV to cloak frequently for repositioning/melee damage boost, which is a bit of a limiter, but otherwise not bad. Quite a bit of fun. Would be absolutely devastating if the Escape Artist melee-kill cloak received the standard damage bonuses.

Killing Zerkers and Behemoths with her glowypoke is very satisfying.

I run it with every melee evo other than Momentum; Hold the Line's just too useful, and Momentum's bonuses are too small and require a ramp-up.

I'm not sure, of course, but I'd think they did it that way because of variety. People are already complaining about kit not showing enough variety as it is but now that we're talking melee, there's too much?

And you can kill things with melee in Platinum just fine. You might argue that it can't be done in one/two hit(s) but then, nothing can do that in Platinum. The reason that a melee attack is less effective in Platinum is just that you generally have to be out in the open to you're able to land one. This more or less equals certain death.

 Also, melee is more than fine for Bronze/Silver/Gold, so why would it be unbalanced all of a sudden now that Platinum is out?

Have you tried Plat melee with other infiltrators, or are you assuming it can't work?

I can personally attest that it can, at least with HI, and I'm not weenie wagging; I'm pretty good at this game, but I'm no Plat soloist, so if I can use it to good effect, I'd wager many here can.

Spray an enemy with a high-RoF weapon as you approach to trigger Munitions Training melee and damage-taken bonuses, cloak, give em the ol' glowypoke, then use the Escape Artist cloak to reposition and pick your next target. You'd be surprised how well it works.


Protip: there's also a hidden 10%-per-hit stacking melee bonus if you say "stab" each time you hit. Must have open mic to work. Also works for Avenger and Insurgent.