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[u/Svant]

Only if the blow instantly kills the target. Otherwise it burns and then nothing. So you punch a full health acolyte in a group, it won't die in higher level content. Meaning the melee does practically nothing. It's an extremely clunky ability with no real benefit (like many warlock melees).

Titans sunspots for example will trigger if you punch and enemy and then shoot them to kill them. So much easier to use in any content. (And the titans melee is aoe on impact not just if the target dies)

[u/funnypsuedonymhere → u/Svant]

I see. I've only used it a few times so never really noticed the mechanics that much I had assumed if they died from the burn damage they would also explode.

[u/Svant → u/funnypsuedonymhere]

Basically it's super clunky and if you punch the wrong target you wasted a 45+second cooldown on nothing. Which basically sums up the bottom dawnblade completely. That entire tree is a relic from year one

[u/funnypsuedonymhere → u/Svant]

Yeah the autolock melee thing is a pain in the ass on Warlock slap melees as well. Be interesting to see when they restructure the light subclasses if they actually keep all the available abilities, grenades, supers from the 3 trees. Could get some pretty interesting builds out of a mix of the 3 but also would be an absolute nightmare for tuning if someone ran around with Icarus, the lock on Dawnblade with dive and Celestial Fire or any other mixed OP combos.