Random PvE videos Monster Arena and more

Some more clips while we wait for more actual information on Ragnarok Online 2.

A party of lvl 50 players:


Monster Arena:


The actual Baphomet in the area Baphomet's Garden:

Beta footage from kRO2 CBT 3

Here is a narrated playthrough by tangos:

Day 1 part 1:


Day 1:
http://youtu.be/HccAM6hDSP0 (part 2)
http://youtu.be/P1w1k-Yl9SQ (part 3)
http://youtu.be/f83zgPzv-qE (part 4)
http://youtu.be/ewmVgXYrOJc (part 5)

Day 2:
http://youtu.be/uHGfUElcNZg (part 1)
http://youtu.be/pYwnOlqx2-0 (part 2)
http://youtu.be/OIgn_tuvDSA (part 3)
http://youtu.be/0uCc_s-0jyI (part 4)
http://youtu.be/lMi-1mc15Ns (part 5)
http://youtu.be/vAIyTFxbJc0 (part 6)

Day 3:
http://youtu.be/KLm3HEc5yx4 (part 1)
http://youtu.be/9MSw0Qwag8s (part 2)
http://youtu.be/mOGCgg2l2yA (part 3 - Acolyte)

BONUS:
http://youtu.be/xirbnUHo5uI (Dance)

RO2 Lore

A little background story video by Gravity, and below translation by Sepia:



Freyja was once a beautiful and kind goddess who loved all life. But because of her beloved Odin's betrayal, she became the goddess of destruction, burning with revenge. To destroy everything that Odin created, she began the great catastrophe, later to be called the "Day of Despair".

When Midgard fell into the brink of extinction, young heroes rose to save the land. Thanks to their endless courage and wisdom, Freyja was sealed and Midgard found peace once again.

A long time passed and the world became as it was before. In the age where the Day of Despair and Freyja both became merely legends, the official successor of the Rune-Midgart's royal family, Ignarts Gaebolg, constructs a new Rune-Midgarts kingdom.

The peaceful days continued, but one day, at the Armin ridge, near the Kingdom's capital Prontera, a dimensional gap appeared, emitting strange energy that changed the environment.

After great effort, the Kingdom's magicians were able to seal it. The Kingdom decided that there was a deep connection between the incidents all over the land and the dimensional gap, and created a special investigation team to further investigate.

Recruitment notices were announced all over the land. After reading the announcement, adventurers from all over the land began to gather in Prontera with their own dreams and ambitions...

Legend of the Second

Ragnarok 2,
its Second Legend begins.

Kafra flying service & Talent info & NPC dialog

More footage:

Cards in action and some fighting action

Day 1 of the second closed beta test.

Payon Region

In the upcomming Closed Beta Test, dubbed R-Care Test, there will be more new content added.

Payon forest! Which includes new monsters and two new dungeons.

The test time and date are as follows:

Testing Date:
January 25th~28th, 2011 (4 days)

Testing Time:
18:00~23:00

Thanks a lot to Sepia for translating.

Refine and Smelt System

Love it or hate it, the upgrade system was a big part of the classic Ragnarok Online. It is coming back in RO2.

Each refine level raises attack on weapons and defence on armor. It is harder to make a +9 then a +2.

There is also a Smelt system which lets you smelt items down to components needed to upgrade your other equipment.

Closed Beta Test 2

Just wanted to let you guys know that CBT2 has started. The new User Interface is looking real good. Not everyone can log in at the moment. More information and footage to come.

Meanwhile, check out some gameplay from CBT2:




Also...


HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Life jobs renamed + personal guards

Doctor is now Alchemist
Tailor is now Artisan

Each player can get a personal guard based on their life job.

Guards:
- Will help you for 30 seconds
- Have unique skills
- They can become stronger based on life job level
- There are different types of guards.


Alchemist: Hoenheim
This guard increases the summoners magic defense and can also do an attack with magical damage.









Chef: Towl
This guard increases the summoners flee and can do ranged quick attacks.









Blacksmith: Vulcan
The guardian of the blacksmith strengthen the defense of the summoner, and can reduce the defense of the opponent.






Artisan: Demeter
This guard gives the summoner better HP-recovery and has a powerful poison attack.

