Tales of Loki · Game System

Magic Critical Damage

Magic skills don't normally critically hit in Ragnarok Online at all — on Tales of Loki, specific gear can grant them the ability to, with a real chance and a real damage bonus, same as a physical critical.

1What is it?

Two new stats — Magic Critical Rate and Magic Critical Damage — that only exist on specific equipment. With them, any magic skill (bolts, ball spells, AoE spells) has a chance to land as a critical hit, dealing extra damage and showing the same critical-hit visual physical attacks use.

Roll the chance

Every magic hit rolls against your Magic Critical Rate.

Bonus damage

On a success, the hit deals extra damage: a flat +50% baseline, plus your Magic Critical Damage stat.

Visual confirmation

A critical magic hit displays with the same red critical-hit number as a physical crit.

Every hit counted

Multi-hit spells (like Jupitel Thunder) still show every individual hit, each critical.

2The formula

Both numbers come entirely from your equipped gear — nothing grants them by default.

Chance to crit = Magic Critical Rate% Bonus on crit = (50 + Magic Critical Damage)% extra damage

Worked example: 50% Magic Critical Rate, 50% Magic Critical Damage.

Chance per hit
50%
Damage multiplier on crit
×1.50
50% base + 50% bonus = +100% extra damage
1,000 base damage becomes
2,000
on a successful crit
The +50% baseline is always there the moment a magic crit triggers — Magic Critical Damage only adds on top of it. Even with 0% Magic Critical Damage, a magic crit still deals +50% damage.

3How you get it

No default source. No skill, stat, or class passively grants Magic Critical Rate or Magic Critical Damage — both come exclusively from specific equipment or cards that explicitly grant them.

4What it applies to

Any magic-type skill damage — bolts, ball spells, ground AoE spells like Storm Gust or Jupitel Thunder.

Single-hit spellsFire Bolt, Cold Bolt, a single Storm Gust tick — shows one red critical number.
Multi-hit spellsJupitel Thunder and similar — every hit shows individually, each marked critical, instead of collapsing into one number.
Stacks with other magic bonusesApplies on top of Zodiac's Aquarius (Magic Damage), Core System's Overload, and any other magic damage bonus you already have.

5Where to check

@battlestats Shows your current Magic Critical Rate and Magic Critical Damage under Bonuses ~ ATK/DEF.
Loki Manual Book "Battle Stats" in the menu opens the same check.

6Good to know

Base bonus+50% damage on every magic crit, before any gear bonus is added.
Independent from physical critYour LUK-based physical Critical stat does not affect magic crit chance — they're separate systems.
Effect uptimeAlways on once equipped — no activation needed