Free Realms Brawler Guide

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Being a basic fighter, brawlers use clubs and maces, and wear simple street fighting clothes.

With six choices for combat jobs, why brawler? If you're more the type of person who likes fighting and playing dirty, the brawler job may be right for you. And since more people pay attention to playing as a ninja or warrior, you'll be one of the few who give the brawler job special attention. In duels, you'll be able to show off your strength with hard hits and stuns - and in battles, you'll be skilled at attacking multiple enemies at once up close in combat via AoE skills.

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Each skill can be ugpraded up to four times by the use of stars (which you get from completing quests, instances, and encounters.) Make sure to upgrade your skills every so often; while your weapon damage from the Melee Attack increases with your equipment, skills do not.

Bruising Strikes (Level 5): All opponents you hit are more likely to be struck by a critical attack.

Savvy (Level 10): Your critical strikes cause additional damage.

Toughness (Level 15): You are able to withstand more damage before being knocked out.

Resilience (Level 20): You show great resilience and gain health and energy after being hit.

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  Stock up on health vials (or health potions, if you're a member.) Unless you plan on running with a medic, you'll have no way to heal yourself except sit and wait between fights. Boss battles will be very difficult if you don't have potions.
• Always check your equipment and upgrade it. Equipment is very important to any combat class; make sure you're choosing the item with the best stats on it, not its power level.
• Be ready to go through an entire instance when you enter. Although it's not stated explicitly, there is an invisible timer on all instances and encounters - which you won't see until there's only 2 minutes left to complete it. That's not to say you won't have time for a quick AFK, but don't expect to walk away and come back a half hour later.
• Level with contracts. Yes, you can level any combat job in any instance, with or without a quest. However, contracts will give you additional brawler experience when you turn them in, making them more valuable than any other independent instance runs.
• Be on the lookout for brawler collections. You'll randomly find brawler collection pieces in instances and encounters, so long as you've selected the brawler class. These collections give you great loot upon completing them, and also give great experience.
• Don't be afraid of being knocked out. Although there are limited knock downs per instance, if you pace yourself well, you'll be able to spare those knock downs on the boss. Enemy health doesn't reset if you get knocked down, and in 10 seconds, you'll be up and fighting again.