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Rappelz Epic VI - Navislamia
Developer(s)	nFlavor
Publisher(s)	Gala-Net Inc
Platform(s)	Windows
Release date(s)	May 19th, 2009
Genre(s)	Fantasy MMORPG
Mode(s)	Multiplayer
Rating(s)	None
Media	Download (1.48 GB client) [1]
System requirements	Minimum AMD/Intel Single Core 1.0GHz 512 MB RAM DirectX 9.0c 128 MB 3D Accelerated Graphics Card 4 GB Hard Drive Space (fully patched) Recommended Intel Pentium IV 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon X2 5000+ 1024 MB RAM DirectX 9.0c 256 MB 3D Accelerated Graphics Card 4 GB Hard Drive Space (fully patched) [1]
Input methods	Keyboard, Mouse

Rappelz is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The game is developed by the Korean company nFlavor, and published by the Californian company Gala-Net Inc. As of October 2008, Rappelz is also being published by the South East Asia based game publishing company AsiaSoft, as RappelzSEA.

Rappelz is set in a medieval fantasy world, dominated by three races: the Deva, who represent light, the Asura, who represent darkness, and the Gaia, humans that possess an affinity with nature.^[2]

Each major installment of the game is referred to as an "Epic", similar to Lineage II's "Chronicles". The current installment is called "Epic 6: Navislamia". ^[3]

Contents 1 Versions 2 History 2.1 Epic 4: Revolution 2.2 Epic 5: Dragonic Age 2.3 Epic 6: Navislamia 3 The Story 4 Game Features 4.1 Action Icons 4.2 Lak and Chips 4.3 Items and Equipment 4.4 Pet System 4.5 Current Pets 5 Races 5.1 Classes and Levels 5.2 Deva 5.3 Gaia 5.4 Asura 6 Geography 6.1 Trainee's Island 6.2 Home Towns 6.3 Rondo 6.4 Hidden Village 7 Dungeon System 7.1 Dungeon Raid 7.2 Dungeons Siege 8 Guilds 9 In-game administrators 10 Technical issues 11 Rappelz O.S.T. 12 References 13 External links

[edit] Versions

There are currently several different versions of the game: South East Asia^[4], Korean^[5], Japanese^[6], US (global)^[7], French^[8], German^[9], Chinese^[10], Hong Kong^[11], Taiwanese^[12], Russian^[13], and Arabic^[14]. Versions can differ dramatically. For example, the US version added a restrictive logout timer on 22nd Jan 2008 which disables users from logging out for 10 seconds while not in a non-PvP area, such as a town (this feature has been disabled for the time being). Korean and Japanese versions have a similar timer; however, it only applies when in player-kill mode.

French Version

The French version of Rappelz started its beta on January 30, 2008.^[15] It was closed again on February 11, 2008, after which on February 14, 2008 the French Rappelz version went live.^[16] The live version opened with server Pyroxia. On March 13, 2008, a second server Kentauros was opened.^[17]

German Version

The German version of Rappelz started its beta on January 30, 2008.^[18] On February 14, 2008 the German Rappelz version went live.^[19] The live version opened with server Horus. On March 13, 2008, a second server Bastet was opened.^[20]

Russian Version

Russian version of MMORPG Rappelz started its beta on August 8, 2008. On September 8, 2008 Russian Rappelz went live. There are currently 4 servers in service. They are: «Pantera», «Siren», «Salamander», «Cyniks». The largest Rappelz update «Navislamia» was launched on May 4, 2009.

[edit] History

The Open Beta version of Rappelz launched on October 2, 2006,^[21] with two separate servers available: "Tortus" , the normal PvE server, and "Pantera", the more PvP/PK-oriented server. Those who had previously downloaded the Closed Beta version of Rappelz were not required to re-download the Rappelz client to play in Open Beta; however, extensive automatic patching was done by the client before Closed Beta players could enter Open Beta. Closed Beta ended on September 26, 2006. Closed-beta characters were deleted at the beginning of Open Beta; however, characters created during Open Beta were not deleted prior to the game's release. Open Beta ended with the official release of the game on November 03, 2006.

There are currently seven servers in service namely, "Bahamut", "Tortus", "Yeti", "Lydian" and "Pantera (PVP).", "Salamander" and the newest (opened on August 14 2007) - "Tanda", named after the game's head Game Master.^{[citation needed]} The US test server for Epic 4 testing was called "Siren".

[edit] Epic 4: Revolution

Rappelz Epic IV was released on July 27, 2007. The expansion included a complete skill revamp, changes to the pet system, the inclusion of a second job class, and many small tweaks to the system and graphics. However, the majority of bugs and issues reported in Epic III were not resolved and Epic IV introduced many new bugs including missing skills, broken skills and items/ descriptions not translated from original Korean.

