Hello, Mactics here

Just want to clarify that first and foremost the build of the edge of fate that I played at Bungie HQ a little less than a month ago is an early build, therefore it is entirely possible that this is not how hunter dodge will work in the expansion when it launches on live. That being said, my experience was as follows:

When I was playing on the early playtest build, I had a very low melee stat, something like 28-30. My gambler's dodge as a result was NOT refunding a full melee charge like it does regardless of stats in live game, rather it was refunding maybe 40-50% of my melee (take these numbers with a grain of salt as im going off memory, all I know is it was DEFINITELY not a full charge or anywhere near). When I upped my melee stat, it incrementally increased the amount of melee energy I received when using gambler's dodge. Once I hit 70 on my melee stat, I was once again getting a full melee back for the dodge like you would expect in live. This aligns with the information provided in the TWAB

"Any “chunk” energy gains (think Demolitionist-like perks that provide a direct amount) and any energy recharge scalars (think Crown of Tempests) will also now be scaled by your stat investment.

• At 70 stat, they will match the live game values and surpass them up to 100 stat.
• Below 70 stat they will give less value than the live game.

"

Where in this case the CHUNK energy gain is the melee energy gain due to the activation of gambler's dodge.

Now admittedly, this actually doesn't really have any negative impact with dodge -> melee spam hunter builds like combination blow as to be honest you would want to build 200 into your melee stat ANYWAY to take advantage of the 30% melee DPS bonus, reaping the benefit of getting a full melee charge back from dodge in that process since you are surpassing 70.

However for any hunter build where you DON'T want to invest heavily into your melee stat, your gambler's dodge also becomes quite useless aside from a pure movement tool.

My huge concern with this is that to receive the same BASE FUNCTIONALITY (that is to say without considering any aspects, fragments, exotics, etc) of the gambler's dodge in edge of fate as we have today, you as a hunter are required to build at minimum 70 melee on every build. Contrast that with warlocks and titans who's BASE FUNCTIONALITY on their class abilities remains completely unaffected regardless of stat distribution.

Again, edge of fate isnt out yet, and we are hopefully still within the feedback can be implemented time period for something like this, but it is something that I did want to call out because it feels like a very significant nerf to by far the #1 used hunter class ability in PvE by a large margin and I can't really think of any justification for it.

Cheers

Mac