Updates Changelog

This is a work in progress of several changes that came with (very) old patches that marked a major change in RO game play. For an idea of how long iRO took to get updates, see iRO Updates.
== Alpha ==
Ragnarok Online (English version) began as a free 100~160 MB download with scattered patches rather than scheduled maintenances. 
There were only five first classes, although the sprites for Magician were in the game client. The classes were: Swordman, Thief, Archer, Merchant, and Acolyte. Swordmen were the best at MVPing due to their high HP and ability to equip Plate Mail, the strongest armor, while Acolytes were the worst character as skills were not yet implemented. Users began as a Novice with a cotton shirt and knife in north Prontera.
Hair was animated while performing actions (such as attacking), and was "built into" the sprite (each class and gender had set hair an a set hair colour). Some sprites also had headgears: thieves wore modified goggles, the female archer wore a hairband, the female merchant wore something similar to a hairband, the male merchant wore a bandana, and acolytes wore berettas.
Players were only able to gain base levels. The original experience requirements also had more linear growth curves, so although more experience points were needed at lower levels, much less was needed overall to reach 99. The job level on the status window stayed at '0'.
Job change requirements
Class 	Level	Zeny	Items
Swordman	10 	200 	10 Claw of Wolves, Letter of Residency
Thief 	6 	400 	None
Archer 	8 	None	20 Feathers of Bird
Merchant	5 	600 	Resident Certificate, Business Certificate
Acolyte 	5 	None	None
Growing list of original Alpha experience requirements
Current Level	EXP to next Level	Current EXP to next Level
1 	? 	9
2 	1 345 	16
15 or 25 	6 200? 	830 or 2 950
26 	7 125 	3 426
39 	33 000 	30 543
48 	48 000 	75 973
51 	63 000 	128 692
54 	120 000 	178 184
Monsters
Current ID	Alpha Name (*Not ingame but in client)	Changes
1001 	Scorpion 	
1002 	Poring 	
1003 	- 	
1004 	Hornet* 	
1005 	Farmiliar 	Beta 2?: Familiar
1006 	- 	
1007 	Fabre 	
1009 	Condor 	
1010 	Wilow 	Beta 1: Willow
1011 	Chocho 	Beta 1: Chonchon
1012 	Roda Frog 	
1013 	Wolf 	
1014 	Spore 	
1016 	Skel Archer 	Beta ?: Archer Skeleton
1018 	Creamy 	(Can't find in client?)
1019 	Kocot 	Alpha, later: Pecopeco; Beta: Peco Peco
1020 	Mandragora 	Disappeared form game early Beta
1022 	Were Wolf* 	Beta ?: Werewolf
1024 	Wormtail 	(Agressive) (Possibly Worm tail earlier)
1025 	Boa 	Beta 1: Snake, Snake also in client
1026 	Munak 	
1027 	Raptice* 	Never used
1028 	Skel Soldier 	Beta 1: Soldier Skel, Beta ?: Soldier Skeleton
1029 	Isis 	
1030 	Anacondaq 	
1031 	Poporing 	
1032 	Vorit 	(May have originally been Virot) Beta ?: Verit
1033 	Elder Wilow 	Beta 1: Elder Willow
1035 	Hunter Fly* 	
1037 	Side Winder* 	
1038 	Osiris* 	(Unless at the end of Alpha)
1039 	Baphomet 	(with Hunter Fly mob)
1041 	Mummy 	
1042 	Steel Chocho 	Beta 1: Steel Chonchon
1043 	Seahores* 	(Never used and still sits in the client, Marc sprite)
1044 	Obeaune* 	
1046 	Doppelganger 	(different sprite, also couldn't find its own, may have been exact Swordman)
Skills: None. Job level always remained at 0.
Classes: First class (no Magician)
Hair: Hair style and colour fixed to job sprite. Hair was animated while performing actions. May have later been able to change hair type (not colour) on character creation towards very end, otherwise that was Beta 1.
Headgear: Headgear was fixed to job sprite. 
*Alpha-only
**Experience needed to next level displayed in status window (removed in Beta 1)
**Many NPCs not functional (serve no purpose at all)
**Maps: Prontera (North, South, West, East) Fields, Prontera Castle, North Prontera, South Prontera, Prontera Dungeon, Underground Waterway, Moroc Village, Moroc Castle, Moroc (North, South, East, North-East) Fields, Archer's Village, Moroc Jungle, Pyramid
:Potions, all with weight of 5:
::Red Potion, 30 zeny from NPC
::Scarlet Potion, 90 zeny from NPC
::Yellow Potion, 250 zeny from NPC
::White Potion, 500 zeny from NPC
::Blue Potion, 1000 zeny from NPC
::Green Potion, ??
*Exploits
:Item duping
:Zeny hack
*Announcements
:Beta 1 delayed until December 8, 2002 (Official releaes date: December 1, 2002)
:Beta 1 delayed (official release date: December 8, 2002)
*Resources for the time
:http://ro-world.com
:http://mir.e-chrono.net/
:http://ro.pak0.com
:ixga - had a GM posting frequently
:eroite (Every Ragnarok Online ITem Explained)
==Open Beta 1 (December 2001)==
Beta, at some point cost $5 per month before it was opened again.
Skills: Introduced, job levels now possible and thus first class job change quests were changed. Many skills not fully functioning. Novices had to reach job 9 to change.
:Job 3->4: 1 000 exp (now: 58 first / 284 second)
:Job 9->10: 3 600 exp (now: 336 first / 2 540 second)?
