Fighting

The short version

• Each round has one roll to hit. A hit kills the enemy and gives its loot. A miss lets it get away.
• The enemy hits you every round. Your character eats healing items on its own. See Healing and defeat.
• Your weapon sets your style. A bow means ranged and uses arrows. Anything else, or no weapon, means melee.
• Use the style an enemy is weak to. You hit more often, rounds are faster, and you take less damage.
• Defence and gear lower the damage you take. Vitality gives you more HP.

What happens in a round?

• You hit: the enemy is killed. You get its loot, its drops and the full XP.
• You miss: the enemy gets away. No loot, and a quarter of the XP. Defence and Vitality still get their full XP.
• Either way, the enemy hits you once, and a bow fight uses its arrows.

Melee or ranged?

• Melee fights train Attack. Ranged fights train Marksmanship and need arrows.
• Your equipped weapon decides. A ranged fight needs a bow. A melee fight needs anything but a bow.
• If you take the weapon off during a fight, the fight is blocked, just like running out of arrows. Nothing is lost. It goes on when you equip the right weapon.
• A few fights need a certain item equipped to enter. The fight's page says which.
• An enemy weak to your style: +12% chance to hit and 15% faster rounds. The wrong style: the same amounts the other way.

How much damage do I take?

Each round the enemy hits for a number in its damage range, minus your damage reduction. It always does at least 1 damage.

Your damage reduction is half your Defence level plus a third of your gear's power. Some enemies change this. The Fight page shows it on the enemy:

• Armed: an equipped shield counts extra. Half its power is added again.
• Dread: gear power counts half. Your Defence level still counts in full.

The style matchup changes your whole damage reduction too. The enemy's weak style: +20%. The wrong style: −25%. So the wrong style hurts twice: you hit less and get hit harder.

How much HP do I have?

Your max HP is 20 + 2 × your Vitality level. That is 22 HP at level 1 and 218 HP at level 99.

What if I lose?

At 0 HP you are defeated. The fight stops, your HP refills, and every equipped piece loses 1 durability. A piece with none left is lost. See Healing and defeat.

Exact numbers

Your chance to hit, in percent:

72 + (skill level ÷ 3, rounded down) + gear + mastery + potion + stations ± 12 (style matchup) − enemy guard

• gear: the hit chance on your equipped gear, with high quality counted.
• mastery: this fight's own mastery and its skill's pool checkpoints.
• potion: a slotted potion with a hit-chance effect, while it has charges.
• stations: King's Road designs. Some take hit chance away.
• The result is kept between 40% and 96%. You always hit sometimes, and no hit is ever certain.
• Damage reduction: half your Defence level, rounded down, plus a third of your gear power, rounded down (a sixth against Dread enemies). Against Armed enemies, add half your shield's power.