Announcements

Although the nights are long and dark, folks all over Althea are in good cheer - Our holiday festival is now live!
Visit our dedicated Winter Promotion Page for a detailed season overview.
 
    Event 01 - Bonus Cash Points
During the entire Wintersday Season we package an extra +20% Cash Points on top of every Cash Point purchase. The total cash point amount you'll recieve can be reviewed on PayPal before confirmation.
 
    Event 02 - PvP Bonus Rewards
Earn bonus currency rewards in both Battlegrounds and War of Emperium!
Play your favorite battleground and recieve +50% heroism badges in your favorite modes.
WoE events attended during the Wintersday season will accommodate an additional +20% Emperium Fragments.
 
    Event 03 - GRO Gift Boxes
Starting today until the 31th December you've got the chance to win GRO Gift Boxes from several different activities.
You can earn up to 50 Gift Boxes which contain valuable consumables or wintersday exclusive costumes!
 
    Event 04 - Santa Letter Event
Santa's is preparing a pile of presents for the most original artists and writers.
This forum exclusive event will start at the 10th of December.
More details will follow.
 
    Bonus - Gods Smelting
The Gods Smelting represents the event bonuses mentioned in our Refinement Chance tables of our wiki.
This is the time to take out your best gear, some refinement material and take use of your best possible chances.
 
    Wintersday Quests
Santa and his little helpers showed up all around midgard awaiting your help in exchange for headgears and consumable gifts.
For more details visit our annual Wintersday page.
 

Server was undergoing hardware maintenance and is now back online.
Shadow's Eve events have ended.

It's time to gather for mischief and mayhem during this year's Shadow's Eve!
Our anual events have returned and shines with new rewards for you to unlock.
 
    Spooky Machine
The Spooky Machine can be found in front of the Adventure Guild.
Interact with the machine to recieve a Cracked Buckler shield. Equip the shield and interact with it once more.


It will attempt to upgrade your Cracked Buckler as high as it possibly can until it breaks.
Depending on which upgrade level the item breaks, you will get a prize in return! If the buckler is upgraded to +10 or higher you'll get a Shadow's Eve Egg which includes a mystery costume and a chance for more!
This event can be played once per day.
 
    Spooky Cash Shop

Unlock brand new costumes that have been packed into the updated Shadow's Eve Egg!
We've also added annual wing costumes that fit the theme. Go grab them while they're still available!
Our pet costume roaster has also recieved new additions and is now featuring a total of 8 cute costume pets.
 
    Scatleton & Skelion Cute Pet
There's a small chance to get one exclusive Pet ( Scatleton or  Skelion Pet) randomly out of a Shadow's Eve Egg.
Their favorite food Fresh Fish and Yummy Meat can both be purchased with regular zeny in Althea's pet shop throughout the year.

    

    
 
 
    Shadow Quests
When the leaves start falling, our annual Event has started, including all of our previous Halloween Event quests.
You can repeat each one of them, even if you've finished them during the past years!


 
 
    Shadow's Eve Invasion
Shadows are upon us! They've risen from the deepest darkness and are attacking Althea's citizens!
The invasion takes place in Althea and has a bigger chance to trigger automatically (every hour) than our common invasions.



Invasion takes place within the boundaries of the orange marked area.

Take part in this years Shadow's Eve invasion led by Shadow's Kiel and get the chance to get your hands on a rare Halloween Coin dropped by the special Ghostring only!
Make sure you activate the command @aloot item 6658 before participating in the invasion.

Our Event Staff Laura will exchange each Halloween Coin for a Shadow's Eve Egg!
 

New Design
Our web design has seen drastic change over the past few weeks.
The landing page is cleaner than ever before, inviting new players into the world of midgard and beyond!
While old design was overloaded with small portions of information, the new design allows your eyes to rest and sink into information while scrolling down.
We now have the opportunity to showcase news, features, classes and screenshots right at the front page with a dynamic, responsive design.

