A) 1.5x your level from equipment (weapons, armor, jewelry, etc...)
B) 1x your level from single-stat buffs (a.k.a. baseline buffs, like +Str or +Dex))
C) 1.5x your level from double-stat buffs (a.k.a. spec line buffs, like +Str/Con or +Dex/Qui))
D) +48 from Realm Ability Stat Boosts.
E) +26 from Overcap Bonus Items.

- A, B, C, D and E all stack together.
- At level 50, your stats are capped at +101 from items.
- By level 50, A+B+C+D+E is capped to a maximum of 400 - after 400 there is almost no measurable gain from additional stats.

- Strength (STR): Affects the damage done by weapons for crushing and slashing damage types. Half of the damage done by thrusting weapons is also affected by STR. Your encumbrance weight depends on your STR.

- Constitution (CON): Determines the maximum number of hit points your character will have.

- Dexterity (DEX): Archery (bow-type weaponry) and Staves depend on the level of DEX that your character has. The other half of thrusting weapon damage is dependant on DEX. Casters rely on DEX to increase their casting speed. Defensive skills such as shield blocking, parrying, and evasive skills also depend on DEX.

- Quickness (QUI): Affects the attack speed of a player in melee combat. Half of evasive skills rely on Quickness. The other half relies on Dexterity.

- Intelligence (INT): A primary casting stat, which determines the power pool of Intelligence-based classes as well as the damage done by their spells. These classes have INT as their primary stat.

- Empathy (EMP): Empathy affects the maximum power pool available to the Druid and Warden classes as well as the damage done by Druidic DoTs.

- Piety (PIE): Priest, Clerical, Mystic, and Seer classes rely on Piety to determine the depth of their power pools. Their damage spells, if they have them, are also affected by this attribute.

- Charisma (CHA): Charisma guides the effectiveness of a musical class' songs

A) +11 from items at lvl 50 (1+lvl/5) (weapons, armor, jewelry, etc...)
B) +13 from Realm Rank

- Maximum of +24 to a spec-line at Realm Rank 13 with + 11 on equipment.

You can overcap your statistics by using equipment that has + to attribute powers.
(Example: X to Acuity Cap, XX to Hit Point Cap, X to Power Cap).

- You may overcap your stats by ((Character Level / 2) + 1), for a maximum of +26 at level 50.
- You may overcap you hit points by (Character Level * 4), for a maximum of +200 at level 50.

- The bonus % on your weapon increases your chance to hit a target by the listed amount.
- The bonus % on your target's armor decreases your chance to hit a target by the listed amount.
- Your level vs. the target's level.
- Weapon type vs. defense type.
- Weaponskill vs. opponent's armor factor.
- Weapon Styles with bonus to hit.
- Your attribute that your weapon uses - usually Strength or Dexterity.
- How many spec points you have in the weapon you are attacking with.
- The number of people fighting the same opponent.

Weaponskill is determined by how much weapon spec you have and how high the stats that effect your weapon are. The table below shows how much weaponskill each class gains from each point of weaponspec and primary weapon attribute. Note that some classes have different weaponskill tables depending on what weapon the specialize in.

- Enchanted bonus on your armor
- Using weapon styles with bonus to defense
- Dex affects your chances to shield block & parry
- Dex & Qui affects your chances to evade
- Your level vs. their level (the lower the level they are to you, the harder it is for them to hit you)
- Armor Factor on your Armor affects the chance to negate a blow.

- Damage = WeapDmg (which is a possibly capped weapon DPS) * Delay * Quality * Condition * (WeapSkill / Target's AF)

Also, there is an interesting formula for the effective AF of a piece of armor:
- Effective AF = Listed AF * Quality * (1 + (absorb * quality))

- Notice the quality double-dipping which makes it extra important for armor.

Brittle guards are small pets that block attacks from melee weapons. They will intercept one attack and then die.

The following attacks are intercepted by brittle guards:
- Normal melee swings
- Siege weapon shots
- Thrown weapons
- Regular arrow shows from archers
- Melee attacks from enemy pets
- Melee attacks from NPCs and Monsters

The following attacks are NOT intercepted by brittle guards:
- Any assassin critical strike style executed from stealth
- Any magical attack
- Archers using the True Shot ability

The bladeturn spell summons a crystal barrier that will intercept one melee attack and then shatter. All list casters except the necromancer and the valewalker receive the bladeturn spell. The warden, runemaster, and the theurgist have a special version of the bladeturn spell that refreshes every few seconds without having to be recast, giving them a great deal of survivability in melee combat.

The following attacks are intercepted by bladeturn spells:
- Normal melee swings
- Thrown weapons
- Regular arrow shows from archers
- Melee attacks from enemy pets
- Melee attacks from NPCs and Monsters

The following attacks are NOT intercepted by bladeturn spells:
- Any assassin critical strike style executed from stealth
- Any magical attack
- Archers using the True Shot ability
- Archers with a very high bow specialization have a base chance to penetrate bladeturn each shot

A) Each level of evade gives you a base 5% chance to evade attacks.
B) Dex and Qui improve your chance to evade.
F) Attackers that use 2 weapons at once halve your chance to evade.
G) High attacker weaponskill reduces your chance to evade.

