Codex

Ceilings

Where the game stops counting. Several of these moved in the closed test and a build that ignores them wastes whatever it spent getting there.

Max HP

The most health a character can have.

• 50,000, at every level.
• HP bonuses past it are thrown away: at the cap, a +10% armour adds nothing.
• Two Valhalla Knight Cards worn at once raise the ceiling by 5,000.
• Heimdall's Legacy, the Pit Boss chain, raises it by 10,000 while held.
• The two add up: 65,000 for a Pit Boss with both.

Max SP

The most SP a character can have.

• 25,000. Nothing in the game raises it.

ASPD Cap

The fastest anything attacks. Attack speed past it is thrown away.

• 180 for every job, and it can be pushed.
• +1 for every 40 AGI.
• +1 per point of ASPD Limit on gear: shoes, decks, the Valhalla garments.
• +3 for knowing Frenzy; +1 each for a maxed Card Mastery and Sleight Mastery.
• The wall behind all of that is 190. Running under Frenzy pins it at 193.

Stat Cap

The most any one of the six stats can reach.

• 99 base points on each of the six.
• Gear goes past it: a base 99 STR with +31 from equipment is 130, and every formula reads the 130.

Weight Limit

How much you can carry. It comes from your base level and your job, not from STR.

• Your job's base, plus 330 per base level.
• STR adds nothing. It did on the original server, at 500 a point.
• Natural healing stops at 90% of it.

Movement Speed Cap

The fastest anything moves.

• 2.2 times the standing pace, which is +55% Move Speed in total.
• The best single buff counts on its own. Gear and the two class passives are added on top of it at half their value.
• The Friendly Orphan shadow set's +40% is the one bonus that skips that halving.

Hit Ceiling

The accuracy past which a monster cannot dodge you at all.

• You never miss a monster once your HIT is its FLEE + 100.
• The roll starts at 0 on this server, not the usual 80, which is why every monster's entry asks for a hundred more than other databases do.
• The monster pages print the number for each one.

Flee Ceiling

How far evasion goes. On this server it never goes all the way.

• FLEE itself has no ceiling, but what it buys does: a monster always lands 1 hit in 10, however much you carry.
• The most a monster can miss is 90%, reached when your FLEE is ten under its HIT. The monster pages print that number too.
• From the 4th monster on you it drops 20% for each one past the third.

Perfect Dodge Cap

The point at which every ordinary attack misses you.

• 100. At 100 every ordinary attack misses you.
• Ordinary attacks only: a skill ignores Perfect Dodge entirely.

Critical Cap

The point at which every hit is a critical.

• 100 makes every hit a critical, before the target's LUK is taken off.
• A monster takes a fifth of its LUK off your rate, up to 60: against 300 LUK you need 160 to crit every time.

Defence Ceiling

Where armour stops paying. It has no wall, only a curve.

• No wall. Each point of hard DEF is worth less than the one before: damage is scaled by (4000 + DEF) / (4000 + 10 x DEF).
• 100 DEF takes 18% off, 400 takes 81% off, and 4,000 would take 91% off; it never reaches zero.
• Soft DEF, the part from VIT and level, is taken off flat after that.
• Defense Penetration on the attacker's side removes hard DEF point for point before the curve is applied.

Cast Floor

How short a cast can get, and what gets it there.

• Variable cast reaches zero at 2 x DEX + INT = 400, or with -100% variable cast from gear and buffs.
• Fixed cast reaches zero only with -100% fixed cast from gear.
• Neither goes below zero: the rest of a skill's time is its animation.

Delay Floor

How short the pause after a skill can get.

• The pause after a skill cannot go under 0.1s, whatever your After Cast Delay reduction adds up to.
• A skill's own cooldown is separate and is not reduced by it.

Leech Cap

The most often a leech can trigger.

• A leech's chance is capped at 100%: chance bonuses past that add nothing.
• Leech Power adds up from every source, since patch 6 took the highest-source rule back out.