 
    Mobile Friendly
We're happy to announce that our website is now fully mobile friendly!
This is an important part of every website that seeks visitors, as google & co rates website search ranking based on mobile friendliness more than ever before.
The only part of our website that was mobile friendly up this date, was our forums.
The main website and also our wiki, was in most cases a burden to navigate on your smartphone or tablets.
Our website will now properly scale and adapt its content to your screen size, on every page, at any given time.
It also features proper touch-gestures for you to navigate through.

Large database tables will no longer scale down until it fits your screen, instead you can scroll through information using touch-gestures.
As such, you will never have to zoom-in to be able to read tiny text ever again.
While some of our pages still require additional touches, we're happy to offer you the full experience also on mobile devices!
      
 
    Functionality
While the main functionality of our website didn't change much, it still comes with several smaller improvements.
Character Overview
Our landing page now shows all your characters in a touch-friendly slider.
It's a very convenient feature as it allows you to get a compressed overview of all your ingame characters, including gear and costume information.
Simply login, and you're ready to go!


Sub Menu
Sub Menus are now displayed as actual buttons, instead of simple text links. This increases their visibility and makes it easier to navigate through pages. The currently selected page is now also highlighted as such.


Login Mask
Our login masks have been impproved, so password manager plugins have an easier time to properly detect the forms.
That means that browser plugins for password managers like Last Pass, Dash Lane and co can fill the login forms instantly.
News
Just like on our patcher, our website latest news section now feature eye-candied news slider instead of just a plain text link.
Database
Since our website main content width has been increased, this also allows us to display more table information at once.
That means that certain database tables will show additional rows that weren't accessible before.
Other
Hundreds of other small improvements and tweaks have been made, and we will continue to improve on our web presentation.
 
    Security & Performance
Not just fancy new images have found their way into the website, especialy lots of code changes took place.
It has always been a high priority to GatheringRO to use the latest technologies that allows us to deliver fast and secure content.
With these latest updates we're doubling down on security and performance aspects of our website.
This includes control panel, wiki and forum updates, higher tls encryption standards, firewall improvements, improved paint time for javascript, increased caching times, higher and better image compression and much more!
We're still tweaking the new website to its best possible potential.
 
    Bugs
We're aware that the current state includes a few bugs here and there.
We will continue to work on the website for the upcoming weeks, and improve upon that.
In any case, we're happy to recieve bug reports anyways. Make sure to select the "Website Functionality" or "Website Information" category respectively when reporting website issues.
https://gatheringro.com/community/bugtracker/
Thank you!

New Server Hardware
GatheringRO has been successfully merged to brand new server hardware.
With that, the game server is now running on the latest generation of hardware available, which gives us a great performance boost in all directions.
We made sure to get rid of bottlenecks that we've noticed on our recent server, but also improved performance overall.
Since our patcher system is now running through our website instead of the old game server, this swap was seamless, without the need to re-install the game client.
 
    SQL Database Performance
A server migration is always a great opportunity to get core software back up to speed with their latest version releases.
But running and maintaining an SQL Database with a vast amount of data bandwith usage can be challenging.
We've invested most of the migration time to improve on core SQL settings, which is the very heart of our game.
Basically everything you do runs through and saves within our SQL database in one way or another.
We will continue to monitor our tweaks to improve our database performance even further, as soon as we've gathered enough live data to do so.
 
    Server Security
We've always given great care to the security of our game server, but there's always room to improve upon security.
That's why we've increased our security standards for our game server, to keep your account and characters safe and sound.
Please don't forget that it's still necessary for you to keep your username and password private and safe. Do not share them with anyone! We will never ask you for your password.
We highly recommend using password managers like LastPass, to create strong passwords without the struggle to remember them.
 