- Evade effectiveness is reduced by each attacker beyond the first.
- Advanced evade - found only on light tanks - allows you to evade attacks from all angles. Normal evade only dodges attacks in your forward arc.

A) Parry spec has a base 5% chance to block + 0.5% per spec point
B) Enchanted bonus on Weapons impacts chance to parry.
C) Weapon quality impacts your chance to parry.
D) Weapon condition impacts your chance to parry.
E) Dex increases your chance to parry.
F) Attackers that use 2 handed weapons halve your chance to parry.
G) High attacker weaponskill reduces chance to parry.

- Parry effectiveness is reduced by each attacker beyond the first.

A) Shield spec has a base 5% chance to block + 0.5% per spec point
B) Enchanted bonus on Shields impacts your chance to block.
C) Shield quality impacts your chance to block.
D) Shield condition impacts your chance to block.
E) Dex increases your chance to block.
F) Attackers that use 2 weapons at once halve your chance to block.
G) High attacker weaponskill reduces chance to block.

- Small shields: can block 1 attacker without suffering penalties to block.
- Medium shields: can block 2 attackers without suffering penalties to block.
- Large shields: can block 3 attackers without suffering penalties to block.
- If your shield exceeds it's listed number of attackers, it is reduced in effectiveness.

- Your armor's absorb displays the percentage damage a melee or *targeted magical attack is reduced when it strikes you.

A) Armorfactor reduces your chance to be hit by a melee swing.
B) Every 10 Armorfactor you have increases your absorb by one.
C) Baseline Armorfactor buffs will not raise your Armorfactor beyond the cap.
C) Specline Armorfactor buffs - like item charges, list caster buffs, and the hunter AF spell - will all increase your armorfactor OVER the cap.

A) Talk to the Arbiter in the Hall of Heros near Oceanus Haven
B) You must complete all 10 trials - each of which has solo, group, and battlegroup steps.
C) For trials 2-9, you are required to earn master level experience to progress to the next level.
D) You must be ML 0 to enter the Halls of Ma'ati.
E) You must be ML 1 to enter Deep Volcanus.
F) You must be ML 3 to enter Aerus City.
G) You must be ML 9 to enter the realm of Draco for ML 10.

- Slaying monsters listed as being worth Master Level Experience when you click on them. - Killing players from an enemy realm in RvR Combat. - Grouping with players and helping them complete master level steps that you have already finished.

Please refrence the Visions of Sages ToA Guide - located HERE.

A) Talk to your class trainer, and you will be told to visit an NPC.
B) The NPC will instruct you to deliver a letter to another NPC in the King's Chamber.
C) Speak with the Midgard King to begin the path of a champion
D) To progress on your champion levels, you will need to earn champion level experience:

Champion level experience is earned as follows:

- Slaying any monster in battle earns you champion experience. - Killing players from an enemy realm in RvR Combat. - Completing any quest or task that awards experience. - Extra champion level experience is earned by completing the Circle of Five quest, and slaying Utgard Loki.

- Paying Rent: Rent is due every week, and is taken from your house collection box.

- Loosing Your House: If there is no money in your house collection box when rent is due, your house and lot are repossessed. All decorations and garden upgrades are lost forever. You can retrieve the equipment that was stored in your house vaults in the central housing village.

- Pre-paying Rent:You can store up to four weeks of prepaid rent in your house collection box.

- Consignment Merchants Pay Rent: If your collection box is empty, money on your consignment merchant will be used to pay rent.

- Protecting Your Investment: By storing large sums of money on your consignment merchant, you can protect your house should you be away for more than four weeks.

A) You may upgrade your house to a larger model by buying deeds.
B) When you upgrade your home, the old deed is refunded to you, which you can sell to recoup 50% of the value of your old home, or attempt to sell to a player for closer to full value.

Normal gear slowly wears out over time, and breaks. But certain special weapons, jewelry, and armors are indestructable - no matter how many times you repair their condition, these items will never wear out. Because of the rare and mysterious components that indestructable equipment is fashioned from, repairing their condition can be VERY expensive. Thus they should be used sparingly to avoid breaking your bank.

The following types of items are indestructable:

- Epic Quest Armors. - Champion Quest Weapons. - All Artifacts from Atlantis. - *All regular Jewelry that does not have + to skills.

*Note: Regular jewelry that has no + to skills never needs to be repaired - it work's properly regardless of condition.

A) The effectiveness of armor, weapons, and some jewelry is determined by their condition.
B) As you battle, your gear's condition drops.
C) To restore your equipment to top performance, you must hand it to a Smith, who will repair it.
D) Each time a regular item is repaired, it's durability drops.
E) When an item's durability reached 0%, it breaks and becomes useless.