:Job 18->19: also 3 600 exp?
:Job 19->20: 4 150 exp (now: 3040 first)
:Job 36->37: 42 000 exp (now: 78 160 first / 358 435 second)
Classes: First classes. Mage class added. 
Hair: Beta 1 brought the ability to change one's hair upon character select (if not during late Alpha) although hair types had set colours.
Headgear: Helm had no sprite, Tiara was an MVP award from Mistress. Crown, Bunny Band, etc. 
Reset Status: Complete character & item wipe.
Cost: Free.
Job Change: First update.
Job change requirements
Class 	Level	Location 	Requirements
Swordman	Job 9	Izlude building 	Speak to an NPC
Thief 	Job 9	Pyramid, room below level 1	Speak to an NPC
Archer 	Job 9	Archer Village 	Speak to an NPC
Merchant	Job 9	Alberta Building 	Speak to an NPC in Morroc, then return. Pay 3000z (optionally 1500z split amongst two payments)
Acolyte 	Job 9	Prontera Church 	Speak to the NPC in the top right corner of the Yo-Yo map (who saved the player's save position) and then return
Magician	Job 9	Geffen building 	Speak to an NPC
*Other
:No guilds (no Emperium either?), Elu/Ori stones in game but upgrading not possible, cards in game but effects unknown and unable to compound.
:Players party would be shown beside their name (despite being "guildless").
:Status ailments not implemented.
:External programs were not looked down upon (i.e. exp viewers) until the ghost bug, which was blamed on Arsenic's ArseKit (Previously "hacks" had been linked to on all major forums, following this they were removed; mid 2002)
:Removal of Prontera Castle caves (where Doppelganger, Elder Willows, etc spawned)
:Loki a few months into 2002
:Flee dropping when more than 2 monsters are attacking a player, rather than infinite dodge
:Soft def reworked
:Training Grounds introduced at some point. Would enter the castle, then talk to the man behind the desk to begin. There were also three portals outside that led to Moroc, Payon, Prontera.
:Still no elements are weak to poison, they either take less damage from it or it does not affect them
:Archer Skeleton hit nerf and related changes not implemented.
*Skills
:Teleport was 10 skill levels, and Warp Portal was not usable until level 8. Pneuma was not implemented.
:Improve Concentration did nothing.
:Double Strafe did not take arrows and did not require equipped bow.
:Pneuma disabled (could still put points into it).
:Aqua Benedicta disabled (could still put points into it).
*Exploits & Programs
:Pre-February 2002
::Speed hack (fixed quickly)
::Autopot program
::Arsenic's program (bypass filters, change name to anything while talking)
::ArseKit (no disconnect, etc)
::Artfort's bot and ragboost.exe, both sent the user's username and password to a character in game which resulted in many people losing their accounts
:Post-Loki
::Arsenic's equip hack (allowed for equipping items in any equip spot)
::Main duping incident where one could deal another user an item and then rollback their character
::Roll backs on log off, allowing for more duping, which was fixed without first kicking everyone off the servers
*Resources
:http://www3.xdsl.ne.jp/~selus/Ragnarok/news
*Misc
:ro-world shut down, February 2002
==First Beta 2 (July 16, 2002)==
This version was not open for very long as it was announced August 2nd, 2002 that iRO would be shut down for 3 months. When servers re-opened, the Closed Beta 2 period would commence. This was due to the servers having so many problems since July 16th.
Classes: 2-1 classes.
Hair: -
Headgear: - 
Reset Status: Characters were kept through this transition. Any unequipped items were lost, and the amount of zeny limited by character level (level*10k ?). No announcement was made regarding equipped items staying through the transition until after the servers went down. Stats and skills were reset (all stats were taken to "1", thus bypassing the character creation minimum stat point allocation).
Cost: Free.
*Misc
:Acolytes warping people to GH (not accessible, map only had a few Mysts; could warp there with packet editting)
:Infamous Dancer screenshot surfaced in July 2002, most likely fake (SP and HP bars and points did not add up, etc).
:July 24 - missing characters began
:Alignment system (as explained in other Beta 2 updates, i.e. for jRO). The bottom 5% players would have their names displayed in red. You could only use one good and one bad point per day. You could also only give the same person a point per month (month? definitely not the next day).
:The amount of exp per level was adjusted and raised, as were existing characters:
::Level 43 -> 34
::Level 99 -> mid 60ish 
:MVPs buffed and no longer respawn instantly. Previously had 5000-10000 max HP.
*Announcements
:Hello this is Ragnarok Online Operation Team.
:We inform you that the re-opening of international server will
:bring away the Beta 2 at the same time.
:Meanwhile the pre-arranged opening time has changed
:from July 9 into July 16,Tuesday 10:00(Korean Standard Time)
:especially concerning the New Client Downloading Period of players
:and other conditions.
:Thank you.
:Ragnarok Online Operation Team,
:Gravity Corp.
:Late July:
:Guys How are you all today?
:Although at least I have to excuse about the unreasonable
:Server shutdown,Please let me just say 'My Apologies'.
:Furthermore I heard many rumors around,
:but as long as we didn't state them,all of them are nothing but scum bags,worthless to believe.
:Simple server was out of control on last Sunday and
:we didn't have much time to pay attention due to the Korean Commercial then.
:And now apart from your all comdemnation
:Gravity has been shunned a lot due to the korean Commercial trial failed yesterday.
