Melee Training Guide

This guide is useful for training the Fencing, Mace Fighting, Swordsmanship and Wrestling skills.

Method 1

• 0-25 skill - Use an archery butte or Training Dummy
• 25-35 skill - Attack Brigands found on Barrier Isle
• 35-50 skill - Attack Skeletons found in the Britain Graveyard
• 50-70 skill - Attack Ettins found in Despise
• 70-80 skill - Attack Earth Elementals found in Shame
• 80-100 skill - Attack Solen Warriors found in Solen Hives

Method one is a more casual training regime. It lets you get comfortable with playing a warrior in general, with use of your auxiliary skills such as Chivalry, Bushido, etc. You also get lots of gold and magic items from looting.

Alternative

• 0-25 skill - Use an archery butte or Training Dummy
• 25-40 skill - Attack Brigands found on Barrier Isle
• 40-60 skill - Skeletons, preferably 1-3 at a time these can be found in any graveyard
• 60-70 skill - Lizardmen such as you'd find in the top level of Despise
• 70-85 skill - Ogres, again in Despise but at lowest level this time (avoid the Ogre Lords)
• 85-100 skill - Earth Elementals found in Shame or Despise level 2
• 100-110 skill - Cyclopean Warriors found in Cyclops Valley in the Lost Lands and Despise level 3
• 110-120 skill - Troglodytes found in the Painted Caves - parry helps since the spawn rate is rather high. However, they do drop bandages so having enough for healing is never an issue. 400+ gold loot is a nice bonus.

This method slightly better scales your skill level to your opponents, you'll take less damage, have to repair less armour and you should gain a bit faster. The figures are all approximate but you'll know when you've just about topped out with any given monster type as your gains will slow considerably.

New Haven Method

• 0-40 skill - Train at the New Haven Combat Academy. (picking up the training quest will greatly improve your gains)
• 40-55 skill - Attack Zombies, Skeletons, and Spectral Spellbinders in Old Haven.
• 55-70 skill - Attack Ettins found South of New Haven (near the mountains, quick spawn)
• 70-100 skill - Attack Earth Elementals found in the New Haven Dungeon (quick spawn)

This method works very well on all production shards (not available on SP ruleset shards). You can take your character very far without ever leaving Haven Island. After you reach 100 it is up to you if you want to continue in New Haven's dungeon by going after Ogre Lords, or if you finally want to get off this island and play the game!

Method 2

• 40-120 skill - Attack a pet Golem

Please note that Golem's poison resist has been reduced to 99%. In order to train with a Golem one either needs 90+ Tinkering skill to repair the Golem or Spellweaving Gift of Renewal to heal the Golem. Bandages nor Mage Healing will work.

This method is a little bit of a trick, but is allowed. You will not get in trouble for using this trick. You can often see players using this outside of Luna. This method of training requires a few setup procedures.

1. Acquire a 100% poison weapon in your melee skill, or a Use Best Weapon Skill one. Make sure that the weapon you get does not have any hit spell on it. If it does, it will make this method unfeasible.
2. Acquire a GM Tinker made Golem. Hopefully you have a friend who has GM tinkering, and they can make you one. If not, they shouldn't cost too much.
3. Once you have your Golem, have someone with 110 Animal Lore find out what its wrestling skill is. The value of this number is revealed in the next step.
4. Acquire a set of +20 (or greater) jewelry in your melee skill. Your goal with this is that when you put on the jewelry, your skill should be between 10 and 20 points lower than the Wrestling on the Golem at all times. This is to maximize gains. At 40-70 skill you will likely have to use jewelry to boost your fighting skill into the proper range.
5. Join a guild if you are not in one already. You can also start your own which is not very costly.

Now that you have completed those four tasks, here's what you do:

1. Grab your Golem and stand someplace. The popular place for this training is outside the Luna bank.
2. Equip your weapon and jewelry. Remember your skill should be no farther than 20 below the Golem's wrestling.
3. Say "all guard me". This will make your golem highlight green to you.
4. Say "all stop". This will make the golem stop guarding you, with new pet commands you say "all follow me" and golem never attacks you and will always follow you.
5. Use the Context Menu on the golem and select the "kill/attack" option and target yourself, then QUICKLY press your enter button.

If you do this right, the Golem should stop attacking you right away and you should start to gain. Please be aware, you may have to go through steps 3-5 several times before it works right. If you keep getting hit, just keep using the 'all stop' command.

As your skill increases you should remove the skill enhancement jewelry as needed. Eventually you will surpass the Golem's skill. This is okay because as long as you are 20 points below or above your opponents fighting skill, you can gain your own.

Note: While this method can be fully automated, it is important not to train unattended. You will be taken to jail if a Gamemaster determines you are not paying attention.

Method 3

Follow Previous Methods of getting to 50.

• 50-120 skill - Attack Ratmens found in Underworld

Method three is a faster and safest way to level any weapon skill. You can also work Ninjitsu, Chivalry, Bushido, etc. You also get lots of gold and magic items from looting.

References

Original Source: http://www.onlinegametrader.net/index.php?action=disp_news&news_id=938