Combat Guide

From Melvor Idle

Introduction

This guide is meant to replace the great, but outdated, Gear Progression guide written by Tim Feels. Much of the content will be adapted from his work and updated to match the current state of the end game. It was written by TheAlpacalypse#8105 and Verisimilitude#0001 on Discord.

As stated there, this guide will not give you DR requirements for Dungeons (though it will give recommended gear), nor will it give you the most efficient level paths. With the current amount of content in the game, we highly recommend using the excellent Combat Simulator browser extension for measuring the optimal XP/hr rates for whichever combat style you are using.

Additionally, this guide is written for characters in STANDARD. Hardcore changes the numbers, especially for Fire God Dungeon.

The base guideline of gear progression is to have the highest possible damage whilst not dying, as dying will result in you losing a piece of gear. Losing your Tidal Edge from greed really sucks.

This guide starts off with some overviews on how combat works, what stat's there are, and what items affect them. Then it goes into details on leveling ahead of Volcanic Cave, the first challenging dungeon in the game. It wraps up with guides and tips on the endgame content for Melvor.

There is now a multitude of skills that provide useful resources to combat. To summarize:

  • Agility - Many of the obstacles provide combat bonuses
  • Herblore- Diamond Luck IV potions are among the highest DPS increases in the game
  • Thieving - There are a multitude of useful item drops from several NPCs, including Chapeau Noir, Knight's Defender, and others
  • Astrology - These are easy to obtain bonuses to your character. The hidden levels provide accuracy bonuses, as well as other nice easy to acquire boosts
  • Summoning - The tablets provide boosts to combat effectiveness and do damage. The Dragon burn effect is great against hard to hit enemies.

Some other skills are necessary for smooth progression, or to provide the bankroll necessary for progression:

Gear Stats

All gear has certain stats linking it to certain combat styles (melee, ranged, or magic). More difficult to obtain gear is (usually) better. Once you approach the endgame, the choices become more situational rather than strictly better.

For stat breakdowns and math, use combat simulator or read the Combat wiki page.

Shared Stats

Attack Speed

Attack Speed, or AS, is determined mainly by the attack speed of your weapon. It is given as seconds per attack, so lower is better. Things that affect your attack speed are:

Damage Reduction

Damage Reduction, or DR, is for the majority of the game the stat to optimize for. DR, HP, and Auto Eat tier all determine what is the highest damage hit you can survive, and relatedly what content you can... idle. This is not an exhaustive list, but DR can be found on:

For the end game, there are some prayers and items that drop from File:Impending Darkness.png Impending Darkness that affect your enemies DR:

Auto Eat

Auto Eat is the built in upgrade that makes you eat at low health. Upgrading this as quickly as possible is critical. Auto Eat Tier along with your health and damage resistance controls the vast majority of accessible content. You can do dungeons much, much earlier with Auto Eat - Tier III.

With Auto Eat, they type of food you are eating does not matter insofar as you do not run out. Whether you eat Potatoes or Whale (Perfect) only affects how much health you gain, and how much time you are spending Cooking / Farming instead of fighting monsters.

Auto Eat Threshold

Auto Eat Threshold reduces the effective HP necessary to trigger your auto eat, lowering the necessary HP/DR required. This is a somewhat new feature, so we highly recommend you test this in Combat Sim. This can be found on:

Auto Eat Efficiency

Auto Eat efficiency increases the amount of HP healed per piece of food eaten. This can be found on:

Slayer Area Effectiveness Reduction

Slayer Area Effectiveness Reduction reduces the effect of the slayer area effects on your character when fighting in one of these areas. These can range from annoying (Forest of Goo, Arid Plains) to downright progress blocking (Dark Waters, Unhallowed Wasteland). This is another stat where Combat Sim testing is highly effective. This stat can be found on:

Armor/Evasion Rating

These are included on all pieces of armor, and are highly linked to the combat triangle. The higher the number, the better.