    Server Time
Our heroes failed to stop Time Holder, as he managed to change our server time!
But we think he did a great deed! Not only our base time changed, but we also got rid of daylight saving time.
Everything around Gathering Ragnarok Online is now running on the UTC standard format, instead of GMT+1 (+Daylight Saving Time).
What does that mean?
 Coordinated Universal Time (or UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It represents both, UTC (+ 0) and GMT (+ 0). No daylight saving time means, that we will no longer adjust our server time during winter and summer time. It will never change ever again! Conclusion:
It will be easier for players worldwide to calculate the time difference between the server and your county.
If you live in an area of UTC + 4 (or GMT +4), you're simply running 4 hours ahead of our server time.
More and more countries are getting rid of the daylight saving time recently, while others never used it in the first place. We're glad to support the cause by creating more simple time management in our daily life.
In-Game Events:
Our event triggers (WoE, BG Happy Hours, World Bosses) haven't changed yet!
That means everything starts 2 hours prior than before the server migration took place.
We might adjust all events by 1 or 2 hours in a future update, to compensate for the time change.
Both our Website, and the World Boss timers have been adjusted accordingly to represent the new time base.
 
    WoE Rewards
We've witnessed several players trying to abuse the WoE reward system by feeding kills to friends.
As a result, a handful of player accounts have been temporarily banned and punished additionaly.
At the same time, we've adjusted the WoE reward system, which now punishes feeding accordingly by design.
We also took the time to rebalance some of the base rewards, especially for player kills to fight further against abuse.
Please note that these abuse cases had nothing to do with the recent server downtime.
 
    Important Statement
Details about the server downtime will not be shared, due to several reasons. However:
We've implemented several counter measurements and increased our logging capabilities to silently track down people we haven't catched just yet, or who're already on our radar. ~<3
We have an absolute 0 tolerance policy to cheating and bug abusing. We don't care about your invested time as long as you don't care about us.
Make sure you're aware about our In-Game rules before heading into oblivion. Just because we haven't catched you right away doesn't mean that you escaped punishment.
Always report bugs, exploits and any other kind of abnormal behavior that you encounter, as stated in our rules.
Don't give us a reason to sneak up on you in the first place.
Second chance is considered creating a new account, not unbanning an account that has been permanently banned.
Since permanent cases have been harming the server/economy and player fairness directly, we show as much mercy as they've shown us and the community. The only way to lower your punishment or be released from it entirely, is by filling a private support ticket or a bug report beforehand.
Please note that we do not hand out permanent bans lightly, they're always our last resort.
Punishments are based on: Type of Theft, Total account history, amount of work that has been put into fixing the mess, how much/long the abuse has been taking place and so on. Once you're on our radar, we take the time to invest your account logs several years backwards.
Investigating is always extremely time consuming, which means that other content will be delayed eventualy.
But we take our time to prevent false punishments, and also to understand the core issue, so we can fix it up.
 
We believe that games should be an escape from reality, so show our community that you're better than the real world out there.
Support us by reporting.
Thank your for your understanding, and your support.

Thank you all for participating in our latest survey, we really appreciate your feedback!
We're glad to hear, that the majority of our player base liked or even loved the recent changes that went through our patcher, forum and news systems.
Also our cloud infrastructure changes reflected in great website speeds and patching download speed improvements all over the globe, based on your feedback!
We couldn't be more happy about the positive words we've recieved!
 
    The Game
But now, let's talk about the most important thing, that is the game.
We hear you loud and clear, you want changes to the game, the meta, content and events.
GatheringRO has come a long way, 15 years in its original creation that started off with basically no balancing that evolved into full fleshed rebalancings of classes and skills over the years.
New classes have been introduced, and the big Renewal patch shifted the meta and gameplay mechanics on a whole new level.
The core issues of GatheringRO have always been our vast amount of customizations, that forced us to rebalance every single content we've ever released, simply to match our customizations. Rather than being able to push out new content when they became available, it took us months to get things ready to a somewhat balanced state. Players then had to struggle with handing us lots of feedback, to re-balance our balancing patch and so on.
It has always been like this, so we simply moved on with what we've had.
But all this struggle shall come to an end, and we're here to tell you how, and why.
 
