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Talking the Character and Job LevelsThere are two types of levels in Ragnarok Online, character levels, and Job levels. When you gain a character level, you get to adjust your stats more. After a job level, you get to pick ro zeny or skills associated with your job. Some of the main jobs are the Thief, who hits fast and dodges well, and the Acolyte. Merchant is a class that can buy ragnarok zeny and necessary things at discounts, and create their own player-run shops, and use quirky combat skills to boot. Everyone starts out as a Novice, a starter class with no skills whatsoever, unless you count the ability to sit as a skill. After reaching novice level 11, you can pick a real job.
There is a catch, as there often is. Thieves, for example, need Agility, primarily. To get the agility and some iro zeny needed, you need to tweak your stats properly from the beginning. Nothing is stopping you from having wacky stats, like Vitality for a Thief, but some builds have better results than others, leaving little room for uniqueness and individuality. Then after you gain your first new and useful ragnarok online zeny or get your first new job, you get to level it to 40, in order to get an advanced version of that job. Some examples are the Assassin and Knight, and they are grown up versions of the first jobs. You will naturally be killing monsters to raise your XP and increase your levels. This is where RO skates through the thin ice for me, as this combat is done with a typical point and click real time battle system. Just hold Control, left click on a monster, and repeat until him are dead. Collect your loot, sell it if necessary, rinse and repeat. Throw a few cheap zeny and some spells and skills into the mix and you have RO battle system. It is nothing to dwell on, if you have played any Baldur Gate game, Diablo or any other similar game, you have done this before.
It is fresh at first, but ultimately uninspiring the 567th time. And that is one of the main problems with RO. When you get up there, in the 20s and 30s in Job level, things start to slow down. To make matters worse, other players will think nothing of stealing your kill, by attacking it taking XP based on damage they do. A lot of people who do this are using bots.