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 I personally use this tool whenever I'm testing new gear combinations or trying to determine whether it's worth sacrificing one stat for another. It's a great way to verify that your build is performing exactly as you expect before investing in expensive upgrades.
+== '''Stats & Traits''' ==
+One of the greatest strengths of a Full Support Cardinal is how flexible the class is. There isn't a single "correct" stat distribution, your build should reflect your goals, available equipment, and the content you primarily play.
+Rather than providing an exact stat build, I'll explain what each stat offers and how I '''personally''' prioritize them.
+<big>'''Base Stats'''</big>
+With the increased level cap, the maximum value for each base stat is 130, allowing much more flexibility than pre-Renewal Mechanics.
+<big>'''STR'''</big>
+STR is generally a low-priority stat for Full Support Cardinals.
+Each point provides:
+* +30 Weight Limit
+While it doesn't directly improve your support capabilities, the additional carrying capacity is useful for bringing extra consumables, Blue Potions, Yggdrasil items, and loot during long farming sessions or extended instance runs.
+<big>'''AGI'''</big>
+AGI becomes increasingly valuable as your build progresses.
+Each point provides:
+* +1 FLEE
+* Increased ASPD
+* Every 5 AGI grants +1 Soft DEF
+The primary reason to invest in AGI is Attack Speed (ASPD). Higher ASPD reduces skill animation delay, allowing your healing, buffs, and utility skills to feel significantly smoother once your Cast Time and After Cast Delay have already been optimized.
+<big>'''VIT'''</big>
+VIT is one of the most important defensive stats for a Cardinal.
+Each point provides:
+* +1% Max HP
+* +2% HP Healing Item effectiveness
+* +1% resistance to several status effects
+* Every 2 VIT grants +1 Soft DEF
+* Every 5 VIT grants +1 Soft MDEF and +1 HP Recovery Rate
+Higher HP greatly improves your survivability and synergizes extremely well with **Mediale Votum**, whose healing scales with the target's maximum HP.
+<big>'''INT'''</big>
+INT is one of your core stats.
+Each point provides:
+* +1% Max SP
+* +1% SP Healing Item effectiveness
+* Reduced Variable Cast Time
+* Every 2 INT grants +1 Soft MDEF
+* Every 6 INT grants +1 SP Recovery Rate
+INT is essential for reducing Variable Cast Time during the early and mid game while also increasing your SP pool and sustain.
+<big>'''DEX'''</big>
+DEX is another core stat for Cardinals.
+Each point provides:
+* +1 HIT
+* Reduced Variable Cast Time
+* Increased ASPD
+* Every 5 DEX grants +1 Soft MDEF
+During the early and mid game, you'll likely invest heavily into DEX to achieve instant Variable Cast Time through stats.
+Once your endgame equipment provides enough VCT Reduction, you can reduce your DEX and invest those points elsewhere. (Most importantly on AGI)
+<big>'''LUK'''</big>
+LUK is generally a low-priority stat for a Full Support Cardinal at the start, but it becomes a valuable quality-of-life investment once your core build is complete.
+Each point provides:
+* +0.3% Critical Rate
+* Resistance to several status effects '''(Most Important)'''
+* Every 5 LUK grants +1 FLEE and +1% Anti-Critical Rate
+* Every 10 LUK grants +1 Perfect Dodge
+One of the biggest benefits of LUK is that reaching 100 LUK grants a significant amount of resistance and in some cases immunity to various status ailments, making it a great defensive option
+That said, I only recommend investing into LUK after you've already reached comfortable amounts of Variable Cast Time Reduction (VCT), Fixed Cast Time Reduction (FCT), and Attack Speed (ASPD). Those three stats have a much greater impact on your performance as a Full Support Cardinal, while LUK serves as an excellent luxury stat once your core requirements have been met.
+'''(Some endgame content, such as Demon God (Hard) and Tower of Trials, bypass LUK-based status resistance. For these, you'll need status immunity cards or Immunity Shadow Gear. I'll cover the recommended setups for these instances later in the guide.)'''
+== Hard Defense / Soft Defense ==
+<big>'''Hard Def / Hard MDef'''</big>
+Renewal separates defense into two different systems. Hard DEF / Hard MDEF
+Hard DEF and Hard MDEF reduce incoming damage by a percentage.
+Unlike older versions of Ragnarok, these values no longer cap at 100 and instead have diminishing returns. '''The more you have, the less effective each additional point becomes.
+'''
+'''For example, 200 HardDEF gives about 25% damage reduction, and 400 HardDEF gives about 40% damage reduction.'''
+'''As for MDEF, 20 HardMDEF gives about 15% damage reduction, and 40 HardMDEF gives about 25% damage reduction.'''
+<big>'''Soft DEF / Soft MDEF'''</big>
+Soft DEF and Soft MDEF reduce damage by a flat amount after Hard DEF/MDEF calculations.
+These primarily come from:
+* **VIT → Soft DEF**
+* **INT → Soft MDEF**
+* Smaller bonuses from AGI and DEX
+For Cardinals, both defensive systems are valuable since your primary objective is staying alive to support your party.
+<big>'''Traits'''</big>
+Once you reach **Level 200**, you'll begin earning **Trait Points** instead of additional Base Stat points.
+Unlike Base Stats, every Trait Point always costs exactly one point to invest.
+<big>'''STA (Stamina)'''</big>
+STA increases '''Physical Resistance (RES)'''.
+Each point provides:
+* +1 RES
+Every 3 STA provides an additional:
+* +5 RES
+This is your primary Trait for reducing incoming physical damage.
+Before calculating physical defense, it reduces normal physical damage taken by %.
+'''Note: Resist Penetration effects are limited to 50%.'''
+<big>'''WIS (Wisdom)'''</big>
+WIS increases '''Magic Resistance (MRES)'''.
+Each point provides:
+* +1 MRES
+Every 3 WIS provides an additional:
+* +5 MRES
+Before calculating the magic defense, it reduces the normal magic damage received by %.
+'''Note: Magic Resist Penetration effects are limited to 50%.
+'''
+<big>'''CRT (Creative)'''</big>
+CRT increases **Heal Plus (H.PLUS)**.
+Each point provides:
+* +1 H.PLUS
+Every point of H.PLUS increases your final healing after all other healing modifiers have been applied.
+CRT should generally be invested in only after you've maximized both WIS and STA. Once you've reached a comfortable level of survivability, CRT becomes an excellent way to further improve your support capabilities by increasing Heal Plus (H.Plus). Keep in mind that from the 4st Class skills {{#skill:5280}} is the only one affected by H.PLUS ({{#skill:5269}} is Not affected)
+<big>'''Recommended Trait Priority'''</big>
+For most Full Support Cardinals, I recommend prioritizing Traits in the following order:
+. STA – Physical Resistance (110)
+. WIS – Magic Resistance (110)
+. CRT – Heal Plus (110)
+As always, feel free to adjust these priorities based on your equipment, party composition, and the type of content you enjoy the most.