After about a year of having not played Ragnarok I decided to try the top ranked server, which is DreamerRO. And I must say, I was rather disappointed, most of what HolyOne said was true. When I logged in there was a single GM on, and he was just logging off, I don't remember his name. My computer has been upgraded twice and is more powerful than the last time I played RO, I was lagless then and on DreamerRO I lagged horrendously, and no, I don't have any other programs running, nobody else is on my network It's just me, and DreamerRO. Loading screens which "back in the day" took half a second now took 10+ seconds, I even logged onto 4 other MMO's to check the lag there(Dream of Mirror Online, Mabinogi, Megaten, and Maplestory), I had none. The population boasted 546 players, which I thought was impressive, until I saw that the item mall held 140 of those people, while the DeathMatch arena only held 40(still good). The population was practically DEAD, I went to every city and walked around a bit, found like 3 groups of people talking, a total of about 12-16 players, 2 of the 3 groups weren't speaking english. I was new to the server, so I asked a few things about the server, nobody responded, ever. Is asking a question about the server begging? I think not. I never beg. The economy is warped beyond belief, I've played tons of RO servers, and I've only ever liked one, which no longer exsists. I love RO, but I hate the massive grind of low and mid rates, so high rates are for me. When I say the economy is warped beyond belief, almost all ordinary item drops are worth 1.5x their iRO value(in shops) which destroys the value of zeny. Weapons, such as the +10 Pike which would cost me 10k on my old server, and about 15k on most every server I've played costs a WHOPPING 5mil. This @noks system was horrendous, AoE casters had the entire map's worth of monsters to themselves in all of the good leveling areas. PVP was retarded, I warped in(maxed out Lord Knight) and died in about 2 seconds, as the moment I warped in I was sac'd by not one or two, but FIVE paladins. So I figured I had bad luck and respawned, well, second time I lived about 3 times longer(still only 6 seconds) as I didn't spawn RIGHT next to the swarm of paladins, more like off to the side, I got in one bowling bash before i died, impressive eh? They were of course, all guildies, so obviously the guild ganging is an issue, however this @nogang system sounds just as horrendously corrupt as the @noks system is for wizards. To a brand new player, DreamerRO is, overwhelming... I HIGHLY suggest that if you're going to join DreamerRO, sign up for an account several days ahead of time and vote every day, twice a day if you can as many days ahead as you can, as these Vote for Point items are overpowering to anyone who doesn't have them(i.e. new players). Now, I noticed Raine saying it's the most balanced HR server s/he's played on, this wasn't even remotely the case for me, anyone who's played a month is decked out in items so powerful they'd be considered donation items on practically every other server out there, and then the people with actual donates, well, let's just say it's like throwing ping pong balls at a very angry bear. Nothing eventful happened in my 16 hours of play, no GM logged in after the initial GM logged out. things that don't really matter, but I still found extremely irritating would be that in order to use the 3-1 sprites, the 2-1 sprites were forfeit, now you can't even tell what class you're up against when it comes to 3-1 and 2-1 people, until of course their trying to kill you, or if they actually decide to talk to you. Also when you don't have a top headgear or a mid headgear on, there's generic hat and wings, THAT YOU CANNOT REMOVE. the top hat was cool for about 20 minutes, at which point it was irritating, the wings were still okay for a while longer. I noticed the female equivalent is kind of cute, but it seems too much like something a priestess would wear, on every class. there's a couple of custom hairstyles thrown in, but you don't get that good of a look at them... as you always have a hat on. In 16 hours of play, I found 2 people that would actually talk to me. I also noticed that inside the npc mall, items(non weapons/armor) are priced so much higher than standard iRO prices. Point in case: Magnifier iRO:40z dRO:5,000z, Oridecon: iRO:1,100z dRO:85+k(i don't remember the exact value, it was something like 85,600). Basically the economy of DreamerRO is that of item for item trading. Things that require only 2 days or 4 Vote for Point(vote twice a day = two days) sell for 50+million zeny. Inside of the Deathmatch arena I never saw a single class other than Paladins, Creator(BioChemist) or Assasin Cross'. Other than myself, I'm not saying that they weren't there, they were probably also being mobbed by sac pally's the first few seconds of arriving. Not that it's a big deal, but whichever GM was on when I first logged in, it was very hard to read his broadcasts, dark purple over a black is very hard on the eyes. Isn't GM speech supposed to be yellow, or sometimes red? You know, easy to read colors? I did like the pets, however in some cases it was hard to tell just what was a pet, and what wasn't a player.
Overall, I'd give DreamerRO a score, on a scale of 0-10 a *6* unless I'm allowed to give a decimal score, then I'd give it a *5.7*
And before anybody retorts that I was a newbie and suck, that's why I have a problem. I've played RO since the iRO open beta. I know what I'm doing, I was a little rusty, having not played for a little over a year, but I remembered all of my builds, cards, maps, so on and so forth after a mere 15 minutes.
I won't recommend DreamerRO to anyone, however, anyone who does join, if you're going to play a melee class that until you're in your 300+ level range has terrible SP, get yourself a Blue Acidus Card, with how much editing Dreamer RO has, it gives +4000 maxSP(100x the iRO standard +40) SP and [If refine level 0~4] additional +4000 maxSP, just throw it into a cheapy cap you buy anywhere for 2,000 zeny and your level 100 Lord Knight goes from 254 maxSP to 10,254 maxSP(how this adds up properly is beyond me).
