I am not saying Melee aren't at a disadvantage atm in Slaughter mode (they are). However, has it dawned on any of these dedicated melee players (and tanks for the matter as well), to consider banding together across their entire alliance (IE all melee from teams A,B and C) and going and working on the 'alt nodes'? Likely all you'd need is yourselves + maybe one healer and you could be better off. Let the ranged have their 'park and bark' war mid...go be effective how you can be. I'm sure some re-balancing will happen (even if the rebalancing is making the outer nodes spawn more often/worth more etc). But until then, try to come up with strategies that either work around the park and bark ranged party happening up top, or ways that might entice the casters to split up/leave the top etc.