Melee
Skills
Archery, Fencing, Macing, Swords are the four melee skills. I believe these charts will work on Wrestling as well. It's not actually considered a Melee skill but does seem to train like one.
Gaining
skill in any of the melee skills is now "difficulty based". You will
need to fight different monsters at appropriate skill levels in order to
grandmaster any of the melee skills.
Appropriate
Monster Skill Gain Chart
Note: Certain Monsters you do NOT want to melee solo when at low levels of Resist and/or Healing. These include monsters like Dread Spiders, Blood Elementals and Daemons. They are not too hard to melee but they love using paralyze and poison.
| Skill Range |
What To Fight |
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| 00.0 - 30.0 |
N/A (buy skill from NPC) |
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| 30.1 - 40.0 |
bulls |
harts |
headless |
great harts |
walruses |
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| 40.1 - 50.0 |
great harts |
horde minions |
orcs |
zombies |
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| 50.1 - 60.0 |
brigands |
corpsers |
ghouls |
imps |
orcs |
ratmen |
skeletons |
spectres |
wraiths |
| 60.1 - 70.0 |
dread spiders |
ettins |
trolls |
water elementals |
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| 70.1 - 80.0 |
ettins |
harpies |
lich lords |
ogres |
trolls |
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| 8 |
blood elementals |
bone/skeletal knights |
cyclops |
earth elementa |
elder gazers |
harpies |
snow elementals |
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| 90.1 - 100.0 |
ancient wyrms |
balrons |
betrayers |
blackthorn juggernauts |
blade spirits |
centa |
cyclops |
dragons | ethereal warriors |
| fire gargoyles |
GM crafted golems |
harrowers | juka lords |
ogre lords |
ophidian avengers |
ophidian knight errants |
orc brutes |
plague beasts |
|
| rotting corpses |
solen infiltrators | terathan avengers |
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| 100.1 - 110.0 |
air elementals |
arctic ogre lords |
blade spirits |
cyclops |
daemons |
dragons |
earth elementals |
elder gazers |
ogre lords |
| ophidian avengers |
rotting corpses |
sand vortexes |
solen infiltrators | terathan avengers |
terathan matriarchs |
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| 110.1 - 120.0 |
blade |
energy vortexes |
rotting corpses |
terathan avengers |
terathan matriarchs |
Tips
& Tricks
My swordsman trained on Boglings then GMed on Wyverns.
My fencer just used Harpies to around 85 then switched to Solen Infilltrators. Took Tactics, Fencing, and Parry to 110 pretty easily.
Rotting
corpses dry up around 110. In
fact there are plenty of other better things to fight that spawn with the
same skill levels as a rotting corpse that does not poison.
Some are big, some are small.
Orc Brutes work and they spawn with the
same skill levels as a Rotting Corpse as do Ogre Lords and some smaller,
easier creatures.
Solen
Infiltrators are great from around 105-110. Especially
the queens. They have
no acid and do mostly physical damage.
The Solen Infiltrator Warriors are
great for loot too, they have around Lich level loot (sans magic items
usually) and are simple to kill. You
can also do the Hive Friending Matriarch quest
while hunting them.
Chaos
Daemons work very well for 110-115 or so.
They spawn around Exodus’s Lair in Ilshenar
and are not very strong at all. They
spawn with 97.1-100.0 wrestling so some may give good gains and some may
not (Rotting corpses spawn with 90.1 – 100.0 leaving a wide range of
skills which makes much more of them not useful).
Around 114 they start drying up though.
Various monster's stats are listed below. For looking up particular monsters I recommend using the Stratics Hunting Guide.
| Monster |
Wrestling |
Tactics |
Magery |
| Zombie |
30 |
30 |
-- |
| Mummy |
50 |
40 |
-- |
| Skeleton |
50 | 50 | -- |
| Troll | 50 | 50 | -- |
| Ratman | 55 | 70 | -- |
| Ratman Archer | 70 | 70 | -- |
| Wyvern | 80 | 65 | -- |
| Solen Infiltrator Warriors | 80 | 80 | -- |
| Earth Elementals | 90 | 80 | -- |
| Solen Infiltrator Queens | 90 | 90 | -- |
| Stone Gargoyles | 90 | 95 | -- |
| Stone Harpy | 95 | 95 | -- |
| Spectre | 60 | 60 | 60 |
| Gazer | 65 | 60 | 65 |
| Efreet | 75 | 60 | 70 |
| Fire Elemental | 80 | 90 | 72 |
| Bone Magi | 50 | 50 | 75 |
| Dread Spider | 60 | 60 | 75 |
| Lich | 10 | 90 | 80 |
| Ratman Mage | 60 | 60 | 80 |
| Gargoyle | 70 | 50 | 80 |
| Daemon | 65 | 70 | 80 |
| Blood Elemental | 85 | 90 | 88 |
To
Hit Table
This table is simple really. Just find a critter that is in the 50%-60% hit
range. That seems to be the best range to get consistent gains.
|
Their Skill |
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| Your Skill | 0 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 | 110 | 120 |
| 0 | 50% | 42% | 36% | 31% | 28% | 25% | 23% | 21% | 19% | 18% | 17% | 16% | 15% |
| 10 | 60% | 50% | 43% | 38% | 33% | 30% | 27% | 25% | 23% | 21% | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| 20 | 70% | 58% | 50% | 44% | 39% | 35% | 32% | 29% | 27% | 25% | 23% | 22% | 21% |
| 30 | 80% | 67% | 57% | 50% | 44% | 40% | 36% | 33% | 31% | 29% | 27% | 25% | 24% |
| 40 | 90% | 75% | 64% | 56% | 50% | 45% | 41% | 38% | 35% | 32% | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| 50 | 100% | 83% | 71% | 63% | 56% | 50% | 45% | 42% | 38% | 36% | 33% | 31% | 29% |
| 60 | 110% | 92% | 79% | 69% | 61% | 55% | 50% | 46% | 42% | 39% | 37% | 34% | 32% |
| 70 | 120% | 100% | 86% | 75% | 67% | 60% | 55% | 50% | 46% | 43% | 40% | 38% | 35% |
| 80 | 130% | 108% | 93% | 81% | 72% | 65% | 59% | 54% | 50% | 46% | 43% | 41% | 38% |
| 90 | 140% | 117% | 100% | 88% | 78% | 70% | 64% | 58% | 54% | 50% | 47% | 44% | 41% |
| 100 | 150% | 125% | 107% | 94% | 83% | 75% | 68% | 63% | 58% | 54% | 50% | 47% | 44% |
| 110 | 160% | 133% | 114% | 100% | 89% | 80% | 73% | 67% | 62% | 57% | 53% | 50% | 47% |
| 120 | 170% | 142% | 121% | 106% | 94% | 85% | 77% | 71% | 65% | 61% | 57% | 53% | 50% |