RO 2 Guide

For a heads up im sure this post might have a lot of spelling/grammar errors and forgive me for that but I saw Tsukasa's Cres guide and I haven't seen any real insightful Soulmaker guides so I decided what the heck... Why not I just make one so here goes! (This guide is based off of my personal build and my personal experiences as a Soulmaker)

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Stats

3. Skill build's(Soulspanker Style)

4. Colosseum

5. Agi VS Int

Introduction

The Soulmaker class is primarily a group advantage class. As far as raiding and DPS goes your not the worst but your not the best! Due to Warpportal's changes to the classes healing capabilities it isn't advised to be a full healer Soulmaker anymore in warpportal's version. That being said you are still one of the most useful things that can be added to a group! Let's get more in depth of the class in the upcoming subjects... Onto Stats!

Stat Builds

Classic Int Build

Int:40

Agi:40

Vit:8

or

Int:38

Agi:38

Vit:18

Full Support(Personally I think this build is crap)

Int:40

Agi:8

Vit:40

or

Int:41

Vit:41

Critical Hit Build(Alittle Extensive)

Int:27

Agi:51

Vit:3

These are all your classic build's of characters. I choose to go a bit differently.

SoulSpanker's Build

Int:39

Agi:41

Vit:8

I personally believe for Soulmakers my build or the classic int build is the best for Soulmakers. We utilize alot based off of crit due to our Links(I'll get into that more later)

Skill's and Skill Builds

Soul Maker Skills

Soul Extinction- Explodes the concentrated magical power of souls to inflict x% of magical attack damage, and inflicts x% of additional DoT for 10 seconds.

Casting Time: 2 second

Cooldown: 5 seconds

Comment: At level 1 this skill inflicts 27% of magical damage and 14% DoT while at max level, the damage increases to 40% and the DoT rises to 20%.

Soul Extinction Mastery- Immobilizes the target for 1 second when Sould Extinction succeeds.

Comment: At max level, the target will be immobilized for 3 seconds.

Mental Breakdown- Inflicts additional damage -x% of magical attack damage - by fragmenting the targets mind. If the target is under Soul Injection, the damage jumps to addtional 5 enemies max. On each jump, the damage is decreased by 10%.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 1 second

Comment: This skill gives off -20% magical attack damage when it's level 1 while at max level, it gives off 30% magical attack damage.

Soul Extortion- Inflicts x% of magical attack damage every 1 second, for 5 seconds, by taking over the target's soul. The movement speed of the target is decreased by x% when casting is in progress. if the target is under Soul Injection, the damage jumps to additional 5 enemies. On each jump, the damage decreased by 10%.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Comment: Level 1, it will inflict 21% magical damage while at max level, it does 31% of magical attack damage.

Death Spell- Inflicts x% of magical attack damage on the target and additional hostile targets up to 10 within 5 meters of the target, and adds Soul Injection debuff to all the targets which received the damage.

Casting Time: .5 second

Cooldown: 1 second

Comment: Inflicts 16% magical damage to the target at level 1 while 22% at max level.

Sacrifice- Sacrifices 10% of the caster's max HP, to inflict damage on the enemy. The enemy receives x% of magical damage plus the amount of the HP that the caster has sacrificed. The target is knocked down for 3 seconds. The caster could die from using the skill due to the HP required to use Sacrifice.

Casting Time: 2 second

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Comment: For 10% max HP, you will inflict 78% of damage to the enemy at level 1 while at Max level you will deal 115%.

Awake: Soulmate- Communicates with Root of Death Worlds to makes its physical manifestation as a soul. Increases damage and movement speed of the caster by x%, and increases acceleration by x%. Recovers all HP of your party and attack squad members within 10 meters of you by x% every time the caster achieves a critical hit.

Casting Time: 1 second

Cooldown: 600 second

Comment: At level 1: the caster will have 10% increase in damage and movement speed, 5% increase in acceleration and 2% HP recovery for the caster and his/her party every time he/she lands a critical hit. While at full level: the caster will have 30% increase in damage and movement speed, 15% increase in acceleration and 6% HP recovery for the caster and his/her party every time he/she lands a critical hit.

Immunity- Inflicts x% of magical attack damage by sending Root of Death Worlds that is manifiested as a soul towards the target. When hit, the energy waves of the soul spreads from the target to other enemies within up to 20 meters of the target to inflict 42% of magical attack damage on hostile targets and recover HP of allies.

Casting Time: 2 seconds

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Comment: When this skill is level 1, the Root of Death Worlds will inflict 77% of your magical damage to the enemy and the waves that spreads will do 31% of your magical damage to the enemies hit nearby. At max level it does 105% damage to the target and 42% damage to the enemies hit by the waves.

Exploitation- Increases intelligence of the caster for 30 seconds by absorbing the souls of enemies within 5 meters of the caster. The souls of up to 5 hostile targets can be absorbed, each of which increase the casters intelligence by x%.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 180 seconds

Comment: Level 1 will give the caster a 2% increase in Intelligence while 6% at max level.

Impositio Manus- Increases physical/magical attack damage of party and attack squad members by x% for 30 minutes.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 1 second

Comment: Your physical/magical attack damage and as well as your party will increase by 2% at level 1 while 10% at max level.

Transpersonal- Increases attack hit power of all party and attack squad member by x% for 30 minutes.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 1 second

Comment: Your critical hit power and as well as your party will increase by 2% at level 1 while 10% at full level.

SoulLink: Concentration- Increases acceleration and vitality of the caster and up to 5 allies within a certain range by x% for 5 minutes. While spiritually connected, acceleration and vitality of the ally and the caster is increased by x% every time the caster achieves a critical hit. The acceleration and vitality can be increased up to x%. If no critical hit occurs, the increased level gradually decreases. When the level goes below the minimum value, the buff will be removed.

Casting Time: 1 second

Cooldown: 3 seconds

Comment: You and your party's acceleration, and vitality will increase by 2% for 5 minutes at level 1 while it will rise to 10% at max level.

SoulLink: Balance- Makes a spiritual connection with one ally for 5 minutes to increase physical/magical attack damage of the ally and the caster by x%. While spiritually connected, physical/magical damage of the ally and the caster is increased up to x%. If no critical hit occurs, the increase level gradually decreases. When the level goes below the minimum value, the buff will be removed.

Casting Time: 1 second

Cooldown: 3 seconds

Comment: You and one ally's physical/magical attack damage will increase by 2% at level 1 while 10% at max level.

SoulLink: Revive- Reduces the damage taken by the caster and up to 5 allies within a certain range by x% for 5 minutes and increases healing effect by x% at the same time. While spiritually connected, damage taken by the ally and the caster is decreased by 1% and HP is recovered by x% every time the caster achieves a critical hit. The damage taken can be decreased up to x%. If no critical hit occurs, the increased level gradually decreases. When the level goes below the minimum value, the buff will be removed.

Casting Time: 1 second

Cooldown: 3 seconds

Comment: At level 1: The damage taken by the caster and the ally will be reduce to 2%, the healing effect will be increase by 2% and the HP will recovery will be increased by 1% every time the caster lands a critical strike. While at full level: The damage taken by the caster and the ally will be reduce to 10%, the healing effect will be increase by 10% and the HP will recovery will be increased by 5% every time the caster lands a critical strike.

SoulLink: Devotion- Make a spiritual connection with one specified ally for 5 minutes to transfer x% of damage that the ally receives to the caster. The caster and the ally recover HP by 10% of damage taken every time they are hit. When the ally receives damage that would kill him/her, that ally recovers x% of max HP instead of dying, and the buff will be removed.

Casting Time: 1 second

Cooldown: 3 seconds

Comment: When this skill is at level 1, 6% damage will be received by the caster instead of the ally who has this buff on. While it the damage absorption will increase to 30% at full level.

