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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
=== Weapon Swapping ===
If a ranged weapon is chosen to initiate combat, the player will automatically swap to a melee weapon upon running out of ammo.
=== Movement ===
Movement is allowed during combat, albeit with a reduced movement speed. However, players may not interact with other objects, scenery, dropped items, or reorganize their [[backpack]] in any way. Once combat has been initiated, they must end the encounter either by winning, dying, or escaping with the [[Immunity]] spell.
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
=== Attack Speed ===
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=== Death ===
Reaching
==Monsters==
{{Main|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
As the player progresses through combat professions, higher level monster [[variant|variants]] will be unlocked, and [[Knowledge|knowledge points]] may be spent to unlock passive monsters as offline training methods.
=== Monster Types ===
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
Passive monsters may be fought as an offline activity and combat is initiated in a similar way to that of active monsters. Passive monsters cannot physically harm the player, but require weapons with a minimum strength rating of the monster's <math>Combat Level + 20</math> to fight. Players may not select any weapons below this strength rating. The combat level of passive mobs is always equal to its
==== Stationary Monsters ====
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==== Bosses ====
Bosses, as indicated on their card, boast increased HP compared to normal monsters of the same level, as well as mechanics the player will be required to perform correctly to avoid taking significant damage.The only mechanic currently implemented in-game are area of effect attacks, indicated by orange highlighted tiles and a blue cast bar above their combat panel. As of writing this, bosses are only found as part of [[quests]] and thus may only be killed once. Most named bosses currently
== Trivia ==
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==Update history==
{{Update history|
* {{Update list|update=2024-11-27|date=27 November 2024}}
** If a ranged weapon is chosen to initiate combat, the player will automatically swap to a melee weapon upon running out of ammo. Prior to this, the player was expected to manually swap to a melee weapon.
* {{Update list|update=2024-11-06|date=6 November 2024}}
** Combat was included in the first public early-access release of the game.
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