Ragnarok Job Guides

THE BUILD: “Auramancer” – Maestro Build

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:19:00 +0000

This Guide was taken from http://www.deesrojournal.com/

Ragnarok Online WoE Maestro Build

Please take note that this build has not been tested or made. This guide is just based on the perception of what a character can and can’t do which may or may not work in-game. You have been warned.

Introduction:

The Maestro, the life of a guild. Having a good Maestro on your team is very crucial to victory. The Maestro is the core of any attack and defense with his buffing auras and his player disrupting skills. Few have yet to play the bard class properly. Let me enlighten you!

Build: WoE,PvP,PvM Support

Codename: Auramancer

Screen shot from Ruzz Czar

The Breakdown:

Main Skills or “Auras” I like to call them are Magic Strings, Song of Lutie, Impressive Riff from the Bard skill tree and Windmill Rush andSiren’s Voice from the Maestro skill tree. Default Magic Strings whether it be offense or defense while using Song of Lutie in pre-Castle portal and pre-Emperium situations. Impressive Riff should be used when breaking the Emperium.

Use Siren’s Voice if you feel you’re in danger to get killed. If you die, then your guild chances for taking or keeping the castle drops drastically. Especially if you’re the only Maestro in the guild other than the Classical Pluck Team.

Other skills you should max are Music and Voice Lessons: to maximize performance skills, Harmonize, Gloomy Shyness, Deep Sleep Lullaby and Despair Song for debuffs and disables.

Harmonize can be used as a -30 stat debuff to wreck food reliant builds. Best used outside castles when they are regrouping. Instant Cast builds will hate you so much.

Gloomy Shyness can be used to buff RKs and RGs while also used as a debuff for ASPD classes. When a Guillotine Cross is on your Emperium use this on them to debuff their ASPD by 40%.

Deep Sleep Lullaby is an AoE disable which is useful to single out and to set up a take down on a certain target. Awesome skill to have to set up kills in open space battles.

Despair Song can be to trap down enemies similar to Ankle Snare which is very crucial when defending choke points. Be aware that it can also trap allies, so use it wisely.

Keep in the middle of your guild all the time. Keep Alive!

The Build:

Pre-Balance Patch

VIT 100
INT 120 + 30(foods) + 10(bless)
DEX 150 + 30(foods) + 10(bless)
LUK the rest goes here

High INT and DEX are used to get maximum Cast Delay and Cast Time reductions. Our build focuses on Magic Strings which is the centerpiece of this build. AGI is purposely left out to avoid being tempted to use Severe Rainstorm. Which should be left for the Wanderers since they have much more use for the AGI stat than us. Leave AGI for the Classical Pluck Maestro which needs the added defense.

Post-Balance Patch

VIT 100
INT 120 + 30(foods) + 10(bless)
DEX 150 + 30(foods) + 10(bless)
LUK the rest goes here

Same Build as above. Even if we lose the 100 INT frost immunity we still need the INT for Magic Strings. Getting slightly lower INT may be doable to get more LUK for Howling of Madragora resistance.

The Equipment:

TOP – Gemini RWC Hat (50% resistance to Sleep & Stone if VIT >= 80)
MID – Gemini Elven Ears (50% resistance to Sleep & Stone if VIT >= 80)
BOT – Hankie in Mouth (3% less damage from Demi Humans)

Pasana Boitata Armor(Indestructable, 5% more HP, 7% less damage from nuetral property)
Thara Frog Valkyrja’s Shield(30% less damage from Demi Humans)

Golem 3x Fabre Violin, Berserk Guitar & Combat Knife

Raydric Diabolus Manteau (20% less neutral damage, 5% more from Diabolus Boots combo)
Green Ferus Diabolus Boots

Errende Ebecee Upgrade Clip
Smokie Upgrade Clip

Item Buffs you can use:

Food buffs (+30 VIT,INT & DEX), Increase HP Potion, Soul Scroll(increase max HP & SP for 30 mins)

Dual Gemini Headgears will give us immunity to both Sleep and Stone which are very crucial to resist if you want to stay alive. Golem 3x Fabre Violin should be your default weapon when using your Performance Skills. Using Combat Knife to Flash performances is an awesome trick to stack buffs.

Berserk Guitar is used for Emperium Breaking which will give you automatic 193 ASPD. Get an Royal Guard to Sacrifice you so you don’t die.

The Errende Ebecee Upgrade Clip is for auto casting Pnuema. It is very useful in clashes where you can dodge Dragon Breaths when the skill procs. The Smokie Upgrade Clip is for Hiding when you’re in sticky situations.

Dee’s Comments:

This build is for the PURIST Maestros that want to play the role Maestros should play which is mainly supporting. If you want to PK then this build isn’t for you.

THE BUILD: “SkullCracker” – Royal Guard Build

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:18:00 +0000

This Guide was taken from http://www.deesrojournal.com/

Ragnarok Online WoE Royal Guard Build

Introduction:

The Royal Guard is one of the most improved jobs in Renewal. From taking a step back in support in pre-renewal the Royal Guards can now break out of their supportive roles and be offensive beasts when needed. This Build focuses on balancing the Offense and Support skills of the Royal Guard.

Build: WoE,PvP & PvM

Codename: SkullCracker

thanks to Ronald Sta Ana for the screenshot

The Breakdown:

On Offense, the skills you’ll be using are Pinpoint Attack, Banishing Point and Overbrand. Basically what you want to do in a one on one situation is use Pinpoint Attack to jump right at your opponent, spam 2-3 Banishing Points and then use Overbrand. If your party dies (which might probably be your fault) and the enemies mobs you, dive into them and spam Overbrand to take some of them out.

Pinpoint Attack is obviously your initiating skill. It breaks their gear and has an awesome blink strike effect. I personally would use lvl 2 or 3 (helm and shield) since most people have indestructible armor these days. Get levels 2-4.

Banishing Point is basically your harass skill. Usually used to line up Overbrand where the target gets knocked back to a wall for additional damage or just to take down poorly geared characters. Max it.

Overbrand is you main skill. Be sure to combo it with the above skills to ensure high damage and beware that it has a LONG cooldown. Practice and Master how to always get 3 hits.

Inspiration is an AWESOME skill. It can be used now with the above skills to great effect, until the post balance which will require a certain EXP to cast. Then it’ll be useless for anything other than PvM. Get it now then reset later.

You should have Sacrifice. There is nothing more lousy than finding a Royal Guard without it. Preferably use Sacrifice on nukers like Warlocks, Sorcerers and Hells Gate Suras. Sorcerers are the best job to sacrifice because they have a low possibility of getting Guillotine Fisted due to Blinding Mist. Warlocks are second especially if they have Comet which is a very powerful wide range nuke. Hells Gate Suras fall to third in hierarchy because they utilize their low hp to increase Hells Gate damage, which if dispelled might get them killed.

One needed Paladin skill is Battle Chant. Just ONE level to get rid of Masquerades of Shadow Chasers that affected you. Beware thatOblivion Curse can still affect you if you have less than 125 INT. Use food to attain that or use Inspiration.

A good Royal Guard should focus on Support first and Offense second. Keeping your party ALIVE should be your number one priority.

The Build:

Pre-Balance Patch

STR 110
VIT 110
INT 90 + 10(bless)
DEX 100 + 10(bless)
LUK the rest goes here

High STR and decent DEX is there to increase Overbrand damage while AGI is skipped due to already spreading our stats thin between 4 stats. VIT is you primary defensive stat, which should be enough to tank medium to high Extremity Fist damage. The use of Inspiration will further boost your stats and nullify skills like Oblivion Curse from Guillotine Crosses.

Post-Balance Patch

STR 110
AGI 70 + 30(foods)
VIT 115
DEX 100 + 10(bless)
LUK the rest goes here

You lose frost immunity so I believe its best to just drop the INT. Get at least 70 total AGI so you can use +30 AGI foods to get you up to Sleep Immunity and not to mention the small delay on skills on when on Magic Strings. VIT is increased a wee bit for more survivability.

The Equipment:

TOP – Large Baphomet Horns (12% less damage from Demi Humans)
MID – Blush of Groom (3% less damage from Demi Humans)
BOT – Hankie in Mouth (3% less damage from Demi Humans)

Pasana Boitata Armor(Indestructable, 5% more HP, 7% less damage from nuetral property)
Thara Frog Immune Shield(1% less damage from neutral property per upgrade starting at +5)

Glorious Spear

Raydric Diabolus Manteau (20% less neutral damage, 5% more from Diabolus Boots combo)
Green Ferus Diabolus Boots

Whikebine Tres Upgrade Clip
Horong Upgrade Clip

Item Buffs you can use:

Food buffs (+30 STR,AGI,VIT,INT & DEX), Increase HP Potion, Soul Scroll(increase max HP & SP for 30 mins)

By stacking Demi Human resists and Neutral resists you can survive most Extrimity Fists at full HP with Inspiration.

The Whikebine Tres Accessory is for those pesky control click characters that just like to hit lock you. This divests them of their armor which is probably the most crucial equipment for survival.

Dee’s Comments:

This build gives you a good balance of Offense and Support which is what the class is all about. When post balance patch comes(which nerfs almost all RG offensive skills), all those Pure Offensive Royal Guard bandwagon Players will have to accept this hybrid role or play another Job.

THE BUILD: “War Machine” – Mado Mechanic Build

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:15:00 +0000

This Guide was taken from http://www.deesrojournal.com/

Ragnarok Online WoE Mechanic Build

Introduction:

The Mado Mechanic is one of the most under played WoE Character despite its awesome potential. It is slowly gaining popularity due to specific skills that dominate the WoE scene. From masters of brute force to masters of steel, fire and ice ,this build will overshadow the smith tree. This Build focuses on controlling pushes and defending choke points.

Build: WoE & PvM

Codename: War Machine

Dee's WoE screenshot

The Breakdown:

Your main skills will be Arm Cannon and Cold Slower. You will be using Arm Cannon to Push and fend off Pushes. For now it is ground targeted, so use it to your advantage. Cold Slower is your Crowd Control Ability. When you find yourself under Magic Strings I suggest you spam this like crazy over your enemies and watch them drop.

Your Defensive Skills will be Neutral Barrier, Stealth Field and the Front and Back Slides. Neutral Barrier can block any ranged skill except AoE Magic. Stealth Field is used to hide crucial units in WoE like Guard Stones or Emperiums from breakers. Use your slides to avoid getting mobbed and fall back when you have to.

The Balance Patch will fix bugs that greatly boost Hovering and Pilebunker. Hovering will let you avoid getting trapped by Vacuum Extreme and hit by Windmill along with many other skills. While Pilebunker will dispel many acolyte and swordsman job skills. Royal Guards will hate us indefinitely lol.

Use Elemental Shift lvl 1 (fire convert) during clashes to avoid getting Dragon Breath raped.

Suicidal Destruction is what makes a Mado Mechanic. This will take out anything in a 9 x 9 radius that has an HP of anything from 120k (with a proper build) and below. Useful in situations when enemies are regrouping. Dive in with Neutral Barrier on and let one GO!

A good Mado Mechanic knows when to use Suicidal Destruction. It is very rarely used as a last resort skill because you should be using it when you are in advantage and in disadvantage.

An Advantageous situation is when you are winning a counter push with your guild and the enemy front line is weakened. Lead the front and get into the back line enemy units and use Suicidal Destruction to get rid of a big chunk of their army.

In a Disadvantageous situation is when you are defending a castle and you’re defending units are getting thin. To buy time for your allies, you flag back behind the enemy and use Suicidal Destruction on majority of their units. Their front line may get through but their survival rate is lessened because you just killed their reinforcements.

A good Mado Mechanic should know how to play every situation.

The Build:

Pre-Balance Patch

STR 105
VIT 120
INT 110
DEX 65
LUK the rest goes here

High points of VIT is needed to maintain high survivability. DEX is kept at a decent amount for spamming skills like Arm Cannon and Cold Slower while a great amount of INT is needed to take down characters like Rune Knights, Royal Guards and Suras.

Post-Balance Patch

STR 105
VIT 120
INT 70
DEX 105
LUK the rest goes here

You get more DEX now due to Suicidal Destruction is now influenced by cast time reductions with INT and DEX. You will also have to lowe INT because it doesn’t give frozen immunity anymore. A decent amount is needed anyway for Suicidal Destruction.

The Equipment:

TOP – Large Baphomet Horns (12% less damage from Demi Humans)
MID – Blush of Groom (3% less damage from Demi Humans)
BOT – Hankie in Mouth (3% less damage from Demi Humans)

Pecopeco Boitata Armor(Indestructable, 5% more HP, 7% less damage from nuetral property)
Thara Frog Immune Shield(1% less damage from neutral property per upgrade starting at +5)

Pilebunker (mechanic only weapon)

Raydric Nydhorgg’s Shadow Garb (Add a 7% resistance to all Elements.
Increases SP by Level/3 + (Refine Rate * 10))

Variant Shoes

2x Errende Ebecee Upgrade Clip (auto Pnuema when hit)

Item Buffs you can use:

Food buffs (+30 STR,VIT,INT & DEX), Increase HP Potion, Increase SP Potion, Soul Scroll(increase max HP & SP for 30 mins), Cranial Scroll, Immune Scroll, Battle Scroll.

By stacking Demi Human resists and Neutral resists you can survive most Extrimity Fists at full HP even in big fights due to Neutral Barrier.

The Errende Ebecee Accessories is for auto procing Pnuema to defend against ranged attacks just incase you lose Nuetral Barrier. A very good skill to have when diving into enemy ranks for Self Destruction.

Dee’s Comments:

This build is my personal build for Mechanics that choose the pure MADO path. When the balance patch hits us we will be buffed even more which will be game changing for us.

THE BUILD: “Death Shadow” Shadow Chaser Build

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:14:00 +0000

This Guide was taken from http://www.deesrojournal.com/

Ragnarok Online Shadow Chaser Build

Introduction:

Shadow Chaser is one of the most annoying classes in-game. That is a compliment. The Shadow Chasers are a class with game breaking debuffs that are called Masquerades and Paint Skills. If they get into Masquerade Range, a good Shadow Chaser can also strip you of all your gear making you very vulnerable. Chasers are a pretty hard job to play correctly, which is what this guide is for.

Build: WoE, PvP, PvM

Codename: Death Shadow

credit goes to Josef Martin. thanks for the SS

The Breakdown:

You obviously will max only 3 Masquerades: Masquerade Groomy, Masquerade Ignorance and Masquerade Weakness.

Masquerade Gloomy will dismount any class that has a mount which is especially good against the Rune Knight’s Dragon. Rune Knights lose the ability to Dragon Breath when they lose their Dragon.

Masquerade Ignorance basically is a skill Silence that can’t be cured until the duration is over. Use Masquerade Ignorance when a class is distracted by other jobs to disrupt their skill use. Use in combination with Close Confine to seal the kill for your team.

Masquerade Weakness is your initiating skill after you flying kick to an enemy. This skill removes both Weapon and Shield for a duration. This is an awesome skill to take down tough Royal Guards that rely on their shield to use their skills.

You will have to get at least level 5 Reproduce to copy Flying Kick. This is your mobility skill. Use this to blink from enemy to enemy while casting Masquerades on them. You can also Flying Kick on your teammates by shift clicking.

The other paint skills you should get are Manhole, Chaos Panic and Dimensional Door as a perquisite to Feint Bomb.

You may or may not get Strip Accessory. It is very useful to take their Accessories off since most of them don’t even notice. Pretty good skill to get rid of those Accessory reliant skills.

Use Shadow Formation strategically since it can now be dispelled by Ruwach, Sight and other revealing skills once the balance patch hits.

The Shadow Chaser’s role in WoE is to disable the opposing guild’s front line by taking off their dragons and shields making it easier for your team to take them out. Fire Traping can only do so much not to mention it leaves you pretty exposed which is why it is not advised. I suggest getting Storm Gust lvl 1 to freeze enemies than getting Fire Trap or any killing skill.

Your main role is to disable and cripple. Leave the killing to the PK jobs.

The Build:

Pre-Balance Patch

AGI 70
VIT 120
INT 100
DEX 110
LUK the rest goes here

High points of VIT is needed to maintain high survivability since you will most probably be in the front line of the fights. INT is there for frozen immunity while the AGI and DEX is for anti-masquerade and masquerade chance respectively.

Post-Balance Patch

AGI 70
VIT 120
DEX Max
LUK the rest goes here

Drop the INT since you won’t be using it because you still get frozen now even with 100 INT. DEX is maxed to get the best possible chance to Strip or Masquerade a character.

The Equipment:

TOP – Large Baphomet Horns (12% less damage from Demi Humans)
MID – Blush of Groom (3% less damage from Demi Humans)
BOT – Hankie in Mouth (3% less damage from Demi Humans)

Pecopeco Boitata Armor(Indestructable, 5% more HP, 7% less damage from nuetral property)
Thara Frog Immune Shield(1% less damage from neutral property per upgrade starting at +5)

Combat Knife (10% less damage from Demi Humans)

Raydric Diabolus Manteau

Green Ferus Diabolus Boots

Horong Upgrade Clip
Marine Sphere Upgrade Clip

Item Buffs you can use:

Food buffs (+30 AGI,VIT & DEX), Increase HP Potion, Soul Scroll(increase max HP & SP for 30 mins), Cranial Scroll, Immune Scroll, Battle Scroll.

These equips will keep you alive enough to masquerade the enemy. If you are going to get Extremity Fisted then use Shadow Formation as a bailout skill to kill them. When you’re in trouble to get killed Shadow Formation is the skill to go to.

The Marine Sphere Accessory is mainly for enemy Shadow Chasers. Use Magnum Break to get them out of stealth if you see their foot prints.

Dee’s Comments:

This Build focuses on the primary role of the Shadow Chaser which is to Strip and Masquerade to minimize threats which is what they are made for.

THE BUILD: “Seraphim” – Arch Bishop Build

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:10:00 +0000

This Guide was taken from http://www.deesrojournal.com/

Ragnarok Online Arch Bishop Build

Introduction:

Arch Bishops in renewal got many new skills that help support bigger parties. AoE buffs, cast time reductions and a whole lot stronger heals. It invaluable to have a good Arch Bishop in your guild. If your reading this guide it might be you that your guild is looking for.

Build: WoE, PvP & PvM

Codename: Seraphim

thanks to Yhiel Cuaresma for the SS

The Breakdown:

Full Support Arch Bishops should get all AoE buffs which are: Clementia, Cantocandidus and Praefatio. These skills will cast buffs on your party members that are in range instead of buffing them one at a time.

Secrament is the main reason Arch Bishops are so popular. What it does is it reduces fixed cast times by 50%, which is pretty sick if you ask me. In Renewal cast time is now split into two parts: fixed cast time and variable cast time. Variable cast time can be reduced by stats (DEX & INT) while fixed cast time can only be reduced by Secrament.

You will want to get Lauda Agnus and Lauda Ramus once the balance patch hits. This two skills will dispel negative status ailments especially the infamous Howling of Madragora.

You may also want to get Clearance to dispel many positive or negative buffs on foes or allies(post balance). Very useful to take off Rune Knight’s Rune buffs.

During guild clashes you will have to spam Sanctuary and Pnuema to keep your team alive as you stay in the back. Cast Oratio if you feel that some hidden units got through. Oratio is pretty much a Maya Purple with a duration.

Playing an Arch Bishop is pretty fun especially if you like supporting.

The Build:

Pre-Balance Patch

VIT 110
INT Max
DEX 110 + 10(bless)
LUK the rest goes here

High points of VIT is needed to maintain high survivability. INT is maxed to get 3-14k Heals along with lots of SP. DEX points are at a decent number to cast fast.

Post-Balance Patch

VIT 110
INT Max
DEX 110 + 10(bless)
LUK the rest goes here

Same build. The post balance patch doesn’t affect Arch Bishop stats.

The Equipment:

TOP – Large Baphomet Horns (12% less damage from Demi Humans)
MID – Blush of Groom (3% less damage from Demi Humans)
BOT – Hankie in Mouth (3% less damage from Demi Humans)

Pecopeco Boitata Armor(Indestructable, 5% more HP, 7% less damage from nuetral property)
Thara Frog Immune Shield(1% less damage from neutral property per upgrade starting at +5)

+6/+10 Glorious Cure Wand (Increase 5%/10% Heal effectiveness for Heal and Sanctuary

Raydric Diabolus Manteau

Green Ferus Diabolus Boots

2x Glorious Ring (Increase 5% Heal effectiveness for Heal and Sanctuary each)

Item Buffs you can use:

Food buffs (+30 VIT,INT & DEX), Increase HP Potion, Increase SP Potion, Soul Scroll(increase max HP & SP for 30 mins), Cranial Scroll and Immune Scroll.

By stacking Heal effectiveness equips you are able to keep your guild alive in guild clashes with Sanctuary.

Be sure to bring Potions to heal yourself since no matter how strong your heal is you won’t be able to out heal certain burst damage skills.

Dee’s Comments:

The Full Support Arch Bishop build is a very honorable role to play since you step back from PKing to keep your guild alive. The Ratio for Arch Bishops in the guild is usually 1:7-10 depending on what server you play. Any guild is as good as their support role players!

FAQ of Ragnarok and Common Terms

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:47:00 +0000

FAQ of Ragnarok

This interview was a test of my patience and I decided to write a guide based on all the little things new players don’t know about woe and RO in general (yes, this was an actual interview with an actual player).

Interview with a Newbie

New Player: how to join guild?
New Player: :S
Sonja: Apply
New Player: wait second pls
Sonja: Most serious woe guilds have a guild website and an application process

Sonja: Apply in the guild forum’s Application section

New Player: wht is /bm for?
New Player: understand
New Player: understand
New Player: dont*
Sonja: /bm makes your letter keys into hotkeys
Sonja: so F1 bar becomes z x c v b n m
Sonja: the bottom row of letters
New Player: ´hmm
New Player: hmm
Sonja: to talk while in /bm use space bar or enter to open the chat
New Player: hoo
New Player: ok
New Player: ^^
Sonja: and then press enter when done
Sonja: to end/start battlemode press /bm

New Player: why cant you be frozen or stone cursed?
Sonja: hmm?
New Player: frozen or stone cursed?
New Player: cant
New Player: why
Sonja: Marc card stops frozen
Sonja: ED card stops SC
Sonja: ED = Evil druid
New Player: hmm

Sonja: you leave people who SC/Freeze because it takes longer to unfreeze/SC than it takes to die and come back again
Sonja: plus people that do Freeze/SC are probably wearing GR (ghostring)
Sonja: and won’t be killed except by asura when frozen/SC
Sonja: Frozen turns armor property to water
Sonja: Stone curse turns armor into earth
Sonja: negating the ghost property

New Player: lol beret for wht?
New Player: thats good?
New Player: i though wasnt
Sonja: beret is for overall reduction of damage from demi human source
Sonja: 10%
Sonja: (Angelic tiara and Baahls are better - 15%)
Sonja: depends on class though
Sonja: only HW, Champ, and Creos can sacrifice survival enough for stat helm
Sonja: read the Paradox War of Emperium guide

Sonja: since you’re intent is to pump int as HW (no not dex) int
New Player: and dex
New Player: ho
New Player: ok

New Player: evil tiara wht do ? dont remember—
Sonja: it’s for melee people
Sonja: ET doesn’t apply to magic
Sonja: look up the donates on feelro.nu
Sonja: …
New Player: i saw

New Player: to champ wht i need?
New Player: morpheus equip
Sonja: it’s all in the Paradox Woe Guide
Sonja: no.
Sonja: not morph
New Player: no?
Sonja: not in woe
New Player: hmm
New Player: ok
Sonja: maybe a couple pieces
New Player: xD
Sonja: read the dang guide
New Player: ty for help ^^
Sonja: there’s a whole champ section
Sonja: yw
New Player: thx a lot
Sonja: *peace sign*

Other FAQ of Ragnarok not covered in the Interview:

Q: How do I make a guild?

A: You need an Emperium and then you type in /guild “Guild Name”

Q: How do I use a custom emblem for my guild?

A: This can be tricky if you don’t know what to do. First, the Emblem must be a 24 x 24 pixel image in the .bmp (bitmap) format. In the RO folder, make a folder named Emblem. Put the Emblem you want to use into the Emblem folder. In game open your guild information screen, click the edit button, and select the emblem you want to use. For help on how to create a cool looking emblem read this post at the RO Empire Forums.

Q: How do I delete a guild?

A: First, only the current guild master can break a guild. Expel everyone from guild and then type in /breakguild “Guild Name”

Q: How do I leave a guild?

A: Open the guild screen with Alt G. Find your name in the List of members, right click your name, choose the option to leave guild. It will ask you for a reason, it’s common courtesy to tell them why you are leaving.

Q: Where do I level (class here) at (number) level?

A: Read my leveling guide, I get tired of repeating myself.

Q: How do I get to (such and such) dungeon?

A: Read my Map Access Guide.

Q: What does ks mean?

A: KS is kill stealing. This is more than just rude, it’s illegal on many servers. Some servers have the command @noks

Q: What is a bot? Is botting allowed?

A: Lazy players set up programs to run their character to hunt or do other tasks. Botting is illegal on most servers.

Q: Heal, Zeni, Items please?

A: No, get it yourself everyone else has to do it. Here’s a link to my Money Making Guide.

Q: I shared my equips with this random person and now I can’t find him, what do I do?

A: Don’t fall for scams. Don’t share stuff with people. If you do share with others you can try to screenshot the deal and chat, but it’s all up to the GMs of your server. Report the person, and if you don’t have a screenshot then you’re screwed.

Q: How do I auto-follow?

A: The character you wish to auto-follow with must have /nc turned off. If you turn it off you will have to start auto-followtwice. Hold shift and right click the person you wish to auto-follow, a small triangle will appear over their head and you will follow them. Remember if it doesn’t work: turn off /nc and click twice to autofollow.

Q: How do I stop lagging so much?

A: There are a few ways to reduce lag. Use the command /effect to turn on and off your effects. Use the command /aura to simplify auras. If these don’t work you can go into the RO Folder > Setup.exe. The Setup has options for sprite detail and texture. Turning these down will help reduce lag, but make the characters blotchy and ugly.

Q: The ground went white, can I fix it without relogging?

A: Yes, use the command /lightmap to fix it.

Q: What do these mean: B>, S>, T>, A>, N>, R>, AFK

A: Buy, Sell, Trade, Auction, Need, Recruiting, Away From Keyboard

Q: How do I create (such and such item)?

A: There is a specific skill you need based on class and specific items to use as ingredients. Follow the instructions in theRMS Creation Database.

