Look at all these WoE posts… Lie down, try not to cry, cry a lot ;_; dem feels
Let the nostalgia begin…
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It really did have the best music didn’t it…
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Well, I could talk about that game and personal experiences for hours…
It would begin with alot of nostalgia, discovering my first MMORPG at the time you had to hear the song of your internet dialing, begining this kind of game as a novice, when you experience your first monster killed, your first death (yeah you died at the first levels :p) fearing for my life anytime I saw a new unknown monster… Discovering that you had to drag your spells again on your shortcut bar once you level them (Using bash lv 1 until level 40, the joy.)
Then I would talk about the servers with 1:1:1 rates, when the best player was level 65 and you farmed the hell to reach your second class (and metalings didn’t even exist :o). Each couple of days, new areas for farming were discovered, people were forming groups and slaughtering monsters, more and more powerful…
Then I would try to count how many hours or days I spent in the capital, only chatting with people about all and everything, showing off my new 1-week farmed hat…
Then all the WoE experiences, how this game mode is IMO one of the best PvP mode ever, how it allowed to do what everyone wants to do nowadays in their games : fighting alongside with your guildmates to destroy other guilds, defending your castle or attacking theirs, with everyone having a role in the fight… The countless Asuras, Berserks that tore my opponents appart, and how idiotic I looked once oom or dispelled…
And the maps, the farm… Where you kill monsters for loot and not for xp… why don’t we see this anymore? Any monster, from the ant eggs to the great MvPs, trhough the thara frogs or the heavy Abbey monsters, everyone had some things to drop for you, and you focused on that and not how easy they were to kill…
Every of this aspect with effect sounds I still hear, the sound of sword attacks, of the Berzerk activation, of the heals…
Is it because it’s my first game? Because it was well made? Will ToS provide the same feeling, will the sound effect may me shrivel, will the thousand of class combinaison and builds make me stay on the game for 5 years without I notice it, will my friends see Hp/Sp bars on his wall after a good day of farm?
Hell I hope so !
TL;DR : RO was mythic, nostalgia is overwhelming, hope ToS will provide the same feelings.
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First time I ever played Ragnarok, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Ended up trying to be a mage at the end of the tutorial, and received a quest which required me to go buy some milk as an ingredient to a potion or something. I literally walked around for well over an hour, getting my ass kicked by mobs outside of Geffen, and talking to every NPC in the city, before I finally had to give up and look up a guide, because I couldn’t figure out where I could get the damn bottle of milk.
…I don’t think I’ve ever used a guide to find out where I can buy some milk so that I can become a wizard before. GG ;=;
Oh man, nothing will compare to the feeling of being thrust into a strange world, with no indication of what to do. The first server I ever played in had no tutorial, so I just awoke in the basic city (Prontera) and had to explore quite a bit. Everyone was kind of inexperienced back then, so you’d share whatever information you could about grinding spots and such. I remember playing this in an Internet Cafe and watching the other players’ screens (pretty much everyone was playing RO). I discovered some wonderful environments such as Toy Factory, and that made me want to keep playing the game to get there. I don’t really remember when or why I stopped playing, but I guess it had to do with me screwing up my build and being told by these other players to remake my character :P. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have done that.
Now fast-forward quite a number of years, and I’m still discovering the game. I enter a new server, and upon reaching the higher levels I’m told that there’s a high level, really difficult dungeon that gives the optimal exp and was pretty much impossible to solo. As we entered the cathedral, it took us quite a bit of tries to get from level 1 to 2 because of the extremely aggresive monsters. Level 2 and 3 had the ever looming presence of MvPs (ridiculously difficult boss monsters which most games don’t have) and you had to be very careful. Now I didn’t know how the MvPs looked, so upon reaching level 3 I ran into a Steel Chonchon (300 hp enemy, very weak), and mindlessly tried to kill it, thinking it was summoned by a player. Turns out the MvP camouflages itself into this form and only reveals its true self after its HP is down to 50%, so I was dead in seconds :D. That map was pure hell, but there’s even worse…The most difficult dungeon was impossible for most parties (in 99 cap at least), and each of the mobs by itself had the strength of an MvP monster. That’s why RO was so fun, the challenge never ended. The players were very frail and had to work out strategies between them or die trying. Each party you got in had a different approach depending on the members and place to grind, so it never seemed that stale (unless you went solo).
