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Title: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Paulonius on October 19, 2009, 12:24:19 PM
This is more of a survey than anything as I hate training combat skills and am interested in techniques people are using for training combat skills.

My current protocols are as follows:

Melee: I set up characters on two accounts with skills in the same range, the fastest weapons I can, as much stam as possible,  +5 repair armor, healing, anat, and a pile of aids in a container. I have them heal each other while they beat their skills into shape.  I stone off a skill and go buy it with a character if I have to start with a new character.  I generally always buy these skills to 40 in Haven.  I find this method more flexible than a golem and will allow you to train heal, parry, weapon skills, and bushido at the same time.

Archery: (will check for throwing) I get six Cu Sidhe in a house with pens and use a target rotator that gives me a shot or two at each one after the next in a cycle. The Cu will heal themselves and stay alive indefinitely if you have enough of them.  I save bows that have all damage in cold and energy, preferably without any damage increase.  With 0% DI and 100% in the Cu's two strong resists I have been able to sustain this for many hours with only four released pets.  Six pretty much always works.  This works well in the foyer of a castle, or if you have a custom house with animal pens.

If you have a better method please post it here!

Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: manwinc on October 19, 2009, 12:48:14 PM
2 accounts. 1 tamer, 1 of Whatever WEapon skill you want to train.


Tame A Gaman, Have the melee character attack it, once he starts attacking it say all stop, all stay, then just set up a script to heal the gaman :) I think it will train you up to 120, i've only used it training melee on my lumberjackers though.
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Scrripty on October 19, 2009, 04:57:42 PM
+30 jewels also.  Just get to 40 and then do high end monsters with a healer bot.
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Cerveza on October 20, 2009, 04:13:56 AM
Archery Note: Get a high level Fletching talisman and run this little gem. It saves time running to an archery shop and doing repairs.

I used this in Khaldun when taking my archer to 120.

*it's dated now, but should still work
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Abyss on October 20, 2009, 04:18:19 AM
My way is actually pretty slow.


I go to yew crypts till about 70-75 hitting skele's afk with a target next loop while standing in the doorway of the crypt will all the skele's in it. Then I golem train till 120
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: NObama on October 25, 2009, 11:32:07 AM
Lava lizards until 90ish
Earth Elems until 100ish
Trammel Champ spawns using a champ spawn helper.

 :)
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Wilk on October 25, 2009, 12:16:53 PM
Archer:

For a red character.

If you've done the spellweaving quest, one released cu in a pen in felluca will work. Use a mischief maker (100% cold) with no DI on jewels/talis/weps. Set up a gift of renewal macro on the cu.
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Wakiza on December 20, 2009, 11:07:30 AM
Some good ideas here. I'll have to try them out!
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: camotbik on December 25, 2009, 07:18:58 PM
Mele: 2 characters with cross healing/hitting each other  - as mentioned above
Archery: 2 characters on a boat. 1: mage - 100% LRC, casts blade spirits on land. 2: Archer - looks for blade spirits on the ground, and attacks them.
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: NObama on December 27, 2009, 03:22:17 PM
*cries again*

 :)
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: NObama on December 27, 2009, 05:08:20 PM
Offering one left nut for access to full CLAw.  It's in perfect working condition, and doesn't have the kind of mileage on it that I'd like...

 :)
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: camotbik on December 27, 2009, 07:37:59 PM
Mele: 2 characters with cross healing/hitting each other  - as mentioned above
Archery: 2 characters on a boat. 1: mage - 100% LRC, casts blade spirits on land. 2: Archer - looks for blade spirits on the ground, and attacks them.

Boy it's great bein elite. :)


I bet, I'm still waiting for that Elite invite  ;)
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: UOMaddog on December 27, 2009, 07:56:21 PM
By far the easiest way to train a weapon skill is to use spellweaving to Dryad Allure an artic ogre lord, then use your 100% poison weapon. I train all my wep skills like this and it's fast as can be. Just start with 50 skill and use jewels to get you to 65-ish (depending on the ogre). No dmg to your weapon or having to worry about healing. Can also be done with just one account. And getting the 50-ish spellweaving required to cast the spell is easy too!
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Cerveza on July 16, 2010, 02:17:09 AM
Those wolf spiders are 100% Poison resist...
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: UOMaddog on July 17, 2010, 08:24:46 AM
Yes, but you need a tamer
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Grandewd on September 26, 2012, 04:54:41 PM
By far the easiest way to train a weapon skill is to use spellweaving to Dryad Allure an artic ogre lord, then use your 100% poison weapon. I train all my wep skills like this and it's fast as can be. Just start with 50 skill and use jewels to get you to 65-ish (depending on the ogre). No dmg to your weapon or having to worry about healing. Can also be done with just one account. And getting the 50-ish spellweaving required to cast the spell is easy too!

This sounds really interesting.... Now, are there any Throwing training scripts around?
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Canuker on September 27, 2012, 06:34:47 AM
Don't forget that now with reforging you can make self repair weapons.  I had a AFK silver farmer going for a while that was running a valor suit(full suit has +5 self repair) a self repair shield and self repair fast weapon.  Get into sampire form and walk away for the day. Nothing breaks and needs looking at.

Just a thought if you were looking at the OP and using this method.
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: gimlet on September 27, 2012, 07:33:14 AM
Don't forget that now with reforging you can make self repair weapons.  I had a AFK silver farmer going for a while that was running a valor suit(full suit has +5 self repair) a self repair shield and self repair fast weapon.  Get into sampire form and walk away for the day. Nothing breaks and needs looking at.

Just a thought if you were looking at the OP and using this method.

Wow did not know that - can you give me a step by step on how to do ths.
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: MeWonUo on September 27, 2012, 08:21:59 AM
Wow did not know that - can you give me a step by step on how to do ths.

Use the Exquisite/of Quality name in the reforging menu.

DC hammers cap at 2 or 4 self repair.  Non powerful vs powerful reforge.
SH hammers cap at 5 regardless if you use powerful or not.
CP hammers cap at 6 or 7, powerful vs non. 

I think it's a 1/7 chance to get SR as a mod, but worth the time to make a 7sr weapon for farming purposes IMO. 
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Grandewd on September 27, 2012, 09:16:49 AM
Excellent advice.... Gonna try and modify Guadah's Multiskill Trainer to include Throwing... Wish me luck, I'll need it... ;)
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: Canuker on September 27, 2012, 09:21:29 AM
I think I used coppper hammers also.  I did it on a RtB account that was banned but got turned on for a few days.  It was amazing at how nothing really moved on the suit.  If I needed gold or more silver I would do this in a heart beat.  Can trial accounts join factions? 

I'm sure that you could do this same for making a SR suit but the valor one was perfect for what I needed.  I also used a pair of cursed jewels with SSI and some DI to increase this char's overall effectiveness since those jewels ment I didn't lose anything if I was PK'd but it never happened on the few days I managed to run it.
Title: Re: Fastest Way to Train a Combat Skill
Post by: SolidSnake on September 27, 2012, 05:57:08 PM
By far the easiest way to train a weapon skill is to use spellweaving to Dryad Allure an artic ogre lord, then use your 100% poison weapon. I train all my wep skills like this and it's fast as can be. Just start with 50 skill and use jewels to get you to 65-ish (depending on the ogre). No dmg to your weapon or having to worry about healing. Can also be done with just one account. And getting the 50-ish spellweaving required to cast the spell is easy too!

This is the way myself...and after I taught them..all my guildies used to train anything. No script needed. run UO Loop to say something every 5 minutes and just attack the thing...walk away or fall asleep :) Do it out in the middle of no-where or on a boat in non-traveled places.