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Unarmed or melee?

Postby goodyman8 » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:24 am

i started not long ago but i already started earning decent LP by raiding hills and lots of luck and got the core melee skills(militia training,will to power, etc) up to Soldiers training and i wanted to ask the more advanced players/vets on what i should do as beginner.
Unarmed or melee.
im currently alone and have no access to any type of metal.
and the only armor i can make is leather armor wich will take alot of time since making leather itself is time consuming.
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby joojoo1975 » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:29 am

my 0.02$ on this matter

It seems the game wants you to do unarmed until you have access to metal, then switch to melee.

personally I think melee is better than Ua for the only fact you have gear that enhances melee out the wazoo(thane rings, D helms, and prolly other things i am missing)


so unless they recently nerfed the amount them items can buff your melee, i would suggest go melee, with some UA thrown in.


but i'm prolly wrong
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby goodyman8 » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:31 am

i dont think ill have metal anytime soon.
im alone and the mines costs are crazy for me plus they all require different proffesions and time to make x_x.
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby joojoo1975 » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:34 am

goodyman8 wrote:i dont think ill have metal anytime soon.
im alone and the mines costs are crazy for me plus they all require different proffesions and time to make x_x.



i feel your pain. but i have a Q10 axe and shield and boars Fear me :D

my goal to make Bears fear me lil lvl 10 axe.


my goal in world 3 was to kill a lvl 10 bear with UA, after i did that, i wanted to 1 shot a bear with my "knock da teeth out" blow. but then i discovered the wonderful world of rings and helmets, and was mondo pissed that i could get like 150+ melee with 2 thane rings(not best q either) in W3.
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby goodyman8 » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:55 am

joojoo1975 wrote:
goodyman8 wrote:i dont think ill have metal anytime soon.
im alone and the mines costs are crazy for me plus they all require different proffesions and time to make x_x.



i feel your pain. but i have a Q10 axe and shield and boars Fear me :D

my goal to make Bears fear me lil lvl 10 axe.


my goal in world 3 was to kill a lvl 10 bear with UA, after i did that, i wanted to 1 shot a bear with my "knock da teeth out" blow. but then i discovered the wonderful world of rings and helmets, and was mondo pissed that i could get like 150+ melee with 2 thane rings(not best q either) in W3.

guess ill have to find a way to get a sword later on then.
maybe trade it for some hides,no? :>
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby MagicManICT » Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:50 am

There was a huge discussion on this recently. Nobody is going to repeat what was said in the other thread, and nothing in-game has changed. Use search and do some digging. (fyi, use Google for searches, not the forum search tool.)
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby joojoo1975 » Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:16 am

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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby TeckXKnight » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:33 am

Swords are cheap. Go Unarmed mostly. That's the short hand of it. If you were a master at combat and intricately knew the system, Melee might be potentially better for you.

Otherwise use unarmed and practice your Maneuvers, Moves, and Special Moves.
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby Skorm » Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:23 am

TeckXKnight wrote:Swords are cheap. Go Unarmed mostly. That's the short hand of it. If you were a master at combat and intricately knew the system, Melee might be potentially better for you.

Otherwise use unarmed and practice your Maneuvers, Moves, and Special Moves.


i actually see UAC as the true skilled combat
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Re: Unarmed or melee?

Postby TeckXKnight » Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:26 am

UAC is definitely something to marvel at but I have heard those who I truly admire in combat claim that they can surpass uac with melee. I trust their claims and actions enough that I will believe with melee you can strike down someone far superior to yourself given the right combination of moves and special moves in the proper sequences.
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