TBH I want to play RO again, but now pretty much all of the players know everything there is to know, and are heavily drawn towards WoE, which I didn’t enjoy that much due to abuse of consumables by rich people. So I’m saving that drive to discover the world of ToS 
Oh btw if you want to try it, I’d recommend either a private server with 99 cap or the “classic” server up on the official site. The game isn’t really the same as it was back then.
Guys that’s not my video. But RO players should watch it)))))
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I can remember how someone just sold one gtb card to the npc, it was hilarious.
WARNING!!! INCOMING WALL OF TEXT!!!
I started playing the game when i was 16~17 on 2003, on that time I was searching for a game that could be fun and simple to play. I was fond of rogue-likes, and liked diablo 1 a lot, so i wanted something similar but that i could play online.
I found Runescape on those days, but it was leaving it’s free-openbeta phase and I didn’t had a way to P2P in those times. RO was on it’s 2nd open-beta, so I registered myself and made a magician with an… let’s say “not very efficient build”. Had lot’s of fun killing Lunatics and Mandragoras though 
and also had fun dying against the Eclipse .
Later that year the game became P2P, so I left to play the game on private servers. The game on private servers was very broken IMHO, but it was at least something. There I met lots of people and had lots of fun, playing casually on dungeons or having fun casually on WoEs.
Private servers where very unstable on those times, with frequent resets, abuses and administration problems, so i was very exited when the official Spanish server “RO Hispano” was opening on 2005. I was an active player, met lot’s of people there. I even wrote a blog for my character on those times (written in Spanish though). The server ended up closing on 2006 because the lack of funds.
I ended up jumping in and out of the game until Dec. 2011, when I finally decided to play on iRO Valkyrie server to check out the Renewal patch. There I ended joining the “Union Hispana” guild, where I had lots of fun and i ended up learning on what is to play on a competitive guild. It may have not been the “best” guild, but we had lot’s of fun and where able to compete against the server’s biggest guilds and complete some WoE1/2 godly items by ourselves. We also made a smaller team within the guild, called “El equipo de la vida”, with the objective of hunting MVP cards and sharing the loot, some of it’s members are still active. I also met my GF in the game 
, we started dating around 2 years ago.
In all my years of playing I tried all kinds of classes and builds, but my favorites always where the Rogue and Alchemist classes (and derivatives), both of them helped me a lot to accomplish to explore the world, create stuff and battle together with my friends.
I stopped playing after the Chaos merge (a couple of years ago) because i felt that there was nothing else for me to explore in that game. I’ve been playing other kind of games since then, like Elite:Dangerous, Starcraft2, Witcher 3, GW2, Smash Brothers, Pokemon XY, LoL, HotS, various Nintendo plataformers… lots of stuff 
… I also tested RO2, but it felt more like a bad FPS “on rails” rather than what the first RO felt like.
I’m looking for ToS to be a new game to explore, but not only the world, also the classes, the items, the monsters and the new experiences.
Sorry to all the Grammar Nazis and people who died trying to read all of this :p, English is not my main language.
TLDR: I’m an old player who enjoyed RO.
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-was like 13
-witnessed marriage
-couple escaped through portals
-followed
-ended up at that christmas field with the couple and a forth (supposed to be girl, who knows)
-talked some hours
-exchanged email with person number four
-exchanged emails for some weeks/month
-emails cut off
-the end
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MY RO STORY
-started playing ro1 pre renewal briefly when my younger brother played it.
-he quit but i still played for 5 years on renewal.
-got my very first mvp card in 2013
-sold that for more mvp cards.
-rebought the same mvp card and sold it for real money (Hi, free money~)
-an unaware GM unintentionally gave me free god items I normally shouldn’t have.
-That was the best wtf, in your face moment of my RO life.
-experimented with wpe pro, grf editing, no delay hacks on a dummy account and got it banned.
-proceeded to fill 21 character slots in my main account.