Restore- Recovers HP of one ally by x% of magical attack damage.

Casting Time: 2 second

Cooldown: 1 second

Comment: Recovers 44% of HP at level 1 while 64% at max level.

Restoration- Heals one party member by x% of magical attack damage, then jumps to heal all the other members within 10 meters of the specified member. Up to 5 members can be healed, and the healing effect decreases by x% on each jump.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 5 seconds

Comment: Heals 19% at level 1 while 28% at full level.

Cure- Recovers HP of the target by x% of magical attack damage for every 2 seconds for 30 seconds. Healing is increased by x% every 5 seconds for as long as Cure lasts.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 1 second

Comment: Recovers HP of the target by 8% at level 1 while 12% at max level.

Dispell- Dispells the movement impairing effects (debuff) on the target with x% probability. The caster can use this skill even when he or she cannot control himself or herself.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Comment: It gives you 10% chance to dispel movement impairing effects at level 1, while 30% at full level.

Detection- Detects any invisible enemies within 10 meters of the caster by focusing his or her mind. Removes the invisibility effect applied to any enemies within the range, and stuns them for 3 seconds with x% probability.

Casting Time: Instant Cast

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Comment: Gives you 20% chance to stun a target after they become visible at level 1 while 60% chance at full level.

Cure Pearl- Generates 5 healing spheres around the caster. When an ally approaches a sphere, it is absorbed by him or her to recover HP by x% of magical attack damage. The ally who has recovered his or her HP using one of the spheres has to wait for 30 seconds before he or she can absorb another sphere.

Casting Time: 1 second

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Comment: Gives 30% HP recovery at level 1 and 44% at max level.

Now that you have a base understanding of how the classes skills work lets get into the 2 major types of builds I believe to exist in Warpportals RO2!

Skill Builds

Single DPS Support Build

(For me personally I haven't chosen what build i want to go yet but i will most likely go this one)

(there is 2 points leftover you can place them as you please)

Now lets inspect the build choice I have made and the reasons for it.

This build will allow you to be a main dps. Not the top of the charts but you can generally keep up with most Sorc's once you have become equal geared with them. Your rotation will generally be Soul Extinction, Sacrifice off cooldown, And Spam Mental Breakdown. Ofcoarse if you ever see your party in trouble your not that serious of a dps so stop what your doing and heal your raid up! Spam Restoration off Cooldown cast Restore and put Cures on everyone! Ontop of that you should already be Casting Cure's on tanks at almost all times to help out the healers. This build has 3 major links you need to take advantage of... Soul Link: Balance will increase you and 1 other person's attack power or magic power another 10% ontop of Imposito Manus, Soul Link: Concentration will increase you and your raid's Vitality(Vigor) and Acceleration(Haste) by 10%! Now Even though this is a group wide buff that can be connected to more than 1 person I Generally tend to stick to just my main one person. It is too hard to coordinate everyone to never move out of 15m and personally with the raids in this game you can manage without them. And Lastly Soul Link: Devotion This link is generally for you and your "Partner" To never die(Or a priest). It will share 6% of the damage they take as well as if they were to receive a killing blow it will remove the buff instead of killing the person. In this build I like to main link to a Wizard for the 10% Magic power/Haste benefits them the most out of any class. And use devotion on a Priest.

Onto the next Build

Full Group Support

My personal opinion on this build... Generally speaking again besides in AoD(Abaddon of Despair) and Certain fights in other Raids you cant manage to keep everything up.

This build is a Full on group support build if you can manage to stay near your party the whole time your duties will be as followed... Keep Soul Link: Revive up on your party the whole time 10% increase healing and 10% less damage is HUGE! (If you are close enough keep Soul Link: Devotion on a tank if not put it onto a healer. And make sure to maintain Soul Link: Concentration on your raid with Soul Link: Revive. If you can manage to do all of this for a whole boss fight you alone will befit your entire raid with 10% attack/Magic Power, 10% Haste and Vigor, 10% Less damage and Increase in Healing as well as protecting the life of someone AND your a healer.

With this build from a DPS standpoint you will just be using mental breakdown constantly on the boss and the second a room wide aoe is going to happen or what not your job is to up everyone to full since your Raid wide and group wide heals are wonderful and your dps in this build will not be substantial or able to keep up with anything you are meant to make sure no one dies and keep your Links up on the raid!

Colosseum

For most people who play this game this is one of the funnest parts of it but can also be the thing that makes you hate this game at most times and I have tended to notice a lot of Soulmakers getting eliminated early on when I'm making it to the last round every time and i have 19 victory medals without ever being boosted by guildmates. So I will just give a little insight to what I tend to do in Colosseum.

Round 1: This round is generally always the easiest everyone is grouped up in the center and most usually low HP, Cast Death Spell and then spam mental breakdown or I personally use Soul Extortion because the damage is applied faster and I generally get one kill from this. After that one kill you can usually get away with just killing some mobs or manage to snatch another kill with Sacrifice for easier passage to Round 2.

Round 2: The death spell trick isn't going to work this one everyone will start with full HP and we are still in the phase of RO2 where "Oh look a noel everyone kill it its squishy and its new" Is still a thing in Colosseum. Most likely your just going to die early on and then you can proceed to try and get some kills. Just accept defeat for that first death get it over with as soon as possible that's what i do. In this round it is generally easy as well you just need to get a kill or two and kill some mobs.

Round 3: Things start to get a little tricker here because you might be one of two noels inside the Colosseum at the time and become prime target for everyone whenever they see your stubby legs running around. Tab target and look for the person that everyone is focusing on and watch and pay attention to how fast the HP of that person is going down. Depending on the speed pick when to start casting Sacrifice I generally will start casting around 5-6k (Half HP) if more than 1 person is focusing them. and the skill generally goes off around 3-4k HP and its a free kill. Continue to do this / tab target and spam mental breakdown/Soul Extortion and wish for the best.

Round 4: This is your hardest round! Harder than winning in the last round and harder than all 3 before combined. i notice most soulmaker use Awake Soul in this round and if you have to... Do it but if you can save it for the last round it is a insane advantage. In this round you are the major target of EVERYONE at all times. The second you res no matter what everyone is usually on your ass for a easy kill. The major advice i have here is DONT BE SCARED. Turn around stop running Soul Extinction one of them, Sacrifice and Soul Extortion or Mental breakdown. Generally because everyone is targeting you when you solo dps someone down no one is going to steal your kill because they are all trying to kill you. I generally kill someone in the time it takes me to die. Ofcoarse the focusing you wont be at all times so you can sneak a kill or two when your not being focused by a well timed Sacrifice but thats it for Round 4.

Round 5: My favorite round! Do not use Awake soul in the begenning you will just be Public Enemy #1. Run around in circles and get your speed elixers ready( you dont need them they just help). In this round its all about solo dpsing the person who is solo dpsing the main target. When you see 5 people and 4 are targeting say for example a priest. Pick out a ranger in the group on the side and start dpsing him down. By the time they kill the target they are on you can generally kill one of them while the attention is elsewhere. Or if your confident enough for that Sacrifice kill steal then go for it. After you die once or twice pop your awake soul! your so fast and mobile in this form that you can chase people spamming mental breakdown and get some free kills. Once your in 1st or second you need to kill porings. Not only do they effect your rank(Slightly) They prevent the melee's from getting a 200% attack buff which will be the end of you and everyone else in your Colosseum. It is no fun but sometimes when your in first with a couple kills ahead and some porings.. NOT the whole round but for some time hide in a side room because your inevitable death will happen and you want to be as high up on the charts while the others lower themselves some more. You could lose and drop a rank during this time but then you also wont be a main target when you do decide to run back out at about a minute for a final kill to secure your win.

