ROSE Online
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| Developer(s) | Triggersoft |
| Publisher(s) | Gravity Corp. Level Up! Games (Philippines) |
| Release date(s) | December 5, 2005 (North America) |
| Genre(s) | MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | Teen (ESRB) |
| Platform(s) | PC |
| Media | Download /Screenshot / Movies |
| System requirements | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz equiv. CPU, 128MB RAM, Internet access, DirectX 9, GeForce2 MX 400 or higher / Radeon 7000 or higher, sound card |
| Input | Mouse & Keyboard |
ROSE Online, or Rush On Seven Episodes Online (Korean:로즈 온라인)is an MMORPG developed by Korean company Triggersoft and published by Gravity Corp., the publisher of Ragnarok Online.
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[edit] Story
The fictional world of ROSE Online consists of seven unique planets, although as of yet there are only three planets available, with the third planet Eldeon not complete. Each planet has its own set of particular environments, characteristics and monsters.
Junon, the first planet that you start on, has a temperate feel to it, with many desert places.
Luna, the second planet that you can travel to after completing the flying vessel quest and paying 5,000 zuly each ime to travel there, is a planet of ice. The main update of Evolution brought a new map for low levels.
Eldeon. The latest planet to be updated, at the same time as Evolution is completely forest. At the present time it only has 3 maps. This is for the higher levels. You can get there by paying 13,000 zuly to the Luna guide that takes you to Junon.
[edit] Gameplay
Gameplay mostly consists of killing monsters and earning items from them. There are three types of items, to which the Inventory is divided: Equipment, which a character may wear to enhance their abilities; consumable which consists of consumable items that may recover HP, MP or Stamina, or perform an effect (ex. dance, learn a skill), and Etc which covers general miscellany, such as materials for crafting, gems, and ammunition for weapons that need them.
[edit] Tuning system
There are a total of 3 forms of transportation, available in ROSE Online:
[edit] Carts
With a Cart, a player can move in the world faster than by walking. Carts can be purchased from the NPC, or can be crafted by dealers. A base cart that is only going to be used to riding requires a frame, engine, and wheels of the equal version. Battle carts require weapons that are assigned to a specific class.
[edit] Castle Gear
The Castle Gear gives its rider quite a bit more attack and defense. Castle Gears are a somewhat rarity in-game.
[edit] Flying Vessel
Unlike Carts and Castle Gears, the Flying Vessel cannot be owned by a user. It is operated by NPC's and ferry players from planet to planet.
[edit] Jobs
There are 250 or 200 (depending on the version) levels total in which at level 100 or 70 (again, depending on the version) you can switch to a second job.
[edit] Visitor
This is the job everyone starts with. At level 10 you can start a quest to become a Muse, Soldier, Dealer, or Hawker. Visitors may remain Visitors as long as they like, but unfortunately cannot use any skills except the basic ones. Visitors start out with a basic set of armor (the Visitor Look), a stylish piece of headgear (depending on the character's gender), a Wooden Sword and 200 zulie (currency of ROSE Online).
[edit] Muse
Muses use magic to attack enemies or heal/enchant fellow players. Muses use intelligence as their main stat. Some Muses take dexterity, allowing them to use Katar-type weapons or Dual Weapons and giving them dodge rate, while still having Muse's skills to help them. Muses use magic staves or wands, the latter usually with a support tool. If Muses reach level 70, they can choose a second job: Magician or Cleric.
- Magician
- Magicians, or Mages, are the offensive branch of Muses. They are very good at PvP combat, since attack spells rarely miss and usually only other Magicians or Muses have substantial amounts of magic defense. The Mages have the strongest area of effect spells, but are in the most danger using them given their relatively low defense. Mages typically use staves, whose damage are influenced by strength and intelligence.
- Cleric
- Clerics are the supportive branch of Muses. Dexterity-based Clerics are those that use dexterity based weapons and their enchantments to kill monsters solo, though in the pROSE variant, this has become increasingly hard. Support Clerics focus on making their healing spells and enchantments stronger and mostly dependent on parties to level. Support Clerics usually use wands and either special support tools or slotted shields which are gemmed with Intelligence-adding Topazes.
