Item options

Upgrading itself (jewels, chances, costs) is on Jewels and upgrades. Mixes that make new items are on Chaos Machine. Skills are on Skills.

Quick facts

Item level

The level shows as +N after the item's name. Higher levels give more damage or defense and need more Strength and Agility to wear.

• A failed Soul try at +7 or +8 drops the item to +0. A failed +10 to +13 mix destroys the item and the jewels.
• Luck on the item adds 25 points to a Soul try and to each +10 to +13 mix. A Charm of Luck adds 10 more. The full table is on Jewels and upgrades.
• Excellent, ancient and 380 items lose 10 points on the +10 to +13 mixes.
• An item's Strength and Agility needs grow with its level. Excellent and ancient items need more than a plain item of the same kind. The tooltip shows the numbers.
• Items found as drops arrive at +0 to +6. See How items drop below.

Why +13 is the top

Vanilla allowed +14 and +15. Moo Classic stops at +13. The reason: Andri wants +13 to be the player maximum, so the upgrade race has a clear end. Game masters can still wear +14 and +15 items.

Luck

An item with Luck shows "+Luck" in its name.

• Luck adds 5 percent critical damage chance.
• Luck adds 25 points to each Soul try and to the +10 to +13 mixes.
• It does not change Bless, which already works every time.
• Luck has no levels. A Jewel of Life does not touch it, and nothing adds it later.
• About 4 in 100 dropped items carry Luck.

Skill

A weapon with the Skill option can cast the skill that comes with it. A bow can use Triple Shot, and a spear stabs with Lunge or swings Cyclone.

• About 6 in 100 dropped weapons carry Skill.
• The Horn of Dinorant always has its skill.
• Skills that a scroll or orb teaches are not an item option. See Skills.

Additional option

The additional option is the +4, +8, +12 or +16 line on an item. What it gives depends on the item.

• About 8 in 100 dropped items carry an additional option. The +4 is the most common and the +12 the rarest.
• A Jewel of Life adds the option to an item that has none, or raises it. The base chance is 50 percent, and a Charm of Luck adds 10 points.
• There is no HP regeneration option on gear in Moo Classic.

Excellent items

An excellent item carries up to 2 options from the list for its kind. It is rare and it is worth more than a plain item of any level.

Armour and shields

Weapons and staffs

How excellent items drop

• Monsters drop them very rarely. Each monster has its own tiny chance, about 0.0025 to 0.0042 percent per kill.
• The Box of Kundun +1 to Box of Kundun +5 give an excellent item 50, 36, 24, 14 or 6 percent of the time. See Invasions.
• Excellent rings and pendants come only from the top tiers, as 10 percent of a box's excellent items.
• A box's excellent item can have Luck (4 percent), but never an additional option.
• The Archangel weapons are not in any box.

Why the box odds are low: the first version gave Skill and Luck 50 percent of the time, far above what monsters drop. Boxes now match monster drops, so a box item is no better than a kill drop of the same kind.

Ancient sets

An ancient item is a piece of a set. Wearing 2 or more pieces of the same set turns on bonuses. Each extra piece turns on the next line, and the full set adds a last group.

• The 16 original sets exist: Warrior, Hyperion, Eplete, Garuda, Kantata, Hyon, Apollo, Evis, Heras, Anubis, Ceto, Gaia, Odin, Argo, Gywen and Gaion.
• A set needs at least 2 worn pieces. One piece alone does nothing.
• The winner of a Chaos Castle gets an ancient item. The chance is 20 percent in Chaos Castle 2 and rises by 10 points each castle to 70 percent in Chaos Castle 7. Chaos Castle is Season 2.
• Ancient items lose 10 points on the +10 to +13 mixes.
• Sets from later seasons exist in the data and stay off while Moo Classic runs Seasons 0 to 2.
• A set that lists a ring or pendant counts it as a piece. Some sets have no helm or gloves, so check the piece list.

Set pieces

Set bonuses

"Full set (N) adds" lines are in addition to the bonus for wearing all N pieces.

Warrior

Hyperion

Eplete

Garuda

Kantata

Hyon

Apollo

Evis

Heras

Anubis

Ceto

Gaia

Odin

Argo

Gywen

Gaion

Durability

Every item has durability. At 0 it stops working properly.

• Armour loses durability when you take hits. Weapons lose durability when you hit.
• A worn item at half durability or less shows a yellow, orange or red icon.
• Wings at 0 durability do not fly.
• Worn wings do not lose durability over time. Rings and pendants still lose durability over time outside town.
• Repair at Eo the Craftsman in Noria, Zienna The Weapons Merchant in Devias or Hanzo the Blacksmith in Lorencia. The price depends on the item's value and how worn it is.

Pets

The Pet Trainer stands in Lorencia and in Crywolf Fortress.

