Speed

Speed refers to the rate at which a player moves. A player's speed depends on many factors, such as the entity's base speed, any items or effects that entity is using, and the target tile's speed. The actual movement speed of characters, however, can only be one of a few discrete values depending on the Speed Breakpoints it reaches.

Every entity that moves autonomously has a base speed value. Creatures and NPCs have base speed values that are fixed. Player characters have a base speed value that is dependent upon the level of the player.

Certain items, mounts, spells and effects will add or take speed from an entity, which works separate to the base speed value. The base speed value does not change, only the computed speed value.

The current character's speed, as well as the base speed and speed gained or lost by items, mounts, spells and effects can be seen in the Skills Window.

Prior to Update 9.8, players had speed values that were double what they are now. At some point, speed values were stored for each player as well as maximum mana and health, which meant that changes to the system would not be reflected across older characters. This was only an issue for speed in one instance where characters older than the creation of Nova would be slower than other characters by 10 levels. On February 14, 2006, CipSoft made the old characters equal to the new ones.

Optimizing System Settings

Walking with the arrow keys on the keyboard works a lot better after increasing the repeat rate and reducing the repeat delay of keystrokes. In MS Windows this can be changed in Control Panel → Keyboard.

Formula

Main article: Formula

Player Speed:

$ s = 109 + L\, $

Where:

• L is the player's level.

Speed Bonuses

Speed bonuses can be provided by equipment, spells, and mounts and are either permanent or temporary. All of the following provides some sort of speed bonus.

Equipment

Helmets

Name		Arm	Weight	Attributes	Resist	Imbuing Slots	Required Level	Required Vocation	Dropped By
Crest of the Deep Seas		7	45.00	speed +5	ice +5%		80		Seacrest Serpent
Tiara of Power		7	11.50	faster Regeneration, speed +20	energy +8%		100	sorcerers and druids	Anomaly Eradicator Outburst Realityquake Rupture World Devourer
Werewolf Helmet		9	25.00	speed +15			100		Feroxa

Armors

Name		Arm	Weight	Attributes	Resist	Imbuing Slots	Required Level	Required Vocation	Dropped By
Elite Draken Mail		15	120.00	speed +10		2	100	knights and paladins	Draken Elite Paiz the Pauperizer
Prismatic Armor		15	79.00	speed +15	physical +5%	1	120	knights and paladins	This item is not dropped by any creatures.
Swan Feather Cloak		12	4.00	speed +10	energy +12%, earth +12%		60		This item is not dropped by any creatures.
Zaoan Armor		13	95.50	speed +10			50	knights and paladins	Battlemaster Zunzu Draken Abomination Draken Elite Draken Warmaster Ethershreck Fazzrah Ghastly Dragon Hatebreeder Lizard Chosen Lizard Gate Guardian Lizard High Guard Lizard Legionnaire Lizard Zaogun Paiz the Pauperizer

Legs

Name		Arm	Weight	Attributes	Resist	Imbuing Slots	Required Level	Required Vocation	Dropped By
Alloy Legs		6	45.00	speed +10			60		Control Tower Metal Gargoyle
Grasshopper Legs		7	32.00	speed +10			75		Crawler Spitter The Sandking Waspoid

