General Discussion

The folks at the Chronicles of Spellborn have posted a guide to the game's unique combat system, giving tips and tricks on how to survive your first battles.

Manual Dodging
Keeping your health level high enough to stay in combat longer
Spellborn features fast-paced, action rich combat. The need to aim to hit a target is generally well understood. The fact you have to dodge is not. Most new players will stand their ground, exchanging blows with an opponent and whilst the opponent goes down, so does the players health. These players generally fight a single mob, retreat from combat and then sit down to regenerate their health. Although it certainly works, it is not what we had in mind with fast paced combat.

Spellborn offers a more fun solution: manual dodging! You can evade attacks of enemies if you maneuver your character out of the way fast enough.

To try it out, find low level boars. Generally they can be found near the City of Hawksmouth's Spawn Shrine and the Lumber Yard. A boar has a rather predictable attack pattern:

· It will notice you
· It will run towards you
· When close enough, it will stop moving
· Within about a second it will execute its attack
· If needed, it will start running again to catch up with you
· It will stop moving again to attack

The start of the attack is recognizable from the sound and the animation. To notice this easily, let a boar come close (use ranged attacks to “lure” it) and at a certain distance it stops moving. If you learn and anticipate this distance and move away from the boar (strafing works best), you can evade the attack. It requires some timing, and lots of practice but you can evade an attack this way.

Read more here.

Lost me at the mention of boars.  I'm way through with boars.

But good luck to TCoS.  At least it dares to do a lot of stuff differently.

Originally posted by DeaconX

Lost me at the mention of boars.  I'm way through with boars.

But good luck to TCoS.  At least it dares to do a lot of stuff differently.

hahahaha...Boars...OMG, they mentioned BOARS...

LOTRO destroyed all boars in existence, and I do not wish to see another boar in all my life.

The next game to release with NO BOARS, I will buy!

Eh, odd comments. o.O

The boars were mentioned because you can find them early and they're simple to fight. Not like anyone is making you fight them. Going directly to groups of 4 humanoids on your own will get you killed though. ;)

Come on. There are only so many animals you can have as starter mobs. If the combat is as good as it seems on paper I don't care if half of the games PvE mobs are boars and rats.

i have to say that after 5 days of playing tcos im still the "stand there and exchange blows" type but ive seen people come out of a mob fight with a lot more hp then me doing these dodgy moves.

on the other hand it isnt that rare that you have to fight more then one mob at the same time and im not sure if even the skilled fighters can coordinate maneuvers on more then 1 or 2 opponents

Go kill 3 boars. Deliver Timmy's cask of ale to the inn. Kill Samuel's stray dog. Pick 3 mushrooms.

Sound familiar? We've all seen it a million times, and you're sure to see it in TCOS.