New Player's Guide to Ragnarok

[Adrillf]

1- RO Shortcuts and Interface Tools

This game is old, but it has a lot of tools and shortcuts for you to use and can help speed up the game when you?re playing. There are a few essential ones that will help you learn the game and help you transition into the game like a pro.

The first group of shortcuts we?re going to go into is your keyboard shortcuts. Some of these windows can be pulled up without these shortcuts, but quite a few of them can only be pulled up through the keyboard shortcuts. I?m going to start at the top of the keyboard and work from there.
Alt+ 1-0 = These shortcuts can be changed to whatever you want them through the use of alt+m. Personally I like having @main off, @main on, and /bm as part of these, but that is up to you. In parties later on if there?s a phrase that you need to constantly say like, ?SP Please? you can hotkey it into these shortcuts so that whenever you?re short on SP you can just hit alt+3 (or wherever you have it set to)
Alt+ Q = This brings up your equipment and the gear that you currently have on. To take anything off, you need to double click it, and it?ll go into your inventory. You can also drag it off of your character and into your equipment window if you have that open.
Alt+E= This brings up your backpack or held equipment. It has three tabs on it and is broken into item, equip, and etc.
Alt+Y= This brings up your command list, each of these changes the game and how you interact with it. It?s a crazy list, but luckily for you, if you scroll over them you can see a small highlighted window of what they do when they are on/off. By using things like /bm and /q1 /q2 and /q3 you can really start to use your entire keyboard and mouse to use items and skills.
Alt+U= This brings up a quest list, but I?ve never really seen it work, or in use. It never quite has all of your quests on it, and sometimes the information on it is wrong, or not translated right.
Alt+I= This changes your interaction with your friends list and how you receive messages from them.
Alt+O= This changes the sound settings within the game. It?s up to you on how loud or soft you want the BGM and sound effects, so play with the sliders and see. Not only does it do that, but it also covers settings like noctrl (which allows you to continually autoattack without having to hit control first) as well as your mouse snap options. Mouse snapping is a form of assisted targeting, where you don?t have to be exactly on the target, but just near them and your pointer will snap to where it needs to be.
Alt+P= This is your party set up window. If your party is in range of each other (everyone within 10 levels of each other) you can share exp, and even if you?re not you can share the drops and they will be randomly distributed to your team.
Alt+A= Attributes window. If you ever need to see your base scores, your attack or whatever else it is that you?re looking for. Just know that for a new player to be very cautious with distributing your attributes. Luckily for you on heRO you can reset your scores (for a price) but be very careful with handing stats out because they can make or break your character.
Alt+S = Skills window. All of your skills that you can have, or do have, are in this one.
Alt+G= Guild window. If you?ve been invited to a guild, this is how you see who is online, and what is going on with your guild.
Alt+H= Friends window. If you ever run into a person that?s helpful or a great party member, friend them and you can see if they?re online through this window.
Alt+L= emoticon list. You can put these in your alt+m list, or you can type them in normal chat, and the bubble emotion will show up above your head.
Alt+Z= party member list. Where alt+p brings up party options, this brings up the people that are actually in your party. If you are playing certain classes, you can use this window to target your party members, instead of trying to mouse over them while they run around in mobs and the chaos that is a good party.
Alt+X= exit window. You can change characters or exit through this list. If you are playing on the no death client, this is the only way that you can respawn on death.
Alt+C= Chat room creation. You can name the room, set the people limit, and even put a password on it if you want.
Alt+V= This command expands or contracts your information. I?d suggest keeping it compressed to allow for more screen space, but it?s up to you.

