====== 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 [[characters:dex]] bonus and the total character load based on [[characters: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 [[characters: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	Dex^DPS@20	Dex^DPS@30 Dex^
|Club	|6|9|1|@ Level 10 & 10 Str	|14	|19	|43|
|Club	|6|9|1|@ Level 100 & 30 Str	|47	|65	|149|
|Club	|6|9|1|@ Level 50 & 20 Str	|26	|36	|82|
|Sickle	|7|4|1|@ Level 10 & 10 Str	|17	|23	|48|
|Sickle	|7|4|1|@ Level 50 & 20 Str	|31	|42	|89|
|Sickle	|7|4|1|@ Level 100 & 30 Str	|56	|75	|160|
|Broad Sword	|9|8|1|@ Level 50 & 20 Str	|16	|22	|51|
|Broad Sword	|9|8|1|@ Level 50 & 20 Str	|29	|40	|90|
|Broad Sword	|9|8|1|@ Level 100 & 30 Str	|51	|70	|157|
|Long spear	|12|9|2|@ Level 10 & 10 Str	|18	|25	|57|
|Long spear	|12|9|2|@ Level 50 & 20 Str	|30	|42	|95|
|Long spear	|12|9|2|@ Level 100 & 30 Str	|51	|71	|162|
|Two handed sword	|18|8|2|@ Level 10 & 10 Str	|23	|31	|71|
|Two handed sword	|18|8|2|@ Level 50 & 20 Str	|35	|49	|110|
|Two handed sword	|18|8|2|@ Level 100 & 30 Str	|57	|79	|178|
|Bone Crusher	|50|15|2|@ Level 10 & 10 Str	|35	|52	|132|
|Bone Crusher	|50|15|2|@ Level 50 & 20 Str	|45	|67	|168|
|Bone Crusher	|50|15|2|@ Level 100 & 30 Str	|61	|92	|230|
===== Character's Chance to Hit =====

FIXME

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