Editing Combat

Players may choose any of their currently equipped weapons to initiate combat with a monster, and may swap to any of their equipped weapons between attacks during combat. However, they may not change their equipped armor, weapons or potions once combat has begun.

Melee weapons, as their name implies, have an attack range of 1 tile, whilst ranged weapons have a range of 5. Upon initiating combat, if necessary, the player will automatically move to within attacking range for the weapon they have chosen.

If a ranged weapon is chosen to initiate combat, the player will automatically swap to a melee weapon upon running out of ammo as of [[Game updates/2024-11-27|this update]]. Prior to this, the player was expected to manually swap to a melee weapon. Failure to do so within the final global cooldown of the ranged weapon incurred a harsh global cooldown penalty, sounding a klaxon and triggering a notification telling the player that they are out of ranged ammo.

Once ranged ammo has been depleted, the game will select what it deems to be the weapon from the player's loadout that will deal the most damage to the monster they are currently fighting. Assuming the two melee weapons are of similar strength, the game will take elemental immunity and advantage into account when making this selection.

If initiating combat with a ranged weapon, a player may retreat to keep their distance from mobs, kiting it to some degree to take full advantage of their ranged weapon until it runs out of ammo. As of writing this, [[Game updates/2024-11-27|this update]] has rendered kiting slightly more tedious, but not impossible, to execute, as the player's in-combat movement pathing is cancelled after every ranged hit.

Reaching 0 hitpoints in combat will cause the player to [[Death|die]] and respawn in the [[Hopeport]] infirmary. Other than inconvenience, there currently appear to be no other consequences.

== [[Monsters]] ==

Monsters are classed into two main categories, active and passive. Killing a monster rewards [[experience]], [[coin]]s, and a chance to drop equipment of variable [[rarity]] and randomized stats. The level of equipment dropped range between the level of the monster killed and the level of the monster immediately preceeding it in the same episode. Certain mobs throughout the game may also occasionally drop items used for other professions.

Normal monsters have vulnerabilities and/or immunities to certain elemental [[Attack Style|attack style]]s, as displayed on their card. Monsters are immune to its own elemental attack style, and it is generally inadvisable to fight a monster with a weapon matching its elemental immunity.

As the player progresses through combat professions, higher level [[variant|variants]] of mobs will be unlocked, and [[Knowledge|knowledge points]] may be spent to unlock passive monsters as offline training methods.

Active monsters may be further subdivided into neutral and aggressive monsters. The names of neutral monsters are displayed in orange, while aggressive monsters are indicated by a red name. An exclamation mark (!) will appear over the head of an aggressive monster if it has aggroed onto you.

Passive monsters may be fought as an offline activity and combat is initiated in a similar way to that of active monsters. However, passive monsters require weapons above a certain strength rating to fight, and players may not select any weapons below this strength rating.

Certain monsters are stationary and do not move from the tile they spawn on. If these monsters do not possess a ranged attack, it is possible to retreat out of their attack range. If a player so desires, they may kill these monsters at a much lower combat level, albeit very inefficiently.

Certain monsters are bosses, which will be indicated on their card. Bosses boast increased HP compared to normal monsters of the same level, and some have access to area of effect attacks as indicated by orange highlighted tiles and a blue cast bar above their combat panel. Currently, bosses are only found as part of [[quests]] and thus may only be killed once. Most of the named bosses that are currently ingame do not have any elemental vulnerabilities or immunities.

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