Combat

Combat UI

Combat is a game-play mechanic in which you fight enemies located within increasingly more difficult zones. A beginner's guide on combat can be found on the wiki page Combat Guide (outdated).

Skills

There are six skills to level in combat: Constitution, Attack, Strength, Defense, Magic and Range.

Constitution

Constitution is the skill that determines your maximum hit points. At level 1 you have a maximum of 30 hit points.

You gain Constitution experience when an enemy damages them. How much experience you receive is determined with the following formula:

$\max(1,\lfloor {\frac {\text{damage}}{50}}+{\frac {\text{mitigated}}{25}}\rfloor )$

Attack

Attack determines your accuracy and your overall effectiveness when dealing damage. Attack experience is gained by dealing any form of damage.

Defense

Defense determines your defenses and your overall effectiveness at mitigating and dodging damage. Defense experience is gained by mitigating damage from enemies. How much experience is gained is determined with the following forumula:

$\max(1,\lfloor {\frac {\text{damage}}{25}}+{\frac {\text{mitigated}}{10}}\rfloor )$

If you dodge an attack, the enemy's attack level is used as mitigated damage, with damage dealt as 0.

Strength

Strength determines your effectiveness when using melee skills. Strength experience is obtained when dealing damage with the associated skills.

Magic

Magic determines your effectiveness when using magic skills. Magic experience is obtained when dealing damage with the associated skills.

Range

Range determines your effectiveness when using range skills. Ranged experience is obtained when dealing damage with the associated skills.

Equipment Statistics

Equipment UI

Not only do your skills determine how effective you are in combat, your equipment does too. In order to make effective loadouts, you need to know how your equipment's statistics work.

Offensive Statistics

Strength

(STR) Your melee offense stat. This directly translates to your melee damage output.

Dexterity

(DEX) Your ranged offense stat. This directly translates to your ranged damage output.

Intellect

(INT) Your magic offense stat. This directly translates to your magic damage output.

Critical Hit Chance

(Crit Chance) This is the chance that your attack hits critically every time you land a hit on your enemy.

Critical Hit Multiplier

(Crit Mult) This is the value that your damage will be increased by if you land a critical hit on your enemy.

Example: Having a Crit Chance of 30% and a Crit Mult of 50% means that your maximum damage is increased 30% of the time by 50%.

Accuracy

(ACC) Your accuracy is what decides your hit chance against the enemy. There are several different types of accuracy, where the types of abilities you use will be affected by those.

Example: Using the ability 'Fire Ball' will make use of Magic Accuracy and Fire Accuracy.

Defensive Statistics

Protection

(PROTECTION) This is your physical damage reduction. Any melee or ranged damage that an enemy hits you with will be reduced using this value.

Resistance

(RESISTANCE) This is your magic damage reduction. Any magic damage that an enemy hits you with will be reduced using this value.

Agility

(AGILITY) This value is used to calculate your dodge chance. The higher this value is, the less likely it is that an enemy will be able to hit you.

Stamina

(STAMINA) This value determines a bonus to your maximum hit points.

Affinities

There are four combat styles you can choose from:

• Melee: Make use of melee weapons, such as scimitars and daggers.
• Magic: Make use of magic weapons, such as staffs and wands.
• Ranged: Makes use of ranged weapons, such as longbows and crossbows.
• Hybrid: Make use of two or more of the above skills with weapons that provide hybrid statistics, such as Shapeless Scythe, providing both STR and INT.

Affinities are used in calculating your effectiveness for each subclass of combat, both for offense and defense. Affinities are added together from item to item.

For example, an Ancient Fire Amulet provides +15% Fire affinity, which would be added with the +35% fire affinity given by the Mantle of Flame to give a total fire affinity of +50%.

There are twelve affinities:

• Melee
• Magic
• Range
• Piercing
• Blunt
• Slashing
• Fire
• Ice
• Nature
• Chaos
• Poison
• Lightning

Enchantments

There are various enchantments available to customize your equipment in a way that helps you in combat. Here's a list of enchantments you might find useful.