[edit] Soldier
Soldiers are melee/ranged fighters, who focus on offense or defense. Soldiers use strength as their main stat. Soldiers use one- or two-handed swords, blunt weapons, spears, axes, shields and, not very commonly, bowguns. Their second job form is either Knight or Champion.
- Knight
- Knights are the defensive branch of Soldiers. Knights usually use one-handed weapons and shields and use area of effect skills, relying on their high defense to do it safely. There are also bowgun (Crossbow) Knights that use a ranged weapon and a shield, but these are very rare because there are few good bowgun builds.
- Champion
- Champions are the offensive branch of Soldiers. Champions usually use two-handed weapons such as axes, spears and two-handed swords. Champions excel at destroying single enemies such as bosses, but cannot effectively take damage of (or "tank") multiple enemies at once.
[edit] Dealer
Dealers are businessmen, who can craft items or summon warriors using money. Dealers use concentration as their main stat. Dealers use guns and launchers. Dealers are further divided into 2 classes, Artisan or Bourgeois.
- Artisan
- Artisans are the less aggressive branch of Dealers. Artisans can craft equipment, Carts, Castle Gears, can cut gems, and upgrade equipment, as well as separate gems from socketed items. Because most Artisans prefer to use as many crafting skills as possible instead of fighting skills, they often focus on speed to accommodate their high chance to inflict critical hits, which deal three times the normal attack damage. Artisans are most commonly seen using guns.
- Bourgeois
- Bourgeois, or Bourgs, are all about money. Bourgs are known for their strong mercenary summons, which cost money to use. Most Bourgs use cannons instead of guns. Bourgs almost universally invest in the passive Stockpile skill, which increases the number of items they receive per item drop and therefore allows them to earn more items to sell.
[edit] Hawker
Hawkers are fast characters, and wear light armor. They base themselves on dexterity, which is their main stat. Hawkers use katars, dual weapons or bows.
- Scout
- Hawkers who prefer using bows can advance to the Scout job, who specialize in delivering death from afar with various skills. Scouts can summon a Hawk to help them.
- Raider
- Raiders are advanced to by the Hawkers who use katars and dual weapons, capable of hitting enemies fast. Raiders specialize in assassination and are capable of using stealthy, quick movements and devastating skills. Raiders are the only class able to hide from their enemies.
[edit] In-game weapons
There are a variety of weapons to use in ROSE Online. The weapons aren't restricted by the player's job, but their level and a specific stat. This allows weird combinations to be seen, such as Soldiers with Magic Wands or Hawkers with Guns. Some weapons have "slots" in them, which allows the user to put a jewel or gem into it and increase certain stats. Dealers can craft their own gem into their weapons when they learn the skill.
[edit] Unique weapons
Unique weapons, easily detected by their purple names, are weapons with no level requirement. They only require fairly large amounts of their weapon type's significant stat.
Regardless of their name, unique weapons aren't unique but very rare. There are two or three kinds of unique weapons of every type. Each unique weapon gives a fixed bonus of their own, usually a very substantial advantage. Unique weapons are never prefixed, but some have slots to put gems in. And so many on.
[edit] Stats
Stats are the base of a character. Stats determine what a character can do, how hard (s)he attacks, what (s)he can wear and such. A character earns points you can increase your stats with when you level up.
Strengh - affects maximum HP, amount of items you can carry and physical attack power.
Dexterity - affects dodge rate, movement speed, long range weapon strengh and knuckle attack power.
Intelligence - affects maximum MP, magic attack power and magic resistance.
Concentration - affects attack accuracy, success rate of crafting items and HP & MP recovery rate.
Charm - affects your interaction with NPCs and your progress in quests.
Sense - affects the amage of long range skill attack and critical attack.
[edit] Differences between the ROSE versions
While there are different versions of ROSE Online, there are some differences between them. These differences reside mainly in the quests as well as the skill system. There are three variants of ROSE Online, which can be classified as the kROSE variant (Korean kROSE, Japanese jROSE) and pROSE variant (Philippines pROSE, and North American naROSE), now defunct, and the latter ROSE Evolution.