A) Field Ballista - useful for destroying enemy siege weapons.
B) Field Treb - used to attack fortification walls and towers.
C) Siege/Battler/War Rams - used to batter down fortification doors.
D) Field Catapult - useful for attacking players. Field Catapults can be loaded with many different types of ammo depending on the situation:

Ammo Type: Effect Stone Shot Wide blast area, low damage - crush type damage Greekfire Lowest blast area, high damage - heat type damage Ball of Ice Medium blast area, medium damage - cold type damage Mystical Ball of Ice Summoned by a convoker - same as Ball of Ice Mystical Stone Shot Summoned by a convoker - same as Stone Shot Mystical Ball of Flaming Pitch Summoned by a convoker - same as Greekfire Essence Bomb Wide blast area, high damage - essence type damage Diseased Carcass Wide blast area - causes disease in area of effect Ball of Noxious Vapors Wide blast area - poisons the enemy in area of effect

- All portable siege weapons can be magically shrunk by high rank crafters into small kits called "Diminutive Siege Apparati" which are light enough for even a list caster to carry.

A) Pallitone - very destructive to siege weapons.
B) Treb - used to attack fortification walls and towers.
C) Cauldren of Boiling Oil - lethal to enemy players.

- All stationary siege weapons can only be used at special hook points found in keeps and towers. Shift + Right click on a wall to bring up the option to view the various hookpoints. You can then purchase a stationary siege weapon from that hookpoint to use.

A) Scout Boat - fast speed. Requires one rider. Unarmed.
B) Galleon - medium speed. Requires three riders. Armed with one treb and one field ballista.
C) Warship - slow speed. Requires five riders to move. Armed with four field ballista, and two trebs.

- Abandoned siege boats will sink if unattended for a long period of time.
- Siege boats can be purchased from the dock merchants found at all the midgard frontier docks.
- Siege boats sink once they have been badly damage by enemy attacks.
- Siege boats can only be launched in friendly or neutral waters, They cannot be launched in an enemy frontier.

Using perfected armor patterns, armorcrafters can forge pieces of equipment with special powers inherant to the armor - in addition to whatever a spellcrafter imbues.

Cloth Armor	5th Slot Bonus	Bonus Amount
Rune Knit Padded Vest	all caster skills	3
Rune Knit Padded Pants	power %	5%
Rune Knit Padded Arms	hits cap	40
Rune Knit Padded Gloves	af bonus	10
Rune Knit Padded Boots	dex cap	5
Runed Knit Padded Circlet	acuity cap	5
Runed Knit Padded Steeple Hat	acuity cap	5
Rune Braided Padded Pants	str cap	5
Rune Braided Padded Boots	con cap	5
Rune Braided Padded Circlet	healing effectiveness	5%
Rune Braided Padded Steeple Hat	healing effectiveness	5%
Rune Braided Padded Arms	buffing effectiveness	5%
Runed Riddled Padded Circlet	qui cap	5
Runed Riddled Padded Steeple Hat	qui cap	5
Leather Armor	5th Slot Bonus	Bonus Amount
Rune Stitched Starklaedar Jerkin	all melee skills	3%
Rune Stitched Starklaedar Leggings	str cap	5
Rune Stitched Starklaedar Sleeves	hits cap	40
Rune Stitched Starklaedar Gloves	af bonus	10
Rune Stitched Starklaedar Boots	dual skill	3
Rune Stitched Starklaedar Circlet	con cap	5
Rune Sewn Starklaedar Boots	qui cap	5
Studded Armor	5th Slot Bonus	Bonus Amount
Rune Etched Starkaskodd Vest	all melee skills	3
Rune Etched Starkaskodd Leggings	str cap	5
Rune Etched Starkaskodd Sleeves	hits cap	40
Rune Etched Starkaskodd Gloves	dex cap	5
Rune Etched Starkaskodd Boots	con cap	5
Rune Etched Starkaskodd Circlet	archer skill	3
Rune Carved Starkaskodd Boots	buffing effectiveness	5%
Rune Carved Starkaskodd Circlet	af bonus	10
Rune Carved Starkaskodd Sleeves	qui cap	5
Rune Struck Starkaskodd Boots	dual skill	3
Chain Armor	5th Slot Bonus	Bonus Amount
Rune Bound Starkakedja Hauberk	all melee skills	3
Rune Bound Starkakedja Leggings	str cap	5
Rune Bound Starkakedja Sleeves	hits cap	40
Rune Bound Starkakedja Gloves	dex cap	5
Rune Bound Starkakedja Boots	af bonus	10
Rune Bound Starkakedja Circlet	+ defensive	5%
Rune Marked Starkakedja Circlet	con cap	5
Rune Scribed Starkakedja Hauberk	all caster skills	3
Rune Scribed Starkakedja Leggings	power %	5%
Rune Scribed Starkakedja Sleeves	healing effectiveness	5%
Rune Scribed Starkakedja Gloves	buffing effectiveness	5%
Rune Scribed Starkakedja Boots	acuity cap	5
Rune Scribed Starkakedja Circlet	qui cap	5