So the Skirmish weapon can be melded.

[AmyNeudaiz]

Not so fast! You could easily swap a primary or secondary stat with attack power on your gloves rather than on the weapon itself. For the bow, you could go with triple melded attack power gloves, and a solid double or triple meld of DEX on the bow to both reach your caps and have a weapon that's 2nd only to a relic.

If we agree that what's important is the total of all your stats vs what you have on the rest of your gear separate from your weapon. We can see that it doesn't matter if you have attack power on your weapon or elsewhere. What matters is the combined total of your stats on all your gear, then the wDPS is applied to determine caps and actual damage output. When we look at it in this way we can see that in certain cases melding primary and secondary stats to a weapon is not a waste and actually could be the best way to go.

And this is why I listen to Molly 99% of the time.
Stat caps aren't the only thing to look at.