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Jawaii Monster Concept Art

Maridah — Tue, 26 May 2015 20:02:25 +0000

Curious to see what sort of creatures will be inhabiting the new Jawaii? Take a look at some of the artwork for the monsters who you will face off with in several months!

These are but a few of the creatures that will dwell in Jawaii’s Raid region. Players of the original Ragnarok Online may spot some returning monsters! Curious to see what the new raid will look like? Check out the concept art for it here! You can also see the concept art for the city parts of the honeymoon themed island here.

Morroc WoE Preview

Maridah — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:51:31 +0000

Feast your eyes on screenshots of the newest War of Emperium area in Morroc! If you love guild vs. guild siege warfare, this new area will be of interest to you!

Normally I’m not a PvP player in the slightest (I like the griiiiind-filled monster hunter-y mindless joy of killing creatures when I’m playing a game) but exploring this map makes me want to re-think that! Take a look~

The nitty-gritty details of this new area will be available early next week on http://playragnarok2.com/ and Njoror will be showing off the map and gameplay in a video stream on Twitch this next Wednesday! He’ll also be announcing the fast approaching launch date of this new content on that stream, so don’t miss it!

Starting off in RO2

Maridah — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 23:52:53 +0000

TGIF! It’s almost the weekend! Are you ready for it? As those of you who follow my CM twitter know, I started playing RO2. It’s very much up my alley in terms of visuals and game play. I love the cute anime style and customization nature of the characters.
I started out with a character sort of like myself. I’m kind of vanilla XD I typically like creating my main character this way. Do you do this or are you the type to make something VERY different? Maybe my next character will have some crazy different look.

I’ve tried my hand with some lucky boxes, and wow, I have really great luck. High couture fashion right here!

I actually really love the mushroom and palm tree costumes because they crack me up. I’m hoping to get more crazy costume parts. The stranger, the better! This is one of the things I love most about RO2~

I just reached 42 as a Knight in game and it’s been really fun! I’ve spent a number of my lunch breaks and some evenings playing. Since it’s extra EXP this month, I’ll probably be leveling more.

The gates have opened to new players in the Philippines so I’m excited to see even more players in towns. If you want to add me, my IGN is MissMaridah. In the coming weeks, I’ll be helping players who joined recently fight some field bosses for those khara missions you might not yet have completed! Keep an eye out on my twitter (@cmmaridah) for more about that if you are interested.

Hope you all have a great weekend (and don’t forget there are EXP events in RO2 going on!)

Feel free to drop me a note below about your RO2 characters

ROVU Mercenary Tips!

Maridah — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:37:58 +0000

Are you having a hard time building a strong mercenary team? We’ll be getting new mercenaries with the next update to ROVU tonight, so now is a good time to learn about it. The system is pretty new to Ragnarok Online : Valkyrie Uprising, so I wanted to share with you a (very) basic guide to your new mercenaries!

Your mercenary starts out at level one. You take it into a single dungeon stage with you, but the mercenary doesn’t level. Don’t fret. That’s because it gains EXP by having other mercenaries sacrificed to level it in your mercenary menu.

“…Okay, great! But why is it not leveling as fast as I want when I feed it some mercenaries?”
Not all mercenaries are equal in terms of how much EXP they give out! Porings, King Porings, and Angelings are really terrible mercenaries to fight with, right? That’s because they are intended to be mercenary ‘food’ for your better mercs. Keep the EXP a mercenary gives out in mind when building that dream team.

Understanding your mercenary’s basic potential is also important to building a team worth keeping. How can you tell what mercenaries to keep and which ones to use as leveling ‘food’? Check the color of the frame around your new draw!

The potential of your mercenary will be indicated by the frame color.
Color flow goes as such: White > Green > Orange > Purple.
White has the lowest stat potential and Purple has the highest.

So what does S and SS on certain mercenaries mean? Special and Super Special? Yeah, kinda. It means those mercenaries have a boost in stats over it’s standard version. If you come across a purple S merc, level it! Also brag. Brag a lot, because that isn’t common.

What do you do when you’ve reached max on a mercenary but draw something with better potential? Hold on to that max level merc and use it for compounding! Compounding allows you to do things like level your mercenary’s special skill or improve it’s class.

“So why should I level Mercenaries at all? I can still play ROVU without doing so, right?”
Mercenaries are just an addition to the many things you can do in ROVU. PvP allows you to face off against random players and earn some prizes, which is fun. Yeah you might loose a lot in the beginning, but that only makes the wins more exciting when you have them!
Mercenaries aren’t only good for the PvP battle aspects, either. Take them into single dungeons you struggled with before. Use them to help you level a new character! I’m playing as an acolyte and sometimes it’s slow going in the field. I gained 10+ levels in a short time just playing in single dungeons with my mercenaries acting as tanks. I’m finding single dungeons are more fun with them tagging along to help you with crowds of enemies.

Best of luck building a cool team!