Agi VS Int

This is all about the Radiant Runes you will be using. Personally this is a no brainer As your crit is already generally low from receiving almost no Agi from gear you need it to boost your links more and keep up in dps if you go full dps build(Crit heals are nice too in support mode). Currently in full Colosseum gear and some AoD I have 29.01% crit which isn't bad but that's with all Agi gems and a guitar+afro costume combo for another 2% crit. This is all personal preference as well. If you could care less about buffing your links and if you feel you can dps more with just base hitting an extra 100 dmg on an ability instead of 5-8% more crit chance to do double damage. I havent done the math or anything to figure out which is best yet but so far I am liking and will be staying with the 30% crit rate.

I was going to have a ending of raids and stuff but I think I ended up covering those subjects in the Skill Build section. I hope you guys enjoy and this is at least helpful in some way to you Soulmakers who will read it out there!

If you have any questions further and notice I am on. Toss me a whisper and I can try to help in any way i can .

From your friendly neighborhood Soulmaker

Soulspanker

Ragnarok Online 2 Alter Tsukasa's In-Depth Crecentia Guide

2013-11-05T10:22:00.000+07:00

All graphics thanks to Klyde!

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Stats

3. Skills

4. Equipment & Cards

5. Gameplay

6. Party & Raid Tips

Hello everyone, this is my in-depth look at the Crecentia, one of the Alter's class change options upon reaching level 25. This guide was created to help new players who may have any questions regarding Crecentia, and show how to get the most out of your little scythe swinging demon. This guide will cover just about everything PvE related, but I'll try to add some PvP tips you may find useful. Let's begin like any proper guide should: with the basics.

Unlike their Soul Maker counterparts, Crecentia's retain their Alter skills. This, in addition to their own skills, makes them a very powerful class capable of long range and area melee damage, courtesy of their area of effect (AoE) attack and debuff skills. With that in mind, Crecentia's primary objectives are:

1) Maximize Attack : Whether from physical or magical attack, AoE or DoT (damage over time), hurt them - a lot.

2) Buff/Debuffs: The Crecentia has a plethora of debuffs that can be used to gain the upper hand on your enemies, from putting them to sleep to decreasing their movement speed. It's also capable of using a buff that not only increases damage and movement speed for the caster, but also provides addition defense of up to 10% to party members (reliant on crit).

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While there are numerous ways to build your Crecentia, the main stats you should be using are INT and STR with the option of AGI and VIT. INT is necessary for maximizing your magic attacks whereas STR is a must have for your melee damage skills. Adding VIT is an optional method, but in my opinion only takes away from your max physical/magic damage. Adding AGI is possible, but few skills would benefit from it. Here's a bit more information regarding these stats:

STR: Adds attack and parry rate. This is necessary for skills like Diem Wind and Tempest.

INT: Adds magic attack and defense. Necessary for nearly all of the Crecentia's skills.

AGI: Adds critical and dodge rate (physical). Viable for physical attacks, but not advised.

VIT: Adds health and increases Healing rate from Potions. VIT points increase such a small amount of HP that it's almost a waste to use. Health shouldn't be a major issue without it, most HP will come from your equipment.

WIS: You do not need this stat.

Additional statistics:

Parry: Chance to receive half damage.

Dodge: Chance to dodge attacks.

Vigor: Decreases cooldown on skills.

Haste: Decreases casting time.

Nearly all rare Crecentia equipment (blue, purple) will have vigor/haste so if you want to raise your parry/dodge you can rely on accessories. Unfortunately, accessories cannot be used until you reach base level 40*.

*This is not counting Pandora accessories, which can be equipped regardless of level. More information on Pandora equipment will be discussed in the equipment section.

The Crecentia has a wide array of skills, many of which are dependent on another to be truly effective. For now I'll just post the facts, later I'll be sure to add important information based on my own experience.

Diem Wind

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 1 sec
SP Cost: 1/2/3/4/5

Single target
Adds Stigma Debuff

14/15/17/18/20% Physical Attack Damage
Adds Stigma debuff to a hostile target with 20/40/60/80/100% probability per hit

Gives an extra 30% damage if your enemy already has a curse on it

The fastest Casting time and Cooldown to add Stigma debuffs at 100% probability
This works best with Stigma Thread should you want to activate and spread your Stigma debuffs to all the enemies around you the quickest way possible.

Illusion Blade

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 5 sec
SP Cost: 1/2/3/4/5

Single target
Adds Stigma Debuff

14/16/18/19/21% Physical Attack Damage
Adds 2 Stigma debuffs to a hostile target with 20/40/60/80/100% probability per hit
Targets under curse spells receive 30% more damage in addition to the initial damage it had taken

Affected Skills: Crucio, Evanesco, Furnunculus, Raw Tilt, Blindness

Curse Burst

Casting time: Instant
Cooldown: 0 sec
SP Cost: 3/4/5/6/7

Single target / AoE
Uses Stigma Debuff

6/7/8/9/10% Magical Attack Damage (if target and surrounding enemies within 5m have Stigma debuff)
Additional 1/2/3/4/5% Magical Attack Damage for every Stigma debuff present

Crucio

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 5 sec
SP Cost: 1/2/3/4/5

Single target
DoT
Curse

19/21/23/25/28% Magical Attack Damage
9/10/12/13/14% DoT for 10 sec

Second highest DoT damage

Furnunculus

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 10 sec
SP Cost: 3/4/5/6/7

Single target
DoT

Duration: 30 sec

10/11/13/14/15% Magical Attack Damage every 2 sec for 30 sec
Increase by 4% every 5 sec

Highest DoT damage

Tempest

Casting time: 3 sec
Cooldown: 60 sec
SP Cost: 4/6/8/10/12

Single target
Uses Stigma Debuff

68/76/84/92/100% Physical Attack Damage
Additional 1/2/3/4/5% Physical Attack Damage per 1 Stigma debuff that is already on your target
3 sec Stun

Highest attack damage skill

Contingency

Casting time: 2 sec
Cooldown: 20 sec
SP Cost: 2/4/6/8/10

Single target
DoT

16/18/20/22/24% Physical Attack Damage
Decrease defense by 1% per curse spell (stacks up to 5 times) + 1/2/3/4/5% Physical Attack Damage DoT for 30 sec

Bram Gush

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 1 sec
SP Cost: 1/3/5/7/9

AoE
Adds Stigma Debuff

Front damage (you only hit those standing in front of you)
7/8/8/9/10% Magical Attack Damage
Max of 10 concurrent enemies
Adds 1 Stigma debuff to a hostile target with 6/12/18/24/30% probability per hit

Instant constant AoE damage

Earth Worm

Casting time: 2 sec
Cooldown: 15 sec
SP Cost: 3/5/7/9/11

16/17/19/21/23% Magical Attack Damage
Decrease movement speed by 70% for 2/4/6/8/10 sec
“Jumps” to inflict a max of 5 enemies within 10m of the target that you’ve aimed at

Death Grip

You need Awake: Darkness in order to use Death Grip.

