Elements

General Information

Every person and monster in Ragnarok Online has its own element. The element something is defines its weaknesses and strengths against skills/other elements. The term is often used interchangeably with Property or Attribute.

There are ten different elements:

• Neutral
• Water
• Earth
• Fire
• Wind
• Poison
• Holy
• Shadow (Dark)
• Ghost
• Undead

Some attacks, such as the melee attacks of monsters, have no element and are completely unaffected by elemental modifiers. Such attacks are referred to as being non-elemental.

Elements can be grouped into two types: attacking and defending. Defending elements are separated into four levels; the resistances and weaknesses of a defending element are amplified relative to its level. Attacking elements are not separated into levels.

Players have both an attacking and defending element, which are both naturally Neutral, but can be changed by equipping certain weapons and armor, using certain skills or items, or compounding certain cards. A player's defending element is always Level 1.

Monsters have only a defending element, but can inflict elemental attacks using skills.

Ragnarok+ updated the elemental attribute table slightly, to make it feel more natural.

In particular, Earth Element used to do 50% damage against Earth Level 2 mob, instead of 0%. Compared to all other core elements (water, earth, fire, wind), this was a weird exception to the rule. The same happened for Earth doing -25% to Earth Level 4, instead of -50% like all other core elements. Especially considering that Level 1 and Level 3 Earth behave like all the other elements. This behavior has been aligned.

Level 1

Mob Element → Attacker ↓	neutral	water	earth	fire	wind	poison	holy	dark	ghost	undead
neutral	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	25	100
water	100	25	100	150	50	100	75	100	100	100
earth	100	100	25	50	150	100	75	100	100	100
fire	100	50	150	25	100	100	75	100	100	125
wind	100	175	50	100	25	100	75	100	100	100
poison	100	100	125	125	125	0	75	50	100	-25
holy	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	125	100	150
dark	100	100	100	100	100	50	125	0	100	-25
ghost	25	100	100	100	100	100	75	75	125	100
undead	100	100	100	100	100	50	100	0	100	0

Level 2

Mob Element → Attacker ↓	neutral	water	earth	fire	wind	poison	holy	dark	ghost	undead
neutral	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	25	100
water	100	0	100	175	25	100	50	75	100	100
earth	100	100	0	25	175	100	50	75	100	100
fire	100	25	175	0	100	100	50	75	100	150
wind	100	175	25	100	0	100	50	75	100	100
poison	100	75	125	125	125	0	50	25	75	-50
holy	100	100	100	100	100	100	-25	150	100	175
dark	100	100	100	100	100	25	150	-25	100	-50
ghost	0	75	75	75	75	75	50	50	150	125
undead	100	75	75	75	75	25	125	0	100	0

Level 3

Mob Element → Attacker ↓	neutral	water	earth	fire	wind	poison	holy	dark	ghost	undead
neutral	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	100
water	100	-25	100	200	0	100	25	50	100	125
earth	100	100	-25	0	200	100	25	50	100	75
fire	100	0	200	-25	100	100	25	50	100	175
wind	100	200	0	100	-25	100	25	50	100	100
poison	100	50	100	100	100	0	25	0	50	-75
holy	100	100	100	100	100	125	-50	175	100	200
dark	100	100	100	100	100	0	175	-50	100	-75
ghost	0	50	50	50	50	50	25	25	175	150
undead	100	50	50	50	50	0	150	0	100	0

Level 4

Mob Element → Attacker ↓	neutral	water	earth	fire	wind	poison	holy	dark	ghost	undead
neutral	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	100
water	100	-50	100	200	0	75	0	25	100	150
earth	100	100	-50	0	200	75	0	25	100	50
fire	100	0	200	-50	100	75	0	25	100	200
wind	100	200	0	100	-50	75	0	25	100	100
poison	100	25	75	75	75	0	0	-25	25	-100
holy	100	75	75	75	75	125	-100	200	100	200
dark	100	75	75	75	75	-25	200	-100	100	-100
ghost	0	25	25	25	25	25	0	0	200	175
undead	100	25	25	25	25	-25	175	0	100	0