In the upper-left of the user interface are the player's stats. Beginning with attributes, followed by hitpoints, endurance, and mana, then all learned skills and spells. Weapon value and armour value are listed beside the player's full-length portrait.

Stats consist of their base, modified, and final calculated power values. The base value is what you spend experience points upgrading. The 'mod' value is affected by attributes, spells, and item effects. The final power includes effects from race and moon phase. Base values can be seen by casting Identify on a player or NPC ( A additionally in Aranock, also shown to the left of mod values in the UI). Mod values are listed in the skill and spell list in the UI. Spell power can be seen by casting Identify.

The maximum base values are defined by race.

Weapon value (WV) and armour value (AV) are determined by equipped items and spells. These values will degrade as weapons and armour are damaged. And, armour value will reduce as Magic Shield loses effectiveness.

These opposing stats apply when physical hits land, and also in the case of armour value whether an enemy NPC will cast Blast on you.

Weapon skills include Hand-to-Hand, Karate, Dagger, Wand, Staff, Axe, Sword, Two-handed, and Shield. These are compared against that of your enemy to determine how often each other's physical attacks land.

hows shield work? anything beyond AV?

When Resistance power is high enough in relation to an enemy's spell power, the spell will fail every time. An enemy needs Curse power of more than 70% of your Resistance power to have a chance at success, and more than 50% in the case of Stun.

The power of enemy Curse, Stun, and Blast is reduced by half of your Immunity power.

Stealth effectiveness is improved by slower action speeds (i.e. Normal and Slow).

Many doors are impossible to lockpick.

Listed is base mana cost without the aid of Concentrate.

Spell power is affected by race and moon phase. A number of items also provide temporary boosts to various stats.

• Mercenary +5%
• Warrior +10%
• Sorcerer +10%
• Harakim (no change)
• Arch-Harakim +5%
• Templar +-10%
• Arch-Templar -5%
• Seyan'Du -5%
• New Moon -?%
• Full Moon +?%

It can be beneficial to cast Bless and Curse twice or even three times to compound their effect.

To minimise the impact of a spell failing (losing focus) it's a good idea to activate it multiple times in quick succession.

You can cast spells on your Ghost Companion and allies acquired via Compulsion.

When casting spells on others, spell power is reduced where the target player or NPC (NPCs included?) is significantly weaker in proportion. (whats the equation? see v2 source)

Magic Shield can only be cast on yourself. However, a scroll of the spell can be cast on others, notably including NPC allies.

A Allies acquired by Compulsion will automatically transfer after 30 minutes (without returning experience to you). It's a good idea to /transfer them beyond this occurs.

Be careful with area of effect skills and spells as they may target friendly NPCs in a handful of locations.

Hostile NPCs will only attempt to Blast you if their spell power is 10 or more higher than your armour value (AV).

The duration of Stun in seconds is 1 plus its power divided by 18.

Guardian Angel activates and deactivates instantly and has no chance to fail. When active upon death, no additionally unlocked hitpoints, endurance, or mana are lost and some items are retained. The higher the spell power, the more items kept.

Bless, Protect, Magic Shield, Enhance Weapon, Curse, and Stun are available as scrolls of an initial 3 charges. Unnamed scrolls have a power of 50?, Ankh 80?, Ishtar 150, and Skua 300. These items have the advantage of activating instantly and also aren't subject to spell reduction (correct?).

New skills and spells can be obtained by completing quests and attaining higher-tier races.

significant stuff:

see v2 source for inner workings, and try to confirm any changes made to Aranock

experience cost for raising stats, maybe on experience points page. or vice versa.

hotkeys, user interface.

redirect skills, spells, attributes, hp end mana weapon value etc to this article