Casting time: 2 sec
Cooldown: 10 sec
SP Cost: 5/7/9

AoE damage

77/91/105% Magical Attack Damage
Additional 10% damage per party member (stacks up to 5 members)

Land of Darkness

Casting time: 2 sec
Cooldown: 10 sec
SP Cost: 3/5/7/9/11

AoE
Uses Stigma Debuff

6/7/8/9/10% Magical Attack Damage
Up to 10 enemies
Damage increased by 1/2/3/4/5% for any target under Stigma debuff

Levicorpus

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 60 sec
SP Cost: 1/3/5/7/9

Sleep
AoE

Radius: 5m
Up to 10 enemies
20/40/60/80/100% probability of sending a ShockWave
Decrease damage taken by 10/20/30/40/50%
Target will wake up upon being hit

Imperio

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 120 sec
SP Cost: 2/4/6/8/10

Slows movement
AoE

Duration: 30 sec
Radius: 5m
Decrease acceleration of enemies by 20/40/60/80/100%

Ignition

Passive
Doubles the physical/magical attack damage that is increased by Strength and Intelligence

Evanesco

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 10 sec
SP Cost: 2/3/4/5/6

Single target
Curse

Duration: 30 sec

2/4/6/8/10% of damage given by enemy will be reflected back

Raw Tilt

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 10 sec
SP Cost: 2/3/4

Single target

Duration: 30 sec
Cannot be used concurrently with Blindness

Increase the damage the enemy received by 5/10/15%

Blindness

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 10 sec
SP Cost: 3/4/5

Single target

Duration: 30 sec

Cannot be used concurrently with Raw Tilt
Decreases physical/magical attack damage by 5/10/15%

Stigma Thread

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 10 sec
SP Cost: 0

AoE
Uses Stigma debuff

Spreads Sigma debuff to other targets around you that already has debuffs on them
Stacks up to 5 times.

Stigma Mastery

Casting time: Instant
Cooldown: 0 sec
SP Cost: 0

Passive
Uses Stigma debuff

1/3/5% chance of obtaining a critical hit on a target with a Stigma debuff

Awake: Darkness

You need Awake: Darkness in order to use Death Grip.

Casting time: 1 sec
Cooldown: 600 sec
SP Cost: 4/6/8

Multiple targets

Duration: 2 mins

Increase movement speed of the caster by 10/20/35%
Increase physical / magical attack damage of the caster by 10/20/35%
Decrease damage taken by 5/10/15%
Increase the defense of all your party member within 10m by 1% every time the caster achieves a critical hit

Curse Reinforce

Casting time: Instant
Cooldown: 0 sec
SP Cost: 0

Passive

Increase damage of curse spells by 5/10/15%

Affected Skills: Crucio, Furnunculus and Land of Darkness

Mayhem

Casting time: Instant
Cooldown: 0 sec
SP Cost: 0

Passive

Duration: 5 sec

10/20/30% probability of Silence debuff when Imperio succeeds

All credit goes to Icesabel for creating this skill tree, personal opinions removed to avoid confusion. Her guide can be found here.

As far as cards go, your obvious choice is use a set that supports the stats/build you've chosen. It's also wise to take what you are feasibly capable of obtaining into consideration, don't immediately plan to equip 5 Maya Purple [Rare+] cards the second you reach level 50 (unless you can actually pull that off, fat chance).

If you're looking for a quick, simple, and viable card choice look no further than Road of Blessed, [currently] the final map in the game. Here are a few relatively easy cards to obtain that may work well depending on your build choice. Keep in mind that these choices are based on end game stats and a level 50 character level.

Scratch Thief Card: +6 STR | +6 INT | +6 AGI | +6 AGI | +17 VIT

The go-to card for any new level 50 player. Easy to obtain, either by farming or buying, and with the exceptional VIT boost you'll be one step closer to being ready for those end-game dungeons and raids.

Damian Card: +6 STR | +9 INT | +9 AGI | +3 WIS | +9 VIT

This card is a bit more difficult to farm as Damian has 15,500 HP and is a unique field monster. That being said, he respawns relatively quickly and with decent gear shouldn't be a problem. Strong INT, AGI, and VIT, and a decent STR boost for your physical attacks.

Flash Geylog or Dostoev: (F.G:) +14 STR | +14 INT | +11 AGI | +5 WIS | +16 VIT

The only differences between these cards is the STR and AGI (Flash has +14 STR/+11 AGI and Dostoev has +11 STR/+14 AGI) so really it's all based on your build. These cards can be fairly time consuming to attain, or put a sizable dent in your zeny wallet, but they are going to be one of your best options outside of cards found/synthasized in raid dungeons.

As far as equipment goes, it's basically the same as any other class. Upon reaching level 50 you can obtain decent gear from monster drops in Road of Blessed in the "Resignation" set. Upgrading your gear is necessary to progressing in end-game dungeon raids, so make sure you begin this process as soon as possible.

As far as a weapon goes, your best bet is to farm Goblin Leader (Field Boss in Road of Blessed) for a , or craft/purchase the

Desperate Apostle Scythe from a Blacksmith with the proper design/from the Auction House.

While the Crecentia is capable of dealing plenty of melee damage, it's true prowess lies in it's debuffs and DoTs. In my experience, it was incredible to see bosses that had taken considerable time to take down before the Alter release drop like flies with the Crecentia backing up the party. I suppose it's completely based on preference, but I view the Crec as a powerhouse Support/DoT class as opposed to the more common DPS perception. While it can easily be used for purely DPS related party slots, I would recommend utilizing your Crecentias in place of one of the Sorcerers in your raids; while you may lose an additional Healer I believe this is the most efficient choice for complete party functionality.

While the Crecentia is wonderful on it's own as a melee/ranged damage dealer, it is infinitely more pragmatic to use it's skills to amplify your party's overall advantage by utilizing it's supportive capabilities to bring down tough mobs in half the time.

Coming Soon (Lazy)

Ragnarok Online 2 LOTS in 90 Seconds - Everything you need to know to start playing!

2013-11-04T10:14:00.000+07:00

Played RO1 and what to know what’s changed?
(This is based on other RO2 LOTS Releases, and are subject to change for International RO2 LOTS )

- Better Role Playing Oriented Story
- Character Ranking andTitles
- Improved Graphics
- New and Improved Crafting Mechanics
- New Card Rarity and Character Based Attachment System
- New Merchant Themed Sub-Classes
- More Character Mounts
- 3D characters with diverse chracter creation and looks!
- Simple and Advance Controls that are easy to learn
- Account Based Storage is no longer implimented
- RO2 LOTS Item Rank
Common(Gray) > Rare(Green) > Epic(Blue) > Legendary(Purple)

What should I choose for my starter Class and Profession?

- For newbie, try an Archer or Mage with the Artisan profession ; Archer or Mage with the Chef profession, since it's the easiest to dealt high damage and easier to find craft material.

- For advanced players, try Thief or Swordsman with the Blacksmith or Artisan profession ; Acolyte with the Chef or Alchemist profession; Mage or Archer with the Blacksmith or Chef profession.

Skill Simulators

Stat Descriptions- Maximum base stats is 50

Start Classes

2nd Classes

Professions

- Blacksmith : Produces Heavy armor and weapons with better grades ( Blue and Green Rank).

- Artisan : Produces armor with better grades ( Blue and Green Rank).

- Alchemist : Creates HP/SP, stat boost and stat potions.

- Chef : Produces dishes with regeneration and effect rates better than the NPC's,

That's Ragnarok Online 2 LoTS in a nut shell
Have fun on the Open Beta starting 4/18

Ragnarok Online 2 Costume Topic V2

2013-11-03T10:13:00.000+07:00

Under Further Consideration i deleted the costume topic, and decided to renew it (For Other reasons)
I will be making a 3 Post long topic. Yes, 3 Posts to cover all the costumes and stuff, i cannot keep hosting tons of images on my photobucket account. it is literally killing the bandwidth, so i'll try imageshack but it's really excessive so I'm just being rather careful.

Reuploading, so i'm keeping a eye on this topic.
Topic is in Progress RECONSTRUCTING...100%
FULL COSTUMES
Note: Kimono Was Actually Confused With Hanbok at first, that's what was surprising give or take, anyway back to uploading and re-linking
NOTE 2: Please Keep Viewing These Images Constantly, and Imageshack gets rid of inactive images, i'll keep logging onto my imageshack account, but as far as i know i'll try other image providers. right now i'm not a happy chappy because of photobucket limiting my bandwidth and having to resort to imageshack. GG Photobucket.

