08/13/2008 - Maintenance

[Doddler]

Main Servers

- The drop rates for the 6th anniversary event items will be increased by 50%.

Sakray R Test Server

- A special notice will be posted describing wide scale changes on the Sakray R server on the morning of the 13th.

* Billing Changes

- RO Points, used to pay for the premium features of the free game server can now be freely converted to and from Kafra Shop points on the billing section of the RO homepage.

[Fallenwings]

Sakray R Test Server

- A special notice will be posted describing wide scale changes on the Sakray R server on the morning of the 13th.

Exciting, some actual confirmation of all the changes? :o

[Frost]

*eagerly waits for Sakray R changes.

[Atum]

Soooooo....
any changes on sakray R known yet? :D

[Wanderer]

its like 5 am in korea? still have to wait =P

[Doddler]

Sometime between last week and this week they added some unusual items to the client. They were marked as Philippine shop items.

Phreeoni Scroll
Grants HIT + 100 for 3 minutes.

Ghostring Scroll
Grants ghost element armor for 1 minute.

Also, there were two mercenary scrolls added, a male GM mercenary and female GM mercenary. I wonder what RO those are for!

[Dr. Azzy]

Sometime between last week and this week they added some unusual items to the client. They were marked as Philippine shop items.

Phreeoni Scroll
Grants HIT + 100 for 3 minutes.

Ghostring Scroll
Grants ghost element armor for 1 minute.

Also, there were two mercenary scrolls added, a male GM mercenary and female GM mercenary. I wonder what RO those are for!

*gag*

Some ROs are going downhill hardcore.

[Neece]

Sakray R Test Server

- A special notice will be posted describing wide scale changes on the Sakray R server on the morning of the 13th.

Doddler, could you please translate it as soon as possible? I would kind of like to translate it to portuguese, for bRO players, but Korean is beyond my vocabulary.

[mika]

Sometime between last week and this week they added some unusual items to the client. They were marked as Philippine shop items.

Phreeoni Scroll
Grants HIT + 100 for 3 minutes.

Ghostring Scroll
Grants ghost element armor for 1 minute.

Also, there were two mercenary scrolls added, a male GM mercenary and female GM mercenary. I wonder what RO those are for!
gtb scroll please :...:

[Doddler]

Sakray R Test Server

- A special notice will be posted describing wide scale changes on the Sakray R server on the morning of the 13th.

Doddler, could you please translate it as soon as possible? I would kind of like to translate it to portuguese, for bRO players, but Korean is beyond my vocabulary.

When it gets posted, I'll translate it...

[Wanderer]

If they post the monster changes and all it will be a huge post xD

[Talvis&Talnis]

Sometime between last week and this week they added some unusual items to the client. They were marked as Philippine shop items.

Phreeoni Scroll
Grants HIT + 100 for 3 minutes.

Ghostring Scroll
Grants ghost element armor for 1 minute.

Also, there were two mercenary scrolls added, a male GM mercenary and female GM mercenary. I wonder what RO those are for!
I hope we never get these, they are insanely over powered and game killing.
GM Merc, I wonder what they do?

[Doddler]

A (rare) way to change to ghost element for a short period of time would actually be a really cool item if, you know, it weren't kafra shop. The danger of course with a ghost element switch is that its impossible to change back even if you lose your armor... Its the same deal with the holy armor scroll/shadow armor scroll on kRO. Though, the concept of an unfrozen ghost armor would be pretty bad.

[Samias]

Phreeoni Scroll
Grants HIT + 100 for 3 minutes.

Ghostring Scroll
Grants ghost element armor for 1 minute.

Also, there were two mercenary scrolls added, a male GM mercenary and female GM mercenary. I wonder what RO those are for!

So glad I don't play pRO. If I were eating, I woulda choked on it. Great, let's add the effects of rare cards to the Kafra shop for every chump with a credit card :...:

[Rune hunter]

^
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1)Most of us don't use credit card

2)Its most likely just going to be implemented in a free to play server where you could buy a boss card if you have enough cash.

3)Its only 1 minute. Its not really game imbalancing. Considering you have to pay cash to be godly for just 1 minute.

[paladinenvec2]

It'll be a pretty cool item if it doesn't stack with and Unfrozen Armor, You guys know if the holy or shadow scrolls stacks with unfrozen?

[Xxelos]

In WoE, 1 minute is forever. Unfrozen Valk Ghost Armor anyone?
Also, there is no reason they wouldn't stack with unfrozen as unfrozen is just a "immunity to status" card, not a elemental card. It would be similar to unfrozen wind armor... only ghost element instead of wind.

Also, the Phreeoni scroll is stupid too. There are items in game that give +30 hit for 3 minutes already. Now they implement +100 hit for 3 minutes kafra shop items. pRO is really bad and I'm so glad we don't get stuff like this on iRO. Hopefully the GMs look at their server as to what NOT to do.

