How the server actually works

Levels and experience

The tables were rewritten from scratch, so nobody can quote you a rate. What follows is the shape of the curve instead.

Max level

150 base, 50 job. Jobs come in three tiers: first job carries you from 1 to 50, second from 51 to 99, third from 100 to 150. Each tier has its own fifty job levels, so fifty skill points to spend before you move on.

Ninja and Gunslinger

The exceptions. They stay on their first job until 99 and then go straight to their final one. They still collect both sets of fifty skill points.

Per kill

About 5% of a level at base 50, 1% at 100, 0.1% at 149. Monsters here take much longer to kill than you are used to, so read those numbers with that in mind.

Parties

Five players. Experience only splits evenly if the lowest and highest member are within 15 levels of each other.

What the level gap costs you

So the sweet spot is monsters a few levels above you, not below. Fighting something ten levels higher pays 40% more, and grinding something fifteen levels lower pays nothing.

Stats and breakpoints

Each stat still does what you expect, and then gives you something extra at every tenth and every twenty fifth point. Several of those bonuses depend on what you are holding.

Bonus stats count. If you have 77 Strength and 23 from gear and buffs, the game reads 100 for every breakpoint above. The Luck resistance roll does not cover statuses you inflict on yourself, item or homunculus cooldowns, Threefold Arrow or Quick Draw charges, Convex Mirrors, or Death Sentence.

Combat maths

Most formulas match renewal. These are the ones that do not, and they are the ones that decide how a build feels.

Critical hits

Every physical skill and attack can crit. Rate is still 1 + (Luk / 3) + (base level / 100). The damage bonus dropped from 40% to 20%, crits no longer skip flee or defence, and monsters have no crit shield, so their Luck does not reduce your rate.

Cast time

Split into fixed and variable. Variable reduction is sqrt((Dex × 2) / 600) × 100, which means 300 Dex for a full 100%, which nobody reaches. Reduction from gear adds to reduction from stats instead of multiplying, so 40% from stats and 60% from gear leaves nothing. Fixed cast only bends to gear and to the Intelligence breakpoints.

Attack speed

ASPD = base ASPD + (Agi / 5), where the base comes from your class and weapon type. There is a soft cap at 185 that gear and buffs can push through, and a hard cap at 190 that nothing can.

Status resistance

Outside the Luck breakpoints, no stat resists anything. Two thousand Vitality still gets stunned. Gear is the only other answer.

Elements and cards

Weapon element applies to your whole attack, not just the weapon part of it. Damage bonuses against a race, element or size work the same way.

Movement and regen

Base movement went from 150ms per cell to 120ms. HP and SP regeneration are five times what you remember.

Where stacking stops

Five hard ceilings, and nothing gets past them: elemental resistance at 80%, cooldown reduction at 70%, attack speed at 190, movement speed at +40%, and since 29 August the damage reduction you carry on gear and cards at 75%. Worth knowing before you build a set around a sixth piece that does nothing.

The 75% is only your gear

Three pools, counted separately. Gear and cards share the 75% cap, and defence and magic defence count towards it. Statuses and skills are tracked on their own and are not capped with it. Elemental resistance is its own thing at 80%. Defence can no longer be pushed below zero either, so stacking pierce past what a monster has is wasted. This landed because people were reaching 100% and becoming unkillable; every account was given 5000 cash points the same day for the Yggdrasilid set going down with it.

Element table

This table has moved a long way from the one you know, and Undead in particular is now worth carrying. Read your attack element down the left, your target across the top. The four numbers are the four levels of the target's element.

Holy beats everything and is beaten by nothing except itself, which is why holy monsters are the wall they are. Poison is a small edge against most things and a wall against Undead. Neutral has no answer to Ghost.

Status effects

Statuses are a pillar of combat here rather than a nuisance. Most last five seconds or less and hit far harder than they used to, and a lot of skills change behaviour depending on what is already on the target.