TOPIC IS STILL BEING CONSTANTLY UPDATED!

The Names Are ON the thumbnails, so look through them carefully.
This Topic Is UNDER PROGRESSION So I'm still Uploading :3
Full Costumes Have GOLD Portraits.
Head gears have BLUE Portraits
Mounts Have GREEN Portraits
UNION Have RED PORTRAITS To show that they are acquirable by "Unions" Only.
CAPES HAVE ORANGE PORTRAITS
MID GEARS/ACCESSORIES = PURPLISH PINK

Image Limits Have been Imposed. So i have to do it from another post and if it comes to it, i may have to do another topic in a cleaner way.
Just To tell you~ Alot of Costume bits and pieces are UNISEX, So basically worn by both genders, the reason i list them because they might look different. So it's always better to have different bits and pieces on each gender~ :3
Credits To: Viney For His Summer Outfit (Male) Screenshot! <3
Synthesthetic For pretty much all of the stuff, he's been the database to get this topics motor going, i can't thank him enough <3
His images,names and so on, give him a round of applause people *clap clap* :3
OneLastDance For His! (Palm Tree Outfit With a Duck Face) <3, Flower Ornamental
Shylla For Her Beautiful Oriental Dress Screenshot/TeddyBear Hat Screenie!~ <3
Mijieka For Her Wedding Dress/Tuxedo Outfit, Palm Tree Male One too <3, And The many hats i can't list all at once XD
Thank You everyone for helping get this topic done, we can have a full costume topic thats nice! X3
Other Sources For Their Images+Ragnarok Wikia For their Mount images =o <3
Ferriaberry For her Santa Outfits (male and female)
Gauldeval For His Hornbill, Thanks! <3
Verthandi For her masks/accessories!<3
Mistreil For his image source, thanks for the missing ones, theres some i still need to add but i will always update the topic
Malaphesto For His male recruit outfit pic

Quote

To Add List
Missing Ones With "MISSING" next to them mean that they're not on the topic and need to be relinked to me through PM.
If people could do, private message me any links i'm missing on this list, and names, thanks :3
Remaining Ones On the Next To Do List:
Brown Piercing
Helm of Volition
Crystal helm (Union)
Thief Hood
Delivery Mask
Appraisal Glasses
Sleep Shade
Rename Earmuffs to Earplugs
Goblin's Horn
Tiger Mount (Black/White/Orange)
Turtle Mount

OTHER MOUNTS ON THE LIST BUT NOT YET SHOWN HERE

OTHER ACCESSORIES.

Ragnarok Online 2 UI Texture Editing

2013-11-02T10:12:00.000+07:00

I've had a few players ask me if this is allowed.

You won't get banned for changing your UI, but we don't support it because if something changes in the files and breaks your game, we can't support it.

So, we won't punish you for making changes, but we can't be responsible when it breaks.

Otherwise, these look cool!

We have gotten permission to edit the UI, However they will not give support if we break or mess up the VDK files.

(Mods will not give support if you mess up your client. Reinstall the game if you did not keep a back up.)

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VDK files are located in

Normal Installation

C:\<Directory you installed in>\Ragnarok Online 2\Data\

Steam Users

C:\<Directory you installed in>\Steam\steamapps\common\Ragnarok Online 2\Data

The VDK is called "UI.VDK"

You can extract the vdk using a VDK unpacker.

!The program you can find on your own, Search google or pm someone.!

Inside the UI.VDK you will find a number of folders and files.

Most UI texture files you will find under UI.vdk\UI\Texture and the names will start with Rag2_<Base/Btn/Con/Damage/Hud/Icon/Option/OutGame>_<Number>.tga

These files can be edited with free art applications such as Gimp, and Paint.net.

Lets see what everyone can come up with!

PS: Make sure you repack as version 1.1 and not version 1.0 otherwise it will not work and not display the hud.

~Texturing Tutorial~

We will be focusing on the menu button

First of all we will open the file Rag2_Hud_001.tga

Down in the bottom right you will see

^Normal ^Hover Click Down^ Inactive^

From here we can assume that these buttons are triggered by mouse events

Now we need to find the bounding boxes by trial and error.

Red is unviewable, Black and inwards is viewable.

So any edits shall be done at black and inwards.

We will add the mouse event names over the menu buttons so that we have a base to work from.

And then we remove the Menu buttons.

Make sure to also check the top left of the image file where the menu button is embeded into the hud, find the bounding box and remove it like so.

The black is the area that matches the black bounding box of our previous edits

And when it all matches up you get

You can change the inside of the bounding box to anything you like!

Hopefully this was informative enough to give a small intro to texture editing.

If you have any questions please feel free to PM me.

Also when you repack you can replace the original UI.VDK as long as you make a backup of said file.

From what I have seen "UI2.VDK" or "UICustom.VDK" Isn't read by the game file system.

~List of Edited Huds~

Ragnarok Online 2 Professional Life

2013-11-01T10:10:00.000+07:00

Professional Life

In the new world of Ragnarok Online 2, every player will have the ability to craft powerful weapons, awesome potions and delicious food! Each character gets to choose the profession of Alchemist, Artisan, Blacksmith and Chef.

Each profession comes with its own special outfit! When you select one at the start, this will be the start of your profession in game! You will gain Job Levels by gathering your job specific materials and by crafting increasingly difficult items! Take the time to level your Job so you can craft amazing items!

When you select one at the start, this will be the start of your profession in game! You will gain Job Levels by gathering your job specific materials and by crafting increasingly difficult items! Take the time to level your Job so you can craft amazing items!

Ragnarok Online 2 Guardian Spirit

2013-10-31T10:09:00.000+07:00

Guardian Spirit

The spirit of histories finest experts live on in their craft, protecting and promoting all those who follow.

From cloths to keep the adventurer warm, to armaments to protect them, food to keep them satiated and medicine to cure any ailment the profession experts are needed in Rune-Midgards.

As higher ranks of your profession are reached the more the soul of the Guardian spirit may be called upon to assist you when desperate times come. The Blacksmith, Artisan, Alchemist and Chef of legend can be at your beck and call if you are diligent in your work.

To bring the Guardian spirit back into the world is no easy task. The Guardians are summoned through a summoning ritual of creating a magical circle using the possessions the Guardian used carefully during their lifetime.

Once a summoning ritual is complete, the guardian is summoned and the caster is possessed by the guardian.

But an expert cannot simply achieve 100% of the powers of a guardian. Experts must go through a process called Guardian's Ordeal to obtain the full powers from a guardian. The Guardian's Ordeal is where the expert combats with the guardian in an area made by the guardian.

Only experts that have overcome this ordeal will have their powers acknowledged by the guardian and the guardian will lend the expert their powers.

The process of summing requires a huge amount of spiritual energy to form the communion between the expert and the Guardian. When in communion the summoned guardian uses its abilities from its previous life to help the expert.

The ultimate goal of a guardian is to help an individual achieve their wishes from their previous life. That is why summoner is obliged to help fulfilling guardian's desire for borrowing their powers.

Once you’ve fulfilled the guardians desire, the summoner can either accept the guardians powers internally or externally.

The summoner that accepts the guardian spirits power is then allowed to summon another guardian and fulfill the new guardian's wishes. A summoner that fused him or herself with a guardian can use and maximize the powers of a guardian at will.

Vulcan, Blacksmith Guardian

The greatest blacksmith who ever lived on the Midgard continent.

The same blacksmith who created the Holy Sword Jörmungandr that is known to rip the mantle from Vanaheim and ban Freyja forever. He never fulfilled his lifetime wish to create a weapon of the gods before the Day of Despair.

Clank- clank- clank-

Is this the sound of a blacksmith's hammer?

Oh, the memories...

I feel my body, soul and desire blazing in me once again.