::Edit::
I have a feeling the GM mercs will probably have a list of random powerful skills and be level 99 characters. Kind of a kafra shop lvl 10 scroll. Male will probably be powerful physical-style skills (Sacrifice, Soul Destroyer, HSCR, Clashing Spiral, Focused Arrow Strike all come to mind) while the Female has powerful supportive skills combined with magics (Heal of some off the scale value, JT, Storm Gust, Fiber Lock, ect)

[$ephiroth]

@Doddler
Do you know about Rok Points from pRO?
How it works?

[Rune hunter]

In WoE, 1 minute is forever. Unfrozen Valk Ghost Armor anyone?


Meh, in WoE there are tons of sinx ready to SB ghost armor users to death. I have I mention you have to pay REAL money to use this each and every time?

How it works?

Sorry if I answer this instead of Doddler. You just use a game card on LU! website, you then convert it into Rok points, and spend it like normal zeny in game except you have to use speacial npcs in major cities.

[Samias]

3)Its only 1 minute. Its not really game imbalancing. Considering you have to pay cash to be godly for just 1 minute.
It was the Philippines where a guy killed another guy to get a GTB card. I'm sure some pRO player is willing to spend a fortune on those types of items, even the ones who already have GRs to stack them onto their unfrozen armors. I'm sure all over the world there are people like this, actually.

[Max Period]

GTB cards don't exist on pRO's free to play servers at all.
Phreeoni cards don't exist on pRO's free to play servers at all.
MVPs do not drop cards on these servers.
Also, Angeling, Develing and Ghostring cards are not available in these servers period. They're not dropped and they're not available at the item mall.

From what I know, here's the list of MVP/boss cards that has ever been sold by the f2p hypermart:
Garm
Doppelganger
White Lady
Moonlight Flower
Archangeling
Baphomet
RSX-0806

And the current offering:

RSX-0806 Card (MVP)Vit+3
Adds immunity to the Knockback effect. Compounded armor is indestructible, but it can still be destroyed by failed upgrade attempts.
Compound on: Armor
Available on: F2P Servers
7,000 Rok Pts. (PHP 350)
You should understand that Gravity maintains control of what are allowed to be sold in their item mall. At some point, they offered 300% battle manuals at one point, but were soon yelled by Gravity forcing them to be removed.

RoK points = Kafra shop points. 45 PHP ~= USD $1

Whether how much will these scrolls cost nobody knows. Remember that wages are low in Philippines.

[Potu]

I saw a couple screenies of the GM merchs at Ragnagate a few days ago - can't look for them now as I'm at work. :S

Phree and GR Scrolls sound lame... GR would actually be quite nice if it was obtainable ingame (would require quite a bit of work) and weren't usable in WoE.

[Terpsichore]

Remove cards and put a crappy version of them in kafra shop, lol "f2p" servers.

pro is worse than all the pservers combined :/

[Sniper7]

It was the Philippines where a guy killed another guy to get a GTB card.

<Off Topic>There was one issue a few years back but was almost always misunderstood as a GTB card killing: Server champ guy gets all the prize money for himself, kills guildmates and then when he was asked to testify he said something like: Why would I want to kill him? After all he(one of the guys he shot) still has my GTB card. From that point on Level Up stopped offering the P1m($22,222)cash prize for Philippine Ragnarok Championships</Off Topic>

[Max Period]

Sometime between last week and this week they added some unusual items to the client. They were marked as Philippine shop items.

Phreeoni Scroll
Grants HIT + 100 for 3 minutes.

Ghostring Scroll
Grants ghost element armor for 1 minute.

Also, there were two mercenary scrolls added, a male GM mercenary and female GM mercenary. I wonder what RO those are for!

These items has now been added to pRO's Valkyrie and Valhalla (f2p) servers:


Heroes of Midgard!

It’s our honor to present to you….. The MVP Scrolls!!

These special premium items are awesome and powerful buffs that were derived from various MVP Boss Card Abilities. Since they’re buffs, you can still slot anything you want in your weapons or armors.


GHOSTRING SCROLL BOX

http://ragnaboards.levelupgames.ph/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=172
Contains 10 Ghostring scrolls
Ghost property on Armors for 1 minute.
Effect stays upon death
Disabled: trade, drop, mail, NPC selling
Enabled: Kafra
4,000 Rok Pts. (PHP 200)

This buff combined with Unfrozen Armor will make you a walking fortress on the battlefield!



http://ragnaboards.levelupgames.ph/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=172
Phreeoni Scroll Box
Contains 10 Phreeoni Scrolls
+100 Hit for 3 minutes
Disabled: trade, drop, mail, NPC selling
Enabled: Kafra
4,000 Rok Pts. (PHP 200)

This scroll, on the other hand, will turn you into an offensive juggernaut!

*These items will only be applied in Valkyrie and Valhalla

With these items, take your game to the next level!