Combat

Every fight uses the same rules: camp fights, boss fights, raids and sparring.

The fighting styles

A member fights with whatever they hold: a sword (or nothing) is Melee, a bow is Range, a staff is Magic. Their power is their level in that style plus their gear.

The combat triangle

Melee beats Range, Range beats Magic, and Magic beats Melee. With the advantage a fighter deals 25% more and takes 25% less; against it, the reverse. Every foe, boss and camp mob fights in a style, and each place’s foes share one.

Health

Health is 10 for each Hitpoints level, everywhere. Everyone starts at Hitpoints 10, which is 100 health.

Taking less

• Armour takes a share off every blow: the helm, body and off-hand, more for a higher tier, and a shield more than an off-hand. At most 60%.
• Defence takes off more, up to 30% at level 99, on top of armour.
• A member’s sheet shows their health and how much they take off.

Stances

Each member has a stance, picked when setting their job, and it decides where their fighting XP goes:

Stance	Their style	Defence
Attack	All of it	None
Balanced	Half	Half
Defensive	None	All of it

Whatever the stance, a third as much again goes to Hitpoints.

Combat level

Combat level is a quarter of Defence plus Hitpoints, plus 0.65 times the best of Melee, Range and Magic, rounded down. A new member is 3, and someone at 99 in everything is 113. Camp mobs open by combat level, and the bounty board offers what’s near it.

Levels to wear gear

Every tier of gear needs a level: helms, bodies and off-hands need Defence, and a weapon needs its style’s level. Capes, quivers, necklaces, work tools and lanterns need nothing. Gear already on someone above their level stays on and works until it’s taken off.

Tier	Land gear	Level to wear
1	Scrap gear	1
2	Bronze gear	1
3	Iron gear	5
4	Steel gear	15
5	Tidesteel gear	25
6	Mithril gear	35
7	Adamant gear	45

Magic and Range gear of the same tier need the same levels. See Arms and armour.