    Normalization
You've heard it in our latest survey, the big word "Normalization". What what is all about?
We were shocked, by how many players were ready with a "Yes, i'm all in", both PvP and PvE players, and we couldn't be more happy about your reactions.
But we feel like these major core gameplay changes require a more detailed summary, to show you in advance what you're willing to sign up for.
So let's get you up to speed, as we look into the upcoming patch, that brings major core gameplay changes to GatheringRO.
 
    Max Levels
Ragnarok Online has been keeping up with base level increasements over the years. With the planned 4th classes that will become available on official servers in the future, they have planned to get up to Base level 250, which we've always had!
Since the base plan of the Normalization will be to be on par with the official balancing, we're planning to lower the base and job level to the current official one, which is 200 for the base, and 70 for the job level for 3rd classes. This is required so you don't have access to extra attribute points or extra skills, that create untested, maybe badly scaled power peaks under certain circumstances.
With a max job level of 70, it will affect you heavily on your skill builds.
You will have to put much more thought into what skills you're going to unlock, and what fits your playstyle best.
Having access to all skills at any given time will no longer be possible, thus creating your personal builds will become more rewarding and exciting.
Although this change will make you directly weaker, please note that all players and the rest of the game is scaling down with you, as you will notice further down below. At some point in time, we will then follow up with official 4th class release that brings the base level cap of 250 back to the game. But that's a long road ahead from now.
 
    Max Attributes
For a complete rebalancing act, we will have to reset your lovely character attributes, so you can re-assign them with the official limitations.
Our maximum attribute points will change from a total of 200, down to 130 per attribute.
As part of the complete normalization (aka Official Balance), these changes are required to get the official skill and characters strength to a harmonized level.
The importance of your gear and card selection will increase, as you will strive for best possible cooldown and cast time reductions. This change plays a major role to bring the character overall abilities on part with the official PvP and PvE balancings.
Max ASPD will stay the same, although it will be harder to reach the cap due to the new attribute limitations and base level cap. But yet again, everything else in the world scales down with you.
 
    Health & Spell Points
We've reduced your max HP/SP in the past, but these changes shall be our final destination.
Our current increased health and spell multiplier (x5) and much higher max HP/SP stats have been messing with our balancing ever since.
Health and Spell Power affects:
- Every single skill that involves HP and SP within their algorithm. For both, skill and effect power.
- Every single gear that involves HP and SP within their effect. Also gear that affects direct skill power.
- Every single Monster attack power, since their strength no longer matches your health.
- Overall character survivability for all game content. (PvP and PvE)
and more...
These very core changes, affected the entire game, and forced us to rebalance, monsters, gears, skills, buffs, consumables, every single instance on every arrival of new content! In reality, we never managed to re-balance it all nor completly, so we've been in a constantly unbalanced environment, especialy when it comes to older content.
We basically had to reverse the x5 multiplier one every content that involved HP in one way or another. Lots of things scaled so badly that one-hit kills would have been your daily business. And as we mostly ignored the SP multiplier for balancing, SP has lost its meaning almost entirely.
With the planned changes, both the HP/SP multiplier (x5) and the maximum HP/SP that you can reach, will be reverted back to official Ragnarok Online stats.
This will not just help us, for the development part of the game, but also you as a player, as we're able to deliver a playtested, official balanced game at a much faster pace!
Since these changes take part along with the overall attribute, skill, item and monster normalization... the actual real impact on your survivability will be much lower than you might expect. "I will die 10 times faster" is absolutely not the case! But yes, the survivability aspect of the game will still change drasticaly.
 
