Combat

Combat UI

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 A beginner's guide on combat can be found on the wiki page combat guide (outdated).

There are 6 skills to level in combat; constitution, attack, strength, and defense, magic and range.

Zones

Locations

Zone	Lowest Recommended Combat Levels	Recommendations
Farm	0 - 20	Any Skill
Caves	10 - 30	Any Skill
City	20 - 40	Magic
Fallen Academy	30 - 60 before diff11, 90+ at diff11+	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	Melee
Enchanted Armory (Duo Zone)	40 - 70	Magic
Elven Encampment (Duo Zone)	50 -75	Range
Chaos Wastes (Duo Zone)	90+	Magic

Dungeons

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

Elite Challenges

There are eleven types of Elite Scrolls, each one dropping from a specific area. These can be augmented, and then completed to increase certain aspects of combat. For the main article, click here.

Difficulties

Difficulties are the different levels in every combat zone. Every 50 waves, your difficulty will increase by 1. Increasing difficulty results in increased stats from enemies, as well as new monsters that can spawn at high difficulties. In every zone, there are Elite versions of each monster that can spawn, rewarding much more loot but being much harder to defeat.

The difficulty stops increasing once you either reach your maximum (which by default is 10, but can be increased by completing Elite Challenges) or you reach a value that you preset before entering the zone.

Every 50 waves, the loadout that is associated with the zone is reloaded, which means your food will refill every difficulty increase if your loadout contains food. This is extremely helpful when trying to get as high as you can.

Farm

Difficulty	Monster
1	Cow, Chicken, Goblin
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Cave

Difficulty	Monster
1	Goblin, Imp
5	Big Gobbo
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City

Difficulty	Monster
1	Guard, Black Knight, Militia Crossbowmen
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Lava Maze

Difficulty	Monster
1	Lesser Demon, Deadly Red Spider
5	Greater Demon
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Corrupted Lands

Difficulty	Monster
1	Infected Naga, Corrupted Tree
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Valley of Giants

Difficulty	Monster
1	Ice Giant, Moss Giant, Fire Giant
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Overgrown Woods

Difficulty	Monster
1	Wolf, Wild Boar
5	Nox Wolf

Chaos Wastes

Difficulty	Monster
1	Chaos Giant, Chaotic Abomination
5	Voidtouched Giant

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Combat Experience

Players gain different types of combat experience through a variety of different ways. Strength, Magic and Ranged experience are obtained when dealing damage with the associated skills. Constitution experience is gained when being damaged by enemies. Attack experience is gained by dealing any form of damage. Defense experience is gained by mitigating damage from enemies.

Death

Death occurs when a player's health reaches zero. The respawn timer will begin and the player must either wait for it to finish (where they will be returned to their starting difficulty with full health), or, in the case of dungeons, must hope their teammates can survive to completion.

There are no punishments for dying, other than your difficulty being reset or your dungeon ending uncompleted.

Skills

Combat skills
	Constitution	Constitution, in addition to the Scroll of Fortitude, is the skill that determines a player's maximum hitpoints (HP). The amount of health left can be seen next to the heart icon in the combat page. Food can restore health inside of battle, and can provide buffs to combat for a short time. Default auto-eat will only trigger when the missing HP is less than 3/2 the food healing amount. Change auto-eat to percent of HP remaining in settings for high healing food if max HP is too low to trigger the default setting.
	Attack	Attack partially determines a player's accuracy and their overall effectiveness when dealing damage.
	Defense	Defense partially determines a player's defenses and their overall effectiveness at mitigating and dodging damage.
	Strength	Strength determines a player's effectiveness when using melee skills.
	Range	Range determines a player's effectiveness when using range skills.
	Magic	Magic determines a player's effectiveness when using magic skills.

Mastery levels have a slight effect on combat.

Combat Statistics

There are four styles of combat that you can choose to do: melee, ranged, magic, or hybrid. Melee makes use of melee weapons (such as scimitars and daggers).

Ranged makes use of ranged weapons (such as longbows and crossbows).

Magic makes use of magic weapons (such as staffs and wands).

Hybrid utilizes 2 or more of the above skills with weapons that provide hybrid statistics (such as Shapeless Scythe, providing both STR and INT).

