Could still use some input. Thanks
Good luck trying to find one that's viable. Mages and archer/throwers are miles in front of melee templates in pvp, its completely unbalanced. Best you could probably play is a bushido parry swords/macer template, but even with that good luck catching anyone if they run and heal.
not a full melee template but disarm archer works ok for me. disarm them, hit them with other specials and when they run switch to moving shot to get the kill.
No, lots of melee use poison. It scales to highest poison level if you have 120 weap skill +80 poison. It's actually only really valuable to melee. Even at close range, mage poison isn't reliable to always apply highest poison level (very unreliable when I tried a month ago). Lots of mages use fencing to apply their poison. Overall, the skill is less useful than before, but can still be good on certain Temps.