[edit] Epic 5: Dragonic Age

The first part of this update went live on August 12, 2008 and contained:

• two new pets, Pet skills and development changed/added, decorative pets have been added
• new dungeon, new armors, weapons, cloaks and helmets

The second part released on October 15 2008 and brought:

• two new dungeons, level limit raised to 170 new armor, weapons, and accessories
• n new ridable mount for level 120+
• job points were reset for everyone

[edit] Epic 6: Navislamia

This update was released on the 20th of May 2009 and contained:

• High level field area updates (Level 120+), new teleport routes
• two new higher level dungeons and changes to dungeon monster drop rates and items
• Some monsters can now detect stealthed players.
• Three new pets added, Trainee Island updated, new quests, areas and dungeon
• User Interface changed, keymapping enhanced, changes to donation system and ranking

[edit] The Story

The oldest race is the Gaia, and to assist them, the gods of Creation and Extinction brought two more races into the world. They were the Deva who represented the Light and the Asura who represented the Darkness. With this, there was a period of peace and stability in the world.

As the ages passed by, there was one among the Gaia who called herself "The Witch". Over time, she grew in tremendous power and with a ruthless ambition, rallied the people of Gaia to rebel against the world.

Not all the people of Gaia heeded this call, however, and the world was thrown into chaos. It was only through the combined efforts of the three races of Deva, Asura, and Gaia that "The Witch" was finally captured and burnt alive. It was a victorious outcome of a unity between the three races.

Now at the present time, the three races continue to co-exist with each other in the world of Rappelz but dark rumors have surfaced about the second coming of "The Witch" and the return of her terrible forces. The backstory plays a substantial role in the game itself.

[edit] Game Features

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[edit] Action Icons

Rappelz optionally provides the use of icons for actions, allowing them to be assigned to a hotkey. Some other actions may also be used through the use of icons (those available in the control window).

[edit] Lak and Chips

A Lak is magical energy from monsters and can be obtained by defeating monsters while wearing the appropriate necklace. This necklace will be available fairly early in the game. Gathered Lak can be consumed if the player dies, preventing him to lose experience points (the amount of Lak consumed increases with the level of the character), or can be traded at any Lak Trader for either chips or in-game currency, rupees. Lak Traders also provide the option to buy chips with rupees. However, it is more cost-efficient to obtain chips via Lak.^[22]

There are three types of chips: Force Chips, Soul Chips and Luna Chips. These chips are items that characters can use to significantly affect a battle by increasing the amount of damage the target takes for a limited amount of time. They come in different ranks which allow different levels of users to use chips. Force Chips increase physical damage, Soul Chips increase magical damage, Luna Chips affect both physical and magical damage, but cost slightly more than Force and Soul chips.

[edit] Items and Equipment

Equipment in the game have their own level and can level up by means of upgrading. Items that are able to do this display a section at the bottom of their status window showing the upgraded status effects, allowing players to know ahead of time the quality of the equipment. By visiting a Blacksmith, which is available in every town, players are able to upgrade their currently equipped (and upgradeable) equipment for a fee.

In addition, combinations of equipment with the appropriate enchantment cubes can further increase its potency, and as is the case with weapons, even be reflected graphically through a glow effect. This is called 'enchanting' an item. A weak weapon or armour can be formed into a stronger item without having to sell it and buy a new one.^[22][23] This can also substantially increase both the item's in-game market value. The only non-equipment item that can be enchanted is the skill card.

Items can also be improved by 'socketing' Soul Stones. This is done by visiting a Soulcrafter. Soul Stones are drop items that cannot be bought from any NPC. When socketed, they will increase one of the primary stats of one's character, if three conditions are met: the equipment with the Soul Stone is equipped, the Soul Stone's level is lower than or equals the character's level, and the Soul Power of the equipment is charged. Soul Power can be charged at the Soulcrafter of each town, and will be paid in Lak. Most equipment has two sockets for Soul Stones, however two-handed weapons have four.

[edit] Pet System

One of Rappelz's defining features is its Pet system. Pets are creatures that adventure alongside players, aiding them in battle. They come in many varieties, and can be made to fulfill numerous roles. Additionally, pets have many of the properties of player characters: they gain levels alongside their owners, learn different skills, and can make use of equipment.

Pets can be used by all races and classes: the only requirement being two skills, Summon Creature and Creature Control, which are available early in the game. The basic classes (Rogue, Guide and Stepper) and fighter classes have little emphasis on creatures through the availability of creature affecting skills while the others, especially summoner classes (Breeder, Spell Singer and Sorcerer) can affect creatures more greatly.