Player and Equipment Stats

Both your equipment and your skill levels decide how effective you are in combat. You must know how they work in order to make effective loadouts.

Offensive Stats

• 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.

• Intelligence (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: 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 ‘fireball’ will make use of Magic Accuracy and Fire Accuracy.

Defensive Stats

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

Affinities

Affinities are used in calculating your effectiveness for each subclass of combat, both for offense and defense. The best example of this is the Stygian Chestplate, which gives lots of negative offensive affinities, but lots of positive defensive affinities. This makes it very effective at tanking (absorbing lots of damage without being dealt it), but not good at DPS (damage per second). Affinities are added together from item to item (ex. a 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%).

Offensive Affinities: These values are expressed in + or - percents, increasing or decreasing your effectiveness when using a certain subclass of combat.

Example: Having a positive fire affinity of +50% means you are 50% more effective at dealing fire damage.

Defensive Affinities: These values are expressed in + or - percents, increasing or decreasing your effectiveness when fighting against a certain subclass of combat.

Example: Having a negative blunt affinity of -6% means you are 6% less effective at reducing/dodging any blunt attacks towards you.

Effectiveness of Affinities: Affinities increase or decrease your total effectiveness in combat, but not as drastically as it first seems. Each ability used takes an average of all styles used in an ability.

+50% affinity in magic, +115% affinity in fire, using ‘fireball’ ability

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(AbilityAffin1*AffinityMult1 + AbilityAffin2*AffinityMult2) / 2

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(1.00*1.50 + 1.33*2.15) / 2

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Effectiveness = 2.179

Ability Rotation

The ability rotation is where the different types of attacks come from. The rotation allows you to heavily customize your combat experience, with millions of different ability loadouts you can create.

Despite the name you will not actually rotate through the chosen abilities in order. Instead it is treated as a priority list. The first ability that's not on cooldown will be used.

When on the combat screen before entering combat, there is a box filled with abilities that you can choose to do. You must have an auto-style ability that has no cooldowns. You can then add other abilities. The maximum number of abilities you can have in your ability rotation can be increased by increasing your total number of combat levels. These abilities can be item-specific (meaning you must have a certain item equipped to use them), or they can be universal abilities (meaning you can always use them, no matter what). Universal abilities can be obtained by consuming skill books, which drop from dungeons.

