Starting the post with RO news: I logged 30 minutes to do my usual Rachel Temple grind and guess what.
Hodremlin Card. Dropped AFTER the drop event. I don’t even know how much is the current price of this card, but I hope to get money enough to buy a Nydhorgg’s Manteau.
BTW, I went to a deparment store a few days ago and found that ball for a very very cheap price.
Thank you, South Africa! We want to be as good hosts as you were :D (Without the vuvuzelas, though)
Do you remember when I said I wanted to spend a part of my vacations in a peaceful place? I did it, and took pictures:
Druid moment
A flock of canary birds eating on the ground
Let me you show the pictures I took of the dogs who live there
This mixed-breed one has short legs (compared to his body), so he walks like an alligator. He is a very kind =D I love mixed-breed dogs <3
This ugly one is young (7~8 months old) and is still a bit fool. He is funny because his tongue is always outside the mouth, even when he is sleeping.
Last notice of the day: my friend taught me how to play DotA and I’m loving it! I’m a complete nerd now, lol
We were eliminated from the World Cup. It did not hurt as much as I thought it would hurt, although I’m (obviously) a bit sad. At least we lost like men. Now we will have to wait 4 years to dream about the sixth star again, but the next WC will be here and hopefully I will watch our victory from the stadium. Who knows? For now I will root for Paraguay (although they are considered the underdogs) and, obviously, I will also root against Argentina.
BTW, let’s speak of good things... My knight went from 77 to 90 thanks to the pirate quest. I don’t have chars/parties/patience enough to collect big loads of items, but an unexpected double drops came and helped me.
Now he has 14 spare job points and I want suggestions about what skills I should get. He currently has Two Hand Quiken 10, Counter Attack 5, Peco Peco + Cavalier Mastery 5 and Bowling Bash 10.
As you probably have noticed, I wanted to make a new character sidebar when I saw Adeat’s awesome layout. I know what you are thinking, “all his characters have the same hair” and “The banner is broken”. Yes, but I will try to fix such problems when I get time.
That’s all, people.
I have to do something of fun to see if I can forget the elimination.
I had the last WoE for a long time. It was good enough to make me rethink about getting a break or not, but I ended up keeping the previous decision. We had more than 1 hour full of action and we managed to successfully defend our fort.
We almost got another fort in Payon but the war was finished right when we were breaking the emperium x.x
I’m almost on vacations and I want to spend my time to do something better than playing RO. I am planning on making a campfire near the country house of my family along with my friends. Yes, I like such kind of things. I live in the city during most of the time and sometimes I miss the nature. Waking up with the songs of the birds is much better than waking up with car horns.
Returning to RO, I went to the Thanatos Tower to hunt keys. For the first time I could pay attention to the design of maps. They are awesome, one of the best dungeons by far. I want to make a party to climb the tower and kill Thanatos. He does not seem to be as hard as the other MVPs, but his mobs is is very strong. Is anyone else interested in killing him?
I met another brazilian who plays on Ymir, Carlina, who also loves football =D However, she lives in the USA since she was 10, so she speaks a funny hybrid of portuguese and english xD Nice to meet you, Carlina.
You know you are done with a game when everything seems to be complicated. You have to grind for hours to get levels, you have to kill monsters for days to get money and you have to win 400 battleground matches to purchase a single and unrefined weapon.
Yeah, I think I need to take a break from Ragnarok x.x
I will probably not be completely inactive, though, especially because I want to keep posting about the game here. I will wait for either Renewal or Brasilis to “return”.
(Do you have suggestions about some fun non-war guild I should join?)
Speaking of renewal, I was reading the Renewal Database and a thing surprised me. Goggles were the headgear with best defense by far. I’m not sure if it’s a typo, but if it isn’t then I finally understand why all the protagonists of Digimon use this thing.
BTW, adding a new page to The Weird Things of RO:
What the hell is a frog doing on the beach cave? You really need some Zoology classes, Gravity.
On the World Cup news: Brazil 2 – 1 DPR Korea (Better known as North Korea). Some people here is complaining about the fact the game should have been easier, but I’m happy. Winning is always good, after all.
I had not done this quest before, but it’s awesome! In one or two hours my bard went from level 59 to 68. I can’t forget to say, the story of this quest is very plausible. Using the environment as part of the script was a good idea.
