[TheGeek]

I never meleed much so i dont know much about its hit rates and damage. But in my opinion, Ranged weapons should have the lower hit rate of the two, with lower base damage, but high critical hit damage and higher chance to crit. This would leave melee with a better hit rate and more base damage but not as much critical chance or damage. You can take a chance on hitting high crits with ranged or take the consistency of good damage with melee.