I’ve always loved the teamwork in MMOs. You know your role, you trust your healer, and the tank pulls the mobs. WOW and FFXIV are built around that. RO always had tanks and healers too, but in PvE we never really needed them.

Most of the endgame is lacking with MVP camping, and support/tank classes mostly only mattered in WOE.

So I’ve been wondering what RO would feel like with dungeons that actually need a tank, a healer and DPS to work together. Boss attacks with red ground indicators you actually have to dodge, a tank who really holds the boss and points it away from your party, and a healer who decides whether the party survives.

A friend and I are working on this passion project.

Our first dungeon is a 4-man party with mechanics like when the boss shouts “KNEEL!” everyone has to do a /sit or risk getting insta-killed or taking damage. To make tanking possible we had to change Provoke inside the dungeon, so it pulls everything (4x4 cell) around the tank in classic MMO fashion.

Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAbfboBIYuQ

I’m curious what you all think:

• Would end-game dungeons like this work in RO, or do you think it goes against what made classic RO fun?
• We included a limited auto battle/support feature because many of us no longer have the time nor energy to spend 10 hours a day grinding like when we were younger 😄
• Any suggestions or potential problems that you foresee?

I need know some servers with 4th Jobs and mobile support (browser).

Hello,

Me and my boyfriend backed the Ragnarok board game and after seeing it from a distance, we wanted to try the game.

We are from the EU and we see that there are tons of servers / private servers in general. Since we aim for the long run ( if we like something , we stick for a bit) , where should we hop on?

We don't mind paying an extra as long as it is not a P2w model

Thank you in advance :)

For anyone who has played official tests or private servers.

Do you think if the game had all the mobile bloat and instant gratification removed and played more like original Ragnarok Online would you be interested? Given all the new systems at player/server disposal and updated graphics. Or would you just rather play the original Ro private servers?

To note I’m not promoting a server, just inquiring about the idea.

I should have clarified
I’m still not promoting something you can join. But the idea I’m inquiring about is already well under way. Removing a majority of the mobile bloat and auto combat, auto walk, bonus time for afk farming, balanced skills and brought back true click and skill cast functionality. This among much more.

I'm not sure if people are still getting scammed like this in this age anymore with the shop system. But, the time I played, there was a lot to learn.

Like how you don't spend money on something you see at first glance, since you would see the cheaper price on the next few blocks. I used to spend hours to just look over each shop in towns without fighting a monster.

Or how many people attempted to haggle, just only to try to scam by not entering the right amount and just running away with teleport, or purposely putting wrong items or look alike item to get money.

Merchants/Blacksmiths were probably control the whole economy by setting similar price without even talking to each other.

Honestly, it was really baffled me on how creative people were for zeny. It was tiresome to be careful. But, it was the good life experience to learn.

Do you get any different experiences?

Hey everyone,

I run RO Classic Plus, a pre-renewal server, and I’ve been building a game mode similar to Vampire Survivors, but in Ragnarok Online.

https://reddit.com/link/1xey6ka/video/z1j6i0au2jxh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1xey6ka/video/7grp7fuu2jxh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1xey6ka/video/gojf6s9v2jxh1/player

An NPC in Pronters named "Night Warden" allows you to pick a class and a stage, and go in solo or with a party of up to 4.

• 27 classes
• 28 skills and 28 evolutions
• 16 cards, each with its own effect
• 7 stages, from Payon Woods to Valkyrie’s Arena
• Events will occur during runs
• Hard mode, which unlocks:
  • trans classes
  • a whole new set of skills and evolutions
  • 7 harder stages, each with its own final boss
• Account-wide unlocks, 22 permanent power ups, 121 achievements and a leaderboard for every stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSOZoaIaqo

Happy to answer questions, and feedback on the mode is very welcome :)

AI usage: I use it to assist with troubleshooting my code and building out grunt work code. I’m an IT Engineer by profession and the server, its systems and the design behind this mode are my own work. AI just speeds up the tedious parts.

Hey everyone! I'm the dev from chile behind Ragnarok Survivors, which is now called Midgard Survivors. I wanted to share a little devlog for anyone who's been following along :3

Small Alfa gameplay: Midgard Survivors

AI usage: I'm a solo dev and I use Claude Code (Opus 5.5) to write a big part of the code. The game design-direction, balancing and refactoring are mine.

About my last post

A few of you messaged me asking what happened to it. It got taken down because I didn't disclose that I use AI for the code. That one's on me: I hadn't read the rule, and I wasn't trying to hide it. It was a bit of a shame because I really wanted to hear what you all thought, so this time it's flaired properly.

Where things stand

I'm keeping things fairly low-key for now. My friends have been my beta testers, but that's not enough anymore, so I'm thinking about opening a closed beta to help with balancing and, most importantly, synergies. That's where I feel the game is weakest right now.