    Class & Skill Balance
The combat system of Ragnarok Online is at its core an extremely complex balancing act, between classes, stats, skills, gear, weapons, modifier items, monsters and players in both PvP and PvE.
Based on our recent survey, the player's perception of balance splits into all directions.
However all, PvP and PvE players, people who think it's well balanced or not, most players agreed on Normalization, and with that an all new meta.
Over the course, we've rebalanced, customized, weakened and strengthened hundreds of skills over and over to match our customizations. As part of this new base-line, all our current customizations, balancings, buffs and nerfs will be entirely removed/reverted!
No nerfs, no buffs, simply the official balance of all skills and class base settings, from bottom to top.
If nerfs or buffs are going to happen in the future, then by official patches/changes that we will follow up as we move on.
Since this patch also includes entire job overhauls, this is the perfect timing to do a full customization/balancing reset and play how the game was always meant to be played.
These changes combined will reduce the skill spamming, but due to the HP/Stats normalization on both Players and Monsters, skills will eventualy hit harder.
 
    Items
Oh boy, we've been busy balancing thousands of items over the years.
The aftermath of our re-balancing policy has truly affected lots of official content.
This isn't just about the fact that, the scope of re-balancing requirement is overshadowing our capacity and resources.
It also destroys the original design of entire gear sets, cards and much more.
We believe that you never realised how much work has went into these aspects of the game, and how strongly they've been delaying brand new content.
But it was a base requirement for us to be in a playable game state. Directly releasing new items without taking a proper look at their effect scaling was basically impossible until now.
This patch will delete our item re-balancing history out of existence, and give official gear sets and cards time to shine in an all new light!
We would love to deliver you the real Ragnarok Online experience, that make it worth to grind a new instance, without us following up with a nerf aftermath. We don't like to do that, and we're sure you hate hard nerfs too.
Although this patch itself may be considered the "ultimate nerf". Reverting our item re-balancings will mainly conclude in gear and card buffs.
 
    Monsters
Just like with items, we've been religously buffing thousands of monsters in every single aspect.
More lvl, hp, sp, atk, matk, def, mdef, str, agi, vit, int, dex, luk, range1, range2, range3, race, element, speed, attack delay, motion delay and more, to scale their strength with yours....
So we've not just been touching their drop rates, but instead we had to strengthen up all monsters, simply to match the inferious power players achieved due to our customization choices.
Since every monster had to be balanced individualy, we were relentlesly test-running new instances, dungeons and quests over and over and over again, to create an experience that's worthile playing. Honestly, we don't believe that we've been doing a great job all along, and it only postponed updates further back, just like everything else stated above.
So in this case the Normalization means, that we're also deleting our monster customizations (on official monsters) alltogether, unless we feel that bosses could require additional strength to make content more appealing in the future.
While your character becomes weaker, most monsters scale down with you.
Your PvE experience will shift, but it won't be as drastic as it may sound like.
 
    Customizations
As the core gameplay turns more into the official direction, we're still delivering you the custom content you know and love.
The unique experience that defines GatheringRO will not vanish, but will reshape to fit the official balance.
Some of our custom gear and content will have to adapt to reach that goal, but we have no plans on deleting any of our fully custom content, unless absolutely necessary! Also none of your gear or leveling progress will vanish!
As always, we will be listening to your feedback, but our main goal will be to keep official content as official as possible, more than ever before. Instead we will re-balance all our fully customized content, to fit official content.
So stay with us, tuned, and share your thoughts and ideas to bring GatheringRO to the next level!
 
