Classes and Abilities

***Classes*** are certain skill perfections, or "jobs". Each player can have one class, based on their skills, which they can upgrade.

The class upgrade chain can be confusing! Contact Roseytheswag with questions.

## Overview:

Every player or NPC in the server has a class-A special skill area, in short. Classes have three types: Base classes, Tier One classes, and Tier Two classes. A class is based on skill types (fighting, crafting, etc.) and always starts at base class. A player can collect fifty levels exp and level up their class.

### Leveling Up:

A player can select a base class based on their most prominent skill, with the six choices being warrior, archer, rogue, healer, blacksmith, and farmer. Having a base class doesn't cost anything. To level up to a tier one class, someone with a base class needs to collect fifty levels of exp. Once a base class does this, they level up to a tier one.

### Tier One:

After a base class player collects fifty exp levels, they can choose a tier one class to level up to. Each base class has two choices to level up (the only exception is the warrior base class, which has three choices). If a player is a base class archer, they can become a sniper or a ranger. If a player is a warrior, they can become a gladiator, a samurai, or a knight. If someone is a rogue, they can become a thief or a ninja. A healer becomes a golem summoner or a potion brewer, a blacksmith becomes a weapon designer or armorer, and a farmer becomes a crop farmer or animal farmer. Each tier one class focuses on a different skill *variant,* based on the *base class's general skill*.

For instance, if a player is a base class archer, they are generally good at shooting a bow and arrow. However, once they reach fifty exp levels, they have two choices: sniper or ranger. These two choices both focus on different *variants* of the general archery skill, with the sniper specializing in long-range kill shots, and the ranger practicing fast shooting at many targets. Each choice has an upside and a downside- as does every class, no matter the tier.

However, there is a final tier that a tier one player can level up to, once they reach another hundred exp levels.

### Tier Two:

Tier two classes are the final upgrade, and refine the tier one's *variant skill.* One thing that is different to tier one is that instead of having two choices when leveling up, someone looking to level up to a tier two class from a tier one class only has one upgrade choice. A tier two takes the variant skill learned in tier one and perfects it, giving the player better abilities, skills, and even custom weapons. A sniper becomes a marksman, a ranger becomes an elemental ranger, a knight becomes a paladin, a samurai becomes a shogun, a gladiator becomes a beserker, a thief becomes an assassin, a ninja becomes a shinobi, and so forth. Tier one classes are only offered one upgrade, instead of two.

### Example:

To make the class chains more understandable, here is an example. If Shadowkeeper chooses to be an archer, she becomes a base class archer training with a bow and arrow. Once she collects fifty levels of exp, she wants to upgrade. She can choose between coming a sniper and practice long-distance, slow, critical target-hitting, or becoming a ranger, and focusing on shooting very fast at multiple targets. She chooses to become a sniper, and learns several special abilities like the Kill Shot, an arrow shot that does a massive, critical amount of damage but has a very long cooldown timer. However, she could have chosen to become a ranger and learn abilities like the Arrow Rain, where she can shoot many arrows at multiple targets at once. After she reaches another hundred levels of exp, she is able to upgrade to a marksman, an upgraded sniper with stronger abilities and more skills. If she became a ranger, however, she would have the chance to become an elemental ranger, who can use the power of nature and the elements to their advantage as an upgraded ranger. But, she has already chosen the sniper class and thus must become a marksman if she wants to upgrade to tier two.

This is consistent throughout all six base classes and their *upgrade chains* (the choices when upgrading).