Combat

Combat in The Reborn is broken down into 3 skills:

Attack - This affects which weapons you can equip, as well as your attack strength and your accuracy in battle.
Defence - This affects which pieces of armour you can equip, as well as your resistance to damage in battle.
Stamina - This affects how many hit points you have.

The best way to start combat is to kit yourself out with some Bronze gear. At level 1 you will only be able to equip a Bronze Knife and a Bronze Sabatons, so purchase a couple of each of those to wear.

Next you are going to want to get some food. This could be either fruit/veg which has been harvested, or cooked fish. Each item of food replenishes a set number of hit points.

Once you have the weapons, armour and food, head on over to Olias and you will find a place to train combat. It is strongly suggested you stick to fighting Giant Bug for a while, as the others will be too strong for you at the start.

NOTE: If you die during combat you will lose ALL the items you have equipped and in your inventory. So please be careful and make sure you have plenty of food to heal yourself.

Attack

Training your attack skill allows you to equip better weapons and deal our more damage in battle. To train Attack, go to your Combat Options page and select "Attack" from the drop-down menu, then any fights you win will give you Attack experience.

A summary of the weapons available can be seen below, as well as the levels required to equip them:

	Name	Bronze	Verial	Embal	Virideo	Sunsteel	Rosesilver	Skye	Lyntina	Time Fire
Item		Level Requirement
	Knife	1	13	25	38	52	67	83	100	118
	Short Sword	3	15	27	40	54	69	85	102	120
	Battle Hammer	5	17	29	42	56	71	87	104	122
	Axe	7	19	31	44	58	73	89	106	124
	Long Sword	9	21	33	46	60	75	91	108	126
	Xroro	12	24	36	49	63	78	94	111	129

There are also special weapons which can be found throughout the game.

	Item	Lvl Req
	Holy Warrior Sword	10
	Spear	15
	Raahn Club	25
	Claw	30
	Raahn Sword	30
	Scythe	35
	Holy Raahn Axe	40
	Rusted Anchor	45
	Kraken Axe	60

Defence

Training your defence skill allows you to equip better pieces of armour and makes you take less damage in fights. To train Defence, go to your Combat Options page and select "Defence" from the drop-down menu, then any fights you win will give you Defence experience.

A summary of the armour available can be seen below, as well as the levels required to equip them.

	Name	Bronze	Verial	Embal	Virideo	Sunsteel	Rosesilver	Skye	Lyntina	Time Fire
Item		Level Requirement
	Sabatons	1	14	27	40	53	67	82	98	115
	Gauntlets	2	15	28	41	54	68	83	99	116
	Small Shield	3	16	29	42	55	69	84	100	117
	Half Legs	4	17	30	43	56	70	85	101	118
	Small Helm	5	18	31	44	57	71	86	102	119
	Haubergeon	6	19	32	45	58	72	87	103	120
	War Boots	7	20	33	46	59	73	88	104	121
	Spiked Gloves	8	21	34	47	60	74	89	105	122
	Full Shield	9	22	35	48	61	75	90	106	123
	Legs	10	23	36	49	62	76	91	107	124
	Large Helm	11	24	37	50	63	77	92	108	125
	Breastplate	12	25	38	51	64	78	93	109	126

There is also special armour which can be found throughout the game.

	Item	Lvl Req
	Purple Imp Haubergeon	5
	Holy Warrior Shield	15
	Raahn Helmet	25
	Raahn Chest Plate	30
	Basilisk Scale Shield	35
	Kraken Breastplate	65

Stamina

Training your stamina skill increases your hit points , meaning you can take more damage without dying in battle. To train Stamina, go to your Combat Options page and select "Stamina" from the drop-down menu, then any fights you win will give you Stamina experience.

Combat Level

Your Combat Level is a combination of all 3 of the Combat skills, which calculates just how good you are at combat in general. When deciding which monsters to fight, you should use your Combat Level to work out which ones will be the right level for you. For instance, if your Combat Level is 1, you don't want to fight a monster with a Combat Level of 10. And likewise, if your Combat Level is 20, you will find no challenge in fighting a monster with a Combat Level of 1.

Places to Train Combat

Island	Location
Ralnera Island	Olias, Port Solera
Veresa Island	Mercia, Deep Twilight Forest, Marden Chapel
Lensya Island	Nauren, Rainbow Forest, Telarynn
Heima	Kendro + auto attacks
Stroceta	Seagate, Ruins of Aaranbad

Auto Attacks

Some locations have are very dangerous and you will be attacked as soon as you arrive there, whether you want to fight or not. These auto attacks are only 1 monster and you still have the option to run away if your levels allow it.

For a list of locations with auto attacks, see the list below:

Island	Location
Heima	All locations on the North side of The Chasm

Monsters

For a list of the available monsters to fight, see the bestiary.

Player vs Player Combat

You can also fight other players by visiting The Posioned Lands, which is a free-for-all island you can access from Port Solera. NOTE: The Poisoned Lands is the ONLY PVP area, all other islands are safe.

Melee PvP works via a simple "ATTACK" link, which you can click to attack any person at the same location as you, this will then generate a hit on them based on your combat stats, your equipped weapon, their combat stats and their equipped armour.

Aestium PvP works by selecting a spell to use and then clicking the "CAST" link next to a player. You can cast attacking spells (whose power is dependant on the spell itself and on the Aestium level of your target), or you can cast defensive spells, such as creating a shield around yourself to limit the damage done to you, or pinning your opponent to the ground to cause them the possibility of being unable to strike you.

Due to these two specialities, it is quite even and either could kill the other fairly easily...for example:
Player 1 has Combat Lvl 1 and Aestium Lvl 40
Player 2 has Combat Lvl 40 and Aestium Lvl 1
Either of these players could kill the other, depending on who strikes first, since the fighter has a weak Aestium level and can't defend himself against spells, but the mage has a weak combat level and can't defend himself against physical attacks.
Although it could be argued that the Mage has the slight edge, since he can also cast defensive spells to hinder the fighter's hits. In which case, it's possible in the future that there may be armour brought into the game which would have the same effect in favour of the melee fighter, to even things out a little more, but this is not available at the moment.

In regards to the combat spells types, which you will know from fighting monsters affects the damage done depending on the type of the monster...all players are considered to be type NORMAL.

NOTE: In The Poisoned Lands anyone can attack you at any location, and if you die out there, you lose all of your equipped items and the ones in your inventory, so be careful! It should also be noted that you will still appear in the "Players at this location" section in The Poisoned Lands, even if you log off, so if you log off whilst in The Poisoned Lands, people will still be able to kill you!