9Dragons Online

Chi and Stats points (Chi Breathing)

We must know the difference between Chi points and Stats; we can see that difference easy if we press C in or keyboard and we look at the down side of the Character Information window:


- The Chi points are what you receive each time you level up

Normally you receive 4 Chi points, but when you change the Level Category and do Chi Breathing you receive 6 chi points.

You must do Chi Breathing being in a safe zone because once you start it you can#DY#t stop until Chi Breathing is finished and during this time you can be attacked and killed by monsters. One only hit can kill you

- The Stats are what you have added to each Attribute of your character

This difference is especially important since each Role has a penalized Attribute which needs 2 Chi points to gain 1 Stat, they are:

	Vagabound	Warrior	Nuker	Healer	Hybrid
Normal Attribute (1 Chi = 1 Stat)	Strength	Strength		Strength	Strength
	Essence		Essence	Essence	Essence
	Wisdom	Wisdom	Wisdom	Wisdom
	constitution	constitution	constitution		constitution
	Dexterity	Dexterity	Dexterity	Dexterity	Dexterity
Penalized Attribute (2 Chi = 1 Stat)		Essence	Strength	constitution	Wisdom

Using our Chi points we can#DY#t add more than 250 Stats in each Attribute, but we can increase this number using special item or with buff:


- Elixirs:
The Elixirs can increase our stats depending on the level of the elixir, but elixirs can have negative effects decreasing the stats.

You can read more about elixirs in the Elixirs (up to level 6)

To use an elixir, put in peace mode and do right click on the elixir you want to use.

Once you have used an elixir your intoxication increase, you should wait until the intoxication is 0 to use other elixir.


You can see the effect of elixirs in the Attributes in yellow numbers (positive effects) or red number (adverse effects)


- Relics, Accessories, Ornaments and Epithets
In 9 Dragons you can find a lot of different Accessories and Relics which can increase your stats and/or abilities. They must be worn in the pockets of your clothes

You can know the Accessories, Relics, Trinkets and others in our site.

Some Ornaments can increase specifics abilities if they are added into the slots of wardrobe or weapons.
You can read more about them in the Ornaments page

The epithets in 9 Dragons don#DY#t add stats, but each epithet increase certain abilities, you can see them in the Epithets Guide made by warda


- Buff
Healers and hybrids have buff skills; with them they can increase their own stats or the stats of other players.
How much increase your stats the buff skill depend on the cheng (level) of the skill and the role of the buffer.

The principal difference between the buff skills of healers and hybrid are:
.....• Healers has 3 selective buff skills (Strength/Dexterity; Constitution/Essence; Wisdom) while Hybrids has one only skill for all stats
.....• When the skill is maxed (Cheng 10) Healers can increase by 25 the stats while Hybrids can increase by 15

When you are buffed while you had a previous buff, only the higher buff will keep in your character.

By this way, if a Healer (or Hybrid) buffs you and, some time later, other Healer (or Hybrid) buffs you with lower Cheng#DY#s Skill, you will keep the remaining time and increase stats of the first buff.
But when the second buff is same or higher Cheng (level) than the previous one, the new buff replaces the old one

If a healer and a hybrid buff you the effect of both buffs will be added

When you have been buffed you will se different icons in the left upper side of your screen

Healer	Hybrid	Both at time

- Cavity press
You can buy from hermits (by 500 gold) this kind of buff: each one increase by 5 in one attribute, and you only can use one each time.
Once you have bought it the effect will stand during 120 minutes in the Premium ones and during 30 minutes in others


- Item Mall
There are some items that can increase your stats


COLOR OF STATS
When we have only the stats from chi points we see the called Stats Base in white numbers, these stats are same than you can see in your selection character screen

When we have increased the stats with relics, accessories, cavity press or with buff we#DY#ll see them in green

Certain items can decrease some stats, also some bosses debuff you decreasing your stats, when your stats get lower value than the stats base you will see them in red


We must have this in mind because when any weapon, relic or any other stuff need certain number of stats, this requirement is related about to stats base (white numbers), not the total stats you can see in green or red

Attributes and Abilities
Every character has five Attributes where you must distribute the Chi points gained by each level; the election depends on your Role, your preferences, etc.

There are several guides about how build your character so, here I will only show you the description of each attribute.

