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Melee with an axe at Combat Level 3

The strongest gear you can wear at your level, from everything on the wiki: judged by damage per attack (the weapon, its damage bonuses and crits), how often energy lets you attack, and survivability. Rolls count at the middle of their range unless you set your own. Put your own piece in any slot and the planner builds the rest around it; save it to keep it and share it.

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Combat Skill

Class

Weapon

Combat levelMarks: a new melee set unlocks

Level

Focus

Armour

Iron · Common · crafted with Smithing 2

HelmetIron HelmetCommon · Lv 3 · Smithing 2

Slash +5–7%Base Def 16–24Slash Defense 16–24

Augments

Slot 1

Other pick: Bronze Helmet (Lv 0: −3% survivability)

ChestplateIron ChestplateCommon · Lv 3 · Smithing 2

Slash +5–7%Base Def 16–24Slash Defense 16–24

Augments

Slot 1

Other pick: Bronze Chestplate (Lv 0: −3% survivability)

LeggingsIron LeggingsCommon · Lv 3 · Smithing 2

Slash +5–7%Base Def 16–24Slash Defense 16–24

Augments

Slot 1

Other pick: Bronze Leggings (Lv 0: −3% survivability)

BootsIron BootsCommon · Lv 3 · Smithing 2

Slash +5–7%Base Def 16–24Slash Defense 16–24

Augments

Slot 1

Other pick: Bronze Boots (Lv 0: −3% survivability)

Weapon, core and accessories

One of each; rings twice

Weapon

Bronze AxeCommon · Smithing 0 · 6 energy an attack · ability 6Slash Damage 10–12 · ability Great Slice

Its augments

Slot 1

Class core

Swordsman Class CoreArtisan 0Slash +20% · ability Turmoil Slash

Ring

Stone RingUncommon · Artisan 2Health 15–25Other pick: Carcass Ring (Lv 0: −1% survivability)

Ring

Stone RingUncommon · Artisan 2 · the same ring twiceHealth 15–25

Amulet

Eye PatchRare · DropCrit Dmg +29.2–48.4%Other pick: Dungeoneer's Amulet IV (Lv 0: −2% damage)

GlovesThe 4 gloves on the wiki are for gathering, not combat.

Greaves

Greaves of DashesUncommon · Lv 3 · Artisan 1Speed 10–15 · ability DashOther pick: Greaves of Evasion (Lv 3: much the same)

Weapons are compared by damage per attack and how often energy lets them attack; how fast each kind swings is not known yet.

Elixirs

Suggested: every one that helps, at its top level

Vital Elixir II 6/6+18% survivability

Vital Elixir 5/5+15% survivability

Aegis Elixir 5/5+12% survivability

Aegis Elixir II 5/5+12% survivability

Lamina Elixir 5/5+7% damage

Lethum Elixir 5/5much the same

Anemo Elixir 5/5+5 Max Energy

Celer Elixir 5/5+10 Speed

Vigor Elixir 5/5+10% Health Regen

Build totals

From every piece's lowest roll to its highest, with the elixirs

Damage per attack crits averaged in16.2–20.6

Attack speed kept up 6 energy an attack, 10 regained a second100%

Survivability health × defence416–530

Slash damage weapon, per hit10–12

Slash Damage+50–58%

Armour 24 · Core 20 · Elixirs 10

Crit Damage+39.2–58.4%

Amulet 38.8 · Elixirs 10

Base Defense114–146

Max Health+85–105

Health Regen+10%

Max Energy+5

Speed+20–25

Slash Defense64–96

Ranked by damage kept up and survivability, at the middle of each roll. Before gear it assumes 5% crit chance, +50% crit damage, 100 health and 10 energy regained a second; every normal attack uses the weapon's attack energy (top left of its tooltip). Set bonuses and what abilities do are not counted.

Abilities and passives

Great Slice weapon6 energy

Turmoil Slash class core50 energy

Dash greaves20 energy

What it takes

Smithing 2Artisan 2

From drops: Swordsman Class Core, Eye Patch

Materials for the crafted pieces

32× Iron Ingot

8× Stone Chunk

6× Coarse Cloth

3× Faerie Dust

2× Bronze Alloy

2× Oak Scrap

1× Bundled Raw Leather

1× Void Piece

All melee gear to level 3

Skill trees

Suggested with the gear · 3 of 3 points

Points

Your Combat level. With bought points, type your total from the game.

Aim

Energy: nothing in the combat trees raises it for this build.

Melee armour by level

Base Defense per piece

Lv 0Bronze10–15Common
Lv 3Iron16–24Common · this build
Lv 6Stonescale26.4–39.6Uncommon
Lv 10Infused Bronze63–84Rare
Lv 12Aetherbloom24.5–36.7Legendary · set bonus
Lv 15Silver40–60Common
Lv 18Mercenary55.2–82.8Uncommon
Lv 25Leviahide84–126Rare