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The Forge - Combat Guide

Combat is an essential part of survival and resource-gathering in The Forge. See all there is to know about its combat, how to get better, and any tips and tricks for it here!

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Combat Basics

The Forge Combat Mechanics

Combat in The Forge can be separated into two aspects: Attack and Defense. Attack is influenced by the weapon, its base stats, the number of times its been enhanced, any runes attached to it, and the style of attack you are doing.

Defense on the other hand is influenced by your armor pieces, whether or not you block or parry an attack, or whether or not you dodge the attack entirely.

Offensive Combat

Action Key
Light Attack Left Mouse Button
Heavy Attack Right Mouse Button
R

Attacking in The Forge requires you to strike down the opponent with your attack input, mixing and matching Light and Heavy attacks in order to bring them down.

Light attacks are quick to execute, while heavy attacks deal more damage but are slower.

How to Do Heavy Attacks

Defensive Combat

Action Key
Dodge Q
Block F
Parry F (before enemy attack hits)

Defending can be separated into either Blocking, Dodging, or taking the hit. Blocking and Dodging are skill-based maneuvers that can be mastered as they are independent of Equipment, whereas tanking hits comes down to your armor's Defense stat.

Improving Combat

Forging Better Equipment

The fastest and most straightforward way to improve your combat capabilities in The Forge is by forging better equipment using the ore and minerals you find while farming in the mines.

The more rare materials you use, both in quality and quantity, the more you can increase the forging multiplier and give yourself a better chance of forging high-tier equipment with higher stats.

Forging Guide

Enhancing Equipment

With your chosen or existing equipment, you can have it enhanced at the Enhancer to increase and augment its stats further. Be careful as the higher you go, the less chances you have of successfully completing the enhancement process.

Failing the enhancement process results in you losing the enhancement materials used to enhance it in the first place, requiring you to expend more materials to try again.

Adding Runes to Equipment

The Forge - Runemaker

This is a weapon-specific augment that allows you to inscript Runes into your weapon via the Runemaker, giving it certain effects such as Elemental Damage.

Be sure to finish the forging and enhancement process before socketing runes, as this should be the last part of your augmentation process.

How to Socket Runes

Parrying Vs. Blocking

You can block attacks in The Forge, which will negate most of the damage that would've been done to you at the cost of some of your stamina instead. Use this if you are unsure of the enemy's attack timings.

Otherwise, you can parry attacks by hitting the block button just before the enemy attack lands in order to parry and negate all incoming damage.

You will know if you parried successfully as you will see a bright spark from the enemy's weapon as it clashes with yours, accompanied by a sharp clash sound.

How to Parry and Block

Dodging

Dodging is also an option you can take in The Forge and is arguably safer if mastered properly. Pressing the dodge button combined with an input key will allow you to move to a direction of your choosing to evade enemy hits.

Use this if you are more patient and can afford to wait out enemy attacks before counterattacking.

The Forge Related Guides

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Beginner's Guide: Tips and Tricks

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Tips and Tricks
The Forge - How to Do Heavy AttacksHow to Do Heavy Attacks The Forge How to Upgrade Weapons and ArmorsHow to Upgrade Weapons and Armor
How to Access The Hidden RoofHow to Access the Hidden Roof How to Socket RunesHow to Socket Runes
How to Parry and Block.pngHow to Parry and Block The Forge - Combat GuideCombat Guide
The Forge - Stamina System GuideStamina System Guide -

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