Sufi's Guide to the Martial Arts
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Training Attack/Defense
The Sufi way :P
Not everyone is a fighter, but training A/D is the fastest way to gain experience and at higher levels, a good way to earn a bit of gc. While there are various opinions on how to go about training A/D, I will provide a bit of advice from someone who has managed to level fairly fast :)
Beginners should follow the advice in the beginner guide and fight rabbits, beavers, and rats. As a general rule, you want to keep your coord higher than your phys because it makes fights last longer and therefore you get more experience per creature. Also, as a general rule, you want to keep your main attributes in multiples of 4. What I will try to do it provide a "map" of sorts to leveling up your A/D, including what to train on and where to put your pp's (pickpoints) The following chart shows your A/D, P/C (phys./coord), and creatures you should train on. It is assumed there will be "gaps" where you will have 4 pp's to distribute, but not high enough A/D to move to the next creature. These pp's can be used for nexuses or will. I advise NOT moving to the next creature in the list until your stats match or exceed those listed for that creature :)
Always wear armor and a shield, whatever your nexus allows, and a moon med. I would also advise carrying spare armor so you don't have to interrupt your training to re-equip and risk losing your spawn. NEVER use a weapon other than a bone. If you cannot fairly comfortably kill a creature with a bone, move back to the previous creature until you can increase your stats.
As magic is *very* important to higher level training, I advise you to buy sigils as soon as possible and begin training magic. Use heal and remote heal rather than br's as much as you can. Use br's and dis rings ONLY for emergencies. Once you reach level 21 magic, you can use the restore spell, but beware, at lower levels the chance of failure is quite high, so always be prepared with br's, dis rings, or remote heal spell. You can put spells in your Spell bar and use alt+1-6 to cast them. Put your *most used heal spell* in the first slot and train your fingers to press alt+1. I often train with my thumb pressing down on the alt key and have my middle finger poised over the 1 key :)
Here is the definitive guide to magic training...I highly advise you to use it often: Magic/MagpieLee
4/4/4/4 - rabbits
6/6/4/8 - beavers, rats
8/8/8/8 - deer, foxes
11/11/8/12 - wolves (you will train on wolves for quite a while)
The next section contains creatures for which you can read books. The information listed ASSUMES you've read the required book for each creature. If you haven't, add *at least* 3-4 A/D levels before attempting them.
18/18/12/16 - male goblins (though wolves will still give better exp at this level)
24/24/16/20 - large spiders, skeletons (try to have at least magic 21 by this level)
30/30/16/24 - small gargoyles, pumas, snow leopards
32/32/16/24 - large winged gargoyles (also another excellent exp. creature that you should train on for quite a while)
38/38/20/24 - leopards, armed skeletons (not great training, as they do considerable damage and die quickly...stick with large winged gargs)
40/40/20/24 - female goblins
42/42/20/28 - armed male goblins, panthers, female orcs
48/48/20/28 - male orcs, polar bears (another long-training creature)
52/52/20/28 - trolls, ogres (get ready for the ogre marathon :P)
At this point, you will have reached ogres and unfortunately, ogres are the best exp./resource usage for a LONG time. You may want to increase your phys at around mid 50's A/D to 24. Fortunately, however, more ogre spawns have been added and they give good drops \o/
66/68/24/32 - female armed orcs
70/72/24/32 - male armed orcs
72/76/28/36 - cyclops (at this point, you will need a sword to train, but you will soon advance to using a bone on cycs too :P)
75/78/28/40 - fluffies. Be aware, to train on fluffies at this point, you need good armor and a decent weapon (minimum titanium serpent sword) and probably a crown of life and/or medallion of life. Minimum of 40 coord is essential. You will also need accuracy/coord pots. Fluffies are awesome experience and don't hit for large damage, though they hit often, so defense pots are also recommended, though this will decrease your defense experience.
I will continue to add to this as I go. As I said, there will be varying opinions on the stats I've given. If you are *close* on your stats for a particular creature, try it (with a dis ring handy, of course) and see how it goes. If you can train on a creature with an iron sword and not kill it too quickly, then by all means, use the sword. This guide isn't authoritative :P
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to pm me and ask. Everyone may feel free to supply supporting or contrary opinions to this "map."
