Pre-renewal is the baseline here, but a number of skills have been adjusted so that under-used classes are worth playing and a few long-standing quirks stop deciding fights. Everything below is live on the server right now — each entry shows the official behaviour next to what this server does instead.
Anything not listed on this page behaves exactly as it does in official pre-renewal.
Damage Reflection
Official pre-renewal
- Reflected damage is capped at the reflector’s maximum HP.
- A single reflect can return far more damage than the reflector could survive.
RO Classic +
- Reflected damage is capped at the reflector’s current HP.
- Applies to both Shield Reflect and Reject Sword.
- Damage absorbed by Safety Wall is still not reflected.
MVP Map Restrictions
Official pre-renewal
- Ice Wall, Warp Portal and Loki’s Veil can be used anywhere.
- MVPs can be walled into a corner or skipped past entirely.
RO Classic +
- All three are blocked across the 85 MVP maps.
- Boss fights have to be fought rather than trapped.
Bowling Bash
Official pre-renewal
- Relies on “gutter line” positioning, so the number of hits depends on exactly where the target stands.
RO Classic +
- Uses a fixed splash area instead, removing the gutter-line inconsistency.
Brandish Spear
Official pre-renewal
- Knocks the target back 2 cells.
RO Classic +
- Knocks the target back 1 cell, keeping it in range for a follow-up.
Berserk
Official pre-renewal
- No items may be used, Fly Wing included.
- Chat is blocked for the whole duration.
- Concentration runs on its normal timer.
RO Classic +
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Fly Wing can be used while Berserked.
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Chat works normally.
- Casting Berserk extends an active Concentration to 2.6× its duration.
Shield Reflect
Official pre-renewal
- Reflects damage from every attacker, bosses included.
RO Classic +
- No longer reflects off Boss-type monsters.
- Reflected damage is capped at your current HP.
Devotion
Official pre-renewal
- Any party member can be devoted.
RO Classic +
- Outside Battlegrounds, only guild members can be devoted.
- Inside Battlegrounds it stays unrestricted.
Shield Swapping
Official pre-renewal
- Changing a shield mid-cast interrupts the skill.
RO Classic +
- Swapping one shield for another no longer interrupts the cast.
- Removing the shield outright still cancels it.
Storm Gust
Amplify Magic Power
Official pre-renewal
- The MATK bonus is consumed by the first magic hit that lands.
- On a multi-tick ground skill, only one tick ever benefits.
RO Classic +
- The bonus applies to every tick of Storm Gust, Meteor Storm and Lord of Vermilion.
- The status runs out on its own duration instead of being eaten early.
Ice Wall
Abracadabra
Cart Termination
Official pre-renewal
- Damage scales with how much your cart actually weighs.
- Costs zeny per cast everywhere.
RO Classic +
- The cart always counts as being at maximum weight, so damage no longer depends on cargo.
- Costs no zeny inside Battlegrounds.
Cart Revolution
Official pre-renewal
- Damage scales with actual cart weight.
RO Classic +
- The cart always counts as being at maximum weight.
Power Thrust
Official pre-renewal
- Adds a 10% chance to break the weapon it buffs.
RO Classic +
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No weapon break chance at all.
Maximum Power Thrust
Official pre-renewal
- Adds a 10% weapon break chance.
RO Classic +
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No weapon break chance at all.
Adrenaline Rush
Official pre-renewal
- Requires an Axe or a Mace.
RO Classic +
- Also works with One-Handed Swords.
Plant Cultivation
Official pre-renewal
- Can be used inside buildings.
RO Classic +
- Blocked inside town interiors — inns, shops and guild halls.
Magnus Exorcismus
Official pre-renewal
- Bonus damage applies to a narrow set of targets.
RO Classic +
- Bonus damage covers Undead and Demon race targets.
- It also covers Shadow, Ghost and Undead element targets.
Mace Mastery
Official pre-renewal
- Gives flat ATK only — the critical bonus is renewal-only and never applies here.
RO Classic +
- Also grants +1 Critical per skill level.
Warp Portal
Enchant Deadly Poison
Official pre-renewal
- Level 5 lasts 60 seconds.
RO Classic +
- Level 5 lasts 90 seconds. Lower levels are unchanged.
Create Deadly Poison
Official pre-renewal
- Costs 50 SP.
- Failing the craft costs HP.
RO Classic +
- Costs 10 SP.
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No HP loss on failure.
Back Stab
Official pre-renewal
- Can only be used from behind the target.
RO Classic +
- Usable from any facing.
- Cooldown of 0.333s.
Stealth
Official pre-renewal
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10 second delay before the effect settles.
Preserve
Official pre-renewal
- Lasts 10 minutes and has to be recast.
RO Classic +
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Effectively permanent — cast it once and it stays.
Plagiarism
Official pre-renewal
- A copied skill cannot be replaced once stored.
- Copying silently cancels Preserve.
RO Classic +
- A stored skill can be overwritten by a higher level of the same skill.
- Copying is refused while Preserve is active, instead of cancelling it.
Reject Sword
Official pre-renewal
- Reflected damage is uncapped relative to your own HP.
RO Classic +
- Reflected damage capped at your current HP.
Arrow Vulcan
Official pre-renewal
- After-cast delay climbs to 3 seconds at higher levels.
