Sunday 20 February 2011

Job system

Jobs are one of the most important aspects of Ragnarok Online, as the job a player chooses will have profound implications on his or her strengths and weaknesses, both in a party, and outside of one. The job system initially consisted of 13 classes, which has increased to over 50 via several updates. Each class specializes in certain skills corresponding to archetypes in a role-playing game. Additionally, some equipment are exclusive to particular classes, altering the play style of such characters.

All players start in the game's first class, the novice. Novices are, as their name implies, largely a tutorial class built for allowing new players to get the general feel of the game. Upon reaching a certain level (dependent on their desired job), players can change to one of six first classes, or choose one of the expanded classes, along with Super Novices. Upon reaching another level goal, first classes can then change into one of two second classes. Once the player reaches base level 99 and job level 50, they can elect to "rebirth" their character, (not applicable to expansion classes and Super Novices) and re-level as a transcendent class, which has more skills and a larger number of status points to work with, although the experience curve is much higher.

The Korean servers have added a level 3 job class that can be taken from either level 2 or a transcendent level 2 class. If the player skips rebirth and goes directly into the 3rd jobs, the skills and stat bonuses that come with rebirth are lost forever in exchange for reaching the final stage faster.

A player will change jobs multiple times over the course of playing, though the number of changes will be determined by choices made by the player.[8]

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