Most Common Terms:

NPC: Non Player Characters, they open a pop up dialog box when you click on them with pre-set responses or set items they sell. You can also sell items to an NPC to make money. There are useless filler NPCs with no purpose, Quest NPCs which will open a dungeon or give you a needed item, Vending NPCs which buy and sell goods, informative NPCs, and basic game mechanic NPCs. The basic game mechanic NPCs are Healer, Town Warper, Dungeon Warper, Stylist, Class Change, Resetter, Platinum Skill NPC, etc.

Town Map: Maps that have Kafra and many other NPCs and no aggressive monsters. (Do I really have to define a town?)

Field Map: The World Map shows Field Maps only. To access a Dungeon, you must first travel through the correct field map in most cases (there are some short-cuts but it costs zeni).

Dungeon Map: This does not appear on the World Map. The entrances are accessed via Field Maps. Though usually “underground,” this is not always the case.

Drops: Items that the monsters “drop”. If your server does not have @autoloot 100 automatically set, the monster will drop your items on the ground. If you want to change the percentage of dropped items you keep to 50%, type the command @autoloot 50. I suggest keeping all your drops and then sell everything, except for: Equipment, Healing Items, and Cards.

Equipment: An item that can be worn by your character, found in the second tab of your inventory Alt E. Alt Q will bring up your “gear” or “equip” screen. Gear can be obtained by killing the right monster or buying from another Player or NPC.

Healing Items: An item in the first tab of inventory that can be consumed to heal hit points or spell points. Certain special “consumables” can increase a stat or give a skill your class might not have. For example, Authoritative Badges provide the Priest buff Increase Agility.

Card: An item in the third tab of inventory. It can be put on to a specific kind of equipment to enhance your skills, stats, or provide an additional bonus.

Epic Fail, Phail, FTL: For the Loss. Basically, “You suck” in internet lingo.

FTW: For the Win! Basically, “You rule” in internet lingo.

Powned, pwn3d, pwnd, pwnt: I believe this was derived from power and owned, it means, “You just got your butt kicked.”

Noob: A new player that many experienced gamers look down on. They will often make many mistakes at crucial moments and fail to listen to organized commands.

Pro: Power gamers who play their game with almost religious faith and on a daily basis. They will usually - but not always - have little to no real life social skills.

IRL, irl: In Real Life

Emp: The Emperium of the Castle must be defended or the castle will be taken by an enemy guild. It has only one real location in game despite that it takes up four spaces. Only cast safety wall on the top right space of the Emp. Sanctuary and Slim Potion Pitcher will heal the Emp.

Emp Room: The inner most room of the castle which contains the Emp. Usually the bulk of the defense is set up in this room.

Spawn Point: The spot next to a portal on the map where your character appears. You can abuse the spawn point if you know how.

Precast: The ledge or area furthest from the Spawn Point from which High Wizards and Creators can “cast” on enemies. The idea is to kill them as soon as they enter the room, on the spawn point.

AoE: Area of Effect, a skill that hits more than one square or target.

WoE: War of Emperium. A battle to hold a castle against enemies to obtain the treasures in the treasure room.

Alphabetized Terms and Abbreviations

1337: Leet, meaning pro, awesome, or amazing

AD: Acid Demonstration

Aggro: Aggressive Monsters attack without provocation

Alde: Aldebaran Town

Alt + F4: Closes the program

Alt Tab: Used to switch windows

Alt: Alternate Character that is not your main class

Amp: Amplify Magic Power, Wizard Skill

Assu: Assumptio, Priest Skill

Ayo: Ayothaya Town

BB: Bowling Bash, Knight Skill

BBL: Be Back Later

BF: Best Friend OR Boyfriend

BGM: Background Music

BL: Base Level

Bot: A Character that is controlled by a botting program, illegal.

BS: Blacksmith

Buff: Cast on a character to improve their abilities

Bwing: Butterfly Wing

Char: Short for character

Cya: see you later

DC: Disconnect

EDP: Enchant Deadly Poison, Assassin Cross Skill, uses up a Poison Bottle

Ein: Einbroch Town

Elu: Elunium, item used to upgrade armor

Endow: gives the target weapon an elemental property

Farming: repetitive action in the game which yeilds needed items or ingredients

FS: Full Support

FUBAR: Fouled Up Beyond Recognition

Fwing: Fly Wing

FYI: For Your Information

GD: Guild Dungeon

GH: Glast Heim Dungeon

GL: Good Luck

GM: Game Moderator (enforces rules and runs events) or Guild Master (creator of the guild and leader)

GT: Grimtooth

GTB: Golden Thief Bug

GTFO: Get The F*** Out

GTG: Got To Go

GvG: Guild versus guild

HJ: Hell’s Judgement

HP: High Priest, Hit Points

HW: High Wizard

IDC: I Don’t Care

IDK: I Don’t Know

IMO: In My Opinion

JL: Job Level

JT: Jupitel Thunder

L/I: Leave Information

L/N: Leave Name

L/O: Leave Offer

L2P: Learn To Play

Lex: Lex Aterna, Priest Skill

LK: Lord Knight

LMAO: Laugh My Arse Off

LMFAO: Laugh My F***ing Arse Off

LOD: Lord of Death

LOL: Laugh Out Loud

Looting: Stealing another persons items that dropped on the ground

Lou, LY: Louyang Town

LOV: Lord Of Vermillion

Lvl: Level

Mag: Magnificat, Priest Skill

MMORPG: Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

Mob Training: Dragging aggressive monsters to another player to kill them, illegal

Mob: A group of Monsters

Mobbing: Collecting a large group of monsters and then killing them all at once

MVP: Most Valuable Player

Nerf: Something that makes a character weaker, a deliberate change to the server.

OBB: Old Blue Box

OC: Overcharge

OCA: Old Card Album

OMFG: Oh My F***ing God

OMG, ZOMG: Oh My God

OPB: Old Purple Box

Ori: Oridecon, used to upgrade level 3 and 4 weapons

Plox, Pls, Plx, Plz: Please

PvM: Player versus Monster

PvP: Player versus Player

Quag: Quagmire, Wizard Skill

RO: Ragnarok Online

ROFL: Roll On the Floor Laughing

Sac: Sacrifice, Paladin Skill

Sanc: Sunctuary, Priest Skill

SB: Sonic Blow, Assassin Skill

SBK: Soul Breaker, Assassin Cross Skill

SG: Storm Gust, Wizard Skill or Stargladiator

Sin: Assassin Class

SinX: Assassin Cross Class

SL: Soul Linker Class

Slim: A special potion that is made by a creator, lighter than regular potions

Slotted: An item that has a space for a Card

SP: Magic Points, Mana, consumed when you use a skill, regained over time

Spam: There are three ways to spam. One is to use an item repeatedly. Second is to repeat the same or similar thing over and over in chat. Last is garbage mail or advertisments via mail.

STFU: Shut The F*** Up

SW: Safety Wall, Priest, Prof, Wizard skill

Tank: Player that takes the damage for a party or another player

Thx: Thanks

TK: Taekwon class

Trans: A char that has leveled up to 99/50 and Transcended to Novice class to play a 2-1 or 2-2 class

TU: Turn Undead, Priest Skill

TYT: Take Your Time

Valk: Mini Boss called Valkyrie, or High Level MVP called Valkyrie Randgris

W8: Wait

Wb: Welcome Back

Wiz: Wizard Class

Woot: Shout of excitement of happiness

WS: Whitesmith Class

WTF: What the F***

XP: Experience

Paladin Guide: Striving To Perfectness

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[+] Table of Contents

[ a ] Introduction
[ b ] Stats Review
[ c ] Skills Review
[ d ] Builds and Equipments
[ e ] Sample Builds
[ f ] Leveling method
[ g ] PvP Tacts
[ h ] WoE Tacts
[ i ] Battle Mode
[ j ] Final Overview
[ k ] Credits
[ l ] Author’s Words

[a] Introduction

Paladin is one of the specialized classes in fighting other player in PvP or WoE. This job is a fast killer but also need a big amount of support from other players. Paladin is also good for mob-hunting and have some great support ability. As we know, paladin is one evolution or rebirth class/transcendent class from crusader and swordsman. Judging from the skills and status, this is also a good job to lead a guild as paladins have a large amount of HP, and also their great walking speed make them easier to penetrate enemies barricade. in PvP, paladin itself is not one class that can be toyed with. Almost every class fear paladin due to their damage output, and recovery ability. And the main point of becoming a paladin is having a good ability of teamwork (like i said above, paladins needs lot of support, but also are the “heart of the team”). So, if you feel have a potential to become a paladin, let’s start out shaping our future together.

[b] Stats Review

Primary Stats

STR :

STR is the main source of attack power.
STR is the main key of WEIGHT LIMITS, more STR allows you to bring more items with you.

AGI :

AGI is the main source of FLEE rate.
AGI is the main source of ASPD, also known as Attack Speed.

VIT :

VIT is the main source of Health Point (HP).
VIT is also an additional source of Def.
VIT also affects the recovery rate of your Health.
VIT also affects the healing power caused by healing items.
VIT also affects the duration of status effects, and also reduce the occurrence rate.(Bleeding, Blinds, Curse, Stun, Silence)

INT :

INT is the main source of MATK.
INT is the main source of SP.
INT is the source of MDef.
INT also affects the recovery rate of your SP.
INT also affects the replenishing power caused by SP-Replenish items.
INT also affects the duration of status effects, and also reduce the occurrence rate.(Blind, Sleep)

DEX :

DEX is the main source of HIT.
DEX is the secondary source of ASPD.
DEX reduces casting time needed to cast most of spells.
DEX also play role in adding some points in attack power.

LUK :

LUK is the main source of Critical Rate
LUK is the main source of perfect-dodge
LUK also affects the duration of status effects, and also reduce the occurrence rate.(Blind, Curse, Coma, Frozen, Silence, Sleep, Stone, Stun)

Secondary Stats

HP :

HP will determine how long your life will last in battle.
HP is the main damage source of skill Matyr’s recokgning.

SP :

SP is the main factor in using skills as almost all skills use SP.

Atk :

Atk power is the main source of damage on attacks, and skills related (shield chain, shield boomerang, Holy cross, Grand cross, Bash, Magnum Break).

Matk :

Matk is the main source of damage for magic skills. (Grand cross, Heal)

Def :

Def is the main source of damage reducing.
Def divided to 2 parts, left and right. The left one is meant as percentage of reduction, while the right one meant as raw-damage-reduction.
For example, someone having 50+50 def. this means the damage will be reduced by 50%, and also cut by 50 points.
The source for “Left-def” is mainly from equipments, while for “right-def” is mainly from VIT.

MDef :

MDef is the main source of Magic-Damage Reducing.
MDef is same like Def, divided into two parts, left and right.

HIT :

HIT is the main factors of dealing damage to enemies (with normal attacks, and some accuracy-needed skills).

FLEE :

Main source of dodging enemies’ attack.
It is believed that maximum flee rate in Normal maps are 95%.
However, 100% flee rate still can be achieved *Somehow* in WoE maps.
Like Def and MDef, Flee also divided into two parts. The left part shows your “Normal-Flee-Rate” which cut enemies’ accuracy, while the right part shows your “Perfect-Dodge” based on your LUK (and also your Luck) to perfectly dodge from any of enemies attack.
It is also believed that Flee helps reduce the duration of being caught in “Ankle-Snare” Trap.

[c] Skills Review

Swordsman skills, full overview and skill description could be seen HERE
Crusader Skills, full overview and skill description could be seen HERE
Paladin skills, full overview and skill description could be seen HERE

Skills i would like to mention:

Bash

With sword man’s Fatal Blow, this skill COULD BE a powerful skill as it stuns enemies.
Due to every job’s high vit, this skill somehow become less useful.

Magnum Break

Good Skill to push enemies back.
Making a gap between you and enemies.
It is also believed that Magnum Break could push someone out of Pneuma.
It also increase your attack power.

Provoke

Provoke will reduce enemy’s def, and also increase enemy’s attack.
It is believed that Provoke cause cast-cancel[?], and make enemies enter the stagger state which their character couldn’t move or do anything for nearly one sec or two.
To cancel this state, you may have to move after a sec or two before doing anything. However such spell can’t be cast before you leave this state.
This is not officially listed as a status effect.

Platinum skill : Shrink

This skill helps a lot on making gap between you and enemies, however, be aware that making a gap while using matyr’s reckoning with knife is not necessary and would cause disadvantage to you.

Gloria Domini (Pressure)

This skill will never miss.
This skill ALWAYS DEAL a constant damage regardless of enemy’s def, mdef, or whatever.
This skill’s casting time affected by DEX.
This skill’s casting time, delay, is affected by Magic Strings (Poem of Bragi).

Matyr’s Reckoning (Sacrifice)

This skill ignore enemy’s def, and will never miss. (still could be blocked by auto-guard) However, this skill’s damage still can be reduced using damage reducing equipments and skill. (Thara-frog card, Beret, Feather Beret, Magic Coat, etc)
This skill’s output damage calculation is only based on your Health Point, and damage modifier. (Hydra card[s], Skeleton worker card[s], and weapons that affect damage output percentage)

Shield Boomerang

This skill always deal neutral damage.
This skill’s damage affected by shield’s weight and also the refinement rate.
This skill is affected by status weapon, including sword breaker and mail breaker.
This skill’s range is 11 cells from the caster.

Shield Chain

This skill Always deal Neutral damage.
This skill’s Casting time is affected by DEX.
This skill’s Cast could be interrupted.
This skill is affected by status weapon, including sword breaker and mail breaker.
Using endow or cursed water on your weapon will nullify the effect of enemies’ raydric card. However, it still couldn’t nullify the ghostring card effect.
This skill could miss it’s target. But, even if it miss it’s target, it still deal very small damages to the enemy. Damage dealt this way still be affected of Status cards, as well as weapon or mail breaker.
This skill counted as long range attack. Defending aura, pneuma, and other long-range blocking attack will still be working against this skill.

Grand Cross

This skill’s casting could not be interrupted.
This skill’s casting time is affected by DEX.
This skill will always deal holy damage to both the caster and enemies.
This skill’s feedback damage counted as damage from demi-human, usage of thara frog will help on cutting it’s damage.

Soul Link : Crusader Spirit [Provided by Soul Linker]

This skill affect Crusader’s shield boomerang, not shield chain.
This skill double the damage of shield boomerang, and also reduce it’s delay time by half.
Therefore, with crusader spirit, damage dealt harshly multiplied by 4 (2 times faster delay, while doubling
damage make it 4 times more efficient)
This skill also make Shield boomerang NEVER MISS it’s target.

[d] Builds and Equipments

Swordsman skills :

Usually, crusaders, paladins, will have same swordsman skill builds. Important parts are:

Bash
Magnum Break
Increase HP recovery
One-Handed Mastery
Provoke
Endure

Just try to get what suitable to your build.

Spear Build :

This build based on AGI and STR, may also include other damage modifier stats like DEX and LUK for crits.
This build is well known good for hunting, but not really good for fighting other player.
This build is the easiest and cheapest way to get to 99 as crusader.

Stats build :

STR : you may want to get this as high as possible as a secondary stats.
AGI : you may want to get this as high as possible, or just maxed it out.
VIT : Get some to increase your HP
INT : Not necessary. Could also get some for more SP
DEX : you may want to get this not really much, as long as you can hit your enemy, everything goes well.
LUK : you may want to get some small amount, medium amount, depends on what crit rate you want.

Skill Build :

get spear mastery maxed out.
get spear quicken maxed out.
get some other support skills or passive skills (divine protection, demon bane, heal, could be good)
get peco riding, and get a peco for yourself. This changes your attribute to large, and also increase weight limit and damage dealt by spear.
get cavalier mastery maxed out.
Pressure may also work pretty well.
*Holy Cross is one good skill to consider alongside with spear build.(with all aspd spear paladins got, they can spam both holy cross and bash to enemy.)

EQs :

Head upper: STR or AGI increasing EQ’s, Feather Beret, poopoo, Beret also possible for PVP.
Head middle: Slotted Sunglasses with STR Cards(if you want to waste some money on it), Fin helm, or Fashionable EQs.
Head lower: Iron Cain, or Fashionable EQs.
Garment: Wool scarf with a lot, raydric, or whisper. Undershirt with whisper, giant whisper, or flee increasing card.
Body: Pantie (if you combo with undershirt to make +5 AGI, +10 Flee), other good armors like Meteor Plates, or you may also want padded armor combo-ed with armor charms.
Weapon: 2-handed Spears, element lances. (Spear quicken only works with 2-handed spears), ahlpiess good for fighting high def as it ignores def, and Cresent Scythe for Crits type.
Shield: no shield, space used for 2-handed spear.
Shoes: Tidal shoes (if Combo-ed with wool scarf). Greaves or boots will also do, carded with matyr or agi increasing card.
Accessories: May want Brooches with kukre, Rings with mantis, Hiding clip, horong clip, armor charm, etc

Grand Cross Build :

Grand Cross build wants you to increase many in Matk. Therefore, more INT is needed.
This build also wants you to increase either DEX or VIT, or both of them.
Main damage dealer is using Grand Cross skill.
Many also take HEAL skills together with high INT.
Remember that Crusader/Paladin ’s SP is not that much. Therefore, this build may not be really effective without map-specific warper (so that you can go back with but wings and go to the same map again with warper) This build also may be a good deal for fighting other player in PVP or WoE.
Grand Cross itself is a holy attack property. which means is great for fighting demons and undead.

Stats Build :

STR : you may want to get some, to help you carry more items. STR also affect damage dealt by grand cross.
AGI : not really necessary.
VIT : May want to get some, to increase HP, or get a large amount may also possible.
INT : Get much of this, this is main source of your Matk, in other words, this mainly increase Grand Cross’s damage.
DEX : you may want to get lot of this, or just some reasonable amount of this to make you cast faster.
LUK : well, in case you want to increase perfect dodge ability, get some. otherwise, i strongly recommend you to forget this.

Skills Build :

Get enough Holy Cross.
Get Grand Cross Maxed out.
Get some protective shield-skill.
Get Heal maybe a good choice.
Divine Protection could be good for vit users.
Pressure may also be a good choice.
Peco riding is good to helps increase weight limits.
Faith is good for increasing Max HP.

EQs :

Head upper : STR/INT increasing. Int would be more preferred. Dex increasing may also be a good choice, Damage reducing eqs may also be good.
Head middle : Slotted Sunglasses with INT Card(if you want to waste some money on it), Fin helm, or Fashionable EQs.
Head lower : Iron Cain, or Fashionable EQs.
Garment : Wool scarf with aliot, raydric.
Body : good armors like Meteor Plates, or you may also want padded armor combo-ed with armor charms. armors may be good if carded with Archdam, and other HP increasing, or property change card.
Weapon : It is said that Haedongum with 2 zippers works the best.
Shield : Shield is better carded with thara-frog.(Thara frog helps cut the feedback damage)
Shoes : Tidal shoes (if Combo-ed with wool scarf). Greaves or boots will also do, carded with matyr or green ferus.
Accessories : May want safety rings, Earrings, or armor charm also a good choice if combo-ed with padded armor.
Special Set : Try Odin’s blessing with stone buck and magni’s cap set to increase some def.

Matyr’s Reckoning Build :

This build consists of large HP.
This build also consist of large, def ignoring, neutral damage, and will never miss.
Some ghost users may take advantage of Neutral damage.
Raydric card also cut damage dealt by matyr’s reckoning.
this build usually have small SP.
Cannot hunt efficiently alone.
May be weak against Creator due to its large VIT.

Stats Build :

STR : Get some to carry more items.
AGI : Get Lots of to get good ASPD.
VIT : MAXED OUT to get large HP + Large damage output.
INT : not necessary, unless you want to get some more SP.
DEX : not necessary, unless you want faster PRESSURE Cast.
LUK : not necessary, unless you want some perfect dodge.

Skills Build :

Get maxed out Faith
Get maxed out Sacrifice
Get protective shield skills
Get some shield boomerang (to combo with weapon/armor breaker)
Get some Pressure
You may want to get spear quicken if you use spear type matyr’s reckoning
Shrink may also be a good choice if you use spear type matyr’s reckoning
INCREASING SPEAR MASTERY WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR DAMAGE.

EQs :

Head upper : Helm with grand peco, otherwise Feather beret will do pretty well.
Head middle : fin helm or Masquerade will do lots.
Head lower : Iron Cain will do for some defs.
Garment : Wool scarf with a lot, or raydric.
Body : Good armor, with peco, or element change card.
Weapon : Knife with 4 damage modifier cards will do. Spear for spear build matyr will also do.
Shield : Cranial Sacred Mission will do the best, otherwise, cranial stone buck with odin set, or cranial Shield or mirror shield will also do.
Shoes : Tidal shoes carded with matyr or Green ferus.
Accessories : May want hiding clip, horong clip, or spore necklaces. armor charm combo-ed with padded armor, or safety
rings may also be good.
Special Set : Odin’s blessing along with magni’s cap and stone buckler. add some def.

Shield Boomerang Build:

This build is powerful with helps of Soul Linker.
Easy to allocate stats,
Fast levelling.
With soul link, shield boomerang becomes very effective.

Stats Build :

STR : Maxed out, main source of damage.
AGI : Not Necessary.
VIT : May want to get some to increase HP.
INT : Get a lot if you want to go leveling.
DEX : Not necessary as long as you only use Shield Boomerang (Shield Chain needs HIT).
LUK : Not necessary unless you want some perfect dodge.

Skills Build :

Get maxed out of shield boomerang.
Getting faith may be useful.
Getting some protective shield skills maybe useful.
Get Peco Riding to make your movement more fluent.
Get some other skills that maybe useful like heal.
my suggestion is not to waste skill points with cavalier mastery as you don’t need to attack anymore.

EQs :

Head upper : Magni’s Cap, other STR increasing.
Head middle : Masquerade to help you deal more damage.
Head lower : Iron Cain will do for some defs.
Garment : Wool scarf with a lot.
Body : Good armor, with peco, or element change card, you may also want to try archdam card.
Weapon : Knife with 4 damage modifier cards will do. Spear for spear build matyr will also do.
Shield : Stone buckler for combo with odin’s, or Strong shield carded with tamruan for more damage.
Shoes : Tidal shoes carded with matyr or Green ferus.
Accessories : May want hiding clip, horong clip, or spore necklaces. armor charm combo-ed with padded armor, or safety rings may also be good.

Shield Chain Build :

This build is a high damage deal, and is a derivation of Shield boomerang build.
This build is a fast killer, but also require some dex.
remember that damage dealt will always be neutral.

Stats Build :

STR : Maxed out, main source of damage
AGI : Not Necessary.
VIT : May want to get some to increase HP.
INT : may want some to increase SP.
DEX : Get enough dex to HIT your enemy, may also make your cast faster.
LUK : Not necessary unless you want to add some perfect dodge.

Skills Build :

Get some protective shield skills.
Get peco riding.
do not waste your skill point by getting cavalier mastery.
Get Shield Boomerang.
Get Shield Chain maxed out.
Get Pressure.
Getting Faith may be a good choice.

EQs :

Head upper : Magni’s Cap, other STR increasing.
Head middle : Masquerade to help you deal more damage.
Head lower : Iron Cain will do for some defs.
Garment : Wool scarf with aliot.
Body : Good armor, with peco, or element change card, archdam card may also be good.
Weapon : Knife with 4 damage modifier cards will do. Spear for spear build matyr will also do.
Shield : Strong Shield, either carded with tamruan, or thara frog. Stone buckler may also improves your damage.
Shoes : Tidal shoes carded with matyr or Green ferus.
Accessories : May want hiding clip, horong clip, or spore necklaces. armor charm combo-ed with padded armor, or safety rings may also be good.
Special Set : Odin’s Blessing with magni’s cap and stone buckler.

Devotion Build :

This build will focus on supporting party members in hunt, or MVPs.
This build is a heart of the team while MVPing.
not only having high HP, this build also have great Def.
Therefore, instead of only devoting, one can also try to tank MVP by himself. (see video attached)

Stats Build :

STR : Get some to carry more items.
AGI : Get some flee.
VIT : Get this maxed out, more HP, survive longer.
INT : In case of MDef, get more.
DEX : Get reasonable dex, to help you cast devotion.
LUK : Not necessary unless you want some Perfect dodge.

Skill Build :

Get peco riding, but i don’t think it’s necessary to get cavalier mastery.
Get Maxed protective shield skills.
You may want to get maxed divine protection regarding some MVPs are demons and also undead.
You may want to get heal to help yourself.
Battlechant may also be a good choice since it’s a double sided advantageous.
Get Maxed out Faith.
If you have some skill points left, it’s a good option to add for some Pressure.

EQs :

Head upper : Slotted Helm with specific damage reducing cards.
Head middle : Fin Helm is a must.or sunglasses with specific damage reducing cards may also possible.
Head lower : Iron Cain will do for some defs.
Garment : Wool scarf with raydric or specific damage reducing.
Body : Good armor, with peco, or element change card.
Weapon : Knife with 4 fabre will be very good.
Shield : Sacred Mission or shield or stone buckler with specific damage reducing card. valkryie shield with frigg’s circlet also good.
Shoes : Tidal shoes carded with matyr or green ferus.
Accessories : May want hiding clip, horong clip, or spore necklaces. armor charm combo-ed with padded armor, or safety rings may also be good.
Special set : Odin’s blessing with magni’s cap and stone buckler. Otherwise, trying Valkryie Shield with odin’s blessing and Frigg’s circlet may also be a good choice.

[e] Sample Builds

This section will provide you with some sample of paladin’s builds. This section will only shown sample of stats and skills build. I hope this could help players a lot in determine the best stats for Paladins. Remember, I will not provide you the equipments info, however, the stats provided here will be best if followed by proper Equipments. I will also provide you with general knowledge about status that i haven’t told in the Status Review Section.
Please read this before continue to the sample builds.

General Knowledge about Stats point

STR= Will be efficient while the multiply of 10.
AGI= 1 point = 1 increase in flee, per 4-10 points depends on your classes for 1 ASPD point(Constantly add 0.xx per AGI)
VIT= Have no “multiply-of effect”
INT= Multiply of 6 for SP Regen, and Multiply of 5 for MATK.
DEX= Multiply of 10 for Attack Constancy and increase in attack. No Multiply for HIT. Constantly add some ASPD.
LUK= Multiply of 3 for Crits, Multiply of 5 for Perfect dodge.

Sample Builds (click on an icon below for a screenshot of the sample build)

[f] Leveling Method

This leveling Method is the best way and the fastest to achieve Paladin FOR ME. There may also be faster method than these, but with this i think i can already level very fast. well, just try first, it’s kind of boring . . . but still quite good. here we go . . .

