From around mid-2003 to early 2005, I wasted a lot of time playing a MMORPG (Massive Multiuser Online Role-Playing Game) called Ragnarok Online. I started on iRO Chaos, then shuffled over to iRO Sakray to become one of the first monks on iRO. Then a friend of mine invited me to a private server (which has recently fallen to cease-and-desist letters). After a while, I fled to that server to escape iRO drama. Chances of me going back to any form of RO is extremely slim. So, here were some of my characters.
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International RO For the longest time, Chaos was my home server. Osamu began life there
as a thief-to-be-dagger-assassin. He was harassed by idiots who assumed
that the "Osamu" name was a typoed version of "Osama",
died often, and various big bad monsters wanted his blood. So, here's a list
of screenshots illustrating his unfortunate career. And then there's Sakray, the test server. Over there I created Liao,
whose name is simply the Chinese version of Ryo. He was an acolyte training
up to be a tank monk. Yes, tank monk. When I made him, no one had ever
heard of such a build. It was all about Asura Strike and Combo monks.
Asura monks were able to do insane amounts of damage, but were crippled
for some time after using Asura Strike (stats being mostly on Int); Combo
monks relied on the combo skill tree and speed, thus their stats were
in Strength and Agility. My baby? I wanted him to take advantage of the
skill that raised defense to an insane level, so his stats were in Vitality.
Liao could survive the Apocalypse without a scratch. Here are some happy
fun Sakray screenshots. |
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Private RO After a while, a friend of mine invited me, my girlfriend, and several close friends to a private server. Much fun and love was had by all until the c&d came. By the end, my most-used character was level 93. I hadn't really planned to play as much as I did. I joined because
my girlfriend could no longer play iRO, so I followed her. Since she
had a thief-to-be-assassin, I made a healer acolyte for her. So, Qiushan
Liao was made. pRO!Osamu didn't get as much attention, unfortunately. He did get
a full set of specialized katar-assassin gear and managed to make it
to level 80-something, though. Here he is with
a headgear I couldn't get in iRO, taunting
a monster with ridiculously
high agi, and abusing his skillset. |
EuphRO Okay, so I lied about leaving RO forever. After a few months, I was introduced to another server. It sucked, but my friends were there, so it was okay. And then it blew up from glorious intarnetz drama. Apparently the founder was using the money for personal things like drugs. Liao was actually my least played character this time around, because
I had no one to support and healbombing got boring. But apparently
pets talked on this server, and Mille was, well, demanding. Very, very demanding. He also apparently thought Given the people I partied with, Osamu got a lot more work as a wizard. |