Extensive questions for Renewal

Started by Zacross, Mar 26, 2013, 11:04 AM

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Zacross

Hello everyone,

I'm a former player, and I have played RO for years. However, I dropped the game because of several reasons =) (time, studies,...)

I would like to start all over again, on the official European server. However, if I got it right, Renewal arrived (they've been talking about that one for years now, back when I was still playing, and it finally did come!). As far as I understood, Renewal brought many changes in the game, and the gameplay isn't at all as the former one.

So, to get to the point, I would like some information!

1) Which job would you advice me to start with? Of course, as I have absolutely nothing on the official server, it has to be easy to level up, and useful later on (making zenys, easy to drop with, you get my point). An important point is that I eventually will be a PvP player. Maybe Magician and Archer classes are still good for that? Although we had the Monk pretty good to make heavy zenys through Sleeper, but required huge investments for sleeper mace and stuff...
2) How does the new leveling system work? Is it complicated?
3) Could you give me some useful link, besides this ratemyserver, to find tutorial/walkthrough/help/...?

I might come up with other questions later on, but I thank you in advance for helping me =)

sheena

1. Hunter to Ranger (but take the Sniper Trans to get the bonus skills)
2. You get more EXP if you kill the monster that has higher level than you and less if its below. Its around 30 levels +/-
3. You can try irowiki.org
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ecdarreola

1. Out of the choices. Go for RK. easy quest and easy farming through mobs. High HP. Doesn't need much stuffs as long as you're DB type.
2. There's that what they called renewal exp. If 30+/- you'll receive less but if you're within the range. You'll receive more exp.
3. iroWiki.org

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Zacross

Well, I don't really know much about 3rd class... RK and DB don't mean a lot to me. Although, I'm pretty sure you don't get RK in a day, and knight/Lord knight wasn't the easiest to go up with!

Irowiki is definitely a great database, but what about an active community, a forum? irowiki isn't that active as far as I could see!

Finally, 2 things.
Which server would you advice me to go? Is Ragnarok Europe still active enough?
I also saw RO 2 was going to be released soon. Is it going to "kill" RO 1? Because if so, it isn't really worth the time to play RO1

sheena

1. RK is from the Knight class and DB is a skill where it reflects damage more but I still think Rangers are better because of bows so you can snipe monsters from afar. Rangers have an AoE arrow vulcan and RK requires more investments than Rangers.
2. iRO is still better imho but whatever you like
3. RO2 looks like Rose Online. It doesn't look like it will kill RO.
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Zacross

Could you be a bit more precise on why iRO is better server than the other? It has to be a bit overcrowded isn't it? Besides the good thing about RO Europe is that they have slightly higher rate and item to further improve these rate. What about iRO? I mean, if you want to have fun in RO with 1/1/1 rate, it takes ages, or to be a hard gamer to get a leveled and stuffed character!

I do think that archer class is good as starter. Although you all speak about "ranger", but there is a long way to get there... Hunter, sniper, then only ranger!

Thanks a lot for your help so far

Sarin

DB is dragon breath. AoE, no-miss, special fire element (most normal fire reducs won't work, only fire armor does) computed from actual HP and max SP. Usually paired with Spiral Pierce in vit/int/dex build.

Knight is easy to level with BB, LK with spiral. Spiral pierce has been adjusted and is much more powerful on renewal.

Zacross

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Okay Sarin =)

Still wondering why iRO is a good server, and how "hard" it is there =) Because that's about the last thing I have to know if I want to start again : the server choice (although it might not be the most important)

edit : Actually as far as I can see, iRO is the international server, with many people from canada, USA, India and Oceania. As a European, wouldn't I experience lags if I play on iRO, because of the server distance from my place?

Triper

Sniper/Hunters don't use the trap way anymore? I remember to see hunters, in renewal, just do all the way to 99 with traps, same with Snipers until they're Rangers and get Arrow Storm or whatever is the name of that AoE. While it may look expensive to lv, it's just mob and trap and next. You lv quite fast with it. I just don't know if people still use it because of last balance patchs since they nerfed traps from Ranger which maybe affected hunter traps.

Acolyte isn't also that bad to start nowadays, battle builds are really nice since you don't really need a shield to PVM[excluding MVPs ofc] now and you can end easily with an Arch Bishop with a battle build that also is good enough to support from what I've seen around.

iRO or fRO[French RO, the European Server] is up2u. Some people care more about the ping then others. fRO is an european server so you may find french/german people easier then in iRO if you're one from that places. iRO has tons of bots so some items may be cheaper to get/buy.
If you don't care about that then just try both and choose.

Also, I hope that the people posting here remember/know that pservers, most of them, are not the same as 3rd class officials even if they're trying to get there[I do know that some posting have that in mind but others may not =P].

Razzles

Rune Knight (RK) would be the first one that we could suggest to you ~ Spiral Pierce would be the option as for the skill as the skills were adjusted at Renewal (according to Sarin's reply)

And you can just BB (Bowling Bash) all the way when you're a knight already ~

Killing mobs who which has 10 + levels above you will give you more exp, but what to kill? http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?page=re_mob_db

For the sources, you can just google stuff or the usual RMS and iRO Wiki as well ~ or you can ask here as well in the RMS forums ~ try watching YouTube videos if it will help you better ~

Just don't forget to rebirth first before hopping into 3rd jobs, that's the most common mistake nowadays ~

sheena

Whatever server I go esp on low-rates hunters level pretty fast. They are long-range so there is not much need to chase monsters. It is a lot easier to 99 in renewal with EXP quest.
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Astraeos

Since its an official server running RE... one thing you need to figure out is if its pre or post balance patch. It's most likely post, but I'll explain both.

1) pre - use Shadow Chaser, copy Firing Trap, you know how a character that can level really fast and get money pretty quickly. post - Mechanic+Fly Wings+Greed in Magma 1 = a lot of money since people usually leave things lying around. Sura in bio2 with Sky Net Blow is pretty good, the rare drops were worth like 100m for a while on iRO. Sorc married to Kaahi linker is OP as well.

2) Nope. Mobbing and stay with 10 levels of the monsters is really fast ways to level. 100-120 = Magma 1, 120+ Scaraba. During 3x EXP on iRO I was able to go from 110->150 in Scaraba in about 14 hours of playing using manuals on Shadow Chaser. Kasas are also good since Boss property doesn't have the level restriction on EXP. Bio2 at 125+ is really good.

3)iRO Wiki, look around. There's no sure-fire tutorials, especially since Reset Stones + Repeatable EXP quests kinda spoiled everyone.