The only time I ever wished I had my melee skill up was when I had a melee fight against a mage on my server in WSG (PuG versus Premade).
I spent the whole WSG either in that melee fight or daing with that mage while I made myself some food. Bk on top - get both weapons. Wand in range, whh is good for boss fights and sh when you're regenning mana or waiting to have to heal. Staves and 1handoffhand are only there for the stats. Personally, I prefer a stave in PvP (more stamina and intellt) and meoffhand in instaes (more +dmg or healing).
Having your skill up on melee (staffsdaggersme)anome in handy. When (OOM)wanding a mob with resistae to the type of damage your wand does,,,it's time to start swinging while waiting for mana regen.
The questions is why would you not want something that is free and might have some use sometimes. Melee as aaster is nothing to be ashamed of, and you get some white damage in there, whileasting.
Mana
ian see how itanome in handy, but that is 1 out of 100000 times.. imo its not worth spending 2 hours to skill it up when it almost isnt usefull.. keep in mind that you dont swing when you throw healsspells. ohh and how often are you oom and the mob is imunne to your wand? i myself have 2
wands bause i have both healing and dps gear so that makes it even less likely.. ill admit that youan use melee some times but the work in skilling it up isnt worth the gain.. sry dude.. off top: i should get bk to my exam LOL!!! lame tehers who doesntut of the internet cess at exams..