It's important to note that this DOES NOT affect what content you can idle! This simply affects how much you are hit at all, and related how much food you eat. It doesn't help you kill more quickly either, provided the enemy can't stun, slow, or sleep you.

Melee Stats

Melee gear focuses on 4 stats:

  • Strength bonus: One of the factors that determines max hit
  • Stab/Slash/Block bonus: Determines the accuracy (chance to hit) of that particular attack style. Every weapon favors one of the styles, and using the correct one will boost your effective DPS.

Magic Stats

Magic armor and weapons focus on 2 stats:

  • Magic Damage Bonus: A % increase in max hit
  • Magic attack bonus: Determines your accuracy

Additionally, magic also benefits from Rune Preservation Chance and Rune Cost Reduction. These can be found on:

Ranged Stats

Ranged armor and weapons focus on 2 stats:

  • Ranged strength bonus: Determines your max hit
  • Ranged attack bonus: Determines your accuracy

Additionally ranged gear also benefits from Ammo Preservation. This can be found on:

Special Attacks and Loot Passives

Beyond stats, many pieces of equipment have Special Attacks or passive effects.

Special Attacks

Special Attacks have a percentage chance of triggering when in combat and will replace your standard attack. The gear with specials is truly too numerous to list.

Loot Passives

Loot Passive effects are bonuses that are always in play. These will increase your GP/hr as well as provide more loot to speed up many of the long grinds in the game. Item doubling is the most critical. These can be found on:

  • Aorpheat's Signet Ring - Made with parts A/B, collected from doing combat/non-combat skills while wearing a Gold Topaz Ring. It is not an exaggeration to say this is likely the most critical item in the entire game. This can cut the time on some grinds by days.
  • Chapeau Noir - Rare Thieving Drop
  • Pillar of Generosity - Agility capstone

Gold doubling is much more niche. This can be found on:

External Tooling

Combat Sim

Combat Simulator is a browser extension maintained by TinyCoyote that allows you to estimate quite a number of attributes of Melvor combat, namely Death Rate, XP/hr, Drops/hr, DPS, etc. It makes it trivial to test out if your setup is going to work, and uses the same webworker as the game itself so it's quite accurate. A link can be found to it here: Scripting_and_Extensions.

This will be expanded.

Can I Idle?

Additionally, for those not playing on the browser, there is the excellent Can I Idle? site built out by Silber. A link can be found here Can I Idle?. To use, you simply enter in some of the stats found on the combat page, and it tells you which enemies you can or can't idle. Very useful early until you understand the mechanics more.

How to use this Guide

All of the combat skills tie into each other, and it is impossible to be a Melee pure or vice versa if you wish to do all of the content in the game.

Most people start with melee as it is the easiest to gear and train. We highly recommend leveling all of the skills in tandem so you aren't like me, where you finish Volcanic Cave and then have to level your Ranged from level 1 for 2 weeks.

Each of the different combat triangle points has a guide subsection that lists out all of the best XP/hr monsters and idleable dungeons at this gear breakpoint. It assumes that you are using exactly the gear listed with no potions or prayers, both of which will greatly accentuate your clear speeds and XP rates.

Auto Eat tiers are listed out when buying the next tier would allow you to clear a dungeon you otherwise couldn't.

I've tried to list out all of the monster levels where possible. This should roughly guide you on what item to work towards next.

Melvor's combat is not put on a leaderboard, so regardless of what I put here, I recommend setting a goal and working towards it. Things like FEZ are highly satisfying to finish. Clearing God Dungeons also greatly assists the core game skills, so maybe Master of Nature is your goal.

Slayer

I highly recommend doing Slayer for early levels and unlocking Auto Slayer as quickly as possible. Not only will it give great XP, it will also level your skills.

One of the most common noob traps is ignoring Slayer early, then realizing later that you need Elite Slayer / Master Slayer gear. It takes 15 Normal Slayer tasks to buy the Basic Slayer gear. The Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Strong) / Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Elite) / Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Master) take 25 Hard Tasks / 30 Elite Tasks / 40 Master Tasks respectively.

