Guide for Beginners

See also: Valiant Adventure Story, Basic Zeny Guide, Basic Game Control, Monster

Overview

The world is divided up into a vast variety of regions. There are Towns where you are safe and can chat with other players; there are Fields, the regions right out of towns where you can encounter wild monsters; finally there are Dungeons, where more challenging travels await.

Finding Where You are

Use the /where command in the chatbox to find out where you are. You will get a map name and coordinates. If you're completely lost and have some friends, you can give them your location and they'll find you.

Tip: Remember, you have a World Map to help you find your way if you get lost.

Traveling

Getting from place to place is a common task you will need to do. There are many ways to get around.

Returning to your Save Point

Each character will have a save point. This is the place where you will return to if all goes wrong (for example, you get killed). To set your save point, find a Kafra in one of the cities (you can ask around if you don't know where).

If you get lost in your journeys and just want to get home, you can return to your save point by dying, using a Butterfly Wing item, or relogging (going to the "select character" screen and back) on certain maps.

Custom Commands

How to use? Just typing these commands in your chat box

• @rates: Show server's detail of rates
• @ii <itemname>: Displays item information as well as the Item ID (e.g: @ii apple)
• @mi <monstername>: Displays monster information and drop table as well as the monster id (e.g: @mi poring)

@mi <id monster>: Displays monster information and drop table (e.g: @mi 1002)

• @whodrops: Displays a list of monsters who are able to drop this item (e.g: @whodrops Jellopy or @whodrops 909)
• @whereis: Displays a list of maps that you can warp to where this monster resides (e.g: @whereis poring or @whereis 1002)
• @autoloot: Allow you to automatically collect all of item if a monster you killed drops it.
• @alootid: Allow you to automatically collect the specific item if a monster you killed drops it.
• @aloottype: Allow you to automatically collect the specific type of item if a monster you killed drops it.

Public Channels

• #global: International Channel
• #main: Vietnamese channel

Show your items in Chat

To show an item in the chat, simply Shift + Click the item in your inventory while your cursor is focused in the chat.

I'm new to RO, what should I play for my first class?

For solo farming

• Hunter (DS - Double Strafe)
  • Archer's second class
  • Pros: High DPS, super long attack range, Good dodge and accuracy (agi & dex), elemental arrows helps in improving damage.
  • Cons: Consumes arrows very fast, low HP, fast SP consuming

• Knight (BB - Bowling Bash)
  • Swordman's second class
  • Pros: Good survivability, fast regeneration, multi-target attack skills, and high mobility with mount.
  • Cons: Melee

• Mage Classes (Both Sage and Wizard)
  • Pros: Long-ranged magic caster, high early game damage, free leveling.
  • Cons: Low survivability

• Priest (TU - Turn Undead)
  • Acolyte's second class
  • Pros: Fast solo leveling, free teleportation, can still function as a support.
  • Cons: Slow leveling when Acolyte.

• Rogue (Auto steal)
  • Thief's second class
  • Pros: Auto steal items from monster before they die, efficient farmer, point and click gamestyle.
  • Cons: Weak versus high def monsters, relies on attack speed to be efficient.

For players who want to form a team

• Supports
  • Priest (Full support)
  • Pros: Fully supportive class, various healing skills and supportive skills to strengthening your team, free teleportation.
  • Cons: Fully supportive class also mean no soloing play.

• Bard and Dancer
  • Pros: Have many supportive skills, can still soloing with DS.
  • Cons: Boring leveling, low survivability.

• Group DPS classes mobbers and tanks take significant money-to-gear before people want to group with you/before you become viable, generally. Not recommended as a first character.

What are the roles in parties?

• Mobber: Brings hordes of monsters into the stack
• Damage Dealer: Defeat monsters
• Support: Designates by extension Acolytes/Priests/High Priest with a full support build.

Heal

Blessing: Increases STR, DEX and INT of the target.

Increase Agility: Increases AGI and movement speed of target.

Assumptio: The persons who receive this will benefit from damage reduction for a limited amount of time.

or Kyrie Eleison: This effect will block damage or hits, whichever is reached first.

Magnificat: Increases the natural HP and natural SP recovery speed for all affected party members.

Resurrection: Returns a dead character to life with the indicated percentage of HP restored.

Warp Portal: Sometime they will warp party members from town to designated map whenever there's a death or needed

• Songs

A Poem of Bragi (Bard/Clown): Reduces casting time and cool down of all spells used in the area of effect.

