As of December 13, 2010 the Ragnarok Online Hourly Subscription will no longer be available for purchase.

Remaining hourly subscription will continue to expire as normal.

We are performing this change to prepare for our eventual shift to Free to Play in early 2011. For more details regarding the Free to Play change please visit our forums.

The full suite of HD upgrade stones have been released today! With this update you have the opportunity to upgrade without fear of the item completely breaking on a failure!

For the upgrade system we have the following components:

Elunium / Oridecon / Phracon / Emveretacon
Found in-game and used to attempt to upgrade Armor and weapons at a number of regular upgrade NPCs from 0-10.
Basic success chance, on a failure the item is lost.

Carnium / Bradium
Found or created in-game to upgrade Armor and Weapons from 10-20.
Basic Success Chance, on a failure a chance to degrade 3 levels or breaks. NPC is in the Prontera Upgrade shop classroom.

Enriched Elunium / Enriched Oridecon (Suhnbi in Payon)
Upgrade Armor & Weapons at an enhanced rate, on a failure the item is lost. Sold for 30pts.
On Valkyrie allows safe upgrade from:
0 -> 4 : Armor
0 -> 7 : Level 1 Weapon
0 -> 6 : Level 2 Weapon
0 -> 5 : Level 3 Weapon
0 -> 4 : Level 4 Weapon

HD Elunium / HD Oridecon (Mighty Hammer)
Upgrade armor and Weapons from +4 through +10. Uses the normal Rate, but on a failure the item is degraded 1 level.
Sold for 10 Points.

HD Carnium / HD Bradium (Basta in Payon)
Upgrade armor and Weapons from +10 through +20. Uses the normal Rate, but on a failure the item is degraded 1 level.
Sold for 15 Points.

We hope you have happy upgrading!

As many of you have seen, their are numerous level 150 3rd classes in-game, but you may not realize that almost none of them started a brand new character when the renewal launched!

This means you can still be a winner! You must have a new character that was created after 21st of October, and that character must NOT use the Bloody Dead Branch room or use Marvelous medals to level.

If the character gained exp from those methods it isn't qualified for the Race! So fire up your spirit and go fight for your spot in the hall of honor as one of our first level 150 characters on iRO!

You can still qualify for the "gear being upgraded to +11" prize and interview.

Starting on November 24th we have lots of special things happening!

Any conversion of 1000 or more WP Energy to Kafra Points will receive +40% value! This is available Wednesday 11/24 5pm to Monday 11/29 5pm. So stock up now!

Enriched Oridecon and Enriched Elunium will be sold on all servers for 30 pts (105 for a box).

Through December 2nd: He Battle Manuals and Boxes of 30 Insurance will be available too!

The Brandos will be in Rachel, celebrating their Thanksgiving until December 9th.

150% exp event from the Thanksgiving Like-a-Thon event on the Facebook.

And Triple Spawns in Rachel Sanctuary and Geffenia through December 9th!

If you want to download the Ragnarok Game Client optimally, please use the Bit Torrent link and a Bit Torrent client which supports HTTP and Torrent downloads. We have updated the download site to stream both through bit torrent.

If there are few seeds the Bit Torrent client will download from the HTTP. If there are plenty of seeders you will use the faster Bit Torrent option.

Happy Downloading!