BTW, the World Cup began. If you’re not watching it, skip this part of the post. I was rooting for México yesterday and they got a considerable result, considering they were playing against the home team; South Korea and Greece had a hard match and SA ended up with a deserved victory (IMO); The USA surprised the world and got a tie with England. The Americans are not aces in attack, but their goalkeeper Vin Diesel Tim Howard is awesome. Let’s watch Germany vs. Australia tomorrow.
I made a char to hold the nick Nablus, even though I am not planning on have more alternative chars. I will probably end up giving this name to my knight.
My archer was taken from the queue to get some levels. I tried to kill Geographers but it is actually very boring, especially because I always get accidentally killed by them while hunting. I am not used to fragile chars =[
However I leveled him through item gathering quests, as I always do, until he reached job 42. I was not sure if he should be a bard or a hunter, so I added only dexterity and agility, because he will be a PVM char. I decided to pick the Bard option, since I love the bard class from Final Fantasy Tactics.
Hello beautiful ladies of Midgard
I came to this land to steal your hearts~
lol!
Speaking of FFT, how much is a PSP in the United States? I am thinking of buying one, but they are very overpriced here (R$ 700, ~US$ 400) and the games are also expensive.
Kardia wrote more pages to his book, The Weird Things of RO. Read the previous post if you want to know what is it. Hope you like it!
Chaper 1: The “What the fuck” monsters
This is an update to the chapter about the senseless monsters.
1) An unknown animal using a seal costume
2) An intelligent worm who has a beard and a book
3) A really weird and strong MVP, also known as the Rudolph Man
BTW, I had nothing of interesting to do, so I looked for some easy MVPs in the Database and found the old Samurai Specter. He is weak, I thought, and went to Amatsu to help Naruto that old lady get rid of the ninetails-fox.
If you are thinking about going to that dungeon, you should think again. That maze is the worst place of all this game. In the end, I easily found the Samurai, but he did not seem to be happy to see me.
Don’t underestimate his Soul Destroyer.
BTW again, the World Cup is about to begin, as I already said, and many guys all around the world are collecting the World Cup album, so my friend made a card for me too lol
This chapter is about the crazy monsters you can find in Ragnarok Online. For some reason, they make no sense for normal minds. I wonder where such ideas came from.
1) A fried egg holding a pan
2) A mole holding a gun (I would say it was smoking if I did not know it was a gun)
3) A hand using a tie
4) A snow beast using a party hat
Chapter 2: What are you doing there?
This chapter is about the monsters that spawn in the wrong map.
1) Men in beach suits walking around the dimensional gorge
On other RO news, I saw a group of people wearing santa costumes and joined them. Look, I have a Rudolph backpack lol
On non-RO news, I watched and rewatched Robin Hood and it was sensational. The movie shows the medieval age like really was, instead of filling it with dragons, fireballs and elfs. The best medieval movie I have ever seen (along with Braveheart).
I also watched Clash of the Titans yesterday and I can surely say it was worth. It has a lot of awesome action scenes, one of the things I mostly appreciate in a movie.
BTW, I can’t forget to say: Happy belated Birthday, Holly!
I decided to return to grind after a long “vacation”, since the guild needs sands and experience again. I saw a rogue using a Musketeer hat and striking at a very high ASPD, so I searched in Prontera and find one for a good price and obviously bought it.
It was probably one of the best things I ever bought. The activation chance is high enough to make me have AR at least 70% of the time, especially because I usually tank the monsters while the mercenary kills them.
Look at my ASPD! =D
I was wandering around the abyss lake to gather minerals for the Protoss guy in the new world, when I suddenly realized something different on the map.
Is it my imagination or those stones look like a giant stone hand trying to grab me?
By the way, I watched Iron Man 2 last weekend. 1) It is much better than the first (imo) 2) Scarlet Johansson looks much better with red hair than blonde. 3) Can’t wait to see Thor and Captain America! I also want to watch Robin Hood and Clash of the Titans (the last was not released here yet).
Speaking of exciting stuff, we have less than one month until the World Cup FIFA 2010! For this reason, I leave you with this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhM-cpSwrmM
Three years after I joined the Order of the Knights Templar, several members were accused of heresy, including my friend, Guilbert. Everyone, including me, was sure he was innocent. However, he did nothing to protect himself from the accusations when they were directed to him. Two knights, against their own will, took Guilbert to the dungeons of our castle, in Prontera. He was a strong man, and the two knights would have problems to deal with him, but yet again, he did nothing.