Pets are attained by taming a pet while having the appropriate card for that pet in the player's inventory. The three most basic pet cards can be bought in any town, while other cards are only found from defeated monsters. Once tamed, pets can be summoned and banished at will by their owners.

Upon reaching a certain level, pets can "evolve" to a different type. A pet evolves twice during its lifetime. Additionally, pets can learn skills at higher levels that allow them to be used as equipment, augmenting their owner's power. There is also a feature known as "overbreeding" which requires a somewhat longer time to achieve. Overbreeding grants pets more job points and stats than non-overbred pets. Overbreeding begins after a pet can evolve but not allowing the city tamer to evolve it. Generaly if a pet is not Ovberbred, it is considered worthless to players wishing to buy a pet.

[edit] Current Pets

The Rappelz Reference Guide lists the pets in order of taming chance, using tiers. As of Epic 4, pets from tiers 1 through 3 are considered Basic, and tier 4 pets are considered Rare. Pet cards for pets from tier 1 can be purchased from NPCs, pet cards for tiers 2 through 4 are drop-only items (though sometimes they do appear in the Cash Shop as bonus items on special packages). tier 1, 2 and 3 are all listed as "basic" on their pet cards, however different drop rates and tame rates may put them into different tiers as shown below. Each pet has a specific 'Unity' which is a toggle self-buff for itself and its owner. The rarer the pet, the better its unity.

Tier 1 (Basic):

• Pantera: A muscular tiger creature. It focuses on movement speed and physical attack. Its unity adds P.Atk.
• Poultry: A large chicken creature. It focuses on attack speed and accuracy. Its unity adds Acc.
• Tortus: A giant tortoise creature. It focuses on defense and high hp. Its unity adds P.Def.

Tier 2 ("Common"):

• Red Pixie: A small red glowing fairy. It has huge magic (fire) damage but low defenses. Its unity adds M.atk.
• Orc: A green humanoid creature with high attack and defense. Its unity adds P.Atk and P.Def.
• Blue Pixie: A small blue glowing fairy. Great healing abilities, but low defense. Its unity adds MP.Recov.
• Siren: A beautiful humanoid female. It has abilities to debuff enemies. Its unity adds Acc and M.Acc.
• Skeleton: A skeletal warrior. It has fast physical attacks and extraordinary damage-dealing capabilities. Its unity adds Atk Speed.
• Yeti: A white yeti creature with a mask. It has remarkably high defense and health. Its unity adds P.Def
• Wolf: A gray wolf. It has very high evasion. It's hp and mp are not very high. Its unity adds evasion.

Tier 3 ("Un-Common"):

• Hawkman: A bird/human hybrid resembling an avian. Its skills and abilities focus on high physical attack and high physical defense. Its unity adds P.Atk and P.Def.
• Salamander: A red bipedal fire-based lizard. Its skills and abilities are based around high damage dealing potential in both magical and physical areas. Its unity adds P.Atk and M.Atk
• Harpy: A bird/human more resembling a winged archer. Its skills and abilities focus on high dexterity and p.atk, but low p.def. It also has very low HP and MP. Its unity adds attack speed.

Tier 4 (Rare):

• Angel: An angel-like creature with wings. It focuses on healing with great defensive potential. It also bears several magic attacks of notable power. Its unity adds M.Atk and P.Def
• Kentauros: A centaur equipped with a spear. Its strength lies in enormous physical attacks and fantastic damage-dealing potential. Its unity is P.Atk
• Cerberus: A three-headed dog creature. It focuses on extremely powerful physical attacks and high attack speed. Its unity adds P.Atk and Acc.
• Gnoll: A bipedal hyena creature, which focuses on good block rate and p.def. Its unity adds block chance, block power and also P.Def.

Tier 5 (Unique):

• White Dragon: An ice-themed dragon creature. White Dragons have higher defense and magic attack (and thus damage) than any other pet, making them simply "the best". They are also nearly unheard of in terms of rarity.
• Mystic Koala: A koala type beast. Has the 2nd highest defense of all pets and boosts on the user's chance to score a critical hit. It is the only pet that can be obtained without having it tamed. Purchased from the Ursa Caverns Shop Dealer for 1,000,000 Gen Points. Also note that this pet is sought after for its "luck" ability which increases item drop rates for players using it.

[edit] Races

Each of the three races in Rappelz has three classes: a warrior class, a magician class, and a summoner class whose abilities center around their pets.^[24] Summoner classes typically have skills to support their pet as well as skills borrowed from both other classes for their respective race. Similar to Ragnarok Online, characters begin as a basic class with limited skills. There are no gender limitations on classes, but each race has its own classes and skill sets. Players are free to adventure anywhere in the game world regardless of race.

