I have been playing this game for since it was released on Steam.

Seen everything this game has to offer with a max level character, level 85 (ML35.)[ATM] With the new content being released soon, there will be more adventure's and areas to explore. I am addicted to this game with nearly 30 characters scattered throughout various accounts and have experienced every single class available in the game. Seen the ups and downs of the game. I've decided to stick by this game for better or worse.

Everyone that has reviewed this game in the past has experienced some unfortunate bugs that have been long since patched. If you haven't given this game a try and are going by the reviews, judge this game for yourself. This review might get a ton of thumbs down but whatever.
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Due to numerous people asking for me to go more in depth with this review, here we go.

---HISTORY---

2 years ago this game was released as Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second, a wonderful & more challenging time. Everything was kind of difficult to do and most of the time people rejected you because of not having a specific amount of health for raid dungeons.

September 12, 2013, they released the Noel class.

December 2013, (can't remember the specific date like the previous one) this game was renamed to Ragnarok Online 2: Advent of Valkyrie introducing Master Level. ***[Side Note, master level is pretty much rebirth on RO1 but ONLY your display level is reset back to 1 (51).]*** With master level, the older content became easy to do. Until the ramped up the difficultly on the raid dungeons, still soloable if you have the right gears and junk. That same year, the korean server closed.

October 2014, the SEA server merged with us making the game iRO2 (International Ragnarok Online 2) and a sperate server called "Freyja."

July 28, 2015, the TW server merging with Freyja.

---UPDATE---

The last major update was the remake of Forgotten Payon and boosting the level cap to 85 (ML35). In August they will be releasing Jawaii, the honeymoon place from RO1. Awhile back they said that a marriage system would not be added with Jawaii but according to the "Will you marry me?" event on the forums, it might be added. (Ovvvvvver jooooooyed)

---GAMEPLAY---

***People have complained that it just a clone of WoW. I have not played nor will ever play WoW so I do not know about that. There are folks on the forums here on steam saying that the camera and movement is terrible. Everyone will exerience different things according to their machines and their connection to the server.***

The basic levels, 1-50 are so easy to fly through combat level and professional levels alike. There are EXP events every weekend and sometimes during the weekdays to help players with grinding. Level 51-85 aka ML1-ML35, is just grinding of course you can do the Morroc and Dayr Desert quests to boost for MP this could be the main questline or all of the Daily Quests. This is where the EXP events mentioned before comes into play making grinding so much less painful. The current end game gears is Eddga, the "powerful" gear which was specifically designed for PvP. Most of my friends and myself, have stuck with the previous end game gears Cazar & Himmelmez. Now for the what you can do after reaching the max level, anything that you want to do. PvP in WoE (Guild vs Guild, located in Prontera & Morroc), helping low leveled players, collecting items, taking part in Trivia for prizes, farming for items, gears or pets and so on.

If this is not in depth enough for you, just say so. With so much experience in this game I just picked key points and just touched on specific topics. I apologize if this is unorganized, this is my thought process.

this was a good game. but it is dead now.

Best class in-game?
The Uninstall Wizard.

dead game lol

Many people hate this game. Many people say that other MMORPGs are waaay better. I am NOT one of those.

They say that your first MMORPG is shaping your online playing. My first was WoW and I absolutely hated it. The free world was too much for me and I needed something I could explore properly. Several years later I bumped into Ragnarok Online 2 on Steam. I was a fresh Steam user and the game had been out for 2-3 weeks when I saw it. Since I have seen the anime Ragnarok: The Animation, I eagerly downloaded it and set forth.

As an inexperienced player, the game lead me along perfectly. Some things came along the way, but that made me feel like I learned something and that I grew a little more into the universe. The starter area is gorgeous and I LOVE the atmosphere there. The maps are limited, but leads somewhere. You can't get lost and there's a lot of people around to help and boost you. I have never met nicer people in an online game before.

Do you like to play solo in an online game? It's cool, you can solo your way up to the Master Levels (you might need some random help with some dungeon here and there, but no need). Do you like to play with others? Join your friends or make new ones as you play. How you play is your choice.

People also say that this is too much grinding. I say it's the same way in every game like this. You just need to find the one that suits you the best.

As you can see, I have played this game. A lot. Over 1000 hours and still counting. I vote recommend on this game, since I have a special connection with it. If you find the same, is up to you. I just hope you try it out before trashing it. But know this: I have still to find a better online community than this.

Join the family!

WARNING: PERSONAL OPINION

positives

- character customization
- easy to play controls
- decent graphics
- interesting lore if you actually read what the NPC's say to you
- fun with friends
- easy to advance until around level 35

negativies

- excessive grinding (unless you like that sort of thing)
- you can't drop certain quests like events and stuff, they just sit their and clog up space
- difficult to play solo
- while the story changes and I find it interesting, the quests still end up being almost the same thing a lot of the time


I see a lot of people complaining that it's P2W, but I've never run into this problem. I don't participate in PVP so I don't know if that's where the problem lies, but I'm master level and I have yet to spend a single cent on this game. I would not pay for this game, it's not worth it. But since it's free, I think it's fun. I wish there was a "meh" option instead of a thumbs up or down. It's fun for awhile, but once you hit around level 35 as I mentioned earlier it becomes much more of a challange and less of a game.

First of all, this is a whole new game. Treat it as such. Get RO1 out of your system.
If you're still too stubborn to get RO1 out of your shnoozle, then don't play this game. Period!

For those open minded players, keep on reading!

Here's my opinion for those who are looking to play this game.

PROS:
-Decent character design
-Diversified Classes and Subclasses(you'll see once you've played it)
-Interesting Storyline
-Interesting In-game features/events( Dungeons, Raids, Rankings, Honing, Pet summons etc.)
-Costume availability (you can look different and be different)


CONS:
-Stale and repetitive quests (too much kill a number of these, gather a number of that, talk to this blah blah)
-Boring (when played alone)
-Not much diversity in builds( stats are based on your equips in master level/ same equips = same stats)
-Some skills in some professions are not worth getting causing a generic build in skills


I recommend playing this game with friends. It's really boring to play alone after you've reached master level(based on my experience). Don't get me wrong, I had fun playing this alone, up to a certain point. The storyline is good IMO, the characters are quite lovable, and the graphics are not that bad either. I suggest you give this game a try. Altogether I'll give this game 7/10.

No matter what other's ppl say , There's always 2 options :

Listen to them or Follow ur heart

yes im clicking Yes to recommend this game.
and yes i also DON'T recommend this game.
i recommend you play this because i need you to understand how scary can it be
when a good franchise falls into the wrong hand.
the camera is horrible, i could get motion sickness from it.
the skills feels like they are default templates from the game engine.
the whole thing is like a last minute project by college student when due date is tomorrow.

p.s. please bring back Gate of the World. :D

Its not ragnarok