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{{flavour|Fighting skill increases your accuracy and damage in physical combat, and also increases your maximum health.}}
'''Fighting''' is a generic combat skill. In addition to providing bonuses to melee and ranged combat, it increases your maximum [[hit points]].

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==Useful Info==
===Combat===
Every attack you make (melee or ranged) gains the following bonuses from your Fighting skill:
*'''[[Accuracy]]:''' Add <code>1d(Fighting + 1)</code>
*'''Base Damage:''' Multiplied by <code>1 + 1d(Fighting/30)</code>

This is a smaller bonus than you get from training your weapon skill, especially since Fighting does not reduce [[weapon speed|weapon delay]]. However, the benefits from the two skills stack, making it worthwhile to train both.

[[Auxiliary attack]]s benefit from Fighting but have a reduced damage bonus, multiplied by <code>1 + (1d(Fighting)-1)/40)</code> instead.

===HP Gain===
The ''base'' extra HP provided by Fighting is equal to:

XP level × Fighting / 14 + (3 × Fighting + 1) / 2

Your base HP is modified by your [[species]], [[mutation]]s, and/or [[transformation]]s, then rounded down to an integer. In the end, the final adjustment amounts to a gain of about 2.2% more HP per level of Fighting.

==Strategy==
Fighting skill is useful for ''any'' character - even casters will want to train a significant amount of Fighting by the late game. This is because the HP bonus is so valuable; unlike [[AC]] and [[EV]], no attack can completely ignore your HP.

While low HP species like [[Felid]] and [[Spriggan]] might get less HP from Fighting, this does not make Fighting useless. For these species, the HP can help prevent one-shot deaths.

===HP Bonus Examples===
*A level 5 Human with a Fighting skill of 5.0 receives a bonus of (5 × 5) / 14 + (3 × 5 + 1) / 2 = 1.79 + 8 = '''9 HP'''.
*A level 15 Human with a Fighting skill of 12.5 receives a bonus of (15 × 12.5) / 14 + (3 × 12.5 + 1) / 2 = 13.39 + 19.25 = '''32 HP'''.
*A level 27 Human with a Fighting skill of 27.0 receives a bonus of (27 × 27) / 14 + (3 × 27 + 1) / 2 = 52.07 + 41 = '''93 HP'''.
*A level 27 Felid with a Fighting skill of 27.0 receives a bonus of ((27 × 27) / 14 + (3 × 27 + 1) / 2) × 0.6 = '''55 HP'''.
*A level 27 Ogre with Robust 3, Rugged Brown Scales 3, and a Fighting skill of 27.0 receives a bonus of ((27 × 27) / 14 + (3 × 27 + 1) / 2) × 1.67 = '''155 HP'''.

==History==
*Prior to [[0.14]], the formula for extra HP from fighting was <code>(XP level × Fighting) / 8</code>.

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