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Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby uncleseano » Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:23 pm

Is there a list of which combat skills are best for each animal out there?

I'm using the list at

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but boars are haning my ass to me. My skills are well over the limit and I've got full leather armour So I must be doing something wrong.

At the mo I've been raising the green opening and then chopping with my trusty axe. What else should I be doing?

Any advice would be great
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby Sevenless » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:02 pm

Which axe are you using and what quality? If I'm remembering correctly, stone axes aren't great. Base damage is pretty low.

Usually I'd move straight into using a bronze sword given the option.
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby uncleseano » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:22 pm

I'm using a q30 axe. I've got copper and iron coming outta the Wazoo but nothing in the way of tin to make bronze.

I'm SoL for making decent weapons at the mo
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby Saxony4 » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:34 pm

forget using weapons and use dual shields and cutthroat knuckles and left hook boars right in the face.
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby Sevenless » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:34 pm

Well considering the cooldowns involved, using a low Q stone axe probably isn't much better than just fisting the boar.

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Fyrdsman%27s_Sword

But isn't there a wrought iron sword you could make? If it's anything like legacy, stone axe will have at most 1/4 the damage of a sword.
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby Saxony4 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:56 am

Sevenless wrote:Well considering the cooldowns involved, using a low Q stone axe probably isn't much better than just fisting the boar.

Not really, you need IP to be able to attack with a sword or stone axe whilst you can just left hook boars all day and benefit from the armor of two shields instead of wasting time gaining IP just to get meaningful damage, cutthroat knuckles really help for that extra damage too since you aren't going to be using a weapon.
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I wouldn't bother using a sword unless I was fighting a bear or something.
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby Sevenless » Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:57 am

Well, I've just got a piddly Q40 sword with 30agi/20str but it's able to do 70 damage at 40% opening. Even including knuckles, which take the same resources, I'm having a hard time seeing how a sword isn't better when you're pushing the limits of your kill capabilities. The knuckles would add 30 damage to left hook @q40, which tends to deal around 10-15 a swing for me. At this stage makes the most sense to have both, open with punches, then nab a couple quick IP for 1-2 chops.

once I'm healed up from a cave in I can test both methods with newbie stats and see how it goes I guess.
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby magisticus » Sat Apr 15, 2017 2:16 am

Saxony4 wrote:
Sevenless wrote:Well considering the cooldowns involved, using a low Q stone axe probably isn't much better than just fisting the boar.

Not really, you need IP to be able to attack with a sword or stone axe whilst you can just left hook boars all day and benefit from the armor of two shields instead of wasting time gaining IP just to get meaningful damage, cutthroat knuckles really help for that extra damage too since you aren't going to be using a weapon.
I wouldn't bother using a sword unless I was fighting a bear or something.


Don't need IP for sideswipe or full circle. And for the extra armour you get from the shield (not a lot) you might as well be holding a sword, only problem is needing to use unarmed attack that matches the opening.
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby qoonpooka » Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:06 am

uncleseano wrote: Image


Is there a reason Agi and Combat Skill are matched like that?
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Re: Which Combat Skills for Which Animal?

Postby Sevenless » Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:24 am

Simplicity most likely. In general, AGI is pretty powerful. If you want to forgo 10-20 points of agi, you'd need (depending how strong the mob is) 20-40 ua to make up the difference.
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