Combat & Attributes

Adventurers and monsters share a single combat attribute set. Damage and survivability are computed from the same stats on both sides, so reading the sheet tells you exactly which levers a piece of gear or a buff is pulling.

The sheet splits cleanly into offence, defence, sustain, resources and utility. The defining design choices below all fall out of how those stats are structured.

Outgoing and incoming damage are tracked independently for physical and magical sources. Physical Increase / Physical Reduction govern weapons and arrows; Magical Increase / Magical Reduction govern spells. A set built to resist one channel does little against the other — itemising defence means knowing what's hitting you.

This is the most important balance fact in the game. Damage dealt to players and damage dealt to monsters run through different multipliers — PvP Damage Increase/Reduction and PvE Damage Increase/Reduction. Weapons reinforce this with separate PvP and PvE coefficients.

Defence Penetration

Ignores a slice of the target's Defence — your answer to heavily armoured monsters and tanky players.

Toughness-Break Rate

How fast your hits drain enemy poise to stagger them. A poise/stagger layer sits on top of raw HP.

Block Rate

How much a guarded hit absorbs, paired with Block Cost Reduction to lower the stamina you spend holding guard — an active-block system, not passive armour.

Final Damage Increase / Reduction

A last multiplier applied after everything else, so it compounds with the rest of your offence or defence.

Interaction Speed isn't a throwaway stat here. Looting and reviving are timed channels, so faster interaction means less time exposed while you're vulnerable. Move Speed and Cast Speed feed the same logic — survival is often about how briefly you're a target.

An aggregate Combat Value rolls your sheet into a single gear score. It feeds matchmaking, so over-gearing a low-tier raid can place you against tougher lobbies — see Raids & Match Rules.