My wish is to create a weapon of the gods.

Please fulfill my wish with your steel grip!

Veriel, Artisan Guardian

Veriel was the top artisan of the continent.

His future had no obstacles in the way to success.

Gevril who was jealous of Veriel success plotted a terrible but effective plan.. To cut off Veriel's hands.

Gevril planned an accident and Veriel lost his two hands, and with them his destiny to be the greatest artisan of the age.

Veriel’s life lost meaning and succumbed to despair and alcoholism. However, one day, Veriel discovered Gevril’s plot and terrible vengeance was brought to bear. Veriel was overcome with fury and killed Gevril with a dagger between his teeth.

Before any sense of exaltation of justice was felt the world was sundered and aflame, the day of despair spared no one..

Whoo… whoo… whoo….

Kekeke….

These delicate hands are of an artisan. Kekeke….

I'm green with envy!

Those two hands…. Give me your hands.... now!

Honenheim, Alchemist Guardian

Juno is the magic city before the cataclysm. Hohenheim was the 3rd dean of the Magic Academy in Juno.

He built an academic system for alchemy the likes of which the world had never seen before or since. His studies took him to new levels of understanding of the world, endless possibilities abounded, but he suddenly disappeared leaving his achievements behind.

The world was shocked, but none more than Hohenheim himself. His latest studies were of 'soul composition of humans and devils'. His unfortunate choice of a subjects were the Feared Devil Baphomet, and his own soul.

What he wanted is to fuse Baphomet's powerful magic into a human body to create a new human race. As he prepared his greatest experiment everything looked to be correct, but the result was terrible.. As his soul was not able to resist fusing to the more powerful Devil body, he mind left him and only an unreasoning beast remained killing all his assistants and fleeing into the forest.

‘I could have succeeded in my alchemy if I had time to fix my formula'

He continued his research in hiding within the forest and awaited the Day of Despair without anyone knowing his whereabouts.

You... don't seem to have your formula right yet, have you.

How about letting me teach you all about alchemy

But on one condition

I want you to finish the alchemy formula where I left off.

Demeter, Chef Guardian

Demeter was once a glorious palace chef. She held skills that enchanted kings around the world. For cooking is be both fulfilling for the body and the soul to create happiness!

After endless effort and research, with many happy test subjects, she completed her masterpiece recipe. And the day of despair took her chance to create her ultimate dish.

Where do you think the art of cooking ends

If your hands, eyes and mind set on cooking are honest

then I will give you all my knowledge.

For you to fulfill my dream of making people happy with cooking.

Ragnarok Online 2 Bewitched Points Conversion for VIP Card Event

2013-10-30T10:07:00.000+07:00

Bewitched VIP Membership Card when you convert your Warp Portal Energy!

During the month of October there are tons of exiting events and promotions going on, celebrating the creatures that inhabit Midgard. Prankish spirits have cast a strange spell over our Warpportal page during our Monster's Month in Midgard!

From Tuesday 10/22 until Monday 11/4, when you convert at least 500 WPE into Kafra points, you will get a 7 day VIP Membership Card added to that account!

Only one VIP Membership Card per account, the VIP Membership Card is added on the following Tuesdays and Fridays after the conversion is made.

In Ragnarok 2, VIP can be used for many things, including:

Increases STR, INT, AGI, WIS, and VIT by 5

Increases max HP by 10%

Increases max SP by 10%

Movement Speed increased by 20%

Item Drop Rate increased by 30%

Chance to obtain additional instance dungeon winner's points

The betwitchment only lasts until the 4th so convert today! Don't forget that your first point conversion of October is boosted to 20% too!

Ragnarok Online 2 Spooky Refinement Event

2013-10-29T11:00:00.000+07:00

Refinement Event

Just in time for Halloween, we are putting on a Refinement event! It is a great time to refine any gear or the Halloween event items!

Date: October 23- November 11

Karnium Refine:

Success rate will be increased by 50%. (10% -> 15%)

Bradium Refine:

+2 success chance rate will be increased by 50%. (9% -> 18%)
+3 success chance rate will be increased by 50%. (3% -> 6%)
The -1 chance will be lowered from 10% to 5%

Ragnarok Online 2 Prepares to do Battle in PvP Colosseum

2013-10-21T10:34:00.000+07:00

WarpPortal is proud to introduce their first update to, Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second, which offers players a whole new way to do battle in a new PvP Colosseum.

The Colosseum opened its gates on May 14, and provides a ton of player-versus-player excitement. Twice a day, players will hear the call to the Colosseum to do battle. Not only will they able to do battle against other players and monsters, but they will get to earn points used to acquire unique equipment, costumes, and special PvP mount.

Starting May 15th, players who participate in the Colosseum during the first weeks of launch will be eligible for special Colosseum only events and giveaways! Download the Game and Play on Steam.

Ragnarok Online 2 Gets New Update: War of Emperium

2013-10-14T10:34:00.000+07:00

WarpPortal has announced their forthcoming update to Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second, titled War of Emperium. This update will be released first in a live test format to allow players to provide feedback and help developers create the final update content based on this. Live testing to begin July 10th with full update release to come in August.

Live testing is set to begin July 10th, with War of Emperium happening multiple times a day. During this testing period, players will be able to provide feedback on the official forums as well as a website survey. Feedback will then be given to the developers to modify and improve the update before it's finally launch in August.

All players who participate in the War of Emperium during the live testing will be eligible for special War of Emperium only events and giveaways.

Ragnarok Online 2 Brings Noel Race on Sep 11st

2013-10-07T15:00:00.000+07:00

WarpPortal announced to release an update called 'Noel' for Ragnarok Online 2 on Sep 11st. Noel is the first playable non-human race in franchise history. The race starts off as Alters. When reach level 25, players can choose to become Crecentia or Soul Makers.

"The new options for both looks and play-style options is what I'm most looking forward to," states Jason "Heimdallr" Koerperich, "cute immortal devil-elf children wielding death magic, with a beautiful and tragic story; what's not to love?"

Alters are known to use melee attack skills as well as area ranged attacks. Their special abilities include debuffing enemies, various curse skills including those that increase damage over time (dot), and ways to decrease power of or amplify damage done on enemies.

Crecentia are able to use all Alter skills, and can be very powerful. They can perform long range skills as well as do area melee damage through using area of effect (AoE) attack and debuff skills. Some of their unique abilities include using chain skills for AoE attacks and various action control skills that can increase movement speed or decrease an enemy’s abilities. They also have Deluge which not only increases their own abilities, but also those from their party members.

Soul Makers are not able to use Alter skills, because they have their own set of skills that include healing capabilities and strengthening buffs by linking with different objects. Some of their special abilities include providing buffs and healing to themselves and their parties, using Deluge to increase the power of their skills, and debuffing the skills of their enemies while increasing their own movement speed.

Many events are planned to celebrate the release of Noel. Check them out at official site!

