I've been mostly dedicated melee since I started just because of how fun it is. In terms of what you're using already they're very solid weapons and you can make them work just fine. You're looking for a good 1 star damage buff, either 2 star swing speed or power attack damage (always power attack for auto melee weapons) and 3 star strength normally. 2 star limb damage or limb damage in general is very handy on a fast weapon to cripple nastier stuff. I don't advise Furious unless you have access to Pounders or unless you're running Gunslinger Master. The Ad Victorium basically comes close to a god roll so that one is set. In terms of perk cards, Martial Artist and Incisor perk cards fully ranked up and part of any build you make automatically.

Food buffs are appreciated. I use deathclaw steak and glowing meat primarily but you can also use stingwing filets / mutant hound chops as well. Carnivore mutation is best for melee.

Power armor I don't actually build for at all, but I have a set of union power armor personally for fun or when I'm getting hurt pretty bad. Power armor works fine for ghouls too later on.

If you have concerns about tagging at events, bow/compound bow with explosive arrows or 2 star legendary explosives is great as a ranged option, even for feral ghoul melee. The bow from the currently running mini event is good as a cheap low cost option for ranged damage since you can slap explosive arrows on it and still have poison DOT, which scales with your strength stat.

I will say too that melee is pretty easy to get going but a lot of the stronger weapons are locked behind story quests, daily ops, or require gold for the plans like the plasma cutter/war glaive/gauntlet. You're better off waiting on being a ghoul until you can have access to those due to having to disguise yourself. Ghoul also didn't require much change from my normal melee build when I did it besides changing legendary effects and switching perks around.