ragnarok online

I've been meaning to get into the Ragnarok Online thing for a while but I'm a little confused because of the tons of private servers - can anyone give me some ideas as to where I start (i.e. what to download, what evil illegal patches to get, etc.) and what to play on.
I'd like to be on a pretty large server so I'll be able to make friends and such (yay! internet friends!) without having the 1000000x item drops I hear about so often.
pointers? please? I've got the time to play. I think.

Use google, there's a top 200 list or whatever. Check for the rates you want. No more than 20x is really needed, but anything under 5x is brain damaging. :P

i play on euRO, with 1x drops/exp and i get many millions of zeny and items and a level higher than 30 ~_~
pServers suck

If you want to get the real feeling of playing the game start on the official servers. I played the game for over 3 years(alpha,beta,and everything that came after) and private servers suck in so many ways in comparison. Even the best p.servers aren't fun for very long but they make a nice distraction if can't get on the real deal.

Thanks for the help.  sage, and all that.

Official servers suck. Why? Because 0.01% drops take away all possible pleasure from the game. One rare per 10 000 monsters means a LONG time to play to get your basic cards which are essential for a good char (and easy, FUN leveling).

The problem with private servers is that they have one or more of the following problems;
1. eAthana based, meaning an emulator is running it. It's pretty good by now, but still not the real thing. Aegis is a stolen software from Gravity, the real thing. Problem is, it's outdated since nobody has stolen new zones in ages. Outdated Aegis makes many go for Athena since it gets updates.
2. Have insanely high exp/drops. Just forget all servers with more than 20x exp rates, except for testing purposes. However, item drops at 20x is still 0.2% rare drops, 500 kills per rare on average. I'd personally prefer 3x exp, 3x job, 50x items. That means you'll have good time leveling, actually seeing the exp gauge fill up up to level 80 or so. Also, a rare per 200 kills is nice. It doesn't get tedicious to collect your basic gear. For example Mages, 4s Rod, 4x Fabre/Andre Larva, 1s Jacket, Pupa/Roda Card is very basic and would take 1400 monster kills which you can do while leveling normally. Compare to 70 000 kills on stuff that give no exp on official servers and cry.
3. Have too low population. The less population, the less chances of finding parties (and these so called internet-friends). Also, it means you can't buy what you want since people don't have extra stuff. That's the one thing good on official servers - with thousands of players, EVERYTHING is for sale. For a price. Which you can't get without finding one GOOD 0.01% drop, have fun with that.

In summary: You can use high rate private server to learn the game. Move to lower exp servers after that, they have much better communities since getting to high level (not to mention max) actually takes time. Try to find one that has higher item drops though, so that you won't despair getting even basic gear (not to mention higher end gear).

My God, it's Slashley! Hah, the bRO forums got pretty boring after they banned you (well, it was going down the toilet already anyway). A lot of people are jumping ship. Even ekvin ran away...

Where'd you go to next?

On topic: it really helps if you fall in with a skilled guild at the beginning. This can be quite hard to do unless you already have friends elsewhere. Otherwise you'll probably want to party as much as possible.

As for the software, most people download the official game from Gravity, grab sakray, then get a hexed exe. A lot of the larger servers will already have prepared game downloads though, so it shouldn't be necessary to do it manually unless you want to play on several different servers.

Offtopic:
I didn't go anywhere after that. I intented to go to gRO with Ching, but 2x/2x/3x rates make me cry. I spent an entire day looking for the forementioned equip and didn't find one rare. Har har, no thanks. I don't have the time to spend a week just for preparation for leveling. Leveling is fun to some content... but only with gear. I told Ching I'd play if he'll get me the gear, and he was like, "no" :}
So for now, no server for me. A break will do me good. I'm sure once my head has rested it'll start coming up with new builds to try out constantly, then I'll have to pick some server to test the builds out.

I still read bRO forums, hell, you can probably guess who I am in there. It's not like the current GMs even know their playerbase so they apparently haven't spotted me ban evading. snicker
And these people claim they'll make a whole new RO experience? Right. Sure they will. I'll check it out once they're done (late Jan? Fat chance!) and pass final judgement to it then.