Slayer Areas sometimes require items that must be purchased using slayer coins from the Shop. You should try and acquire these as soon as possible. One note, the monsters locked in these areas will not be rolled in slayer tasks until the item is purchased from the shop. You can leverage this to control the task rolls.

Early Game (Pre-Volcanic Cave)

Before Volcanic Cave, the game is primarily about leveling up your core combat stats, getting a feel for the combat systems, and acquiring items for non-combat skills. Volcanic Cave is the first real challenge the game presents to you, and preparing for it will likely take a couple of weeks of grinding for standard accounts. This may be faster nowadays, but it took me about a month from setting my mind to the grind and completing it.

Leveling Guides

These guides assume that your character is using an appropriate Auto Eat level, and Shrimp for your food. The gear is absolutely bare minimum (Full Armor of the selected tier, base scimitar and shield, no cape, amulet, or rings), there are no prayers, potions, astrology stars, or agility obstacles. In reality, you should be able to go much, much higher than this. All levels are set to equal the level required to gear out the set.

Using Combat Sim or CanIIdle should be your guide over anything printed here. I accept no responsibility for your untimely demise.

For optimal routing, I would follow this simple priority guide: Mob with drops I want > Slayer Tasks > Highest Combat XP/hr. Hitting Frozen Archers for 2 weeks is a really boring way to play this game.

Gear Goals

An early goal for most players is the Amulet of Looting, found in the Spider Forest, which will make combat a fully automated activity. Beyond that, it's mainly a matter of learning how combat works and leveling up your skills. Some general goals for all classes are the following drops:

PSA: The following item recommendations are up to T70, as that is where you will likely begin clearing Volcano. These are not all strictly necessary, but they do all help a significant amount.

Melee

Leveling

For melee, your goal is to wear and wield the highest level gear available to you. I have replicated the tables here, abbreviated for the point where you're going to need to start clearing the higher-level dungeons.


Level Requirement Attack Material Defence Material Best XP Monster Newly Idleable Dungeons
1 Bronze Bronze Cow -
Iron Iron Cow -
(Using Iron) Slayer (Basic) Cow -
5 Steel Steel Skeleton -
10 Black Black Frozen Archer (Skip Black Armor, it's hard to gear for) Chicken Coop (Requires Auto Eat - Tier II)
20 Mithril Mithril Frozen Archer -
30 Adamant Adamant Frozen Archer Undead Graveyard
(Using Adamant) Slayer (Strong) Frozen Archer -
40 Ice Ice Frozen Archer Spider Forest / Frozen Cove / Bandit Base
Rune Rune Frozen Archer Miolite Caves (Requires Auto Eat - Tier III)
(Using Rune) Miolite Frozen Archer -
50 Desert Sabre (Using Rune) Bandit Deep Sea Ship / Hall of Wizards
Miolite Sceptre (Using Surge II & Anguish II) (Using Rune) Bandit -
60 Dragon Dragon Bandit -
Slayer (Elite) Vampire -

Gear Goals

Before Volcanic, you can grind the Castle of Kings area to find most of your upgrades to supplant any gear not gained from smithing. You can also get some very good melee weapons in pre-Volcanic Cave areas. Drops to look for:

Ranged

Same as Melee, you should be doing the highest XP/hr monster with the highest possible gear. Due to the slower attack speed and the relative difficulty of Fletching large amounts of bolts, you shouldn't use crossbows until you have the Dragon Crossbow or better. For bolts, anything worse than Emerald Bolts is sellable. Save the Diamonds for Diamond Luck IV Potions.

