Novice

The Novice is where every Human character begins. In the intro, the Novice sails towards Izlude, either to learn about the jobs it could take or on the way to sign up for adventure in Prontera, and a storm wrecks the ship. All stats start at 1, and only hair style and hair colour can be chosen.

A Novice cannot do much yet, but it has two comforts: it loses no experience when it dies, and it comes back with 50% of its HP. It can use daggers and one-handed swords.

Icon	Skill	Effect
	Basic Skill (passive, 9 levels)	Unlocks the basic actions, step by step (table below)
	First Aid (quest skill)	Spends 3 SP to heal 5 HP
	Play Dead (quest skill)	Lie down as if dead; players and monsters cannot hurt you

You need all 9 points in Basic Skill to change jobs. Each level opens one more action:

After the shipwreck you reach Izlude. The Royal Criatura Academy in the north of town teaches the game, explains the classes and gives free beginner gear; its quests also get you to job level 10. More newbie quests are spread around Izlude and the Academy, and some can be kept for later to earn easy EXP in your first job.

• Register with the Academy receptionist: you get some EXP, 300 Novice Potions, Novice equipment and a hair coupon.
• Prof. Oldman sends you around the school: to the instructors, to a book in the library, and to the Therapist.
• Upstairs, the Academy Principal gives 100 Novice Potions, 50 Novice Fly Wings, and 20 tickets each for Kafra storage and Kafra transport.
• Optional: Instructor Argos teaches Play Dead; wait about 20 seconds and talk to him again.
• At job level 10, talk to a class trainer to change jobs.

At job level 10 a Novice can become one of the six primary first classes or one of the expanded classes. The Super Novice also needs base level 45. The whole tree is in the Class Overview.

Changing to any other first class takes only minutes, but a future Super Novice must reach base level 45 as a Novice. The iRO Wiki suggests fighting one monster at a time with fast auto-attacks, picking passive targets such as Willow or Bigfoot, and using Play Dead if a monster is too strong. Put points mainly into STR (attack) and AGI (attack speed and dodge), adding DEX for accuracy. If you want a different Super Novice build later, a Beginner Stat & Skill Reset NPC gives a free reset before the change.