Ok we all know Ragnarok Online is a P2P game.. But I have a solution, I recently discovered a "Private Server". Which means someone hosts a server which people can play on, in this case EvolutionRO Is the community for this server, great community, they provide a perfect game experience, laggless play, great secruity, the works.
I hoping I attract alot of new players to this game and it's community, so I'm going to give all the information I know so far to help get the game started and a comfortable beginning experience by awnsering alot of questions about it you may not know.
Getting Started
Go to
http://evo-ro.com/ go to downloads, download Evolution 2.2 setup.exe at the top of list while thats downloading register at control pannel, then register on fourms and go to this link
http://evo-ro.com/forum/index.php?topic=25.0, and download "RAG setup" and "SAK setup" from one of the provided links. Let them all files finishing downloading(May take a while), Install RO(Evolution) but you can't play yet, now extract the "SAK" and "RAG" files you downloaded into your RO folder "Galaxy" is the name of folder, and then install them once done extracted, then you can run Ragnarok Online, the game client will be named Evolution. There will be also a setup shortcut, to set options and change client setting.
Character Creation
Now that the downloading and installing is done, you get to create your character, male or female, hair/hair color seletion, and stat distribution, Look down and learn about stats before you distribute.
Stat Use
Each stat Is unique to each class, some may be needed and some may not, please read the uses before distributing them when there not needed, everytime you level you get 5 stat points, as these skills grow they will consume more stat points:
Stength - Raises ATK and Weight Limit.
Intelligence - Raises SP and Magic Attack
Agility - Raises Flee Rate and ATK speed
Vitaility - Increases HP, Potency of Healing items, and defense.
Dexterity - Raises ATK speed, Hit Rate, and adds to Minimum Damage.
Luck - Raises Critical/Perfect Dodge Rate and many other things.
Classes
There are many classes that take there own specific task In partys, but each class can solo to there own solo skills also, each time you level you get stat points and skills points, as you level you can get 2nd job changes, and when hit max level cap. you go back to level 1 with increased stats and even more skills to strengthen your character even more then before:
[b]Swordsman - Knight/Crusader - First job change is swordsman, then 2nd are Knight or Crusader, Can use 2 handed sword quicken for extremely fast attack speeds. Can use spear for high powered attacks (1 has range), main tank in party, massive hp, heavy armor. Crusader Can use shield skills for extremely powerful defense. Can use 2 handed spear quicken for fast and strong attack speeds. Can use the powerful skill "Grand Cross"
Thief - Assassin/Rogue - First job change is Thief, then 2nd choices are Assassin or Rogue, Can focus on bypassing defense, scouting, taking down low-dex classes. Can focus on the move Sonic Blow, which provides 800% damage. Can use multiple daggers for a variety of offensive status effects
Merchant - Blacksmith/Alchemist - First job change is Merchant, then 2nd choices are Blacksmith or Alchemist,Blacksmith Focuses on either forging or a support/attack class. For support/attack, raises party's weapon damage, and can achieve extremely fast attack speeds. Alchemist's Can be used as a potion maker/potion attacker. Can be used to summon monsters (mostly plants)
Acolyte - Priest/Monk - First job change is Acolyte, then 2nd choices are Priest or Monk. Priests Support/undead killing, provides alot of stat buffs, plus they can heal. Possible battlepriest variety, which utilizes all buffs for self, not others. Monk tons of different things. Do research before taking this class.
Mage - Wizard/Sage - First job change is Mage, then Wizard or Sage. Wizard Focuses on area of effect spells/high powered single target spells, both which take long cast times or certain conditions. Sages Can be used as a wizard-type character that casts spells. Can be used as an attacking-type character that uses a skill called hindsight to automatically cast spells while attacking. Both types can move around while casting, and both types contain many offensive and supporting skills that specialize in status effects
Archer - Hunter/Bard/Dancer - First job change is Archer, then Hunter/Bard/Dancer. Hunters Range, range, range, fast attack speed, and range. They come in generic double strafe spam varieties, falconer varieties, or those who specialize in traps. Bard It's kind of like a watered down archer, but it has awesome buffs that greatly improve attack speed, cast speed, stop skills from being used, etc. Dancer research on your own, intresting support class.
Miscellaneous
RO has guilds, quests, nice weps armor, amazing skill effects, nice party system great pvp system, all kinds of nice things to enjoy in this game, Evolution community supports Player and Guild ladder.
Sever Specs
Processor: Intel XEON 2 x 2.8GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Primary Hard Drive: 80GB Hard Drive
Backup Hard Drive: 80GB Hard Drive
Uplink Port Speed: 100Mbps Uplink
Operating System: Debian Linux
Ragnarok Software: eAthena SQL (SVN)
Server Status
Login Server: Online
Char Server: Online
Map Server: Online
MySQL Server: Online
Accounts registered: 13268
Characters created: 18504
I hope to attract many people to this game, that were bored and nothing to do, It's extremely addicting and I can't wait for the future events and maybe the start of another great feature to this community, lets help build a seperate fourm for this game if there is alot of interest and activitity in this game.
This guide was freelanced by me, on all the current information I know on this game. This Guide by [u]Dustin Lewis(Aphrodisiac) © 2005-2006