Difference between revisions of "Server Specs"

Revision as of 05:11, 27 October 2024

heRO is a private server, but it's also a great project, and we do our best to make our server a fun and enjoyable place to be for everyone. We have a plethora of custom content, which we make sure is balanced, in order to make it our own special RO world along with many quality of life improvements.

Game Mode

• Pre-Renewal
• Renewal content (defined as all content after Satan Morroc) is customized for Pre-Renewal mechanics and gameplay

Server Rates

• 5x Base Experience
• 5x Job Experience
• 5x Quest Experience
• 5x Homunculus Experience

heRO also has lot of custom monsters, including options for newer players (as low as level 20) so that there are new level spots beyond the usual Spores and Wolves. Typically, custom monsters have an Exp/HP ratio of 1.6 to 1.8. Tougher monsters or high end monsters can exceed to 2 Exp/HP or higher.

• 5x Item Drop Rate

Although heRO operates at a 5x Item Drop Rate, heRO has lot of drop rate related changes to reduce frustrations or reduce the mindless repeated item grinds. heRO greatly increased rare equipment drop rate from regular monsters especially older equipment to be more reasonable by modern day standards. Most normal monsters drop their equipment at 0.5% if the monster is considered soloable without too much gears, or 0.75-1% for monsters that are more difficult. High end monsters or monsters in dungeons that require a party have a further multiplier for equipment drop rates so that on average, each player in a party will obey the drop rate listed above. For example, if a dungeon is expected to be done by a party of 3, monsters may have equipment drop at a rate of 1.5% to 5% such that factoring in party share, each player will see items in 0.5% to 1% drop rate again. This does not apply to monsters considered as miniboss of a dungeon, or any MVPs.

For some constant high demand small items such as White Herbs and Blue Herbs, heRO has chosen to scale up the drop rate of these items according to monster HP so that players are not stuck on low level spots that are usually chosen to farm these items. heRO wants to reward players who explore or go to more challenging locations, and the game should not be forcing you to return to older spots just to farm common items like herbs. These items may also drop in form of boxes so that killing some monsters may drop multiple of these highly in-demand items.

Please refer to the Quality of Life section below for more details.

• Crystal Mirror has a 20% decrease in sale price. All monsters who drop Crystal Mirror, with the exception of Mavka, has a boost of their Crystal Mirror drop rate by 20% or higher to compensate.

• 5x War of Emperium Treasure Chest Drop Rate
• 5x Skill Drop Rate (Blacksmith's Finding Ore, etc.)
• 5x Item-Granted Drop Rate (Mimic Card, etc.)
• 10x Card Drop Rate
• 5x MVP Card Drop Rate

• 5x Pet Intimacy Rate
• 1x Pet Hunger Rate
• 5x Homunculus Intimacy Rate
  

• Some regular monsters have spawn delay changes as we believe that timegating should be kept to a minimum, and player should be able to play the game whenever they want. Please refer to this changelog post for details

Game Mechanics Information

• Non-Trans Classes' Max Level is 99/50
• Extended Classes' Max Level is 99/70
• Super Novices' Max Level is 99/99
• Transcendent Classes' Max Level is 99/70

• Max ASPD: 190
• Instant Cast: 150 DEX
• Max DEF: 95
• Max MDEF: 100 (same effect as Golden Thief Bug card if reached)
• Max racial resistance: 85%
• Max elemental resistance: unlimited (if it exceeds 100%, then attacks of that element will heal you)

• Regular Vending Tax of 2.1%
• Purchase Stalls (Buying Store) are available

• No Multi-client allowed
• Party share level: 15
• Max Party Size: 18 players
• Bonus of 80% Experience for each additional member in a share party

• Some classes have modified game mechanics made to improve weaker classes or introduce Quality of Life improvements. Please see this page for information

Server Location & Information

• English speaking
• Time Zone: EST (GMT-5)
• Hosted in North America
• Professional, dedicated hosting
• No Wipes Ever for over 19 years!

Quality of Life Improvements

Class Costumes

Once you have transed, or is an extended class member, you can talk to Styla in Prontera to apply class costumes so that you can look like other classes!

Equipment Loadout and Gearsets

You can save different equipment sets as loadout and swap between them back and forth easily. For information on how to use this system, click on the link above.

Modified Drops for Common Items

Items that are constantly needed in bulk are changed in heRO to drop more often, or drop in multiples. These boxes often scale with monster difficulty so that stronger players don't need to stick to lower level spots to obtain some of these items like a traditional server. This applies to herbs, Elunium, Oridecon, Steel, Witch Starsand and more.

Please refer to the following in our database as an example for herbs and steel:

• Small White Herb Box
• Large White Herb Box
• Heroic White Herb Box
• Small Blue Herb Box
• Large Blue Herb Box
• Heroic Blue Herb Box
• Small Steel Box
• Large Steel Box
• Heroic Steel Box
• Small Witched Starsand Box

Restock

Restock can be setup to automatically stock up on items of your choice at spawn points and near any kafras, so that you can restock your fly wings, butterfly wings, ammos and catalyst items automatically. It can also be used to automatically store any items except for gears that you have equipped, or gears that you have as your Favorites. See the linked page on how to setup your restock.

Brewing Room

Crafter's Guild provides many NPCs that can provide brewing related buffs within the area. This should drastically reduce the need of a "brewing party" so that if you can assemble your guild, you can spend the time to go do fun activities and instances instead of brewing.

Active GMs

• The GM team is there to answer your questions and/or point you in the right direction for finding what you need.
• We hold regular events, such as the Trial of Heroes
• Automated events available to be triggered and hosted by players via an Event Bag
• We add custom quests, even player-written ones.

Chronicles of the Heroes

Our server's own storyline, watch as it unfolds with YOU as the characters!

• Join the Light or Dark side by talking to the Allegiance NPC in Prontera
• Earn Allegiance points (Light or Dark) by completing our custom quest or participating in special Light VS Dark events!
• Get special hero equipment with your Allegiance points!

Custom NPCs and Quality of Life Improvements

• Healer (for a small fee), or you can use the Inns for healing that also comes with a 15 min HP regen buff (extended Small Life Potion) once every 30 minutes
• Reset Master with adaptive prices
• City and Dungeon Warper with unlockable warps on an account level (unlock once for all characters within the same account)
• Costume Crafters to create over 500 Costumes
• Buying Store via Stall Permits for all characters at a low fee
• Special DB room and DB seller
• Stylist with lots of custom palettes
• PVP warper
• Banker to transfer zeny between different players, including from one of your character to another character on a different account
• Restock to automatically stock up on items of your choice at spawn points and near any kafras
• Plagiarism NPC to teach rogue their skill to copy instead of requiring a player to give you the skill
• Crafter's Guild to reduce the need of a party in order to brew, forge or cook on your own
• Veterinarian can disguise your pet to have the appearance of another pet

More fun stuff

• Mining system
• Fishing system with 3 unique spots designed to have different difficulties!
• Nobility system
• Reputation System
• Great community
• Discord channel
• Our own storyline via the Chronicle of the Heroes- heRO Roleplay
• Lots of customization, be it monsters, items or quests. For information about our monsters or items, please use our DB website

WoE Twice A Week

To keep the wars fun and action-filled we have only opened 2 normal castles so far. The server is based in EST time (Eastern part of America), but we tried to make sure the hours were also accessible to other timezones, and that WoE hours do not prevent most people from having a social life.