LV 1-20 : Start in novice training ground.
LV 20-30: Payon Dungeon is a really good place.
LV 30-50: Try Orc Dungeon 1, or also Vadon in Bibilan Island Lv 2. Otherwise, Thara frogs in Comodo East Cave seems to be the best way.
LV 50-60: Places for 30-50 still fast, but you could also challenge yourself to bibilan Island Lv 3. There is also a chance of getting fin helm. ** you may also want to consider toy factory 1 and 2, fighting cookies and myst case. Lots of good stuff to sell over there, like piece of cakes, which could make you rich =p.
LV 60-70: as Crusader, Mob with GC in Orc Dungeon 1 or 2.
LV 70-80: Do some quest with both job exp + base exp like Rachel Sanctuary quest, etc.
Lv 80-99: RESET (if your server has reset NPC), change to Shield boomerang type, get some heavy shield, and go to Rachel Dungeon until 99.

After rebirth, you might have some money to spend for better Equipments [Strong Shield is now available]. Well, begin as novice with stats point pumped to STR. and here we go again . . .

LV 1-10 : Start in Hidden Temple.
LV 20-30: Still in Hidden Temple, kill some snakes and higher level monster.
LV 40-65: GO to the entrance of Orc Dungeon, save your position to kafra near the entrance, and start mobbing Orc lady in that place, until you become a paladin. If you still pumped on STR, and only small amount of dex and vit, there will be no problems to levels till 99.
LV 70-99: Back to Rachel Dungeon 1 and 2. kill some more vanberk and isilla, and also finish all remaining quest.
After reach 99, you may want to continue your hunt till job 70 [recommended] or reset your stats and skills to one of the specific type. (cause you pump only to STR, some DEX and INT only while leveling)

[g] PVP Tacts
This PVP Tacts consider that you are using types suitable for VSing each of other classes listed below.

General Tacts :
Always activate Shield Reflect, auto guards while in duel. Activate Defending Aura while defending, but you may also find it hard to chase while defending aura is active. Therefore, de-activate it while Chasing. Shrink maybe useful for some types, except for matyr’s reckoning with knife (as you may find it hard to deal short range damage if your enemy keep pushed back)

VS Lord Knight :
Activation of Defending Aura may prevent their spirals. Overall, it’s only matter of HP. Best way to fight this type seems to use the matyr’s reckoning build since it’s always ignore def, ignore flee, etc. Also, be aware of their Parry.
Against Bowling bash type, AutoGuard and shield reflect will help you. shield chain and shield boomerang may also be useful since it’s long range attack, but since def of LK is usually good, shield chain and shield boomerang may not work pretty well. Keeping a distance may also be useful. smite will work pretty well on keeping distance between you and LKs.

VS Paladin :
Only the matter of luck. Shield Chain type may win faster since there’s also chance of Matyr’s being blocked. Ghostring card also decide who is winning since all of their skills (except Grand Cross) are Neutral.

VS High Wizard :
Fully Equipped Wizard is really hard to be dealt damage. This happens also because of their magic coat. .Storm Gust could be a problem since it could be combo-ed with Jupiter thunder. Unfrozen Armor (Marc Card probably is the best way to prevent their Storm Gust). Remember, Provoke could cancel casting process. using provoke to them while getting close might be a good way. Using either shield chain or shield boomerang, or also matyr’s reckoning will be ok as long as they don’t deal magic to you. never let your guard down against this class, since they can also cast jupiter thunder in no time. Safety wall, for matyr’s reckoning type might be problematic. But shield chain and shield boomerang will smash them away.

VS Professor :
Dispel, is a serious problem to you. Being caught in fiber lock + stone curse + Double bolt + Fire bolt, is also a big problem. Killing them from such a distance will be much preferred, as it takes some time to get close. However, due to their high def and magic coat, it supposed to be harder to finish them. if you want to risk yourself using matyr’s reckoning, you should be prepared for their combo on firebolt (as matyr’s reckoning is a short range skill). Using evil druid card, will prevent you by being caught off in stone curse, but may also make fire bolt deal more damage.

VS Sniper :
The best thing sniper can do to you is to reduce your HP using Falcon Assault. The other thing seems not that good as long as you have Defending Aura turned on. By using matyr’s reckoning, or shield chain (shield boomerang also highly recommended). Be ware for their traps, since traps could cause some status effect or damage to your character.

VS Clown :
For Clown, the most thing you should care is their tarot, and also Frost joke (unbarring octave). This is not a class you should be worry. Spamming Shield boomerang, and usage of shield chain seems to be the most proper way to deal damage.

VS Gypsy :
Gypsy is similar with Clown. The only difference gypsy have is Scream instead of Clown’s frost joke. Normally, stun have no great impact to paladins due to their large vit. The only thing paladin should fear from these job is their tarot. Using defending aura will block their arrow vulcan, however status arrow (freezing arrow, etc) sometimes still annoying as they group with finisher like champ or anything else.

VS High Priest :
It is hard (nearly impossible) for them to kill you. All you need to do is just keep spamming Matyr’s Reckoning, shield chain, or boomerang to kill them. You may also want to ignore this job, as if they have a great healing ability, and good damage reducing gear, you will need some time to kill this class. This may result of your character being targeted by other dangerous class such as champion, or professor.

VS Champion :
This is the most fearful class. Fortunately, as a paladin, you could push your luck against this job. Usage of autoguard may hold their asuras. Other skill like occult impact, or spirit throw may have some severe damage to you. Finishing them as soon as possible will take a risk of you being killed. Using Shield chain, or shield boomerang seems the best way to kill this job. Shield reflect will not reduce your chance to die because of asura strike, but this will also reflect damage to them.

VS Whitesmith :
This class also has a good damage output. Try to keep some distance by using smite or magnum break, then use shield chain or shield boomerang to try finishing them off. The main key is to keep distance, since all of Whitesmith’s attack and skills are short-range. Meltdown might also be very problematic. Always watch your equipment.B ring a spare eq or two will be useful against this job.

VS Creator :
Creator is the worst nightmare to be fought with paladin. However, you might try to kill this job, or just forget/avoid this job being in duel with you. in Case if you get some vit, they will do pretty much damage to your character. you also have to care for their child, the homunculus. some got vanilmirth with extraordinary matk, could also be dangerous to your character. finishing their homunculus MIGHT make them caught-off-guard and use homunculus resurrection. While resurrecting their homunculus, you might have enough time to finish them with shield boomerang as well as shield chain. also be aware that they can do potion pitching to themselves as well to their homunculus. Matyr’s reckoning build seems not appropriate to fight this classes (due to it’s high vit). And the best way to fight this class is using Shield boomerang/Shield chain build, as you can spam the skill to both the homunculus and the creator. Well geared creator could kill you in 2/3 Acid Bombs. The main point here is to know the highest damage they could deal to you, and be prepared for the risk.

VS Assassin Cross :
Be sure to equip your hiding + horong gears. This is the most tricky class. Their Sonic Blow deals a great damage and could finish you in 1 blow, but if this happen, they may have 80-90% of their health being ripped of as well due to shield reflect. Since assassins use katars, they cannot have cranial gears at the same time. you may want to make a gap with this char, but it might be a little bit hard to spam shield boomerang to them, since they got hiding skills, but if you try to chase them, be sure to get them off-guard. Usage of matyr’s reckoning seems become the best way (since you can also sight them to prevent cloaking) but this will cause you to use lots of healing items. In other case, combination of shield chain and shield boomerang could be also good. The main key here is to know their cloaking pattern/movement. Once you get them off-guard, try to finish them ASAP with your skills.
For Soul Destroyer type, you really have to chase them, since they’re long-range attacker. Standard Soul Destroyer may deal small damage to you (because of high mdef and def paladin have), but, killing this type maybe problematic since you may found some of them only do some hit-and-run. Chasing them might not be dangerous (if they don’t use Ice Pick. Otherwise, Ice pick will really kill you.

VS Stalker :
Be aware to their Full-strip. This may results in disability to kill the enemy. be aware if you were targeted, always care for their footprints (while using stalks ability). overall, this shouldn’t be a problem to paladin.

VS Super Novice :
Be sure to finish them ASAP, before they cast some funny skills against you. Their HP is not that big, it should be no problem to finish them.

VS Gunslinger :
no worries against this job, just be sure that you’re not getting locked. Defending Aura will do the defensive maneuver for you, make you lot easier to kill them.

VS Ninja :
Be aware of their locking skills. Their Finishing blow could also be dangerous. Cicada skin is the most annoying skill they ever have, if ninjas keep cast this, almost all of pally’s skill couldn’t touch them. The only way you can do some damage is by spamming Gloria Domini against them. Their HP is not that high, and their SP will drains out to 0 by casting LV 4 Gloria Domini 3 times.

VS Taekwon boy/girl(Ranker) :
Their HP is big. Their attack is fast. Be sure to slowly finish them, not get locked much, and also activate Autoguard and other protective skills. shrink may be a good choice, since it will push them back 2 cells, and stop their combo so you can start beat them off.

VS Taekwon Master / Star Gladiator :
Be sure not to get locked by their heat, and also try to get the best time to attack. Their SP shouldn’t last long, so after a while, you supposed to be able to beat them. Shield boomerang must be the best way to finish them off. using smite may be also useful (keeping distance). Magnum Break might also be useful because it’s instant to counter their flying kick. Shield chain and shield boomerang seems to be the best way to fight against Star Gladiator.

VS Soul Linker :
This class in pvp only works as supporter. They can’t really do anything to you (except in using support skills). However, killing soul linkers in PVP or WoE is still a good choice cause if they party with some other classes, the other will become more tough than before because of Soul linkers’ support skills. They don’t have a big HP, therefore killing them shouldn’t be a problem.

[h] WoE Tacts

There are 2 role paladins play at WoE.

The First one is Guardian. Paladin as guardian have a job to protect the guild master and guild members. Doing some devotion is a must, while singing battle chant will give some supports and give enemies bad-buffs (could also cast coma against them). While doing devotion and some healing, paladin could still be able to cast some pressure on enemies. As a guardian, paladin also play a role as tanker. In an assault to enemy’s castle, paladin should stand in the front, and make sure enemies target him the first, so the others can focus on assaulting, or killing enemies.

The Second role is as an assaulter. Paladin have a big damage output, therefore it makes this class suitable for assaulting. Paladin is a very effective class against lower-HP class. As an assaulter, paladin carry responsibilities in killing lower-HP jobs in both defending and offending parts of WoE.
As a guild leader, Paladin should rush to the targeted spot, and make a fast emergency call. Paladins have great HP, their survival rate supposed to be high enough to do emergency call. With helps from frilldora/smokie card, one should be able to sneak in and cast an emergency call.

[ i ] Battle Mode

Battle mode is a system that grants you ability to use 3 shortcut bar at the same time.
Battle mode can be activated typing /bm command in Chat box.
Get used to battle mode is a little bit hard, but it is essential for everyone to get used to the battle mode, as gear changing, healing/supportive item usage, and skills usage will become more efficient.

This is how it works.

There are 3 rows in battle mode, resembling 3 hotkey bars.

The top row is used for the 2nd hotkey bar.
The mid row is used for the 3rd hotkey bar.
The bottom row is used for the 1st hotkey bar.

For Example :

<==>The top row on the keyboard

<==>The mid row on the keyboard

<==>The bottom row on the keyboard

Remember, you can’t type messages while using battlemode unless you press enter once.
In conclusion, changing between battlemode and typing mode (by pressing enter) is pretty dangerous.
(you may end up typing qqqqqqqqqq while trying to spam white pot, or wasting many of your item while trying to type a message. )

[i] Final Overviews

Long story short, Paladin is one of best class up until now. The only weakness that should be considered a lot is most of it’s attack are neutral. However, paladin is one of easiest class to be played and good to train one’s leadership and teamwork skill.

[j] Credits

Credits and Copyrights :

Copyright to this guide goes to me JianYi, WarGod, or Bloodysabath (these all are my names on inet)
Credits of the information contained on this guide mostly goes to RateMyServer.net and irowiki.com
My Greatest Gratitude for Gravity Corp. as well as legacyRO that provides me server to play.

Special Thanks :

- *for toxicogami that reminds me of spear-holy cross-build.
- **Heavens Mercenary for leveling in toy factory (almost forget that one important thing mate =p)
- To all readers and respondents. Thanks for your support.

[k] Author’s Words

After everything, Paladin is a nearly perfect job. However, with supported EQs and some skills, one can easily learn how to be a great Paladin. Up until now, many player choose to play assassin cross, or Lord Knight, or also Sniper. This finally moves my heart to try and convince players to play paladin.

The aim of this guide is to help beginners, as well as someone already plays a paladin but still want to know about the more in-depth details. This is why i try to avoid this guide to make people learn about a pro-like paladins. I think pro people really have their own style, and it cannot be copied by anyone. A person should have a different ideas and thought on their own and, to be a pro player is not meant by becoming like a pro player in terms of EQs, Skill build, Stats build, or anything else. Honestly, i think one should learn to become a pro by himself. And a true-pro will never satisfied by his/her outcome. Therefore, he/she will always try to be better and better as time goes on. And it is this guide’s purpose to help them become better and better.

Why the title i chose was Striving to perfectness? because i will keep editing and fixing this guide, along with my plans on my char (also paladin . . lol). I’m sorry if there’s so many mistake in the guide, and i really hope i can fix everything up one day including the grammatical error, etc. Well, I’ll keep this guide updated with latest issues, and also do the lay-outing to make this crap better. Lol, my kind regards to every of readers read this guide. thx.

An Introduction to WOE Second Edition (WOE 2.0) by famiong

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:04:00 +0000

Introduction

1. This guide is written based on WOE 2.0 on my current server (tRO). Currently we have only one WOE 2.0 castle available which is Himinn Castle in the Schwaltzvalt Realm or Nidhoggur Realm( Bottom Right Castle, or Schwaltzvalt Castle No 1). It can be accessible from Yuno town, one map West of Yuno town.

2. It’s very likely there will be some differences between tRO and your server due to customization on either side. I highly advice you to check with your server’s GM for confirmation.

3. At the point of writing, Gravity continues to tweak WOE 2.0. The latest changes made on iRO is weakening of the Guardians. Not all aspects of WOE 2.0 are the same on all the official servers. There are small differences among them.

What are the major differences between WOE 2.0 and WOE 1.0?
1. Castles are much larger in size.

2. Castles only have one portal which is at the castle entrance. So, there will be no pre-cast at Emperium Room or Portal Casting.

3. WOE 2.0 Guardians are much stronger. Their strengths are similar to those found at Thor Volcano.

4. WOE 2.0 castle comes with more defensive structures.

5. The Guild Leader don’t need to pay zenies to hire Guardians. The Guardians will be spawn by the Guardian Stones. However, the Guild still needs to invest in the Guardian Research Skill.

6. At the beginning of WOE 2.0, there will be no defensive structures. The Guild Leader/a Guild Member will have to construct the defenses. (So, during non WOE hours, you will not see Guardians walking around in the WOE 2.0 castle)

7. Normal WOE protocol applies - no knock back, reduce in damage, reduce in flee, cannot cast Ice Wall, etc… in addition to these normal WOE protocols, TK class cannot perform High Jump.

8. Introducing Link Flags to move quickly inside the castle for the members of the Castle Owner.

9. The old strategy of taking the emperium hostage and breaking it the last minute can no longer be applied.

10. It takes more than 2 minutes to get to the Emperium if all the castle defenses are up. Sending in a sole Assassin Cross for a last minute break will not work.

Fortress Gate

1. Looks identical to a series of Barricade, but its invulnerable to any form of attacks. It’s the first line of defence blocking any intruders from reaching the Emperium directly.

2. The only way to lift the Fortress Gate is to destroy both of the Guardian Stones.

3. You can raise back the Fortress Gate by repairing both the Guardian Stones.

Guardian Stones1. Each castle have two Guardian Stones.

2. Unlike the emperium, you can use any skills on the Guardian Stones. Examples: Heal, Kyrie Elisen, Eske, Storm Gust, Soul Breaker, Asura

3. When one of them is destroyed, an announcement will be made. And the Guardians which were spawn by that stone which is now destroyed will also vanished.

4. When both of the Guardian Stones are destroyed, another announcement informing the players that the Fortress Gate has been lifted will be made.

5. The Guardian Stones can be repaired, but only after 5 minutes after it was destroyed.

6. Any guild member can create/repair the Guardian Stone. Make sure these items are in your inventory when talking to the NPC.

Oridecon (1)
Elunium (1)
Stone (30)
Blue Gemstones (5)
Red Gemstones (5)
Yellow Gemstones (5)

7. When repairing/creating a Guardian Stone, each piece needs to be assembled in the proper order as prompted by the NPC.

8. The guild member must place the corresponding gemstones based on the visual display by the NPC. A red, blue, or green aura will need to be matched up with the corresponding color gemstones (use the yellow gemstone for the green aura). The guild member will have to match up several times.

9. When all the pieces are correctly assembled, the Guardian Stone will re-appear and the initial Guardians will spawn immediately (number of Guardians spawn will depend on the Castle Defense Level). If a step was performed incorrectly, you may loose some materials and have to start over again.

10. To continue the Guardian spawning process, the Guild Leader would have to talk to the NPC Guardian in the Emp Room (NPC Ef). The Guild Leader only have to instruct this NPC once to continue spawning of Guardians. This NPC is also able to debrief the Guild Leader on the status of the castle defenses.

Guardians1. There’s only one type. They are known as Sword Guardian.

2. As you can see they are about 5 times stronger than the Knight Guardians you used to see in WOE 1.0 (more attack power and more HP)

3. Like all guardians its a monster. So, you can buff it, Their only attack is close ranged neutral melee attack. On my server, aGhostring card and a Deviling card will substantially reduce their attack power.

4. They are by default Boss Protocol. Immune to status. Able to detect any hidden players.

5. Mi Gao card and Elder card do not work on these WOE 2.0 Guardians. However, Thara Frog card, Hydra card, Abysmal Knight card and Alice card will work against them.

6. At present, the Build up the Guardian Skill do not apply to these Guardians. Even though we know them as Guardians, its coded as Boss Protocol monsters.

7. The initial number of Guardians spawned at the beginning of WOE will depend on the Castle Defense Level.

0 - 30 Castle Defense Level: 2 Guardians per Guardian Stone

31 - 50 Castle Defense Level: 3 Guardians per Guardian Stone

51 - 70 Castle Defense Level: 4 Guardians per Guardian Stone

71 - 100 Castle Defense Level: 5 Guardians per Guardian Stone

8. One new Guardian per Guardian Stone will be spawned after an interval of 5, 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes respectively. After 60 minutes of successfully defending the castle, the defending guild will have anywhere between 14 to 20 Guardians.

9. In a situation when there is more than 2 Guardians per Guardian Stone, once a Guardian dies, it will have to wait for the next spawn time before it can be re-spawned. However, when there is only 2 Guardians per Guardian Stone and they got taken out, they will respawn immediately. (i.e. at any one time, there should be a minimum of 2 Guardians per Guardian Stone)

Barricade 1. There’s a total of three barricades blocking the path of any intruders between the Fortress Gate and the Emperium.

2. Made up of a series of Barricades preventing anyone from crossing it until its all destroyed. You can cast over the Barricades.

3. Unlike the emperium, you can use any skills on the Barricades. Examples: Heal, Kyrie Elisen, Eske, Storm Gust, Soul Breaker, Asura

4. They too can be repaired/created, but only by the Guild Leader of the guild controlling the castle. Make sure these items are in your inventory when talking to the NPC (Control Device).

Trunk (30)
Steel (10)
Emveretarcon (10)
Oridecon (5)

5. Each component needs to be added several times to the barricade in a random order. You’ll have to pay attention to the specific text que’s in order to properly rebuild the barricade. Barricades must be repaired in order, starting with the one closest to the Emp Room (NPC: Control Device No 3)

6. Once you use all the pieces correctly, the barricade will re-appear. In most cases if you use the incorrect items the rebuilding process will end then and you will have to restart.

Link Flags1. There are three types of flags as far as I am concern.
- The two flags outside the Castle, which will teleports you directly to the Emp Room.

- At the back of the Emp Room, there’s a row of ten flags. Each of this flag will teleport the user to a location somewhere inside the castle. I will call these “Link Flags”

- Any other flags foundinside the castle (besides those ten behind the Emp Room), will teleport you only to the EmpRoom. Some have your Guild emblem on them, others don’t. They both work the same.

2. Only Guild Members of the Castle Owner can use any of these flag.

3. Where does the Link Flags lead you to?

LF-01: First and Second Guardian Stones.
LF-02: Zones 1-1 and 1-2 (between the entrance and the Guardian Stones)
LF-03: Zones 1-3 and 1-4 (between the entrance and the Fortress Gate)
LF-04: Zones 2-1 and 2-2 (in front of the First Barricade)
LF-05: Zones 2-3 and 2-4 (between the First Barricade andthe Second)
LF-06: Zones 3-1 and 3-2 (between the Second and Third Barricades)
LF-07: Zones 1-1, 2-1, and 3-1
LF-08: Zones 1-2, 2-2, and 3-2
LF-09: Zones 1-4 and 2-4
LF-10: Convenience Center (Kafra employee and NPC Steward for Treasure Room)

4. Convenience Center - It even comes with a nice green garden for you to relax during a fierce battle. There are no flags inside the Convenience Center, so the only way out is the portal which led you in the first place. And where does this portal lead to? Nope… not the emp room,… it will be as if you were entering the castle from the outside. So, yeah… it will be like walking thru the only portal in the castle - at the entrance. (better tell your hunters to remove traps… )

Castle Announcement
The 1st Guardian Stone has been repaired successfully
The 2nd Guardian Stone has been repaired successfully
Both Guardian Stones have been erected, bolstering this stronghold’s defenses

When a Guardian Stone is constructed, an initial number of Guardians will spawn immediately depending on the Castle Defense Level. When both Guardian Stones are erected, the Fortress Gate will also be erected (Invulnerable to any form of attack)

The 1st Guardian has been summoned from the Gate House
The 2nd Guardian has been summoned from the Gate House
The 3rd Guardian has been summoned from the Gate House
The 4th Guardian has been summoned from the Gate House
The 5th Guardian has been summoned from the Gate House

An additional Guardian will be summoned by each Guardian Stone in five intervals - after 5 minutes (1st Guardian), 15 minutes (2nd Guardian), 30 minutes (3rd Guardian), 45 minutes (4th Guardian) and finally after 60 minutes (5th Guardian). The Guild Leader will have to speak to the NPC in the Emp Room to begin the spawning of Guardians.

The 1st Barricade has been reconstructed
The 2nd Barricade has been reconstructed
The 3rd Barricade has been reconstructed

Barricades has been erected. Some announcements may refer to them as 1st Fortress Gate, 2nd Fortress Gate and 3rd Fortress Gate.

The 1st Guardian Stone has been destroyed!
The 2nd Guardian Stone has been destroyed!
All of the Guardian Stones have been destroyed!

When a Guardian Stone is destroyed, all Guardians summoned by that Guardian Stone will also be lost. When both Guardian Stones are destroyed, the Fortress Gate will also be lifted giving access to any intruders to the 1st Barricade.

The 1st Barricade is destroyed
The 2nd Barricade is destroyed
The 3rd Barricade is destroyed

When the 3rd Barricade is destroyed, the intruders will be able to reach the Emperium.

The Emperium has been shattered

The castle has been captured by a new owner.

Rebuild this stonghold’s Guardian Stones and Fortress Gates to secure your guild’s new aquisition

With each new owner, the castle defenses will have to be reconstructed.

Guild DungeonsWhat is a castle without a dungeon? Two new dungeons are introduced - Arunafeltz Guild Dungeon (Rachel) and Schwaltzvalt Guild Dungeon (Yuno) which are only accessible to members of the Guild who are controlling the castles in these realms. All other Guild Dungeon setup applies.

Schwaltzvalt Guild DungeonCobalt Mineral
Heavy Metaling
Zakudam
Hell Apocalypse
Kublin (MVP)

Unfortunately, I was not able to access the Schwaltzvalt Guild Dungeon due to a current bug with the NPC on my server. So, I thought, maybe I could leave you with some information about Arunafeltz Guild Dungeon instead. The Arunafeltz Realm or Valfreyja Realm is located two maps south of Rachel town.

Arunafeltz Guild Dungeon

Fanat

Aunoe

Beholder Master

Banshee Master is a Shadow property monster. Shadow 206? I think it should be a negative 200 (just ignore). Banshee Master is weak against Holy.

Kublin (MVP)

Hunter/Sniper FAQ & Guide (Lowrate) By Ramzah

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:37:00 +0000

1. The Class
2. The Pros/Cons
3. Skills
4. Job quests
5. Leveling tips
6. Common/rare items most Snipers use.
7. Builds.
8. Questions & Answers.

*NOTE*
This guide is the result of many-many-many years of playing RO as an hunter and then as sniper (when i went to un-officials), as such, i’ve spent quite some time making it/correcting it and i keep updating it with the new things i find out/or people tells me (you learn something every day, even after years of playing).
This said, if you want to put my guide on your forum/site or any other kind of public thing, you can feel free to do it, as long as you give me credit for it and send me an e-mail with a link to the site/forum (ramzah@hotmail.it), i won’t call S.W.A.T. if you steal my guide of course… But still… Why would you have to steal other’s doing to get praised for something you never did?
*END OF THE NOTE (Time to get started…)*

1. The Class -
Hunter/sniper is a very eintertaining job to play with if you get used to it, it doesn’t have high hp, but long ranged attacks and traps makes it a dangerous enemy in pvp and pvm.
I’d say hunter has the most survivability over most classes pvm.
Also, when you turn sniper you will get the powerful Falcon Assault and True Sight skills, with them you can oneshot most classes (even trans if not well-equipped).

Job Bonus Status Points At JLV 50(Hunter):
STR +4
AGI +6
VIT +2
INT +4
DEX +10
LUK +4

Job Bonus Status Points At JLV 70(Sniper):
STR +4
AGI +11
VIT +3
INT +5
DEX +14
LUK +8

2. The Pros/Cons -
Pros-
They have great survivability if played well, can kill MVPs even at early levels (I was killing Atroce as level 70-80 hunter).
Ankle Snare is your best friend for pvm and pvp (versus melee), it can stop MVPs and mini-bosses (for half time but still works..), after ankle snare comes Shockwave Trap, your best friend for pvp against magic users, 2-3 of those and you can kill any monk/priest/crusader.
LOTS, and i repeat.. LOTS of possible builds and variety, we could say snipers has got a build for every situation…

Cons-
Very poor hp, a level 90 sniper with 1 vit only gets about 5k hp, cannot do much other than trapping the emperium room in woe due to long range redux, it tends to die easily in pvp if you use any build different than FA (with bow you can’t use shields..).