    Experience Rate
We've seen more resistance on this topic than on anything else, which took us by surprise.
But even then, a little less than 50% of the player base is still ok with a reduction of our base expierence gain to x500 and less.
With the current experience settings, it is currently possible to reach finalize a transcended 3rd class level 250 in aprox. 10 minutes, depending on your strategy even faster.
The planned base level reduction to 200, will multiply that process even further, and we believe that newcomers have a really hard time to adapt to that.
Absolute beginner, or someone who hasn't played RO in a long time, simply has a bad time to keep up with the insane fast pace. They reach end-game content, before they even learned the basics of class, gear and other main content that RO has to offer. And we believe that's the worst that you can do to the player experience, and the health of a game.
Instead, we would like to reduce the base experience to x500 or less, and allow players to experience the leveling path as key part of the game.
Even though our final decision has not yet been made.
We're still planning to reduce it to x500 or less. But before the final decision, we will be doing some extensive level up tests to get a better feeling on a good leveling pace that we feel fits our server and drop rates best.
We absolutely understand, that experienced players are against this change, but we're sure that you have enough time to fill up your full character line-up until this patch takes place eventualy. It will increase the worth of your current fully leveled up characters in an instant.
This change will bring more value to all our bonus experience consumables, and hopefuly increase the incentive on leveling up together, rather than alone. It also allows us to run bonus experience events, since with an overall lower base experience rate, this would actualy make sense to do so. (2x bonus experience could become quite exciting)
Always remember: Farming Tome of Experience still allows you to level up your character in an instant.
 
    Conclusion
We hope we were able to give you a deeper insight into what's coming, and what the normalization and experience changes are meant to be. These changes are supposed to help GatheringRO with a better base set of core gameplay, that brings the official meta and balancing to the table.
It will affect all classes, the core gameplay for both PvP and PvE and ultimately re-define the meta from scratch.
We hope that we haven't scared you off, but instead you're looking forward to the new gameplay experience and possibilities these changes have to offer.
Just like with everything else, we're happy to hear your feedback and thoughts.
 
 
    Job Improvement Projects
The upcoming patch will include more official "Job Improvement" updates for several classes, just like we've had before with Sura!
That means, some skills will entirely vanish, others will get a complete revamp, while some of them recieve smaller changes on their mechanics. This also includes several older skills and thus effects many classes throughout the game.
And we can push these projects out when they're ready, instead of having to rebalance all classes from scratch.
Overall, you can expect big changes to several classes, and those that are missing out, will most likely follow up sooner or later. This will bring great changes to the current meta and turn on your brain chemistry to come up with new builds.
 
    New Classes
Yes, Star Emperor and Soul Reaper are under development and already included in our development environment!
However we're currently fully focused on the big normalization and class rebalance patch, so the new classes might arrive at a later date next year.
Since new classes are usualy bound to major client patch requirements, they require additional work for a final release.
We will keep you posted, as soon as we've more details to share.
 
 
    The Surveys
    Your Questions & Concerns
We would also like to address a few single questions or concerns that we've recieved through both our latest surveys.
Although it doesn't include everything, we still hope that we're able to answer your main questions and concerns.
Q.) Why do you ignore some of our feedback?
A.) Honestly, that's not our intent. If you're not satisfied with our answer, or you didn't recieve one just yet, just give us a little poke so we take another look at it. We promise that we always take a look at your feedback, especialy through our official feedback channel in our forums. So even if we don't reply to your feedback right away, we've heard you loud and clear and put our thoughts over your ideas. However we try to improve on this aspect, that's why your feedback, bug reports and even your support tickets are now directly posted on their respective Discord channels.
Since we're currently focusing on bigger core gameplay changes, mainly your skill and class balance feedback has not seen any ingame change lately, since they will be meaningless after this patch.

Q.) Why aren't bug abusers or people who bully me punished? They keep on playing like nothing ever happened.
A.) Please note that we only punish players based on your player reports. You should never expect players to be punished without creating an official report, that includes according proof that we can investigate upon.
In fact, we haven't recieved a single, properly reported player report in over 6 months. Please visit our Support Page for more details on how to report a player with our new ticketing system.
We've only recieved reports of warp items abuse in WoE lately, which has been adressed on the item effects itself.
Players that have been actively abusing warping items during WoE have never been properly reported to us, thus no one has been punished.

