Best progression path for a fighter?

[grimdark]

Currently I have 20UA, 52 MM, 20EXP and 38 SUR. I'm trying to be a combat/fighter type, with a ranger track-and-kill playstyle (eventually)

I have a bunch of LP coming in, but I have no idea which skill I should raise first. I have a goal of 100MM so I stop sucking with a bow, but should I go straight for that or get my UA up to 50 or so first? Should I get my EXP or SUR any higher? I have 33x20 EXP so I'm pretty good at finding most of the curios I need to be finding.

In short, do I level my MM to 100 for get other stats up to par with that, instead? And which ones first?

I'm also wondering if I should spend the LP on combat skills now and start learning the combat system, or save that for later.

Thanks for any advice.

[grimdark]

Also I just got a bronze sword and I'm wondering if I should raise my melee combat skill as I've heard bows suck in combat. Good idea?

[Ninijutsu]

You need at least 300 UA or MC, 400 preferable, to fight people besides your average boar tusk helmet 30 UA nooblet.

You'll need around 200 MM to use a bow at a decent level

And you'll need healthy amounts of strength, agility, constitution, and perception.

[kaizokuroof]

If you don't have access to Quality 90+ B12, don't bother using MC, your str/peasfool status will probably only hinder you and you'll be dinging 0's most the time. That said, I'd carry a sword/axe just to use Valorus Strike in case you need to reset the advantage fast.

IMO dump all your LP into UA at the moment until you have high Q weapons/350+ str/martial as you won't break the Armor rating of most people. At least with UA you bypass armor a little bit and will be able to damage your opponent

My advice if you want to learn combat is take this world as a learning world and don't rage when you die, which will happen as there are some monsters out there

GL HF