Actually, it's worse than that, since knives break after successful Dbash counters. Currently, the only way to reliably punish RMB spammers is being a melee specialist. I agree with your post, crappy gameplay should be penalized, not encouraged.
The melee system works well when weapons are around the same tier. Once you get into the Power Maul range of things it breaks down badly because you can just abuse the tier system and not have to worry about actually playing the melee game. Clanging also needs to not be the 270 degrees it seems to be right now. If you manage to swipe at someone from their side they should take a hit.
Because close combat is different than shooting. Similary you cant Dbash shots from Plasma Cannon. You can use lock for pistols though.
As a Melee player. I'm in the camp that melee needs a bit of a nerf. We shouldn't be killing people in 2 or 3 hits. What is the point of an ailment weapon that stacks extra damage if my weapon is killing you in 2 hits?
the wrong thing with mele is his fast attack's dash i think, the heavy one should have the darh, the light is just spamming, even if you kick someone and runaway, the fast attack will catch you.
part of the problem is too that each race has at least one broken one shotting melee weapon and they are all slowly getting addressed. Rite of fire got nerfed, whatever the warlocks use is getting nerfed, they nerfed the Striking scorpion glitch .... give it ime man they are working on it ... the normal non broken melee weapons are hardly dominating its mostly DoT weapons and most of the dot weapons are presently melee ....i think they realize it .... i suspect burning choppa and whatever special sword the Aspiring sorcerer is using to do it will be next
RMB spam works because most people don't know how to counter RMB spam. I'd say it's more of a LTP issue. If you're a RMB spammer and you come across a player who DOES know how to counter it, you will lose a 1 on 1. Most people will stupidly stand there in a melee, try to clang you and get upset when they lose. There is a whole toolbox of options available to use in melee that most people don't even use. If you consistently lose to RMB spammers, you just need to practice more.
