Thats fixed since a good time. You definitly should buy the lower boxes. They contain valueable mods (or garbage) but thats the same in the higher boxes.
Actually, numbers were crunched and eldar melee weapons are the weakest and require most hits to kill their targets then everyone else melee weapons used on eldar. Outside of crutch like stealth and scream, eldar melee is actually up, requiring on average 1 more swing then others require to kill eldar. Just throwing some facts here.
Between the mobility of the Eldar and the gimmicks that allow them to unload massive amount of alpha damage, they're by far the easiest of the melee classes to play. I don't know about the "crunched numbers", because I've never seen them and there are no citations from the poster, but what I DO know is that I absolutely murder people in melee as Eldar. Banshees can one shot with scream and a heavy attack if the circumstances are right. Same for Scorpions attacking from stealth. Stamina, hopping around, knowing the melee system, and using the Eldar tools, you should be able to dominate melee. If you're not, you're doing it wrong.
There is one older thread about melee, where LSM whined about eldar having more damage. Not sure who it was, but there was long post comparing eldar swords vs other factions EHP builds and vice versa and while everyone needs on average 3 fast hits to kill eldar, eldar need 4 against same archetype class.
Numbers are pretty close... It only requires one more strike when facing GAs (because of increased base Armour) @ItGetsAllOver if you want I can try to find the posts for you. EDIT: well here you go: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/should-all-melee-weapons-be-equal.64922/page-8#post-1449085
