Is there any benefit to keeping melee energy builders?

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I've got a character I'm experimenting with, and to start I gave him Clobber and Power Gauntlet. I've realized that it's somewhat inconvenient to have to get to melee with someone in order to gain Energy. Is there any practical reason to keep Clobber, or should I go with a ranged energy builder? Is there any benefit at all to Clobber if you plan to be something of a melee/ranged hybrid?

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Well I think the main advantage is that Melee builders seem to do better damage than the rangd counterparts. (From my experience. Your milage may vary)

Secondly, all melee builder powers have a ranged taunting effect built in. That is, if you use it when your opponent is at range, instead of doing damage, you growl at them. Depending on the mob, they'll usually get angry and move into melee range of you. (This trick works pretty well with those annoying flying Qulaar in the tutorial)

It comes in handy.

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Well I think the main advantage is that Melee builders seem to do better damage than the rangd counterparts. (From my experience. Your milage may vary)

Secondly, all melee builder powers have a ranged taunting effect built in. That is, if you use it when your opponent is at range, instead of doing damage, you growl at them. Depending on the mob, they'll usually get angry and move into melee range of you. (This trick works pretty well with those annoying flying Qulaar in the tutorial)

It comes in handy.

But apparently has a hidden cooldown of some sort. I haven't been able to use it two times in a row.

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Also note those taunting effects disable blocking in pvp for the person targeted.

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It also seems like the engery gain is much better from melee builders. That what it seems like to me anyway D: Either way Im loving melee and I really thought I wouldnt tbh.

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Let's not forget the dual blade energy builder...melee AOE is nice XD