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver Amount	Rune Amount	Runes	Effect per scroll
Scroll of Weakening	Helm, Body, Legs, Shield, Weapon	4	100	20	Air, Fire, Mind	Decreases the level requirements of the item by 1.
Scroll of Healing	Shield, Combat-Amulet	10	200	30	Blood, Nature, Cosmic	Passive heal per tick increased by 20%. Increases health received from consumables by 10%.
Scroll of Fortitude	Shield, Combat-Amulet	68	800	70	Blood, Chaos, Nature	Increases stamina by 10.
Scroll of Force	Shield	79	900	80	Blood, Death, Chaos	Gain 1% of your protection as strength.
Scroll of Overhealing	Weapon	11	200	30	Air, Water, Death	Heal for 1% of overkill damage on a target.
Scroll of Accuracy	Weapon	28	400	40	Blood, Death, Mind	Increases accuracy for all three combat styles by 3% multiplicatively.
Scroll of Critical Strike	Weapon	52	600	60	Blood, Death, Chaos, Cosmic	Increases critical chance and damage multiplier by 2.5%.
Scroll of Endless Ammo	Cape, Weapon	29	400	40	Chaos, Nature, Mind	Gain a 17% chance to not consume ammo (resulting in 20% more uses from each ammo piece on average). Works on ranged projectiles, melee whetstones, and magic charms.
Scroll of Rune Reserves	Cape, Weapon	35	500	50	Water, Chaos, Mind	Gain a 33% chance to not consume runes when using abilities (resulting in 50% more ability uses for the same rune cost).
Scroll of Reinforcement	Helm, Body, Legs	13	200	30	Death, Chaos, Mind	Increases agility by 12.
Scroll of Protection	Helm, Body, Legs	31	400	40	Air, Earth, Cosmic	Increases protection by 10.
Scroll of Resistance	Helm, Body, Legs	32	400	40	Air, Fire, Cosmic	Increases resistance by 10.
Scroll of Recklessness	Helm, Body, Legs	80	1000	80	Blood, Death, Chaos	Additively increases offensive magic, range, and melee affinity by 2.0% but reduces the respective defensive affinities by the same amount.
Scroll of False Equilibrium	Helm, Body, Legs	81	1000	80	Blood, Death, Chaos	Increases maximum damage and decreases minimum damage by 1.5%.
Scroll of Patience	Body, Legs	82	1000	80	Air, Water, Death	Slower abilities and attacks receive a maximum damage bonus scaling on attack speed. Scales off of ability speed, capping at 50% increase or decrease.
Scroll of the Treasure Hunter	Gloves, Boots	85	1200	100	Chaos, Nature, Cosmic	Increases your chance of finding items from slain enemies by 3%.
Scroll of Prolonging	Gloves, Boots	58	700	60	Nature, Mind	Gain a 20% chance to not consume a buff stack (resulting in 25% more uses from a buff on average).
Scroll of Enlightenment	Gloves, Boots	73	900	70	Air, Water, Chaos, Mind	Gain 1 more essence per action where essence is acquired.

Abilities

Abilities are special skills used to attack, defend, heal, or cause other effects in battle.

While on the combat screen before entering combat, there is a box filled with abilities that can be selected. Only one auto-style ability that has no cooldown can be chosen and it must be the last ability listed in the ability rotation. Other abilities may be picked, preferably with consideration to the type of weapon and equipment loadout worn.

These abilities can be item-specific or they can be universal abilities. Item specific abilities are temporary abilities, only accessible while wearing the affected gear. For example, equipping a Defender's Pendant gives the Bulwark ability.

Universal abilities are permanent abilities that can always be used. Some abilities are innate, as in they existed upon character creation. Other abilities are learned by acquiring and consuming Ability Books. For example, obtaining and consuming the Smoke and Mirrors ability book, will make this ability always available.