:So spare us gathering another breath for a moment and encourage us to recover our energy.
:we planned to open the international server on this afternoon (approximately),
:no more worries no more censures for now.
:Personally I apologise that i count not take a look on the BBS recently.
:I was busy enough to do my job and another things,
:i moved the department again to the Development Team from the Operation Team.
:So last weekand this week will be the most important term for me.
:Theis might be the hopeful news to you, we are looking for 3 SubGMs to perform English Game Masters
:instead of me,
:If you know anyone who is Korean living in Korea and well-spoken in English,just let me know via
:english@gravity.co.kr
:Unfortunately we can't afford to hire Non-koreans at this moment
:(Because SubGMs won't work for me but work for the Korean Operation Team,they are required to speak
Korean Very Fluently.)
:I inoform this information will be applicable for Koreans.
:July 29, prior to announcing RO would instead be down for 3 months
:Hello this is Ragnarok Online Operation Team.
:First off we apologise that we cannot promise a time for the Server Opening.
:But it doesn't mean we are going to give up the International server and it doesn't mean it will take as much time as one week or two.
:At the same time we are dealing with the difficulty to open the International Server, unexpected bad situations have occurred.
:Please understand we will take as much time as we need.
:Once again, the International server will be closed until the Further Notice.
:Ragnarok Online Operation Team,
:Gravity Corp.
October 17 (2002)
Hi,This is Christy Kay,IRO Game Master.
I guess this might be the first time I've ever mentioned on
the French Fansite.
It is honoured for me to get a chance to face all IRO fans,
also I am appreciate for Luno the administrator to allow me to
talk on his site.
On behalf of Gravity,
I want to say thank-you to all of you that you're always showing great interest in Ragnarok even though it has been down for months.
To be honest,if IRO is back on the road,
YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR OLD CHARACTERS EVER AGAIN.
We're planning to set out anew IRO,of course it will be better than used to be(it should be).
Nothing except this,has been settled down yet,
it is a pity that I can't release more news about IRO issue.
By the way,Thai RO is running well.
Asiasoftnet and Gravity shut down the closed beta on 15th already.
Now it is under preparation for the open beta.
I am going to Thailand with my associate Rex and the engineer on Monday next week.I am not sure how many weeks I will stay but it is for supporting Asiasoftnet and Thai players(I will be there like 12 weeks or less).
Hopefully we bring a great version of Ragnarok in Thailand,
so that many thai players will join us sooner or later.
People in Asiasoftnet are very kind,nice and ardent to settle Thai RO.Thai GMs are fine,polite and humorous.
I enjoy working with all of them and will do.
=) I think that's all for today.
See you in Thailand.
Christy Kay,
International Ragnarok Game Master &
Senior of Foreign Tech Support Team,
Gravity Corp.
:November 22?
:Hello this is IRO GM Team.
:This is one more information of the way to pay the maintenance fee.
:1.Debit card and other cards(even though Visa or Master printed on them) are not considerable to register.
:2.One Credit Card can not be used for Multiple accounts no matter what the reason is.
:We chose the Credit Card Payment system to check your real identification,
:to protect innocent players from immature ones having impure thoughts and
:to gather genuine personal information, NOT only for the maintenance fee.
:Please be fully aware of this information.
:We do not response to the inqury asking articles above.
:Thank you for the cooperation.
:IRO GM Team,
:Gravity Corp.
*Misc...
:Person who guessed Peter Kang's password and logged onto Christy's GM char obtained all of the user name/passwords of every iRO account
==Closed Beta (Beta 2 re-opened) Projected date: December 2 to February 2==
On November 26, 2002 they began taking applicants for Closed Beta. There were 30 000 spots.
Reset Status: All IDs deleted. Complete wipe.
Cost: $10 for 2 months.
November 20, 2002
Hello this is IRO GM Team.
Followings are the neccessary that volunteers should fully be fully aware for the account application.
Please read carefully and if you have any request or question,inquire at iro-gm@gravity.co.kr via email.
(Make sure that GM Team won"t response to incorrect email which doesn"t need to get replied.)
And all time lines indicates Korean Standard Time.
You can refer the time info up on this page for Korean Time zone.
1.Opening Date : 11:30 am,Dec 2 2002
2.Period : Dec 2 ~ Feb 2,2003 (for 2 months)
 -Precise Ending time will be arranged and
 announced later.
 -Every Possible future plan after the closed
 Beta will be announced later as well.
3.Numbers of recruitment : 30,000
4.Closed Beta Testers Qualification
 -Global Fans except some of Asian Countries
 (i.e-Korea,Hong-Kong,Taiwan,Japan,Thailand,China,
 Indonesia,Malaysia and Singapore)
 -Various RO versions have been launched and running
 or will be launched in no time in those countries.
 If you want to join them,please inquire at
 the pertinent business partners of our own later.
 -Make sure all of IPs from these regions will be
 blocked from the registration page and the game
 server as well.
5.Account Applications : 11:30 am
 Nov 26,on this website
 -You can register on the `Account"Section
 on this official site or on the `Gravity"s
 Official site from the appointed time.
 -GM doesn"t receive your aplications by email.
 -Applications will be continued until the numbers
 of recruitment satisfied.
 -After that, it will be shut down automatically
 any time,any day.
6.Client Download Page open : Nov 26
 -Make sure you need the renewed client to connect the
 right server.
7.Customer Service open : from 20 Nov
 -Email Support has been open since Nov 20.