Liralen really fucked up there. I know that I at least have no motivation to work on my builds because of the wipe, but we both know that it's not going to happen in January (especially when the only productive GM runs away). I'm probably not the only one who thinks like this, ergo, an even deader server. --

I've playde the game until the first closed (and no more free of charge) "beta" came out. WTF I was supposed to pay for an incomplete game? Well, it has been nice to a point, espacially the possibility of chatting peeps anytime caused a particiular insomnia, but RO failed at motivating me for a longer time.

RO beta sucked. I remember there weren't even cards back then, not to mention second classes. Essential parts of the game now.

As for "pay for beta", hell, even Blizzard does that. At least here. I didn't pay for RO beta back then, I sure as hell won't pay for WoW beta now.

Off topic:
I guess when Ryu Sawatari leave Level Up!, bRO don't have more any chance to be sucessful.
Period.

Pfft, all mmorpg's are pay for beta. They all want to release their games quickly to earn money and hang in the competition with the other gaming companies, and the players are the ones to suffer, except for those that finds the sweet hacks and abuses.
Anyways, RO was fun for some time but really it does get too linear after you go up in levels. I mean killing the toughest boss in any mmorpg with a group of 2 - 3 players is just sad, very sad.

I wish you luck in killing the bosses with 2-3 players now, the bosses got insane beefs.
I personally liked the old bosses. Bosses like in L2 are only for the most hardcore players with good guilds... I don't have the time for that shit.

I saw two people kill the amatsu boss before i quit, that sammurai guy. one FS and one archer.
As long as you have one FS, someone to clean up the minions and someone to whack away at the boss while the FS gives him barrier and stuff is pretty much all you need.

Even after the update? From what I've heard, the bosses now do skills which kill FS regardless of what level, gear and buffs he has (they have puny HP when compared to Knights and Crusaders). That's the way I think it should be, but I was hoping they would've nerfed FS some other way... oh well.

Amatsu wasn't the last MVP buff, and the samurai MVP is the most pathetic MVP ever. Try real MVP's, like Baphomet.

Golden Theifbug is easily owned, Phreeoni also, Garm too, Stormy, Maya... Simply that game is too easy.

it always depends on how much time you are going to spend for that Game. I am not the real hardcore player (only something near to it) and i was happy when i killed GTB or Phree the first time...

You can always get a job and actually pay for it.

I do.

just get on DeltaAnime (mIRC server) and /list ro

You will get quite a few servers there...

oooh, hey Slashly and dmp!

i'm SO not playing after bRO wipes, but i heard ching, botzu and the rest of the fellas at Silent Illusion are trying ROSE online atm.

We'll see what happens. >.>;

>>1
Privservs suck, smell and give you Aids.


On to the topic: I wub RO. <3 q.q

iRO/kRO is extremely boring to me.  I hate fighting the same monster for hours on end and earn .02% EXP but that's just me :P I like private servers mucho better.

go go pservers <3 negRO

ragnarok online is the best mmorpg imo

SonicRO is a good private server with rates that are not too high, but not too low either. theres nearly 200 people on it too. Give that one a try.

why would you want to play on a server that might go out of business anytime. p.servers not licensed by gravity is illegal and will be sued. get ready to lose all your stuff please.

and if you are on the pservers just for a quick ride to99, then why not run your own server? whats the point you play for 2 days you are 99 and what you going to do?

>>29
Some private servers have been around for many months, even years.

One reason for playing on them is for the modified rates. Some people go nuts and make the rates too high, but the rates on iRO are a joke. Some of us do have lives, you know? What happens if you want to make a high priest or similar class? On iRO, anyone who reaches lvl90 with a normal class is probably some loser living in their parent's basement.

Not that pservs are perfect. Most of them are poor, and the populations are vastly smaller even on the good ones.

>>29
You're an over-moralistic jizzmop.  While you do make some good points (you get to 99 in two days, what then?), it's all overshadowed by your preaching about ethics and principles.  OMG YOU GUYS THOSE SERVERS ARE ILLEGAL! THEY WILL GET SUED!  ALSO, I NEVER DOWNLOAD STUFF OFF OF BITTORRENT, NOT MUSIC OR MOVIES, CUZ THAT IS ILLEGAL AND UNETHICAL, YOU ARE GOING TO STrAIGHT TO HELL.

