Yeah, the Melina thing sucks. How cool would it have been to get some kind of interaction from her in the Shaman village or in the end if she was kept alive in the base game? How cool would it have been if after defeating Midra and assuming you inherited the Flame of Frenzy from the Three Fingers, it opened a temporal map back to the Lands Between where you'd get to fight Melina as the boss and gloam-eyed queen.