New Player's Guide to Ragnarok

[Adrillf]

2- Items and NPC?s you need

Within this confusing, massive game, there are things that can make your life a million times easier, but if you don?t know what they are, you?ll find out about them too late and hate yourself for doing anything without them. In this shorter section we?re going to go over some basic items and basic NPC?s that will save your skin more times than you want to count. I?ll go over items first, and then move onto the NPC?s.

Fly wings- These black splotches that can be bought from a bunch of basic venders randomly teleport you to anywhere on the map that you are currently on. This might not sound that great, but there are a few things to notice within this game. First- some maps are HUGE, and to walk them from end to end takes a very long time, so if you want to speed up your travel, carry a few dozen fly wings and jump around a map until you?re significantly closer to where you want to be and then walk. It?ll cut down on your travel time which means you can get to your leveling and zenny farming faster. Second- as long as you?re not casting a spell, you can use flywings at any time (except for some very specific maps) which allows you to run away from harry situations. When a death costs you 1%, and the travel time it takes to get back to your map, a fly wing can get you out of almost dying, heal back up, and head back in to try to keep doing what you were doing. Using a f-wing also allows you the same immunity as when you walk through a portal from one map to another. There?s a three second window after you walk through a warp portal, or use a f-wing, that as long as you don?t move or act monsters don?t see you. This way you can jump around, and if you jump into a harry situation you don?t have to worry about instantly getting killed.

Butterfly wings- Anytime that you leave a town, have one of these on you. These wings send you back to your home town no matter what. After you?ve gathered your items, grinded out your next 30%, or you?re overweight and can?t carry any more loot, use a butterfly wing to go home without having to die and lose 1% of your exp. There is rarely a time when you wouldn?t want to have a b-wing in your inventory.

Important NPC?s.

Kafra (Cool Event Corp) NPC?s. These NPC?s are in every town and do a few great things. They save that town as your respawn and butterfly wing home town and they open up your storage. Storage is one of the most awesome things in the game. Use it frequently and stuff everything in it. There are an overwhelming amount of quests as part of this game, and 99% of them are fetch quests, so the more random junk you have in your storage the more likely you are to be prepared for when the NPC starts begging you for green herbs, ice hearts, stems, hammers, or whatever else it is that they want from you. In general, be very careful when selling anything from storage, because nothing will make you as upset as you will be when as a level 20 newbie you got a peco peco egg card, saw that it sells for 10z on the market, and so you sold it to an NPC only later to find out it?s about a million (literally) times worth that. The last thing that Kafra can do is warp you to nearby towns. They can not send you to every single town, but they can get you close to nearby towns and occasionally nearby dungeons. You might have to pay a bit of money, but they cut down on walking time, and that?s a big thing.


Healer NPC- She heals you! Use her. She?s cheaper than using pots, and more efficient than just sitting around waiting for your natural regen to fix it. The cost is minimal, and helps you get back out into the world to kill things.

Brother sister warp duo. These two are special just for heRO. Every town and every dungeon worth mentioning, have a duo waiting in them for you to unlock. They cost money to unlock the location (the more dangerous or rare the location, the more zenny it?ll cost) but once unlocked, you can warp to that location from any brother sister duo in the game.

Along these lines it's also important to know that heRO has a custom quest for new players that helps you unlock a lot of the major towns. Speak with the warp sister in Prontera to start this quest, and you'll be introduced to the game as well as a few of the customs that we have here.

There are other NPC?s in towns and fun things that you can play with, but these are the ones that I think are the most underused, and can change your early introduction into the game.