What is Rappelz?

Rappelz is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that costs nothing to play. It was made by the Korean studio Gala Lab, which was called nFlavor at the time, and it runs on Windows. The world is a medieval fantasy land shared by three races: the Deva of light, the Asura of darkness and the Gaia, humans tied closely to nature.

Each race has warrior, magician and summoner jobs, and summoners build their power around pets. Besides experience, every monster you defeat also gives Job Points, which you spend on skills and on your job level (see Jobs Overview).

The official site of 2008 presented the game with this list. Some numbers, such as the class count, have grown since then:

• Three races standing for Light, Darkness and the Four Elements, and 15 classes at that time, from pet tamers to battle mages.
• Free use of Job Points: raise your job level or learn new spells, as you prefer.
• Pets you tame, raise, evolve, teach skills and overbreed (see Creatures (Pets)).
• PvP anywhere in the world, and guild-versus-guild sieges to capture dungeons (Dungeon Siege).
• Energy taken from defeated foes turned into Boost Chips that make your attacks stronger.
• Gear you can enchant, upgrade at the blacksmith and socket with soul stones, plus Skill Cards that make spells stronger.

The map is one large island, the mainland, split into several regions, plus a smaller starting island, Trainee Island. Dungeons are reached through portals; their monsters are tougher than field monsters of the same level but give more experience and Job Points. They are not instanced, so you meet other players and parties inside.

Big content updates are called Epics. Closed beta ended on 26 September 2006 and open beta began on 2 October 2006 with two servers, Tortus for normal PvE and Pantera for PvP. The full release on 3 November 2006 was named Epic 3, because Epic 1 and Epic 2 counted as the earlier versions. The latest one named by the official English site is Epic 9.10, announced on 19 February 2025.