Melee

Melee

There are 5 melee weapon tiers. Each scaling in strength, from weakest to strongest, there is Bronze, Iron, Steel, Mithril, and Adamantite.

In each melee weapon tier, there are also different weapon types that have different strengths, again weakest to strongest is Dagger, Shortsword, Battleaxe, and Longsword. There are additional weapons, that have the same stats as their corresponding types, but a different appearence. The variants are...

Dagger - Dirk and Knife

Shortsword - Ceyl and Scimitar

Battleaxe - Greataxe and Broadaxe

Longsword - Jian and Odachi

These variants can only be found in the dungeon from dungeon shops or boss/miniboss drops, whereas the basic design can be bought in town. Here is an example of every melee weapon type...

All basic melee types and tiers can be purchased in town (except adamantite and mithril), they also all have the same reach and attack speed. But each has different damage...

Tier	Type	Damage	Gold Cost
Bronze	Dagger	5	1
	Shortsword	6	60
	Battleaxe	7	120
	Longsword	8	200
Iron	Dagger	9	300
	Shortsword	10	450
	Battleaxe	11	650
	Longsword	12	800
Steel	Dagger	13	1200
	Shortsword	14	1500
	Battleaxe	15	1800
	Longsword	16	2200
Mithril*	Dagger	17	4200
	Shortsword	18	5000
	Battleaxe	19	5200
	Longsword	20	5500
Adamantite*	Dagger	21	~9000
	Shortsword	22	~10000
	Battleaxe	23	~11000
	Longsword	24	~12000

*Mithril and Adamantite is not purchasable in town and is a rare drop from bosses/minibosses or shops on lower floors

After 1.2 update was released, all of these swords received new updates, special abilities don't show on melee weapons that have them and instead of using energy, they are using cooldown. In order to activate these abilities, you must wear any type of melee armor.

Dagger - has most DPS over all swords but lacks range

- Shoots 3 daggers. Damage is based on material tier.

Shortsword - still remains the same but has equip animation which lasts for ~1.5 seconds

- Hold out a shield which will block all incoming projectiles.

Longsword - has equip animation which lasts for ~2.5 seconds before you can use it, has long range over every sword

- no special ability

Battleaxe - it can hit multiple targets

- no special ability

Additionally, there are Legendary Swords.

Melee Armor

Can be bought at spawn from the armor shop. As well as Tier 2 armor (Cuircass) is an uncommon drop from Bosses.

Name	Gold Cost	Positives	Negatives
Leather Armor	500	Decreases damage taken by 15%	Lowers Mana Regen by 20% Lowers Spell Damage by 20%
Chainmail Armor (Cuircass now)	1000	Decreases damage taken by 6+30%	Lowers Mana Regen by 20% Can't cast spells
Plate Armor	7000	Decreases damage taken by 10+40%	Lowers Mana Regen by 30% Can't cast spells
Heavy Plate Armor	20000	Decreases damage taken by 20+50%	Lowers Mana Regen by 50% Can't cast spells
Holy Knight Armor	Free*	Decreases damage taken by 35% Increases Spell Damage by 5%	Decreases Mana Regen by 10%

*After the altar rework, it is unknown how to obtain Holy Knight Armor