Q.) Does death count affect my Emperium Fragment gain in WoE?
A.) No, it doesn't, and it never did. Death count only affects your ranking, which isn't bound to the rewards system! We've designed the WoE reward system to be newcomer friendly from the start off, so you should never worry about dying. Players who avoided their death using warping items or logging out didn't boost their reward count at all. However you might have missed out on a possible kill, that's the only loss that happened. In fact, you earn more fragments by simply dealing damage! If you're unlucky and never manage to kill anyone, that's just fine. If you've dealt a reasonable amount of damage, you will be rewarded accordingly.
In fact, we've seen lots of rumors rising up since we've never released our algorithms to the public.
It is much more complex that you most likely imagine, and takes lots of things into account. Due to its complexity, we feel that releasing the exact mechanics will only lead players to focus on the wrong aspect of WoE.
 
Q.) I've heard that you've been permanently banning players lately, why is that?
A.) Recently no, but yes, we do take appropriate actions based on our official rules that everyone agrees to upon registration. We have a 0 tolerance policy to cheating, and we won't hold back in such cases. If we have absolute clear cases of cheating, or any other hard abuse that's stated as "We do not hesitate to permanently ban all accounts related/being involved into such cases." in our rules, then you shouldn't expect anything less than that. As long as you follow our In-Game Rules, there's no need to worry about getting punished ever, or at all.
All permanent bans that ever took place had absolute clear reasons. We do not permanently ban accounts unless absolutely necessary to keep the integrity of our rules. In most other cases we apply temporary bans at max.
There are some cases, were we catch cheaters and abusers ourself, as we run certain anti cheat and abuse detection systems in the background. But we mainly take a closer look at players if they've been reported to us directly. The punishment itself will only take place, if we can proof a case or multiple cases of cheating/abuse of the reported culprit.
Always make sure to fill out a proper Player Report so we can investigate the case you've experienced.

Q.) Why is it that i sometimes experience errors and crashes?
A.) We're currently not aware about any issues on the game client.
Please open a support ticket or create a bug report, so we can take a closer look at it and fix it eventualy.
The only issues that we're aware of is the Replay Client. We're aware that some replays can't be watched properly and they might crash the client. If you recieve a specific sprite error, make sure to report it to us.

Q.) Why aren't there direct links on the news slider objects on the patcher?
A.) Due the technical limitations with the patcher, links that are directly opened through the web-interface will always be forced to open in Internet Explorer. Since Internet Explorer is a dying and very incompatible soul, we wanted to avoid exactly that. Thus, the announcement button at the bottom was our second best bet. Since Internet Explorer is officialy supported until 2025, we can only hope that the official patching system from Ragnarok Online will recieve an update on this sooner or later. Then, we could offer direct links on the slider in the future. Sidenote: We've had the same exact issue with our old patching system.

Q.) Why do you copy iRO wiki content onto the gRO wiki when it's already existant?
A.) Yes, we've mirrored most of iRO wikis content, to be able to deliver a full-fleshed wiki which expands upon that with custom content. Please note that, even though we copy content from the iRO wiki, we also modifiy it accordingly with custom information. That means it's not always a 1:1 copy, but actualy includes custom information on lots of pages. Main idea behind that is, that you can rely on the gRO wiki without the need of iRO at all, since we deliver the same exact content + GatheringRO customized information on most pages.

Hello fellow players,
we've prepared another survey for you to help us shaping the future of GatheringRO.
The feedback on our last survey truly helped us to improve on several aspects of the game, and we're looking forward to improve core gameplay and features even further.
This survey focuses on systems that changed outside the game, but also goes into key core gameplay changes that we're currently looking into.
Click the link below to answer our brief survey (10 questions) - it would only take about 5-10 minutes of your time.
Survey Link: https://bit.ly/gROsurvey
 
Thank you!