Service for You (Dancer/Gypsy): Increase MaxSP of all players and reduces consumption of all skills in the area of effect.

Mr. Kim A Rich Man (Ensemble Skill - Optional): Increases gained exp from mobs killed within the area of effect.

• Tapper (Optional): Hits monster with AoE, because every time a mob is "tapped" by someone (up to 6) it gives additional exp. Examples:

Arrow Shower for Archers

Grimtooth for Assassins

Signum Crucis for Acolytes

How to find a party

• Use #main

Looking for a party: LFP > [ class / role ] [ level ] for [ map / monster ] (e.g: LFP > hunter 70 for mi gao or LFP > mobber 70 for magdun2)

Parties looking for members: LFM > [ class / role ] [ level range ] for [ map / monster ] (e.g: LFM > songs 70+ for magdun2)

• Use Adventurer's Agency (Ctrl + Z)

What do I need to do first?

• After creating a character and starting the game, the place you stand is Valiant Realm.
• When you finish talking to the Goddess and her servant, you will reach level 8/8, receive the following items, and be taken to the Beginner Island.
  • Novice Figure
  • Novice Guard
  • Novice Main Gauche
  • Novice Slipper
  • Tattered Novice Ninja Suit
• Talk to Marshal, he will introduce you to the NPCs on the island, give you 1 Butterfly Wing, 500 Novice Potions, and teleport to the map where you can fight with monsters.
• The location you go to is Prt_fild08, move down to the 6 o'clock direction of the map, that's Moc_fild01 and find Baby Wolf, EXP will come up faster.
• When you reach job level 10, return to Beginner Island by using Butterfly Wing.
• Find the NPC Job Master standing somewhere in the village and choose the job you want (keep in mind that you need to use all your skill points (Alt+S), otherwise the NPC will refuse to change your job)
• Once you've changed jobs, go to NPC Melody to do the quest to receive the beginner equipment set, this will help a lot in the leveling process so don't be lazy.
• Don't forget to visit the NPC Leveling Guide to receive exciting experience-granting quests.
• Tip: Click on the NPCs you meet and read their dialogue, sometimes it will be very useful.

Beginner Equipment Set

Equip	Effect	Set Bonus
Beginner Hat	Unrefinable MaxHP + 80, MaxSP + 10	[Beginner Set] ATK, MATK + 5% Reduce SP Consumption of skills by 10% Reduce Damage received from Water, Wind, Fire and Earth property attacks by 10% Immunity to Blind status
Beginner Uniform	Unrefinable MaxHP + 7%, Max SP + 25
Beginner Manteau	Unrefinable Reduces 10% damage received from Neutral property attack
Beginner Shoes	Unrefinable MaxHP + 5%, MaxSP + 5% SP Recovery Rate increases by 5%
Beginner Ring	Unrefinable Enables usage of Overcharge Lvl 5

Beginner Island NPCs

NPC	Information
Marshal	Beginner Guide He will introduce you to NPCs on the island.
Warper	Warp to cities and dungeons
Kafra	Open your storage and set your save point
Healer	Regen full of your HP & SP Repair and identify your equipments (Zeny Required, Free for Premium Account)
Tool Dealer	Sell supplies you need (especially Kafra card and Grape Juice)
Stylist	Choose hair, cloths and color you need (100.000 Zeny per service)
Wiki Captain	Useful server links Unique Server Features
Beginner Equipments	Beginner Equipment Set 300 Novice Potion 100 Novice Fly Wing 20 Novice Butterfly Wing
Leveling Guide	Repeat EXP Quest Cooldown every 3 hours
Weapon Dealer	Sells classes' basic weapons
Job Master	Job Changer Free for Job 1 Job 2 (150.000 Zeny and you need to reach Job lv40+)
Skill Master	Feel free to get your Platium Skill
Reset Meow	Allows to rebuild status points and character skills Status: 2 Premium Stone + 300.000 Zeny Skill: 2 Premium Stone + 300.000 Zeny Both: 3 Premium Stone + 500.000 Zeny (Free until level 70)
Mr Breeder	Rent PecoPeco, Cart, Falcon for free
Premium Cat	Infomartion about Premium Account Get 3 hours bonus EXP everyday when you're Premium Account
Card Cat'or	Helps you get a card after the 4000th kills of that monster Cost: 100.000 Zeny Remove the card from your equipment Cost: 1 Premium Stone + 2.000.000 Zeny per card
Meowgic Enhancer	Helps you enhance weapons for a small fee Details: Weapon Enchant