Melee Skill

Weapon Types:

Type:	Pros:	Cons:
Swords	Good defensive Attributes and solid attack values.	Only one viable end-game two-handed sword.
Axes	Highest attack values out of all weapon types, best offensive Attributes.	Lack of defensive Attributes.
Clubs	Best defensive Attributes.	The best clubs are extremely difficult to obtain.

General Info:

Fist fighting has a base attack value of 7.
Melee weapons can be used for an infinite amount of times, with the exception of the Ice Rapier which breaks after 1 hit.
Melee fighting is mainly used by knights, who advance the fastest using it.
Melee attacks cannot miss, but they can be blocked by shields (defence) (poof animation) or deflected by armor (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.
One-handed weapons hit once every 2 seconds (standard 'turn'), while two-handed weapons hit once every 3 seconds.
Two-handed weapons usually have much higher attack values than one-handed ones, but their defence is much lower.
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 weapon type melee skill instead of your shielding.
Your weapon's defence value has NO effect while you're also wearing a Shield or some of the Wands & Staves in one of your hands.
Melee Training Calculator Melee skills advance more slowly than distance fighting, but they are easier to train.

Damage Formula:

Like it is stated in the chapter about Distance Fighting, distance and melee fighting use different formulas for damage calculation.
This chapter only regards the formula for melee fighting.

Maximum Damage Formula:
0.021 * [Skill Level^(5/4)] * Weapon Attack + 5

So a knight with 80 sword skill and a Magic Sword would calculate his max hit (highest possible not counting target's defense or armor) as shown:

{0.021 * [80^(5/4)] * 48} + 5 = 246

Minimum Damage:
One-handed	No minimum damage value.
Two-handed	+1 min dmg per 10 levels (e.g. lvl 100 = min dmg 10).

Skill Training Options:

Skill:	Monster:	Location:	Info:
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.

Items which increase Melee Skills:

All items with the Vast Grip Attribute increase a player's melee skill, those items will not be listed here.

Image:	Name:	Sword increase:
	Cheesy Maris Feast	+3 Sword Fighting (for 2 hours)
RTENOTITLE	Sword Ring	+4 Sword Fighting (for 30 minutes)
	Spicy Maris Feast	+3 Axe Fighting (for 2 hours)
	Axe Ring	+4 Axe Fighting (for 30 minutes)
	Bitter Maris Feast	+3 Club Fighting (for 2 hours)
	Club Ring	+4 Club Fighting (for 30 minutes)
	Meteorite Axe	+1 Axe Fighting
	Meteorite Sword	+1 Sword Fighting
	Meteorite Hammer	+1 Club Fighting
	Watcher Legs	+1 to Melee Skills
	Umbral Platemail	+2 to Melee Skills
	Angelic Legs	+3 to Melee Skills