What if the melee shield classes did damage via dashing like in terraria yk
The dash cooldown could be reduced by 15% to make it a better attacker without chain dash & it does more damage with each dash upgrade (+1 damage per dash stage so maybe 15 damage at basic, 16 at medium, & 17 at advanced - maybe 19 with long dash (base damage would be increased by 2 for mirror at the expense of it being more fragile))
it sounds crazy af i know but this could be cool
If u dont understand what i just said then here: Shield of Cthulhu - Official Terraria Wiki