Advanced Guide to Playing a Warrior
Advanced Guide To Playing a Warrior
General Skills
Core Melee Skills
- Specialized Weapon Skill
- Specialized Melee Defense
- Item Magic
- Healing
Elective Skills
- Creature Magic
- Life Magic (specialized)
- Arcane Lore (specialized?)
- Lockpick
- Missile Defense
- Magic Defense (specialized)
- Missile Weapon (Specialized?)
Basic Builds
- General Melee
- Life Spec Melee
- Melee Tank
- Melee Adventurer
- Tri-Spec Archer
- Tri-Spec Tank
Tactics and Gameplay
- 1) Love Thy Shield.
Shield Arc. Melee defense bonus. How a shield works.
- 2) The Melee Defense Penalty to Melee Characters.
-20% from behind...Melee only!
- 3) You can't fight and hold a position.
How Sticky works.
- 4) You're the only ones who Lure.
Others Pull. You Lure.
- 5) Health is your God, but Stamina is your King.
Stamina and combat.
- 6) Carry two shields, and have a Hollow Armor set.
Normal + Hollow Shield, Normal Armor, Hollow Set.
- 7) Tools for every occasion, you pick the occasion. (Weapons needed)
Different weapons required Quest weapons - Silifi of Crimson Stars, Shadowfire, Soulbound, Shimmering Isparian, Sword of Lost Hope, Skeletonbane/Shadowbane swords, Regal weapons, Royal Runed Weapons, Red Runed/Silvaran weapons;
- 8) Other Permanent Gear you need.
Royal Runed Wand; Focusing Stone; Healing Heart or Healing Orb (Mana healer optional); Scepter of Portal Currents;
- 9) Consumables you need.
Philtres; Beers/Ales; Dispel Gems; Pages of Salt and Ash; Grael Gems; Peerless Healing Kits
- 10) Imperil is your Shield Maiden./ Vulnerability to Imperils.
How Imperil works. Negative AL and SL.
- 11) Wear a decent set of pants.
Viamontian Trousers cover the girth, lower and upper legs.
- 12) Melee are the brains of the fellowship
Magic and weapons don't always have the same elemental supremacy. Tactics to use in fighting.
- 13) Use Your Power Bar Wisely.
What to use fast attacks on. When to use Full Power. The 'best' setting for Stamina usage.
- 14) Use Peace Mode.
Better Healing; Drinking potions; swapping weapons; looting; auto target acquisition; regen and rejuv rates.
- 15) Know the Math of Imbues and Debuffs.
Imperil, fixed effect. Vulns, exceed Renders.
- Crushing Blow
- Critical Strike
- Armor Render
- Resistance Render
- Armor Cleaving/Resistance Cleaving
- Biting Strike
- Crippling Blow
- Slayer Effects
- Iron
- Granite
- Rabbit's Foot
- Mhoir Forge Weapon Gem
Miscellaneous Gameplay, tips and tricks
- --Healing Kit and backpack next to one another on the hot keys.
- --Potions and Dispel Gems on hot keys.
- --To break out of a 'stuck' attack mode suddenly, tap jump. It releases the target lock. This stops you from charging after a creature or breaks a lag-lock so you can go to Peace Mode.
- --Going from Peace Mode to Attack mode auto acquires an enemy without having to target it.
- --You can attack through doors. Mages can only do that with Drain and Harm, both very suboptimal damage. Archers get to sit and twiddle their thumbs.