overall though melee is really better. sure a spell caster can drop a group of inconsequential enemies really quickly, but they are severely nerfed on bosses. the trash enemies normally wont be able to kill you anyhow, and just picking up a few points of hydro will give you healing, and with melee you can dominate the bosses.
Agree with this. Boss design in this game is awful because they're practically immune to so many things it just makes them "tank and spank". My duo lone wolf mages just spam summons at many bosses because I CBA trying to lower their resistances and chip away at them with elemental spells.
There's also death punch, but eh.