On Monday March 26, around 10:30am PST all WarpPortal game and websites were unavailable. This was caused by a Router very near our server network being down. This meant that all traffic to and from our WarpPortal network had no way of reaching our players.

The connectivity was partially restored by 12:30pm PST, but the final cause of that routers failure is not yet known and it may cause connectivity problems until a final resolution is reached.

Hopefully, the problem is resolved without further downtime, but if the WarpPortal becomes unavailable again it is likely due to this same issue.

Due to the extended forum downtime while it is upgraded, here are the patch notes for Tuesday March 6th.

Reminder: Sunday morning is the end of Daylight Savings time. at 1:50am we will kick every player out and do a server restart to be sure the clocks sync up so we don't have data corruption. The process will take about 20 minutes.

Remember clocks that observe Daylight Savings time will go:
1:59am -> 3:00am Sunday March 11. So please change accordingly.

• Boxter left
• Homunculus Resetter left
• All homunculus created after we implemented the Resetter have had their loyalty set to Loyal!
• Moscovia 1 time quests have had their rewards boosted up.
• Homunculus S Ground target skills are re-enabled, this new build didn't have any reported bugs on Sakray, so please let us know if quirky behavior is noticed.
• Clothing Dye coupons discontinue sale.
• Omni-Clothing Dye coupon sold for 150 points!
• New clothing dye color for all classes!
• Old Clothing dye coupon exchanger implemented, trade 2 for 1 of the new ones.
• Gramps has new quests for you in the Eden Group!
  • 70-95 Lighthalzen Field
    Stem Worm
    Rafflesia
  • 105-120 Dicastes Field
    Hillslion
    Nepenthes
  • 125-140 Abyss Lake
    Gold Acidus
    Blue Acidus
• Ymir and Yggdrasil have a new WoE 1 time added for Saturday
  ADDED* Ymir : Saturday WoE 1 4-6pm
  Ymir : Saturday WoE 2 7-9pm
  Ymir : Wednesday WoE 1 3-5pm
  Yggdrasil : Saturday WoE 1 2-4pm
  Yggdrasil : Saturday WoE 2 5-7pm
  ADDED* Yggdrasil : Wednesday WoE 1 3-5pm
  Valkyrie : Saturday WoE 1 3-5pm
  Valkyrie : Tuesday WoE 2 4-6pm
  

We will be testing out a Proof of concept on Sakray tomorrow with the Summoner, we hope you can give some feedback on that!.

We would like to thank our Ragnarok Community for their patience and support this past month while we worked on fixing various login problems. We are making progress and should soon have the problem eliminated. But that isn't what this News notice is all about.

We have given every RO account that was active in the past 10 days, 2 Days of Free VIP. You should have VIP from now Through Sunday March 4th until around 11am. So try it out!

Additionally to our VIP players who were inconvenienced by the Login problems we have given an additional 3 days VIP, for a total of 5 more.

We look forward to Marching through this month with you!

A short maintenance is planned for Thursday march 1st at 1:30pm.

• We will be updating the Homunculus Resetter to do the free Homunculus evolution for those on the lists.
• Removing the special event sellers.
• Stopping the February Bonus VIP event

Thank you,

As time progresses there is need to update old NPCs to better service the community and expand gameplay in meaningful ways. With this intention in mind we are notifying the community that Mary Badger in the Eden Group will discontinue taking the MVP Etc items that drop and exchanging them to Eden Merit Badgers.

Related, the Summoner of MVPs in Geffen Tower will discontinue his services on February 28th, as will the update of Mary Badger.

We are intending on updating both these NPCs with different trade rates, and in the case of the Summoner, we will update his processes to inspire more fun group play when you summon.

This may seem ubrupt to discontinue the Summoner even for a week or 2, but it is needful due to we cannot update him while he is still active as it is more disruptive to the community to have him changing every week rather than leave, fix and return better than ever.

So please exchange your MVP etc items with Mary Badger before the 28th to get your best Eden Merit Badge Ratio.

Thank you,