 -Webboard will be open on Nov 26.
8.Flat Fee : 10 USD for 1 account(for 2 months)
 -This is for minimum charge to maintain
 IRO Closed Beta,to provide you better
 environment.
9.Payment method : Only Credit Card
 (VISA, MASTER, JCB, AMEX) allowed
 -1 Credit Card can"t be used for
 Multiple accounts.
10.Everything belong to the previous service,open eta 
 will be deleted.
 But we will try to carry on personal/account
 information of this closed beta to the further 
 service.
Please be aware of this notice and deal with less
misunderstanding.
Thank you for the cooperation,see you in IRO later.
IRO GM Team,
Gravity Corp.
Hello this is the international RO game master team.
First of all,we appreciate all of our global fans to wait for us with patience during last 3 months and are
glad to announce that IRO will be back again,in the form of Closed Beta.
Before we inform the detailed information needed for volunteering for the IRO closed beta,
there are some issues that we hope you will understand.
First we decided to charge testers the minimum game maintenance fee including server maintenance at IDC,internet backbone lines and other official requirements.
Secondly every information and game data belong to the last open beta,such as accounts,personal information and characters will be totally wiped out this time and
it means volunteers must newly apply onto the closed beta.
Please understand that we do this to provide desirable renewed environment to our global fans,to stablize game servers and to identify/confirm/manage our future customers efficiently.
Meanwhile we"re deeply sprry for a long delay and poor service quality during the past open beta.
From now on,we will try to manage IRO in a better way than before.
Thank you for the cooperation.
IRO GM Team,
Gravity Corp.
Hello this is IRO GM Team.
Precisly we are looking for SubGMs who will support the chief GM to manage IRO,
but unfortunately we have no plan to hire in abroad `for now".
We need someone living in Korea,who speaks fabulous Korean as well as English
for SubGMs right now because we stay in Korea.
But of course we have a plan to expand our branch in the states in near future,
it means we will need native speakers for IRO GM Team to operate Games
more closely to our customers.
If there is someone who want to volunteer for GM Team in abroad,
please check our official webboard frequently.
When we settle down every policy related to the law of overseas labor and the USA
Branch, we will announce our plan at that moment.
Thank you for the cooperation.
IRO GM Team,
Gravity Corp. 
Hello this is IRO GM Team.
We"ve been offering the Original Fanart Book 1st edition to some of fansites in abroad.
Follwings are detailed information of fanart book.
1.Book is written in Korean,196 paged in A4 size.
2,Minimum order is 30 books at one time.
3.The price is 30USD for one book.
If you want to purchase as well,
please inquire at iro-gm@gravity.co.kr for more information such as shipping issue.
Thank you.
IRO GM Team,
Gravity Corp.
*The fan book led to the huge scam by Gravity where many people from iRO paid for it yet the book was never released.
*Fabre bug on first day (training grounds and thief quest fabres reset base exp to 0 (if any had been gained) and gave a ton of job experience)
*RO was constantly down, for days at a time in December
*In January Christy announced that registration for Closed Beta would re-open for people who missed it on January 6th. She also warned players that she would start banning them for illegal behaviour. Introduced 3 day bans for mob training. Other RO versions already had these systems.
==Second Period of Closed Beta (February 21, 2002 - March 28, 2003) ==
This Beta phase was only going to last a month, and again cost $10 for the phase.
*v2002.2.21 beta
*Not re-registering would result in losing characters from Closed Beta
*A few new monsters (15-20), two new maps (Glast Heim finally accessible)
*Marc card not working
*Ended March 28, 2003
March 11, 2003
Hello this is iRO GM Team.
Here is another in-game event.
We will implement 2 kinds of different PvP system on 2 towns, Alberta and Lutie.
For more information,please read followings carefully.
Event Period : March 13,17:00 ~ March 17, 17:00(GMT+9)
Event articles
*Alberta turns into a normal mode PvP map which you don't lose items or EXP when you die.
*Lutie turns into a hard mode PvP map which you could lose items or EXP when you die.
*Every NPC in town will stay as they used to do.
So people who wish to become merchants will be able to visit Merchant Guild.
*GM will randomly appear in event place with monsters to encourage users.
Hopefully every testers will enjoy this PvP event.
Thank you.
iRO GM Team,
Gravity Corp.
== Open Beta 2 ==
*April 28, 2003? 
