Hello Dev,
I have noticed that fighting on boat, have longer range for normal attack than normally. It basically means, that if You are on boat, and Your prey on land waiting for You, you can kill it without taking any damage.
HOW TO:
1. Attack animal
2. Make sure that you are in boat on deep water.
3. Wait until your Prey approach as close as it could in shallow water.
4. Use any melee combat skill (it will cause your character to start engaging your target)
5. After hit is dealt, simply just click to back off. You have greater range than any animal, so You will be always hitting first.
6. Wait until CD is down and repeat.
7. Repeat until your target is dead or running.
Thanks to that, you can kill hight tier animals even with fresh 10skilled character without any gear. You won't get any damage.