Attibute
Strengh	Strengh indicates how pysically strong is a character. - Determins a character#DY#s potential pysical Damage,Defense and Balance performing Kung Fu - Works as a prerequisite for weapon usage
Essense	Essense is culmination of your Chi - Determins your internal wellspring of Vial energy and the longer you can employ you Kung Fu skills and Chi Kung techniques. - Affects Chi Kung Damages and Resistance. - Works as a prerequisite for equipping certain accessories and weapons(bracers)
Wisdom	Wisdom is the intellectual ability. - Determins the Balance in Chi Kung Damage,Chi Kung Attack Rating and Chi Kung Dodge - Gives extra damage bonus to Chi Kung attack - Works prerequisite for equipping certain accessories and weapons(bracers) and for understanding certain manuals
Constitution	Constitution is a measure of how healthy,robust and durable of you - Determins the amount of Life within you - Determins higher ability to recover from injury and damage received
Dexterity	Dexterity represents a charater#DY#s speed and pysical agility level you can utilize to carry out complex Kung Fu techniques - Determin how often you can inflict and avoid a Critical Hit - Works as a prerequisite for weapon usage

Each time you increase 1 Stat in one Attribute it increase its related abilities modifying the quality of your character.
The increase depends on the Role of your character and the specific ability; the next table shows the increase for each Role.

Attribute	Ability	Value gained per stat
		Vagabond	Worrior	Nuker	Healer	Hybrid
Strength	Damage	1/2~3	1/2~3	1/2~3	1/2~3	1/2~3
	Defence	6	6	6	6	6
Essence	Vital Energy	14/17	34/37	34/36	30/32	24/27
	Chi Kung Damage	4~4	4~4	4~4	4~4	4
	Chi Kung Defence	2	2	2	2	2
Wisdom	Chi Kung Attack Rating	2/3	2/4	2/4	2/3	2/3
	Chi Kung Defence	1	1	1	1	1
	Chi Kung Dodge	2	2	2	2	2
Constitution	Life	18/22	38/42	23/27	38/42	35/37
Dexterity	Attack Rating	4	4/5	4/5	4/5	4/5
	Dodge	4	4	4	4	4
Note The values separated by / show the range value assighed to increase The values separated by ~ are the maximun and minimun,as you can see in the Character Infomation#DY#s Window in-game

Making a statistic, we can extract the medium values that each ability gain per Stat

Attribute	Ability	Medium value gained per stat
		Vagabond	Worrior	Nuker	Healer	Hybrid
Strength	Damage	1.5~3	1.5~3	1.5~3	1.5~3	1.5~3
	Defence	6	6	6	6	6
Essence	Vital Energy	15.56	35.43	35.33	30.13	25.21
	Chi Kung Damage	4~4	4~4	4~4	4~4	4
	Chi Kung Defence	2	2	2	2	2
Wisdom	Chi Kung Attack Rating	2.5	3	3.09	2.62	2.55
	Chi Kung Defence	1	1	1	1	1
	Chi Kung Dodge	2	2	2	2	2
Constitution	Life	20.4	40.45	25.5	40.18	35.18
Dexterity	Attack Rating	4	4.8	4.1	4.2	4.12
	Dodge	4	4	4	4	4

These abilities can be increased by some stuff like clothes, relics, weapons, ornaments, skills, epithets, etc, and same like stats, always that one ability is increased more than the base from the stats base; we#DY#ll see the value in green numbers

To build our character properly we should know how each ability affect to our character#DY#s quality, again, I just will give a description about the most important abilities.

Ability
Life	Life depletes when a character get attacked,if the Life drops to 0,the character starts to be dying. You can recover lost Life through items,meditations and curative Kung Fu techniques
Vital Energy	Vital Energy depletes each time each time a character use a Kung Fu tecnique,if the Vital Energy drops to 0: - You cannot use any Kung Fu - Even if it can use,the damage and additional effects are not applied - The Kung Fu techniques can#DY#t get experience You can recover spent Vital Energy through items,meditations and curative Kung Fu techniques
Damage	Physical Damage is the potential damage you can inflicts upon monsters and hostile player characters Active Techniques,Smashing Techniques and normal pysical attacks are affected by these figures Chi Kung techniques are not affected
Attack Rating	Attack Rating determins the probability of performing high-damage attack ignoring enemy#DY#s defense
Defense	Defense reduces the physical damages from enemies
Dodge	Dodge is the ability to aviod physical attacks entirely and Critical damage,even with enough dodge;you may totally avoid physical damages more often
Chi Kung Damage	Chi Kung Damage is the potential damage you can inflicts upon monsters and hostile player characters Only Chi Kung attack techniques affects by this ability
Chi Kung Attack Rating	Chi Kung Attack Rating determins the probability of performing high Chi Kung damage attack ignoring enemy#DY#s defense
Chi Kung Defense	Chi Kung Defense is the only ability which reduces Chi Kung damages from enemies
Chi Kung Dodge	Chi Kung Dodge ability to aviod Chi Kung attacks entirely and Critical Chi Kung damage,even with enough Chi Kung dodge;you may totally avoid Chi Kung based damages more often