I'll add my story too if anyone wants, haha, but,
If you don't like nuking and wanna just hit stuff, try FOmar or FOmarl. Both are great for melee fo'ing, and are both great battle FOs in general, haha.
FOmarl is good, has a good ATP and MST (I'll find the exact numbers later) and a max ATA of 180. Also has a fast shot speed, so using RM (Rambling May) is good on her. She also is the most balanced FO if i recall correctly. She has boosted ranges for shifta/deband/resta/anti which is really nice. A decently high atp and good ata. Also, Kroe's Sweater, a level 181 armor that boosts ATA 10 over max, can be used to boost her ATA if you want her to have more. They shouldn't be more than 15 pds at most. She also has access to a weapon called Vivienne, an all female weapon that takes 580 ATP to use, grinds to +9 and has like 650 ATP. They're really easy to find, or to find someone selling a decent one for cheap.
FOmar is great, has a max ATP of 1102, max MST of 1440, and a max ATA of 173. FOmar is really good for melee, but he lacks ATA. He has the lowest ATA in the game, (His 173 versus RAmars 259). If you see it as a problem though (most people do), just find someone selling a Godric's Cloak (A FOmar only armor that can be used at any level and boosts all stats by 30. Pretty sure its 30. This includes ATA, so that's a 30 ata boost over max at level 1 possibly). Or I could just give you one that's sitting in my bank :3. FOmar also has a range boost to shifta/deband which is nice, no resta/anti boost for him or FOnewm. FOmarl/FOnewearl have natural boosts to resta/anti, wheras FOmar/FOmarl have natural boosts to shifta/deband. FOmarl just has great support ranges. Poor FOnewm doesn't get any boosted support ranges but can use Rico's Parasol, a male only Tyrell's Parasol that looks cooler and does the same things, except males can use. Buut, he has great ATP, great ATA (ill also find the exacts for FOnewm later), and a max MST of 1600
There's my input on it, hope it helps! If you need anymore help (which might be beyond my capabilities, which isn't very much) ask Fyrewolf5 or -Saith. I think we all just call him Saith or saith.