Leveling

Ranged Level Bows Arrows Armor Best XP Monster Idleable Dungeons
1 Normal Shortbow / Normal Longbow Bronze Arrows Leather Cow -
Iron Arrows Slayer Cowl (Basic)/ Slayer Leather Body (Basic) Cow -
Ice Arrows (Using Leather) Cow -
5 Oak Shortbow / Oak Longbow Steel Arrows (Using Leather) Ranged Golbin -
10 (Using Oak Shortbow) (Using Steel Arrows) Hard Leather Tentacle Chicken Coop (Requires Auto Eat - Tier II)
20 Willow Shortbow / Willow Longbow Mithril Arrows (Using Hard Leather) Frozen Archer -
30 Maple Shortbow / Maple Longbow Adamant Arrows Slayer Cowl (Strong) / Slayer Leather Body (Strong) Wizard / Bandit Undead Graveyard
40 Yew Shortbow / Yew Longbow Rune Arrows Green D-hide / Ranger Hat/ Ranger Boots Bandit Spider Forest
Ice Shortbow / Ice Longbow Ice Master Wizard Bandit Base / Hall of Wizards / Frozen Cove / Deep Sea Ship / Miolite Caves(Requires Auto Eat - Tier III)
50 Magic Shortbow / Magic Longbow (Using Rune) Blue D-hide + Ranger gear Master Wizard -
Desert Shortbow / Elerine Longbow (Using Rune) (Using Blue D-hide) Master Wizard -
60 Redwood Shortbow / Redwood Longbow Dragon Arrows Red D-hide Master Wizard -
Poisoned Shortbow (Using Dragon) Slayer Cowl (Elite) / Slayer Leather Body (Elite) Master Wizard -

Gear Goals

Magic

Leveling

For early magic levels (1-35) you get comparable XP/hr rates using Alt Magic.

This table is mostly incomplete until Combat Simulator is updated.

Magic Level Weapon Spell Best XP Monster Idleable Dungeons
1 Base Staves
Magic Wand (Basic)
30 Battlestaves
Magic Wand (Powerful)
40 Mystic Staves
60 Magic Wand (Elite)

Gear Goals

Volcanic Cave

Link to Guide: Volcanic Cave/Guide

Volcanic Cave is usually done with melee gear, as it is very easy to fill out the required DR via smithing. A full gold-trimmed set of dragon armor provides 30% DR, as shown in the below table. Level 99 smithing is required to trim a full set.

Item Slot DR%
(G) Dragon Helmet Head 6%
(G) Dragon Platebody Body 6%
(G) Dragon Platelegs Leggings 6%
(G) Dragon Boots Boots 6%
(U) Black D-hide Vambraces Hands 5%
Subtotal 29%
Cape
Elite Amulet of Defence Neck 2%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring Ring 0%
(G) Dragon Shield Off-hand 6%
Total 37%

For gloves:

For capes:

  • You will need either the Knight's Cape (1% DR) from thieving the Knight or Squire, or the Skull Cape if you absolutely need the extra DR ((3% DR) Not recommended for Melee or Ranged, it reduces your attack bonuses by a significant amount). If you do not need the extra 1% DR provided by the Knight's Cape, you may use any Skillcape (if you have one), or the Obsidian Cape dropped by Adamant Knights.
  • Note: Once you clear Volcano once, swap your cape to the Fire Cape! It provides 2% DR and has better stats than the noncombat skillcapes.

For boots:

  • Pretty straightforward, the boots you will most likely use are the (G) Dragon Boots, as these provide 6% DR and decent offensive bonuses. If you do not have the smithing level (94) to craft these, you can use the Rune Boots that are dropped by the Rune Knight and upgrade those to (G) Rune Boots for 5% DR.

For jewelry:

Once you clear Volcanic Cave 100 times, you will unlock the basic tier of Ancient Magic - Slicing Winds, Icicle Volley, and Ignite. Of these, as of patch 0.23, Icicle Barrage is by far the strongest. Ancient Magic is way better than what basic magic can give you at your current level, but it is not affected by damage amplification in any way (Except for the combat triangle). No curses, no debuffs, no gear buffs.

