Getting Started

Welcome to IridiumRO. We're a high rate server with an extreme focus on PvP and competition.

If you're brand new here, you're probably wondering where to start. In this guide, I'll detail to you the steps necessary to get leveled up, the various methods of getting gear (MvP room, wild MvPs,), the coin system (Gold and Silver coins), zeny farming, various locations of important things (most everything is in Prontera, if you're feeling adventurous), donating and how to redeem your donation credits, voting and using the vote shop to redeem your vote points, a few PvP pointers (strengths and weaknesses of the classes), and various features included in this server to help you along to getting that end-game gear!

Normal mob cards drop at 5%, while MvP cards drop at a varying rate of 0.30% to 0.75%, based on location (Wild MvPs have a higher drop chance compared to MvPs in the MvP room.)

## Locations of Interest

### Prontera Bar

The Prontera Bar, located North East of the fountain in Prontera, is the central hub for many things in the game, such as coin exchange, quest wings and headgears, your Hourly Ticket Exchange, and much more.

### Coupon Manager/Crafter

Located in the building North West of the fountain in Prontera, the coupon manager offers a small variety of things you'll need to progress. The Crafter in the back of the room is enabled once you purchase a "Codex Craftarium" from the Vote Shop. Using the Codex, you speak to the crafter to automatically craft items from his list, such as poison bottles, EDP, AD stuff, FCP stuff, etc, removing the hassle of sitting there and spamming a button to complete all of your items.

To make a coupon, you need 90,000,000 zeny (A quick process in the farm room), 10 gold (Dropped at 6% by Grand Pecos), and 7 Chivalry Emblems. (8% from Khalitzburg and Raydrics). Check this NPC to see the prices for each item.

### Donation Manager & Vote Shop

Located in the building South West of the fountain in Prontera is The Donation Manager. After you donate in the Control Panel , the Donation Manager NPC is then used to pull your credits from the Control Panel into the game, which you can then spend in the Cash Shop to pick from a list of gear. As well, you can check your current balance. (Not everything in the game, no we don't take money for things not listed, what you see is what you get. Bottom line.) If you're having trouble donating because PayPal is being annoying (as it likes to do) message one of the Admins, and we'll work with you to get you your cash points.

The Voting Manager is used to check your current vote points, as well as redeem your vote points in the shop. The Zeny amount listed in the Vote Shop is the amount of votes required to purchase the item.

### Recolor/cosmetic area

Located South East of the fountain in Prontera, this area is for various cosmetic upgrades to your character, such as up to 3 custom Auras, and a custom color name (5,000 Cash Points each, account wide, can be changed without limit, many to choose from).

As well, there are NPCs designed to trade in your normal donates and Hero Glasses (Best in Slot mid headgear, usable only at level 255) to change the sprites of the items for in-game items (Gold coins and Rainbow Dyestuff, a vote shop item). **NOTE: There is also two NPCs to purchase differently colored Donation Wings and Helms for cash points, to avoid having to get the coins and the dyestuff. They are the far left and far right NPCs shown below.**

### Prontera Shopping Mall

Located in North Prontera, this shopping mall is a great starting point for people to pick up entry-level gears to begin the game. As well, the "Ammunition" NPC will be where you get your arrows and bullets for Sniper/Gypsy/Clown and Gunslinger. Quivers and Bullet boxes are also located in this NPC.

## Starting Out

As soon as you create your character, you'll warp just south of Prontera. There you'll see the "Welcome NPC". Use this NPC to warp directly north into Prontera proper. You'll notice that the Welcome NPC states to "Grab your freebies and check the Iridium guide."

Directly south of the fountain in Prontera, you can find these two NPCs, right next to each other.

The freebies NPC will give to you a starter set to help you level up and farm, as well as 4x EXP books. The freebies are designed as a first step to getting you proper gear, not to be used too long into the game. The gear operates as a set, so you must have both the wings and the armor on for the bonuses to work.

The Baby Angel wings will give you max ASPD, while the Baby Demon wings will give you instant cast.

The Iridium Adventurer's suit will give you a Baphomet card (AoE damage) effect up until level 253.

The two classes you want to focus on making first are a Wizard and a Star Gladiator.

The wizard you use for farming zeny in the Farm Room, which you use to buy MvPs in the MvP arena. (A merchant would be a bonus creation, to sell the stuff you drop in the Farm Room)

Star Gladiator is the ultimate newb-friendly class for killing MvPs in the MvP room or in the wild. The MvPs here have a substantial amount of HP, so classes such as Champion can't asura them down very easily. Star Gladiator is cheap to gear up, and easy to maintain, until you get enough gear and consumables to main an Assassin Cross, which has the highest MvP damage output on the server.

Once you've received your freebies, you're ready to start leveling. (Don't forget to stock up on Butterfly wings from the tool dealer, which is right below the Freebie NPC)

The warpers are the primary way to get around IridiumRO. Just about any place you can think of to warp to is enabled, except for some areas (Thanatos Tower upper floors, etc)

Note: You get 4 free EXP books with your Freebies. You should be able to get to 255 with one book from level 1. You can buy additional EXP books in the Prontera Shopping Mall\*\*

The best place to start is ant hell 01. With how high the rates are on this server, it won't take you very long. Kill some ant eggs, get level 10, and head to the Job Master.

Here is where you'll be changing jobs up until your final job.

Level 1 - 80 you can do in payon dungeon floor 2. The best spots for leveling are Clock Tower 1 and Basement 4 once you get up to level ~90 or so. You can get to 255 down there quite easily. There is an endow NPC available for use in Prontera, North East of the fountain, to help with killing anolians.

Once you get your character(s) to 255, you're ready to start farming coins.

## Coin System

Every MvP in the server drops a Gold Coin, while every Miniboss drops a Silver Coin. Five(5) Silver coins is equal to one(1) Gold coin. You can exchange these in the Prontera Bar. Each coin drop is different depending on where the MvP is located, be it a Wild MvP, from a Bloody Branch, in the MvP room, or in Endless Tower. You can use the command @mi to see these drop rates and how they differ.

You can also farm zeny to buy Bronze Coins. It costs 50mil zeny per coin. Five(5) Bronze = one(1) Silver.

Ghostring card is arguably the most important card to have in this server. As such, you need silver coins to get it, not gold coins. You can get these coins by killing Minibosses either in the wild or spawned from the MvP room. Each spawn in the room costs zeny, so it's a good idea to spend some time in the Farm Room and stockpile your zeny before heading to the room for each session.

Once you get a GR card, your ability to kill progressively more troublesome MvPs becomes a bit easier, expanding the amount of MvPs you can kill per round in the MvP room, increasing your chances of dropping Gold coins. Beginning this grind is the best way to gear up as a solo players. The option to join a guild and join wild MvP fights is always a thing. There's almost always a guild killing the wild MvPs, so you'll have trouble doing those solo, unless you catch them on an hour when the guild is not online.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask any time in the Discord in either English or Spanish.

## Outras línguas/Otros Idiomas

* Español
* Português