GatheringRO's birthday is just around the corner!
On February 15th, Gathering Ragnarok Online turns 16!
That's why during the entire month of february we're returning with our annual Legend of the four Lords quest line!
Legend of the four Lords
Discover the legend of the four Lords, ancient leaders who ones vowed to protect our lands.
This time limited event comes with several event exclusive rewards for you to unlock!
[Visit our dedicated event page]
Event Rewards
Our anniversary events allows you to unlock the following costumes and/or exclusive pets!
As we still prepare ourselfs for the upcoming changes, we’re wishing you and your loved ones a safe and happy New Year. Thank you for all your support in 2020! It’s been a year full of challenges and changes, and it’s more important than ever that people can connect, relax, and spend time together in our online worlds. The friendly and welcoming GatheringRO community makes Midgard a wonderful place to call home.
The end of the year marks the beginning of a new cycle, and we can’t wait to show you what the future holds.
Although our Wintersday Festivities officialy end today, you still got a chance to win your personal present by attending in the Dear Santa event.
Happy New Year everyone!
Server was undergoing hardware maintenance.
We're now back online!
Wintersday Events have ended.
Our Letter to Santa
Dear Santa,
Our community has been nice and kind to each other throughout the entire year!
I know you're busy handing out presents in Althea already, but I hope you can fullfill some players wishes once again!
Merry Wintersday Santa!
PS:
Every player will either create a piece of art, or write a letter to you.
Additionaly they'll mentioning their Ingame-Name, their costume-wish and why they desire it so much.
They have to be creative just like you!
Sincerely Yours,
Everade
Santa's Answer
Dear Everade,
Merry Wintersday to you as well! I would be honored to help your team spread the Wintersday cheer! I'm a very busy old man, so the 10th of January will be the day to handout those precious gifts. Gives me a time to relax a little and more time to take a closer look at all the art pieces and reading all these wonderful letters after all that flyin around!
That said though there are a few rules to follow.
Only Costumes are allowed to be wished for
The Costume shall not have any power
The Costume must already have been available in the past
Only one wish per person
Give me something unique to read or to look at, i love letters, but only originals!
I wish you all a Merry Wintersday!
Hohoho,
Santa
Reward Details
Write your letter to Santa and he might bring you an awesome Christmas Gift!
Remember that you can only wish for costumes which have already been available before and shall not have any power.
Be as creative as you can in either your original art piece or letter, Santa will appreciate it.
Rewards
Santa will reward up to 3 players who wrote a letter.
One for the most creative letter to Santa, the other 2 winners will be determined using a random generator.
Santa will also reward up to 3 Original Art pieces based on its original design and creativity.
Merry Wintersday!
Cash Shop Update
We've added a new Wintersday Surprise Box to the cash shop which has also a small chance to be included in the GRO Gift Box that's being rewarded throughout our Wintersday Event.
Wintersday Surprise Box
It includes 1 out of 46 Wintersday themed costumes.
Has a 20% chance to contain an additional consumable or Wintersday themed headgear.
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!