He stayed in the dungeon for three long months, living with scarce leftovers from the meals. It was part of his penitence, which he accepted with no hesitation. Guilbert was the kind of man who would never contradict his masters. Not because he was fool, but because of his devotion to the order.
He was sentenced to five years of service at the St. Capitolina Abbey, a remote monastery, known for training the strongest monks on the world. And he was also prohibited from fighting as a Templar for the rest of his life.
After a long journey, he arrived in the monastery looking like a beggar. The monks dressed him with an old brown garment, fed him and taught him how to be an acolyte.
During the first two years, he cooked, watered the plants, cleaned the floor and the windows and fed the animals. He hated that life, and the monks knew it, but he never protested and never lost his faith. During the many hard days of his penitence, he just prayed, asking God for help.
For that reason, he was rewarded in the first day of the third year. Father Tomoon, the master of the monastery, elected Guilbert to be the new disciple and assistant of Boohae, the monk who was responsible for transforming fool acolytes into strong champions.
During the last three years, my friend learned how to be a warrior again. Not the kind of warrior who fights with swords and spears, but a different one, who uses his faith and spirit as the strongest weapon ever known.
The fate decided that Guilbert would never wear the Templar’s white mantle anymore, but my friend decided that he does not need to wear a mantle to be one of us.
I am sorry for telling you this story in such a short time, but my friend is back after five long years, and our friendship does not deserve to be spotted by those sad memories.
I heard that music like... One hundred times in the last two days. The people who choose music for this anime deserve an Oscar!
BTW, I went to the handshake monument right after the war and nobody was there, except for Tris. So, she called Adeat on the MSN and he joined us. A Paladin, a Champion and a High Priest. As good holy warriors, we decided to make a party to grind demons in Niflheim.
Adeat was the support, Tris was the killer and I was the mascot. It was very very fun and I also got experience for the guild =D Unfortunately, they had to sleep early because they had to work on the next day.
I want to party you again, guys!
Speaking of ROS people, I met Arielle in Prontera, but she was busy during the “event”. Yes, we need to do something. We can invite you to join us on the next time, if you want.
BTW again, I finally got my Assault spear. The first day of merge brought a ton of people to the battlegrounds. In a single day I got more Brave badges than I got in the rest of the time I played.
<3
Out of Ragnarok, I’m trying to write character profiles/adventures for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, but I have an annoying creativity block at this moment =[
I met Piri in Izlude a few days ago and realized that she is the same Piri from ROS. We talked about many things and I invited her to run the Spy Quest with me, but she said she could not at that moment, because her cat wanted to update its twitter was asking her for some caress. So, we set a date for the next day.
I showed up one hour earlier because I was confused by the summer time, but it was actually good, because my idol (Zico. You probably know him if you are Japanese) was being interviewed in a talkshow and I don’t have a TV near my PC.
It was an enjoyable quest and I ended up getting one level. Thank you for your company, Piri, you are a very kind person =D
BTW, The Merge is tomorrow, so we have to choose a date/time/place for our celebration. I suggest Saturday (April 24), right after the war, at the handshake monument. I need your comments to know if it’s ok for you. Also, I want to ask you two things: 1) Invite your ROSer friends 2) Bring up ideas about what we should do together.
BTW again, has anyone here played Digimon World DS or Digimon Dawn/Dusk? If yes, how do you rate the game? Speaking of Digimon, I just finished watching the season 02 of the anime and I want to tame a Veemon! xD
I went to Geffen Tower Dungeon today to kill Deviruchis for the Easter Quest. I realized that Doppelganger was alive and decided to kill him. I was looking for a killer when Aethereal suddenly appeared and said she was hunting him too. So, I picked up my tanking gears and we (with help of her friend, whose name I miss at this moment) easily defeated Doppel.
I also randomly found Atroce alive when I was heading to the Ice Dungeon. He looked weak, so I decided to test his power. Okay, I was not wearing the appropriate gears and I was not Assumptio’d too, but it does not change my negative opinion about the new bosses. They hit you for an Elder Willow damage at first, and then they suddenly cast a random skill and instant kill you even though you have 20k HP =[
BTW, I want to organize a party for us ROSers after the merge, to celebrate the union of our servers. We can do something of fun (battlegrounds, MVP, etc) together. What do you think? Good suggestions are appreciated!
