New player, when do I stop missing?

[Pope Hat]

Grouping really is your best option.
But if you want to solo remember to always have sow on and if the fight is too hard just run. You have to run before you get too low health though or else you will be slower and the mob will catch you.
Also you have a ton of buffs. Make sure you are buffing yourself.

[Jimjam]

Something to consider is to upgrade your weapon so you can attempt more swings, or make it so that the swings which do hit do more damage.

Player bought upgrades are relatively cheap.

[RDawg816]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Something to consider is to upgrade your weapon so you can attempt more swings, or make it so that the swings which do hit do more damage.

Player bought upgrades are relatively cheap.

Generally speaking, faster weapons are better for this. Slow weapons make you cry when they miss. Landing a hit 30% of the time, you'd almost always be better off with a 6/17 over a 12/34...as an example.

[Gumbo]

What weapons are you using?

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by RDawg816 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Generally speaking, faster weapons are better for this. Slow weapons make you cry when they miss. Landing a hit 30% of the time, you'd almost always be better off with a 6/17 over a 12/34...as an example.

On the flip side, slow weapons mean less damageshield/riposte damage and easier to cast spells between swings without sacrificing melee dps.

[Subidoo]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the flip side, slow weapons mean less damageshield/riposte damage and easier to cast spells between swings without sacrificing melee dps.

For a shaman, this is truth.

[RDawg816]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the flip side, slow weapons mean less damageshield/riposte damage and easier to cast spells between swings without sacrificing melee dps.

Yeah, but at lower levels ds and riposte aren't much. If the mob is fleeing and he misses enough for it to regen, I think the faster weapon would be better for now.

He should be casting more though, so technically this is irrelevant mostly. I'm mainly talking about lower level characters where you miss a lot more and it really hurts when you have a slow weapon (assuming non-twinks).

[ld420]

Question answered. Guess ill just have to keep toughing it out til I can afford less crappy gear. Forgot how expensive spells are, even just buying the ones you NEED. Thanks for the responses.

[Brontus]

Priest classes are inherently horrible at melee. It seems by design. For example, I routinely miss when trying to kill the level 1 orc pawns that walk directly over where I sit at the WC druid rings. I kid you not, even a level 40+ druid often misses when trying to kill a level one mob.

[Josa]

Did you hit 14 yet? If you are troll/ogre, you can do the orc camps in the forest part of South ro. You'll end up with a full set of rawhide armor, and you can sell the rest. Also, these camps drop deathfist belts, which you can sell to players for 3pp ea. If you are barbarian, you can do the karana bandits in the farm house, and grab every rabid Wolf/ bear pelt to turn in for serious plat. That combined with the sashes and regular bronze drops from the bandits will get you 100pp an hour, if not more. You really just have to pace yourself with a shaman.