RO Classic +
- Flat 2 second after-cast delay at every level.
Songs & Dances
Official pre-renewal
- Ensemble buffs drop the moment you step out of the area.
RO Classic +
- Buffs linger for 20 seconds after leaving the area, ensembles included.
Loki’s Veil
Doridori
Official pre-renewal
- Using
/doridori doubles the next skill-based SP regen tick.
- A Super Novice with no skill regen source gets nothing, so in practice it almost never fires.
RO Classic +
- Doubles the next natural HP and SP regen tick instead, so it works for every Super Novice.
- A status icon shows while the bonus is armed.
- Standing up clears it.
Class Perks
Official pre-renewal
- Weight limit and DEX come only from stats and the Enlarge Weight Limit and Owl's Eye skills, which cost skill points.
RO Classic +
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+2,000 weight limit and +10 DEX are built into the class. The DEX is granted across job levels 1–50, on top of the normal job bonuses.
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Enlarge Weight Limit and Owl's Eye are removed from the skill tree. Discount, Pushcart and Vulture's Eye no longer require them.
Super Blessing
Official pre-renewal
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Blessing and Increase Agility are two separate skills, each with its own cast and SP cost.
RO Classic +
- Replaced by a single new skill, Super Blessing (10 levels), which casts both at once at the same level. Blessing and Increase Agility are removed from the Super Novice tree.
- Instant cast, and costs the same SP as Blessing alone (28–64). Each buff keeps its own duration: 40 sec +20 per level.
- Per level: STR, DEX, INT +1, AGI +1 (base +2), plus Blessing's +2 HIT and Increase Agility's +25% movement speed.
- Decrease Agility now requires Super Blessing 1 instead of Increase Agility 1.
Break Through
Official pre-renewal
- Does not exist. It is a 5-level Hyper Novice passive from renewal.
RO Classic +
- Brought over as a single-level platinum skill with the full renewal level-5 payout: +100 ATK, +2,000 Max HP, +200 Max SP, and healing skills +10%.
- Taught for free by the Super Novice Trainer in Prontera (136, 171). Cannot be learned with skill points.
Angel, Help Me!
Official pre-renewal
- Does not exist. It is a Hyper Novice skill from renewal.
RO Classic +
- Brought over as a level-1 platinum skill. You and every party member within a 15×15 area recover 1,000 HP and 350 SP every second for 20 seconds.
- 1 SP to cast, 5 minute cooldown.
- Taught for free by the Super Novice Trainer in Prontera (136, 171). Cannot be learned with skill points.
Equipment Access
Official pre-renewal
- A long list of high-end gear is restricted to transcendent classes.
RO Classic +
- All of the following is now equippable by the Extended Classes:
- Armor of Naga
- Bison Horn
- Black Leather Boots
- Divine Cloth
- Dragon Breath
- Expert Ring
- Nydhorgg’s Shadow Garb
- Orleans’s Glove
- Orleans’s Gown
- Orleans’s Server
- Platinum Shield
- Ring of Flame Lord
- Ring of Resonance
- Shadow Walk
- Shield of Naga
- Sprint Mail
- Sprint Ring
- Sprint Shoes
- Thorny Buckler
- Tidal Shoes
- Valkyrian Armor
- Valkyrian Manteau
- Valkyrian Shoes
- Valkyrie Helm
- Vesper Core 01
- Vesper Core 02
- Vesper Core 03
- Vesper Core 04
- Vital Tree Shoes
- Wool Scarf
Taekwon Mission
Official pre-renewal
- Costs 10 SP with a 1 second cast.
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1% chance to reroll the target.
RO Classic +
- Costs 1 SP with a 0.5 second cast.
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5% chance to reroll the target.
Miracle of the Sun, Moon and Stars
Official pre-renewal
- A very low chance to trigger while hunting.
Soul Link
Official pre-renewal
- Level 5 lasts just under 6 minutes.
RO Classic +
- Level 5 lasts 10 minutes, across every Soul Link variant.
Esma
Official pre-renewal
- Costs 8–80 SP across levels 1–10.
RO Classic +
- Costs 4–40 SP — halved at every level.
Eska
Official pre-renewal
- Can be applied to Boss-type monsters.
RO Classic +
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No longer affects Boss-type monsters.
Soul Linker Job Level
RO Classic +
- Job level caps at 70. HP and SP pools key off base level and are unaffected.
Throw Kunai
Official pre-renewal
- Range 9, after-cast delay 1 second.
RO Classic +
- Range 12, after-cast delay 0.5 seconds.
Throw Huuma Shuriken
Official pre-renewal
- After-cast delay 2 seconds, costs 20–40 SP.
RO Classic +
- After-cast delay 1.5 seconds, costs 10–30 SP.
Final Strike
Official pre-renewal
- Costs 55–100 SP across levels 1–10.
Flip the Coin
Official pre-renewal
- Can fail, and costs 2 SP per attempt.
RO Classic +
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Always succeeds, and costs 1 SP.
Triple Action
Adjustment
Official pre-renewal
- Costs 2 coins and 15 SP, lasting 30 seconds.
RO Classic +
- Costs 1 coin and 10 SP, lasting 60 seconds.
Maximum Stats
Official pre-renewal
- Baby classes cap every stat at 80.
RO Classic +
- Baby classes cap every stat at 99, the same as everyone else.