Slaying and defeating adversaries in combat and completing Quests do not only provide you with Fame, they also grant you PeP; Personal Experience Points, a way of defining your combat-experience besides sheer player skill. PeP is tracked in the PeP Sphere (smaller one) underneath the Fame Sphere (bigger one) in your Player Character Status.
Just like gaining enough Fame raises your Fame Level, gaining enough PeP raises your PeP Rank (to a maximum of 5). With each rank you gain you will enhance certain aspects of your Player Character. They enhance your Attributes and shift your default Base Level for State Ranks of all three State Bars up by one rank. While the first option will enhance the effectiveness of your associated Skill and Affinities, the second option will also enhance your Movement Speed, Attack Speed and various forms of dealt Damage. Each rank influences your Player Character as follows:
• PeP Rank 0 – No effects.
• PeP Rank 1 – Raise all Attributes by 1 and gain 1 additional rank Base Level
• PeP Rank 2 – Raise all Attributes by 2
• PeP Rank 3 – Raise all Attributes by 4 and gain 1 additional rank Base Level
• PeP Rank 4 – Raise all Attributes by 7
• PeP Rank 5 – Raise all Attributes by 11 and gain 1 additional rank Base Level
Unlike Fame Levels you can actually lose PeP Ranks. Each time your Character dies, it will suffer a blow to its self-esteem and lose a complete PeP Rank worth of PeP; effectively lowering your PeP Rank by one. Note that you can never have fewer than 0 PeP and a PeP Rank of 0.
For example, dying with PeP Rank 2 with 30% into Rank 3, will make the character PeP Rank 1 with 30% to Rank 2.