*Went back to closed a month or two later, $12/month
*After closed, stat reset that cost a few hundred thousand zeny in August
*RWC: Cost 10 million zeny to register a team of 9 with two substitutes (11 players overall), given special accounts on Loki server to find against other players
**All characters had same weapons
**1 Priest Lvl 85, 1 Wiz Lvl 85, 1-2 Knights Lvl 90,1-2 hunters Lvl 85,1-2 BS Lvl 90 and 1-2 Sins Lvl 90
== Comodo Changes ==
*Notes
:Balance patch information can be found here: http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/News/Notice/NoticeView.asp?noticeSeqNo=3&Page=7&Condition=&KeyWord=&mNum=4
:Spiky band + other armor nerfed? (i.e. Assassins can't wear Silk Robes)
*Content
:Oridicon and Elunium drop frequencies increased (Oridicon dropping from 800k zeny to 50k as a result very quickly on Chaos/Loki)
:Armor would drop at a much lower rate from monsters
:MVPs became harder
:Minorous monster introduced (as Demon race, not Brute), everything relative to that
:Many cards altered; temporary run-through:
::All racial cards previously -50%, now -30%
::Raydric card previously -15% from Neutral, now -20%
::Status-inflicting cards previously 1% chance, now 5% chance
::Element-reduction garments previously -50% from Element, now -30%
::Damage inducing cards that were previously +25% to monster now only +20% or +15% if size card (i.e. Skel Worker card was +25% to medium, now changed to +15% to medium)
::Some MVP cards not implemented adjusted: Pharaoh, Maya
::Kobold card becomes CRIT +4%, STR +1 from CRIT +5%
*Mechanics
:Failing to upgrade an armor or weapon would result in losing that item permanently, rather than having the upgrades reset to "0"
:Safe cap on upgrading Armor lowered from 5 to 4
:See Balance patch for player skills changed, and all quest skills now introduced (i.e. Holy Light)
:Movement-increasing properties no longer stack, except for Pecos. i.e. Moonlight Flower card now acts as Increase Agility and will not stack with said skill
:CRIT Shield introduced
:Awaiting upgrade bug fix (player was informed when their equipment broke before it did, so one could use a bot to log out of RO before the equipment was broken)
==Turtle Island Changes (December 16, 2003)==
*Notes
:For Monster skill changes, see: http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/News/Notice/NoticeView.asp?noticeSeqNo=4&Page=7&Condition=&KeyWord=&mNum=4
*Content
:Job change quests (Knight, Assassin, Hunter)
:Monster skills
:War of Emperium around now
::Guild Dungeons came with WoE, at this point you could relog in GD without being kicked out, and PK of enemy guilds was not enabled
:Maps: Geffen Dungeon 2 loses its Bathory spawn?
*Mechanics
:Players are classified as Medium Size as opposed to Small sometime around now
== Juno Changes ==
*Notes
:Single most uncalled nerf in RO history: Alde Guild Dungeon nerfed again
*Content
:2-2 classes
:Turtle Island "nerf", turtle monsters HP/exp adjusted, can no longer Teleport on fourth level
:Many other maps changed, mimics scattered throughout: GH Graveyard (Mimics introduced), Pyramids (previously level 2 was Archer Skeleton/Drainliar/Mummy/Solider Skeleton, now mimics introduced) 
:Mummy HP/exp adjusted
:Battle Mode introduced, along with 2 additional rows of hotkeys (previously only one)
:Can attack players of enemy guilds or who are guildless in Guild Dungeons
:Poring dolls increased in price (various players bought many 30k bunches from NPCs before the change, then resold them to the NPC for profit)
:Safety Wall render changed (previously a much more square, white render, rather than rounded and pink)
*WoE-Specific Changes
:Long Range and Magic attacks do less damage to players (does not stack with skill damage reduction)
:Traps last for 4x longer
*Mechanics
:Can no longer steal from Boss-flagged monsters (could only not steal from MVPs previously) or (Guild Castle) Treasure Boxes
:SP Regen formula changed: previously parabolic, all values of INT below 124/126 gave horrible regen
:HP Regen formula changed
:Increase SP Recovery skill will regen more based on player's Max SP (Increase HP Recovery did this since it was implemented, based on Max HP)
:Many cards adjusted:
Card 	Prior 	AfterJuno 	Change
All WeaponStatus Cards 	Inflict Status +5% 	Inflict Status +5%, ATK +5 	ATK +5
All Headgear-Status Cards	Resist Status +20% 	Resist Status +20%, DEF +1 	DEF +1
All Garment-Element Cards	Resist Element +30% 	Resist Element +30%, Flee +5 	Flee +5
Many ArmorChange Element 	Change Player'sElement 	Change Player'sElement, DEF +1 	DEF +1
Andre 	ATK +10 	ATK +20 	ATK +10
Bapho Jr. 	AGI +3 	AGI +3, CRIT +1 	CRIT +1
Chonchon 	AGI +1 	AGI +1, Flee +2 	Flee +2
Condor 	Flee +5 	Flee +10 	Flee +5
Cornutus 	Armor CannotBreak 	Armor CannotBreak, DEF +1 	DEF +1
Deviruchi 	Immune to Blind 	Immune to Blind, STR +1 	STR +1
Drops 	Dex +1 	Dex +1, Hit +3 	Hit +3
Fabre 	VIT +1 	VIT +1, MaxHP +100 	MaxHP +100
Female Thiefbug 	AGI +1 	AGI +1, Flee +1 	Flee +1
Golem 	Weapon CannotBreak 	Weapon CannotBreak, ATK +5 	ATK +5
Hornet 	STR +1 	STR +1, ATK +3 	ATK +3