[edit] Classes and Levels

Rappelz features a variety of classes, most of which can be unlocked through attaining a certain character level and job level. Character levels are attained in the traditional way, by defeating mobs and gaining experience points. Besides experience points, defeating mobs also grants the player job points. Job points are required to obtain and level up the character's skills, but also to increase their job level. Most skills require a minimum job level to be unlocked.^[24]

(Highest level that is currently available to reach is "170")

As of Epic 4, there are three class categories: starting class, first job class and second job class. After attaining level 10 and job level 10, characters can choose one of the first job specialized classes. At level 50 and job level 40, the second job class can be chosen. For example, the Gaia warrior class, Fighter, can choose between Champion, a melee-oriented battler, or an Archer, who focuses on bow skills. All classes of any race share a single "racial skill" in Epic 4, which grows in power with each class increase. When advancing a character's job class, the job level is reset.^{[citation needed]}

It is also possible to 'overbreed' your character. This means the character is not advanced to a second job class when it reaches level 50, job level 40. Instead, job points are collected to bring the job level up to level 50 as well, before further specializing. Overbreeding gives a character a small bonus to its statistics. Opinions vary on whether overbreeding is worth the amount of time and job points spent.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Deva

The Deva are a light-based race. They also have water- and earth-based skills. They are primarily defense-oriented, focusing on the powers of healing and buffing. Their racial skill is "Minor Healing", which restores HP to the caster.

• Guide - The Guide is the starting class for the Deva. The basic skills Smite and Minor Healing are learned by this class.
  • Holy Warrior - Holy Warriors are the game's primary tank class. They have the highest natural health and defense of the first jobs. They have various skills to force monsters to attack them instead of other party members (most notably the skill Provoke). In addition, they have multiple debuffing abilities, which are continued in the two advanced job versions of this class.
    • Soldier - The Soldier focuses on the offensive aspect of Holy Warriors. They get additional damage-dealing skills as well as the only two unholy warrior skills of non-light element.
    • Knight - The Knight focuses on the defensive aspect of Holy Warriors. Focusing on their prowess with a shield, they have additional skills for provoking enemies and the greatest natural defense in the game.
  • Cleric - The Cleric is the main healer/buffer of Rappelz. They have strong healing spells and many strong player buffs. They also have several attack and debuff spells.
    • Priest - Priests expand on the Cleric's partying ability. They get extensions on all heals level cap, as well as many "mass buffs" that can affect a whole party. However, many of these buffs are considered worthless because they do not stack with regular buffs, and do not give as much of a bonus. Furthermore, these buffs continue to drain MP (Mana Points) while active.
    • Bishop - The Bishop expands on a cleric's offensive casting ability. They get no new healing spells, and have the max level on some of the Cleric spells raised. They make up for it in several powerful debuffs and disable spells.
  • Breeder - The Breeder is Deva's summoner. Breeders have more defense oriented buffs and focus on raising and healing their creatures; they have limited light based damage skills also.
    • Soul Breeder - The second job class of breeders mainly extends their first job skills further. A new skill worth noticing is Dual Summoning, a passive skill which allows a character to extend the timer until the "secondary pet." (the pet which was the first to be summoned) Once high levels of this skill are achieved a Soul Breeder may permanently keep two pets out, not counting the time to recall the "main" pet (second to be summoned, this pet is recalled in order to keep buffs on one pet at all times)

[edit] Gaia

The Gaia are a neutral human race who generally have mix of defensive and offensive skills. Their skills revolve around manipulating the forces of nature. Unlike the Deva and Asura, they do not have a race-specific element, but they have skills utilizing all four "natural" elements (water, earth, wind, and fire). Their racial skill is "Mental Concentration", which increases their critical attack for a short time.