• Bleeding Damage every second, scaled off the applier's Strength and level. Internal Bleeding works the same but scales off Dexterity. Internal Bleeding, Bleeding, Bleed
• Burning Damage every second, scaled off Intelligence. Severe Burning scales off Vitality instead. Severe Burning, Burning
• Poison Damage every second, scaled off Agility. Deadly Poison scales off Luck instead. Deadly Poison, Poison
• Blind Cuts the target's Hit and Flee by a flat 30, and shrinks how much of the screen a player can see. Blinded, Blind
• Vulnerable Strips 40% of the target's hard and soft defence. No attack bonus, unlike the Provoke you remember. Vulnerable
• Breach The same idea aimed at magic defence instead. It is how a caster gets through a high MDef enemy, and Breach Potency raises what it strips. Breached, Breach
• Frozen Cancels casting and locks the target until it takes damage. Chill is the milder one, taking a slice off movement, attack and cast speed at once. Cold is the follow up during the resist window. Freeze, Frozen, Chill
• Stun Cancels casting and stops the target acting. Monsters resist for 30 seconds afterwards and take Stagger instead. Staggered, Stagger, Stunned
• Sleep Cancels casting and stops the target acting until it takes damage. Monsters take Dazed during the resist window. Sleeping, Dazed, Sleep
• Slow Movement speed down. Atrophy hits attack speed instead, and Slowcast stretches fixed cast time. Immobilized, Immobilize, Slowcast

The three damage over time families all tick once a second for (stat × 8) × (base level / 100), and the stat is the one named on the card above. So the same status is worth more or less depending on who applied it, and a stronger variant is not stronger by itself, it just reads a different stat.

Two rules follow from that. No stat gives you any resistance, so the only defences are the Luck breakpoints and gear. And champions and bosses have no immunity at all, so everything you carry works on them.

Potions and catalysts

Your potion is a piece of equipment, not a stack of items. It is never consumed, it sits on a cooldown instead, and you upgrade it as you go. Nothing on this ladder can be traded.

Healing

Red, then Orange, Yellow, White. Around level 30 the Red one stops keeping up. Gather the herbs and materials and commission the upgrade from the Alchemists in Aldebaran, or from any starting town tool shop for the Red one. Ten second cooldown.

SP

Grape Juice, then Blue Potion. Thirty second cooldown.

Attack speed

Concentration +2, Awakening +4, Berserk +6. Every class restriction on these has been removed.

Status

A Green Potion, which clears bleeding, poison and burning on the spot. Thirty second cooldown.

Cooldowns

Those are the baseline numbers. Vitality shortens all of them, half a second for every twenty five points.

Catalysts

Most class consumables are gone. The ones that stayed became catalysts that are not used up: endow stones, arrows, maintenance kits, poisons and the rest. Short quests or crafting get you them.

The potion crafting recipes

Skills everyone has

The novice stage is skipped, since the tutorial hands you your first job at level 1. The novice skills stayed, and several of them matter for the whole game.

The three you have to earn

All three need a quest to learn and more quests to raise past level 1. Where each one starts is written in its skill description, in your skill tree.

Refining

The one part of this server that is kinder than the game you remember. Gear never breaks and never drops a level. The only thing at risk is your wallet.

The odds

Maximum is +10, and success is 100% minus 10% per current refine. So +0 to +1 always works, +4 to +5 is a coin flip and a bit, and +9 to +10 is one in ten.

One weapon level

Every weapon in the game refines with the same ores. Armour, shields, garments, shoes and headgear share one ladder too.

Where the ores come from

Mostly from killing bosses, banded by the boss's own level.

Weapons

Armour

Which boss drops what

Random options

Almost everything that drops rolls its own extra stats on top of the ones printed on it. Which stats it can roll depends on what the piece is and what level bracket it came from, and the tables below are the whole of it.

What does not roll

Headgears, except in special cases. Costumes, which are appearance only. And the non standard weapons: shuriken, kunai, huuma, gatling guns and grenade launchers.

Slots

A piece rolls one option per slot on its table. Weapons get fewer slots as their level bracket climbs, so a two slot weapon at 150 rolls less than a four slot weapon at 30 and each roll is worth much more. Two handed weapons get a fourth slot the one handed ones do not.

Boss gear

Gear that drops from a boss rolls on the tier above the one its level requirement would suggest, and the top bracket has a tier that only boss gear can reach.

No options at all

Anything handed over by the Roaming Archaeologist, relic gear included, comes with no random options. That is the price of a guaranteed drop.

Rerolling

Reroll Scrolls come out of the reward chests in the challenge dungeons, which is the only way to change a roll you do not want.

Weapons

Armour, shields and shoes

Garments and accessories

[Size] and [Element] are placeholders: the roll picks one and prints it. A range like +1~5% means the roll lands somewhere in it, so two copies of the same item are rarely worth the same.

Warps

The Kafra teleport service works, with one condition attached.

• You cannot warp to a town until you have walked there once and spoken to its Kafra.
• Prontera, Izlude, Morroc, Geffen, Payon and Alberta are open from your first login, and warping between those six is free.
• Everything else costs zeny once you have unlocked it.
• Unlocks are account wide, so your second character starts with everything the first one opened.

Commands

The short list of what @ commands do here.

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