Ragnarok Online - Job System

Job System

"Jobs" are one of the most important aspects of Ragnarok Online. A player choice of job will determine 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, numerous equipment are exclusive to particular classes.The greatness of the equipment depends on the character attribute status.

All players start as a "novice". As the name implies, the novice is a tutorial job that allows a new player to get the general feel of the game. Upon reaching a certain level which is dependent on their desired 'job', a player has 3 options:

• he/she can change into one of six "first classes"
• choose one of the "expanded classes", or
• become a "Super Novice".

After increasing their 'player level' and 'job level' to a specific amount, first class characters can advance into their 'second class'. It should be noted that each separate class allows two options for the second class change. For example, the 'Swordsman' class can become either a 'Knight' or a 'Crusader'. Once a player reaches player level 99 and job level 50, they can 'rebirth' their character (not applicable to expansion classes and Super Novices). Re birthing brings a character back to level 1 for both player level and job level. Reborn characters generally work the same as regular characters up until the second class. Instead of a second class, characters that are born can transcend to a new second job, different to those of a character that hasn't been reborn. These transcended job types have more skills and a larger number of 'stat points' to allocate to characters compared to second classes. The experience curve for transcendent jobs is significantly higher.

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