Lunatic 	LUK +1 	LUK +1, CRIT +1, PD +1 	CRIT +1, PD +1
Marc 	Immune to Frozen 	Immune to Frozen,Water Resistance +5% 	Water Resistance +5%
Marduk 	Immune to Silence, -5% Cast Delay	Immune to Silence 	Loses -5% Cast Delay
Martyr 	MaxHP +12%, AGI +1 	MaxHP +10%, AGI +1 	MaxHP -2%
Nightmare 	Immune to Sleep 	Immune to Sleep, AGI +1 	AGI +1
Pecopeco 	MaxHP +150 	MaxHP +10% 	MaxHP value
Phen 	Uninterruptible Cast 	Uninterruptible CastCast Time +25% 	Cast Time +25%
Picky 	STR +1 	STR +1, ATK +10 	ATK +10
Picky Egg 	VIT +1 	VIT +1, MaxHP +100 	MaxHP +100
Pupa 	MaxHP +50 	MaxHP +700 	MaxHP +650
Rocker 	DEX +1 	DEX +1, ATK +5 	ATK +5
Roda Frog 	MaxHP +100 	MaxHP +400, MaxSP +50 	MaxHP +300, MaxSP +50
Vitata 	Enable Heal Lvl. 1 	Enable Heal Lvl. 1,SP Consumption +25% 	SP Consumption +25%
Willow 	MaxSP +30 	MaxSP +80 	MaxSP +50
Whisper 	Flee +20 	Flee +20, +50% Damage from Ghost Element	+50% Damage from Ghost Element
Wolf 	ATK +5 	ATK +15, CRIT +1 	ATK +10, CRIT +1
(MVP) Eddge 	Permanent Endure 	Permanent Endure,MaxHP -25% 	MaxHP -25%
(MVP) Mistress 	No Gemstone Consumption 	No Gemstone Consumption, SP usage +25% 	SP Usage +25%
(MVP) Golden Thiefbug 	Immune to Magic 	Immune to Magic, SP Usage +50% 	SP Usage +50%
(MVP) Orc Hero 	Immune to Stun 	Immune to Stun, VIT +3 	VIT +3
 
:1. List of Weapon Status-Inflicting cards changed: Familiar (Blind), Magnolia (Curse), Marina (Freeze), Metaller (Silence), Plankton (Sleep), Requiem (Chaos - still not implemented at the time), Savage Bebe (Stun), Snake (Poison)
:2. List of Headgear Status-Resisting cards changed: Coco (Sleep), Martin (Blind), Stainer (Silence)
::Exception: Zenorc is +4% chance to inflict Poison and +10 ATK
:3. List of Armor "Change Element" cards: Dustiness (Wind), Hode (Earth), Isis (Shadow), Jakk (Fire), Marionette (Ghost), Marse (Water), Mist (Poison), Orc Zombie (Undead)
:4. List of Garment Element-Resisting cards changed: 
::Affected: Argiope (Poison), Bathory (Shadow), Dokebi (Wind), Pasana (Fire), Sandman (Earth), Swordfish (Water)
::Not affected: Angeling (Holy), Ghostring (Ghost - is given a -25% HP Regen penalty)
:5. +15% to Size cards now give +5 ATK
:*Needs confirmation: 
:**When was Medusa card given -15% damage from Demon?
:**What was Thiefbug egg card before becoming +400 MaxHP?
:**When did some accessories give Lvl. 3 of a skill rather than Lvl. 1?
:*Add later:
:**Soldier Skeleton, Kobold, Sohee, Yoyo
:*Effects Updates:
:**Warp Portal, Map Portals, Font Color Changes, Heal
==Amatsu Changes==
*Notes
:Most notable: Monster relocation, intense patch that affected a large amount of maps (i.e. Geffen Dungeon: Level 1 receives Hunter Flies, Level 2 sees Dracula with other spawn changes, Level 3 loses Mysts and Argos for Deviruchis + etc)
:Second most notable: Alde Guild Dungeon nerfed for third time, while Geffen Guild Dungeon has spawns increased significantly
*Content
:Payon map changed
:MVPs respawn their mobs frequently now, can no longer lure the MVP from its mob and kill the MVP alone
*Mechanics
:Ruwach and Sight nerfs, no longer full screen.
==2009==
==2010==
==2011==
===March===
*Mar 24th: Global Project - Brasilis http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=172&p=6
===Jul===
*Jul 12th: Episode 13.3 - El Dicasteshttp://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=178&p=6
===Sep===
*Sep 1st: Global Project - Dewatahttp://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=181&p=6
===Dec===
*Dec 12th: Episode 14.1 - Bifrosthttp://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=185&p=6
==2012==
===May===
*May 15th: Global Project - Port Malayahttp://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=204&p=6
==2012==
==2013==
==2014==
==2015==
===April===
*Apr 15th: Dungeon - Nightmare Clock Tower http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=269
==2016==
===April===
*Apr 26th: Episode 15.1 - Phantasmagorika http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=276&p=3
===May===
*May 2nd: Instance - Charleston Crisis http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=277
===August===
*Aug 17th: Episode 15.2 - Lost Memories http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=279&p=3
*Aug 22nd: Dungeon - Underground Bunker http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=281&p=3
===September===
*Sep 14th: Instance - Central Laboratory http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=282&p=3
===October===
*Oct 26th: Instance - Horror Toy Factory http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=283&p=3
==2017==
===January===
*Jan 12th: Race - Doram http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=286&p=3
===April===
*Apr 28th: Episode 16.1 - The Royal Banquet http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/UpdateDetail.aspx?id=290&p=2
===May===
*May 11th: Instance - Sky Fortress http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/updatedetail.aspx?id=294&p=2
===June===
*Jun 2nd: Global Project - Rock Ridge http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/UpdateDetail.aspx?id=296&p=2
===September===
