What is your favorite melee and why?

Just add a /ninpose option so you can wield your blades the way you want to.

Simples!

(NIN btw, I'm loving it)

Reaper

Animations are great
gameplay/rotation is cool
love being an Edgy boy.

MNK, I love fighting games and fist fighters and MNK + BLM was what I played in ARR and onward.
Currently I'd put NIN at a second place it feels very smooth to play imo and I actually like Raiju a lot.
NIN might be my favorite tho when the buffs come the imbalance is definitely affecting my view of it, it kinda feels shitty how much they're underperforming.

SAM might've been a second if I didn't find the sound effects to be really annoying.
It's hard to explain them they don't sound like a sword but are very sharp and loud, SAM is really fun to play imo but the sound effects eventually tend to kinda get to me and become frustrating to listen to.

Reaper and Dragoon AKA Edgyboi and Ultimate Chad

Reaper for me. Not only is it aesthetically super cool, but the flow of the rotation just feels so intuitive and fun, and there's so many small optimizations to do in the moment you can do. It's just constantly engaging.

I know it's the "flavor of the month" notion but yeah - Reaper. It just has such smooth gameplay to it.

My favorite ranged DPS is still Dancer for the same reason.

As the game ages they get better and better at class design. I need to try out the new summoner to see if, being new - it has better design than older classes. And yeah - favorite healer is Sage. Gunbreaker makes my exception - I liked it but not enough for it to be my preferred tank.

My favorite would be monk. It’s the first job I got to 90 and I really enjoy it in Endwalker. Drg is also really close, and maybe it’ll be my favorite once I get it to 90. I found drg to be absolutely boring in shadowbringers, but I’m liking it now.