Combat

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Combat is how you defeat Creatures when hunting or completing Quests. It is how you ultimately earn experience and Luminance to improve your Character.

Character modes

Peace mode

Peace mode is the state you're in when the dove button is shown on the interface and you're not in a combat stance. In this mode you can perform Secure Trades, carry out all Crafting actions and heal yourself more successfully. You click the dove to go into combat mode and bring up the corresponding combat panel depending on which type of weapon you're wielding.

Combat mode

This mode is active when you're wielding a melee weapon such as a Sword or a missile weapon such an Atlatl. The combat bar has a slider for changing the speed versus power when wielding a melee weapon but this changes to speed v accuracy when holding a missile weapon. The high, medium and low buttons refer to the attack height.

The combat panel while wielding a ranged weapon.

For the magic mode of combat, see: Magic#Magic Mode

Charge attacks

When a player executes a melee attack, they first move towards their target until they are within range to attack. This movement is a charge–it is much faster than the character's normal movement rate, but because of that speed it can only be sustained for a very short distance. If, at the end of the charge, the player is still too far away from their target to attack, they will stop the attack and see the message, "You have charged too far!"

Wearing armor

See also: Armor

Wearing armor protects your character from damage and also gives your character endowments if the armor is magical. Certain pieces of armor, known as Item Sets, provide additional spell bonuses when multiple pieces are equipped.

Wielding weapons

See also: Weapons

Damage

Rating

Main article: Rating

Rating is a modifier to incoming and outgoing damage. There are also rating modifiers for healing, mana consumption, mana charging and aetheria surging.

Variance

Main article: Variance

Variance is the difference between top end and low end damage on a melee weapon. Weapons spawn with a top end damage, and the low end is calculated using the variance. One handed melee weapons spawn with one of 5 variances, Two Handed weapons spawn with one of 6 variances.

Skills

There are three main types of combat skill.

Primary combat skills

Skills that are used to inflict damage on the target.

• Finesse Weapons
• Heavy Weapons
• Light Weapons
• Missile Weapons
• Two Handed Combat

Secondary combat skills

Skills that work with the primary combat skills to provide useful effects and/or improve their damage output.

• Dual Wield
• Dirty Fighting
• Recklessness
• Sneak Attack

Defensive skills

Skills that reduce damage received or avoid it altogether.

• Magic Defense
• Melee Defense
• Missile Defense
• Shield

Death, vitae and resurrection

Main article: Death Penalty

See also

• Armor and Weapon Augmentations
• Health Regeneration
• Mana Regeneration
• Stamina Regeneration
• Natural Resistances

Update history

A Reign of Stone

• Hit messages now report those body parts affected during melee combat.

A New Threat

• You now receive a message if a player casts a spell on an item that you are wielding.