Boots

Name		Arm	Weight	Attributes	Resist	Imbuing Slots	Required Level	Required Vocation	Dropped By
Badger Boots		2	12.00	speed +10		1	60		Feroxa Feroxa (Gloom Wolf) Sharpclaw The Baron from Below Werebadger
Boots of Haste		0	7.50	speed +20		1			Black Knight Blood Hand Blood Priest Broken Shaper Enfeebled Silencer Feroxa Ferumbras Golgordan Hand of Cursed Fate Hellgorak Hydra King Zelos Latrivan Lloyd Lokathmor Mad Mage Madareth Morgaroth Necromancer Necropharus Nightmare Nightstalker Nymph Omruc Orshabaal Raging Mage Shadow Pupil Silencer Swan Maiden Terofar The Welter Tormentor Ushuriel Vampire Bride Yakchal Zugurosh Zushuka
Cobra Boots		3	9.00	speed +10	physical +6%	1	220	knights	Guard Captain Quaid Ugly Monster
Draken Boots		3	25.00	speed +15		1	80	knights and paladins	Draken Abomination Draken Elite Soul of Dragonking Zyrtarch
Fish Tail (Equipped)		0	2.50	speed +300					This item is not dropped by any creatures.
Oriental Shoes		2	5.00	speed +15		1	80	sorcerers and druids	Dawnfire Asura Frost Flower Asura Midnight Asura Ravennous Hunger The Blazing Rose The Flaming Orchid True Dawnfire Asura True Frost Flower Asura True Midnight Asura
Prismatic Boots		3	18.00	speed +15	death +3%	1	150	paladins	This item is not dropped by any creatures.
Void Boots		2	15.00	faster Regeneration, speed +30	energy +10%		150		Anomaly Eradicator Outburst Realityquake Rupture World Devourer
Winged Boots		2	12.00	speed +15, distance fighting +1	earth +7%	1	220	paladins	Urmahlullu the Weakened Bragrumol Xogixath
Zaoan Shoes		1	7.00	speed +5		1			Battlemaster Zunzu Draken Spellweaver Draken Warmaster Ethershreck Fazzrah Flamecaller Zazrak Ghastly Dragon Hatebreeder Lizard Chosen Lizard Dragon Priest Lizard Gate Guardian Lizard High Guard Lizard Legionnaire Lizard Zaogun The Voice of Ruin

Shields

Name		Arm	Weight	Attributes	Resist	Imbuing Slots	Required Level	Required Vocation	Dropped By
Sparking Rainbow Shield			69.00	speed +10			100	knights	This item is not dropped by any creatures.

Rings

Name		Arm	Weight	Attributes	Resist	Duration	Charges	Required Level	Required Vocation	Dropped By
Time Ring			0.90	speed +30		10 minutes				Adept of the Cult Armadile Chizzoron the Distorter Crystal Spider Darkfang Giant Spider Hemming Hide Lucifuga Aranea Madareth Mamma Longlegs Renegade Quara Pincher Spitter Tarantula Thalas The Bloodweb The Old Widow Tremor Worm Werebear Werewolf Zamulosh

Amulets and Necklaces

Name		Arm	Weight	Attributes	Resist	Imbuing Slots	Required Level	Required Vocation	Dropped By
Beetle Necklace			8.20	speed +2					Lancer Beetle Orclops Doomhauler The Blightfather
Shrunken Head Necklace			5.50	speed +10			150		The Welter

Consumables

Name		Attributes	Weight	Dropped By
Demonic Candy Ball			9.50	This item is not dropped by any creatures.
Filled Jalapeno Peppers			6.50	This item is not dropped by any creatures.

Spells

Note: for the time being, this section uses an outdated formula (pre-9.8), where unmodified speed is double what it is today.

• Haste (Utani Hur) is a spell that will raise your speed. Your speed will change to your unmodified speed (not including Boots of Haste or Time Ring) * 1.3 - 24 for about 30 seconds.

• Strong Haste (Utani Gran Hur) is a spell that will also raise your speed, but it will raise it more so than the regular haste spell. Your speed will change to your unmodified speed (not including Boots of Haste or Time Ring) * 1.7 - 56 for about 20 seconds.

• Charge (Utani Tempo Hur) is a spell that will increase a knight's speed by 90% of his/her basic, unmodified speed for 5 seconds (speed * 1.9)

• Swift Foot (Utamo Tempo San) is a spell that will increase a paladin's speed by 80% of his/her basic, unmodified speed for 10 seconds, however, he/she won't be able to attack or cast any attack spells during that time (speed * 1.8)

Mounts

Mounts provide a passive, 10-level boost to speed.