MVP Bosses

MVP stands for Most Valuable Player. In Ragnarok Online the word means a monster with both the Boss and MVP protocols: far stronger than normal Monsters, found on maps all over the world, and appearing only at set times. Some classes can solo one, but most are taken down by a party. They give a lot of experience, and the top player receives MVP rewards straight into the inventory.

MVPs call in slaves, usually three to nine monsters, to make the fight harder. Unlike normal monsters they show no health bar; use the skill Sense to check how much HP is left. As Bosses, they are also immune to status debuffs and knockback.

• MVPs are Free for All: anyone may attack them, no matter who found or summoned them.
• The reward goes to the player who contributes the most. The official game guide counts both the damage dealt to the MVP and the damage taken from it; iRO Wiki describes this as the player who tanks and deals the most damage.
• The reward is either an MVP item or bonus experience. The item goes straight into the inventory, but if it would exceed your weight limit it falls to the ground.
• Sources differ on dying: the official guide says the reward is lost if that player dies, while iRO Wiki says a random eligible player on the map receives it if no one else qualifies.
• The first hit only matters for loot priority, not for the MVP reward.

When a timed MVP dies it leaves a tomb where it fell. Talk to the tomb to see the time of death (in PST) and the name of the player who got the MVP reward. It does not tell you when or where the next one will appear, and it disappears 5 seconds after the MVP respawns. MVPs summoned by players, such as Ktullanux, leave no tomb.

A normal MVP returns after its set time plus up to 10 minutes. For example, an Amon Ra killed at 11:00 comes back between 12:00 and 12:10. If an MVP has more than one spawn point, each point keeps its own timer.

Low difficulty:

Medium difficulty:

Mid-high difficulty:

High difficulty:

On Somatology Laboratory 3, one of six MVPs is picked at random 95 to 150 minutes after the last one dies: Assassin Cross Eremes, High Priest Margaretha, High Wizard Kathryne, Lord Knight Seyren, Master Smith Howard or Sniper Cecil. All count as High difficulty. On level 5, an MVP is summoned once enough monsters are killed; after a kill, the summoner switches off for 4 hours.

• Ktullanux: summoned in the Ice Dungeon by putting out four sacred fires; cannot be summoned again for 2 hours.
• Memory of Thanatos: appears when the Thanatos Tower Quest is completed.
• Instance MVPs: Naght Sieger and Entweihen Crothen (Endless Tower), Corruption Root and Amdarais (Old Glast Heim), Nidhoggur's Shadow, Faceworm Queen and others in their own Instances (Memorial Dungeons).
• Event bosses such as Baphomet (Event) and Poring the Conqueror spawn only when GMs decide.
• A Bloody Branch summons a random boss from a list that includes Angeling, Ghostring, Orc Hero, Baphomet, Dark Lord and Beelzebub.

Many items raise damage against Boss monsters or cut the damage they deal. A few examples from the source: