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What combos are available?

Here are the 3 basic attack directions:

Upper Left (UL) - Diagonal up/left arrow

Middle (Mid) - Straight up arrow

Upper Right (UR) - Diagonal up/right arrow

Through leveling, melee based classes will get 2 additional directions:

Lower Left (LL) - Diagonal down/left arrow

Lower Right (LR) - Diagonal down/right arrow

How do combos work?

Each melee combo will have a widget on the icon for the attack directions they land. An (UL) combo will have a gray widget on the top left corner of the icon, a (Mid) combo will have in the top center, and so on. These are useful for knowing which direction the combo will hit (so you can use the combo which attacks the mob's weak side).

**Each combo has a normal attack or series of normal attacks before firing**

The best thing to do, is test this out in a town zone, when not attacking a target. You can actually preform all of your combos without actually fighting a target.

Let's use the Sweep combo as an example. It is an (UR) combo every melee class gets at level 2. While standing in town, press your Sweep button, you will notice that your avatar swings his/her weapon (the normal swing is always from the UR, no matter which combo you use). Simply hitting any combo button (save a few select combos, such as slam) does a normal (UR) swing. You will now see a combo box display on your screen with an (UR) arrow. This box will stay up for 4 seconds. You have 4 seconds to hit the (UR) arrow to trigger the Sweep combo. When you complete the combo, in this case by pressing a single (UR) arrow, you will preform the sweep.

Here is what your avatar does when doing the Sweep combo:

Hit the combo button: Your avatar does a normal (UR) attack

Hit the UR button: The combo begins and your avatar does the Sweep attack

Combos with a series of attacks

Now for a more complex combo. Lets say you have a combo which does 4 attacks and requires you to hit (Mid), (UR), (UR) to activate it. Here is what your avatar does when you hit the buttons.

Hit the combo button: Your avatar does a normal (UR) attack

Hit the Mid button: Your avatar does a normal (Mid) attack

Hit the UR button: Your avatar does a normal (UR) attack

Hit the UR button: The combo begins and your avatar does 4 attacks

You will notice that the LAST attack in the sequence is never preformed. The last attack is overridden by the combo.

When doing complex combos, if any swing lands which isn't in the sequence, then the combo is canceled.

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