If you've read anything else on this blog, you know I play a full-support healer role. What honestly sold me on this server was the quality of life changes. I was still hunting monsters, still grinding a little, still doing quests and such.

I was still leveling faster than in iRO but not so fast that it just felt like everything was too fast. But then I realized that the EXP leveling system used the system from the Classic servers, which meant that EXP requirements to get to the next level sort of increase exponentially, instead of linearly like you find in other MMOs. When I started playing, I thought I was leveling far too quickly- I had barely completed the novice training area and was Job level 10 and I think Base level 15. The rates seemed a little high for me at first, at 15x for Base and Job EXP. The staff claimed to have made a lot of 'quality of life' updates, fixed many bugs that had been released on the official servers and left as is-something which I hadn't been aware of- and had fixed a lot of grammar and general Engrish. Last I heard, the updates were like, 2-3 years behind on iRO.) Leika also hybridized between Classic and Renewal server content and had made a lot of updates outside of just bringing in items, monsters, and maps from jRO and kRO. (The Japanese and Korean servers are vastly more up-to-date than other servers. It was, at the time, one of the most updated, having content from Episode 15.1 (Fantasmagoria), as opposed to many private servers which were still in Episode 13 or 14. And that's all well and good until you get things like this. It's really neat because your character basically has this little bar that has a store message you can put in that pops up over your character's head, and you can set up a 'vending' store to sell items or a 'buying' store to buy items from other players. Mind you, only certain classes can do this- the Merchant (and its higher classes) and the Super Novice. And unlike other MMOs, you can actually sell items to other players as a sort of shop market stall with a skill called Vend. So for those who aren't familiar with the game, Ragnarok Online has -many- classes to choose from. And speaking of towns, oh my god the population of vendors. I swear I tried to disable my chat window log because of the near constant 'HEY CHECK OUT THIS SITE FOR RO CURRENCY' spam messages in towns. The server is, first of all, overloaded with spam bots. (For those of you who may be scratching your head and asking 'what the hell is Renewal?'- Gravity, in an attempt to revamp the game, so to speak, and draw in more players, overhauled nearly everything, from drop rates to EXP mechanics, etc. I decided on Renewal mostly because it seemed like the system I wanted to play. I tried to play iRO ('international Ragnarok Online') again, after many years of having not played it. I poked around my games lists and then I realized what I wanted to play: Ragnarok Online. Although I did look into it not terribly long ago and it still looked just as bland as when I first played it. God help me, I will never play Fiesta again. I wanted to play something that I enjoyed and something that I hadn't played in a long while. Do I try old ones or ones that no one really plays or has heard of? Do I try out the pay to play ones? I've also been playing a lot of games that aren't MMOs do those count?Īnd then I started feeling nostalgic. But it's hard to keep reviewing MMOs in the way I had been.

I've been thinking about the blog and how much I love it. And I mean it, this time! Sort of? Kind of.

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