BTW again, I am thinking about going to Europe this year, preferably during the summer, since the fall/winter seems to be very cold for a south american.
I want to visit France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and maybe Denmark (or another Nordic country), and I have a few questions for people who know those countries:
1) What cities and places should I visit?
2) Is it easy to move (by ground) between those countries?
3) There is some special place in Paris that I should visit if I want to see Templars related stuff?
4) How hard is the communication if I speak only English?
I decided that I want a Lord Knight. For this reason, my swordsman was taken out from the inactivity to get some levels. Thanks to the repeatable quests and the exp event, I quickly took him to job 50 and changed him to Knight in a few minutes.
I was too lazy to grind, so I completed some easy exp quests. Well... Not that easy. I spent half hour to understand and accomplish the password part of the Ymir Heart quest. Speaking of quests, the daily quests from the New World gave me a few Manuk/Splendide coins. If you know what those coins are useful for, then tell me.
BTW, the fall finally arrived, but I still did not notice any changes in the weather. It is still hot like an Hawaiian beach with girls perfoming an Hula dance. Is it the Global Warming? Yes, I guess. The last three years had only three different seasons: Hell (instead of summer), summer (instead of fall and spring) and fall (instead of winter) =[
I was not planning on jump into the ecology subject when I began this post, but the Earth Hour will happen soon (or already happened, I’m not sure) so I will speak about it. My country is one of the participating countries, and I seriously wonder if the event is really worth. The emotional impact caused by such events usually does not last for a long time =/
Dynamo got level 96 a few days ago, and I promised to myself that I will not level him anymore until the renewal or until I find a really worth party. He will use his “vacations” for two main purposes:
1) Getting better gears
I could not do very much for this purpose yet. We played Tierra for long time, but it was not enough. I still need Bravery badges to get the spear.
2) Exploring Midgard
At the moment, I am working on the quests that I must complete in order to get in the Nidhogg Dungeon. I think I am different from most of the other people, because I play instances not only for gears and gold, but because I like the “RPG feeling” of 12 nerds exploring a dungeon to kill the monsters. This feeling probably came from the time I played WoW.
Hello, sir dragon!
Speaking of WoW... I unlocked the daily quests on the new world. And now I visit two important places everyday:
Silvermoon
Alterac Valley
Very original, Gravity! xD
But I still love RO <3
And I can’t forget to say...
The fairies like to play Dungeons & Dragons too! =D
By the way, I took a picture of my RO action figures collection. I already posted a picture of it, but it was one year ago so I will post it again.
Let’s begin this entry with mounts. I was talking to Uennie about my wish to get a horse, although it seems to be impossible in Ragnarok. However, everytime I go to Youtube and see those horrible gryphons and dragons, my hope grows stronger. No matter how much I try, I can’t like them. Please, Gravity. Please. There are a lot of statues of Pegasus in this game. Let me have one!
Some people asked you for Dragons, Wyverns, Gryphons, Phoenixes, Garudas and you said yes. Now you should also say yes to the players who don’t want those things. Keeping your costumers happy is the key to success.
(Okay, the Pegasus sentence was a joke, but they should at least keep the old and loyal Peco Peco)
BTW...
My fail Mage got job 50 with help of my Monk, who gathered him anolian skins. Then I headed to the Sages Guild and the test began. Everything went well in the quest, but wait... Look what I found inside that building!
I have a bolter sage that I will probably never use anymore =D But it is ok, at least I can make my own elemental converters now. I should make the cooking quest too, when I find patience enough to craft a Chef Hat.
On my Paladin, I did the cursed spirit quest yerterday night. It has a nice story and gives a good amount of EXP, but takes a considerable time. Rekenber deserves an Oscar, imo. It is the only Corp able to create 3D monsters.
I’ve heard something about a Merge during the past few days. I did not check to be 100% sure, but I believe it is already confirmed. And I think it will be very good, especially for us ROSers, who will be able to meet each other with our main chars.
Aside from EXP events and wars, the game seems to be empty. Hopefully the Merge will boost the Battlegrounds.
The renewal should also be good for the game. Although the new mechanics seem to suck, this game needs to be spiced up through a big update.
I did a few things at RO this week. Accomplished the Valentine’s Day Quest with three chars and got a Savage Bebe, a Smokie and a Yoyo eggs. Speaking of this quest, I can not forget to mention how poor it was. Hey Gravity, you must work harded if you want to make decent quests.