Ragnarok Online 2 Noel Soul Maker ( DPS + Support Build )

2013-09-24T23:45:00.000+07:00

Noel Soul Maker ( DPS + Support Build )

Credit To Esbern
Credit To gaaratt

Stats

Tradition trend for int class

Int:40
Agi:40
Vit:8

or

Int:38
Agi:38
Vit:18

Full Support/Sacrifice

Int:40
Agi:8
Vit:40

or

Int:41
Vit:41

Critical Hit

Int:27
Agi:51
Vit:3

Skill Build
Noel Soul Maker ( DPS + Support Build )

Ragnarok Online 2 Noel Crecentia Full INT Build With Tempest

2013-09-23T23:46:00.003+07:00

Noel Crecentia Full INT Build With Tempest

Stats

Tradition trend for int class

Int:40
Agi:40
Vit:8

or

Int:38
Agi:38
Vit:18

Critical Hit

Int:27
Agi:51
Vit:3

Skill Build
Noel Crecentia Full INT Build With Tempest

Ragnarok Online 2 Wizard Build Guide Credit to lbluelalice

2013-09-15T17:12:00.000+07:00

Wizard Build Guide

Credit to lbluelalice

Introduction

The wizard is a very BORING class. Movement is almost non existent, and most of the battles are fought with two keys: hot keys of fire bolt and fireball. The only area where it shines is it's flashiness. It's damage is lower than rogues, rangers, sorcerers,attack priests, but equals with the assassin. (In other words, lowest or 2nd lowest of dealers.) People know you exist because you jump around the map with teleport and survive random moments with ice wall. Most people (including me) play this character just because nobody plays it allowing free access to parties. You might ask, "If it's such a bad character, why do parties take wizards?" Well my friend, sorcerers and priests want the 10% int buff... and that's about all they ask you to do.

STAT
41 INT
41 AGI

SKILL
Wizard Guide
(1sp left)
Inferno 1* (Either Meteor Storm or Inferno)
Meteor Storm 1* (Either Meteor Storm or Inferno)

How to Max out Damage
*Fire Arms and Dragonology is a must at all times
Blast Arms - Fire Flower - (Fireball - Firebolt - Firebolt - repeat)
*Use Fire Flower whenever it fades and always recast Fire Arms after Blast Arms

DOT (Damage Over Time) damage (caused by Fireball, Fire Arms, Fire Flower) is where most of its damage comes from. However, DOT damage will be overwritten by any wizard who uses the same skill. When there are more than one wizard in the party, even the assassin will out-deal the Wizard, putting the Wizard just above the tank characters. (there should only be 1 wizard per party)

ie. When going against a boss, and the DOT effects of Fire Flower, Fireball, Fire Arms are damaging the boss, whoever uses Fire Flower will overwrite the Fire Flower DOT damage. (same with Fire Arms and Fireball)

For those that might have questions about why I didn't level skills that you might think are useful, here's a quick tip on why not.

Cold Bolt - This skill is used with lightning bolt and frost diver in the early levels, but it is outclassed by the fire bolt due to stacking of Fire Arms and Dragonology, even without the help of pyromaniac.

Frost Diver - This is also a skill used mainly in the beginning. However, being unable to freeze bosses, it is usually thrown away.

Water Arms - Due to DOT damage, water arms is not used. Additionally, 10% damage reduction is unnoticeable for wizards.

Frost Nova - Truthfully, this is a very useful skill, however it preforms very well even at level 1.

Ice Wall - 3 minutes is a long time to wait, especially in battle. However, 3 minutes is enough to use twice on a single boss. Anything other than 3 minutes is too long, and you might as well invest 1 in Ice Wall at that point. However, having no true survival skills other than this, it is necessary for you to invest 5 points in this skill.

Lightning Bolt - It is also like the cold bolt. It is very soon outclassed.

Firebolt to Dragonology should be self explanatory.

Pyromaniac - This is a skill often overlooked. It takes about 7-8 attacks to reach 100, which at that point, gives you a 10% cast boost. This might not seem to be a lot, and people tend to use fire explosion the second it reaches 100. Using this buff allows fast recasting of fire bolts, which in the end pays off more than fire explosion. (the users of this skill commented that "it's a skill that can only be felt by those who use it.")

Fire Explosion - This is (used to be) a VERY debated skill for all people. This does around 3000-3500 damage without critical hits and is seen as the wizards ultimate attack. However, even if pyromaniac was leveled up to 5 and Fire Explosion was too and Fire Explosion was used just before the 30 seconds were over every time, during the time Fire Explosion is being used, 2 fire bolts can be fired. Now the problem with Fire Explosion lies here. Each fire bolt at level 50 does around 1200 - 1500 damage with the right equipment. A single critical hit will do 2400-3000. Although the Fire Explosion does 3000-3500 damage, it is spread into multiple shots doing 600-700 damage. Unless all 5 hits of Fire Explosion ended up as critical hits (which VERY rarely happens) it does not outshine the fire bolt. As a matter of fact, even if one of the two fire bolts were to be a critical hit, it would outshine the fire explosion. Additionally while this is happening, pyromaniac would be filling up which is why many people invest points in other skills.

Inferno vs Meteor Storm
Inferno is a good skill, because it gives all the mobs a fire flower effect. Even at level 1, it gives the fire flower effect of the level of your fire flower. On the other hand, Meteor Storm is a skill that hits a targeted area, but is heavily affected by lag and also takes longer than fire flower. In the end, you do just about as much damage with either one. (even without lag) You should just pick one and only one because you're not there to take out only mobs when in raid dungeons. (gathering mobs is harder than throwing fire bolts one by one)
*It's also the sorcerers job to attack mobs with Lord of Vermilion, which also does double damage when the enemy is encased in ice, so hit fire flower, use frost nova, and get the hell away with teleport and let the sorcerers do their job.

Ragnarok Online 2 New Assassin Shadow Form

2013-09-14T17:10:00.005+07:00

New Assassin Shadow Form

Beta Version of New Assassin Shadow Form .

Released Date : Unknown

Ragnarok Online 2 Finding Party Guide

2013-07-31T19:04:00.000+07:00

Most of player didn't use/realize this function instead they keep on spamming Find Party channel
*Pretty much useless since the rate of spamming without delay make the chat going up incredibly fast

1.Press N button and Find Party window will come up.

2.You can use the search function with (It will show depend on your choosen criteria)
*sort
-Quest
-Raid
-Party
-PvP

*Place
-Depend on which Sort you choose and the option that come out will be different

*Difficulty
-Normal
-Hard

3.Once you found a group that you interested in click the Member Info (Find Party Bottom Left window) and Party Member window will pop up .

4.Click on the name that have a Crown logo(Party Leader) and whisper him/her and ask politely whether the party still have a slot or not.
*even if you playing in different channel the party leader still can invite you and meet together in dungeon (only apply if you doing a dungeon)

Happy Dungeoning ;)

Ragnarok Online 2 Meditatio Explaination

2013-07-30T19:04:00.000+07:00

Credit to justcalv

Full link to his calculation
-Calculation

Quoted from his post :-

*As you can see from the spreadsheet
I only gain an additional 8% with lv 1 meditatio for my current hit rate of 97.37% --> This means the Crit heal will be 2.08x of non-crit heal instead of 2x

Looking forward, with 100% hit rate (not sure if its even attainable) --> A lv 1 meditatio will be 2.17x while at lv 5, it will give 2.25x

Having said that, this is only a test done based on lv 1 mediatio and my current set-up, so it may not be accurate
Also, there still seems to be a difference of 0.36% between the theorised and actual effect

Which part is confusing? The determination of the BASE Crit modifier? The testing of the Heal crit modifier with lv 1 Meditatio?