3. Skills
For a list of Hunter/Sniper skills, visit http://ratemyserver.net/skill_sim.php?jid=4012

4. Job Quests
For information about Archer/Hunter job quests, visit http://ratemyserver.net/quest_db.php?type=60000

5. Leveling Tips -
First 10 levels as novice aren’t hard, just stick to novice grounds untill you are job lvl 10, use your novice potions and you’ll be just fine.
You can now turn archer, do the quest and get ready to go to payon dungeon!
Inside payon dungeon, kill the skeletons and zombies with silver arrows, when you get level 10 double strafing, you can start off killing Poporings and other stuff.
Focus on maxing dex for now and keep leveling in payon dungeon or you can get fire arrows and try Floras in Prontera Field, untill you are about lvl 40, now get your fire arrows (you can buy them at sunken ship dungeon) and go to either Einbroch or louyang (i prefer Einbroch since less ppl go there and Geograpers can’t move, also, there are no mantis around, but if you get bored you can move from a place to the other one.)
Go 1 map north of einbroch or 1 map south of louyang.
Kill everything in sight untill you are high enough to become hunter, do the quest and go back to geographers! xD
Yeah, this will be boring, but worth it…
(TIP: If in your server there is a warp to ice dungeon, you can go there and kill muscipulars, they’r better than geos since they die faster and give just a little less exp, but bring flywings for gryphons and galliones!)
Once you turn hunter, you stick to geographers/muscipulars a little more, untill you get ankle snare, once you get that skill, you can go everywhere you want without help! :)
You can go nifflheim, Glast Heim prison, Clock Tower, Sphinx level 4, Abbey, Rachel dungeon.. everywhere you like and you get good exp.

*NOTE*
I exped at Geos till level 97 (yeah 97..) and i’ve found out that they are best exp, since you can kill them in almost no time, and they give good exp (about 0.04% per kill).
*NECESSARY NOTE: When i exped to geos till level 97 the geos map was BUGGED, geos kept spawning in the bottom right corner, since the bug is now fixed you might want to go for Anubises.*
*UPDATE*: For higher level monsters you might want to go to Anubises untill they give you decent exp and you have maxed your job level, then you can go to Odin temple and/or Thanatos higher floors (Traps are a must).

Then i went to Thor dungeon with party.
(With a priest and both of you using Pasana + Fire elemental resist potion it shouldn’t be a problem, if you have assumptio the potion is not required.)
*UPDATE*: Best gear for Thor Dungeon- (You can solo in there with this gear at an high enough level).
Ulle’s Cap - Nightmare Card
Panties[1] - Pasana Card
Undershirt[1] - Jakk Card
Burning Bow - No Card
Brooch[1]x2 - Kukre Card
Binoculars/Sunglasses[1] - Nightmare card
Fricco’s Shoes/Boots[1] - Iron Fist Card

Once you reborn, repeat all the process..

MISC. TIPS -
When you get ankle snare, always try to fight slow monsters, so you have time to trap, and if they are fast, make a column/line of traps, so as soon as 1 disappear, they get trapped again, rinse and repeat..
(I kill most quick minibosses this way, just recently killed thanatos minions alone with this trick.)

Arrow Shower trapping -
When you place a trap, if you arrow shower on it, it will move!
This can turn quite usefull in pvp if you learn how to do it well (I AM DA TRAP MASTA!).
*NECESSARY NOTE: In WoE you can not knockback other players nor be knockbacked, this applies to traps too, so you can not move traps in WoE*

EXAMPLE:
You are fighting a priest, he pneuma, what do you do now? “Eww! i’m screwed!”
You simply put a shockwave or a land mine between you and him, arrow shower between you and the trap, and the trap will go toward the priest hitting him!
I killed countless pneuma users this way.

Mine Stacking - “OMG?”
This is an application of the Arrow Shower Trapping trick, it is mostly used with land mines.

*NOTE*
Because of the formulas/Modifiers, Land Mines results in the strongest damaging-traps of your skill set.

Let’s get to the interesting part…
Moving a trap is simple, but, what if you move a trap, place another trap where the other was, and arrow shower it ON TOP of the other one?? “W00tz! They stack!”
Exactly, this way, you can oneshot everything and i mean EVERYTHING! Even Game Masters (If they have legit equips of course..).
After stacking enough mines (Max is about 20-25 be4 they start to turn back to traps), you can move them all at once, that means you can move about 20 traps under some1 and… “BOOM!”

*NOTE: Counting that every Land Mine does roughly 2k dmg (with the right build/equip), 2k*20 = 40k dmg!!!

*SECONDARY STACKING TRICKS*
If you are facing some melee character in pvp (Whitesmiths or berserk lord knights are a good example.), and they have little to none vit but they have high agi (After some testing it looks like agi REDUCES ankle snare trapping time, need confirmation on this one.)
You can do the following trick:
Ankle snare the opponent (let’s make it a whitesmith), the whitesmith won’t be able to hit you if you’r not in range, but he will soon get out of the trap, if he has very little vit, you can do this: Ankle snare -> SANDMAN TRAP him to make him sleep (The chance and duration of sleep is reduced by vit/luk), then pile up in this order: -> 5-6 land mines and 1 Sandman trap.
This way the opponent will get the big damage from land mines (taking our previous example: 2k*5 = 10k dmg) and if he’s still alive he will be put directly back to sleep!!

6. Common/rare items most snipers use -
It greatly depends on your build, so i’ll put everything in the builds section.

7. Builds - *UPDATED*
As i said be4, sniper has a lot of possible builds and applications of each build, but here are the main ones with theyr stats at level 99:

AGI/DEX -
STR 10
AGI 99
VIT 3
INT 20
DEX 99
LUK 1

Comment -
This build can easily reach 190 aspd with the right equip, you choose whether to go for agi or dex equip, but i’d go dex geared over agi for more dmg.

Gear -
Head - Apple of Archer (^.^) or if you want agi, ulle’s hat with nightmare card in it/Sunglasses with nightmare card for agi, sunglasses with elder willow for dex (the card gives int).
Body - Panties for agi, tight/odin’s blessing with marc/pasana/swordfish/peco card
Weapon -
Rudra Bow if you have the will/money to get it, Else a gakkung bow with anything in it is just fine. Composite bow[4] with 2 hydra and 2 skeleton worker cards for pvp (NOT 3 hydra/1 skel worker).
Garment -
Undershirt for agi, Falcon muffler/slotted garment or anything for dex.
Shoes -
Fricco Shoes (aka Freya’s Shoes) for agi, anything for dex.
Accessories - Brooches with kukre cards for agi or Vesper Cores, gloves with zerom cards for dex.

Falconer Build -
STR 1
AGI 60
VIT 1
INT 74
DEX 70
LUK 70

Comment -
Quite powerful indeed, do not understimate it’s power, it has low aspd but falcon does huge damage and attacks quite often.
It’s downside is, due to low vit/agi, it doesn’t dodge at all and have very poor hp (at lvl 99 6100 hp), so you most likely will use traps a lot, or have a priest to support you, still, this kind of sniper can be deadly vs mobs, another downside is it won’t damage ghost at all…

Gear -
Head - Apple of Archer or ulle’s hat with Elder willow card/Binoculars/Sunglasses with elder willow.
Body - Tight/odin’s blessing with rocker/marc/pasana/peco card
Weapon - Rudra Bow if you have the will/money to get it, Else a gakkung bow with anything in it is just fine, you won’t use bow much anyways.
Garment - Anything is good. (Something for hp boost is good)
Shoes - Just anything. (Something for hp boost is good)
Accessories - Gloves with zerom cards or Earrings.

Hybrid -
STR 1
AGI 72
VIT 50
INT 45
DEX 97
LUK 1

Comment -
This is the classic “DS Spammer”, this build takes full advantage of double strafe, it has good hp and good aspd, but doesn’t exceed in neither of the 2.
Can deal a lot of damage in a short span of time. Good for MVPing and pvp.

Gear -
Same gear as AGI/DEX build focused on dex.

Falcon Assault - (aka FA Build)
STR 1
AGI 1
VIT 80+
INT 50-60+
DEX 90+
LUK 1

Comment -
This is the build most used in pvp, It focuses on using the FA skill to one-twoshot the enemy, it is the strongest skill you will get as sniper, the build has very good hp and damage output, but lacks in flee/aspd and tactics.
Due to low aspd, the only thing you will be doing with this build is FA, and that is all. (aka “noob FA spammers” how many times have you heard these words?)

Gear -
Head - Beret/Feather Beret/Binoculars/slotted sunglasses wih some good card (kiel? xD)
Body - Goibne’s Armor/Sniping Suit/Peco odin’s blessing, marc/ed/pasana/swordfish.
Weapon - Main Gauche[4] with 4 fabre cards/bazerald and guard[1/valky shield] with Thara Frog/Horn Card.
Garment - Muffler with raydric/noxious card/deviling(if u have that much luck..)/survivor’s manteau(or if you want the best a wool scarf with the above cards).
Shoes - Vidars/matyr/green ferus boots/ or for the top: Tidal shoes with General Egnigem Cenia Card (MVP)
Accessories - Expert Rings/2 gloves or 2 rosary with alligator cards/zerom cards.

SharpShooting Sniper - (aka SS)
STR 1
AGI 41
VIT 60
INT 24
DEX 91
LUK 67

Comment -
A very interesting build not many snipers use, it is good for mobbing, that mean you’ll have a priest gather 20-30 mobs in nifflheim and kill them all in few shots, the problem is it uses bow, so it’s not very effective in pvp (no shield..).
Anyways, you shouldn’t understimate this build, it ignores def since it uses crits, is almost spammable and has aoe. (usually hits for 3-4k dmg in pvp, i once killed 4 ppl at once with it…).

Gear -
Head - Apple of Archer/Beret/Binoculars
Body - Goibne’s Armor/Peco armor, marc/ed/pasana.
Weapon - Gakkung or pvp bow with multiple race/element cards (example: +dmg on medium/big monsters and + dmg to fire and demi-human monsters). (Composite bow[4])
Garment - Muffler[1] with raydric/noxious card.
Shoes - Vidars/boots[1] with matyr/green ferus.
Accessories - Gloves with Zerom cards.

Ramzah’s Build -

STR 1
AGI 99
VIT 15
INT 20-25
DEX ranging from 60 to 80 (Depends on the current level, goal is to have at least 250-270 hit)
LUK 40-50

Comment -
Just a variant of the hybrid build, this is the build i like the most, with this build you should teorically have 190 aspd and use your falcon enough often to deal some good damage with it (even tho not as much as a pure falconer). With this one build you can FA (You should have enogh dex to do so.), you can DS quickly (tho damage won’t be as high as a pure agi dex), you have some “decent” hp, your falcon should attack pretty often.
The only thing to note with this build is, it’s nothing special when you are alone, but if you have a priest buffing you… (Agi, bless, gloria, that’s all you need) You’ll be a real beast!

Gear -
Head - Ulle’s Hat with nightmare card, If your server has the quest: Slotted sunglasses with nightmare card.
Body - Panties (lol?)
Weapon -Any bow will do, but considering your lack of dex, go for higher dmg bows (gakkung, hunter bow, rudra.), you won’t really need cards, unless you have a shecil or doppel card, if that’s the case, try to enchant slot a hunter bow.
Garment - Undershirt, if you can slot it, put a bapho jr card in it.
Shoes - Fricco Shoes
Accessories - Brooches[1] with kukre cards in them.

As you may have noticed, the biggest problem will be the ulle and the equipment slotting and you might still not like this hybrid build since it requires buffing to get to unleash it’s maximum power.

8. Questions & Answers -

Q. The Guide is well written, but why the hell do you need agi as a Sharp Shooter?
A. Mainly for survival, you might want at least some basic flee to avoid being hit-locked by aggressive monsters.

Q. Also, you don’t crit with SS. Ever seen a skill in RO critting the enemy?
A. Sharp Shooting is one of the few skills that does crit on enemies, i’ve tested it, believe me it does, just like Shadow Strike for Ninjas. (http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?page=skill_db&sk_name=shadow+slash& sk_search=Search)

Q. Isn’t Triple Bloody Boned (3x Hydra, Skel Worker) better than Double Bloody Double Boned?
A. No it isn’t due to the formula used to calculate damage with cards. (Reference: http://forums.roempire.com/showthread.php?t=68867)
Let me clarify this: Triple Bloody Boned Composite Bow gives 184% atk bonus and +5 atk, while Double Bloody Double Boned gives 182% bonus atk and +10 atk.
Knowing this we can assume the damage doesn’t really change much BUT, having lower dex means having less atk, thus that +10 atk from the second bow can be better than the first one and viceversa.
It depends on the build you refer to.
Ramzah’s build doesn’t have really much dex compared to an AGI/DEX build, so it’s better to get a double bloody/double boned compo bow.

Q. Since int works by multiples of 6 for sp regen, u could lower it to 18 which would let u put vit up to 6.
A. That’s just the base stats without the modifier, fact is that at max jlvl an hunter gets +4 int bonus, thus getting a total 24 int. :)

Q. Do u have stats for a sniper who just use trap as the main attack?
A. Just go max INT/DEX and add the leftovers to vit. That’s all you need.

Q. Very great guide, I didnt notice that land mines deal damage very high lol and how about the claymore trap isnt it useful too ?
A. Thanks! ^^, to answer your question…
Claymore Trap: [DEX/2+75] * [1+INT/100] * SkillLV damage
Land Mine: [DEX + 75] * [1 + INT/100] * SkillLV damage <– Definitely Better

Q. Is it true u can kill GMS with the stacking?
A. If they don’t use hax equip, yes. :)

Q. I would like a detailed explanation of how you managed to solo Atroce at such a low level because I would love to attempt it.
A. I wouldn’t reccomend it… It is true you can do it but it’s REALLY BORING anyways here’s how it’s done in short:
1- Find Atroce.
2- Start spamming DS from as far as possible.
3- If Atroce teleports go back to 1- else use a fly wing as soon as it gets close to you (keep in mind it might be closer than you think when spamming DS).
4- Go back to where you found Atroce and go back to 2-
5- Rinse and repeat till it’s dead, a priest with lex eatherna halves the required time.

If you find any mistake/error, or have any tip/suggestion feel free to post and i’ll be happy to add it.
Also… Any kind of appreciation is also welcome either by pm/post or e-mail (ramzah@hotmail.it), thank you for all the support! ^^

Ramzah

Cool WoE videos

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:29:00 +0000

It goes way back when i was still playing in ZNRO. Some of the best guilds were bloodpact and Goldenwings. They were OWNING. Here are some of their epic battles. I hope you enjoy and learn from them!

Blackpearl and Bloodpact vs Goldenwings and OnFire

Kriemhild unbreakable defense (well almost ^^)

Bloodpact vs Goldenwings(one very epic battle)

I hope you guys learned from this! Till next time! :D

Satan Morroc Quest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:58:00 +0000

Requirements

Base Level: 80
Items: Live Coal × 30, Glacial Heart × 50

Rewards

Base Experience: 2,000,000
Access to fight Injured Satan Morroc!

1. Speak with one of the Continental Guard at one of the following places and he will ask for your help:
- prontera 164, 304
- payon 200, 113
- alberta 128, 64
- geffen 128, 90
- aldebaran 136, 129

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2. At the destroyed Morocc city, talk to the Continental Officer (176, 103), and state that you want to volunteer.
He will send you to Chief Balrog.

3. Chief Balrog is slightly to the left in Morroc (159, 113).

Tell him that you want to join the Continental Guard.

He'll keep telling you no, but you must persist.

Eventually, he'll ask you to bring him 30 Live Coal followed by 50 Glacial Heart.

Once you harrassed him long enough and give him the items, you recieve a Continental Guard Paper.

4. Leave Morroc through the East exit (3 o'clock portal in town) to moc_fild20.

Talk to the Continental Guard (38, 174), and choose "Enter the field to investigate".

You must be in a party of 2 or more people.
They do not have to be with you and are not warped with you.

5. Head for the big hole in the middle and talk to the Time Space Gap (Group of Evil)

@ (moc_fild21 171, 227).

6. Satan Morocc must now be defeated!

The Time space gap changes once this is done.

Additional Rewards

Each party member must click on it to receive Skin of Morocc.
Return to Chief Balrog to exchange the skin for an item.

How to record your game

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:49:00 +0000

I. the Program

If you want to record something, you have many programs to do that. I advise you to use Fraps

II. How to use

Install it where you want and open it. you have to see that:

Open it. you see this:

Go to movie tab:

Now, you have to select one key who will start and stop the recording.
the fps is the future quality of the video, but warning, if you chose an high FPS, your video, even short, will be very very heavy.

After, you choose where you want to save your movie.

PS: when you recording YOU HAVE TO PLAY IN FULL SCREEN MODE otherwise you cant record anything.

Means to know if you'r recording or not:

if you click in F12, you can see that:

if you click again, he can change his place,
if you click again, he can go.

when the number is yellow, this means you are not recording at this time.

when the number his red, this means you are recording at this moment.

The number correspond at you capacity when you are recording. when you're recording, the lesser the number means the more lag your game will become. So, if your number is close to zero, better not record anymore because it will only cause you to lag so much.

How to make RO work Faster, Fixing Lag issues

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:48:00 +0000

For some time now, there have been some videos floating around on several sites of players from Japan that have partly solved one of the big issues RO has: the general tendancy for monsters and players to appear in places other than where they are when being damaged.

This is what your RO probably looks like right now:

This is caused by a TCP/IP feature used in windows by default known as the Nagle Algorithm. This feature allows windows to delay the transmission of TCP packets in order to save bandwidth by grouping packets into a single transmission. This can cause the aknowledgment of a TCP transmission to be delayed by up to 200 ms, by default.

In RO, the game server does not send the client certain information (such as movement of monsters or players) untill the previous transmission has been aknowledged by your client, among other similar issues. By disabling the windows feature that allows this, your RO should look more like this:

Disabling this option is a very simple process, and completly legitment as it is modification only of your own operating system. Do note that in theory, doing this could cause other network related programs to function less well, but I have not had any issues with it, and it is an easily reversable process.

The following method is for XP Pro SP 2 or later. This works with Vista SP 1 or later as well, but has a slightly difference process for step 1 which was posted by Artimus here.

Step 1: Install Microsoft Message Queuing

Open your window's Add/Remove programs and select Add/Remove Window's Components

From here, find Message Queuing and ensure it is installed. This service is necessary to change the default window settings.

Step 2: Set TcpAckFrequency

Open your registry by running regedt32 and find the key:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Param eters\Interfaces\\

You can determine which Adapter ID is the correct one by looking for your IP Address listed on the right pane.

In the correct Adapter, add the DWord TcpAckFrequency and set the value equal to 1.

(How to add a new registry value:)

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Now browse to the registry key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Parameters\

Add a DWord TcpNoDelay and set the value equal to 1.

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Step 3: Restart MSMQ services

Now that the correct registry settings have been made, you have to restart the services controlling these settings (or reboot your computer)

To restart the services, run services.msc and browse to the Message Queuing service. Select it, and hit the restart service button.

At this point everything should be set correctly and you should be able to enjoy a slightly more responsive in game experience.

Overlong yet Overuseful Stalker guide by Ebis

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:13:00 +0000

STALKER

Night’s Fallen Angel

Log:

- 7/2/08
Started Guide
Started F.A.Q
Started and Completed Introduction
Started and Completed Training Section
Reposted and Editted Skills Section
Added Note on Navigation

-7/14/08
Started Builds

-10/9/08
Picked up Guide
Finished Builds Section

-10/21/08
Finished PvP/WoE sections.

-10/23/08
Completed v1
Posting Allowed

-10/26/08
Colors added to do list

F.A.Q

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. So, Ebis, what took this guide so long to start. You've been saying you were going to do this guide for a while now.

A. Oh... yea ... about that. Long story really. Ok, not really. Laziness.

Q. Is it Ebis with a long e or a short e?

A. Don't really care. I made it with the intention of pronouncing it with a long e but ehbis has a nice ring to it too.

Q. Why don't you ever suggest people to copy level 10 Waterball from Drake?

A. Because a patch a while ago (and I mean a WHILE ago) fixed that. Copied spells are now ALL capped at their normal caps for players. Waterball possibly bypassed this because the script just capped all skills over level 10 to level 10 (that's just my guess, I never got around to reading the old code for it). For all those who didn't know, the player cap for waterball is level 5.

Q. Can I trust you as a credible source for Stalkers?

A. I guess... In my opinion, I know enough to help people out enough.

Q. I noticed the guide changed from a light overview of Stalkers to a Comprehensive Guide. What's the diff?

A. This one will include most of the info from the first one but will also go more into depth with pvp, builds, WoE and such. I hope to teach and learn strategies that some experienced players may or may have not known.

Introduction

Stalkers. What are they? They're a class based on a unique philosophy. Of course, RO tends to ****** up and walk off their original themes. SinXs left the poison abusing, glass cannon ages ago.

RO is about having fun and for the Stalker, it's something you should keep in mind. Having a reputation for being one of the most funnest classes to play, you should take advantage of that. It's one of the few classes that don't involve spamming one skill over and over in pvp.

Stalkers are one of the most, if not the most, versatile classes. Not only can they specialize in many things, they can also switch between those jobs rather easily. In short, they're RO's closest thing to a jack of all trades.

Training

[goto=00]Before Making Your Character[/goto]- 00
[goto=01]Level 1- 12 or Jlevel 1 - 10[/goto] – 01
[goto=02]Level 12 - 30[/goto] – 02
[goto=03]Level 30 - 50[/goto] – 03
[goto=04]Level 50 + or Jlevel 30 - 50[/goto] – 04
[goto=05]Level 65 and beyond[/goto] – 05
[goto=06]Rebirth- Just another run through[/goto] – 06

[anchor=00][ 00 ] Before Making Your Character[/anchor]

Decide on a build. This step assumes that you have some basic knowledge of RO and about the Stalker class. If not, you can skip this section and move onto builds before coming back to this section once you have decided.

The build you choose won't really affect your training too much though a good solid idea of what you want will allow you to get the most out of your training(gear, experiance).

When you have decided, make a novice:

Str 9
Agi 9
Vit 1
Int 1
Dex 9
Luk 1

Regardless of how you want to train, this gives you the stats needed if you're just starting RO or a new server with no gear.

[anchor=01][ 01 ] Level 1- 12 or Jlevel 1 - 10 [/anchor]

Once you end up in Novice Isle, just go through the tutorial. Don't forget to talk to Shion twice to get an extra level. Feel free to die at fabre forest for the extra Novice Pots, though you shouldn't need it. Once you're jlevel 10, head off and find your way to Prontera (unless you don’t have a job changer) once you're warped to Rune Midgard.

Find the job changer, change to Thief, select yes and there we go. If there is none on your server, here’s a really short guide to it.

Thief Quest

Go to Morocc. Walk to the portal northwest of the town (that’s top left). You will find yourself on the pyramids map. Walk to the pyramids. Make sure you have your novice pops hot keyed. If possible, get a tank because there’s a good chance you’ll be swarmed by familiars. The thief guild is near the entrance in the bottom right sector near the middle.

Once you get in, walk down the corridor and turn to the room on your left. Talk the thief guide person and start the quest. Walk out of pyramids. Look at your mini map, there should be an area on the bottom right with some trees and a horizontal bar. In that area is the npc for the quest. Talk to Mr. Irrelevant and he will warp you to a map. Kill mushrooms, all monsters are aggro except for Spores. Kill only what you have to. 1 Mushroom is worth 3 and the other kind is worth 1. 5-6 should be enough points for it. Once you have obtained the mushrooms, exit the map and return the thief guild. Talk the npc and you will become a thief.

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If you're training normally, you should be focusing on str and agi, mostly str since you level quickly and have pots at your disposal. If you're planning on using a bow, just up dex, the 9 agi and str will supplement till your bow becomes useful.

[anchor=02][ 02 ] Level 12 - 30 [/anchor]

Culverts seems to be popular. I suggest Payon Dungeon. The first few kills will be difficult but it gets easier as soon as you gain momentum. Why Payon Dungeon? Decent exp, concentration potions and Opals NPC for 3k.

Statwise you should up agi and str, more towards agi once you have enough str. I like to keep my stats at this point around a 2:3 ratio. Once your str hits around 20 and your agi hits around 30 (this is pretty early on actually), up your dex until it's up to 20.

Bow builds should still be upping dex. This part will be painful since you're still using a dagger. Somewhere in the middle once you have around 40ish dex you should have enough opals to buy yourself a composite and some silver arrows.

[anchor=03][ 03 ] Level 30 - 50 [/anchor]

At this time, your training paths will start to differ greatly.

Dagger thieves should progress to either payon dungeon 2 (pay_dun01) or wolves (two maps south of payon). I suggest wolves, it's less dying and it's great exp. Another popular alternative are metalings (one up from lighthazen).

Statwise, get your dex to around 30 or so, as long as you don't ever miss and continue with your str and agi upping pattern. You should also be investing in a better dagger.

Bow thieves are still having it tough at this stage. If you're using a bow, you're still a bit weak to handle anything big. I would do metalings. Just shoot and run and repeat. It's a bit slow at first until you start doing decent damage. Statwise, I would suggest just continuing with raising dex.

[anchor=04][ 04 ] Level 50 + or Jlevel 30 - 50 [/anchor]

Dagger thieves should move onto Metalings if they haven't. It's pure grind at this point and ooh is it painful. Keep up the str and agi and just be patient.

Bow thieves, this is the point where it finally pays off. Ok not really. You have enough damage to kill plants at this point (outside of ice dun or one up of einbroch) but it takes time. I suggest hunting some red bloods and asking someone to craft them into fire arrows. Also, if you have money ( if you just started the server, you won't) go buy a hybrid gakkung bow. It helps a lot and you're going to be using it later possibly. Though agi at this point will be tempting, don't bother. Get dex up to 90 at least.

Note: I don't advise getting to jlevel 50 if you don't train slow. There's really no point, you don't need envenom at all when you're training and steal past level 5 is also a luxury. This is only if you plan on rushing trans.

Once you're ready to job change, find the Job Changer again and select Rogue. Here’s a guide for the quest if you don’t have a job changer.