Infernal Stronghold

Congratulations on beating Volcanic Cave. You now have the Fire Cape, your first useful cape. It provides 2% DR, which will greatly speed things up.

Your next objective is the Infernal Stronghold. Beat at least once for the Infernal Cape. The setup is almost identical to the Volcanic Cave. The extra 4% DR will carry you through the end of the game until you acquire the Max Skillcape.

Mid Game (God Dungeons)

The four god dungeons, whilst somewhat intimidating, are all handled the exact same way once you complete Air God. Each is beaten with the gear from the previous tier.

Some additional useful drops for the midgame are the following, found in Elite Tier slayer areas:

None of the above are needed, but definitely worth obtaining here. You should also be nearing max combat as you progress through the dungeons.

To unlock the ancient spells, you will need to run each of the God Dungeons 100 times. Each dungeon also provides extremely useful drops, some of which are BiS.

Additionally, completing the God Dungeons unlocks the skill upgrades, Perpetual Haste, Expanded Knowledge, Master of Nature, and Art of Control. These reduce the related skill intervals by 15%, which makes these excellent for anyone going for mastery.

It took me about a month of time to complete all of the God Dungeons in preparation for Into the Mist.

Air God Dungeon

Link to guide: Air_God_Dungeon/Guide

Item Slot DR%
(G) Ancient Helmet Head 7%
(G) Ancient Platebody Body 7%
(G) Ancient Platelegs Leggings 7%
(G) Dragon Boots Boots 6%
(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces Hands 6%
Subtotal 33%
Fire Cape Cape 2%
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs Neck 2%
Silver Diamond Ring Ring 1%
Dragonfire Shield Off-hand 8%
Total 46%

To start with, begin by collecting the full set of Ancient Melee gear from Volcanic Cave. A full set will provide 28% DR. Additionally, work on completing the Dragonfire Shield. This provides 8% DR and 30 hitpoints, and is useful through the end of the game. I highly recommend grinding out the Dragon Bones with Slicing Winds. Dragons Den is a great spot, as you will also work towards Elder Dragonhide and the weapons Twin Exiles (Great for killing golbins/chickens) and Ancient Crossbow. If you don't wish to do those, Green Dragon has the lowest HP and dies very quickly. This dugeon is also completable with (G) Ancient Shield, but you're gonna need to grab DFS at some point anyway. Why not now :D

Additionally, make sure to complete Infernal Stronghold so that you can get Infernal Cape, which increases DR to 4%.

You should have upgraded your melee weapon. Dragon Claw is probably the minimum, though Sunset Rapier is better. We would recommend grinding Pegasus for Ancient Claw Fragments, as Infernal Claw ( Ancient Claw + 10 Infernal Core) is extremely good through ITM. Slicing Winds/ Gust are highly effective. You might want to save this until after you've knocked out Water God Dungeon, however, as full Glacia armor makes this grind a breeze.

You will need about 46% DR to complete the dungeon. Notable drops include:

Water God Dungeon

Link to guide: Water God Dungeon/Guide

Item Slot DR%
Aeris God Helmet Head 8%
Aeris God Platebody Body 8%
Aeris God Platelegs Leggings 8%
Aeris God Boots Boots 8%
Aeris God Gloves Hands 8%
Subtotal 40%
Fire Cape Cape 2%
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs Neck 3%
Silver Diamond Ring Ring 1%
Dragonfire Shield Off-hand 8%
Total 53%

At this point, you should have a full set of Aeris God Gear. For your weapon, you should be using Ancient Crossbow, or Slayer's Crossbow/ Dragon Crossbow if you don't have one. Dragonfire Shield as well makes this a breeze so you can use Aorpheat's Signet Ring in the ring slot.

Emerald Bolts are probably your best bet. Jadestone Bolts work too if you have those.

