So basically I grabbed Brawl (+100% melee damage) took Strong Arm of the Anomaly skill node (also +100% melee damage - they stack) Martial Arts (halved melee cooldown) and Untamed Power, which makes a 5m nuke on yourself on skill use at 30% of your AP in damage. This hits harder than baseline Earthquake, but barely further than melee range.
Your class melee skill counts as a skill for firing off Untamed Power.
So what I've been doing is going Earthquake (modified for range and bleed, with +60% bleed damage and +60% duration and 25% bleed leech), melee, impale (modded for +50% damage to bleeders), melee, Tremors, melee, extra charges of EQ/Impale, melee, etc. You can chain all of these things back-to-back non-stop with less than a second long animations, and every single action fires Untamed Power.
It's like simultaneously being a nuker, DoT build, melee powerhouse, tank, all while drowning in self-heals. I don't even fire my guns anymore, I just flop into the enemy mob like a ball pit and blast fist-shaped holes through their backs. Insanely fun to play. Probably still clocks lower DPS than the damn Blighted Rounds builds but I feel vastly more engaged - and captains are melting before they even get a single attack off through my combos, so I'm not exactly lamenting DPS.
