What improves melee the most?

Question

There are several ways to boost melee, for example:

Increase level, skill, weapon attack, etc.

If i had to improve one thing, what would be the thing that improve my melee attack the most?

+1 level

+1 skill

+1 weapon attack

Other

Answer 1

Based on this TibiaWiki page  the formula to melee damage is: 

Minimum damage: level/5 

Maximum damage: 0.085*d*atk*skill + level/5 

In which:  d is the battle stance: 1 for full attack, 0.75 for balanced and 0.5 for full defense; atk is the weapon attack and skill is your skill level.

One attack and one skill point are the same, in this sense. For example, if you have skills 80 and a Warrior's axe if you get skill 81 or a Vile axe, the damage output changes the same way. As the weapon damage and the skill is in this multiplicative part of the formulae, it's more important than the level, but in the long run the high level also impacts the damage a lot. For example, a knight level 250 on full attack with an Umbral Master Chopper and skill 100 would have a maximum damage of 509 and a knight level 255 with same weapon and skills would damage 510. A level 600 knight with the same weapon and skill would damage for 629.

TL;DR: skill points and weapon attack would equally improve your damage and are the best way to improve your damage shortly. In the long run, levels also improve your damage very much. 

Comments

Based on this formula, levels contribute very little to the damage. Your max dmg will grow by 1 every 5 levels, right? While advancing from melee skill 100 to 101 and weapon with 50 atk will improve max damage by over 4.

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Yes, this is correct, but at the same time, it seems to be easier to gain 25 levels from, for example, 600 to 625 than it is to go from 120 to 121 on a melee skill. Although there is no maximum level or skill, it seems to me that after a certain point you will not actively skill up as much as level, so in the long run the level impacts your damage considerably.

On the example I gave before: the level 250 knight has a 509 max damage and his level is only 9.8% of it, but a 600 knight has a 629 max damage of which 19.07% comes from his level alone.

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That makes sense, very well explained - thanks!

Answer 2

Improve your skill first, it will improve your atrack a lot... only getting levels will make you weak and only using good weapons won’t make you get higher hits without a good skill...

Comments

If I can choose between weapon 1: 51 attack , and weapon 2: 50 attack + 1 skill. Which one will improve the most?

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The second one

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What is this based on? Is there any formula for melee damage? Is +1 skill always better than +1 weapon attack?

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It was based in my own experience but ok a formula is better...