Why melee PvP?

[compulsion]

I played casters on RZ and SZ, and haven't played EQ in 7 years. But as I have played a bit, I just don't think I'm down for 41 more levels of nuke, nuke, nuke, book, repeat.

So for me, and anyone else thinking about starting up, can someone with recent experience give us your thoughts on 50(or 40+ even) melee play?

Bard - more of a caster at high levels? never seen one seriously try to melee.

Ranger - seem fun, but I remember them being such easy kills.

Paladin / SK - diverse options for spells make these seem like the only decent choices in the bunch.

Monk - mend and high damage output, but terrible resists and low health?

Rogue - completely terrible?

Warrior - high health and 50(?) base MR count for anything?

Server latency makes it hard to even joust mobs sometimes, much less a player blinking all over the screen. Aside from battles over a zoneline, are melee just 2nd class citizens?