Hand to hand any good?

[Lingam]

From what I understand you don't have a higher chance of performing disarm or paralyze move.. maybe what you say about draining stamina is true though. But since you can't ever get any magical items like you can with weapons I feel that hand to hand is currently quite useless unless you pick if for a roleplaying reason or such.
There are mods out there that try to balance this out though by enhancing the hand to hand skill in various ways.

[Lord Sunnycool]

yes the way that i did it is i am master of illusion so i paralyzed a minitour lord in the arena and then i attack him alot then healed him and kept repeating that

I'd never be bothered to do that 

Then I prefer to just use my blade - it's too late to take hand to hand as major anyways!