*Sep 15th: Dungeon - Tomb of Honor / Nightmare Bio Labs / Somatology Laboratory 5F http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/UpdateDetail.aspx?id=301&p=1
===November===
*Nov 2nd: Rebellion Awakening https://forums.warpportal.com/index.php?/topic/226662-rebellion-awakening-job-update-card-desocketing/
*Nov 16th: Card Desocketing Safe Mode Update https://forums.warpportal.com/index.php?/topic/226662-rebellion-awakening-job-update-card-desocketing/
==2018==
===May===
*May 16th: Episode 16.2 - Terra Gloria http://renewal.playragnarok.com/news/UpdateDetail.aspx?id=305&p=1
==2019==
===January===
*Jan 3rd: 14.3 Flame Basin Cards arrive. https://forums.warpportal.com/index.php?/topic/242251-january-3rd-ragnarok-renewal-maintenance/
*Jan 17th: Thorn Wall Disabled in City interior maps, new world cities. https://forums.warpportal.com/index.php?/topic/242564-january-17th-ragnarok-renewal-maintenance/
*Jan 31st: 39 new cards arrive. List of cards: https://forums.warpportal.com/index.php?/topic/242785-january-31st-ragnarok-renewal-maintenance/
**Hero's Trail Part 1:
***Faceworm Nest Instance
****27163 Faceworm Card
****27164 Faceworm Queen Card
****27165 Faceworm Dark Card
****27166 Faceworm Egg Card
****27167 Faceworm Larva Card
***Sara's Memory Instance
****27168 Irene Elder Card
****27169 Payon Soldier Card
**Hero's Trail Part 2:
***Ghost Palace Instance
****27184 Sakray Card
***Geffen Magic Tournament Instance
****27249 Archi Card
****27250 Dio Anemos Card
****27251 Geffen Gang Card
****27252 Geffen Thug Card
****27253 Geffen Thief Card
****27254 Pa Monk Card
****27255 Ordre Card
****27256 Blut Hase Card
****27257 Kuro Akuma Card
****27258 Hyper Death Card
****27259 Rechenier Card
****27260 Odorico Card
****27261 Juu Card
****27262 Dy Card
****27263 Fei Kanabian Card
***Devil's Tower Instance
****27264 Evil Shadow Card
****27265 Evil Fanatics Card
**Hero's Trail Part 3:
***Airship Raid Instance
****27181 Airship Raid Card
****27182 Ferlock Card
***Sarah and Fenrir Instance
****27183 Gigantes Card
**Rock Ridge
***27170 Cowraiders Class 1 Card
***27171 Cowraiders Class 2 Card
***27172 Cowraiders Class 3 Card
***27173 Mine Cowraiders Class 1 Card
***27174 Mine Cowraiders Class 2 Card
***27175 Mine Cowraiders Class 3 Card
***27176 Rockridge Cramp Card
***27177 Rockridge Arclouse Card
***27178 Gaster Card
***27179 Coyote Card
***27180 Mechaspider Card
===September===
*Sep 26th:
**Class improvement - Rune Knight (1st update)
**Class improvement - Mechanic
===October===
*Oct 15th: Announcement about service suspend for iRO Renewal Server (Chaos and Thor). https://forums.warpportal.com/index.php?/topic/245881-important-announcement-for-iro-10-15-2019/
*Oct 31st: iRO Renewal Server (Chaos and Thor) cash shops turn off.
===December===
*Dec 13th: iRO Renewal Server (Chaos and Thor) suspend service for 2 months.
==2020==
===January===
*Jan 3rd: Closed Beta-Test Extension starts for iRO Transcendence Server.
*Jan 6th: Closed Beta-Test Extension ends for iRO Transcendence Server.
*Jan 7th: Open Beta starts for iRO Transcendence Server.
*Jan 15th: Grand Opening of iRO Transcendence Server.
===February===
*Feb 3rd: iRO Renewal Server (Chaos and Thor) ends suspend of service and reopen again with several major updates, among them: 
**Pet Evolution System
**Pet Auto-Feed
**Hunger bar for Homunculus and Pets
**Refine UI Update
**Autotrade System (Offline Vending)
**Vending System update (comma and color on price setting, tax)
**Vending/Buy Shop History (on closing shop, shows log of sold/bought items (with seller/buyer name, time, and number of items)
**Inventory Capacity Display
**Alt-Right Click to move item between storage
**Ctr-Right Click unidentified items to use Magnifier on it
**New feature for RODEX
**Daily Login Reward System
**Item-Based VIP system
**Navigation System update
**Memorial Dungeon System Renewal
**Memorial Dungeon - Dreams and Shadows (rework of Nightmarish Jitterbug)
**Memorial Dungeon - Royal Shoes Heel (rework of Charleston Crisis)
**Class improvement - Geneticist (1st update, focusing on Homunculus)
===May===
*May 1st:
**Skill Balance Update
**Memorial Dungeon - Advanced Old Glast Heim
===August===
*Aug 20th:
**Episode 17.1 - Illusion
**Styling Shop and Second Costume
**Moscovia cards arrive.
***27157 Wood Goblin Card
***27158 Les Card
***27159 Uzhas Card
***27160 Vavayaga Card
***27161 Mavka Card
***27162 Gopinich Card
**Brasilis cards arrive.
***27120 Iara Card
***27121 Piranha Card
***27122 Curupira Card
***27123 Toucan Card
***27124 Jaguar Card
***27125 Headless Mule Card
***27126 Boitata Card
**Memorial Dungeon - Poring Village
**Memorial Dungeon - Orc's Memory
**Kachua Key System
===September===
*Sep 29th: Memorial Dungeon - Beginner Old Glast Heim
===December===
*Dec 17th: Dungeon - Illusion of Abyss Turtle Island
==2021==
===June===
*June 10th:
**Class improvement - Sura
**Class improvement - Maestro and Wanderer (1st update)
**Friday Dungeon
**Weekend Dungeon
**Animated Guild Emblem
**God Items Strengthening Quest (WoE TE)
===December===
*December 21st:
