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Sofie Level: 52 Posts: 280/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days |
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| so you want tips eh? General tips When you're a novice and picked direct acces, you are automatically ported to Izlude. DO NOT CHANGE YOUR SAVEPOINT! why? because Izlude's respawnpoint is close to a shop, a dog, and all the kafra's (the shop is behind the kafras, the fruit merchant). This basically allows you to respawn, sell off crap, heal, and port back straigth away, without moving. Very handy when you're taking on harder monsters  As a novie leveling in prontera field (or wherever you level), don't bother identifying anything. As a matter of fact, it's nearly always best to not indentify stuff, unless if you note it sells for a huge ammount of money (probably better weapon), or very little (10z), as that probably means it's a rare headgear. If you're not sure wether or not the item you have is valuable, ask someone before you sell it. I'm nearly always on, but then again, I have 5 characters, so try your luck XD Your first character should be a swordie, merchant or thief, since those are pretty easy to level. I personally recommend merchant, for the purpose Kwan mentioned. As soon as you change class to your first job, buy a few flywings if you haven't found any, and make sure you have a sprite occarina at all times with you. Some of the areas you can port to don't have a warp npc yet, because they're still being developped. A correction to Elric's guild explanation: the guild master sets the tax rate (the % of experience you give to the guild from the exp you gain). Kwan has it on 5% for most people, but he sometimes goes a bit insane when the guild is close to reaching a new level. Job specific tips Overview of what each stat does Strength: Raises your attack power and weigth limit. The only class that should never, ever raise this stat are archers. Vitality: Raises your max hp, your natural hp recovery rate, and the healing effect of healing items such as potions. Generally, this or agility is part of most characters' main stats. Agility: Raises your chance of dodging enemies' attacks, raises attack speed. Does not make you move faster though  Intelligence: Raises your magic attack power, raises your magic defense, raises your natural sp recovery rate. The stat to raise for mages and most acolytes. Dexterity: Raises your accuracy (how ften you actually hit enemies) and raises casting speed (for mages and aco's). This also has the function of raising archers' strength. hence why archers don't need strength. Luck: Raises your chance at having critical (~double attackpower) attacks, raises your perfect flee rate. (the % of times you WILL dodge attacks, no matter how bad your agility is) Rumoured to influence everything in small ways. Meh. This alone isn't that helpful, so I give you my opinion on how classes could be raised. Keep in mind this is just my opinion, and not in any way are you obliged to follow it. RO is, like many MMORPG, supposed to be played in team. No matter how strong your character is, it'll always need someone eventually to tackle bosses etc. That being said, the best way to get a strong character in RO, is by focusing on 2-3 stats only, instead of having all of your stats being stuck on a low level. Novice As a novice, invest your first point in emergency care, unless if you'll be an acolyte. It doesn't matter that your basic skill won't be fully upgraded, as you only get 9 skillpoints to waste here, and you can still change jobs, despite not having the "allows you to change into first class" skill. When you create your novice, create it "good" straigth away, i.e. if you want to be a mage, put int on 9, for a swordsman have str on 9 for starting stat, etc. Speaking of this, I'll hint on which stats are important for which classes. Don't bother buying much equipment in novice stage, because you a) won't have the money for it and b) the stuff you can afford sucks ass. Swordsman Have 9 str, 9vit and 9 agi. That's sort of the basic thing for most swordies. Then you can choose to raise either str and vit for your main stats, or str and agi. Don't forget to raise dexterity a bit if you have trouble hitting things. You could also raise int a bit, if you use your skills alot, so you get some more sp. The only stat I find totally useless for a swordie is luck. As a swordie, you can get your ass into the culverts pretty fast, and stick there untill your lvl 30-40, or whenever you feel it's going slow. Everything drops alot of loot here, and the monster's feed dropped by tarou (rats) heals alot better than the red herbs you get from bats. Be aware that bats are aggressive( will attack you when it sees you), and that thief bugs assist eachother. If you go a level further into the culverts, you'll come across bigger thiefbugs. Big thiefbugs don't assist small ones, and vice versa. After this, you should understand RO well enough to rely on your own, or the people that help you along the way. Mage Rejoice, because for a mage, you barely need to buy equipment, if any at all, since your spells will either kill your enemies straigth away, or they will kill you, since you're not made to take any kind of offense. Your main stat is int, and that's all you should be raising untill it reaches 99. Starting stats should be 9int, 9agi and 9dex. As a novice, stick to porings or pupa's, as those don't attack back and give decent jobexp. You'll have a tough time leveling, so don't get this character if you can't leech(being a weaker class and sharing exp with other characters who can fight, while you play it safe and stay behind them) from a party while casting the occasional spell, don't know what you're doing, or get easily frustrated. I recommend going for the fire element, as most enemies are weak against it, or aren't immune to it anyways. If you want to go for wind, you'll be stuck leveling in Bialan for a looong time, and as for water, I have no clue where you'd have to level then. This is a class I don't have much experience with, so I strongly recommend you to either read a general mage guide at gamefaqs, or look up which monsters are