New Guy Melee Grind Guide: The Afterlife Way

NOTE: There are 3 numbers to remember: 216,000Weapon xp , 1,225,000Weapon xp , and 415,000Combatxp

 Melee Grind Guide

Using this method, you should be able to attain an advanced profession mastery within 6 sets of missions (A set consists of 4 missions from a normal mission terminal). Advanced profession is something like Master Fencer. \*Note: This guide is geared to new players with minimal experience within the Afterlife server.

Things you will need:

* A grouping droid
	+ Train the droid in stay and group
	+ Group with the droid and leave it safely within the city
	+ Your mission payout will not be split - you will get full payment
* Another Combat Template Toon:
	+ Ask in galaxy chat if you do not already have one handy
	+ You can stayed group with a buffing Entertainer
		- More people in the entertainer group the better
		- Your mission payouts will be split, you will receive your cut regardless of distance from others
		- Other players won't receive anything if they are out of range
* Faction NPC 'Pets'
	+ This would be the best option instead of grouping with another combat toon
		- If you only group with what you own, you keep the mission payouts

Theory behind the grind guide:

* Set up your action bar
	+ You will be using mainly Beserk and Attack
	+ You will of course need peace, sit, and burst run
* Get buffed up and remove your starter clothing and equip your starter armor
* Equip your weapon you want to level up
	+ If you are going Fencer (1hand) I would suggest using your stone knife to start
		- The damage listed on the stone knife does not matter, the 1 sec speed does
	+ If you are able to get crafted starter weapons, please use them at all cost
	+ If you are able to get a 1 sec speed VK for Unarmed, please use it as well
* Group with your grouping droid (You will need to train it to group and stay)
	+ Do not group with your combat toon at this time
	+ Do not group with your Faction pet at this time
	+ Only group with your grouping droid to minimize death
* **Get 4 missions** in the same direction
	+ Get Womp Rats mission if at all possible, they give the best xp when starting out
	+ Get Rockmite missions if you cannot find 4 Womp Rat ones
	+ Only get Eopie missions if you cannot find any of the above
	+ Note: If you need quick credits, Eopie and Mynock missions
		- They practically do no damage and their lairs can be killed quite easily
* Ride out to the nearest waypoint
* Now for the Theory behind the guide
	+ If you are at your Womp Rat lair, do not attack the lair
		- Stay at least 20 meters from the lair to avoid accidentally striking it
		- Attack a Womp Rat, Enable your Berserk and click your Attack button
		- Keep Berserk up while you are hitting Womp Rats
		- Clear the Womp Rats around the lair
		- Do not keep Berserk up on the last Womp Rat
		- Peace and sit to regain health
		- Now, hit the lair until the Womp Rats spawn to defend their home
		- Enable Berserk and walk back 20 meters from the lair, hitting Womp Rats along the way
		- Clear the Womp Rats and Peace/Sit and repeat hitting the lair method until cleared
	+ If you are at your Rockmite or Eopie or Mynock lair, attack the lair
		- Enable Berserk and attack the creatures around the lair
			* No need to walk back 20 meters, just kill the creatures before hitting the lair
			* Keep your Berserk up at all times until the lair is cleared
	+ Do not bother with training until you get at least *216,000 xp* (91,000 xp to learn the Brawler Tree & 125,000 to attain Novice). Finish your mission set even if you reach the required xp do not stop the mission set
		- **This should take 2 mission sets (8 total terminal missions)** if you used Womp Rat missions, 3 sets if you took other than Womp Rat missions
		- **Note: Do not train if you plan on going Mastery in Brawler. Repeat this process for each tree, each tree requires 91,000 xp so plan accordingly**
	+ Train up and purchase a better weapon
		- If you used players to train you up, you should be able to purchase a better weapon
		- Do not bother with armor at this time
	+ Change your toolbar
		- Add your weapon spin attack to the toolbar
		- Add your weapon lunge attack
		- Add Center of Being
		- Add Intimidate
		- Do not use Berserk
	+ You will now need to group with another combat toon or faction pets
		- **Get 4 more missions**
			* This time, avoid Womp Rats
			* Pick Eopie,Ronto, and Bantha missions
			* Pick Dewback missions if you cannot get 4 of the above
		- Ride out to the mission
			* Note: Your spin attack has a passive radius of 16 meters, you will need to keep this in mind
			* Clear the creatures around the lair - keep from hitting too many creatures or the lair when using your spin attack
			* Keep your Center of Being up
			* Keep Intimidate on the creature you have targeted
			* Once the lair is cleared of creatures, attack the lair
				+ Once the creatures spawn to defend the lair, move back 20 meters keeping them within your frontal area
				+ Kill creatures using spin attack
				+ Keep Center of Being up
				+ Peace and Sit once the spawns are cleared if needed
				+ Repeat the process until lair is cleared
			* Repeat until your set of missions is completed
				+ You should have *1,225,000 xp* or more after doing the 4 missions
				+ If you do not, you will need to do another set of missions
					- This would indicate that your group isn't granting you higher end missions
					- This would also add maybe 1-2 sets of mission to reach Mastery
					- Do not stop a set of missions once you do them
		- Train up the tree that grants you the improved spin attack
			* Teras Kasi xx4x
			* Fencer x4xx
			* Swordsman xx4x (This tree won't grand you a speed bonus-Suggest Getting xx1x first, then go for x4xx for the much needed speed)
			* Pikeman 4xxx
		- Update your toolbar with the Improved Spin Attack
			* Add a Stand command to your toolbar
		- Stay grouped with your combat toon or faction pet
			* Get 4 missions
				+ You should see more Dewbacks and Banthas at this point
					- It is due to the fact you have a completed tree within the advanced profession
					- Pick Bantha missions over Dewbacks
			* Ride out to the missions
				+ Attack the lair using your Improved Spin Attack
				+ Keep Center of Being up at all times
				+ Dewbacks will knock you down, click stand when they do
				+ Banthas will make you kneel (Posture down), click stand when they do
			* **You will need to do 2 sets of missions**
				+ The 2 sets of missions should have given you more than *2,450,000 xp*
			* Do Not Train until all xp is gathered
				+ Do not stop a mission set once you do them
				+ You will need to get enough combat xp as well
				+ You would have needed 3,891,000 total weapon xp to fill the weapon xp trees
				+ You will have needed 4,150,00 total weapon xp to reach enough combat xp to fill the combat xp tree (415,000 combat xp)
				+ If you do not have enough combat xp, do not train, do another mission until you have reached ***415,000 combat xp***)
			* Train