Thread: Melee Skill Guide

Training - What to hit and when

00.0 - 30.0 - N/A (buy skill from NPC)
30.1 - 40.0 - bulls, harts, headless, great harts, walruses
40.1 - 50.0 - great harts, horde minions, orcs
50.1 - 60.0 - brigands, corpsers, ghouls, imps, orcs, ratmen, skeletons, spectres, zombies, wraiths
60.1 - 70.0 - dread spiders, ettins, Jhelom fighters (no weapon, leather armor), trolls, water elementals
70.1 - 80.0 - ettins, harpies, Jhelom fighters (no weapon, metal armor), lich lords, ogres, trolls
80.1 - 90.0 - blood elementals, bog beasts, bone/skeletal knights, cyclops, dull copper elementals, earths , elder gazers, harpies, Jhelom fighters (with weapon, armor, and shield), snow elementals
90.1 - 100.0 - ancient wyrms, balrons, betrayers, Blackthorn juggernauts, blade spirits, centaurs, cyclops, dragons, dull, copper elementals, ethereal warriors, fire gargoyles, gargoyle destroyers, GM crafted golems, harrowers, Jhelom fighers (with weapon, armor, and shield), juka lords, ogre lords , ophidian avengers, ophidian knight errants, orc brutes, phoenixes, plague beasts, rotting corpses, shadow wyrms, silver serpents, skeletal dragons, summoned daemons, tentacles of the harrower, terathan avengers, zealots of khaldun, summoners
100.1 - 110.0 - air elementals, arctic ogre lords, blade spirits, cyclops, daemons, dragons, dull copper elementals, earth elementals, elder gazers, Jhelom fighters (with weapon, armor, and shield), ogre lords, ophidian avengers, poison elementals, rotting corpses, sand vortexes, terathan avengers, terathan matriarchs, water elementals
110.1 - 120.0 - blade spirits, energy vortexes, Jhelom fighters (with weapon, armor, and shield), rotting corpses, terathan avengers, terathan matriarchs

Just a quick note:

I did lizardmen up to 60'ish. Earth elems up to 95'ish. Dull Copper up to 105, and then trogs to 110 (could have done dulls, but trogs are better loot).

I very much appreciate the list. Everyone needs to remember that you can get gains from these things outside of their range, but you will get optimized gains in that range.

Adam, great guide but can you define what that scale is?

Weapon skill or tactics?

I recently started training some warrior skills. I went to New Haven, and signed up for the quests there.

I was still gaining 0.4-0.5 a hit in Tactics, Anatomy, and Mace Fighting when I hit 50. Then I Just kept attacking things there until I reached 60. However, after 50 everything goes back to 0.1 gains.

New Haven has an accelerated skill gain area when you are under newbie quests.

Originally Posted by holmedog

Just a quick note:

I did lizardmen up to 60'ish. Earth elems up to 95'ish. Dull Copper up to 105, and then trogs to 110 (could have done dulls, but trogs are better loot).

I very much appreciate the list. Everyone needs to remember that you can get gains from these things outside of their range, but you will get optimized gains in that range.

I just read this about an hour and a half ago. I went from 107 to 110 in about an hour and a half from fighting trogs. Thanks for the info, helped a lot.

I highly thank thee now. In about 6 hrs I went from 107 to 120 in Swords. Now I am Legend. It really helped. (Fingers are sore, hehe)

Originally Posted by Marc Anthony

I highly thank thee now. In about 6 hrs I went from 107 to 120 in Swords. Now I am Legend. It really helped. (Fingers are sore, hehe)

No problem. I did Miasma from 110-115, but that is just because the loot is even better (it's actually slower than trogs)

75-95 I did cyclopean warriors, great gains and at around 500gp loot per pop the best risk/reward monster at that skill range.

The Troglodytes in the Painted Caves have been giving me decent gains in Tactics. (My weapon skill is already capped.) As long as you stay near the front of the cave, its fairly safe, and the loot:effort ratio is nice. Trinsic is a short ride away by horse and has a bank conviently close to the west gate for unloading loot.

I began actively hunting the Troglodytes for skill gain with approximately 107 Tactics, and reached 113 Tactics in approximately three hours. Highly recommended for the 100-120 skill level, especially with a 70 Physical Resist and a Repond Slayer.