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: Theory behind the grind guide:
 * 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


 * 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