Melee Skill

Weapon Types

Type:		Pros:	Cons:
	Swords	Good defensive Attributes and solid attack values.	Lower offensive ability compared to axes.
	Axes	Highest attack values out of all weapon types, best offensive Attributes.	Lack of defensive Attributes.
	Clubs	Good defensive Attributes.	Slighly lower attack values than swords and axes.

General Info

Differences between one-handed and two-handed weapons:

• Attack speed: One-handed weapon attacks occur with 2 seconds between attacks, and two-handed attacks with 3 seconds between.
• Attack value: Two-handed weapons have a much higher attack value, roughly 50% higher comparing higher tier one-handed weapons to two-handed ones.
  • It's important to note that less of your damage is reduced by creatures' defense and armor when using two-handed weapons. Comparing a hypothetical 50 atk one-handed to a 75 atk two-handed: in 6 seconds you're delivering 150 attack value with both weapons, but using 3 and 2 attacks respectively to deliver it this means that using the one-handed weapon your attack is reduced by your target's defense and armor 3 times, and only 2 times when using the two-handed.
    
• Defense value: Two-handed weapons cannot be used with Shields and have a very low defense. For the best weapons this means that you're losing ~60-70% of Def not wearing one of the best shields. When counting in how strong shields can be when enchanted with attributes this difference is even larger.
• When you are using two-handed weapons (or one-handed weapons without a shield), your physical damage reduction is counted off of your weapon's defense, and off of your melee skill instead of your blocking.
• Bloodlust Stance can only be used while using a two-handed weapon.

• The melee skill and melee weapons are mainly used by knights, who advance by far the most quickly at the melee skill, but they can also be used to lesser effect by other vocations.
• Melee weapons can be used an infinite amount of times, with the exception of the Ice Rapier which breaks after 1 hit.
• The amount of damage you deal using melee weapons is determined by your fighting stance, your weapon's attack value, your melee skill, your total Strength and partly your experience Level. These factors also determine your damage dealt with the 2 offensive knight spells: Berserk and Decimate.
• Melee attacks cannot miss, but they can be blocked by shields or defense (white poof animation) or deflected by armor (yellow sparks animation).
  
• You need to blood-hit your opponent at least once every 30 turns (60 seconds) to advance in melee skills as you keep hitting and at least once every 15 turns (30 seconds) to advance your blocking at max speed while getting hit 2 times per turn.
• Your weapon's defense value has NO effect while you're wearing a Shield in your hand.
• When using two-handed weapons (or one-handed weapons without a shield), your Defense-sourced physical damage reduction (as opposed to that from Armor) is calculated with your weapon's defense value and with your melee skill instead of your blocking skill.
• Fist fighting has a base attack value of 7.
• Melee Training Calculator Melee skills advance more slowly than distance fighting.

Damage Formula

Like it is stated in the chapter about the Distance Skill, distance and melee fighting use different formulas for damage calculation.
Your base melee damage is determined by your fighting stance, your weapon's attack value, your melee skill and your total Strength, with experience Level playing a part in the minimum damage formula.

Maximum Damage Formula:

 Attack Factors:
 offensive = 1.0
 balanced = 1.2
 defensive = 2.0

 Max = (25 + (meleeSkill^2 / 1550 * attackValue / attackFactor)) + (strength * 0.35)

Minimum Damage Formula:

 Min = (playerLevel / 2) + (max * 0.15) + (strength * 0.30)

Skill Training

You need to blood-hit your opponent at least once every 30 turns (60 seconds) to advance in melee skill as you keep hitting, and at least once every 15 turns (30 seconds) to advance in Blocking at max speed while getting hit twice per turn.
You get 1 skill try for your melee skill for each hit on your target when using melee weapons regardless of whether it's a blood hit or any kind of blocked hit, as long as you have bled the target in the last 60 seconds.

Skill:	Monster:	Location:	Info:
8+	Training Dummy	Anywhere except protection zones and non-logout zones.	They heal themselves and attack twice per turn, meaning you don't need other things hitting you for optimal blocking training. Any level can use these to train and they can be used by multiple players without killing them even at high skill levels. They can be summoned using a Dummy Scroll and last for 24 hours real time from the first time they're summoned.
10-30	Any kind of Troll		You can block these with boxes, flowers or similar objects to separate only two to hit you at once. They drop food.
30-50	Rotworm		You can block these with boxes, flowers or similar objects to separate only two to hit you at once. They drop food.
30-50	Dwarf		You can block these with boxes, flowers or similar objects to separate only two to hit you at once. They drop food.
50-60	Minotaur		You can block these with boxes, flowers or similar objects to separate only two to hit you at once. They drop food.
60-70	Slime		Bring your own food. Deal some damage to the "mother" (true slime) to tell her apart more easily. Kill the summons hitting you once an hour, monsters advance in fighting skills too.
50+	Crystal Bug	Summoned	You can skill on summoned Crystal Bugs for a very long time, even on skills above 110. This is the best option because you can skill in any place you want as long as you have someone, or another char of your own, to summon it. You can convince a Crystal Bug on level 81 as a knight.
70+	Gargoyle		End-game skilling monster, you won't be ever able to kill it with a weak enough weapon.

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