First thing first, THIS IS ONLY 1 TEST, so it MAY NOT BE ACCURATE. More testing is welcome, especially in the determination of the BASE Crit Modifier and Heal Crit Modifier (Without Meditatio)
Please post your findings here in a similar format so that it benefits all of us support priests

Having said that.... Firstly I determined what is the base crit modifier and MADE an assumption that this Crit modifier is the same for BOTH HEAL and Damage skill
After which, I compared this crit modifier with the heal crit modifier and REALISED that there seems to be a significant difference of which I believe is due to the Skill Meditatio.
Note: When I was testing out the Heal, I did not use any buff or activate Sacrament

So the results is as what i have presented in the spreadsheet

In other words...
Extrapolating it with a 100% Hit rate (IF ITS EVEN attainable...)
At Lv 1 Meditatio: You will get 2.17x of the Normal Non-crit Heal
At Lv 5 Meditatio: You will get 2.25x of the Normal Non-Crit Heal

My conclusion is that 4 points of investment in this skill is not WORTH the effect. Points are better spent else where like Sacrament, Sanctuary, Hell even a lv 1 DOT provides more Utility than a measly 0.08x more Crit heal amount

If you guys still have any question , please visit his thread and ask him politely ;)

Justcalv Meditatio Calculation Thread

Ragnarok Online 2 Union Costume Reward

2013-07-29T19:03:00.000+07:00

1) Magic Acedemy
2) Hunter
3) Odin Orthodoxy
4) Darkness Shadow
5) Alberta Merchant Alliance
6) Prontera Knightage

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Magician Teuro - Magic Acedemy

Life Ending book (Ruin) = Meteor Storm lvl 1 = 4 points
Sunsets book (Despair) Meteor storm lvl 1 = 4 points
Niflheim Seeds = Frost nova lvl 1 = 6 points
Magic Oil V = 8 points
Broken Chains Fragment = Blue Mat = 14 points
Howling Despair's Mask Fragment = Blue Mat = 76 points
Hg (circlet) = 200 points

Hunter Theodor - Hunter

Elemental Blessing = Endure lvl 1
Wind's Elixir = 5 points
Evil Fragments Box = 20 Evil fragments = 6 points
Bear Embroidery V = 8 points
Sealed Power Source = Blue mat = 14 points
Darkness Scythe Fragment = Purple mat = 76 points
Ancient Devil's Horn = Purple Mat = 76 points
HG (Blinder) = 200 points

Saint Ramote - Oden Orthodox

Saints Blessing = Blessing lvl 1 - 4 points
Providence Blessing = Assumptio lvl 1 - 4 points
Justices Lightning = Jupitul Thunder lvl 1 - 4 points
Life Source box = 20 Life Sources - 6 points
Dragon Embroidery V - 8 points
Unknown Fragment = Blue Mat = 14 points
Accession Freedom Staff = Blue Mat = 72 points
Angel HG - 200 points

Dark Gran Doll - Darkness Shadow

Assassination Poison = 4 points
Assassination Bad spirit = 4 points
Assassination Pleasure = 4 points
Ruin's Spirit Box = 20 ruin's spirits = 6 points
Tiger Embroidery V = 8 points
Dimension Piece = Green mat = 14 points
Cursed Immortal Stigma = Blue mat = 76 points
HG (Spiky band) = 200 points

Colossos Myuriah - Alberta Merchant Alliance

Wind Elixir - 5 points
Zeny bag = 24 Zeny when sold = 10 points
Shattered Emperium Fragment = Green mat = 14 points
Enchanted Red Feathers Fragment = Green mat = 14 points
Huge Bradium Fragment = Green Mat = 14 points
HG (Gift for Greif) = 200 points

Arti Schubert - Prontera Knightage

Provoking Secrets = Provoke lvl 1 = 4 points
Prontera Knights Order Will = Berserk lvl 1 = 4 points
Earth Marks box = 20 Earth Mats = 6 points
Strong Sharpener V = 8 points
Freya's Marks = Blue mat = 14 points
Twilight Shadow Fragment = Purple mat = 76 points
Heroic Echo = Purple mat = 76 points
Head gear (Iron Cain) = 200 points

Ragnarok Online 2 Class Specific Locked Kharas Guide

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This is a compilation of the skills required for class specific khara quests.
These appear as a lock until you utilise the skill required once.
All require 30 casts, unless otherwise stated.

Skill name. Title. Title stats.

ACOLYTE
Resurrection. (10 times) Hallelujah! STR 1 VIT 2

THIEF
Dark Illusion. Illusion! INT 1 AGI 1

MAGE
Seal of Water. Regen! STR 1 AGI 1

ARCHER
Concentration. Attention! AGI 1 VIT 2

SWORDSMAN
Aura Strike. Strike! STR 1 INT 1

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MONK
Body of steel. Steel! STR 4 INT 4
Asura Strike. Punch! STR 4 INT 4

PRIEST
Magnus Exorcismus. Exorcismus! INT 4 VIT 7
Archangel. Archangel! INT 4 VIT 7
Ray of Genesis. Genesis! INT 4 VIT 7

ROGUE
Dancing of Moonlight. Combo! INT 4 AGI 4
Crescent Moon. Knockdown! INT 4 AGI 4

ASSASSIN
Shadow Explosion. Explode! STR 4 AGI 4
Shadow Form. Shadow! STR 4 AGI 4

SORCERER
Deluge. Deluge! AGI 4 VIT 7
Soulbind. Revive! AGI 4 VIT 7
Summon Aqua. Summon! AGI 4 VIT 7

WIZARD
Flame Explosion. Arsonist! STR 4 AGI 4
Dragonology. Wisdom! INT 4 VIT 7

BEAST MASTER
Grizzly Form. Grizzly! INT 4 VIT 7
Beast Tornado. Tornado! STR 4 AGI 4
Bear Form. Bear! INT 4 VIT 7

RANGER
Arrow Vulcan. Vulcan! AGI 4 VIT 7
Camouflage. Camo! AGI 4 VIT 7
Wind Walk. Haste! AGI 4 VIT 7

KNIGHT
Shield Charge. Stun! STR 4 VIT 7
Shield Fortress. Unbreakable! STR 4 VIT 7
Concentration. Attack! STR 4 VIT 7

WARRIOR
Berserk. Berserk! STR 4 AGI 4
Endure. Defend! STR 4 AGI 4
Battle Leap. Smash! STR 4 AGI 4

Ragnarok Online 2 Assassin Build Guide ( Stats )

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Pros
- Great DPS class.
- Has many skills to use.
- Great damage output burst.
- Easy to use and learn.
- Less costy in gears than other class.
- Most of the skills are instant to cast.
- Appreciated in Raids and Dungeons.
- Dat awsom pose when standing.

Cons
- Not meant for tanking.
- Decent survivability with Shadow Armor.
- No healing skills and abilities.
- Melee.
- Ugly after activating Shadow Form.

Stat Build
(STR/AGI/VIT)
40/40/8 - Most common build chosen by players.
41/41/0 - If you don't like putting stats to Vit.
50/29/2 - Maximum damage dealt per second
29/50/2 - Great critical rate and decent damage.
33/33/32 - If you like to balance out your stats, although this one is for Rogues

Ragnarok Online 2 Assassin Build Guide ( PVE)

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Assassin Build Guide ( PVE)

Credit To Faulken

Stats
STR - Increases your overall damage
AGI - Increases your evasion, dodge and critical rate
INT - I found this not useful for Assassins
WIS - Increases your max SP
VIT - Increases your max HP

(STR/AGI/VIT)
40/40/8 - Most common build chosen by players.
41/41/0 - If you don't like putting stats to Vit.
50/29/2 - Maximum damage dealt per second
29/50/2 - Great critical rate and decent damage.
33/33/32 - If you like to balance out your stats, although this one is for Rogues

Ragnarok Online 2 Assassin Build Guide ( PVP Build )

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Ragnarok Online 2 Assassin Card Guide

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Credit To Faulken

Cards

Scratch Thief Card
Level: 50.
Equipment Effect: STR 6 WIS 6 INT 6 VIT 17 AGI 6
Obtained From: Scratch Thief
Card Combination: (for other Card combinations)

Scratch Thief Card [Normal +]
Level: 50.
Equipment Effect: STR 8 WIS 8 INT 8 VIT 21 AGI 8

Garbong Card
Level: 50.
Equipment Effect: STR 9 WIS 3 INT 6 VIT 9 AGI 9
Obtained From: Garbong
Card Combination: (for other Card combinations)

Garbong Card [Normal +]
Level: 50.
Equipment Effect: STR 11 WIS 12 INT 8 VIT 12 AGI 11