There are a few ctrl commands that you can know as well
Ctrl+- = Scissors (or a peace sign)
Ctrl+= = Rock (fist pump)
Ctrl+\ = Paper (high five)
Ctrl+`= world map, but no dungeon maps
Ctrl+tab = makes the mini map more or less visible.
That covers a lot of the keyboard shortcuts, and now we get to move onto the typed commands that you can use while in heRO. If you ever forget them, or need a refresher on what they are just type in @commands for all of your @ commands or /help for a lot of your / commands. The / commands have good descriptions as to what they do, but the @ commands just have a list, so I?m going to go into the @commands to try to help you out in using them.

@who (Character?s name) ? This is a way to see if someone is online. If you want to know if someone is online, you just type in this command and you can see if they?re online.
@who2 (character?s name) ? This command gives you more information about the person you searched. Their level and their job.
@pettalk (what you want your pet to say) ? make your pet talk for you
@autoloot (number between 0-100) ? this sets your loot to gather everything UNDER that number when it drops. For example if something drops at 60% of the time, you?re going to want to use @autoloot 60. If you use @autoloot 59, any time it drops or anything that drops more than 59% of the time will fall on the ground and you won?t automatically pick it up into your inventory.
@mi @mobinfo @monsterinfo (monster name or ID number)- gives you all of the information you ever wanted about that mob including their stats, their element, their size, and even their loot.
@whodrops (item name) ? great thing when trying to hunt down items. The only down side is that it only shows you the top 5 monsters that drop that item. It gives you a starting point, but not the full picture.
@me (emotion) ? allows you to ?role play? an action or command that your character does.
@showexp (on/off) ? turns the exp gain on/off in your chat window. Sometimes when you?re grinding you don?t want to see these numbers so it help to turn it off.
@duel (character name)- starts a duel
@accept ? accepts a duel
@reject ? rejects a duel
@ws @whosell @whosells (item name or ID number)- tells you which other player is selling a specific item, how much it will cost you, and where to find the shop that is selling it.
@main (chatter)- This is the way to chat with the entire server. No matter where you are at in the game, @main will get to you. Luckily you can use ?@main off? to stop the chatter, but if you ever miss the rest of us, just use ?@main on? and we?ll be back in your head.

There?s only one last group that you need to know, and that?s how to change who you?re talking to. All of these are global chat options, and you?ll be able to hear them no matter where you are in the game.

Ways to use guild chat-
/gc (message)
$ (message)
Or just click the first button on the bottom right corner of your chat interface and click on Send to Guild and everything you type will go to guild.

Ways to use party chat-
/pc (message)
% (message)
Or just click the first button on the bottom right corner of your chat interface and click on Send to Party and everything you type will go to party.

Whispers
To whisper someone you need to type in their name in the first smaller box of your chat screen and then write whatever message you need to write them on the normal text section. There are a few tricks to writing people?s names because sometimes it?s hard to type a long name, or a name who uses capital I?s to double as lower case L?s. The first trick is clicking on the person?s name in the actual chat if they have spoken on @main or in general chat. This adds them to a list of recent contacts and when you?re in the small box you can use your up and down arrows to change who you are inviting. This way if you see a party organizing all you have to do is click on the leader?s name from their @main add, press up, and their name should automatically be added into the whisper box.

Last but certainly not least- the command /bm or /battlemode.
When first playing the game, and your first job, and even into your 60?s or 70?s you can play with one bar of skills and just use the f1-9 keys to use your set up keys. However, there will be a time where you want to be able to swap your gear, use items, and use more than 9 total skills, and you?ll have to learn battle mode. Battle mode turns your three rows of letters on your keyboard into hotkeys for skills, items, or gears. Right now in row 1 is z-. ; row 2 is q-o; row 3 is a-l. In an upcoming patch you?ll be able to set up your own hotkeys in your own battle mode. While in battle mode, you can not type (because typing might trigger three skills, use up a few pots or port you to weird locations) so if you want to type, hit the space bar first, and then type what you want. This starts a very bad habit for a lot of RO players because any time they want to type they first hit the space bar, which results in an extra space before what they say in other chat programs. It isn?t super noticeable, but a lot of players that use /bm do this.