Yeah, okay buckaroo.

actually it really depends what kind of server is being run, eAthena is a privately developed emulator, and is perfectly legal as far as I've ever seen, and besides that there's waay too many servers out there for Gravity to do anything about.  If you want a good private server (that's been around for years) try Pillows.  http://pillows.dk/ragnarok/ this page will get you up and running with all the downloads and patches, and the server is run by good people with a lot of players on at one time.

eA is on very thin ice legally. Not that anyone here gives a shit, but don't pretend it's something it isn't.

eathena sucks, use japan athena!

There's nothing wrong with eAthena, but it does not help that the devs seem to be a pack of idiots. Their concern isn't so much stability as it is featuritis. What's the point of a fancy server if it crashes?

I've spoken to some of them, and I wasn't impressed. Me and a friend have considered helping them stabilize it, but with the attitude they have there would only be a clash of personalities. There's no point fixing something that'll only be broken because some kid thinks some silly feature that nobody will ever use is "kewl".

thats why jathena is better cuz it never crash

I'm personally for Fusion, however jAthena is pretty damn good too.

As for private servers, I prefer a low rate to keep it fun, and I use a high rate server to test out stat/skill builds.

There was a server I found once called BrightRO...their rates were so ungodly high that your base level went from 1 to 47 after whacking a poring. Needless to say I wasn't on that server for much longer.

If anyone of you whant to try the shitiest server ever try VanRo
http://www.vanro.info/
abusive russian players, noob killing, insane assasins(breaker to death) ,crazy stats 300 all max job level 120
That server made me hate ragnarok online

>35
Age.
>36
It crashes more than win95.

If you play on a server with a multiplier higher than two and consider the game a challenge, you need to go back to runescape or diablo II, or whichever other hellish reality you came from.

>>39
lol, you prolly using a FAKE JATH.

i've been using jath for years and it never crash.

One thing I find annoying is that a lot of designers (and players) consider a treadmill "challenging".

It's not. It's fucking boring.

I've played RO a fair bit, and I still sometimes play it, but I have no illusions about the quality. Gravity made a complete mess of the gameplay. RO is pure treadmill, and there is little incentive to go out except to chase the next level-up. Unfortunately, the gameplay mechanics are sufficiently dull and inflexible that there isn't anything else to do, except perhaps trading.

Oh, I can feel the excitement there...

"Ragnarok online, the cute-avatar-with-tons-of-hats chatting game." Either you're too bored to break your ass to level up for the nth time in 2 weeks, or you're on a private servers and the rates present 0 challenge. In either case you will be sitting in a popular town chatting with your friends and watching the drama unfold. I love RO for the novelty, but as others have said, it has no depth.

It would help if RO didn't have such a ridiculously short text limit. Even in chatting I bump up against it all the time, let alone anything more involved. It doesn't even include anything like "/me".

It's as if Gravity intentionally broke everything to ensure RO is useless for anything.

So, anyone know site to download from that can beat 10 kb/s? Downloading more than half a gig at that rate is seizure inducing... need more speed....

I got it off a torrent. Is that where you're getting it too?

>>17

screw bapho, a MVP is only as hard as his mob and baphomet jr aren't exactly a challenge.  I've taken down bapho with a FS and a Clown, try doing that with incantation samurai who summons 7 tengu every few seconds.

Avoid the gamer sites. I tried downloading from there because it was faster, and got screwed over because they didn't bother to update to the new client. Just start the download before you go to bed.

RO is not fun. Avoid. I didn't even get addicted to it. I tried all sorts of servers. Fanbase is nice for the most part, rule-abiding and what-not. They don't talk, though. Nobody talks. Boring.

some people spam me here on this server x_x

Whats the diff 'tween 1228 and 0329? Should I get them both cuz the free one I play on is using just 1228.

0329 is the current version (last I checked).  1228 is from... well, December 28th.

>>51
I was meaning if they were cross-compatible or something. Being able to get on a 1228 if I have the 0329.

Ofcourse you can go on a server running an older version if you have the newest client.