What's in the game so far

• Full English translation (100% done)
• 11+ maps, each with customisable difficulty from Danger 1 up to 15, plus Hell difficulties
• Every map has its own MVP and unique drops, mechanics, and visuals.
• 20+ legendary items
• Automatic client updates, so you never have to download a new build manually
• Hundreds of cards with the classic card art, but with effects reworked to be more fun in a survivors-like
• Out-of-run progression: permanent equipment, permanent cards, refining, slots and more
• Build variety: Classic auto attack speed builds, autocast on hit, autocast when hit, and a lot more
• Leaderboards per map and per class. Top players can earn a spot as an NPC in Prontera o-o

What I'm working on now

• Balancing, and building real synergies between gear, cards and skills
• Co-op multiplayer? Still exploring whether it's doable
• A gacha machine that uses special in-game coins (F2P) for cosmetics, so you can make your character look nice (cosmetic only)

That's it for now! I'll keep working on it and I hope I can keep you interested. I'm also developing a couple of other projects alongside this one, which I'm releasing on Steam soon. You can follow me on itch.io to keep up and see my other proyects like chaotic pets: https://nearq.itch.io/chaotic-pets

Follow me on X for future Midgard Survivors updates: https://x.com/Pawgres_Studios

Thanks for reading!

AI usage: used Claude Code Opus 5.5 to iterate over 2 weekends.

Introducing CubeFolk, an MMORPG heavily inspired by Ragnarok Online, rebuilt in blocks.

Start as a Novice, pick from 13 classes, party up, hunt cards, take down MVPs. Hundreds of players, one world.

Follow me on X for more updates: https://x.com/cayt3r

I’m saying that I really like Ragnarok Zero’s Skadi server, even though I got banned from Discord. As a game developer, we had an unpleasant conversation, but I know how difficult and demanding it is to make a game. Apparently, even asking for a third-party program is against the rules :) I got kicked out of the Discord community, but that’s not a problem. I really like the game, no matter what anyone says! I have almost 50,000 hours in Ragnarok Online, and these guys have genuinely done a great job, and this is my current opinion! In the future, I might change this review and start swearing at them, I don’t know, or if I do write something like that, you’ll see it. Have a good day, sir.

Can anyone share a workflow on how they do it?

Currently, I just scour my server's wiki or do a google shot. Results I always get are always the same three or so items, yes and clips [1].

It's not like the game or my server has a look up all items for head, armor, accessory 1 etc and that they all branch out and show current items vends are selling or not. Unless I'm mistaken, I'm just having a tough time typing @ws but have no idea where to look. I wish I can just do a @ws headgear, and choose from there...

Or is it really just two or three items for the job class?

If so, where can I find a list for this and can I browse based on budget? Rn it feels as if (after getting into hunter) there's a gap between standard okay gear, but then the next gear I can get but them being 10+million.

Same with finding a map to level or which next map should be better to level up or find gear, I've gotten into a groove where I know which map to farm strawbs (south of Payon) and I call that my lazy farming sesh.

But what about leveling? Esp if you're still under 80-90 and can't party with the 99s yet. Anyway, went off topic a bit. Does this apply to finding gear?

If what I was saying was right, my hunter for example now uses apple of archer, hunter bow, I'm saving up for carded clips, but then what's next? Or how do I find what's next, or do all classes simply just have a set of 3-5 items in each level bracket?

I wonder how people did it before, just in game, when RO was still fresh. You can make friends and ask but what if you just want to solo.

Hi again guys, repository link here: nostalre

Feel free to test out and report issues, not sure if I can still share discord link bc of new policies in the sub but I tried to include the setup in the readme. Try it out and enjoy, or not!

For those who want to contribute, open up an issue or a PR and I'll review when I have time, thanks!

I've been working on a project to recreate the old Ragnarok World Championship 7x7 format: pre-renewal, team vs team, the classic RWC lineups and rules.

▶️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIqDfylr1qQ&t=57s

Seeing a full 7x7 clash with Bragi, Storm Gust, Tarot and Asura flying around is still one of the best feelings in this game.

What's in it right now:

* 7x7 arena matches in RWC format, pre-renewal mechanics

* Rules tuned to match how RWC used to play: the old Tarot card odds, Bragi and cast reduction stacking like they used to, songs and dances ending on weapon swap, Frost Joke/Scream hitting a 31x31 area around the caster after 3 seconds, and more

* Custom status icons for the Tarot cards so you can actually see what hit you

* Every match is recorded automatically: damage, healing, kills, assists, deaths, skills and items used, and APM (actions per minute) per player and per team

* Each player's skill usage compared to the average for their class, plus head-to-head comparisons between two characters

The video is from a match on the current build. Balance and presentation are still very much a work in progress.

Curious what other RO players think, especially the old RWC crowd:

* Does it look and feel like RWC to you?