Then I went to the Playspan NPC and Got my first and only Lucky Box. And a nice Aquarius Diadem came out from it. Although it is useless to me (since I have a +7 Cancer Crown), I actually liked the gift. It has a cool look!
I tried to play on the Battlegrounds, but guess what? The rooms were not full enough. And when they are full, one side is crowded with alternative chars. Please, Gravity, do something for the battlegrounds. Maybe you could add a single NPC for each field (KVM, Tierra and Flavius) and let the three servers play together. For example: Six people from Chaos, ten from Loki and ten from Iris join the Tierra NPC. The game automatically pick those 26 guys and randomly shares them between two teams.
Off of Ragnarok, I am very excited to see Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver. The Gold version is still my favorite, since it is the only version with a decent day/night system and it has two continents.
I saw a few pictures where the initial pokemon was walking out of the pokeball. I am not sure if they will keep this feature on the official version, but I wonder if the pokemon keeps walking with you when it evolves.
I remember the first time I played Pokemon Blue in my Game Boy. It was hard to me to choose between Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur because all the three were amazing. Then I played Pokemon Sapphire and, again, it was hard to me to choose between Mudkip, Torchic and Treecko. Not because they were amazing though, but because I had to choose which one sucks less. Hey, it is just my opinion =D
Old pokemon stuff.
That’s all for today. I will make a post about mounts soon.
Long time no post. I’m not being online very much because I’m sick of RO. I need to make another chars and quests to break the routine. Also, I need more friends.
The only “important” thing I did in-game was raising the intimacy of Adriano to cordial. And I found out that the bonus given by Green Petites are not Def +2 and ASPD -1%, but Def -2 and ASPD +1%. It’s not completely useless, but I returned him to the egg and I will probably sell it if I get a good offer.
By the way, I found the complete first season of Digimon and decided to rewatch it. I also found all the episodes of Saint Seiya: Lost Canvas. Man, some animes are very addictive!
LOL. One of the funniest villains ever.
By the way again, I went to a shop and they were selling Winning Eleven 2007 (Pro Evolution Soccer to European people) for a really good price. It is mine, obviously, because 2010 is a World Cup year and I need a good game to play. I am also listening to good feedbacks about Dragon Age. It seems to be the best RPG of the last years, but I have to wait a bit to see if it is really worth.
Today is the birthday of my blog. One year playing on iRO and sharing adventures with you. To be honest, when I began I was not sure my new experiences would be as good as they were. When I made my little Swordsman, I was not even thinking about getting my Crusader to 99, but now I’m a level 95 Paladin.
I made some good friends during this time and I thank all of them for being nice to me when I was looking for real fun in a MMO, which I was unable to find for a long time, until I joined this server.
Obviously, I can’t forget to speak about some special people and events.
Demise <3
[I’m sorry for cutting some people of the picture, but I had to do it because of the size limit of my template]
July 09 – Level 99
BTW, I have a pet to introduce to you. This is Adriano. I am breeding him to give me Defense, but I don’t know very well what I have to do to raise his intimacy. I’m giving him food, but I don’t know if there is anything else I should do (or avoid ) to raise it faster. Tips are appreciated!
I am not being able to play RO very much because of the annoying lag cloud that catch me recently. Despite of this fact, I still searching for good stuff to buy. And yesterday I found two pairs of +7 Greaves[1] in a shop and immediately bought them, because nowadays you can’t easily find this kind of thing to sell. I put a Ice Titan card in one of them and the other one is waiting for a Matyr Card.
I got 77% physical defense with the bonus given by the card. Hopefully I will use this defense to tank MVPs soon.
The Paladin is almost at level 95 now, and the Mage is also leveling. I fail at Mage class, and still did not get very well how to use Fire Wall correctly. So, I keep killing Geographers, but its not really a bad thing, since they are giving me 4%.
BTW, The nerd stuff I ordered on the internet arrived today. The second season of Supernatural, a manga of Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas and the DVD of The Name of The Rose. I never watched this movie or read the book, but people told me its very good, especially for guys like me, who like medieval history.
Speaking of history, I installed Age of Mythology again. Does anyone else like this game? It is very fun, but the dumbness of the CPU sometimes is boring. For some unknown reason, it likes to spam the same units for the rest of the game, no matter if you are making their counters, and it also does incomprehensible acts, like putting its counter-archers to fight your chivalry and etc. But it is still a good game if you find another humans to play.