This dungeon is a breeze if you have the above gear. Notable drops:

After completing this dungeon, you should absolutely complete the Infernal Claw grind if you have not already. This weapon is necessary for Into the Mist, and is one of the highest DPS weapons in the game, whilst also allowing you to wield Dragonfire Shield. Full Glacia + Gust should kill Griffin / Pegasus quite easily if you hit the accuracy breakpoint.

Earth God Dungeon

Link to guide: Earth God Dungeon/Guide

Item Slot DR%
Glacia God Helmet Head 8%
Glacia God Platebody Body 8%
Glacia God Platelegs Leggings 8%
Glacia God Boots Boots 8%
Glacia God Gloves Hands 8%
Subtotal 40%
Skull Cape Cape 3%
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs Neck 2%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring Ring 0%
Dragonfire Shield Off-hand 8%
Total 53%

Same ordeal as the Water God Dungeon. Equip the previous set of armor, then get to work. By now, you should likely have Skull Cape, one of the BiS capes for magic. Air Imbued Wand is highly recommended so you can use Gust for cheap along with the Dragonfire Shield.

Again, this dungeon is easy. Notable Drops:

Fire God Dungeon

Link to Guide: Fire God Dungeon/Guide

Item Slot DR%
Aeris God Helmet Head 8%
Aeris God Platebody Body 8%
Aeris God Platelegs Leggings 8%
Aeris God Boots Boots 8%
Aeris God Gloves Hands 8%
Subtotal 40%
Infernal Cape Cape 4%
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs Neck 2%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring Ring 0%
Dragonfire Shield Off-hand 8%
Total 54%

This dungeon is a bit harder than the previous, as it mixes both melee and magic enemies. For that reason, use the Aeris god set. Gear setup is similar to the Water God Dungeon, but focuses primarily on DR breakpoints. Consider using the Stone Skin prayer or Damage Reduction Potion IV's. Getting enough DR without using prayer or potions will severely hamper your clear times, as you won't be equipping the proper DPS gear.

Highly recommend using combat sim to ensure you aren't killed by Ragnar or Ignis. This dungeon probably has the most variety in setups out of any of the dungeons, just ensure that you aren't in danger of dying.

Notable drops:

Preparing for Into the Mist

Into the Mist is one of the most difficult challenges in the game. The Insane difficulty is accurate. It cannot be idled.

To start, you first fight 20 Afflicted versions of randomly chosen monsters between combat level 165 and 677. Any monster, save those from Unhallowed Wasteland or Dark Waters, including bosses, can be chosen.

Affliction is a special status effect applied by monsters that reduces your max HP. This means that the encounters are a race against the clock, forcing you to kill the enemy before your affliction stacks get too high. Due to this, it is recommended that you focus on DPS above all else when choosing your three gear sets.

This dungeon cannot be completed without the Dungeon Equipment Swapping upgrade purchased from the shop.

It is highly recommended that you have acquired *all* previously available BiS gear for each combat style before attempting ITM.

Recommended Gear from Best to Worst:

At this point you can probably begin to make your way towards one of the longest grinds in the game, Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs. FEZ, as it is often called, is made from the upgrading process by combining:

This item is by no means necessary, but it is very useful as a "catch all" type of amulet. No matter what situation you're in, FEZ is probably a good choice. See the following link for best practices while farming for the amulet.

Link to Guide: Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs/Guide

Into the Mist

Into the Mist consists of 3 set order phases, with pauses in between each phase.

Link to the guide: Into_the_Mist/Guide

There is too much information on ITM to copy to this guide, definitely worth reading the above, which is excellent.

Notable Drops:

  • Access to the Dark Waters slayer area, where the T90 weapons can be obtained
  • Pablo - Drops after 5 completions

T90 Farming

Following completion of Into the Mist, you now have access to Dark Waters, the penultimate slayer area. These 3 mobs drop fragments for the T90 weapons, the most powerful weapons in the game. These are extremely long grinds, and require quite a bit of preparation. Each weapon requires 100 fragments, and the fragments have a 2% drop rate. That's 5,000 kills on average.