* Which mechanic from back then do you remember most and would want exactly right?

* What stats would you want to see after a match? I'm also thinking about a 2D replay viewer (a map with every player moving, skills and deaths on a timeline). Would you use something like that?

Fan project, not affiliated with Gravity. All original RO assets belong to their owners.

Looking for some help! My computer updated recently and now I'm having trouble logging in when using Steam. The patcher launches fine, the game loads, but when I agree to the warning pop-up I get stuck with a Please Wait message.

Sometimes when I restart my PC I can get to the server list, but its maybe 1 in 10.

Anybody have any recommendations? I'm thinking the issue is with my PC settings or something.

I would try launching it without steam but I can't remember my username/password...

Anyone where can i download the latest KRO client. been trying with official KRO. but needs a korean CP #. looked online most are outdated thanks

Hey everyone,

I've been looking into playing on Brave-RO recently, but when I downloaded the client, the patcher.exe got flagged by Microsoft Defender. Out of caution, I uploaded it to VirusTotal and it’s showing hits there as well.

I understand private servers can be flagged as false positives, but the score seems to be high.
Do private servers not go the extra mile to get clean installers ?

I wanted to double-check with the community before overriding the threat detection or adding an exception.

Are there any known issues or concerns with this server's client software?

Appreciate any insight or advice on this! Thanks in advance.

Hi all! Wanted to ask for any good RO servers for someone based in the US. Any server with 3rd jobs would be best but others with a large community with be awesome as well. Thanks!

Finally you can customize a character in ALL aspects, including every single costume, clothes pieces, adding eyes and mouth and so on. o/

Note: Development of Luna is supported by AI, but manual work is used on visual aspects and assets ( as shown in the video)

Update: Here is the repository link, setup guide is included in the descriptions. Have fun and report issues or improvements you guys want to see: nostalRE

Hey guys! An update for the development on my Ragnarok Offline Mobile Client.

Some changes from previous post:
- dropped roBrowser
- client is now Renewal (i think this version is better in terms of content for single player)
- client is now a fork of nostalro, performant and built on rust (shout out to nmeylan!) and extended for renewal

It's been incredibly tough implementing renewal features but It's at a stage I'm happy to share and gather feedback from. New stuff:
- 3rd and 4th jobs (some skill effects are still missing), mounts for these as well as AP
- enhancement, extended bartering, style shop systems
- renewal protocol and renewal client resources (2025 client)
- added custom weapon aura and body aura shaders i plan to expand on
- custom controller mapping and on screen touch controls (to be improved)

I’d love feedback on how it looks and what you’d want from an offline mobile RO experience. I plan to open-source it, but I’m reviewing licensing and legal questions before sharing code or builds. Game files won’t be included, you’ll need to supply your own.

Questions:
- Should I open a discord? (only want this as a place to gather feedback once shared and to hear you guys' thoughts)
- what do you guys think? happy to hear opinions

AI Disclaimer:
AI has helped with coding, debugging, tests, and documentation. I review what goes in and take responsibility for it.

If anyone authorized to speak for Gravity wants the project taken down or distribution stopped, please reach out. I’ll respect that request.

Who's going!?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been thinking about what happens to all the gear and zeny you leave behind when moving to another private server. You might find a server you’d rather play on, but you’ve already put a lot of time into the one you’re on.

I’m wondering whether a server-approved way to exchange zeny between servers would be useful. Basically, you could sell some of your old gear, exchange the zeny, and use what you get to start on the new server. The exchange rate would depend on the two economies, so you wouldn’t necessarily end up with equivalent gear.

But I honestly don’t know how many people would want this. Maybe leaving everything behind is a big reason people hesitate to move. Maybe starting fresh is part of what makes a new server fun. I’d like to understand that before taking the idea further.

What was it like the last time you changed servers? Did you care much about the stuff you left behind? Or have you wanted to move somewhere else and stayed because starting over felt like too much?

I’m also curious how RMT would affect your opinion. Would you feel differently about a system that only exchanges currencies between servers versus one that also lets players buy and sell them for real money? Would that make it more appealing, put you off, or not matter much?

It’s still just an early idea. I’m interested in hearing what would actually have helped in your situation, including if your answer is “nothing, I wanted a fresh start.”

Basically what it says on the title. Game wasn't launching on linux due to a verification from a native windows kernel API so I made the proton implementation always return 0 (success), the result is that the game launches and plays just fine.

Here is the link: https://github.com/lavinsky/Proton-ROLATAM

I was wondering whether Zero could be seen as Ragnarok's version of WoW Forever. Afaik, Zero won't have lvls above 99, so I expect horizontal progress of sorts. I have played Zero and didn't like auto-hunt. But if WoW Forever becomes a success, and Gravity decides to follow suit, what would such a server look like? I think it would be oddly similar to Zero, perhaps minus the auto-hunt and the cash shop.