-religiously attended WoE twice a week.
-farmed the ■■■■ out of end game content until it was time to quit.
THE END
Ok, time to my wall of text/story of ro (sorry for the misspeling and stuff, i’m not a native english speaker so, if you can’t stand it, just don’t read it ;D)
I was about 16~17 years old when i started playing ro on a private server. My sister’s girlfriend had played on the IRO’s OBT so she knew the game and introduced us (my two older brothers and me) to it. My first job was a magician. I played until i got a sage. When that server closed up, i played with my middle brother on many many private servers, gathering friends here and there.
Then a wild “RO hispano” appeared. One of those friends that i met on some random private server helped me and my bro getting us CBT access. I played there with a Blacksmith until it closed (my 3 slotted boned chain T-T) Then i stop playing until some of my old RO Hispano friends invited me to IRO’s Valkyrie server. In the beggining i just played with a borrowed char but eventually i made an assassin (who ended up being GX), but after renewal and some dramas on the hispano guilds, i ended up leaving ro again. It’s not that i didn’t liked it but with the turn in quests and the mvp items, and the god like items… it’s just too broke right now 
I really reeeeally had fun playing, exploring, being laggy and even dying. Evenings of coffee and laughts with my bro and some internet friends (who became real life friends, most of them)… I have like a thousand stories to tell but i’m not sure if you want to read them at all so that’s it
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I could tell the story, but if a picture’s worth a thousand words, then videos are probably worth a couple more:
PART 1
PART 2
Never forget.
This is a story i would never forget, quite long though:
I was once in payon dungeon killing Sohee for that sweet sweet exp, until a female priest approached me and asked if i could help her find a Sohee card. At first i though, why should i help her? and even if i found it i could sell it for 2mil (at the time). I partied with her and thought i’m getting free buffs/whats the chances of finding a Sohee card anyways. We partied for 2 hours without finding anything but black hair and fabric from the giant whispers, she teleported back to payon and i stuck around for another 20 minutes.
To my surprise and excitement a Sohee card actually dropped! First thing that came to my head was, i just made 2 Million Zeny (great amount of money at the time, early iRO). Then i thought of that girl that had buffed me for two hours and literally gave it her all to try and find one since she had no one else that could help her. I checked my party and saw that she had left, so i went back to my chat to find her name so i could private message her, she was offline.
So i went to payon and waited and waited, hours went passed and she was still offline and nowhere to be seen. I jumped on a day later and messaged her instantly, she was online! She was joining a guild since she was a priest and priest were wanted by pretty much everyone (The guilds name was Empire which was a very powerful WOE guild at the time). I met up with her South Pontera and saw that she had joined the guild Empire and was not so alone anymore since she was surrounded by team members. I traded her anyways and surprised her with the Sohee card, she could not believe it, i remember her being extremely happy and very greatfull. We chatted for weeks after that and quickly became great friends. She was becoming very powerful very quickly with the help of her new guild. I was just a knight that didn’t know anyone and tried my very hardest to improve myself whenever possible. We had stopped talking for a long while and time passed very quickly, a year went passed.
I was a lot stronger, around level 75-80 if i remember correctly and had better equipment and an okay guild. One day i was contacted by a priest that asked if i remembered her (this was the priest that i helped out more than a year ago but i had completely forgotten about it since many things had happened in my life since then) I replied no and she reminded me of the Sohee card day.
She met up with me in the place we had met a year ago, South Pontera and to my surprise she was a level 99 Priest. She had told me that she left Empire to start a new guild with another friend called Maelstrom and wanted to give me an invite to join as one of the founders well as some very amazing +7 gear. I accepted her invite and became very good friends with her as well as the rest of the guild. We quickly became one of the most successful WOE guilds and conquered for a long while on iRO. To think it all started with a Sohee Card.
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Anyone know the origin of the “flywing” and “butterfly wing”?
