Sealed Shrine – 1st Attempt

Overview:
The Sealed Shrine houses the Great Baphomet who has been sealed in the depths of St.Capitolina. The Baphomet in this shrine is far more powerful than the Baphomet found in the Mjolnir Maze. Because of Satan Morroc the seal of the Great Baphomet has been weakened and the threat of the monster being release is getting near. The adventurers are now invited to re-seal the Great Baphomet to finally lock the MVP forever. For the complete quest guide please visit the iRO wiki site.

Alberta Hagdan Tambays

Recently, All I do in-game is to idle at the stairs of Alberta promoting my site because I was too lazy to do anything. The only activity I do in-game is to perform the Daily Quest for all my characters. On a random event, I saw my friend Pak and Blur chatting at the top part of the stairs. I joined in the discussion and showed off my character. I told them that I have a specially designed Shadow Chaser which I use to draft the headers for my site. I scribbled random words on the ground and let it stay until the duration ends.

"Alberta Hagdan Tambays" sitting while wearing our respective 3rd job exclusive headgear

Suddenly, I had an idea to scribble "Alberta Hagdan Tambays" because we are the lurkers of Alberta. Blur then had an idea to take screen shot of us with my scribble. I envied him so I also took screenshots for my site. By the way, we are not the one who came up with the Alberta Hagdan term but Cef and his friends. We just shared the same "Tambayan" so we adopted the term "Alberta Hagdan" and added "Tambays" referring to players in the area. Now our number in the area is growing because of the Daily Quest craze and we are happy to share our "Tambayan" with other players.

Standing version of the picture above

Alberta is getting crowded day after day. Unlike before it's just a few of us. As they say the more the merrier. More people means we can have random casual talk with people on our "Tambayan". We can also gain more friends this way. Anyone can visit us in our "Tambayan" but be careful with posers!

News: Ragnaboards bids Farewell

For so many years Ragnaboards has been the official forums for Philippine Ragnarok Online Players where we discuss everything about Ragnarok. Last December 6, 2010 the Ragnaboards forums has officially bid farewell. Lots of memories, information and rants has been lost but it will remain in our minds and hearts.

Whenever you enter the Ragnaboards link it will now be re-directed to the Unified Forums at the Level Up! Games domain. The unified forums is a forum which covers all Level Up's published games. They aim to let players from various games interact with gamers other than players in their respective games. Compared to Ragnaboards, the Unified forums is strict in terms of implementing board rules like signatures and posting threads. Adapting to the new forums is hard on the first time but eventually we will get used to it.

What I like About the new forums is the permanent Edit Button in which you can edit your post anytime you want. What I didn't like on the boards is the lay out design and strict rule for signatures. >_<

As they say change is the only thing permanent in this world so we have to get use to it. Sign up now and join in the discussions and let your voice be heard in the new forums.

Patch Notes: December 8, 2010

Here's my late replication of the patch notes. The GMs posted these patch notes at their official facebook account and I cannot access it in the office. So this is my only time to write this post.

We don't have any interesting item listed on the patch this week aside from the new headgears on Hypermart. However the Crimson Dawn Event and Crowd Control: High Orcs are still implemented in-game to keep us busy for this week. This maybe the last week for these quests so grab the opportunity to finish these quests.

For the complete patchnotes read them after the break.

War of Emperium - September 11, 2010

When: September 11, 2010
Where: WoE1 Agits

Ragnarok guilds has a strong force that bonds each member together. Our guild Armor of God has that bond until it has been dormant for several months because of inactive guild masters. Because of inactivity most of the members had been affiliated with other guilds while others lie lowed due to real life reasons.

I came up with an idea to somehow re-lived the sweet battles of my dear guild so I tried to inform some guild members about the one time only siege. I don't really expect to get a large number of participant just like the old days because I proposed to have a self supply siege. Luckily Shadow Ace agreed to be our GM for the siege. During the actual siege we only have six active participant and three guildmates who asks for supply. Of course because of my self supply proposal these members participated for a few minutes then went offline. For the duration of the siege the fate of the guild is now in the hands of Shadow Ace, Aerin, Jaina Drei, Blur, Blitz and me.