We recommend acquiring them in the following order, as the high evasion on Rokken makes it extremely hard to complete without Tidal Edge:

Additionally, you should also acquire the pet Otto whilst doing this grind.

Item fragments are very rare drops, and you should attempt to sneak in as much item doubling into your gear as possible. Using Combat Sim to measure your Drops/hr with a 0 Death Rate is highly recommended. This can be the difference in literal days of grinding.

Unhallowed Wasteland

After completing the T90 weapon grinds, you are ready to face the final content in Melvor. Unhallowed Wasteland is the final Slayer area. To access, you will need to purchase a Map to the Unhallowed Wasteland. This area requires maximizing a different stat than DR. All of the monsters here will heal a % of their HP every 2 attacks, which will outpace your DPS regardless of setup. To mitigate this, you will need the following example Melee set for use versus the Legaran Wurm:

Item Slot Slayer Area Effect Negation%
Slayer Helmet (Master) Head 20%
Slayer Platebody (Master) Body 20%
Ragnar God Platelegs Leggings 0%
Ragnar God Boots Boots 0%
Ragnar God Gloves Hands 0%
Subtotal 40%
Max Skillcape/ Slayer Skillcape Cape 25%
Fighter Amulet Neck 0%
Hunter's Ring Ring 10%
Tidal Edge Weapon 0%
Dragonfire Shield Off-hand 0%
Slayer Cowl (Master) Passive 20%
Agility Pillar of Combat Pillar 5%
Total 100%

While you are here, you should work to acquire all of the set bonus gear, dropped from each of the UW monsters:

Impending Darkness

A guide does not yet exist for Impending Darkness. This is highly a work in progress.

Tips

Because Bane uses the modifiers from the slayer area you fight him in, you should always fight him in the Perilous Peaks. Your prayer will be Protect from Magic or whichever style he is, plus your other style prayer, rendering the area effect moot.

When fighting Bane, always eat through the Suffocate special attack. The stuns will cripple you. Fragile Mind can be extremely dangerous if you have high Affliction stacks, so be on the lookout for that as well.

Bane will force you to use the same attack style as he is. If you are hitting for 0, make sure you're not using the combat triangle default.

Running from Bane will not make you leave the event, just forces you to refight that slayer area. Bane's style will also be rerolled, if you want to avoid melee.

For passives, avoid giving + Max HP, or any sort of regen. These will extend the fights, which makes them deadlier and more expensive in food and gear. + Max Hit is fine, as special damage is unaffected. Obviously, avoid Affliction if possible. These do stack.

The final fight with Bane is a special version, Bane, Instrument of Fear

Gear

You will need to be able to switch your combat styles on the fly in Dark Waters and Unhallowed Wasteland. These areas WILL kill you if you are using the wrong combat style versus them. There is no pausing between monsters, so we highly recommend maxing out your Slayer Area Reduction on all 3 equipment sets.

Dragon tablets are nigh required for Bane, as the burn status effect will chisel away his HP even when you are stunned. Pair with Yak tablets.

For melee, Ring of Blade Echoes increases the number of hits you do, which pairs well with Dragon tablets.

For magic, Incinerate also provides more hits for burns. Towards the end, switch to Ocean Song and Fire Surge to finish him off with specials.

Loot

Each Bane kill drops the following loot, in this set order. All of these are BiS:

Acknowledgements

A special thank you to the following people:

  • Steelsauce#0251, Redmrj#2539, Tessa#0001 for guide feedback
  • TinyCoyote#1769, Coolrox95#9670, and Visua#9999 for their work on Combat Sim and other scripting work
  • Nomeru#4261 for contributing most of the Impending Darkness section
  • Silber#6947 for creating Can I Idle and answering a ton of noob questions
  • Malcs and Prat for making this game

Reach out to the author on Discord at TheAlpacalypse#8105

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