Walk to the rogue guild in Pharos Lighthouse. That’s 2 down, 2 left from Morocc. I believe that’s the shortest path. The Rogue guild is on the bottom peninsula. Walk down the stairs and walk to the basement of the guild. Talk to the rogue guide for a test. Once you pass that, you will have to talk to the treasurer, so make your way upstairs again and talk to the treasurer. He’ll make you hunt some easy items and some money. Do that and return back. Then you will be sent to one of a few locations. It’s a house for all of them with a password needed to enter. The password is given to you by the treasurer so pay attention. Once you get into the house, talk to the npc in it and you will be warped to a dungeon. You have to run through it without dying. Don’t bother killing or hiding, just stick to a wall and run past it. Pots would be helpful but it’s easy enough to do without.
Once you return, go back to the guide and you will become a rogue.

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[anchor=05][ 05 ] Level 60 + and beyond [/anchor]

Beyond this level, you'll be spending a lot of levels at one place, so I'm compacting it.

Note: Strip is NOT a training skill. There's no point in getting it, it's a waste of skill points if you're not going to spend A LOT of time in pvp. If you’re a stalker and resets don’t exist/aren’t cheap you should get it after plagerize at least.

Dagger Rogues should kill a few metalings for the jlevels and move on to Minourous or anywhere a two handed agi knight would train.

Bow Rogues should head to Lou Yang and kill mi gaos. By now you should have 90+ dex so start putting into agi. You'll see that you won't need much to dodge mantis which are the only thing you really need to dodge.

Get Plagerize ASAP. It's more important than most skills save Vulture's Eye and DS if you're using a bow.

Once you have plagerize, get Trifecta as soon as possible. This stacks with double attack or a hybrid bow and will increase your DPS dramatically. It also lets you train at seals with ease if you're using a bow. Dagger Rogues may take higher agi to do this.

Once you have plagerize, you should also consider resetting to a trap build (int and dex) and copying claymore. If you can’t reset, don’t worry, claymore doesn’t depend on int and dex a lot. You still want some flee though. From here, you can mob Stalactics (one map above Comodo). You can obtain the skill claymore trap by going to einbech dungeon. Pitman lay claymore level 5s.

I suggest that Dagger Rogues reset to trap or bow and from my experiance, claymore mobbing is faster for training compared to bow. If you can’t reset, I suggest using claymore mobbing. Bow Rogues should train where snipers train ( this includes thor though I suggest a party for this). Trap Rogues should train at Rachel Sanctuary until 99. If you don't know how to do this, look up some youtube videos. It helps.

Another way to train (though I don't really suggest it as a Rogue and definately not if youre below level 90) is Anubis. Get an Evil Druid and copy TU. Reset to a TU build (generally, since Rogues get a flee bonus, you should replace dex with agi). I don't really suggest this as a Rogue because many mobs there have skills that can easily replace your TU which makes it a burden.

[anchor=06][ 06 ] Rebirth - Just another run through [/anchor]

Rebirthing is the same thing as doing what you did all over again except you need 3x more exp. It's painful but it's worth it. Simply do what you did as a non-trans. For stalkers, I still suggest getting Plagerize ASAP. Training will still be the same except now with Preserve, you won't be dealing with annoying monsters that replace your plagerized skill. This means Anubis is now a very good way to train aside from Thor and Rachel. Anubis in my opinion is the fastest way to train a stalker. I used my normal WoE/PvP build to do this. 30 – 40 agi is enough to dodge mostly everything in sphinx 4, ED and flee means you will hardly get damaged. Your high dex makes it easy to kill anubis fast and in my experience, stalkers TU anubis faster than priests.

Skills

Thief

Double Attack (Skill ID# 48)
Type: Passive Max Level: 10
Required For: Advanced Katar Research (L5 Assassin Cross), Soul Breaker (L5 Assassin Cross).
Effect: Gives chance to double swing a Dagger class weapon with a chance equal to 5%*SkillLV, and adds +1 HIT per SkillLV (that only applies in double attacks). In the case of an Assassin wielding two Dagger class weapons, it applies to the right-hand weapon only. It also boosts the off-hand (left hand) damage of a Katar weapon by 1%+2%*SkillLV ATK.
Level Description
1 5% Chance, +1 HIT, +3% Katar DMG
2 10% Chance, +2 HIT, +5% Katar DMG
3 15% Chance, +3 HIT, +7% Katar DMG
4 20% Chance, +4 HIT, +9% Katar DMG
5 25% Chance, +5 HIT, +11% Katar DMG
6 30% Chance, +6 HIT, +13% Katar DMG
7 35% Chance, +7 HIT, +15% Katar DMG
8 40% Chance, +8 HIT, +17% Katar DMG
9 45% Chance, +9 HIT, +19% Katar DMG
10 50% Chance, +10 HIT, +21% Katar DMG

Comment: Very useful. A must for Dagger stalkers and stalkers in general. Seeing as you can get all skills of the thief except one skill has to be left at level 8, this is something most people get anyways. It helps training a lot when you have a sidewinder bow. (Yes, the double attack chance is at 50% when you’re using a sidewinder bow.)

Increase Dodge (Skill ID# 49) iRO Name: Improve Dodge
Type: Passive Max Level: 10
Effect: Increases Flee Rate by +3*SkillLV. This skill boosts the walking speed for Assassins by 1% per SkillLV and gives an additional +1 Flee Rate per SkillLV when you are an Assassin or Rogue. The walking speed bonus does not add to the walking speed increase when using Cloaking.
Level Description
1 Flee Rate +3 (2nd class Flee Rate +4)
2 Flee Rate +6 (2nd class Flee Rate +8)
3 Flee Rate +9 (2nd class Flee Rate +12)
4 Flee Rate +12 (2nd class Flee Rate +16)
5 Flee Rate +15 (2nd class Flee Rate +20)
6 Flee Rate +18 (2nd class Flee Rate +24)
7 Flee Rate +21 (2nd class Flee Rate +28)
8 Flee Rate +24 (2nd class Flee Rate +32)
9 Flee Rate +27 (2nd class Flee Rate +36)
10 Flee Rate +30 (2nd class Flee Rate +40)

Comment: Probably the most useful thief skill in pvp after Hide. It’s just… great. This is the difference between an Agi stalker and any other agi class. +40 flee + mocking is really good flee. Could compensate for the lack of agi when training.

Steal (Skill ID# 50)
Type: Active Max Level: 10
Required For: Hiding (L5), Snatcher (L1 Rogue)
SP Cost: 10
Target: 1 Monster (non-MVP) Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Effect: Attempts to "steal" an item from the targeted monster. Only items dropped by the monster can be stolen. A successful Steal attempt will not affect what is dropped when the monster dies. After success, it is not possible to Steal again from the same monster. Boss monsters and those affected by the Frozen and Stone Curse effects cannot be stolen from. The formula for stealing is believed to be: DropRatio*(4 + 6*SkillLV + DEX - MonsterDEX)/100 where DropRatio is the percent chance of a particular item being dropped. If the result of the steal check is lower than the AdjustedDropRatio for an item, then it is possible that item will be stolen. Does not work on Bosses and Mini-Bosses.
Level Description
1 Success Chance 10%
2 Success Chance 16%
3 Success Chance 22%
4 Success Chance 28%
5 Success Chance 34%
6 Success Chance 40%
7 Success Chance 46%
8 Success Chance 52%
9 Success Chance 58%
10 Success Chance 64%

Comment: Useful, especially after ganking. Not so much late game since you can probably find ways to get items. Leave at level 8.

Hiding (Skill ID# 51)
Type: Active Max Level: 10
Requirements: Steal Level 5
Required For: Cloaking (L2 Assassin), Tunnel Drive (L1 Rogue), Chase Walk (L5 Stalker)
SP Cost: 10 + see below
Target: Self
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Duration: 30*SkillLV sec
Effect: Toggles the hide effect on the character on/off. Toggling the hide effect off consumes no SP. Hidden characters cannot move, attack or use any skill (except certain Rogue skills) and do not regenerate HP or SP. The hide effect makes a character invisible to other players and monsters. This stops skills and spells that are targeted at you from working (those with casting times fail) and anything attacking you stops (assuming that their last hit doesn't hit you and reveal you!). Area effect skills and spells can't hit you (except Heaven's Drive). Insects, Demons and Boss monsters are not affected by the hide effect. If you get hit by anything while hiding, you will be revealed. Improve Concentration, Ruwach, Detecting and Sight are all capable of revealing hidden characters. Consumes 10 SP for casting and continually drains certain amount of SP while hiding.
Level Description
1 30 Seconds, SP 1 / 5sec
2 60 Seconds, SP 1 / 6sec
3 90 Seconds, SP 1 / 7sec
4 120 Seconds, SP 1 / 8sec
5 150 Seconds, SP 1 / 9sec
6 180 Seconds, SP 1 / 10sec
7 210 Seconds, SP 1 / 11sec
8 240 Seconds, SP 1 / 12sec
9 270 Seconds, SP 1 / 13sec
10 300 Seconds, SP 1 / 14sec

Comment : Crazy good. The art of being a stalker is partly mastering hide. Use hide to dodge spells ( especially non-insta asuras). Also, with tunnel drive, use hide to stall pvp matches.

Envenom (Skill ID# 52)
Type: Offensive Max Level: 10
Required For: Detoxify (L3), Enchant Poison (L1 Assassin), Soul Breaker (L5 Assassin Cross), Create Deadly Poison (L10 Assassin Cross).
SP Cost: 12
Target: 1 Enemy Range: 2 cells
Attack Type: Poison Property
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Effect: An attack that adds 15*SkillLV to your ATK (unmodified by Armor and VIT Def) to your normal damage. This bonus damage is always inflicted, whether your character lands a normal hit or not. Envenom has a 10%+4%*SkillLV chance to inflict poison status on target. Poisoned targets have their DEF reduced by 25% and lose 3% of Maximum HP every 3 seconds unless that would cause HP to drop below 25% of Maximum HP. The entire screen turns purple for the poisoned individual. Undead and Bosses cannot be poisoned.
Level Description
1 +15 ATK
2 +30 ATK
3 +45 ATK
4 +60 ATK
5 +75 ATK
6 +90 ATK
7 +105 ATK
8 +120 ATK
9 +135 ATK
10 +150 ATK

Comment: It seems pointless in pvp at first but it’s another useful skill. In case you’re stripped or if you have a bow and they’re using pneuma. It’s very good with a status weapon. Gets you out of tight places, worth maxing.

Detoxify (Skill ID# 53)
Type: Active Max Level: 1
Requirements: Envenom Level 3
Required For: Create Deadly Poison (Assassin Cross)
SP Cost: 10
Target: 1 Player Range: 9 cells
Attack Type: Poison Property
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Effect: Cures poison status on target.

Comment : Grendel once said “I don’t know why most stalkers skip detoxify.” It’s true, there’s no reason to. Sure you rarely get poisoned but still. Stalkers have envenom, SinXes have venom knives. Might as well get it to be safe. Also useful when a party member gets poisoned.

Sand Attack - Quest Skill (Skill ID# 149) kRO Name: Sprinkle Sand
Type: Offensive Max Level: 1
SP Cost: 9
Target: 1 Enemy Range: 1 cell
Attack Type: Earth Physical
Cast Time: Instant
Effect: An attack with 130% normal ATK and with a 20% chance to cause blind effect. Although it has no Cast Time or Cool Down it can't be spamed.
Can be learnt from: Thief Platinum Skills Quests

Comment: It's not as useless as I once thought. Sprinkle Sand is a for fun skill still, at least most of the time. It’s for when you want to spam with a Status bow really quickly but they're wearing ED and you're just playing around so you don't want to DS or Full Strip. It also inflicts blind which helps sometimes. Besides that, it CAN miss so I generally use it as a backup for when Envenom fails. A note is that it can be used on a person in hide but you require a maya purple to target the person.

Back Sliding - Quest Skill (Skill ID# 150) iRO Name: Back Slide
Type: Active Max Level: 1
SP Cost: 7
Target: Self
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 0.5 sec
Effect: Moves you backwards 5 cells (depends on the direction you are facing).
Can be learnt from: Thief Platinum Skills Quests

Comment: I lied about hide being the most useful skill. This is. It was so good it had to be nerfed =/. But it’s still good. Gets you out of tight spaces. If your play style is more fluid and requires room, this is your best friend. Backslide depends on ASPD last time I checked so if you're wearing a bow, switch to dagger + shield before you backslide if you plan on spamming it.

Pick Stone - Quest Skill (Skill ID# 151) iRO Name: Find Stone
Type: Active Max Level: 1
SP Cost: 2
Cast Time: 0.5 sec
Required State: Requires to be less than 50% weight
Effect: Adds one Stone item to your inventory. Will not work if you are overweight (more than 50% of total weight capacity).
Can be learnt from: Thief Platinum Skills Quests

Comment: A fun skill. Good when you’re luring mobs.

Throw Stone - Quest Skill (Skill ID# 152) iRO Name: Stone Fling
Type: Offensive Max Level: 1
SP Cost: 2
Target: 1 Enemy Range: 7 cells
Attack Type: Neutral, Long Range, Physical
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 0.1 sec
Item Required: 1 Stone
Effect: An attack that always does 50 points of damage (but does not ignore damage reduction cards) and has a 3% chance of causing the stun effect on the target. Consumes one stone per use. Useful for luring monsters link monsters away from a pack and other such sneaky thief-like tricks.
Can be learnt from: Thief Platinum Skills Quests
Comment: Same as above.

Rogue

Sword Mastery (Skill ID# 2)
Type: Passive Max Level: 10
Required For: Two-Handed Sword Mastery (L1 Swordman)
Effect: Increases damage with Daggers and Swords (1-handed only) by 4*SkillLV. This damage ignores modification from Armor and VIT defense, but not from Elemental and Card modifiers and applies to all hits for multi hit attacks.
Level Description
1 ATK +4
2 ATK +8
3 ATK +12
4 ATK +16
5 ATK +20
6 ATK +24
7 ATK +28
8 ATK +32
9 ATK +36
10 ATK +40

Comments: A basic skill for sword/ dagger rogues. It's not a necessity, it's just useful.

Vulture's Eye (Skill ID# 44)
Type: Passive Max Level: 10
Required For: Improve Concentration (L1), Double Strafing (L10 Rogue), Falcon Assault (L5 Sniper), True Sight (L10 Sniper).
Effect: Increases range with bows by 1*SkillLV cells and increases HIT by 1 per SkillLV.
Level Description
1 Range and HIT +1
2 Range and HIT +2
3 Range and HIT +3
4 Range and HIT +4
5 Range and HIT +5
6 Range and HIT +6
7 Range and HIT +7
8 Range and HIT +8
9 Range and HIT +9
10 Range and HIT +10

Comments: A basic skill for bow rogues.

Double Strafing (Skill ID# 46) iRO Name: Double Strafe
Type: Offensive Max Level: 10
Requirements: Vulture's Eye Level 10
Required For: Arrow Shower (L5 Archer), Beast Strafing (L10 Hunter -SoulLinked), Remove Trap (L5 Rogue), Sharp Shooting (L5 Sniper).
SP Cost: 12
Target: 1 Enemy Range: 9 + Vulture's Eye SkillLV cells
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 0.1 sec
Required Weapon Class: Bow
Ammunition Required: 1 Arrow
Effect: Ranged attack, that fires two arrows and hits with an ATK of 180% + 20%*SkillLV. Requires an equipped bow. Only 1 arrow is consumed.
Level Description
1 200% Damage
2 220% Damage
3 240% Damage
4 260% Damage
5 280% Damage
6 300% Damage
7 320% Damage
8 340% Damage
9 360% Damage
10 380% Damage

Comments: If you’re a bow rogue, this is your main way of damaging. Backstab damage using bows is halved so really this is the only skill you’ll be using to deal real damage. This outdoes melee classes with an increased range.

Remove Trap (Skill ID# 124)
Type: Active Max Level: 1
Requirements: Double Strafing Level 5
Required For: Spring Trap, Talkie Box
SP Cost: 5
Target: 1 Trap Range: 2 cells
Cast Time: Instant
Effect: Turns one set trap back into a Trap item. Can be used with an Ankle Snare that has already caught a target, but in this case you will not get a Trap item. Only works with your own traps.

Comments: A popularized skill of the strip shield build. I’ll go into it later.

Snatcher (Skill ID# 210) iRO Name: Gank
Type: Passive Max Level: 10
Requirements: Steal Level 1
Required For: Steal Coin (L4)
Target: Enemy
Effect: Steals from the enemy while attacking normally. Steal success chance is based on the Thief Steal Skill.
Level Description
1 7% Chance of Auto Steal
2 8% Chance of Auto Steal
3 10% Chance of Auto Steal
4 11% Chance of Auto Steal
5 13% Chance of Auto Steal
6 14% Chance of Auto Steal
7 16% Chance of Auto Steal
8 17% Chance of Auto Steal
9 19% Chance of Auto Steal
10 20% Chance of Auto Steal

Comment: An important pre-req. Unless you have extra skill points I wouldn’t recommend getting this beyond level 4.

Steal Coin (Skill ID# 211) iRO Name: Mug
Type: Active Max Level: 10
Requirements: Snatcher Level 4
Required For: Strip Helm (L2), Back Stab (L4)
SP Cost: 15
Target: Monster Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: Instant
Effect: Steals Zeny from a monster, affected by DEX, LUK, and SkillLV, amount stolen is based on monsters level. Can only be used to steal Zeny once, however it is possible to steal zeny from monsters that the user stole items before. 1*SkillLV% chance to steal.

Comment: Pre-req

Back Stab (Skill ID# 212)
Type: Offensive Max Level: 10
Requirements: Steal Coin Level 4
Required For: Raid (L2), Intimidate (L4)
SP Cost: 16
Target: Enemy Range: 1 cell (even with bow!)
Cast Time: Instant
Effect: Powerful attack that can only be used from behind the enemy. Cannot miss and will turn the target to face the caster, thus preventing repeated use. Damage is 320%+40%*SkillLV ATK (halved if used with a bow type weapon).
Level Description
1 340% ATK
2 380% ATK
3 420% ATK
4 460% ATK
5 500% ATK
6 540% ATK
7 580% ATK
8 620% ATK
9 660% ATK
10 700% ATK

Comment: Decent damage. Many sword rogues have done insane damage with this skill. Lack of spammability but heck, whatever. Damage is halfed when used with bow. For those of you that are mathematically retarded, that’s 350% meaning you’re better off with DS’s 380%. A thing to keep in mind though, raid can miss but backstab doesn't. If you're using a hide guerilla strategy against a flee ******, use this whenever possible in place of raid.

Tunnel Drive (Skill ID# 213) iRO Name: Stalk
Type: Passive Max Level: 5
Requirements: Hiding Level 1
Required For: Raid (L2), Chase Walk (L3 Stalker)
SP Cost: Hide dependant
Effect: Upgrades the Hide skill to allow slow movement while hiding. Not restricted to walls like the Assassins Cloaking Skill.
Level Movement Speed
1 26%
2 32%
3 38%
4 44%
5 50%

Comment: Useful. Worth maxing. If not maxed, leave it at level 3 for chase walk.

Raid (Skill ID# 214) iRO Name: Sightless Mind
Type: Offensive Max Level: 5
Requirements: Back Stab Level 2, Tunnel Drive Level 2
Required For: Intimidate (L5)
SP Cost: 20
Target: Enemy Range: Weapon Range
Attack Type: [Splash Damage, 1 cells]
Cast Time: Instant
Required State: Requires Hiding skill activated
Effect: Attacks a target and the 3*3 cells below it with a chance to Stun and Blind. Rogue must be hiding to use this skill. Damage is 100%+40%*SkillLV ATK. Chance to Stun/Blind is 10%+SkillLV*3.
Level Description
1 140% Attack, 13% Chance
2 180% Attack, 16% Chance
3 220% Attack, 19% Chance
4 260% Attack, 22% Chance
5 300% Attack, 25% Chance

Comments: It’s decent damage. Small AoE but the only AoE you’ll have without Plagiarize. Use this to reveal chase walked and cloaked characters. I kept mine at level 1 since I didn’t bother getting Plagiarize. The statuses on this thing is nice too actually.

Strip Weapon (Skill ID# 215) iRO Name: Divest Weapon
Type: Active Max Level: 5
Requirements: Strip Armor Level 5
Required For: Reject Sword (L1 Stalker), Full Strip (L5 Stalker)
SP Cost: 15 + SkillLV*2
Target: Enemy Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: 1 sec After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Duration: 60 + 15*SkillLV sec
Effect: On player in PVP: Takes equipped weapon off player and prevents a reequip of ANY weapon for a certain time. On monster: reduces Attack by 25% for skill's duration. Chemical Protection avoids this skill. Success Chance 10%+SkillLV*2%.
Level Description
1 7% Chance
2 9% Chance
3 11% Chance
4 13% Chance
5 15% Chance

Comments: See Below

Strip Shield (Skill ID# 216) iRO Name: Divest Shield
Type: Active Max Level: 5
Requirements: Strip Helm Level 5
Required For: Gangster's Paradise (L3), Strip Armor (L5), Full Strip (L5 Stalker)
SP Cost: 10 + SkillLV*2
Target: Enemy Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: 1 sec After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Duration: 60 + 15*SkillLV sec
Effect: On player in PVP: Takes equipped shield off player and prevents a reequip of ANY shield for a certain time. On monster: Reduces DEF by 15% for skill's duration. Chemical Protection avoids this skill. Success Chance 10%+SkillLV*2%.
Level Description
1 7% Chance
2 9% Chance
3 11% Chance
4 13% Chance
5 15% Chance

Comments: See Below

Strip Armor (Skill ID# 217) iRO Name: Divest Armor
Type: Active Max Level: 5
Requirements: Strip Shield Level 5
Required For: Strip Weapon (L5), Full Strip (L5 Stalker)
SP Cost: 15 + SkillLV*2
Target: Enemy Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: 1 sec After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Duration: 60 + 15*SkillLV sec
Effect: On player in PVP: Takes equipped armor off player and prevents a reequip of ANY armor for a certain time. On monster: Reduces VIT by 40% for skill's duration. Chemical Protection avoids this skill. Success Chance 10%+SkillLV*2%.
Level Description
1 7% Chance
2 9% Chance
3 11% Chance
4 13% Chance
5 15% Chance

Comments: See Below

Strip Helm (Skill ID# 218) iRO Name: Divest Helm
Type: Active Max Level: 5
Requirements: Steal Coin Level 2
Required For: Strip Shield (L5), Full Strip (L5 Stalker)
SP Cost: 10 + SkillLV*2
Target: Enemy Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: 1 sec After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Duration: 60 + 15*SkillLV sec
Effect: On player in PVP: Takes equipped helm off player and prevents a reequip of ANY helm for a certain time. On monster: Reduces INT by 40% for skill's duration. Chemical Protection avoids this skill. Success Chance 10%+SkillLV*2%.
Level Description
1 7% Chance
2 9% Chance
3 11% Chance
4 13% Chance
5 15% Chance

Comments: Strip Skills in general : A very very nice skill. Trade mark rogue skill. Yea.

Intimidate (Skill ID# 219) iRO Name: Snatch
Type: Active Max Level: 5
Requirements: Back Stab Level 4, Raid Level 5
Required For: Plagiarism (L5)
SP Cost: 10 + SkillLV*3
Target: Enemy Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: Instant
Effect: This skill teleports you and the target to a random area on the same map and attacks the target. Does not work with Bosses. Damage is 100%+30%*SkillLV.
Level Description
1 130% ATK
2 160% ATK
3 190% ATK
4 220% ATK
5 250% ATK

Comments: No point in getting it for the damage, it’s good if you’re cheap and don’t want to use fwings. Also, in team pvp, Intimidate the priest or the tank for fun. This leaves the other team without a vital member for a few seconds (this can turn the tide in any battle).

Graffiti (Skill ID# 220) iRO Name: Scribble
Type: Active Max Level: 1
SP Cost: 15
Target: Area Range: 1 cell
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: 30 sec
Item Required: 1 Red Gemstone
Effect: Creates a user defined text message on the ground.

Comments: For fun skill that’s not used enough. I regret not having enough skill points for this.

Gangster's Paradise (Skill ID# 223) iRO Name: Slyness
Type: Passive Max Level: 1
Requirements: Strip Shield Level 3
Required For: Compulsion Discount, Cleaner
Effect: When 2 or more rogues sit next to each other (all must have this skill) aggressive monsters, except Boss monsters, won't attack.

Comments: Uh. Yea. Nuff’ said.

Compulsion Discount (Skill ID# 224) iRO Name: Haggle
Type: Passive Max Level: 5
Requirements: Gangster's Paradise Level 1
Effect: Enable to purchase items at a Lower Price in NPC Shops. Discount rates are better than Merchant Discount. [Level 1] Discount Rate 9% [Level 2] Discount Rate 13% [Level 3] Discount Rate 17% [Level 4] Discount Rate 21% [Level 5] Discount Rate 25%

Comments: Meh

Plagiarism (Skill ID# 225) iRO Name: Intimidate
Type: Passive Max Level: 10
Requirements: Intimidate Level 5
Required For: Preserve (L10 Stalker)
Effect: Allows the last offensive skill used on you to be used as a skill you have gained. Only one skill may be copied at a time in this fashion, maximum copied skill level equals the Plagiarism SkillLV.
Level Description
1 LV. 1 Skills can be copied
2 LV. 2 Skills can be copied
3 LV. 3 Skills can be copied
4 LV. 4 Skills can be copied
5 LV. 5 Skills can be copied
6 LV. 6 Skills can be copied
7 LV. 7 Skills can be copied
8 LV. 8 Skills can be copied
9 LV. 9 Skills can be copied
10 LV. 10 Skills can be copied

Comments: Very useful. This skill makes Stalkers one of the most fluid characters in the game. Popular choices are traps and trifecta for training and SG and Bowling Bash for PvP/WoE.

Close Confine - Quest Skill (Skill ID# 1005)
Type: Active Max Level: 1
SP Cost: 25
Target: Enemy Range: 1 cells (eAthena)
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: 10 sec
Effect: For 10 seconds, you grab a single enemy, preventing you and the target to move. While you grab onto someone, you will have +10 bonus to Flee Rate. If either the victim or you die, or should any of them teleport away, this skill is cancelled.
Can be learnt from: Rogue Platinum Skills Quests

Comments: Great for people who are running away. It’s usable in lot’s of ways, I’ll go deeper into this skill later.

