Yeah, I can understand that, shoulda said "I'm hungry" instead xD
Ooooooooohhhhhhh, yeah, uh, gonna say, been smacked in the face by big scary mobs at level 92 for 22000 damage so I'm assuming since I'm doing like 33000 under ideal circumstances, I'm doing quite abit.
As for using melee while you're a gun user, sometimes it's just fun that way.
And for expectations, if you don't die in 4 hits, and your normal enemy dies in a timely matter, I wouldn't worry about your damage, just know it's easy to increase.
As for my min maxing, that's mainly me spending all my battle points in passive skills and using melee soul voices and melee arts to make my melee stronger, as my gun is absolute garbage. 13 hits of 16 damage on auto attack or 550 on melee auto? Really no contest, so I just improved what I had.