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RO STORIES and TALES

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#1

I have barely played RO so I was never familiar with game and what not. But I have always wanted to hear stories or opinions on the game. I figured I would start since I assume a majority of the people here are RO past or current players.

I’ve read some cool stories about dropped items, PVPs, and all that good stuff. Part of me wants to download the game and give it a shot. But I heard it is nothing like the game I tried 8 years ago.

So I would love to hear some of your stories and tales from RO days!

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#2

Happily my friend, It’s my all time favourite game and will likely remain it regardless what comes out because of how it’s personally affected my life.

A story - My first WoE (War of the Empuriem)

So the first Private server I ever joined was in 2010 (I had played the official for about 6 years before that), and I met what are now my best friends on this server. I was a casual scrub at the time, so they cleaned me up, made me big and strong and taught me some nice tricks. The thing about this server is it held somewhat of a ultimate trifecta of guilds. Guild Dieago, Guild Heaven on Earth and Guild Schnick Schnack (My Guild). No guild was that much stronger than the other, and the fights over the castles were insane.

After a few weeks of playing, the server was declining in popularity, and we knew it, but what we didn’t know is that this would be our last real woe together as a guild. We were defending, Heaven on Earth and Dieago would attack. It was pretty silent for the first 30 minutes of an hour long fight. However the last 30 minutes became much more exciting. We fought pretty well, and thought we would hold the castle. 15 seconds before the end of WoE, I was on guard with my Warlock and a Royal Guard defending me, and a Lord Knight by the name of Ryu appeared in-front of us. Heaven on Earth’s Guild leader. He backed out of our screen, and we didn’t see him again, but we warned our guild mates. 10 seconds to go he appears in the emp room (the emp is the item you need to destroy to hold a castle). He uses a cloaking item and goes invisible… dread hits, our Maya P card doesn’t work (allows the user to see invisible units), we scramble trying to find him, but no such luck. 2 seconds left he springs out of cloaking and practically 1 shots our low HP emp. We know it’s 1 second remaining, because the announcement that WoE ended happened IMMEDIATELY after, and we had a clock running next to our screens.

It was a loss, and we felt a bit cheated from the broken item. However it was a pretty epic way to go if any. The following war we would win decisively, and then quit the server.

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#3

Man that sounds so amazing! I wish that server didn’t close!

That sounds like something I would of love have been apart of!

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#4

quite small story:
my first screenshot of ro was, as I was novice and standing in glastheim, as I just went into a warp portal made by priest. I was like “hey why not” yeah, was funny (actually always funny lol)

man, that were times, playing 2 days as novice till first job change. still being quite angry about that update they had, which deleted all your screenshots

#5

The reason why I like RO1 so much is quoted below:

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#6

Whole-heartedly agree with this, the quests themselves are well written and original too, I just hope ToS follows suit with everything you said…

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#7

Have a few screenshots left on an old account. One of the first Biolabs parties, the Bathory grind to 99, and some WoE shenanigans.

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#8

I agree, the ost was quite awesome , another reason why tos can get already much up with soundtemp :smiley:

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#9

Played it.
Raged at the mouse.
Didn’t play it.

:sob:

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#11

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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#12

It really did have the best music didn’t it…

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#13

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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#14

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 ;=;

#15

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 :smiley:
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.

#16

Guys that’s not my video. But RO players should watch it)))))

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#17

Speaking of WoE…(Site plays audio)

SANC IT!

#18

I can remember how someone just sold one gtb card to the npc, it was hilarious.

#19

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 :smile: 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 :blush:, 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 :laughing:… 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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#20

-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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#21

Second video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es2Nzggnzzg

I think I been play in guild that win.