Back in beta there was a glitch when you’d enter a map or sometimes even log in you would end up on location 1,1 in the corner of the map, so instead of fixing the glitch they created the flywing and butterfly wing items so you could get out of the area.
speaking of the old days, who remembers this?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBThF9rL_NI
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I remember all the drama… on my first time playing …like when i joined my first guild… a nice HWizzard guy invite me to his guild… 5 minutes later his ingame girlfriend pm me asking me to join her to make a cup de etat against him to stole the guild from him…i was like WTF … very confussed… i dint have time to warning him… so he lost everything and quit… since then i allways prefered soloing in RO and games in general… XD.
This story goes waaaaay back, sometime late 2004~ish, rather early in the official EU servers life.
I was in the PvP room with my bard (Cyroth), the second batch of the 2nd classes was just released on euRO and I was among the first bards. A friend and his perma-novice (Talonos), supernovice were just released on kRO and have not hit the western servers yet, was with me.
We were sitting around with some other players from various other guilds, idly chatting, engaging in duels and such stuff when one of the other high levels, I think it was one of the the sages from Gruppe8, complained that he was bored.
He then ran around and challenged various people to go and kill “that puny novice”, and if they manage to do it he’ll give them a few thousand zeny.
The catch was that Talo was already around level 70/10 at this point, on a server where the average Joe was still first class or very early second class, and Talo was already wearing pretty much what passed as endgame-equipment (he could easiely dodge my bard with over 100 dex when buffed, now imagine what he did to the average early jobchanged level 55/20 knight).
After the fifth or so challenger Talo started to punch his victims to death, after 5 more the sage stopped looking for new challengers.
He shouted something like “YOU ARE ALL INCOMPETENT, WATCH ME HOW IT IS DONE” and prompty nuked Talo with spells, then he said something like “See, I’m the only one who can own this novice”. Everyone around had a great laugh about it and to this day “I’m the only one who can own this x” is a running gag amongst my friends.
Later there was also a time when I became pretty much a part of the PvP rooms furniture, and everyone stopped calling me by name, instead refering to me as “Jukebox”.
“Hey jukebox, Iduns Apple”, including percussive maintenance (punchings) when I didn’t produce the song in question fast enough 
It even spread over to my guild, who started doing the same thing for a while (minus the punching).
Such sadness.
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My best memory of RO: My first attempt at making a Wizard.
I was still fairly noob when I attempted to make my first Wizard. I had talked to a few other players and had learned that Firewall+Firebolt on Earth type mobs was the best way to level. So, I maxed Firewall, Firebolt, SP Recovery (I was poor and couldn’t afford SP Pots), I cannot recall where I put the rest of my points - but I am sure they were not used effectively.
As soon as I reached Job Level 40 Mage I went off to do the Wizard job change quest. I was REALLY excited to finally be making a Wizard and figured the job change quest would be the standard “collect X items”. Boy was I wrong. I got teleported into a room with a bunch of Water property mobs and given 3 minutes to kill them. Keep in mind that I had decided I only needed Fire property skills for levelling, so I panicked. After MANY failed attempts I FINALLY managed to kill these Water property mobs 
, I felt like the king of the world. Until I got warped into the next room… WHY DID THERE HAVE TO BE MORE ROOMS?
The next room was a group of Earth property mobs, I had no problem with those. But after the Earth room, came Fire. And these weren’t your easy-peasy Fire mobs either. These were fast-moving, aggressive, Fire mobs that (as a nooby Mage) could 1 or 2-shot me. …AND on top of that, Fire property mobs could run through Firewall - my only source of CC!
I spent hours in that Fire room before I finally just decided to become a Sage instead.
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RO is where I found my love of 10 almost 11 years. One day he linked me to a RO private server and asked me to download and play with him. I was so excited because this was the first game we ever played together and fell in love with the sprites instantly, this game was just too darn cute and the music was amazing, never played a game like it before. So one day we were leveling outside the Ayothaya dungeon, we were taking a break and planning on having a RO wedding. It was all jokes and silliness. (We were really close friends and I’ve actually never seen an MMO wedding before). So I jokingly said I love you just for jokes and he said it back but was all serious about it. “I really mean it, I love you.” It was too cute and just plain cheesy, xD I fell in love. Of course I have countless of other stories, I could be here for ever talking about it. But this one was my most thought of. Also another reason why RO holds a special place in my heart <3
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