Advancement

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Your character in KoL increases in level when a certain score is reached in a given stat. In order to increase a stat that character must gain experience in the stat through adventures, booze, food, or spleen items (for more details, see Muscle Substat, Mysticality Substat and Moxie Substat).

Each class has a primary, secondary, and tertiary stat:

The amount of experience required to advance one point in a given stat is equal to 2n + 1, where n is the current score in the given stat. The experience points gained from battle are usually distributed in a 2:1:1 ratio; the main stat for the character's class receives the larger portion of the gains.

For example, if a player were to gain 16 stat points from a battle, the experience could be distributed as follows:

Many things can affect the way experience gained:

• The RNG is used to distribute the total stat points gained among the 3 stats, so they are almost never in a perfect 2:1:1 ratio.
• The moons can have a large effect. Certain phases of the moons denote Stat Days, which give a 25% bonus to one particular stat.
• Refer to Stat Gains from Fights for a list of all items and effects that give more experience per adventure.
• Refer to Monster Level for a list of all items and effects that raise Monster Level, and in turn, give more experience per adventure.

Advancement Requirements Overview

This table shows how many stat points a character needs (in the primary stat) in order to advance to a certain level, and how many substat points are needed to achieve those stats.

To get to level x, you must get (x − 1)² + 4 of your main stat. To get to main stat level y, you must get y² total substats. As a result you need 2y + 1 substats for your next main stat increase.

The total substats required for level x are ((x-1)²+4)² or, if you prefer, x⁴-4x³+14x²-20x+25.

To move from level x to level x + 1, you must gain 4x³ − 6x² + 20x − 9 substats.

When you ascend you start with 15 substats in your primary stat, 10 in your secondary, and 5 in your tertiary, so you only need to gain 10 substats to reach level 2.

This is because your stats start at 3/3/2, and your primary stat starts with 6/7 substats, while your secondary starts at 1/7 substats and your tertiary starts at 1/5.

Notes

• On June 3, 2005, the ratio in which substat points were normally distributed was changed from 3:2:2 to the current 2:1:1, which effectively increased the rate of leveling, while decreasing the rate of increase of secondary stats.
• It is possible to drive a stat down to 0 (by losing at PvP when low level, using goofballs, eating ghuol guolash, etc.). The game will display 1(0) in that instance.

External Links

• A spreadsheet tool has been put together to help players decide which locations give the best stat gains.