**185 Lv Cap Increase
**The level of some skills for the 3rd job class are extended.
**Class improvement - Arch Bishop
**Geffen Magic Tournament & Ghost Palace Random Option Update
**Adventurer Agency (New Party Booking)
**Edda Arunafeltz
**Tip Box Renewal
**New Quest UI
**Dead Branch with Effect
**Two new hunting points: Nogg Road 3rd Floor and Glast Heim Castle Abyss 1st Floor
**Reflected damage is prevented from being used to activate autocast skills.
==2022==
===June===
*June 9th:
**Classes - Star Emperor
**Classes - Soul Reaper
**Class improvement - Shadow Chaser
**Class improvement - Summoner
**MVP monsters get green aura buffs (reduce all damage taken by 90%)
**Removal of Wave Mode Memorial Dungeon
**New equipment for Episode 16.1, 16.2, and 17.1
===October===
*October 13th:
**Archbishop Skill Rebalance
**Genetic & Homunculus Skill Rebalance
**Guillotine Cross Skill Rebalance
**Mechanic Skill Rebalance
**Performance System Skill Rebalance
**Ranger Skill Rebalance
**Royal Guard Skill Rebalance
**Rune Knight Skill Rebalance
**Shadow Chaser Skill Rebalance
**Sorcerer Skill Rebalance
**Warlock Skill Rebalances
**Advanced Potion (Syrups) – 4 types
**Warlock Job Improvement
**Rune Knight Job Improvement
**Genetic Job Improvement
**Instrument Skills Job Improvement (additional)
**Guillotine Cross Job Improvement
**Bio5 Headgear Special Enchants and System Improvement
**Temporal Boots Special Enchants and System Improvement
==2023==
===January===
*January 12th:
**Max. Level 185/65 (Expanded Classes and Super Novice)
**Max. Level 185/55 (Doram)
**Quest skill balance
**2nd Hotkey Bar
**3rd Classes skill effects update
**Class improvement - Star Emperor
**Class improvement - Soul Reaper
**Class improvement - Kagerou and Oboro
**Class improvement - Rebellion (3rd)
**Class improvement - Super Novice
**Rare item drop highlighted by light pillar and sound effects
**New character selection screen
===April===
*April 27th:
**Episode 17.2 - Legacy of the Wise One
**Max. Level 200/70
**New Map Name overlay on map entrance
**Reorganization of Skill consumption items and projectiles.
**Pet Affinity Gauge Bar
**Eden Paramarket
**Macro for Rolling Cutter
===September===
*September 7th:
**4th Jobs
**Greed is disabled if the character have less than 5 free spaces in their inventory.
**Non-Madogear related skills from Merchant, Blacksmith, Mastersmith, and Meister can now be used while using a Madogear.
===October===
*October 5th:
**Dungeon - Illusion of Teddy Bear
*October 17th:
**Flying Madogear Sprite
*October 31th:
**Instance - EDDA Fall of Glast Heim
===December===
*December 5th:
**Instance - EDDA Somatology Laboratory
**Instance - Old Glast Heim Challenge Mode
**Instance - Geffen Night Arena
**Maximum damage display limit is increased from 999,999 to 2,147M (2,147,483,647).
==2024==
===January===
*January 16th:
**Dungeon - Illusion of Luanda
*January 30th:
**Dungeon - Thanatos Tower Revamp
**Instance - Airship Crash
**Instance - Tomb of Remorse
**Instance - Memories of Thanatos
===February===
*February 6th:
**DirectX 9 Client
**Card Updates:
***Isle of Bios
***Morse's Cave
***Temple of Demon God
***EDDA Somatology Laboratory
***Thanatos Tower Revamp
*February 20th:
**Training Ground (Damage Test Dummy)
===March===
*March 5th:
**Dungeon - Illusion of Labyrinth
===April===
*April 23rd:
**Dungeon - Illusion of Under Water
===May===
*May 21st:
**Episode 18 - Direction of Prayer
**Instance - Sanctuary Purification
**Instance - Villa of Deception
**Item Reform - Thanatos Weapon-AD
**Item Reform - OS Weapon-OSAD
**Item Reform - Thanatos Headgear-LT
===June===
*June 18th:
**Illusion Investigation
**Dungeon - Illusion of Twins
**Item Reform - Hero Boots-LT and Hero Weapon-LT
**Cash Shop - Episode Clear Ticket (16 and 17)
===July===
*July 2nd:
**Fix delay attack animation to match the kRO setting (from 5.4 hit/second to 7 hit/second). - not working
**Adjusted the difficulty of the Villa of Deception Memorial Dungeon boss (Twisted God Freyja).
**Eddga droptable is already working as intended (the card is dropable).
===August===
*August 20th:
**Juno Monster Society
**New Element Table
*August 27th:
**Fix delay attack animation to match the kRO setting (from 5.4 hit/second to 7 hit/second). - finally working
===September===
**Dungeon - Varmundt Biosphere
===November===
*November 5th:
**New Hairstyle and Palette | Setting UI Optimization | Rodex Optimization
**Optimized Gameplay for Beginners
**Dungeon - Clock Tower: Unknown Basement
**Class improvement - 4th Classes (2nd version)
**Expanded 4th Classes (1st version)
== See also ==
Update History
Category: General Information