In darkfall, everyone can kind of do everything, so there's not really any specialization. Everyone can and should be able to and good at: archery/mana missile, mounted combat, and melee combat (even though it currently is horrible).

IMO combat in darkfall moves too quickly to establish detailed tactics. The tactics you learn are pretty simple. Some of what I've learned from the handful of fights I've been in so far are:

- Bows rule this game
- Always try and bait them right into your readied bows
- Better to mount up to fall back than just die on the field becuse when you die you're out of the fight - You probably can't run back in time
- Always make ganking fallen enemies a priority
- Conserve your stam by not shooting your bow unless you have a good chance to hit
- Using waypoints to keep the group together is key
- Flanking can be a good tactic if you are careful not let one or two guys get swarmed (tell them to mount at first sign of swarm)
- If your group is low on stam and/or health, mount up and see if they'll chase while you chug pots - By the time you're up to full, they'll be out of stam from shooting arrows - turn around and slaughter them
- If you see a group and they open fire immediately with arrows aplenty, play groundhog behind a rock [popping out and back in] and let them run out their stam

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