[Detective100]

Also, everybody saying that you have to be close to someone to use armed and that they have the chance to miss as an argument against why armed shouldnt be nerfed is just wrong. When you're close range against a mage you're basically putting your high damage, low cd spells against their lower damage higher cd spells.

One word: Beam.

Another one word: Knocback.
Basically, anything with knockback can punish melee users if they try to go all in without a care. And some of those beams HURT. Interestingly though, Cosmic gets to use a homing dash that can keep going even if they get hit by a knockback move, and hit you ;-;.

Another, more specific ability though, is sand's root AoE. Roots in general, too. Against melee, roots are basically stuns for most of your skills (while rooted, moves that have dashes in them are cancelled. That includes dash strike, fatal strike, and I believe even Psmash).

There's... Quite a case to be made for Armed/Unarmed to be a high risk/high reward tree. Saying that the reward in their playing style may be too much? Maybe yes, maybe no, that is part of balance. Saying they have low/no risk involved, though? With that, I disagree. All the skills I just stated for example, are mage abilities. Slows can work on melee too, even if on a lesser degree.