Abilities

Image	Name	Style	Obtained From/Used by Equipping:
	Acid Splash	Magic	Ability Book
	Acid Wave	Magic	Ability Book
	Annihilating *Snap*	Magic	Awakened World Shaper
	Apocalyptic Ritual	Magic	Ability Book
	Armor Rend	Melee	Ability Book
	Artillery	Range	Ability Book
	Bandage Friendly	Defense	Ability Book
	Bestial Camouflage	Defense	Empowered Bestial Defender
	Bleed	Melee	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Blinding Souls	Magic	Chorus of Souls
	Bulwark	Defense	Defender's Pendant
	Call For Aid	Unknown	Monster's Ability
	Camouflage	Defense	Ability Book
	Channel Resurrection	Magic	Mantle of Flame
	Chef's Fury	Melee	Searing Ladle
	Cleanse Ally	Unknown	Monster's Ability
	Cleave	Melee	Default From Equipped Weapon, Ability Book
	Corrupted Soul Steal	Magic	Chorus of Souls
	Crush	Melee	Default From Equipped Weapon, Ability Book
	Crystal Fracture	Melee	Crystal Mace
	Daze	Melee	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Deadshot	Range	Ability Book
	Deadshot Stance	Range	Hunter's Band
	Defend Ally	Defense	Ability Book
	Dwarven Strike	Melee	Dwarven Hammer Necklace
	Ebb	Magic	Razorfin
	Elven Deadshot	Range	Elven King's Longbow
	Enhanced Ice Shard	Magic	Ancient Water Amulet, Shard of Kalanahmatti
	Enhanced Ice Slash	Melee	Shard of Kalanahmatti
	Entangle	Magic	Sylvan Staff
	Entangle - Thorns	Magic	Sylvan Staff
	Entropic Burst	Magic	Signet Ring
	Erasing *Snap*	Range	Awakened World Shaper
	Execute	Melee	Slayer's Pendant
	Fire Ball	Magic	Mantle of Flame, Fire Orb, Ability Book
	Flamethrower	Magic	Mantle of Flame, Fire Orb, Ability Book
	Flaming Fist: Chop	Melee	Hands of Khaast
	Flaming Fist: Haymaker	Melee	Hands of Khaast
	Flaming Fist: Jab	Melee	Hands of Khaast
	Flow	Melee	Razorfin
	Forest's Embrace	Magic	Sylvan Staff
	Greater Chaos Rend	Magic	Shapeless Scythe
	Greater Elven Healing	Magic	Sylvan Staff
	Greater Ice Bolt	Magic	Ancient Ring
	Greater Icy Shell	Defense	Ancient Pendant
	Greater Nature Bolt	Magic	Sylvan Staff, Ancient Nature Amulet
	Greater Nature's Sanctuary	Magic	Sylvan Staff
	Greater Soul Steal	Magic	Forgotten Soul
	Greater Wild Slash	Melee	Empowered Bestial Dagger
	Hailstorm	Magic	Ancient Trident, Ancient Ring, Ancient Pendant
	Heavy Ammo	Range	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Ice Shard	Magic	Ability Book
	Ice Trident	Magic	Ancient Trident
	Icy Shell	Defense	Ability Book
	Impale	Melee	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Infernal Cleave	Melee	Infernal Lance
	Infernal Impale	Melee	Infernal Lance
	INFO's Lesson	Unknown	Monster's Ability
	Invisibility	Defense	Ability Book
	Krakatoa	Magic	Chaos Crest
	Lesser Air Bolt	Magic	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Lesser Chaos Rend	Magic	Shapeless Scythe
	Lesser Earth Bolt	Magic	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Lesser Earth Strike	Magic	Moss Maul
	Lesser Fire Bolt	Magic	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Lesser Ice Bolt	Magic	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Lesser Nature Bolt	Magic	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Lesser Ward	Unknown	Monster's Ability
	Lightning Bolt	Magic	Zero Edge
	Lightning Strike	Melee	Zero Edge
	Lightning Strikes Twice	Melee	Zero Edge
	Lightspeed	Magic	Zero Edge
	Magic Auto Attack	Magic	Default
	Melee Auto Attack	Melee	Default
	Nature's Sanctuary	Magic	Sylvan Staff, Ancient Nature Amulet
	Obliterating *Snap*	Melee	Awakened World Shaper
	Ocean's Wrath	Magic	Ancient Trident
	Parry This	Unknown	Monster's Ability
	Phoenix's Flames	Unknown	Monster's Ability
	Piercing Ammo	Range	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Poisonous Strike	Unknown	Monster's Ability
	Prepare Resurrection	Magic	Mantle of Flame
	Quick Shot	Range	Ancient Air Amulet
	Range Auto Attack	Range	Default
	Regal Might	Defense	King's Crown
	Retreating Shot	Range	Ability Book
	Serrated Ammo	Range	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Set Traps	Defense	Ability Book
	Sever	Melee	Ancient Blood Amulet
	Shapeless Cleave	Melee	Shapeless Scythe
	Shatter Strike	Melee	Crystal Mace
	Shrimp Mist	Magic	Shrimp Scepter
	Shrimp Sting	Range	Shrimp Stinger
	Shrimp Whip	Melee	Shrimp Tail
	Skirmisher Stance	Range	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Slash	Melee	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Sniper Stance	Range	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Stab	Melee	Default From Equipped Weapon
	Swift Shot	Range	Ancient Air Amulet
	Tank Taunt	Defense	Chestplates
	Taunt	Defense	Ability Book, Chestplates
	The Limpe Sauce	Magic	Searing Ladle
	The Ol' One-Two : 1st	Melee	Modified Diving Gloves
	The Ol' One-Two : 2nd	Melee	Modified Diving Gloves
	Titanic Strike	Melee	Black Knight Titan's Helm
	Triple Shot	Range	Ability Book
	Wailing Souls	Magic	Chorus of Souls
	Wild Slash	Melee	Bestial Defender, Empowered Bestial Defender, Bestial Dagger, Empowered Bestial Dagger

Enchantments

List of useful Enchantments.

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.

See also

• Equipment

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