[edit] iROSE Variant
The beta form of ROSE Online was introduced to mainly English speaking gamers. It was online for less than a year, and then Gravity closed this version to expand the idea and form the different ROSE Online variants as listed below. This version contained the most data of the game, including unique weapons, Castle Gear, clan points system, and much much more. Unfortunately the gaming protection in iROSE was very much flawed. Hackers discovered various ways to exploit the game, ultimately destroying the economy and thus the game, leading to a server wipe.
[edit] kROSE / jROSE variant
The game's main quest is a large part of the game's quest content. It's also used to get to the second planet, Luna.
The skill system works through a combination of skill books and SP (skill points). You first purchase a skill book for the skill you want and then you can upgrade it by using a certain amount of SP. The SP required to upgrade a skill varies from skill to skill, and will increase as the skill's level increases.
All skills require at least several SP to upgrade even right from the start. Every time you level up you get a certain amount of SP proportionate to your level. As your level increases, so does the amount of SP you gain.
[edit] pROSE / naROSE variant
The game's main quest is a lesser part of the game and sort of fizzles away later in the game.
Starting at level 10 until level 250, you will gain one SP per level up. To upgrade a skill you will need to use only one SP per level, but you only get one SP per level and all skills have strict level requirements.
[edit] ROSE Evolution
ROSE Evolution is the new version of ROSE, with the GUI, skills set, materials and crafting system completely changed. kROSE migrated to Evolution the first, followed by jROSE, pROSE and the last naROSE at 24th August, 2006. ROSE Evolution is a union of both previous variants. The noticable differences are:
- The change of the UI
- There is no separate starting map now
- Skills are tightly coupled to weapon. For example, Cleric can no longer use a staff to perform buffs and Hawker's skills are divided into weapon groups.
- Blue gear, unique weapons, shields, backshields and wings can't no longer be refined.
[edit] Item Mall
A mall in the worldwide site where you can buy new items for topping up with load. Planned to be implemented in August 2006 on pROSE. Out in kROSE and jROSE[1][2]. jRose has more items offered than kRose. Beside items related to Japanese culture, i.e. Yukata, Japanese School Uniform look, etc, there are many cute items, e.g. Rabbit Headband, Matrix Eye, Jersey, etc. NaRose/pROSE is yet to be available at early December.
[edit] Private Servers
After numerous groups began developing derivative works of the ROSE Online commercial servers, only a few projects have emerged into playable versions of the game. Most projects use the incomplete source code of a project called eROSE as their base.
[edit] Release History
- October 2004: ROSE Japan (jROSE) and ROSE Korea (kROSE) began their open beta test phase.
- January 2005: kROSE was officially released. International ROSE (iROSE) began its open beta phase.
- July 2005: jROSE was officially released.
- August 1, 2005: jRose began its pay to play service along with the Item Mall service.
- August 31, 2005: iROSE was officially closed.
- September 2005: ROSE North America (naROSE) began its open beta phase.
- October 2005: ROSE Europe (euROSE) began its open beta phase.
- November 10, 2005: euROSE began its pay to play service.
- December 5, 2005: naROSE began its pay to play service.
- January 31, 2006: euROSE closes due to Gamesrouter's lack of funds. All games hosted by Gamesrouter subsequently close as well.
- May 1, 2006: jRose became free to play service. Free service users cannot access storage, trade, setup personal shop or access the friend list. To access the full functions, monthly fee 1500 JPY is required.
- June 22, 2006: jRose transition to ROSE Evolution.
- August 24, 2006: naROSE makes the transition over to ROSE Evolution.
[edit] References
- ^ 『ローズオンライン エボリューション』正式導入日が決定! (Japanese). Famitsu (2006-06-09). Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
- ^ 「マイレージアイテム」 (Japanese). Faith (2006-06-09). Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
[edit] External links
- Official ROSE Online Site (International)
- IGN gamespace
- GameSpot gamespace