War of Emperium - August 16, 2010

When: August 16, 2010
Where: WoE2 Agits

The War of Emperium last August 16 had an unexpected tides of battle. I joined the Ruff Riders guild for this siege because I believe in their strategies and capabilities as a guild. Before the battles started, by default we went to our currently owned agit to defend it from possible attacks. The initial defense also provides us time to regrouping and wait for late members who are still preparing for WoE.

Not to long, our guild master had started scouting for possible targets in the next few minutes. As time passes by, we were Emergency Called into different agits. Our current agit on the other hand has been taken over by other guilds because we left it undefended.

The succeeding minutes proves that our guild is serious in taking over the opposing alliance home agits. Because of our guilds action, we caught the attention of the opposing alliance and in effect their alliance rushed into our currently owned agit with full force. The whole two hours of our guilds siege had been turned into an action packed siege from mere defending. We had great skirmishes and barricade battles as we respawn and attack.

My personal favorite part of that day's siege is the shot that I had above. Our guild currently had all barricades and guardian stones intact. We are in a situation where in we had the attention of the opposing guild. Because of the influx of attacks from the opposing guild we are forced to concentrate on defending one guardian stone while leaving the other guardian stone unattended. The unusual paths of Andlerangh Guardian stone rooms had given us an advantage. The funnel like design of the path made easy for our guild to defend the Guardian Stone room because the opposing alliance had no choice but to pass through the narrow road. Our guild could take down the attackers one after the other while the opposing guild had a hard time advancing. It's like the scene in 300 where the Spartans took advantage of the terrain. At the end of the siege we were able to defend the agit til the very end.

War of Emperium - May 22, 2010

When: May 22, 2010
Where: Nidhoggur Agit

The War of Emperium is the best feature of Ragnarok Online. It unites players to form guilds and prove their power through engaging with other guilds. Most players enjoys the skirmishes between their guilds with the other guilds in Rune Midgard . The aim of the War of Emperium is to break the Emperium that resides at the heart of an Agit and claim that castle your own. After a successful conquer, the guild now shifts to defense mode in order to protect the castle from guilds aiming to conquer it.

Last May 22 in the year of 2010, A great battle between opposite alliance has taken place. The timing of the battle is crucial because the scoring for the Agit Lords is about to end. The guilds with the highest points at the end of the Agit Lords will be able to compete for the Ragnarok Philippine Championship 2010.

At the start of the siege, our guild is on defense mode inside our own castle and we stayed there for the first 30mins. Most members were already restless because defending without intruders is boring. Suddenly our guild master used Emergency Call on an agit somewhere in Nidhoggur. I was surprised to see that there are lots of familiar guilds inside the agit. I knew there is something going on that our guild master did not tell us in advance. I checked out the alliance tab on the guild window so that I know whom to attack. Our guild master then made an announcement to the guild that we will be taking the castle down.

At first I thought, it's just a random attack mode for the guild but I was surprised to see an alliance clash. Well to define alliance clash, It's a battle between opposite alliance in which an alliance consists of 2 guilds or more. I haven't felt the adrenaline rush from the War of Emperium for a long time and this battle definitely refreshed that feeling. The quantity of players battling on both sides were enormous. Surviving is really essential at this point. A successful kill is also a big help for the alliance.

The battle was fierce at the entrance because the defense is tight. The only thing that successfully infiltrates the castle was a successful Emergency Call from our alliance. Our guild master was able to summon us every 5mins inside the castle. Each successful summon brings fierce battles which weakens the defense capability of the opposite alliance. We had a hard time pushing the enemies on both Guardian Stones but the alliance was successful in breaking them. After both Guardian Stones was crushed, the battle now is shifted to Barricade battles where in the owner of the castle was on the other side of the Barricade while the rest were at the other side. Just like the entrance battles, the Barricade battles were also intense. Our alliance pushed and pushed the defenses until all barricades were down. When all barricades were down, it comes down to the battle at the Emperium Room. The breaking was quick and our alliance was successful with their aim.

The large part of the our time was spent on breaking the defenses of the target castle. It was a phenomenal battle and a rare sight nowadays. I'm happy to be part of this great battle. I'm looking forward on experiencing such battles in the future.