weak against your element and go for those. I hunt hodes with my loyal tanker (tanking= being a strong character that hits an enemy once, and then lets a weaker character finish it off, so the weaker character gets the exp from the monster) Merchant Make these guys like a swordie. You should max out both overcharge (sell your loot for 24% more money than usual) and discount( buy from NPC stores for 24% less) as soon as possible. getting a cart and putting one or two points in vending isn't a bad idea either, so you can sell your rare finds to others, or just sell potions cheaper than the NPC stores and make some profit out of that. I have an agility merchant, and it's fun leveling, too bad merchants have very little combat skills. If you have the cash rolling in, you might want to get mammonite; an extremely powerful skill that uses zeny to hurt monsters. This is probably the only class you'll have to stat reset when reaching your second job, if you want to be able to forge weapons as a blacksmith. A small warning; you can choose to be alchemist as your second job, but the skills for alchemist aren't implemented yet, so you're better off getting blacksmith. (unless if you don't like how those look, like me XD) Thief Agi 9, str 9, dex 9. And then just raise agility at all times. When you reach about 50 or 60 agi, you might want to raise str and dex some too, depending on wether you can hit things (no? raise dex), or it takes you ages to kill anything (some str or a better dagger). Definately max out improve dodge, as you rely on dodging things fully. Nothing much to say about these guys, they're so easy and fast to level. culverts, then geffen, or whatever seems fun and doesn't make you use a truckload of healing items. Acolyte My favorite class. You can either choose to be a battle acolyte (ask Hiryuu for tips) or a support acolyte (me! me! me!) (raise int only) These are hard to level if you go for int base, or a bit easier if you go the battle way. No matter what you want to be, your first 10 skillpoints have to max out heal. You'd be insane not to get it. After that, you can get any skill you want, depending on your party's needs, or your own. blessing is a great skill to have. If you're support, save up your skillpoints untill you hit priest, as you can get some really nasty skills then, such as infusing your allies weapons with holy (alot of monsters are weak vs holy), healing everyone if they're close enough to you, reducing their casting time, doubling their damage, etc. Or go for Magnus Excorcismus. it has a truckload of prerequired skills, but it can make a big difference. Level in culverts if you're battle aco, or go wherever your party goes with share exp on if you're support, and heal them, or type /noshift and heal undead enemies to death (..?). Archers Archers might be the hardest characters to level, despite having the advantage of only needing to raise one stat to have the effects of two. start with 9 dex, 9 agi and 9luck (I think <<; ) Pray that you can get through your novice levels fast, and constantly raise your dex. Buy a decent bow, and make sure to stock up on arrows. This is one of the main reasons archers are so damn annoying to level; you need to buy arrows a lot. Have at least 500 with you, and try to upgrade to silver arrows (holy damage), fire arrows (snipe hodes, wee) or steel/iron arrows ASAP, as they all do more damage. No culverts, or any place you can get mobbed, for you. try leveling on the maps surrounding towns first (which you've been doing as a novice), and once you have maxed vulture's eye and are working on double strafe, you can start sniping. I love the hode map for this, but it's all up to personal preferences. (This isn't even remotely close to being complete, but my fingers are starting to hurt) edit: removed layout for reading ease. (edited by Sofie on 05-04-04 11:14 AM) |
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| the flywings are for getting yourself out of a bind if needed. Only aco's and people with a teleport card thingie can use teleport. I'm pretty sure I wrote down taking a sprite ocarina at all times aswell. As soon as you change class to your first job, buy a few flywings if you haven't found any, and make sure you have a sprite occarina at all times with you. Some of the areas you can port to don't have a warp npc yet, because they're still being developped. See? as to your request: Ragnamart They (used to?) have the most complete monster data base. Ideal to see if you can take on enemies. RO HQ's skillsim This is the kind of thing you need when you want to plan ahead, or need to know which skills you need in order to unlock better ones. Extremely handy. I'll look up some more later, but I use mainly these two. (edited by Sofie on 05-05-04 07:10 AM) |
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| OMG, I want a doodle like that. It looks so damn evil >D Kwan, draw Mycket. You were obsessing over the garter anyways. Perv. |
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Level: 52 Posts: 287/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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I'm 20 years old. My aspirations tend to change, but there are some general ones that have been in my mind for a long time. |
* I want to learn as many languages as I can. Currently I'm studying Swedish, and it's pretty fun to learn. * I want to go back to university. This time, I want to go for professional translating. Since these are hard to come by (at least, they were in Belgium), I think I'd earn a dencent income. * I want a family with Adrian. Rather sooner than later. Call it my mother instinct  And my most important one is growing old together with the one guy I can say I love fully, no matter what. If my health goes along a bit, that'll happen edit: before you call me corny and all, I have to say that it seems aspirations become more realistic as you mature. I mean, as a child I wanted to be a popstar, a hairdresser, etc. Now, I tend to base my aspirations on things that I can actually realise, if life doesn't throw me too much curveballs. Is this similar for anyone else? (edited by Sofie on 05-05-04 08:35 AM)
