Ragnarok Online/Leveling Stats and Skills

Derived Stats
While basic stats are directly controlled by the player, derived stats are not directly controlled by the player. These stats are functions of the basic stats (and, in some cases, functions of skills or equipment the character is wearing) and thus altering them requires changing some aspect of the character's equipment, skills, or basic stats.

Derived stats generally have more of an impact on the actual power of a given character and should be strongly taken into consideration when evaluating a particular stat set.

Skills
Skills can add additional types of attacks or defensive tactical abilities to your character. Each character has a unique set of skills depending on their job. These skills can either be active or passive. Generally when you use a skill, SP decreases. When you level up your Job Level, you can add a point to a skill. As with stats, your Job Level grows as you kill more monsters.


 * See Character Jobs and Skills for detailed Skill information for each character.