Demonic Pacts League/Guide/Melee

Attack, Strength, and Defence are all trained in similar ways through combat. Strength can be trained slowly through barbarian fishing , or Barbarian Gathering and Defence can also be trained with Ranged or Magic while on the defensive combat style.

In Demonic Pacts League, combat can be trained almost everywhere. The following are notable methods that take advantage of relics, boosted minigame points, or are otherwise notable for training.

• Gemstone Crab in Varlamore✓ provides consistent 10 minute intervals of combat training with very little risk.
• Sand crabs across Kourend✓, or around Varlamore✓, and rock crabs found across Fremennik✓ can be a non-intensive method for training combat skills at a low level. This is particularly effective when combined with Thorns pacts.
• Sulphur Nagua require 48 Slayer. Nagua have negative flat armour and can reach very high xp/hr rates if using double hitting weapons such as the dual macuahuitl with the blood moon armour or Infernal tecpatl.
• Vyrewatch can be found close to a bank and are aggressive to players not wearing the vyre noble clothing. They can only be damaged with the Ivandis flail or blisterwood flail.
• Bandits found in the Desert✓ are aggressive to players wearing Saradomin or Zamorakian items.
• Walking back and forth with defensive gear and thorns pacts in Kruk's Dungeon yields extremely high XP rates due to the high density of maniacal monkeys in multicombat. Walking yields up to about 40 million melee XP/hr, while standing still yields around 15 million. A light source is required.

Melee combat is enhanced by unique methods in the Demonic Pacts tree: defensive oriented nodes that deal damage to enemies with the thorns effect, nodes that increase attack speed with light-weight weapons (less than 1kg in weight) and improve special attack energy generation, and nodes that deal damage through bonus attacks with heavy weapons (greater than 1kg) through an effect called blindbag.

The first thorn node available requires an equipped shield and provides an effect to instantly deal 3 melee damage to attacks when you take 0 damage. Other nodes in the defensive side of the tree provide boosts to the thorns effect by increasing the player's defence level, increasing thorns damage, and providing hitpoints and prayer points restoration. The thorns capstone causes it to always trigger twice, dealing 50% damage in the second hit.

The light-weight oriented nodes provide power through a guaranteed additional hit which can do 40% of your base max hit, an attack speed increase by 1 tick (0.6 seconds), and a percentage boost to melee strength based on Strength level. There are also many special attack oriented nodes providing increased generation or a chance to not consume special attack energy. The capstone grants 2% special attack energy restoration per hit with a melee weapon.

The heavy-weight nodes mostly affect 2-handed weapons with increased attack range and power through an effect called blindbag. The effect has a base 15% chance to trigger an instant attack with a random heavy melee weapon in the player's inventory, as if they had equipped it themselves. The attack can trigger additional blindbag attacks as well. There is a major node that also provides a 5% chance to trigger a ranged echo effect, which is an additional attack which rolls against the target's melee defence and counts as a melee attack. The Three nodes in the ranged section of the tree also affect the ranged echo via the following: the bow node causes all ranged echoes to never miss, the crossbow node improves the chance of a ranged echo by +15%, and the thrown weapon node causes ranged echoes to have a 20% chance to max hit. Although the bow, crossbow, and thrown weapon nodes are in the ranged section, they do affect the ranged echoes caused by melee hits. There is also an additional major node in the ranged tree that allows ranged echoes to trigger additional echoes at 50% of the base chance. The chance for a blindbag attack can be further increased with a major node that adds a 2% chance per heavy weapon in the inventory, up to a maximum of 10%. The capstone node for blindbag attacks adds a 2% max hit to the blindbag attack for each heavy weapon in the inventory up to 10%.

The final capstone exclusively affects halberds by giving them an attack range of 7 and setting attack speed to 5 ticks (3 seconds).

Regions in the required column are always required. However, only one of the optional regions is required.

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Areas	Varlamore Karamja Asgarnia Fremennik Province Kandarin Kharidian Desert Morytania Tirannwn Wilderness Kourend
Skill guides	Agility Construction Cooking Crafting Farming Firemaking Fishing Fletching Herblore Hunter Magic Melee Mining Prayer Ranged Runecraft Slayer Smithing Thieving Woodcutting
Relics	Tier 1 Endless Harvest Barbarian Gathering Abundance Tier 2 Hotfoot Friendly Forager Woodsman Tier 3 Bank Heist Evil Eye Map of Alacrity Tier 4 Transmute Conniving Clues Butler's Bell Tier 5 Nature's Accord Larcenist Soul Harvest Tier 6 Grimoire Eternal Sustenance Culling Spree Tier 7 Flow State Reloaded Tier 8 Executioner Minion Flask of Fervour
Gameplay items	Arcane grimoire Banker's briefcase Butler's bell Crystal dagger (perfected) Evil eye Fairy mushroom Flask of fervour Forager's pouch Knapsack Map of alacrity Minion whistle Sage's axe Searing boots Transmutation ledger
Echo bosses	Cerberus Kalphite Queen(legs) Dagannoth Kings(Prime • Rex • Supreme) Thermonuclear smoke devil Hespori Grotesque Guardians(Dawn • Dusk • Definitely Not Dusk) Corrupted Hunllef Amoxliatl(Icy pool) King Black Dragon(Black dragon) Echo orbs Asgarnia Desert Fremennik Kandarin Kourend Morytania Tirannwn Varlamore Wilderness Echo equipment Fang of the hound Drygore blowpipe V's helm Devil's element Shadowflame quadrant Nature's recurve Lithic sceptre Crystal blessing Infernal tecpatl King's barrage
Rewards	Trophies Bronze Iron Steel Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon Demonic Pacts Hunter Outfits Tier 1 Hood Top Bottom Boots Set Tier 2 Hood Top Bottom Boots Set Tier 3 Hood Top Bottom Boots Set Ornament kits Demonic axe ornament kit Demonic quill Demonic staff ornament kit Demonic trident ornament kit Items Soulreaper axe (o) Oathplate slayer helmet Radiant slayer helmet Iban's staff (o) Trident of the seas (o) Trident of the seas (e) (o) Trident of the swamp (o) Trident of the swamp (e) (o) Overrides Demonic pacts throne scroll Demonic pacts demon butler scroll Demonic skin contract Impish ritual scroll Impish whistle Other Demonic pacts banner Demonic sceptre