Editing Knight (section)

== Advancing Your Skills ==
'''Melee:'''
* Use Balanced Fighting. Using Balanced Fighting during normal hunting will allow you to advance your Melee and Shielding skills at "normal" rates. If you are not "powergaming" to gain experience quickly, then using Balanced Fighting will cause your melee and shielding skills to advance appropriately for your level and you will have "good" (not "fabulous") skills for the entire life of your character.
* Use a weak weapon. As your Melee skill advances, you will kill weaker [[Creatures|creatures]] very quickly. Using a weak weapon will allow you to attack a [[Creatures|creatures]] for a longer amount of time, therefore advancing your melee skill faster. The weakest [[Swords Weapons|Sword Weapon]] is a [[Knife]], the weakest [[Club Weapons|Club Weapon]] is a [[Crowbar]] and the weakest [[Axe Weapons|Axe Weapon]] is a [[Sickle]].
* Attack creatures that heal themselves or spawn other creatures. Training on a self-healing creature will allow you to train longer before killing the creature. If it heals itself fast enough, then you could train indefinitely. Another option is to train on a creature that spawns other creatures. Slimes are very common for this. Attacking and killing the spawned [[Creatures|creatures]] will allow you to continue to train without killing the creature you are training on.
'''Shielding:'''
* Use a one-handed weapon and a [[Shields|shield]]. Although a two-handed weapon will generally cause more damage than a one-handed weapon, you will not gain shielding skills that way.
* Use Balanced Fighting or Defensive Fighting. If you use Offensive Fighting, then you will kill the [[Creatures|creatures]] faster, but you will take more hits and your shielding skill will not advance as quickly.
'''Magic Level:'''
* Avoid reaching a full mana bar. Your Magic Level advances when you spend mana to cast [[Spells|spells]]. Every second with a full mana bar, you are losing potential magic level advancement.
* Spend as little time as possible in Protection Zones. You cannot use mana that you do not regenerate, so spend as little time as possible in situations where you do not regenerate mana.
* Always eat. Make sure you have access to [[Foods|Food]] at all times. If you run out of food, then you will not be able to regenerate mana.
* Carry [[Mana Potion|Mana Potions]]. Not only is this a good idea if you get in a jam, but using Mana Potions will help you advance your Magic Level faster.