That is, as long as the server isn't refusing connections from clients using a different protocol. But you wont know untill you try.

This Topic won't die.  Eh, try afRO if you're bored, afro.rougelabs.com or something.  Where I'm at now.  GMs are somewhat fun, 10/10/20 server.

>>53
thx for explaining.

>>54
roger wilco

>>55
anyway I should add I know nothing regarding online-related materials so that's why I did not know if it worked or not. my tech knowledge is very obsolete.

Try The KKRO server i am using it now and i love it there are 2 servers to pic from asgard and niflheim (the names are only ment to be opposites)one is a standard rate server the other is a high rate server. the GMs are kookiekrak,kitty,and 2 others. They all enjoy summoning random monsters in the starting area of prontera. Also since we use the korean version we are ahead of the english. we already have the taikwondo class. Also they enjoy wirinting codes so that things are a little easier.such as monster feading, and monster taming.

sorry forgot webpage www.kkro.net

Posting in a helluva old thread.

This game blows, period...

The graphics suck (and yes, I am an anime fan =P), the quests suck unless you're will to spend countless hours for a stupid headgear and it's to pvp and gvg oriented, unlike Guild Wars.

RO has quests? When did this happen. I've played since alpha and I have never seen a quest in this game.

And no, the stupid get item for this headgear is not a quest.

>>61
RO has loads of quests, most people are too busy hammering seals/baths all day to actually play the game

And RO is pretty unbalanced in terms of pvp :(

I play on DevilishRO. It's an med-high rate server with WoE and lots of awesome events.

Look you guys here is how it goes down...
Private servers aims to let players experience things that you dont normally do in Official servers. i really compromises the basic concept of Level up�

Anyway...according to my point of view this servers do not possess license and GMs that are running these servers are just crazy-ass motherfuckers who wanna experience banning us honest players and shit and creating their own fucked up,impossible to make items which even us players would wonder of how other players get to hold to those shit..

Thats because some GMs are power abusive and tend use their GMnastical powers in creating items,banning people,broadcasting useless shit and pretending to be Goddamn celebrities in an attempt of acquiring respect and as the homies say it "Lovin" from us players..

Look it aint bad to play this server and well know this shit is Illegal but that doesnt make it evil(-_-)

the reason you people wrote this shit is because you experienced on playing this games and by that process and possibly enjoyed the game and probably some of you fucked up motherfuckers are banned or outcasted in some servers and are taking out your anger in this forum....

10 Commandments in playing P. Servers(I created)

1.)Try to be friendly..especially in PK servers
2.)dont be an asshole and kill noobs cause thats where the shit starts.
3.)dont do any weak ass schemes like modifying the system settings.
4.)Make friends and have fun cause thats why its created.
5.)When talking to a GM..dont try to act cool and smarty in the hope of getting close to the GM and possibly thinking that the GM will consider in converting your account into a GM account.
6.)Always withdraw your anger when someone pisses you off cause all P.Servers..this shit is normal and that what makes it interesting...The competition
7.)Know your caliber and P. Servers are supposed to let you test your builds or make friend and by saying "know your caliber" means know you place..when someone stronger..dont go around cursing cause your doing nothing but compounding your problems.
8.)Always make suggestions and comments when meeting a GM even if its confidential shit or offensive remarks about the server because your a player and by that have a right to complain not because your not paying for the server's maintenance but you have the right to complain because without the complaint of players, the server isnt gonna grow because not all GM's know the drawbacks and mistakes that they might have made in their server
9.)Always make sure you create a character that you seriously give attention because you dont want to go around creating all players cause their all good looking and you think they inflict monstrous damage when used.
10.)Have fun, dont be a loser,dont let the GM or players disrespect you,be strong,say no to racist,kick their ass in PVP,reign supreme in WoE.

Email me :eternalflint98@gawab.com

PvP is very unbalanced no matter how well geared someone is

tl;dr

Here, let me summarize RO for you:

treadmill

Any questions?

>>64
so wheres the fun?

I just started playing this game yesterday, and I have to say, it's nowhere near as good as the 2D art that glorifies it.

I love RO.

Fighting spam, one bump at a time!