Ability Rotation

Despite the name, abilities are not necessarily performed in the specified order. Instead it is treated as a priority list. The first ability that is not on cooldown will be used. The rotation allows for heavy customization of the combat experience, with millions of different ability loadout possibilities. The maximum number of abilities available in an ability rotation can be increased by leveling combat skills.

Healing and Death

Combat Food UI

Healing

While in combat, being hit and receiving damage from enemies is inevitable. Health is recovered by the following:

• Eating food is a common and immediate way to heal. Although many raw and prepared ingredients are edible, it is preferable to consume cooked dishes for their higher hit point recovery.

• Food can be stored in a special Combat Food inventory found under the Equipment tab. With a maximum of 28 slots, each slot holds one food item (not a stack of food items). If using the AutoEat function during battle, food is eaten in order from top left to bottom right.

• Another strategy is to engage in battle during periods of global buffs (purchased in the Shrine of Toucan) conducive to healing such as Messy Eater which increases the amount of health received by food by 3%.

• Enchanting gear with Healing, Overhealing, or Soul Stealing also promotes healing.

• Certain abilities allow self healing such as the Forest's Embrace found on the Sylvan Staff. By wearing the associated pieces of armor (ie. those with Forest's Embrace) as a set, this activates the set bonus for improved buff amounts.

• Having a team member with the Bandage Friendly or resurrection abilities active during battle will also heals you and other allies present.

When you finish or leave a zone, elite challenge or dungeon, your health is fully restored.

Death

Should your remaining hit points reach 0, death occurs and a respawn timer starts. Then you cannot continue to battle before this timer runs out. During solo combat in a normal (non-dungeon and non-elite challenge) zone, this means the difficulty of the area you're in will be reset to 0 or the minimum starting difficulty set before entering the zone.

If you are in a dungeon or elite challenge, hopefully the remaining party members can continue towards the final confrontation, otherwise the dungeon run ends uncompleted and no dungeon victory loot is awarded.

Locations

You can fight enemies in combat zones, dungeons, or during elite challenges.

Difficulty

Each combat area has a difficulty setting, the default starting difficulty is 0 for every area. The maximum difficulty is the highest possible difficulty level, the enemies can reach during battle (this can be manually set for Combat Zones only).

A higher difficulty means a greater challenge to survival, but also a better opportunity to receive more rewarding loot. The starting difficulty setting can be increased prior to battle by:

• manual adjustment in the pre-combat screen (for Combat Zones only),
• augmenting the dungeon key (for Dungeons) or
• augmenting the elite scroll (for Elite Zones).

Zones

Combat zones are areas that provide an endless stream of enemies. Enemies are fought in waves where a wave can consist of a single enemy or a group of them. After every 50 waves, the difficulty of the area goes up by 1 level which equates to enemies also rising in difficulty level. At the same time, the character loadout associated to that area is reloaded, which means that food supplies in the Combat Inventory are replenished (provided that there is food remaining of identical type and level in the normal Inventory).

Zone	Lowest Recommended Combat Levels	Recommended Combat Style
Farm	1–5	Any Skill
Caves	5–10	Any Skill
City	10–20	Magic
Fallen Academy	25–50	Range or Melee
Lava Maze	20–40	Range
Corrupted Lands	40–60	Melee
Valley of Giants	60–90	Melee
Overgrown Woods (Duo Zone)	25–50	Range
Enchanted Armory (Duo Zone)	40–70	Magic
Elven Encampment (Duo Zone)	50–75	Range
Chaos Wastes (Duo Zone)	90+	Magic

Dungeons

Dungeons are instances in which a group of players can band together to defeat the monsters within. After battling waves of enemies, a final boss awaits with the promise of treasure and accolades. Unlike regular Combat areas, death in a dungeon results in leaving the dungeon and not a resetting of the area. Dungeons are not associated with a particular Combat Zone, in that they do not affect the starting or maximum difficulty levels of a Combat Zone as an Elite Challenge does.

To enter a dungeon, a key is required. These keys can be crafted and then upgraded through augmentation to make the dungeon more challenging and the riches more enticing.

