Getting Started

Making an account on the Ragnarok Online website costs nothing. Read the User Agreement, then fill in your details accurately; the official guide asks for your real name. For the international version (iRO), the classic iRO Wiki describes the steps: register a Warp Portal account, add a new Ragnarok game account under Game Accounts, then confirm it through the e-mail you receive.

• Download the game client from the official site; it is open to everyone. Saving it on the Desktop makes it easy to find, and the download can take from a few minutes to longer depending on your connection.
• Run the setup file (RAG_SETUP), accept the User Agreement and choose a folder; the guide recommends keeping the default Gravity folder.
• When installation ends, a setup window opens. Check the recommended system requirements; the guide suggests leaving every option at its default except the screen resolution.

When you start the game, the patcher first downloads any updates and shows the latest notices. On the login screen, enter the same account name and password you use on the website. An account can only be logged into one server at a time; after login you pick a server from the list and reach the character selection window, which has empty slots for your characters (five in the official guide).

Choose an empty slot and press Make. You give the character a name and pick a hair style and hair colour; the clothes come later from your class. You also choose a race: Human, who starts as a Novice, or the cat-like Doram, who starts as a Summoner. See Races and Gender.

A new Human character starts as a Novice. After a short intro quest (a boat trip to Izlude that ends in a shipwreck), you arrive in Izlude. Head to the Royal Criatura Academy in the north of town: its quests teach the basics, hand out free beginner gear and carry you to job level 10, when you can pick your first class.

A Doram character instead begins in the seaside village of Lasagna, where a chain of introduction quests explains the world and the Summoner's skills before you head to Rune-Midgarts.

The world is split into towns (safe places to rest and chat), fields just outside the towns where wild monsters roam, and dungeons with tougher fights. If you get lost, type /where in the chat box to see your map name and coordinates, or open the world map.

Every character has a save point, the place you return to when things go wrong. Set it with a Kafra employee in town (see Kafra Services and Travel). You can go back to it by dying, by using a Butterfly Wing, or on some maps by returning to the character select screen. A Novice loses no experience on death and comes back with half its HP.