Question on 1.0 Combat Skill Levelling.

[Frostygale]

Is the fastest way to level these skills still low damage-high speed attacking? eg. slingshot, rusty dagger... Or have they changed the XP calculation to make other methods viable/less grindy?

[parent child bowl]

Yes, high attack speed is still king when it comes to leveling.

[Frostygale]

Alright thanks, back to rusty dagger/slingshot grinding...really wish they had reworked this but ah well.

[soundtoxin]

If you want to cheese it, the best way now is to trap the shroom brutes on a small platform with holes around it and then attack them while they're in their armored state and you hit all 1s. It's very difficult for them to die in their armored state so you can just stand there holding attack.

[Lorska]

Originally posted by soundtoxin:

If you want to cheese it, the best way now is to trap the shroom brutes on a small platform with holes around it and then attack them while they're in their armored state and you hit all 1s. It's very difficult for them to die in their armored state so you can just stand there holding attack.

I'm fairly sure the best way is still hivemother add farming. Simply because you can attack without any interruptions and you get credited per hit not per swing, making attacking a single enemy meh.

[soundtoxin]

You can stack multiple of the shroom brutes in a small space as well. I don't know if we're talking exclusively early-game but the materializers for spawning enemies from figurines and the Stormbringer with its chain lightning make it very easy to train up Melee quickly. You can also set up a ring of materializers with the shroom brutes and use the jellyfish tome while standing in the middle to get ridiculously fast Summoning XP. I believe if you're using one of the pets that fights, it also earns you XP in Melee or Ranged. For Magic I used the same setup as when I grinded out Summoning and a couple Arcane Staffs (though I'd try to get 3 or 4 or more if I did it again to not have to repair as often). It seemed like the tornado soul power helped a lot when training Magic since it would pull multiple of the shroom guys into a tight space and then it seemed my Arcane Staff was hitting multiple at once. I basically would get infinite mana when this happened from the "crits restore mana" skill and just held attack until the staffs all broke. I just finished maxing out the last of my skills around 7 hours ago.

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I don't think I have [intentionally] tried the Hive Mother method, maybe it's good. I also found the Mold Dungeon to be pretty good Melee and Vitality XP running through with Stormbringer.

[Frostygale]

Thanks, time to go farm some shroom brute figurines! :D