How items drop

Ordinary gear

• A monster drops gear of about its own level, down to 18 levels below it.
• The +level of a drop is the monster's level minus the item's level, divided by 3. A high-level monster can drop a +6.
• Gear first rolls its +level: +6 2%, +5 5%, +4 8%, +3 12%, +2 18%, +1 25%, otherwise +0. Then an item at that level is picked.
• The drop then rolls Skill 6%, Luck 4% and an additional option 8%.
• A kill drops an item about 5 to 8 percent of the time, depending on the monster.

Why: Andri disliked the old fixed +3 ceiling and the 50 percent Skill and Luck rolls. The drop table now follows the original's rolls, so a good kill can pay off with a good item.

Scrolls, orbs and jewels

• Scrolls and orbs drop from monsters at their own rate. A scroll such as Evil Spirit from a Death Knight drops about 1 in 2,300 kills.
• Most jewels come from events and bosses. See Jewels and upgrades.
• Quest items drop 2 percent of the time, only for the player whose quest needs them.
• Event items from monsters are rare: the Scroll of Archangel about 0.075 percent a kill, the Star of Sacred Birth and the medals 0.025 percent.

Why: scrolls have to drop so players can learn skills, but not so often that they flood the market. Event items were far too common in testing.

Boxes and bosses

• Event boxes open as Rare, Common and Floor tiers and are never empty. The Floor tier pays 10,000 to 100,000 Zen.
• A box first picks a class, then an item, so every class has an equal chance. Nothing opens above +8.
• A box item rolls Skill 6%, Luck 4% and an option 8% like a monster drop. The common items in a Box of Kundun +1 to Box of Kundun +5 always carry an extra option.
• A Rare tier arrives within 25 boxes at most, so a long dry streak ends.
• The Devias Wasteland bosses drop gear and excellent items evenly by class. See New maps.
• White Wizard invasion ogres drop the Ring of Warrior about 30 percent of kills. It always gives an item at +7 (65 percent) or +8 (35 percent), with Luck 20 percent and an option about 25 percent. The Wizard's Ring bonus works at +0 only. The Golden Invasions are Season 0 events, see Invasions.

Why: Andri wants active play to pay. In the original, the boxes gave knights 30 to 52 percent of the items, and box items were far better than monster drops.

Chaos Castle and Kalima

• The winner of a Chaos Castle gets an ancient item (see Ancient sets).
• The Kalima 7 monsters (Death Centurion 7 and Schriker 7) can drop the level 380 armours: Venom Mist, Sylphid Ray, Volcano and Sunlight. Symbols of Kundun drop again so Kalima can be reached. See Kalima.

Why: the top Season 0 to 2 monster was too low a level to drop the 380 armours, so Kalima 7 was raised as a stopgap.

Shops

Merchants sell plain items. Each class's first armour set is sold at +1 with a +4 option, and the second set at +1 with Luck. No shop sells an option above +4, no event pieces and no excellent items. The Ruin Smith, hidden in Devias Wasteland, sells Legendary, Dragon, Guardian and Adamantine gloves and boots and Luck weapons, and Thompson the Merchant sells +3 arrows and bolts.

Why: shops give a start. The better gear is meant to come from play, and the Ruin Smith pays for the walk.

Weapons by class

"Speed" is the weapon's attack speed, and "Wizardry rise" is the bonus a staff or scepter gives to spells. "Drop level" is the item's tier. Only items that drop are listed. The Archangel weapons and the Chaos weapons do not drop. They come from mixes or events. Items at drop level 100 and above are late-game weapons, among them the Crywolf-era ones (Daybreak, Sword Dancer, Shining Scepter, Albatross Bow, Platina Staff).

Swords

Axes

Spears

Bows and crossbows

Maces

Scepters

Staffs

Shields

Armour by class

Each set has a helm, armour, pants, gloves and boots. Magic Gladiator's own sets (Storm Crow, Thunder Hawk, Hurricane, Volcano) have no helm. Defense below is for the armour piece. A set's drop level is its tier. The level 380 sets (Dragon Knight, Venom Mist, Sylphid Ray, Volcano, Sunlight) need character level 380.

Defense also rises with item level and the additional option.

Moo Classic changes

Strategy

• Use Bless first. It never fails, so +0 to +6 carries no risk.
• Put Luck items through Soul and the +10 to +13 mixes if you can. Luck adds 25 points.
• Buy a Charm of Luck before a Soul try at +6 or a +10 mix.
• Do not put excellent, ancient or 380 items through the +10 to +13 mixes unless you accept 10 points less.
• Collect all pieces of one ancient set. One piece does nothing, and the full set adds a last bonus group.
• Hunt monsters well above the item's drop level for a higher +level.
• Join the Golden Invasions and events for jewels and boxes. See Invasions, Blood Castle (Season 1), Devil Square (Season 1) and Chaos Castle (Season 2).

Tips

• Luck and Skill are rolled once, at drop time. A jewel cannot add them later.
• Check the item level in the window before a mix. A failed mix loses the item.
• The Chaos Weapon and first-wing mixes need an item at +4 or higher with an option. Keep one for them. See Chaos Machine.
• Repair before a big fight, not after.

See also Jewels and upgrades, Classes and stats, Skills, Moo Gold shop.