Stalker

Chase Walk (Skill ID# 389) iRO Name: Stealth
Type: Supportive Max Level: 5
Requirements: Hiding Level 5, Tunnel Drive Level 3
SP Cost: 10 SP Upkeep Cost: 50 + 10*SkillLV per 10 sec
Target: Self
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: Sustained
Effect: Walk behind your enemy while hiding. All detecting skills will not be able to detect a Stalker in this mode. The stalker can not attack and he will become visible when his SP runs out. Furthermore, attacks that impact the area that the stalker is in will end this skill thus revealing the stalker. The Stalker leaves faint shoeprints on the ground while using this skill. Walking speed is reduced, but this can be compensated with higher SkillLV. Can be used during Guild Siege, but costs 5 times as much SP. Increase STR for 30 seconds after casting.
Level Description
1 Walk Speed 70%, STR +1
2 Walk Speed 75%, STR +2
3 Walk Speed 80%, STR +4
4 Walk Speed 85%, STR +8
5 Walk Speed 90%, STR +16

Comments: Self explanatory, just get it at some level. If you’re the e-caller, you should max this.

Reject Sword (Skill ID# 390) iRO Name: Counter Instinct
Type: Supportive Max Level: 5
Requirements: Strip Weapon Level 1
SP Cost: 5 + 5*SkillLV
Target: Self
Cast Time: Instant
Duration: 300 sec, or 3 Reflects
Effect: When in PVP mode it has a chance to reduce all sword and dagger damage by half and returns the other half to the attacker for 3 hits. Works on monsters regardless of their weapon.
Level Description
1 15% Chance of Reflection
2 30% Chance of Reflection
3 45% Chance of Reflection
4 60% Chance of Reflection
5 75% Chance of Reflection

Comments: Great. Sac Pallies, Sword Knights, Dagger Stalkers all get screwed over by this skill. Not only does it give you 50% reduction on swords but it returns the damage. How cool is that? Plus, it makes a really blinding animation that will annoy your enemies when you spam it .

Preserve (Skill ID# 475)
Type: Supportive Max Level: 1
Requirements: Plagiarism Level 10
SP Cost: 30
Target: Self
Cast Time: 1
Duration: 600 sec
Effect: Allows Stalker to not change the skill learned via Plagiarism even when hit by a different skill for duration of the skill.

Comments: Get it if you have plagiarism. Period.

Full Strip (Skill ID# 476) iRO Name: Full Divestment
Type: Active Max Level: 5
Requirements: Strip Weapon Level 5, Strip Shield Level 5, Strip Armor Level 5, Strip Helm Level 5
SP Cost: 20 + SkillLV*2
Target: Enemy
Cast Time: Instant After Cast Delay: 1 sec
Duration: 60 + 15*SkillLV sec
Effect: On player in PVP: Takes equipped weapon, shield, armor and helm off player and prevents a reequip of ANY weapon, shield, armor and helm for a certain time. On monster: reduces Attack by 10% and DEF by 30% for the skill's duration. Full Chemical Protection counters this skill. Success Chance 5%+SkillLV*2%.
Level Description
1 7% Chance
2 9% Chance
3 11% Chance
4 13% Chance
5 15% Chance

Comments: It’s easy enough to understand and know whether you’re getting this or not.

Builds

Universal Gear:

These are some gear that all builds should consider getting.

Poor Man's Gear:
Wool Scarf/Tidal
Feather Beret/Beret/Poo Poo hat
Gangster Mask
Thara Frog
Cowardice Knife

Luxury:
Nimble Orleans
+10 Quad Cursing Composite Bow (or any other status bow up to user preference)
Combat Knife
Silence/Curse/Frozen Arrows

Skills:

Plag/Strip

Double Attack Level 10
Increase Dodge Level 10
Steal Level 8
Hiding Level 10
Envenom Level 10
Detoxify Level 1
Sand Attack Level 1
Back Sliding Level 1
Pick Stone Level 1
Throw Stone Level 1
Snatcher Level 4
Steal Coin Level 4
Back Stab Level 4
Tunnel Drive Level 3
Raid Level 5
Strip Weapon Level 5
Strip Shield Level 5
Strip Armor Level 5
Strip Helm Level 5
Intimidate Level 5
Plagiarism Level 10
Chase Walk Level 5
Reject Sword Level 3
Preserve Level 1
Full Strip Level 5
Close Confine Level 1

This is your generic everyday support stalker skill build.

Skill:

Bow

Double Attack Level 10
Increase Dodge Level 10
Steal Level 8
Hiding Level 10
Envenom Level 10
Detoxify Level 1
Sand Attack Level 1
Back Sliding Level 1
Pick Stone Level 1
Throw Stone Level 1
Snatcher Level 4
Steal Coin Level 2
Back Stab Level 2
Tunnel Drive Level 3
Raid Level 1
Strip Weapon Level 5
Strip Shield Level 5
Strip Armor Level 5
Strip Helm Level 5
Chase Walk Level 5
Reject Sword Level 3
Full Strip Level 5
Vulture’s Eye Level 10
Double Strafe Level 10
Close Confine Level 1

This is a generic bow build. You have Double Strafe/ Strip, offering up BB assuming that you want the dex for strip and BB becomes less used than strip with DS.

Strip Shield Build:

Note: This build is not recommended for people new to stalkers. In general cases, it’s worse than full strip for obvious reasons. However, it’s used to compensate for guilds with bad trappers.

Double Attack Level 10
Increase Dodge Level 10
Steal Level 8
Hiding Level 10
Envenom Level 10
Detoxify Level 1
Sand Attack Level 1
Back Sliding Level 1
Pick Stone Level 1
Throw Stone Level 1
Vulture's Eye Level 10
Double Strafing Level 5
Remove Trap Level 1
Snatcher Level 4
Steal Coin Level 4
Back Stab Level 4
Tunnel Drive Level 5
Raid Level 5
Strip Shield Level 5
Strip Helm Level 5
Intimidate Level 5
Plagiarism Level 10
Chase Walk Level 5
Preserve Level 1
Close Confine Level 1

Full Backstab Stalker:

Skills:

Double Attack Level 10
Increase Dodge Level 10
Steal Level 8
Hiding Level 10
Envenom Level 10
Detoxify Level 1
Sand Attack Level 1
Back Sliding Level 1
Pick Stone Level 1
Throw Stone Level 1
Sword Mastery Level 10
Snatcher Level 4
Steal Coin Level 4
Back Stab Level 10
Tunnel Drive Level 5
Raid Level 5
Strip Shield Level 5
Strip Helm Level 5
Intimidate Level 5
Plagiarism Level 10
Chase Walk Level 5
Preserve Level 1
Close Confine Level 1

A normal backstab build, strip helm and strip shield to get rid of demi-human redux. I’m not sure what you want to do with your plagerize. Probably, fsk for linked players or consider shield charge for the stun chance in which you can just go behind them and backstab.

Skill:

PvM Stalker

Double Attack Level 10
Increase Dodge Level 10
Steal Level 10
Hiding Level 10
Envenom Level 8
Detoxify Level 1
Sand Attack Level 1
Back Sliding Level 1
Pick Stone Level 1
Throw Stone Level 1
Snatcher Level 10
Steal Coin Level 4
Back Stab Level 10
Tunnel Drive Level 5
Raid Level 5
Strip Shield Level 3
Strip Helm Level 5
Intimidate Level 5
Graffiti Level 1
Gangster's Paradise Level 1
Compulsion Discount Level 5
Plagiarism Level 10
Chase Walk Level 5
Preserve Level 1
Close Confine Level 1

Sword/Dagger

Bowling Bash/Melee Dagger Stalker
Stats:
Str- 90-99 (multiples of 10)
Agi- 1 - 70
Vit- 30 - 80
Int- 1 - 30 (multiples of 3)
Dex-50 - 80
Luk-

Agi and Vit are debatable. High agi stalkers have amazing DPS with BB but if you plan to WoE or want to tank more, you should consider getting Vit.

Gear:
This is everyday normal stuff. A mes is best for BB because of aspd + bleeding and a level 4 weapon. If you’re one of those people adamant about Sabers, go ahead. BSB wouldn’t be a bad idea for considering in this build. I wouldn’t say bother with dex gear, your normal total dex should be enough. It’s really up in the air, what fits you is what you should wear. A lot of people tend to run away when they’re about to die. To prevent this, horong/marine sphere accessories in the invent will help as well as a status bow. If they’re simply running, I suggest a quad cursing composite. Curse eliminates their ability to hide themselves from you as well as running from you.

Stats: Bow Stalker

Str- 1 - 30
Agi- 50 - 80
Vit- 30 - 80
Int- 1- 30
Dex- 90 +
Luk- 1

For Bowling Bash, you will want to consider less agi and more vit. Shield switching will be hard when you’re close up and spamming BB. The advantage to BBing with a bow? Your BB takes on the element of your arrows and you have a nice amount of dex for stripping.

For Double Strafe, consider more agi than vit. You want the flee, though you definitely want at least 50 vit. Agi helps with ASPD too. With DS you have a lot more range than BB which should be use to your advantage. The element to a double strafe stalker is range advantage. Backslide/ chase walk/tunnel drive lets you completely avoid close range combat.

Gears:

Bowling Bash is simple with gears once again, generic gears that will either up your damage or increase your def/ redux. Using bow gives you no excuse to not use a thara. Carry one with you and only switch to bow when youre on the offensive. The same goes for DS. Double Strafe paired up with a nasty status bow works well too. A low vit character that is stripped or has no ranged attack is screwed completely by a status bow.
Lord of Deaths would be best but I’ve only been on one server where I’ve had a few in a bow. Before that, I used savage babe, plankton, metaller and magnolia. I don’t advise marina due to marcs, I just use a freezing arrow if they managed to get stripped and to bypass raydric. It’s a good idea to carry lots of arrows on you as well. Earthen bow + stone arrows is a nice combo. Simply range them from afar (even if your BB) and if they stone curse, strip them and do your thing. This works extremely well at eliminating priests as well.

Stats: Full Support PvP/WoE Stalker
Str- 1 - 50
Agi- 1 – 90+
Vit- 50 – 90+
Int- 1 - 30
Dex- 1 – 90+
Luk- 1 – w/e

Depending on your need, you’ll be balancing agi and vit again. If you’re mainly supporting in PvP, you want a lot of agi. Stalkers with flee gears and good hide dodging skills are extremely hard to kill. If you plan to use the stalker for 95% WoE though, don’t bother with agi at all. A good WoE stalker survives on high vit, especially if you’re ecalling. If you get stunned for more than .5 second, consider yourself dead. High dex is for stripping and chase walk cast time, int for sp regeneration. Strength is for potting. If you don’t pot in PvP and that’s all you’re going to be doing, don’t bother with strength. It’s a good idea to get more int if you plan to copy heal.

Gears:

Support. That means make yourself as ****** hard to kill as possible. Stun resistant armor is best, if you have 100 total vit or over, use +9 chainmail instead. If you’re flee whoring, +9 thief clothes may work better. Valkyrie armor should definitely be considered and Divine Clothes can be used as a substitute if you lack 100 + vit. Weapon-wise, a CK would be best. The next best thing would be a status cowardice. Plenty of people prefer more status cards on a main gauche but that cowardice is what brings you up to 60+ defense. FSK or heal should be copied. Thara is definitely needed, don’t bother using a bow unless you want to long range status in which case it would only be a back up weapon. Safety rings/ alligator rosaries are a good idea as well. Opera mask/hahoe mask is advised.

Stats: Mage Stalker
Str- 1 - 30
Agi- 1 - 70
Vit- 30 - 70
Int- 90+
Dex- 90+
Luk- 1

It’s close to a wizard build but whatever. Strength for pots, agi for flee. 70 agi + improve dodge is like having a high wizard with 110 agi. Hard to hit is funny when you’re using magic. Vit for obvious reasons, you may want to curb your vit since it won’t help you as much. High dex and decent int is important. Your playstyle will be casting FAST magic spells before disappearing into hide or chase walk or backsliding out of sight. Storm Gust is nice to copy if you have very nice dex. If they don’t have marc, level 1, strip and then cast SG over them before ranging them in storm gust, keeping Storm Gust over them.

Gears:

Bazerald or Rudra is nice. Baz for thara, Rudra if you have agi and dex. Dex gear is important as well as some redux. If you have lots of agi and low dex, copying ninja magic moves maybe a good choice if you have lots of flee gears.

Stats: Grand Cross Stalker
Str- 70 - 90
Agi- 1 - 70
Vit- 50+
Int- 60 - 90
Dex- 50 - 70
Luk- 1

Agi is optional and just for flee. Stalkers are easier to kill with using GC since you have close confine against people without hide.

Gears: Mostly int/ str gear. Bazerald or Rudra is nice. Angeling and GTB make this build pretty powerful. If you don’t have either of these, just don’t wear an evil druid and a double dexterous haedo should be good enough.

Stats: Full Support PvM Stalker
Str- 1 - 30
Agi- 70+
Vit- 50 +
Int- 1 - 70
Dex- 1 - 50
Luk- 1 – 20

Strength for pots. Mostly you’ll be using high flee and high vit to tank while using heal to support players. You can get more strength for some actual killing or some dex for bow. You have agi and gank for gank leveling/ hunting as well as compulsive discount for being optimally cheap and buying at 25% discount instead of 24% (AMAZING!).

Gear: Mostly reduxes for the monsters you’ll be tanking. That’s about it.

Stats: Random Numbers
Str-1
Agi- 99
Vit-1
Int-1
Dex-1
Luk- 99

Screw the leftover stat points. Fortune sword, double yo yo rosaries. Go pwn.

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Player Vs Player

Lord Knight

This shouldn’t be too hard of a battle. Low dex spirals can easily be hide dodged and sword BBs don’t do too much if you have reject sword and decent redux. If the LK can hit you and you’re having trouble with BB use a status bow/arrows. Freeze, Stun are decent picks though marc/vit will make it difficult. The best choice is an earthen bow. Once an LK is stripped, it should be easy pickings. If the LK berserks simply hide and wait for his hp to drain.

Paladin

The most trouble you’ll ever have is with sac paladins that come in with parties. MR CAN be deadly in non WoE settings. Always keep reject sword on and try go in for a quick strip. Vit stalkers have a little easier here though strip is vital for canceling out a paladins shield buffs. Shield Paladins are a little easier, unless they have a link they tend to have a hard time hitting stalkers with 35 + agi which is enough time to for a strip. If the Paladin tries to gain range keep close confine on. Grand Cross shouldn’t be much trouble as it’s easy to dodge with a single backslide done diagonally.

High Wizard

This battle can go both ways. All skills should be dodged. Bow stalkers have this one easy with their range. If the wizard is smart and is keeping up sight blaster, you can backslide into the wizard instead though you generally don’t need to. BB will knock the wizard right out of SW unless they’re smart and are doing it in a corner. If the wizard has a decent cast time with a phen, Earth Spike/ Ice Wall Lock with Gravity Field could prove difficult so always stay in motion or hidden.

Professor

This will be a hard battle to win. Melee/Magic Stalkers are at a disadvantage once the Prof sets up WoF and SW. Soul Burn ends a lot of battles. The key to beating a professor is armor switching. Aqua backed up with Wind should be used when at far range. Evil druid or a medusa is advised when in close range. You can’t rely on your plagerized skill because of dispel so you may have to resort to hide/raid for status and backstab.

Sniper

This is another difficult battle. DS snipers require a lot of flee and dex to face. Bow stalkers have little chance of winning unless they get a lucky strip in. Melee stalkers will have to stay chase walked/ hidden until in close range. If the sniper uses arrow repel, keep a strong shield on you. Strip snipers that are easily tanked and hide/attack ones that do more damage. Magnum break and shield charge work really well for ones with high flee. Trapper snipers are a bit easier. Make sure to stay away from sandmen unless you have remove trap. If you are ankle snared, stay hidden until the duration runs out.

Clown/Gypsy

Clowns/Gypsies aren’t hard if you have good defense and redux. A few attacks should handle them unless they get a lucky tarot.

Whitesmith

Another class that is easier to take on with a bow stalker. Since Whitesmith have no range, just keep your distance if you have a bow using backslide and hide/chasewalk. When using a melee weapon, don’t expect to win unless you have a lot of vit. It is advised to SC/ Strip the target before getting up close as WS easily out-damage stalkers. A punk card may help as it cancels Cart Boost though I personally don’t suggest it.

Creator

Uhm. If you have 50+ vit, you’re a goner. FCP > Strip, Parasites > Hide.

Priest

This can go either way. It will be a difficult battle, especially for bow stalkers, as priests can easily out heal most classes. Silence isn’t reliable enough and you’d end up doing better with just a pvp weapon rather than status. Strip is vital in this situation. Status no longer goes through pneuma when used in the form of arrows/bows so either intimidate or envenom with a poison toad is suggested. If the priest lacks vit, this should be an easy battle.

Champion

You should know when the champ is going for an immediate asura. It’s not hard to dodge without ruwach and you can easily get lucky if the ruwach is not close enough. If you find yourself too close to ruwach and the cast time of Asura is decent, you can backslide + hide it though it is rare you’ll find someone with that slow of a cast time. Note that Asura is interruptible and auto-attacking them before they asura can help. Champions with extremely high dex are mostly your concern though Occult will do quite some damage for stalkers leaning towards vit. Bow stalkers will have a difficult time due to pneuma and envenom with a status weapon may be very useful. If one has good reflexes, a melee stalker can take down a champ if the champ doesn’t snap out of range to heal. Strip is not as useful (though still very) and it is advised that you go straight into attacking and strip only when they champion is on the defensive. A failed strip will prevent you from dodging a TSS.

Assassin Cross

Assuming the Assassin doesn’t one shot you with EDP, this will actually be one of the more easier battles. It’s hard for sinxes to have enough dex to hit you if you have decent agi (40+) and still have enough agi to flee assuming they have vit. Sightless mind is your best friend. Use it to take care of cloaked sinxes while causing statuses to low vit ones. If they don’t have a link, you can easily out-damage them. If the sinx grims, immediately go into hide (backslide out if you get hitlocked) and wait by the sinx. Once he/she unhides and cloaks, immediately use sightless mind followed by attacks.

Stalker

Whoever strips first wins really. It’s really boring, just don’t do it.

WoE

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General Information

White Pots > Aloes

Mastelas > White Pots

You should be using mastelas unless you are linked in which case ranker white potions heal more. Always wear demi-human redux in WoE as your only job is to strip and support. Therefore, high survivability is a must. High vit is recommended.

Gear:
Fberet
Opera/ Hahoe/ Alarm

Armor:
+9 Chainmail – Marc AND ED
or

+4 - +7 Divine Clothes

Recommended High End:

Valkyrie Armor

Weapon:
Cowardice Blade with Status Cards

Or

Main Gauche/ Mes with Status Cards

Recommended High End:

Combat Knife

Shield:

+4- 9 Valkyrie + Thara

Or

+4 – 9 Thorn Shield + Thara

Garment:

Immune Wool (If using Tidals)

Or

Immune Valkyrie Mant

Shoes:

Fledged/Green Ferus/ Matyr Tidals (If using Wools)

Recommended High End:

+0 (!!!!! Don’t be an idiot and +4 them. Please.) Variant Shoes

Accessories

Safety Rings

Or

Alligator Rosaries

w/

Horong to switch in.

Explanations

Stalker gear for WoE mostly for more survivability. Some people prefer ulles, nimble Orleans/ gloves for stripping. You can if you want to though I find it more helpful to have higher defense, especially for guild leaders.

F. beret is obvious. Opera Mask etc etc are for defense though it is advised you get Hahoe or Alarm as they are 10 weight lower. It may not seem like much but every little point of weight counts. One more white pot can make the difference between life or death.

Armor wise, chainmail has the highest defense for Stalkers and thus should be considered. While many people seem to like thieves clothes, I highly suggest against it. Agi is useless in WoE and there are several armors with less weight. Divine Clothes are nice for the status resistance as well as the light weight. Not as much defense as chainmail and perhaps harder to obtain. ED and Marc are both needed. If you come across a professor, you should be switching to ED for safe measures. Stone curse is really something you don’t want to happen.

Weapon choice is important. PvP weapons are useless, stalkers don’t damage in WoE. A status weapon is best whether it’s bow or knife. Also, equip arrows regardless of whether you are using a bow. Flying Side Kick takes on the property of arrows (last time I checked) and can cause status simply from arrows. I personally prefer cowardice over quad status for the simple fact that if you’re not going to be hitting the enemies much at all and if you’re just auto attacking, you should be stripping. The status cards in weapon are more for FSK. The best weapon choice is combat knife for obvious reasons though a Stalker can break decently fast with it OR an ice pick. In a regular WoE build, I’ve gotten a 20 second emp break time (this is with very little agi and strength).

Shield. That is something you should be using in WoE REGARDLESS of class. I’m sick of SinXes going lolololol I don’t need a shield, I use a katar. Snipers, Sinxes, WS should all be using thara in WoE. If you don’t have above 14k hp and aren’t wearing a thara, practically any half decent sinx will one shot you. Even if you use a bow, wear a thara when someone is close by.

Garment/ Shoes. Wool/Tidals are essential for Stalkers who are starting out and may continue to be used long after. I personally prefer Variants with +7 immune Valkyrie Manteau. Secondly, why immune? The only things you should EVER die to in WoE are Asura, AD and EDP SB (if you get ganged. It’s hard for one – two sinx to kill a stalker wearing thara. If the sinx has especially high damage with SB, then it will take 1 sinx with support generally). Of those 3, Noxious is inferior to Raydric in every way. Asura is reduced more by Raydric, AD is reduced more by Radyric and EDP SB is reduced more by Raydric OR none at all if it is converted/ from an elemental katar.

Accessories: I prefer Safety Rings because I don’t die from ranged that much though Alligator Rosaries are just as good. When emp-hugging it’s best to have horong on.

What Skill Should I Be Copying For WoE?

Hands down, Flying Side Kick all the way. Even with the nerf (Stalker can no longer fsk into precast and snatch the precast bragi before darting away onto emp) FSK is the best skill for WoE. It takes off links and it moves you when you’re stuck in a trap (though it will be the only way you will be able to move).

General Stalker Strategies

1. Know what to strip first.

Stripping just about anything is useful though there are situations where Stripping a certain class is more important.

Lord Knights aren’t important. Unless there is no professor/priest/defense set up and there is an LK breaker, it’s safe to prioritize them near last.

Paladins are a toss up. MR pallies (should be shot for being useless anyways) are a bit by strip. Tanking Paladins should be stripped for thara. However, if the paladin is using Sacrifice, it’s more important to strip the person being sacrificed first.

Priests are definitely important. Without thara and assumpt, they can be killed easily.

Champs are not as important either. As with all semi-important classes when it comes to stripping, only strip them if you have nothing better to do.

High Wizards are not important. They die quickly anyways and generally aren’t worth the attention.

Professors are important. They are one of the most important support classes in RO. Make sure they are as vulnerable as possible or it will come back to bite you.

Snipers are decently important. If the Sniper is shooting, don’t strip him and let him waste his time unless you and your guild are somehow hindered by it despite the 99% (might as well be) penalty ranged attacks have. Stripping the trapper is important for breaking through a defense.

Clowns/Gypsies are important. Without an instrument they can no longer use songs. However, this could work the other way and force the Gypsy to spam scream and Clowns to spam tarot. Depending on your experience, you may choose to prioritize them high or low.

Assassin Crosses are important. One stripped, they’re very useless. Of course, this doesn’t mean ignore them.

Stalkers are not important. FSK them and leave. It’s not worth risking being stripped.

2. Close Confine.

Close confine is an important skill. Close confining players that lack hide in precast will kill them. Close Confine speed potters. Close Confine champs. Close Confine Breaker LKs.

It’s important to strip them while they are close confined and then use Chase Walk. Using hide will release them.

3. FSK

FSK is important. Always take out the links of Assassin Crosses, Stalkers, WS and Clown/Gypsies. If enemy priests are (for some odd reason) holy lighting, leave the link on to encourage them to waste more time =D.

4. SP

The reason I had suggested Verits was because of SP. It is recommended that Stalkers get at least 6 sp for regeneration if they aren’t OW a lot though it will not help enough to render SP pots useless. Always have an SP source, chasewalk and strip kill your SP.

Perma-Novice Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:05:00 +0000

How to build a Perma Novice and all, etc etc etc.

Basically like a thief. Get high AGI, so you can dodge the monsters (Vit isn't worth ****** since you don't have HPs anyway.), get Str and Dex so you can damage them...

Suggested final build:

Str: ~80
Agi: ~100 (Matyr card FTW, HP bonus stacks with the other HP cards and +1 Agi)
Vit: ~20
Int: OMG 1
Dex: ~50
Luk: OMG 1

(Might lower to 40 Dex and less Vit for 90 Str.)

How to level and build yourself, and WHERE to level:

When you start, do the Training Grounds. 350 Novice Potions are AWESOME. Obviously, get 9 AGI, 9 Str and 9 Dex.

Get a damn Sword. Dagger is gay. Sword is sexy. You look more manly. Or get a dagger if you want more ASPD. I use Sword, I can hit 183 ASPD when buffed.

As you level, first, get 20 Str, then 20 Dex, then 30 Agi. Then you can get Str to 30, Agi to 50, Str to 40, Dex to 25, Agi to 60, Str to 50, Agi to 70, Dex to 30, Str to 60, Agi to 90, Str to 70, Dex to 40, Agi to 99, Str to 80, Dex to 50, And put the rest in Vit, since you don't have enough for another ATK bonus and DEX is way high enough already.

As to where to level, I'm noob with places so here's where I leveled;

Level 1-15; Training Grounds.
Level 15-20~25: Culvert, various floors. (I suggest 2.)
Level 20-60: Metalings.
-------PRO TIP: Hit a Metaling, and Trick Dead really fast. That way, he can't attack you back. Also works on Myst Cases... And any monster that isn't aggressive. (But you don't have infinite SP, so get items or stick to MEtalings.)
-------PRO TIP 2: As you hit level 50, you can use the Angelic Set. HIGHLY recommended. +900 HP and 100 SP. But watch out as you can't solo Vagabond Wolf, and it gives the Garment.
Level 60-70: If you can get a Marine Sphere Card, go and mob Male Thiefbugs in Culvert 3-4. But if you don't have Marine Sphere, or you hate when you always run out of SP, just stick to metalings, or go to Toy Factory. (With Flee, Myst Cases aren't too bad.) In the good old days I would go in Geffen Dungeon but they added ****** flies.
Level 70-80: Leech plx. It's the worst levels. (Except past 95) You can try Soils, but Mantises are annoying.
Level 80-90: HIGH ORCS! By then you should have enough flee. But don't forget to bring Pots. Whisper Card is a good idea as well.
Level 90+: I did Seals. THey miss more than anyhting.
Level 95+: Try getting someone to leech you, because it's really long now. Something like 0.1% per kill, and you can't mob, and one kill takes 10 seconds. Or you can be really patient. Or you can just stop and brag that you got there and are almost as good as Noviceman.

Now for equips.

Get the Angelic Set, you need HP and SP.

