Melee

Melee

Specializing in close quarters combat while tanking attacks left and right, melee-class players form the bulk of the frontline. While they're impervious to most attacks, they're relatively weak when it comes to casting spells and dealing with ranged enemies, and can still fall when faced with too many foes.

There are five melee weapon tiers and five melee types. The five melee types are as follows: dagger, shortsword, battleaxe, longsword, and spear. The five melee tiers are: rusty, iron, steel, mithril, and adamantite. Mithril and adamantite weapons aren't purchasable in town and are instead a rare drop from bosses/minibosses or dungeon shops.
To use a melee weapon's special ability, you must equip a melee-class armor.

Here's the details surrounding the various melee types:
Daggers have a fast equip time and high DPS potential, but lacks in terms of range.

- Special ability: Dagger Throwing - Shoots 3 daggers in rapid succession. Damage is based on material tier (15/20/30/40/50). Perfect for dealing with pesky acid spitters. Cooldown of ~5 seconds.

Shortswords have a basic equip time, damage, and range. No upsides or downsides, they're perfect for any situation.

- Special ability: Buckler - Hold out a shield which will block most incoming projectiles, slightly reduces incoming melee damage, but slows the player down immensely. Players can still swing while having the buckler out. Increases your survivability.

Battleaxes utilize a two swing combo. First swing deals less damage but strikes in a wide arc and can hit multiple enemies. Second swing will only hit one target, but deals massive damage.

- Special ability: Combat Roll - Dash forward. Perfect for closing the distance.

Longswords have a long equip time, but offsets that with a large hit range and high damage output. Make the downtime between equips worth it.

- Special ability: Sweetspot Potential - Attacking near the edge but not at the end of its range will deal double damage. Increases your damage output even more while ensuring that you'll take minimal damage in the process.

Spears have a long equip time and cannot hit targets at point blank, but can hit targets at a distance. Decent damage output. Longest hit range out of all weapon types.

- Special ability: Dodge Roll - Dash backwards. Perfect for ensuring that you're still within the range to deal damage.

For the purposes of the following tables, all weapons' DPS are recorded over 10 seconds.

Rusty Weapons Type Damage/DPS Cost Dagger 18 damage per swing, 40.8 DPS 1 Shortsword 20 damage per swing, 34 DPS 100 Battleaxe 20 damage per swipe + 35 per overhead swing, 32.8 DPS 110 Spear 24 damage per swing, 39 DPS 110 Longsword 22 damage per swing, 67 DPS (134 DPS with SS procs) 120

Iron Weapons Type Damage/DPS Cost Dagger 28 damage per swing, 63.4 DPS 400 Shortsword 28 damage per swing, 48.8 DPS 410 Battleaxe 28 damage per swipe + 45 per overhead swing, 60.5 DPS 420 Spear 30 damage per swing, 48.8 DPS 420 Longsword 30 damage per swing, 91.5 DPS (183 DPS with SS procs) 430

Steel Weapons Type Damage/DPS Cost Dagger 32 damage per swing, 71.6 DPS 1500 Shortsword 34 damage per swing, 59.3 DPS 1550 Battleaxe 36 damage per swipe + 65 per overhead swing, 60.5 DPS 1600 Spear 36 damage per swing, 58.6 DPS 1600 Longsword 36 damage per swing, 91.5 DPS (183 DPS with SS procs) 1650

Mithril Weapons Type Damage/DPS Cost Dagger 36 damage per swing, 80.6 DPS 5000 Shortsword 38 damage per swing, 66.3 DPS 5100 Battleaxe 44 damage per swipe + 80 per overhead swing, 74.3 DPS 5200 Spear 41 damage per swing, 68.3 DPS 5200 Longsword 40 damage per swing, 122 DPS (244 DPS with SS procs) 5300

Adamantite Weapons
Type	Damage/DPS	Cost
Dagger	40 damage per swing, 89.5 DPS	9000
Shortsword	44 damage per swing, 76.8 DPS	9100
Battleaxe	52 damage per swipe + 95 per overhead swing, 88.1 DPS	9200
Spear	48 damage per swing, 76.9 DPS	9200
Longsword	46 damage per swing, 140.3 DPS (280.6 DPS with SS procs)	9300

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  Dagger being equipped.

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  Shortsword being equipped.

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  Battleaxe being equipped.

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  Longsword being equipped.

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  Spear being equipped.

Melee Armor

Name	Cost	Positives	Negatives
Leather Armor	500 gold	Decreases damage taken by 15%	Lowers Mana Regen by 20% Lowers Spell Damage by 20%
Cuirass Armor	1000 gold	Decreases damage taken by 6+30% +10% Knockback Resistance	Can't cast spells
Plate Armor	7000 gold	Decreases damage taken by 10+40% +30% Knockback Resistance	Can't cast spells
Heavy Plate Armor	20000 gold	Decreases damage taken by 20+50% +40% Knockback Resistance	Can't cast spells
Ronin Armor	Crafted (N/A gold)	Decreases damage taken by 10+40% +???% Knockback Resistance Increases arrow modifiers by 7.5	Can't cast spells
Holy Knight Armor	Crafted (40000 gold)	Decreases damage taken by 12+35% +20% Knockback Resistance Increases Spell Damage by 20%	Lowers Mana Regen by 60%

Most armors can be bought in the town shop or as drops from the various bosses. Heavy Plate Armor can only be earned from a legendary pedestal or as a rare boss drop.

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  Leather Armor

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  Cuirass Armor

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  Plate Armor

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  Heavy Plate Armor

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  Holy Knight Armor