Mystical Awakening Online: Game Mechanics and Information

List of Artes and Class Information: Arte Mechanics and Neophyte Class

The numbers of Artes are determined by class, the number of tiers in the class and are divided up by the rank of the class.

Classes with 3 ranks:

     - Tier 1T classes: Physical classes have five (str/dex), Mystical classes have three (Int/Spt) artes.

     - Tier 2T classes: Physical classes have four, Mystical classes have four artes.

     - Tier 3T classes: Physical classes have three, Mystical classes have five artes.

Classes with 2 ranks:

     - Tier 1D classes: physical classes have six (str/dex), mystical classes have  five (int/spt) artes.

     - Tier 2D classes: physical classes have five (str/dex), mystical classes have six (Int/Spt) artes.

Class with 1 rank:

     - Tier 1S classes: both physical and mystical classes have seven artes.

Elemental Artes

Certain attacks have elemental versions that change the special into a more powerful form. To use these elemental specials the character must be the corresponding elemental mana user.

Class Roles

1. Class role information: All classes fall under categories based on the type of damage they deal based on a stat:

     - «Strike» Artes (Strength)

     - «Pierce» Artes (Dexterity)

     - «Magic» Artes (Intelligence)

     - «Spiritual» Artes (Spirit)

2. Classes however are mostly defined by their role in combat either as: «Attack», «Defense», «Support», and «Healer». Classes can be further defined by what type of artes and fighting style the class has. (Note that a class can have a mix of two or three categories and styles.)

     - Attack: «DpS» (Damage per Second), «BD» (Burst Damage), «DoT» (Damage over Time).

     - Defense: «Pulling» (Drawing aggro), «Pushing» (Forcing enemies back or fearing), or «Walling» (setting up walls or barriers to prevent movement or block movement).

     - Healer: «BH» (Burst Healing is a healing Arte that heals a large portion of health in one use), «HoT» (Healing over Time is a passive healing), «OS» Over Shield, casting temporary extra health on top of current health to protect the target), or «SC» (Status Clearing/Curing, removing status effects such as poison, stun, etc.).

     - Support: «Buf» (Buffing, increasing ally's stats or Arte abilities), «Dbuf» (Debuffing, decreasing enemies' stats or Arte Abilities), and «SI» (Status Infliction, causing status effects such as poison, stun, etc), and «CC» (Crowd Control, using abilities to stun, banish, slow, root, etc).

3. Classes can be further defined by their attack range: «R-C» (Close-Range), «R-M» (Mid-Range) or «R-L» (Long-Range).

4. Classes can also be defined by their range of the damage: «TE» (Targeted Effect, directly hits a target) or «AoE» (Area of Effect, affects all enemies or allies in an area).