Begginer's Guide To Card Hunting

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Card Hunting In General
Card Hunting in Ragnarok is probably one of the most tedious but rewarding tasks there is to do. Besides being worth millions of zeny, cards also grant you special stats or abilities that are not found on regular gear. In this guide I will share my knowledge on low level card hunting and how to do it.


Why Even Bother With Card Hunting?
Given HeRO's currently inflated economy you may be asking "why even bother spending days hunting for a card, when I can just spend a couple hours farming junk drops at hillwinds and buy it?" Well the answer is simple. Although it is a lot easier just to farm zeny and buy the card you want, it may not always be available and if it is, it is probably overly priced. Even the cards from the easiest monsters like Zeroms, Planktons, Etc. are so high in??demand that you almost never see them on vend. So, if you want that godly Zerom card you are going to have to buckle down and do some hunting.


How To Do It
Now we get to the good part of this guide. The who, what, where and how of card hunting.
Who?-Basically any class that can kill fast and can move fast. I prefer Knights/Crusaders because they get a bonus movement from their Pecos and it also stacks with movement increasing gear/consumables. Snipers with Wind Walk also work great as well as Linkers and Monks.
How?-There are 2 major parts to being a successful card hunter. Moving Fast and Killing Fast. The faster you can kill a monster the faster you get its drop. Moving fast is also important because being able to move from one monster to the next as quick as possible increases the number of monsters you can kill per hour, therefore increasing the number of chances of getting a card drop. That's why it is important to pick a character that can move fast and kill a monster in 1-2 shots. Movement increasing gear like PecoPeco Hairband or Marvelous Wig is a must have. If you don't have those then grab a couple of Authoritative Badges. Flywing'ing around the map isn't efficient and is a waste of wings. Also try to do "laps" around the map. This way you are spreading the mobs out evenly. If you only hunt a certain area of a map for too long the monsters eventually respawn and group up together in another area of the map.
What?-Chicken Butt.
Where?-I will now list some of the good places to hunt for cards. Feel free to mention if I have missed any other good places.


Byalan Dungeon 1-5

Probably one of the best places to hunt. Almost ever monster in Byalan Dungeon drops a good card. The first 3 levels are pretty easy as you can easily 1-2 shot kill all the monsters. The 4-5 levels are a little bit more difficult as they contain harder monsters. You might need a stronger character to be able to kill those.


Sphinx 2

Sphinx 2 is a pain in the a** to hunt just because the map is so hard to navigate, but the cards that drop here are probably the most valuable. Zerom Cards sell for about 15m and Matyr Cards about 6m+.


Peco Peco Island

3 maps south of Prontera is Peco Peco Island. This is a good place to hunt because Peco Peco Egg Cards sell for 12m and Peco Peco Cards for 2m-3m. Peco Pecos also drop oranges that refill your SP. So you can basically hunt here forever without having to sit or bringing along SP items.


Thara Frog Cave

Thara Frog Cave is one map right of Comodo and has 2 of the best pvp cards to drop, Thara Frog Card and Hydra Card. Both are extremely easy to kill. Much of the map is non-playable terrain so the monsters tend to group up very nice for you.


Poring Island

Poring Island is 2 south and 1 right of Prontera. The poring cards that drop here are hatter cards so are only worth 400k-500k but have the highest chances of dropping out of any monster in the game (.15% versus the normal .03%). So If you are a big Hatter addict this is the place to hunt your hatters. If you are strong enough you can also try your luck at the poring mini-bosses here (Angeling, Deviling, Ghostring). Their cards, although rare, are extremely valuable.

These are the only places I could think of at the moment. If anyone has any other good spots to hunt feel free to post. Thanks for reading my guide and hopefully this will help you in your quest for cards. Feel free give constructive criticism.