Summer has arrived in Midgard, and what better way to beat the heat than by heading down to the water for some good ol' fashioned fishin' fun? The waters all across the land are absolutely rippling with aquatic activity, so what are you waiting for? Grab your fishing rod, bring your friends and let's go!
Wait!
You don't have a fishing rod?!
We'll have to fix that real quick!
 
    How To Start
Head on over to Althea, by the pond, and talk to the Giant Spirit Aegir.
If you give him the money he needs, he'll fix you up a rod of your choice, including some bait.
Return to Aegir with your best catches to redeem his personal gear!

PRO TIP: Higher quality rods will make it easier for you to catch different variants of fish and goodies, so it's good to have some variety!
They give you different advantages, just like your Lure & Bait, which help beginners to find their way around certain obstacles.
It's possible to unlock even better rods if you get lucky. Talk to Aegir to get further details, tips & tricks on how to go around with your fishing equipment. One of the 2 highest tier rods is available in our token shop in exchange for gRO Tokens.
 
    Fishing Spots
Equip your fishing rod and fish your way around Rune-Midgard!
There are fishing spots all over the world, all labelled as Fishing Spot.
Once you see ripples in the water, click on it to start fishin'! Choose your rod, your bait, and cast away!

PRO TIP: Enable sound effects to find fishing spots. It also helps you additionaly for faster reaction speeds.
It is also recommended to switch your fishing areas after an extensive fishing session, as the fish population will decrease and needs to replenish.
Areas/towns/fields/dungeons which are nearby share a total population with each other! So make sure you travel far enough before continuing your fishing session.
 
 
    Lure & Bait
As mentioned above, you can obtain rods from Aegir, but he also sells some basic lure and living bait.
Based on your choice, the lure/bait may increase your chances of catching Rare Fish by increasing your initial reaction and fight time.
You can certainly fish with the basic lure and rods only, but it won't be easy to catch anything rare that way!
Certain caught fishes may be perfect as a new and bigger bait, which will further help you to catch something even bigger.


PRO TIP: Take a close look at everything that you're catching.
You never know what you're going to catch, but using better lure and bait will help you to succeed.
If you're struggling with harder catches, swap your rod and lure to compensate for your skill.
 
    Fishes / Sea Animals
There's a huge variety of fishes, trash and other shiny things which you may encounter. But be careful... monsters might be hungry for some more than just a little bait. Some fish types, monsters or other loot might be more rare, depending on your fishing area. For instance a fishing spot within a dungeon might have a higher chance for a boss monster to appear than if you're fishing in a town. Follow your natural instincts!

PRO TIP: Some fish can steal your basic rods and bait even though you have been successful. Upgrading to an advanced rod can help to prevent that.
Some sea animals have swallowed precious treasure for you take out of them.
The faster you have to react, and the faster the fishing action bar is moving, the bigger/better the fish/catch! If you can't hold onto the harder ones, make sure to swap to a better rod and bait combo.
 
    More Rewards
There's a big variety of rewards which you can get your slippery hands on.
As mentioned already, Aegir exchanges big fish for his personal gear.

His wife, Ran the Water Spirit is seeking for her lost daughters.
She's claiming that they might appear as weird looking fishes to you.
Return them to Ran, and she will greatly reward you with Blue Sea Eggs from the cash shop.

PRO TIP: Ran rewards you with an additional Exotic Exclusive if you can help her to return all of her 9 lost daughters!
The sea & ponds are full with all kinds of treasures to find, so keep on fishin'!
 
    Fishing Screenshots
Share your fishing experience with the community!
Don't forget to tell us your ingame character name and show us your favourite fishing spot & catch.
The 3 most innovative fishing themed screenshots will be rewarded with some extra Blue Sea Eggs!

Get creative, and tell us your story with an image ~
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"Grant me the serenity to accept the size of the fish i catch, the courage not to lie about it, and the wisdom to know that none of my fishing buddies would believe me anway."