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Level: 52 Posts: 291/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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I graduated 2 years ago, but we didn't really have a prom. I did actually wear a pink dress on the actual graduation day XD |
Adrian graduates this year, and apparantly people have to wear sailorlike hats in Sweden. I am so taking pictures of it >D
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Level: 52 Posts: 292/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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Kawa, do you take requests at the moment? |
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 293/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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why do nearly all of you want to do something game related as a profession? |
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 297/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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A useable picture for a layout of my RO priestess. If you're up for it, I'll upload some screenshots. |
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 298/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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Speaking of SF, I think I had the biggest (as in, most participants) story going there for a while. |
At a certain point, my pm box was flooded with people joining in. It was alot of fun, but so damn chaotic after a while, it just had to end XD I met some of the greatest people here. And I brought Jizuko here >D or well, he was stalking me XD I've made tons of layouts for people in the past. You're very lucky if I'm willing to do that these days though  Other than that, I think I'm the kind of user you either like or hate. Or both. And I can't forget to mention teh Pancake, now can I? or the boxer worshippers.
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 299/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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I know this sprite isn't overly detailed, but that's the best I can give you as reference. |
This is what Mycket looks like
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 300/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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Originally posted by Sofie This, my dear, was me talking about the Knights. That rocked >D
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 302/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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 Mycket's actually a nice character. Heals and buffs everyone in sight when bored. Just overly obsessed with cookies and the blacksmith that looks like santa.
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 304/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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I'm still having trouble with a thread about common sense being placed in craziness. |
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 306/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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Santa went out of his way to find me a cookie, hence the obession with em. |
Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 307/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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Just remember I'd like to use it in a layout, so don't make it too.... you know how people are around here |
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Sofie |
Level: 52 Posts: 318/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days
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(I just woke up, so don't freak out if my post is a bit... odd) |
I used to utterly love this board. Right now, I use it 99% for the RO thread, and the percent left is when I'm asked to look at something. That's how intresting it is now. And I know I'm not the only one. Whenever I do look at some other parts of the forum, there's barely anyone left I recognize, or their reputation proceeds them through IM/other boards. There's very few normal regulars left, and the other two active parts are staffmembers and idiots. Why are you (staff) making fun of people who obviously can't even clean their ass properly, but not doing anything against the quality (or total lack thereoff) of threads lately? Aside from making most of those yourself, ofcourse I cannot respect authority figures who don't seem to know how to handle themselves, or who seem to think their own rules do not apply to themselves. I was part of staff for a very short time, and when I left, I was told I could always get back. I never saw a reason to though, because of how you people can't seem to work in group. In my oppinion, the biggest reason for that is because there's way too many of you, and part of that group is so stuckup it's getting hilarious. And you just keep on adding people. Why? For the latest promotion for example, why is Toxic mod of general forum? Because he's active there? Then make Kefka mod of FF and craziness, and Kario should be on OC. I don't even know Toxic, I'm just saying that the last thing this board needs is even more staff. And none of you can do your jobs well. Be it through inactivity, lack of teamspirit, or thinking that because your username is a different color, that allows you to play dictator here. Just keep one thing in mind, for whatever it's worth: the way you're all acting now, you'll be left with a dead board to boss the few lamers left around on. Call me what you want, but I think if you let some of this sink in, you'll know there's some truth in it.
Sofie |
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Come on Kawa, draw, my pretty |
we're all curious to see >D
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Originally posted by Valcion *looks at your current title* *laughs* get your act together Phil. As for any kind of contest with games, I'm not in, unless if it's making weird characters for RO. I'll get my ass handed to me in every other game, I fear XD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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