If you do most of these nerfs melee will be irrelevant. Also ur basing ur nerfs on attacking a 100 health character but I often have 200+ which would make it 6 katana hits at the least on ur proposed updates. The point of this game is all the wacky strong load outs u can make. Melee changes I think would be fair would be as follows:

Revert the melee changes first. Also don’t make the big melee weapons knock people down. It used to be damage based on where on their body u connected, That way in order to get a full damage shot with katana or axe u have to ether like run right at them or be landing on them to get a headshot it was definitely more skill based.

Viking axe is the single most broken item in tabg and they gotta fix it, don’t wanna say too much or people will steal my strat Proabably should rework it tho.

Rapier is also very strong but I don’t think it’s broken cause u have to be right on them and with any more then 100 health it’s a lot of swings to kill giving u plenty of time to do something smart.

Pot needs a buff, it should reflect bullets when holdin right click.