The equips:
Head: Fantasm Angel's Kiss. (Succubus or Incubus Card; wichever one goes in hat.)
Middle: Angled Glasses, Evil Wing Ears, Purple Glasses (Bought in Lighthalzen, 1 def.)
Lower: Anything is as bad as anything else. Baby Pacifier ftw.
Armor: Nightmarish Angelic Protection (Succubus or Incubus, the one that doesn't go in the hat.)
Shield: Cranial Angelic Guard (Thara Frog Card)
Robe: Mocking Angelic Cardigan (Whisper Card)
Shoes: Green Angel's Reincarnation (Matyr Card)
Accessory 1: Blast Novice Armlet (Marine Sphere Card)
Accesory 2: Poison Novice Armlet (Poison Spore Card)

Weapons:

Either get a Sword or a Dagger. Dagger hurts less on Large monsters, and the best Dagger you can get is Cinquedea 2s. It has 110 Atk I believe.

BEst sword would be Star Dust Blade (1 slot). 140 Atk is good for a Novice, and there's a slot. Pretty much the best sword around. (Unless you get a 4s Sword for specific killing. But that'll be wasted later on.)

My weapon: +7 Bloody Star Dust Blade (Hydra Card LOL).

Now, the bestest stuff you could get, would be the Incubus/Succubus combo. But that's a lot of work.

Well that's enough babble since nobody's gonna really use this anyway. =D

Boredom.

Random lolpic:

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HAX, PvP strategies.

Swordman class: They gotta be low level, or have low dex. You gotta be lucky, that's all.

Archer Class: They have to be VERY low level, else you won't even get to them.

Acolyte Class: Almost sure to outheal you.

Mage Class: Easiest class to own. Just trick dead on their skills. They become annoying wih Frost Diver and lots of Dex, so when that happens, just wait until you die.

Thief Class: Again, just hope they're low level, and have low dex. But their AGI will be a pain in the ass mostly.

Merchant Class: I dunno, I'm guessing they're like Knights or Assassins. BUt I assume with more DEX.

Whatever other classes: Dunno Ninja and TK and that stuff.

LOL Lazy guide end.

Well that's that.

For the record, I did beat some Monks, Knights, Crusaders, Wizards, Sages, Assassins, Rogues, Blacksmiths and Alchemists in duels on *Other Server*. No Priests though. I WONDER WHY?

this guide is by noviceman

A guide to Critical SinX's

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Surprisingly enough, an Assassin (Cross) doesn't need that much base LUK to begin with. It's mostly in the gear.

Let's see now.

Pros:
- You do defense-ignoring damage.
- You have high attack speed (and flee, which comes with the attack speed)
- You also have a decent amount of perfect dodge due to the equips/stats.
- Your overall survival/damage is improved as well (as LUK affects everything; i.e. a jack-of-all-trades stat)
- You can put points into other stats, as you won't need much DEX (as Crits are Flee/DEF ignoring attacks)

Cons:
- You'll have poor HP/Defense (Unless you plan on upgrading your equipment really high, which is a waste for a PvM build such as this one)
- You'll only be able to dish out damage to one enemy/monster at a time, rather than being able to mob effectively. (Unless, of course, you plan on going with Meteor Assault...which isn't too useful, except to stun enemies for a second or two)
- Most of the gear is really annoying to get to make this build actually USEFUL in a real scenario (Which means, anything other than smacking Porings)

Armor:
Possibly the most important aspect of a Critical build is the armor.

Morrigane's Belt[0] - Dropped by Kiel D-01, ATK +5, CRIT +3
Morrigane's Pendant[0] - Dropped by Kiel D-01, ATK +5, CRIT +3
Morrigane's Helm[0] - Dropped by Hydro(lancer), LUK +2, ATK +3
Morrigane's Manteau[0] - Dropped by Thanatos (Memory/MVP), LUK +2, P. Dodge +8

---> The added bonus of having the entire set at hand is STR + 2, LUK + 9, CRIT + 13, ATK + 18, P. Dodge + 13
---> However, you may swap out the Belt[0] and the Pendant[0] for 2x Goddess of Fortune's Cursed Brooches, which give +6% to overall CRIT, but with a 0.5% chance to Curse yourself. I would recommend against it, because the full Morrigane's set makes Crit builds a LOT more useful.

Weapon(s):

You can go double-dagger OR katar here, it really doesn't matter.

For ideal ASPD, katar is the way to go. (Ideal ASPD being 172+)
You can go with something as simple as a carded Jur[3], or high up with a(n area) status weapon like an Inverse Scare. I would personally use a Specialty Jur[4] (even though they're quite difficult to get, and very expensive) because of the level of the weapon (1) meaning it can be +10'd easier than a high refine of a Jur, along with the added slot. Although...this also causes you to bleed by chance, so a Jur/Specialty Jur is debatable.

Next up: Double-Dagger!
Sure, you'd have to crank your AGI a fair bit more to reach optimum ASPD (I'm talking 165+ when wielding two dagger-type weapons)

You know, I wonder what an Ice Pick would do for a double-dagger Crit build...High VIT targets: Not only would you IGNORE the def by doing critical attacks, the attacks themselves would be stronger because of enemy VIT. Or something like that, never tried it out myself.
Anyhow, let's see now: The main advantage of having a double-dagger build is that you can have a LOT more status-inflicting going on with crits. (i.e. two daggers, four slots each, something as simple as a Main Gauche[4] will do, along with different status cards and good ASPD). Not only that, but having two daggers and having Left/Right hand mastery increases your damage significantly as well. High-damage/card ratio daggers can be used, such as a simple Damascus or Gladius (preferably Gladius, higher number of slots and nearly the same damage). The other thing to do can be an elemental main-hand weapon, along with a carded offhand weapon, or even better, two double/triple/quad carded weapons along with an outside Endow Scroll/Sage Endow to optimize your damage further.

*Note:*
You may want to use 2x Fortune Swords, as this build can also be used back and forth with a Perfect Dodge/Flee build, mainly since two Fortune Swords give +10 LUK and +40 P. Dodge. Of course, they can be swapped using hotkeys to another weapon for attack, then back while searching for mobs/fleeing them.

Weapon Cards:
These aren't too hard to obtain or use, as what you want is +%ATK cards, or +ATK cards. That is to say, the former is things such as Hydra Cards (+20% to Demi-Humans) and the latter is things such as Zipper Bear Cards (+30 ATK). Actually, the latter is JUST Zipper Bear Cards (as Andre and Skeleton Cards...just suck, +20/+10 ATK is nothing compared to +30 ATK).

- The advantage to having +%ATK cards such as Hydra, Skeleton Worker or Minorous is that you can do a LOT more damage, almost up to double of your original damage (stacking cards correctly and whatnot). But that comes at a cost: you are limited to what you can fight.
- However, +ATK cards (See Zipper Bear Card ) can be used in almost any situation, and they help your damage a fair bit as well in said situations, in comparison to the +%ATK cards.

STATS!

The most important part, besides gears of course.

A regular build, I presume (Damn, times have changed) would revolve around a lot of LUK. But with the implementation of the Morrigane's Set, there is no more need for nasty 7x LUK ruining all your other stats.
Instead, something along these lines:

110+ STR (The Crits make up for the loss of STR: compared to 120/130 in other builds)
70+ AGI if going Katar, 85+ AGI if going Double-Dagger (High ASPD is needed if you want effective Crits/Status Crits), 90+ AGI if you want a LOT of Flee
A decent 30-40+ VIT because you won't need the points in DEX like other builds
5? INT for half-assed SP recovery
Lol you don't need DEX when being able to ignore Flee and DEF. However, get 15-20 to be on the safe side (that is BASE DEX, In comparison to the other stats, which have +Blessing or +Increase Agility buffs)
You can go for anywhere around 20-40 base LUK (considerably less compared to old builds with 70-80 BASE LUK). Depending on your playstyle, you may find it helpful to have more or less LUK than the amount I'm thinking of here. There's a pretty cheap resetter here, go play around with it and see what suits you best by trying it on some low-end monsters.

Skills:

Katar:

Thief: Improve Dodge 10, Double Attack 10, Hide 5+
Assassin: Katar Mastery 10, Enchant Poison 5/6/10, Cloaking 10
Assassin Cross: Advanced Katar Research 5, Create Deadly Poison 1, Enchant Deadly Poison 5
Optional: Steal, Right/Left Hand Mastery, Meteor Assault (See prerequisites), Poison React, Venom Dust/Splasher, Sonic Blow/Grimtooth if points left over.

Double Dagger:

Thief: Improve Dodge 10, Double Attack 10, Hide 5+
Assassin: Right Hand Mastery 5, Left Hand Mastery 5, Enchant Poison 5/6/10, Cloaking 10
Assassin Cross: Create Deadly Poison 1, Enchant Deadly Poison 5
Optional: Steal, Meteor Assault, Katar Mastery, Advanced Katar Research, Poison React, Venom Dust/Splasher

How to party in Nameless Dungeon

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:40:00 +0000

The Complete Guide to Nameless Abbey/Dungeon.

Notes: Use CTRL + F to find the keyword.
Another Note: I have to double/triple post because of the image limit, hope you don't mind, whoever is moderating the forums <3>Content:
1. All about Nameless Dungeon.
1.2. Mobs in Nameless Dungeon.
1.3 Maps in Nameless Dungeon.
1.4 How to get to Nameless Dungeon.
1.5 Navigating yourself to Abbey03.
2. Getting started on party.
2.1 What is a full party, according to me.
3. What to do as a member.
3.1 What to do as a Job Class
4. Taking on Nameless Mobs
5. Death
5.1 Why you're dead
5.2 What to do?
6. Extra Stuff
6.1 Usable Items
6.2 Equips in Nameless
6.3 Camping
7. Credits
8. Random Questions

1. Nameless Dungeon
The Nameless Dungeon, praised by many as the place where levels/exp is gained easily with a well organized party. The purpose of this guide is to showcase how to take on the Nameless Dungeon, with information regarding mobs inhabiting it, and the various methods to take them on, with your class.

1.2 - Mobs present in the Nameless Dungeon:
Ghoul:

Present in abbey01

Zombie Slaughter:

Present in abbey01, abbey02, abbey03 [Summoned by Necromancers].

Ragged Zombie:

Present in abbey01, abbey02

Hell Poodle:

Present in abbey01

Banshee:

Present in abbey01, abbey02, abbey03

Flame Skull:

Present in abbey01, abbey02, abbey03

Necromancer:

Present in abbey02, abbey03

Fallen Bishop Hibram [MVP]:

Present in abbey02

Beezelbub [1st Form] [MVP]:

Present in abbey03

Beezelbub [True Form] [MVP]:

Present in abbey03

1.4 - How to get to Nameless Dungeon
By using the Warp NPC, click it, click To a Dungeon, and then scroll down to Nameless Abbey. Once clicked, you'll warp here:

Obviously go into the warp, and you'll arrive at Abbey01. Simple. Follow the red line on the images to get to abbey03, where there are many necromancers which give pro exp.

1.5 - Navigating yourself around the abbey dungeons
Abbey01 Directions:

Abbey02 Directions:

2. Getting Started On The Party
Basically in order to join/start a Nameless Party, you should be/have:
- Level 70, I think, is probably the most suitable level to be in a Nameless Party
- Have the skills that are suitable, you don't want to be a wizard with no AoE skills right?
- Not be an idiot.

Most parties are organized in Prontera, like so:

Basically if you're level 75, for example, you'll be looking for a party that has a range of Level 70+ to 85, depending on who is the highest level in the party. If the highest level in the party is 86, then the party level range would be Level 76 - 86, because in order to share experience, every member of the party should atleast have a difference of 10 levels or less. If the level difference is 11, then you can't share experience.

Also, the party limit is 12 people, so choose your members wisely. You don't want 11 precasters and 1 priest without a bragi slave

2.1 - From my experience being in various Nameless Parties [lol 5, but lets face it its pretty easy to understand what to do], a full party to me would mean having:
A Monk/Champ [Tanking mobs with Steel Body]
A Priest/High Priest [Healing,Resurrection,Magnum Exorcism, Turn Undead,etc;]
A Hunter/Sniper [Banshee killers, since mages are really horrible against Banshees]
A Bard/Clown [Bragi, one of the best skills ever, allows faster casting and less delay]
A Wizard/High Wizard [AoE skills to clear mobs, and also freezing Banshees I guess]
A Crusader/Paladin [Devotion, helps prevent deaths of low max health classes].

That's about it I think, but this does not mean the rest of the classes are useless, they can help too, except this are the much more preferred classes when it comes to Nameless Parties.

3. What to do as a member
To make it look easier, my MS Paint skills will come into effect!
Scenario 1:

Scenario 2: [Every class in the party, lol if you manage to find one].

3.1 - What to do as a Job Class:
Knight/Lord Knight:
Melee, melee and more melee. Theres a high chance that you'll get killed but don't worry, you'll survive if you have a really good priest with you. Spear boomerang helps too, plus you don't have to go melee. Get an Aspersio from a priest since they it'll allow you to do holy damage, which is great against Nameless Mobs. For Lord Knight, parrying is pretty decent when tanking as it prevents you from being damaged by melee spells at a 50% chance, its so pro! Aspersio'd Spiral pierce is pretty good too, especially on Banshees.

Crusader/Paladin:
Devotion works wonders, a sonic blow by a slaughter would one hit a wizard, but with devotion, the wizard won't die! Crusaders are really useful. Don't bother meleeing in my opinion, your job would be to protect those that do better damages, like Wizards and Hunters. An occasional shield boomerang/grand cross would help too if you're not afraid of dying.

Wizard/High Wizard:
AoE skills are great in Nameless. Storm Gust does really lots of damage because Undead can't freeze, so instead of 3 hits, you hit 10 with storm gust. Also with bragi, you'll cast faster. Despite being fragile, if you can land AoEs well and avoid dying, you're pro. Storm gust is also effective on banshees as it stops them from coming near you, unless the storm gust knocks them to you lol. Also, on a side note, if there are 2 or more wizards in the party, 1 Wizard should Storm gust and the other Meteor Storm, since Storm Gust does not stack.

Sage/Professor:
Bolts I guess, fire bolts on undead, and if theres only a Banshee, firebolt it too! Basically as a sage, your job is to deal damage with bolts, and since you have freecast, you can walk around while casting! How pro is that? For Professors, with soul change and health conversion, you can provide your party with unlimited SP, therefore speeding up the leveling process without SP breaks.

Hunter/Sniper:
Main damage dealers on Banshees imo. Double Strafe banshees with Holy Arrows/Arrows of Counter Evil and watch them die. If you run out of sp, use normal attack, helps too. Basically your job is to strafe stuff with your insane long range attacks. Also, if you can use traps effectively, Ankle Snares to lock them at a position so they won't melee you and Skid Trap so incase one of the mob avoids storm gust, it'll skid right back to the AoE spell!

Bard/Clown:
Your job is pretty easy, just bragi and autofollow the casters. An occasional music strike helps too! For Clowns, arrow vulcan if theres another bard using bragi. Once again, Holy arrows and Arrows of Counter Evil for maximum damage.

Blacksmith/Whitesmith:
Same as knight, melee and more melee. If you have a tomahawk, thats pro too, throw tomahawk! Party buffs like Maximize Weapon etc; also help too. As a whitesmith, cart termination helps, but kinda costly, I guess. But if you're rich, go ahead! Aspersio for holy weapon, maximizing damage.

Alchemist/Creator:
Not much to say about this class, I mean, why would you waste bottles leveling when you have a party. But then, if you're rich, feel free to acid demo as a creator or acid bomb as an alchemist. If you have a homunculus, that helps too, especially the spell casting one. Melee works too! Remember Aspersio! Also alchemist/creators can act as healers by using potion pitcher, which is comparable to a priest's heal. A linked alchemist/creator is also able to use Berserk pitcher, which is useful in increasing attack speed for physical attackers.

Assassin/Assassin Cross:
Hide, grimtooth! An occasional sonic blow on Banshees help too. Backslide to get away incase you're dying. As an assassin cross, with bragi, you're able to spam Soul Breaker which does decent damage, and meteor assault for mobs. Once again, Aspersio for maximum damage. For support, detoxify helps poisoned people, as zombies tend to randomly poison anyone that's in their range.

Rogue/Stalker:
Plagarize storm gust, use it. Double Strafing helps too. Try not to lose storm gust when you're deep down in Nameless, its a hassle to go to pvp and get it back. Using steal when your party is attacking is pro, you might get an equipment like Wool Scarf! For support, detoxify helps poisoned people, as zombies tend to randomly poison anyone that's in their range.

Priest/High Priest:
Basically you heal the tank, you heal people who've been damaged, you buff them with Bless/Increase Agi, you give them party buffs like Magnificent and Gloria, you ressurect them when the're dead, you Magnum Exorcism when you have free time, you turn undead when you think you're lucky, you Aspersio melee attackers. Thats about it, you're important. When you die, and nobody has yggdrasil leafs, your party is over.

Monk/Champion:
With Steel Body, you're able to tank mobs easily with a priest healing you. Try not to get too many mobs though, you might die. For non tanking monks, melee! For Champions, throw spirit sphere works too. Once again, Aspersio! Also if there is a professor in the party, feel free to spam Asura Strike. Its pretty pro to see DEATH words coming out.

Soul Linkers:
If you have soul linker buff, thats pro, but I hardly see any linkers with them. Soul Linkers help by buffing party members, like giving Priest Link which allows the priest to deal x5 damage of Holy Light, or Assassin Link which gives bonus damage for Sonic Blow, or Bard Link, which cancels out the movement speed reduction when playing a song. Also, according to Celestial, Soul Linkers do beautifully with Esma against, well, everything down there!

Ninja:
Spells like Crimson Fire Blossom, Dragon Fire Formation etc; works well against undead mobs since the're weak to fire. Water Escape Technique is also good as it lowers the mobs movement speed, preventing the mobs from overrunning you.

Gunslingers:
Madness Canceller, and shoot away! Holy Bullets is a must I guess. Fullbuster for single target attacks which do decent damage, and Desperado when mobs appear!

Taekwon/Star Gladiator:
Enchant your attack with holy property and melee. If you have warmth of the [insert skill here], and you've memo'd the place, then use it. Pretty good.

Dancer/Gypsy:
SP Song for the win. Increases everyone's sp! Also vulcan arrow helps.

Super Novice:
Bless and Increase agi is helpful when a priest is out of SP. Also, Super Novice can use bolt spells, which is pretty good too. Having a cart allows carrying of more Blue Gems etc; in case the others have no space in their inventory/is overweight.

4. Taking on Nameless Mobs
Well Nameless mobs consist of Undead, Shadow and Demon.
Lets start with the easier ones:

Ghoul - Probably the easiest mob in the dungeon, its a joke. Seriously. Any holy enchanted weapon/holy elemental weapon should be able to take it down. Only thing annoying is that it can poison you, but meh, green herbs should do it.

Hell Poodle - Fairly easy, although the sonic blow might hurt a bit. Its also annoying in a sense that it'll interrupt Wizard's cast, allowing the harder mobs to fight back. Then again, its easy to get rid off. Once again, holy enchanted weapon works.

Flame Skull - Lol fireball. Another annoying mob that can actually 'run' to you, if not too careful, you'll actually get killed by it. Also annoying as it'll interrupt wizard's cast. Immaterial arrows should do the trick, or a ghost property weapon [Rare imo], or Soul Strike.

Ragged Zombie - This thing actually kills people. Double strafe hurts. Pneuma does the trick though. Fire spells and holy enchanted weapons do the trick. Will also mess up your cast so its better for someone without a casting time to take it out.

Now for the harder ones:

Zombie Slaughter - Its sonic blow is enough to one hit classes with low base hp, like wizards/hunters. Knockback spells like Jupitel Thunder/Charge Arrow should keep it away from you. Poison/Darkness attack hurts, but I've only seen slaughters sonic blow me, so meh. Fire spells/Holy enchanted weapons should do the trick once again.

Banshee - Crazy resistance, its annoyingly hard to take down because of its resistance to almost every element, therefore wizards are pretty useless fighting Banshees because the'll die first. Evil Land is like a damaging sanctuary so casters should get out of the area. Soul Strike of Darkness hurts too so try not to get close to it, let the tankers do the job. Wide Curse, I hardly see it using it but if she uses it, lol at you. Holy elemental weapons/spells should do the trick. Magnums Exorcism comes in handy too.

Necromancer - A pretty decent mob with excellent exp. It can summon 2 Zombie Slaughters, which is really annoying thanks to sonic blow and painful melee attacks. Necromancers can also use Thunderstorm, which can one hit most people, try to avoid it when you see the AoE circle on you. He has reflect shield so if you're low on hp, don't melee it. I hardly see it meteor storm, so meh. Quagmire slows your movement/casting speed, so get out of it. If I'm not wrong, he has a skill [I think Critical Wound] which prevents you from being healed, so when you see yourself glowing green, don't tank, because priests can't heal you. A combination of AoE spells like Storm Gust/Meteor Storm/Magnum Exorcism and single target spells like Double Strafe should do the trick. Just be careful of the Necro's AoE. Thats all.

Special mentions:
MVPS like Fallen Bishop/Beezelbub.
Obviously, run away before it kills you. I've never seen Bishop before but Beezelbub can one hit a whole party with that insane AoE skill, Hell's Judgement or something. Basically when you see a chonchon like monster in abbey03, run. Don't stop, run. You don't want to lose experience over some crappy fly right?

5. Death

5.1 - Why you're dead
You messed up and therefore you're dead like the above screenshot. You're dead probably because of the following reasons:
- Beezelbub came across you, and you shortly die in a few seconds.
- A Necromancer spawned on you, used its AoE before it could be stopped, the Zombie Slaughters sonic blow everyone, priests can't outheal, everyone dies.
- Lag
- You run headfirst into the mob, disregarding anyone's advice that you're a Wizard.
- Afk
- List more reasons here.

5.2 - What to do?
Now that you and your party is dead, you have the following options:
- One of your party member was smart enough to fly wing away, and has a yggdrasil leaf. Obviously you resurrect the Priest first so he can resurrect the rest.
- Regroup in Prontera, because your party might be lacking a key member, like a Banshee Killer or something.
- Wait for another Nameless Party to pass by, and ask for resu pls!1!
- Or, if your party member fly wings away, but has no leafs, get him to buy one from that shop in abbey03, its pretty pro. I've always seen him there in all the nameless parties I've been. Its called Blah?
- One of you restarts back to Prontera, get a 100 fly wings, and fly wing all the way back to abbey03, and then resurrect the Priest.
- Thats about it.

6. Extra stuff:

6.1 - Usable Items:
Be sure to at least carry these things if you can afford them:
Grape Juice [When you don't have SP and theres no Professor with you, you can't possibly have an SP Break during a mob attack rite D:]
Yggdrasil Leaf [When you somehow survive when everyone else, including the priest, is dead. Resurrect the priest so he can resurrect the others.]
Fly Wings [To warp around in case you encounter Beezelbub and you can't escape it by walking.]
Butterfly Wing [Important so you won't lose experience! Like example if you see your party getting overruned, and you can't do anything, butterfly wing away to avoid losing experience! But you'll get kicked out of the party for doing this and plus, you're an ass. Used to warp back to town when your party leader is tired, people have to go and you need to reorganize your party etc;]
Merchant with a cart Double client a merchant incase of emergencies, like when you run out of arrows or something. Pretty useful, but double clienting might lag you.]

6.2 - Equips in Nameless
Equips don't really matter in Nameless, since based on my experience, I'm only using a Rod[4], thats it. But anyway, if you'll like to reduce the damage from the mobs in Nameless,
a Hodremlin carded shield would work. Skeleton Prisoner card is nice too, giving extra 10% Exp from Undead enemies. Really, its not neccesary, but lol feel free to +4 your equips to reduce more damage, so you won't get one hit'd by Sonic blow/Thunder Storm, which is happening to me alot. Also, bathory card helps to prevent Necromancers from giving tankers the undead status, bathory also reduces Thunder Storm damage and nulifies Banshee's Soul Strike. Pretty pro if you can get your hands on one.

6.3 - Camping
Basically camping means the whole party stays at a certain spot while the tank(s), usually a Lord Knight/Monk/Champion, run around the map dragging mobs. Although I've not tested out this method, mini says camping in Abbey01 is a great way to obtain Wool Scarfs + Tidal Shoes, which are really pro equips which give +10% Maximum HP when equipped together. So, feel free to use this method when hunting stuff, since Abbey03 has more mobs with experiences (Lol necromancers).

Kudo's to Slayerdon for the guide!

Tips to Adding Friends

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:36:00 +0000

There are several ways to add someone to your Friends List. The method below, allows you to add someone to your Friends List without the need to be on the same screen. You don't need to click on him/her. All you need is just a name.

1. CTRL + I to bring up Friend Setup. ("I" as in Igloo) Check the box "Open 1.1 Chat not between Friends"

2. Type the person's name you wish to add in the Message box (bottom left) and type a simple message. Then press Enter.

3. A Chatbox will pop up with his/her name.

4. Right click on the top bit of the Chatbox (illustrated as the light blue bar), and select "Register as a Friend"

5. Congratulations. You have added a new Friend on your list.

Guide to catching Pets!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:35:00 +0000

Below is the eAthena script for taming a pet

pet_catch_rate = (pet_db.capture + (sd->status.base_level - md->level)*30 + sd->battle_status.luk*20)*(200 - get_percentage(md->status.hp, md->status.max_hp))/100

Source: http://svn.eathena.ws/svn/ea/trunk/src/map/pet.c

In English, it simply means:
Success Chance in % = (Base Capture Chance + (Player Base Level - Monster Level)*30 + Luk*20)*(2 - [Monster HP rate])/100

whereby Monster HP Rate is 1 if the monster has full HP ,0.5 on half HP,etc...

