Arcana/Mechanics

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Affinity - Race and Attribute

• Race: All enemies are one of None, Undead, Dragon, Medusa, and Giant.
  • An enemy with a race will resist physical damage, other than its weakness.
  • Equipment with the same race as an enemy will deal extra damage (weapons) or resist physical damage (shields).
  • Examples:
    • A Skeleton of the Undead race only takes full physical damage from anti-Undead weapons.
    • Red Dragons only take full damage from anti-Dragon weapons like the Dragon Blade.
    • Wearing an anti-Undead amulet (Mithril Shield/Gauntlet), that character will resist physicals from Undead enemies.
    • In the same vein, the Moon Gauntlet will resist damage from giants like Cyclops.
  • There is a Boss race, used to prevent instant death and escape. The Boss race does not resist damage, though.
• Attribute: One of Man, Wind, Earth, Water, Fire
  • Also known as their "element".

Elemental damage

	Defend: Wind	Defend: Fire	Defend: Water	Defend: Earth
Attack: Wind	Damage down	Damage way down	Damage up	Damage way up
Attack: Fire	Damage way up	Damage down	Damage way down	Damage up
Attack: Water	Damage up	Damage way up	Damage down	Damage way down
Attack: Earth	Damage way down	Damage up	Damage way up	Damage down
Attack: Wind/Water	Damage unchanged
Attack: Fire/Earth	Damage unchanged
Attack: Wind/Water/Fire/Earth	Damage unchanged

• "Man" is neutral, and takes elemental damage equally well.
• Each attribute slightly resists itself, and opposite attributes (Wind<->Water, Earth<->Fire) are slightly weak to each other.
• Caution: Elemental weapons (Ice Blade) override Change Attribute spells. Someone equipped with these are stuck dealing their weapon's damage.
• Change Attribute spells will override elemental armor. Mithril Mail's Wind attribute can be circumvented by changing attributes.

Stats

• Level: Max level is 60.
  • Enemy LVL determines the success rate of escaping from battle.
    1. The game finds the difference of highest LVL of the party and the enemy party.
    2. (PartyLVL - EnemyLVL) = D
       • 1/8 run chance if D is negative
       • 1/4 run chance if D is 0-7
       • 1/2 run chance if D is 8-14
       • 3/4 run chance if D is 15+
    • Example: The party's highest LVL is 43, and the enemy's highest LVL is 25. The difference 43-25=18, so the run chance is 3/4.