I never got into this game, but yes, way back in the day I read the manga. It was typical of the sort of Korean Manga that would make it to the US, including the creator stopping the series on a whim right at the end of the first act and a D&D stats block for each character.

I mean no offense but it seems as though you did little to no research about Ragnarok 2 before going to review it. While this is fair as not everyone is going research a game before they play it, it was clear at many points of the review that you clearly didn’t understand several things about the game. If I may allow me to explain a few things that I feel need explaining.

First off, everyone who knows little to nothing about Ragnarok incorrectly assumes that its a series based completely off of Norse Mythology and this is completely wrong. Absolutely completely wrong. Ragnarok Online 2, and Ragnarok Online for that matter, are entirely based off of a Manga Series aptly titles “Ragnarok” which was written by Myung-Jin Lee. Ragnarok itself is a 10 volume series, that was planned to be 40 volumes long, which was very loosely based off of Norse Mythology to the point where the names are really the only thing that relates the two. While Lee was writing the series however Gravity, the company that created and runs RO1 and RO2, asked him if he would consider creating a game based on his work to which he agreed to and put the manga into a never ending Hiatus. It really really really urks me when people don’t know this and just assume no one knows what their doing because its not Copy Paste Norse Mythos. Hell, in RO1 the servers were named after characters in the Manga.

Secondly, like in most mmos, you can create new chat tabs in the chat bar and customize what information shows up in them as well as turning off channels from existing ones. This means you can turn off Public Chat immediately as no one uses it for anything other then to troll or complain in RO2. Seriously, one of my friends spends most of his day in Public Chat because he enjoys the stupidity that goes on 24/7.

Third, for Dungeons you mentioned the Que System and Asking outside the Dungeon which are both true, though Dungeon Finder sucks even after having to be fixed, but their is also another way to look for parties be they dungeon or leveling. If you press the N button, which also brings up the Que System, you will notice two other tabs in the menu. The left one, since Dungeon Finder is the middle tab, is Find Party and here you can search for people who have parties already made and are looking for others or post requests yourself to which people can ask to join your party. Until recently the Dungeon Finder was literally broken to the point you could que for Culvert, the level 8-12 normal dungeon, and end up in Fortress of Sandstorm Hardmode with level 50’s which led to Find Party and being outside the dungeon to be the safest and quickest ways to find dungeon parties.

Finally I’d like to talk about the Cash Shop and PvP starting with explaining why PvP is always being complained about. Colosseum, which is the FFA Arena that happens three times a day, is how you obtain the absolute best armor in the entire game PvE and PvP wise. Whats that you say? PvP gear is better for PvE then the PvE Gear? Yeah and I’ll get into that when I talk about the CS but let me finish about why this is an even bigger problem. You get points in PvP by KILLING Players or Monsters and whey I say KILLING I mean LAST HIT. Unless you get the LAST HIT on a mob or Player you get 0 points, that’s right, 0 points. What this means is that if you are playing a Ranged Class, be it Priest, Ranger, Wizard or Sorc, you have an absolutely incredibly higher chance at advancing to the next round then a melee class does which equates to higher Blood Points, the PvP Currency used to buy Armor and Accessories. Not only that, but Priests and Sorcs have access to heals which offset their squishiness that lets them stall for time in order to survive longer as you LOSE POINTS every time you are killed.You get, on Average, around 60k BP per Championship in the Arena. It costs 800k BP for most classes to get their Tier 1 PvP Weapon. If you lose the 2nd round of Colo you get around 8k BP. This, as a result, allows Ranged Characters to gear up faster then melee and stay ahead of the curve as PvP gear, as should be expected, increases damage you do in PvP. Classes like Monks and Beastmasters are also terrible in PvP with almost no Gap Closers and incredibly long animations that people actually pitty them. This is where all the complaints come from, mostly melee classes saying its unfair and ranged saying that they suck too, that and about how Guilds can time entering colo together so they can start with buffs and focus non guildies so their guild can gear up faster.

Part Two, the Cash Shop. Until level 50 the cash shop is completely optional if only a little gambley for Costume Items, which can be 30 days length and not perm like the mounts. Then, you hit level 50 do RHD’s to get all your Pre-Raid Gear, and you finally get ready to raid but all hell starts to break loose. Now, correct me if I’m wrong but Raids aren’t supposed to require you to have gear better then what the raid itself gives to beat right? Well Ragnarok Online 2 says pop-cock to that and tried the reverse. For the first two Raids, Garden of Baphomet and PvE Arena, you can do them perfectly fine on Normal Mode even though PvE’s final boss is questionable and most people glitch the fight to beat it or break up the raid. Then Hardmode comes, still doable but its the point where if you don’t have VIP and are a DPS you have a 90% Chance to be one shot by the bosses AoE’s. Finally you move onto the next Raid, Culvert of the Abyss and suddenly shit gets real. I’ve never actually done COA Normal before but I hear its completely do-able if you have a good group/guild but CoA (H)? Better hope your entire raid party is decked out in Colo Gear with 10 Spinels, VIP and every Cash Shop Buff you can buy or else you aren’t completing the dungeon. Ok, sure, I’m exaggerating slightly, but Collision, the best guild on the entire server, went into it with that exact set up and failed to beat the final boss without glitching it because of how brokenly hard it is. Now also realize in other versions of RO2 you get a 3k HP buff when going into the dungeon because of how hard it is and you start to realize how important the CS in the game is at end game.

Honestly I couldn’t recommend the game to anyone myself, and I have four level 50’s because it only takes like three days to hit 50, but these are just things I wanted to point out in defense, except for the last point, of the game. I’m sorry if I come off as abrasive or offensive as this was not my goal but instead just to give a larger picture of the game. Thanks for the video though and keep up the good work.

Aww…you didn’t use the music that’s played during your first boss fight ( the gold beetle ). That’s pretty much my top favorite song for that game….for as far as I got in it, at least. What you had to say was spot on. …and it just taking so long to level just…annoyed the heck out of me. More because it just took so long to kill some beasts that I needed…and some people were coming in to attack stuff that I was already fighting…so that was a bit annoying. …I like to play in peace. :/

Honestly, in your teaser from the last episode made me think you were doing EQ2.