Recommendation
1. Use a high level character

2. Have lots of LUK - I normally use my Turn Undead Priest with Gloria

3. Weaken the target monster (Pokemon style)

4. Pray

Additional information
eAthena's Base Capture Chance (Revision 13958) are as follow:

Official Gravity Pets

CODE

Alice 8%
Baby Wolf 10%
Bapho 2%
Bongun 5%
Chonchon 15%
Deviruchi 5%
Dokebi 5%
Drops 15%
Hunter Fly 5%
Isis 5%
Lunatic 15%
Munak 5%
Orc Warrior 5%
Peco Peco 10%
Petite 5%
Picky 20%
Poison Spores 10%
Poporing 10%
Poring 20%
Rocker 15%
Savage Babe 15%
Smokie 10%
Sohee 5%
Spores 15%
Steel Chon chon 10%
Yoyo 10%
Zealotus 3%

Special Event Pets (with additional info on Pet Food)

CODE

Christmas Goblin 20% Scell
Diabolic 8% Meat Skewer
Earth Deleter 8% Barbeque
Goblin 1 (Dagger) 8% Green Apple
Goblin 2 (Mace) 8% Green Apple
Goblin 4 (Hammer) 8% Green Apple
Green Maiden 20% Chung E Cake
New Year Doll 8% Mochi
Rice Cake 20% Green Herb
Spring Rabbit 20% Bok Choy
Wanderer 8% Spirit Liquor

Other information on Monster can be found here (Monster Max HP and Monster Level)

Ragnarok skins

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Tired of the basic Ragnarok skins? Well, Here are some sites with Interface Skins to download:

RO Empire
Ragnarok Ultimate Network of Enhancements
http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/download/skinslist.asp
http://moon.moo.jp/frame.htm

For those interested in making their own skins, this website has something.
http://healplz.com/downloads.php

There are countless skins all over the internet but these sites have the best of them. Trust me. Hope you enjoy and RO always!

Upgrading guides

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:26:00 +0000

The upgrading system allows you to upgrade the ability of your current weapon (more Atk) or armor (more Def). Every player's dream is to have the best equipment possible for their character. For this, you'll need perseverance and alot of luck.

Most people go to Prontera's upgrade shop since it's the easiest one to access. To visit the upgrade shop in Prontera, enter the building south-east from the center (red dot).

There is also an upgrade shop in Morroc, Payon, Alberta and Yuno. Inside Prontera's upgrade shop, you'll find 4 NPCs. I'll explain what each of them can do for you.

Vurewell sells Phracon (200z) and Emveretarcon (1000z). These metals are used to upgrade level 1 and level 2 weapons.

Dietrich can refine metals for you. Oridecon is used to refine level 3 and level 4 weapons. Elunium is used to refine armor. You cannot buy Oridecon and Elunium from an NPC, you must buy it from other players or find it yourself. Oridecon and Elunium can be found in pure form or rough form (Rough Oridecon and Rough Elunium). Dietrich will exchange you 1 Elunium if you give him 5 Rough Elunium, and 1 Oridecon if you give him 5 Rough Oridecon.

Grendal can fix broken equipment for you. He will charge 1 Steel and 5000z, regardless of your equipment. There are situations where you can have your weapon\armor break (from Meltdown for example). Once broken, your equipment will become unusable and have its name in red. You need to fix it to be able to use it again.

Weapon Repair
Blacksmiths and Whitesmiths can also repair broken equipment with the skill Weapon Repair. They do not need to equip it, they can repair anything. You don't need money, an Iron Hammer or an anvil to use this skill but you do need the right metal.
Weapon lvl 1 - Iron Ore
Weapon lvl 2 - Iron
Weapon lvl 3 - Steel
Weapon lvl 4 - Rough Oridecon
Armor - Steel
It's always better to have a BS\WS you trust to repair for you.

Hollengrhen is the main man, he can upgrade equipment for you. You need to have the item equipped, have the right metal and need to pay an upgrade fee.
Here is what you will need.

You can only upgrade equipment that your character can wear.
You cannot upgrade headgear that is worn on Mid or Lower such as Fin Helm and Iron Cain, or accessories.
You can upgrade equips to a maximum of +10.

Once an item is refined to its maximum safety level, there is a risk you need to take if you want to over-upgrade it. If you attempt to upgrade it past its maximum safety level, the item could be lost forever! If the confirmed item is to be upgraded past the safe limit, then you will be given a warning and a chance to quit without any cost.

If you succeed in upgrading, a 'SUCCESS' message will display and the item will have a +1 added to it. If the upgrade fails, a 'FAILURE' message will display and the item, Zeny used and any cards in the slots of the item will all be destroyed completely, so please be aware.

No stats or anything else other than Weaponry Research will affect your success chances. All upgrading NPCs are equal and not one of them gives you better results, but people might prefer to upgrade in a certain town because they're superstitious.

I suggest not to over-upgrade an item that you want to wear without having a backup replacement. For example, I wouldn't try to +6 a Helm if I didn't have an extra +5 Helm to wear.

Weaponry Research
Blacksmiths/Whitesmiths have a skill called Weaponry Research which increases their upgrading success rate by 1% per level (max level 10). The extra 10% success rate comes in handy, but can only work on equipment this character can wear. Always try to use a BS\WS for overupgrading equipment they can wear.

Upgrading success
Maximum safety levels (All upgrades up to these levels will succeed):
Weapon lvl 1, +7
Weapon lvl 2, +6
Weapon lvl 3, +5
Weapon lvl 4, +4
Armor, +4

Add +10% success to all attempts if you are using level 10 Weaponry Research.
Upgrading weapons
An overupgraded weapon will have a hidden ATK bonus that is not displayed on your ATK stat. For example, a hit with a +8 Lance (lvl 3, 185 atk), my ATK would be 185+40+(a random number between 1 and 24).
Attempted level | Added ATK | Bonus ATK | Success rate

Level 1 weapons
Upgrade damage/level: +2 ATK
Upgrade bonus/level: 1-3 ATK

+1 | 2 | -- | 100%
+2 | 4 | -- | 100%
+3 | 6 | -- | 100%
+4 | 8 | -- | 100%
+5 | 10 | -- | 100%
+6 | 12 | -- | 100%
+7 | 14 | -- | 100%
+8 | 16 | 1-3 | 60%
+9 | 18 | 1-6 | 40%
+10 | 20 | 1-9 | 20%

Level 2 weapons
Upgrade damage/level: +3 ATK
Upgrade bonus/level: 1-5 ATK

+1 | 3 | | -- | 100%
+2 | 6 | | -- | 100%
+3 | 9 | | -- | 100%
+4 | 12 | | -- | 100%
+5 | 15 | | -- | 100%
+6 | 18 | | -- | 100%
+7 | 21 | | 1-5 | 60%
+8 | 24 | | 1-10 | 40%
+9 | 27 | | 1-15 | 20%
+10 | 30 | | 1-20 | 20%

Level 3 weapons
Upgrade damage/level: +5 ATK
Upgrade bonus/level: 1-8 ATK

+1 | 5 | -- | 100%
+2 | 10 | -- | 100%
+3 | 15 | -- | 100%
+4 | 20 | -- | 100%
+5 | 25 | -- | 100%
+6 | 30 | 1-8 | 60%
+7 | 35 | 1-16 | 50%
+8 | 40 | 1-24 | 20%
+9 | 45 | 1-32 | 20%
+10 | 50 | 1-40 | 10%

Level 4 weapons
Upgrade damage/level: +7 ATK
Upgrade bonus/level: 1-14 ATK

+1 | 7 | -- | 100%
+2 | 14 | -- | 100%
+3 | 21 | -- | 100%
+4 | 28 | -- | 100%
+5 | 35 | 1-14 | 60%
+6 | 42 | 1-28 | 40%
+7 | 49 | 1-42 | 40%
+8 | 56 | 1-56 | 20%
+9 | 63 | 1-70 | 20%
+10 | 70 | 1-84 | 10%

Upgrading armor
Attempted level | Added DEF | Success rate

Upgrade defence/level: 0.7 DEF

+1 | 0.7 | 100%
+2 | 1.4 | 100%
+3 | 2.1 | 100%
+4 | 2.8 | 100%
+5 | 3.5 | 60%
+6 | 4.2 | 40%
+7 | 4.9 | 40%
+8 | 5.6 | 20%
+9 | 6.3 | 20%
+10 | 7.0 | 10%

Weapon Refine
Weapon Refine is a skill that only Whitesmiths have. It allows you to upgrade weapons without an NPC and with a bonus success rate. It works similarly to Weapon Repair. You don't need money, a hammer or an anvil to use this skill but you do need the right metal.
Weapon lvl 1 - Iron Ore
Weapon lvl 2 - Iron
Weapon lvl 3 - Steel
Weapon lvl 4 - Rough Oridecon

Only the job level of the Whitesmith affects the bonus success.
Job level 40: -5%
Job level 50: +0%
Job level 60: +5%
Job level 70: +10%

Every level of the skill lets you upgrade up to a certain level (at level 10, you can upgrade up to +10). The Weaponry Research skill does not apply. You can upgrade any weapon (Katars, Spears, Bows..). You cannot upgrade armor. Don't upgrade if your job level is under 50 (negative success rate). It's great to overupgrade any weapon and have a 10% (job level 70) bonus success rate. Remember to only have a Whitesmith you trust upgrade for you.

How to Summon MVPs??

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Ever had a bad day because everyone's been killing all the mvps because they timed it? Do you want to have a bigger chance in getting thos Awesome MVP card? Well, what most people don't know is that you can actually do that with the prof's ABRACADABRA!

Now, The best thing to do is to have 2 players, because then you can dispell eachother once you get annoying skills like steel body or trick dead. (If you do it alone, you'll have to relog a lot to get rid of it.

Here is a simple mini-guide to Hocus Pocus!

1. Make a sage with abracadabra level 8. and yes, leave it at level 8.
Why?
Because for every 2 levels or something, you get a new "????" skill. Once you get it to level 8, the "class change" skill adds. So, if you max it (10), you'll have another chance with that skill. And thats "Level up" (And you won't need that..) So. If you leave it at level 8 there's a slightly bigger chance you'll get "Class change" instead of something else, when you get the "????" skill.
Then, each time you use the skill it will cost 2 yellow gemstones. To make it down to 1 gemstone/skill, you have to get bard/dancer duet with the gemstone song, OR slot a mistress card in one of your headgears. Both works. You can buy yellow gemstones at the npc in Ostia.

2. How?
Basicly you just spam it untill you get the "????" skill, be careful once you get it. Because if you click it away, it's gone. So you should always have a monster close to use it on, what I normally use are mushrooms summoned by a Creator. And remember, it wont always be "class change", there's also "Taming monster", "fortune", "death" and "monocell". But if you're lucky~ :3

A smart move is to have a champ on the map, and asura the MvP you get, unless its ghost. Then just fill it up with SP and log it out at the same place when you're done.

3. Where? Try find a small map. (Since many MvP's enjoy teleporting) I usually do it on the sunken ship map myself, because it's so small. (And it got a kafra on it for items). You can do it inside buildings but you will have a difficult time when it teleports. Try doing it on less populated areas.

Anyways, this is a nice way to summon some rare mvp's, I do it a lot on every server I play on. It's fun when you're 2, then you can chat and stuffs while you're doing it. :3 Hope you find the guide useful.

How to Improve Character Builds with RagState

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:23:00 +0000

If you are confused on what kind of build you want to follow, whatever class it is, whether it's your entire build or skill-tree orientation to work with other classes - make a thread in this section. Don't waste a potential woe character, don't be afraid to ask.

http://chanywa.com/ragsim/ragstate/

CHANGE TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION
1. start RagState
2. Options
3. click on "English",
4. then click on the right button which means translated "ok"

press job to change ur job
double click on the equipment to use it
scroll up with ur mouse wheel for upgrading ur stuff
same with stats/base lvl/job lvl etc just use ur mouse wheel

ragstate the most convenient but for accurate damage calculating for pvp/woe use
http://calcx.wushuang.ws/pvp.html
has auto-reduction calculation for opponent item/def

What you didn't know about stun

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:19:00 +0000

STUN GUIDE
Know your shit.

Table of contents. Lol.
WHAT DOES THIS THREAD SAY?
Too much

- BASIC IMMUNITIES!

- YOU CAN'T ADD THEM LIKE THAT!

- STUN FORMULA IN ALGEBRA FORM D:!

- WHAT STUNS IN WOE?

- WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT STUN?

- WHATS THE BEST OPTION?

- FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE TO READ ;]

- ^ If you just want that formula to be able to calc. your stun cuz you hate reading then just go to the end.
I have the easy formula version at the end of the post.

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BASIC IMMUNITIES!
<3 - 97 Vit****
- 300 Luk (good luck ever getting 300 Luk...)
- Armor/Card >=100% (Ex: valk armor(50)+flame skull card(30) + stalactic golem card(20))
- Orc Hero Card
- Gospel Status Buff - One of the Gospel Buffs will give you an immunity to statuses for 1 minute

****97 vit is the stun immunity because its [total vit +3].
So with 97 total vit, +3 = 100%
Or with 47 total vit, +3 = 50%

No consumable will remove Stun.
Some skills like Status Recovery can remove it though.

Unless you reach one of the actual "Stun Immunities," you cannot reach stun immunity no matter how high you get all the stun resists.

Even if you have 95 total Vit (98% stun resist)
If you had a Valk Armor on top of that, it is still possible to get stunned.
Valk Armor would make you have 99% resist. If you don't understand why, you'll understand after the next section.

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YOU CAN'T ADD THEM LIKE THAT!
fail

Basically if you have 50% stun resist from Vit and you put on Valk Armor (50% stun resist) you don't get 100%.
It would instead increase your total stun resist to 75%. Luk applies in the same manner.

100%-[Vit's % reduction]-[Luk's % reduction from chance after Vit]-[Armor/Card's % reduction from chance after Vit+Luk]= Total Stun Chance

Skills chance of inflicting Stun comes into play as well. Since player skills that can cause stun are not 100% success rates.

Ex:
Vit reduction is 80% (77 total vit) ---------------------- This Vit reduces the chance to stun to 20%
Luk reduction is 50% (150 total luk) ------------------- This Luk will reduce that further to 10%
Armor/Card reduction is 50% (ex: valk armor) -------- This Armor/Card will reduce it further to 5% stun chance

Because they don't stack straight on top of each other, something like:

100%-[80%]-[50%]-[50%]= 5% stun chance
Can be true.

The formula is actually played out like this instead:

100% reduced [80%]= 20%
20% reduced [50%]= 10%
10% reduced [50%]= 5%

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STUN FORMULA IN ALGEBRA FORM D:!
Math...

Pretty Version
(X) - (Y) - (Z) = total stun chance

(X) =vit reduction
(Y) =Luk reduction
(Z) =Armor/Card reduction

Ugly version of stun formula
97-[Total Vit]+[(97-[Total Vit])*(Luk/300)]+[(97-[Total Vit])-([97-(Total Vit)]*[Luk/300])*(Armor/Card %)= Total Stun Chance

Its ugly to look at as a whole so i'll break it up to make it simpler to see.

97 - [total vit] = (X)

(X) * (luk/300) = (Y)

(X-Y) * (Armor/Card % total)= (Z)

Which brings me back to the pretty version

(X) - (Y) - (Z) = total stun chance

If you calc out what (X) equals, then you can put that in the formula for (Y).
Same if you calc out (X) and (Y), you can put those in the formula for (Z).

Once you have the numbers for (X), (Y), and (Z) you can put them into the easy math formula of (X) - (Y) - (Z) = ?

Here's an example.
Say you have 70 total Vit, 8 total Luk, and 32% total resist gear (meteor plate(30%) and dark blinder(2%))

(X) = 97 - [70]
(X) = 27

(Y) = (27) * (8/300)
(Y) = 0.72

(Z) = (27 - 0.72) * (32%)
(Z) = (26.28) * (.32)
(Z) = 8.4096

Vit ---- Luk -- Armor/Card
(27) - (.72) - (8.4096)
Total Stun Chance = 17.8704
70 Vit, 8 Luk, 32% resist = 17.87% total stun chance

Another example,
71 Vit, 10 Luk, 7% resist = 23.374% total stun chance

Note:I round sometimes, so if you're off by a tenth or a couple hundredths or w/e, don't worry about it. I probably rounded something being lazy with microsoft calculator. Lol.

QUOTE (INFERNUS)

"Base level" will slightly lower the chance of Stun being inflicted". - http://irowiki.org/wiki/Status_Effects#Stun

Wikipedia is never wrong.
Remember kids, wikipedia is never wrong.

....

If you want to figure out the chance of someone stunning you with some skill/gear/cards, just multiply the chance the skill/gear/cards has to stun you vs. your total stun chance.
If the chance a skill has is 50% (Ex: Scream) and your total stun chance is 20% then:

(50%) * (20%) = 10%

or you can look at it like:

(.50) * (.2) = .100

Here is a pic of the stun chart vs. Vit only stun resistance.
Stun Table

Example:
70% stun chance vs. 50 Vit
[(100 -[50 +3])=47% Vit stun chance]
So, (70%) * (47%)
(.7)*(.47)=.329 or 33%

Again, that Stun Table has only the Vit side of the stun formula.

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STUN IN WOE?
Unheard of.

In WoE you will be stunned from various different classes that all have different stun chances. You'll experience more stun in SE than in FE.
Stun chance coming from players aren't 100% to happen even if you have no resistance.

For example a Gypsy's Scream(Dazzler) is a 50% chance success rate at max level.

What does this mean towards your Total Stun Chance?

As in the example of a Total Stun Chance I calculated in the previous section, 17.8704% chance to be stunned. If A gypsy was to do 1 Scream at a player with this stun chance, since Scream is 50% chance, it would only have a chance to stun that player at 8.9352%.
If you was to put stun in a ratio for a gypsy, to stun this char, it would be 1 in 11.12 screams. So on average, with this stun chance you would expect to stun once every 11 screams. Technically. Luck has no calculation i'm afraid
1 in 11 Screams sounds good but if you had 5~ Gypsys on your screen doing 2 screams a second, it wouldn't be that great.

There are many things that can cause stun in WoE though.

Blue = Commonly experienced
Red = Meh, possible
Green = Who the fuck uses this shit?

Skills:
Gypsy - Scream - 50% stun chance
SinX - Sonic Blow - 30% stun chance
Whitesmith - Cart Termination - 50% stun chance (you see this more in FE than in SE)
High Wizard - Meteor Storm - 30% stun chance
Crusader - Smite - 40% stun chance
Swordie Classes - Bash - 25% stun chance (I think its 25, don't really care cuz who uses Bash?)

Equips/Cards:
Doom Slayer[1](weapon) = Chance to stun, 30%, when receiving physical damage. (Base STR >= 95)
Great Axe[0](weapon) = 15% chance to stun.
Stunner[2](weapon) = 10% chance to stun.
Wrench[0](weapon) = Chance to randomly inflict stun, blind, poison, freeze statuses with each attack.
Star Dust Blade[1](weapon) = 5% stun chance.
Book of Charms Vol. 1[1](shield) = Chance to stun when receiving physical damage. (Guessing its about 10% chance?)
Mythical Lion Mask[1](headgear) = 10% chance to stun when attacking. (Taekwon class)
Stun Arrow(arrow) = "Inflict the stun status on targets by a low chance."

Flame Skull Card(shield) = Chance to cause stun when user receives short physcial damage.
Majoruros Card(armor) = 6% chance to stun when receiving damage
Rybio Card(armor) = 9% chance to stun when receiving damage (Base Dex >= 77)
Lord of Death Card(weapon) = 5% chance to stun.
Savage Babe Card(weapon) = 5% chance to stun.
Skeleton Card(weapon) = 2% chance to stun. (LOL)

If you want me to add more skills/items that cause stun just ask.
I might of missed some since I tend to not care about stun since i'm perma immune

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WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT STUN?
Cry.

In terms of how to help reduce your stun.
Vit > Armor/Card

Yes, if you get something like OH Card. Then its a little different. You could reroll your char to build it to an OH Card.
But I base this simply because Vit helps not only your stun but also increases your HP, and increases your resists to other statuses as well.
Also Armor/Card only reduce the % thats left after Vit/Luk. Meaning their resist is less than what its description is. (unless you have 0 vit and 0 luk somehow...)

There are a few armors that can help resist your stun a good bit on top of what your vit already reduces. Unfortunately, Luk is just an utter failure.

Do not use Luk thinking you'll help your stun resistance since it sucks horribly.

How to help my chance vs. Stun?

First thing to do to help your stun = Vit Food. I'm sure everyone already knows this though.
+7 Vit food. Everyone should be using it. Its basically like a +7% resist. This adds to your total Vit so its calc'd into your base stun resist, unlike Luk/Armor/Cards resists.

Second thing to do to help your stun = Armor resists.
Not everyone can wear these so you just need to find out which is the best armor that you're able to use.

Heres a small list of the stun resist gear/cards:

Valk Armor[1](armor) = 50% resist (thief, merchant, swordie classes)
Meteor Plate[1](armor) = 30% resist (high merch, high swordie classes)
Divine Clothes[1](armor) = 5% resist (rebirth classes, cept high novice)
Dark Blinder(mid headgear) = 2% resist (all cept novice)

Orc Hero Card(headgear) = 100% resist
Stalactic Golem Card(headgear) = 20% resist
Gemini-S58 Card(headgear) = 30% resist (Base Agility >= 90)
Flame Skull Card(shield) = 30% resist

Cards are very good at resisting stun. Alas in terms of WoE they destory your demi-human reductions.
Taking away your Feather Beret and Thara Frog Card for example is something you don't want to do.
Stick to Equipment type resists. (OH can be worth the loss of Feather Beret though if your char is built around the card)

Rosaries do add +1 Luk... but it might be better to go with an accessory that helps a stat that you have really high. Since saving 1 stat in the 9x's is 11 stat points you can put towards another stat.
Unfortunately as far as actually helping your stun resist when you already have a lot of resist, small numbers of luck won't do anything.
For example, +1 luk when you already have 80% resist from your vit means you gain 0.06% stun resist. The +3 MDEF is useful though.

'Should I try to get some Luk since I have low Vit?'
You shouldn't waste points into Luk if you can still put points into Vit.
1 Vit = -1% Total stun chance no matter what your resist is.
1 Luk = -0.3% if you have 0% resist
1 Luk = -0.15% if you have 50% resist
1 Luk = -0.06% if you have 80% resist
So as you can see Luk will not help you really at all in terms of reducing your stun compared to Vit.
I wish for every point you go over Vit immunity you got +1% chance to stun players when receiving damage

'Would gloria help those with low Vit?'
Gloria = +30 Luk

30/300 Luk = 10% Luk resist

If you have 80% resist already from Vit, then 30/300 Luk would increase your stun resist to 82%. If you have 90% resist from Vit then Gloria would increase your resist by 1%. The more Vit you get, the less Luk will help.
If you only have 50% resist from Vit, you have a problem, then gloria would make your resist go up to 55%.

So yes, gloria technically does help. Gloria isn't something that should be used though since it just wastes our HPs time. If they don't have strings they get fucked for 3s. I guess they could use gloria before walking into a precast for that few seconds of assistance. "Every little bit helps..."
As far as field battle goes though they have enough of a job already.

'What about farming Luk Food?'

Even If you farm +9 Luk Food, it won't help you enough for the amount of time you wasted on it.
9/300 Luk is +3% resist. Again, +3% luk resist on 80% resist from Vit will only increase it to 80.6%. Not worth the farming time.

Of course there will always be the people that say "Every little bit helps!"
Technically they're right but its usually not worth the effort.

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WHATS THE BEST OPTION?
Drop out of school. You obviously need more time for your addictions.
(i'm kidding D:)

If you're unable to get at least 80% Vit reduction, (77 Total Vit w/ +7 Vit food)
Either get a Valk Armor, Meteor Plate, or if you can't wear/benefit from those use Divine Clothes.
You will be raped in SE if you have lower than 80% Vit reduction without the help of something like Valk Armor.
Just do what you can to deal with it.

If you're between 80% and 90% Vit reduction, I would suggest to try to use some armors to up your stun resist.
You won't necessarily be raped in SE but you will find Stun rather annoying.

90%+ Vit reduction = Valk Armor would take it to 95%, Meteor Plate would take it to 93%. As you can see the big armor resists start to not help that much. So you don't need to worry about them that much. Stun isn't that big of a problem with high resist anyway.

Best option is of course to just go for stun immunity ;]

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FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE TO READ ;]
I make essays. I don't read them <3

1.) Find (X),
2.) Put (X), into 2nd formula and find (Y),
3.) Put (X), (Y), into 3rd formula and find (Z),
4.) Put (X), (Y), (Z), into final formula and you'll know your stun chance.

1.) 97 - [total vit] = (X)

2.) (X) * (luk/300) = (Y)

3.) (X-Y) * (Armor/Card % total)= (Z)

4.) (X) - (Y) - (Z) = Total Stun Chance

How stats affect statuses

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:04:00 +0000

This is one the basic levels of all these status. Gears and equips are not included. Just stats.

List of Stats and what Status they effect

STR
Confusion

AGI/DEX
Does not affect any statuses.

VIT
Stun
Poison
Silence
Bleeding
Blind
Curse

INT
Confusion
Blind
Sleep

LUK
Curse
Stun
Stone Curse
Freeze
Confusion
Poison
Silence
Bleeding
Blind

Luk and Vit are involved in most of the durations.
300 Luk makes you immune to all statuses.

Status Formula/Immunities.
(These are all totals not base stats)

STUN/POISON/SILENCE/BLEEDING
[Vit]+3 = % Resist
[Luk]/3 = % Resist

97 Vit = Immunity
300 Luk = Immunity

SLEEP
[Int]+3 = % Resist
[Luk]/3 = % Resist

97 Int = Immunity
300 Luk = Immunity

STONE CURSE/FREEZE
[Luk]/3 = % Resist

300 Luk = Immunity

CURSE
[Total luk] +3 = % Resist
Vit reduces Curse's duration.
100 Vit makes the duration null.

97 Luk = Immunity
100 Vit = Immunity

BLIND
[ ([Vit]+[Int]) / 2]+3 = % Resist
[Luk]/3 = % Resist

193 Vit (1 Int) = Immunity
193 Int (1 Vit) = Immunity
300 Luk = Immunity

CONFUSION

[ ([Str]+[Int]) / 2 ]+3 = % Resist.
[Luk]/3 = % Resist

193 Str (1 Int) = Immunity
193 Int (1 Str) = Immunity
300 Luk = Immunity

How do the stats stack?

Blind and Confusion are the only 2 statuses that have stats that directly stack.

Example:
Confusion - Str, Int, and Luk affect the chance.
[ ([Str] + [Int])/2 ]+3=
[Luk]/3=
In this case, Str and Int will stack directly. Luk will not.

If you had;
50 Int
44 Str
30 Luk

([44]+[50])/2+3 = 50% Resist
[30]/3= 10% Resist

Str and Int stack to get the 50% Resist.
Luk won't stack with them to make it 60%.

If a stat doesn't stack directly, then it's lowering whats remaining from the previous.

Using the previous example:
10% Resist still leaves a 90% chance. So a 50% Resist on top of it will cut that chance to 45% chance, or 55% Resist.
50% + 10% = 55% :/

Note:
It doesn't matter what order you calc the % Resists together.

+50% Resist
+20% Resist
+5% Resist
will = 62% total Resist no matter what order you add the %'s together :]