The enemies that explode do way too much damage I feel. it felt like rocket tag. I think melee is not worth it unless you have the cold+poison mixture that makes you super fast, with it it felt incredibly fun to play but without it going into melee was pretty much an immediate death sentence. lightning is flatly the best base element. because the rooms are often small I did not see the point in switching out of it except for an emergency heal or to keep my cold+poison buff up. speaking on healing, it's also fairly weak. the only time I felt the need to switch to it was purely out of desperation because I got chunked in like half a second.