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Melee Combat

This includes the combat skills not including missile combat.

A player must be in melee range (adjacent tile) to use these skills. 

DPS (Damage per second) = Melee Damage * Character's Attack Speed * Chance to hit (WC/AC)

Character's Melee Damage

The formula for calculating a character's damage is: 

Melee Damage = (Character level - 1)/4 + Str damage bonus + (1 + combat skill level/9) + damage from each item
if((Player level - 1 /4) + Str damage bonus)<1, then = 1 (for very low level characters with very little Str)
Total Damage = Melee Damage / 2

This is due to each attack being randomly rolled from 1 - Melee Damage (e.g. 14 damage = random(1, 14))

For example, a level 20 character with level 10 one hand weapon skill and 20 Str using a steel long sword (dam 8) = 

Character's melee damage = ((20 - 1)/4 + 3 + (1 + 10/9) + 8)/2
Character's melee damage = (4/4 + 3 + (1 + 1) + 8)/2
Character's melee damage = 7

Str Damage Bonus

Str stat points Str Damage Bonus
1 -2
2 -2
3 -1
4 -1
5 -1
6 0
7 0
8 0
9 0
10 0
11 0
12 1
13 1
14 1
15 2
16 2
17 2
18 3
19 3
20 3
21 4
22 4
23 5
24 5
25 6
26 6
27 7
28 8
29 10
30 15

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Character's Attack Speed

A character's attack speed in combat is used to calculate the rate of attacks a player makes. It is based on the dex bonus and the total character load based on Carrying_load and total load being carried. The minimum weapon speed for a character is 0.05. 

 Characters Attack Speed (attacks per second) = ((1 + Dex Bonus) - (Weapon Speed / 20.0) + (Speed Bonus / 10.0) - ((Player's Current Carried Load/Player's Maximum Carry Capacity) x 0.2)) x 8.5 (server tick rate)

For example a weapon with weapon speed 8 on a character with 20 Dex and who carrying %50 of capacity load with no +speed = 

 Characters Attack Speed (attacks per second) = ((1 + 1.5) - (8 / 20.0) + (0 / 10.0) - ((0.5 x 0.2)) x 8.33 (server tick rate)
 Characters Attack Speed (attacks per second) = (2.5 - 0.4 + 0 - .1) x 8.33 (server tick rate)
 Characters Attack Speed (attacks per second) = 16.66

Dex Bonus

The improvement given by a players Dex to their attack speed (Dex bonus) is:

Dex stat points Dex Bonus
1 0.6
2 0.7
3 0.7
4 0.8
5 0.8
6 0.8
7 0.9
8 0.9
9 0.9
10 0.95
11 1
12 1
13 1
14 1.05
15 1.1
16 1.1
17 1.2
18 1.3
19 1.4
20 1.5
21 1.6
22 1.8
23 2
24 2.2
25 2.4
26 2.6
27 2.8
28 3
29 3.5
30 4

Weapon comparison

Factoring these equations together we can derive weapon comparison table below (ignoring AC/WC). The columns represent a character at 10, 20 and 30 Dex respectively whilst for each item, the @ number represents the character level (and associated combat skill level) and Str. All characters have +10 to damage off weapon (Girdle of Damage).

Weapon Comparison Table

Item Weapon Dam Weapon Speed # of Hands Character level and str DPS@10 DexDPS@20 DexDPS@30 Dex
Club 691@ Level 10 & 10 Str 14 19 43
Club 691@ Level 100 & 30 Str 47 65 149
Club 691@ Level 50 & 20 Str 26 36 82
Sickle 741@ Level 10 & 10 Str 17 23 48
Sickle 741@ Level 50 & 20 Str 31 42 89
Sickle 741@ Level 100 & 30 Str 56 75 160
Broad Sword 981@ Level 50 & 20 Str 16 22 51
Broad Sword 981@ Level 50 & 20 Str 29 40 90
Broad Sword 981@ Level 100 & 30 Str 51 70 157
Long spear 1292@ Level 10 & 10 Str 18 25 57
Long spear 1292@ Level 50 & 20 Str 30 42 95
Long spear 1292@ Level 100 & 30 Str 51 71 162
Two handed sword 1882@ Level 10 & 10 Str 23 31 71
Two handed sword 1882@ Level 50 & 20 Str 35 49 110
Two handed sword 1882@ Level 100 & 30 Str 57 79 178
Bone Crusher 50152@ Level 10 & 10 Str 35 52 132
Bone Crusher 50152@ Level 50 & 20 Str 45 67 168
Bone Crusher 50152@ Level 100 & 30 Str 61 92 230

Character's Chance to Hit

FIXME 

Chance to hit = Player's WC/Opponents AC * constant