Dungeon	Key	Lowest Recommended Combat Levels	Recommended Combat Style	Max Group Size
Goblin Settlement	Torn Goblin Settlement Map	30+	Any Style	3
Dark Fortress	Dark Fortress Key	50+	Any Style	3
Ancient Barrows	Cursed Spade	50+	Melee/Ranged	2
Overgrown Castle	Castle Map	50+	Any Style	4
Palace of Flame	Burning Feather	60+	Range/Magic	2
Giant's Keep	Giant's Keep Key	75+	Any Style	5
Eye of the Storm	Ancient Pyramid	75+	Range	5
Elder Ruins	Elder Lockstone	75+	Range	5
The Maelstrom	Ancient Maelstrom Orb	90+	Any Style	5
RISE OF INFO	Rise of Info	99+	Any Style	50
Dwarven Research Station	Dwarven Research Key	Master/Legendary Gathering Gear	Master Miner	1
Nature Atheneum	Heart of the Oak	Master/Legendary Gathering Gear	Master Forager	1
Abandoned Academy Base	Abandoned Academy Scroll	Master/Legendary Gathering Gear	Master Fisherman	1
Master Chicken's Kitchen	Prismatic Pudding	Master/Legendary Gathering Gear	Master Chef	1

Elite Challenges

Elite challenges are elevated instances of their respective combat zone. Unlike combat zones, the number of monsters encountered is fewer and finite. The enemies are more powerful and death results in leaving the area instead of resetting the zone. Elite challenges are strictly a solo experience unlike dungeons which allow solo and/or group excursions.

To enter a challenge, an Elite Scroll must be acquired. These scrolls drop during combat in regular zones and can be found in chests.

Augmenting scrolls will increase the challenge and the amount of loot gained from it. The highest completed elite scroll will increase the starting difficulty in the related zone by half the augmentation level (rounded down) and the maximum difficulty by the full augmentation level.

A common misconception is that completing elite scrolls rewards a passive Treasure Hunter buff in the corresponding zone. This was the case before Refactor, but was removed with the introduction of difficulties.

Scroll	Source	Recommended Level/Style (Scroll+0)	Encounter During Challenge	Related combat zone
Cluster-Cluck	Chicken in Farm	75+, Any	Ot_to's Prized Hen	Farm
Stew Stained Page	Goblin in Farm, Caves, or Goblin Settlement	75+, Any	Big Gobbo	Caves
Black Knight's Trial	Black Knight in the City	75+, Magic	Elite Black Knight	City
Taproot Scroll	Spriggan in Living Forest or Nature Atheneum	75+, Range/Magic	Elder Spriggan	Sacred Grove
Demonic Trial	Greater Imp/Lesser Demon/Greater Demon in Caves/Lava Maze/Deep Pit	75+, Range	Elite Lesser/Greater Demon	Lava Maze
Stormy Sea Scroll	Sunken Treasure/Ancient Treasure, Combat in Stormier Seas	75+, Any	Elite Swordfish	Stormier Seas
Corroded Scroll	Infected Naga/Bone Giant in Corrupted Lands	75+, Melee	Elite Infected Naga/Bone Giant	Corrupted Lands
Giant Scroll	Giants in Valley of Giants	75+, Melee	Elite Giant 33% chance between Fire/Ice/Moss	Valley of Giants
Shapeless Scroll	Chaos Giants and Chaotic Abominations in Chaos Wastes	90+, Magic	Elite Chaos Giant	Chaos Wastes
Enchanted Armory Scroll	Glass Knights, Rangers and Mages in the Enchanted Armory	75+, Any	[?]	Enchanted Armory
Fallen Academy Scroll	Corpse Eaters and Dark Mages in the Fallen Academy	75+, Melee/Range	[?]	Fallen Academy
Overgrown Woods Scroll	Wild Boars and Wolves in the Overgrown Woods	75+, Melee	[?]	Overgrown Woods
Elven Encampment Scroll	Elven Knights, Warriors, Mages and Rangers in the Elven Encampment	75+, Any	[?]	Elven Encampment

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