Level

The Level of your character is displayed on the top of the Hero panel.

Level is a numerical indicator of how powerful a player character or non-player character (NPC) is. All roleplaying characters begin at level 1 and, through the acquisition of experience points, can gradually gain levels up to a maximum level of 20. When characters reach that point, they can still accumulate experience points through normal means but will no longer "level up" with the completion of each level cycle as they once did. Instead, those characters will gain one skill point for every level cycle they complete, which are used to learn new skills from skill trainers. PvP-only characters are level 20 by default. NPCs may have any level between (and including) 0 and 42; however, they cannot achieve higher levels than 20 by gaining experience much like player characters. A player character's health is primarily dependent on his/her experience level. Level 1 characters begin with 100 health and will gain 20 health for each experience level gained, up to a maximum of 480 health. This may be further modified through runes, armor and other items.

To check a character's current level, see the Experience bar or open the Hero panel (default key "H"). Your characters levels can also be seen at the Character selection screen.

When a character levels-up (or a player gains a skill point through experience), there's a graphical golden light indication and a sound indication.

Effects of level

A character's base health, damage multiplier, experience total, experience needed to next level, and character's base attribute points are directly linked to their current level.

For most NPCs their base health, hard mode bonus health, armor, damage multiplier, and experience needed to next level (in cases where the NPC is lower than level 20) are also directly linked to their current level. Exceptions to this are spirits, bosses, and boss-like foes.

Level	Base health	NPC Hard Mode Bonus health	NPC base armor	Damage multiplier1	Total XP2	Additional XP needed3	Character cumulative Attribute Points
0	-	-	0	0.354	-	-	0
1	100	-	3	0.372	0	2,000	0
2	120	-	6	0.392	2,000	2,600	5
3	140	-	9	0.413	4,600	3,200	10
4	160	-	12	0.435	7,800	3,800	15
5	180	-	15	0.459	11,600	4,400	20
6	200	-	18	0.483	16,000	5,000	25
7	220	-	21	0.509	21,000	5,600	30
8	240	-	24	0.536	26,600	6,200	35
9	260	-	27	0.564	32,800	6,800	40
10	280	-	30	0.595	39,600	7,400	45
11	300	-	33	0.626	47,000	8,000	55
12	320	-	36	0.660	55,000	8,600	65
13	340	-	39	0.695	63,600	9,200	75
14	360	-	42	0.732	72,800	9,800	85
15	380	-	45	0.771	82,600	10,400	95
16	400	-	48	0.812	93,000	11,000	110
17	420	-	51	0.856	104,000	11,600	125
18	440	-	54	0.901	115,600	12,200	140
19	460	-	57	0.949	127,800	12,800	155
204	480	-	60	1.000	140,600	13,400	1705
21	500	+20	63	1.053	-	14,000	-
22	520	+40	66	1.110	-	14,600	-
23	540	+60	69	1.169	-	15,0006	-
24	560	+80	72	1.230	-	-	-
25	580	+100	75	1.300	-	-	-
26	600	+120	78	1.366	-	-	-
27	620	+140	81	1.439	-	-	-
28	640	+160	84	1.516	-	-	-
29	660	+180	87	1.597	-	-	-
30	680	+200	90	1.682	-	-	-
31	700	+220	93	1.772	-	-	-
32	720	+240	96	1.866	-	-	-
33	740	+260	99	1.966	-	-	-
34 7	760	+280	102	2.071	-	-	-
36	800	+320	108	2.297	-	-	-
38	840	+360	114	2.549	-	-	-
40	880	+400	120	2.828	-	-	-
42	920	+440	126	3.138	-	-	-

¹ Two exceptions to this are martial weapons, which also incorporate a weapon-specific multiplier, and armor-ignoring effects, which always use a multiplier of 1. This multiplier applies for a level 20 target.

² For each new level, you would need an additional (2,000 + 600[X - 1]) experience points, where X is your current level.

³ At any given level, a character will have between (2,000[X - 1] + 300[X - 1][X - 2]) and (2,000X + 300X[X - 1] - 1) experience points.

⁴ An experience level cap of 20 is imposed on any entity. NPCs, however, may have a set level as they spawn that is higher than this.

⁵ Total Attribute points by level 20 without attribute point quests.

⁶ Each further cycle consists of 15,000 experience points.

⁷ There are no NPCs in the game with an odd level higher than 33.

Trivia

• The highest level NPCs in the game are/were:
  • Foes (normal mode quest): 34 — Alpha Tyrannus.
  • Foes (hard mode quest): 42 — Arms of the Titans and Fists of the Titans.
  • Allies (non-festival): 30 — Captain Greywind, Evennia, and King Adelbern.
  • Allies (festival): 40 — KT29-Moahawk during April Fools' Day 2011.