Cards and Flight paths

Card system

Cards are coming and they aren't attached to weapons and armor like in classic Ragnarok Online.

They are attached to your character and you can switch between 5 different cards. That means you can use different equipment with the same cards, unlike RO. Different card combinations will give a specefic bonus, like card sets in RO1.

Your character customization is now done via equipments and cards and not manual stat point allocation.



There are three types of grades for each card. Bronze, Silver and Gold. Gold being the best and the rarest. Bronze cards will be fairly common and not to hard to obtain.


You can turn a number of bronze cards into a silver, and a certain number of silver cards in to a gold card.

You can also combine different bronze cards to create a mystery gold card.

There is also a collectors album, and you can try and collect all cards.

Kafra flying service

Seems like there will be a way to move quickly around the world of Ragnarok, besides the mounts.





Check out the Ragnarok dev team having fun with this new Kafra:

The Character design of Ragnarok 2

The development of RO2 continues without a lot of updates or new information, we can only assume Gravity is working hard on improving the game for the next beta phase.

However, they have been gracious enough to update their website with some development history.

They changed their character design a bit since CBT. I like the more handdrawn look, take a look:








Before and after pictures of the hair:

























The model tweaks with the new hair type:

Information clarification

Chris Ruiz has clarified some of the information coming out of Gravity Koreas livestream.

1. New Design for the character models have been arranged. New design to test Feedback
2. Male and Female are FINALIZED. No promises for CBT#2 though.
3. New Stat Builder system is being arranged.
4. New systems that was NOT added to CBT1 will be arrange for testing.
5. More user content such as different Quests and junctions between users.
6. Fixing graphics and other bug issues from before.
7. Fixing Server stabilizability based off of the findings from CBT#1.
8. When to Expect CBT#2: Between Dec. 2010 - Early 2011.

It sounds like like we won't see or hear much of RO2 untill around christmas. Of course, if anything happens before, I'll do my best to keep this site updated.

RO2 Loading screens + Rogue gameplay

With the CBT on hold, not much new information and updates is coming out lately. So I decided to update with some wallpapers of the RO2 loading screens. You might have seen them when watching gameplay videos. I really like them and decided to throw them up here for your enjoyment too.

1600 x 900

More resolutions (Wallpaper size)
http://www.kisuka.com/ro2loading/

Also, here is some gameplay from the closed beta with a Thief turning into a Rogue. And then showing it off, including translated skills and combat. Check it out.

CBT ended + site updates

The closed beta testing has ended, for now. It will begin again on a later time, so check back for that. Meanwhile I have spend the time updating the site a little and I have added some pages with information about the classes/battle job and life jobs.

Of course, all the information is subject to change since the game is still under development.

I will add more information and pages in the time to come, so be sure to check back once in a while.

Narrated mage gameplay + 2nd job screenshots

The gameplay is shot off screen with narration by english and korean speaking (plus a little japanese once in a while) YouTube user tangos. She has a bunch of RO2 videos which you can check out here: http://www.youtube.com/user/tangos

She has a fairly high level mage beating a blue Rhoda frog boss. We see in the beginning that swimming is not yet implemented.

The reason I bring this up is because, in the video she turns level 20, which means she can get the new 2nd job as Sorcerer or Wizard. People are now starting to get their 2nd job and we might get to see a bunch of new 2nd job class gameplay footage.

Sadly I must disappoint you for now. But while we wait, we can look over the shoulder of tangos playing her mage:



And enjoy these screenshots:

The Warrior 2nd job

The Monk 2nd job

Peco Peco mount

All classes can get a Peco Peco mount, unlike RO1 where it was only the swordsman 2nd jobs that could.

This mount can be summoned with a cast time. You cannot fight while on the Peco Peco, you will get knocked off. The Peco Peco gives a 20% movement boost.



Video showing of the Peco Peco mount in the Prontera Culvert:

The Login Screen

If you ever played the original Ragnarok Online in the open beta stages you are very familiar with the login screen and the music. Sometimes you had to type login a lot of times before actually getting ingame.

The original login music still brings great nostalgia to this day. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQ6Rb9qk500)

Since the closed beta client is out, we can now see the new R02 login screen and hear the music, which isn't half bad.