Welcome to the first in a series of articles on some basic battle mechanics in the Hobbit | KoM. In this series, we are gonna look at how combat in KoM basically works, and how it affects your gear choices. In this first part, we start of with looking at the basic battle formula, and work from there towards choosing the best gear set-ups, emphasizing primarily the reasons behind the sets such as given in the Best Sets article.

• Other parts in this series:
  • II. Separating the Buffs
  • III. Why your opponent doesn’t matter
  • IV. Diminishing Returns and how to deal with it
  • V. Conclusion

• 1. The basics
• 2. Adding in buffs
• 3. Adding in debuffs
• 4. Rewriting and final formula

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