• Rogue - The Rogue is the starting class for Gaia. The basic skills Smite and Mental Concentration are learned by this class.
  • Fighter - The Fighter is the warrior class of the Gaia. Fighters focus on damage skills with two-handed axes, dual-wielded axes, or longbows.
    • Champion- The Champion class is the continuation of the melee fighter path. They focus on melee skills.
    • Archer - The Archer is the continuation of the shortbow fighter path. They focus on various bow damage skills as well as trapping skills. They also have the unique ability to detect hidden enemies (assassins are currently the only character in the game that can hide).
  • Kahuna - The Kahuna is a melee/caster hybrid class. Their magical attack spells are mostly focused on status effects and often have long re-use times. Their melee damage ability is greater than that of other magicians. They possess a heal-over-time spell as well as several buffs; however, the heal and buff skills are not as powerful as their Cleric counterparts, but are stackable (buffs from Kahunas and Clerics are able to be in effect simultaneously).
    • Battle Kahuna - The Battle Kahuna furthers the Kahuna's melee and damage abilities. They have additional attack skills as well as higher levels of passive attack skills (their base damage is higher).
    • Druid - The Druid focuses on the support aspect of the Kahuna class. They have more spells for disabling opponents as well as greater healing ability.
  • Spell Singer - The Spell Singer is the Gaia pet class. The Spell Singer focuses on increasing the abilities of both the pet and the player, with the summoner itself becoming considerably formidable at melee upon learning to dual wield one-handed axes. It is the only class in the game which lacks a self healing ability but it can heal its pet.
    • Evoker - The Evoker furthers the Spell Singer's abilities. One of the most efficient damage dealing classes, with tanking abilities

[edit] Asura

The Asura are the dark-element race of Rappelz. They also possess fire- and wind-based skills. They are primarily an offense-oriented race. They have lower health and defense than the other two races, but they have better evasion. Their racial skill is "Deep Evasion", which increases their evasive ability for a short time.

• Stepper - The Stepper is the starting class for the Asura. The basic skills Smite and Deep Evasion are learned by this class.
  • Strider - The Strider is an assassin-like class that uses high evasion and attack speed, hitting fast but not particularly strong. They can specialize in blades (swords or dirks) or crossbow.
    • Assassin - The Assassin specializes in twin dirks or swords, and have a large range of defensive melee skills and stealth skills to hide from their enemies. It uses fast attacks in order to deal large amounts of damage. This class has very little MP.
    • Shadow Hunter - The Shadow Hunter is the second job class of Striders which specializes in crossbows. They have many ranged skills and debuffing abilities.
  • Dark Magician - The Dark Magician uses spells that drain and weaken the enemy. They have many offensive spells and debuffs. They have weak defenses and die quickly.
    • Chaos Magician - The Chaos Magician is the second job class of Dark Magicians which concentrates on high AoE damage spells. It has very high damage-dealing capabilities, with high MP usage as well. The CM has the lowest physical defense power and lowest HP, but most MP of all classes.
    • Warlock - The Warlock is the second job class which concentrates more on debuffs and curse magic. The Warlock (short: WL) uses traps that he set on the ground; they will hit all enemies that walk over them (they are unseen for other players) and give them a lasting effect like stun, fear, hold. In parties they have have a large arsenal of support spells.
  • Sorcerer - The Sorcerer focuses on offense and absolute control of their pets. Sorcerers can exchange HP with their pets and leech their pets' strength.
    • Battle Summoner - The Battle Summoner is an extension of the sorcerer. They have offensive potential in both melee and magic, and more offensive buffs for their pets. At higher level they gain a Spell that increases all stats of all pets in the whole party. Very valuable in any party.

[edit] Geography

The world of Rappelz consists of a large island, which is the mainland, and a smaller one, which is called Trainee's Island. The mainland is divided into several areas, such as Crystal Valley, Lizardman Habitat, Pyre Site and Forgotten Portal. These areas harbour monsters of generally similar levels, with few exceptions, like bosses. There are also dungeons to be found, in which monsters are stronger, and experience and job point rewards are higher.

By default, any area is "player-kill area". This means that battle can be held, both between player characters and monsters (mobs), and player characters amongst each other (PK/PvP or dueling). Some small areas exist which are "non-player-kill areas". These are the towns Katan, Horizon, Laksy and the city Rondo. It is not possible to hold battle within these areas.

Each town holds a number of NPCs with different services. These services include a Weapon Trader, Armour Trader, Teleporter, Lak Trader, Adventure Guide, Job Supporter and Merchant. Every town provides most services, although some services are offered by more than one NPC in Rondo. Some NPCs can be found outside the town areas. These only function as quest NPCs in most cases.

[edit] Trainee's Island

Trainee's Island is the starting place of any player character. It is a place set up with NPCs and quests as a means of tutorial, as well as reaching a character level upon which the player's character becomes viable in the mainland. Once a character reaches level 10 and completed the class transfer quest, it is possible to visit a Teleporter and transport towards the home town for that character's race. Once level 15 is reached, the character is unable to teleport back to Trainee's Island, however, as of Epic 5's early release all characters, regardless of level, may visit Trainee's Island.

[edit] Home Towns

There are three home towns, one for each race:

• Horizon

Home town for the Gaian race. Horizon is located towards the east of the mainland, amidst grassy plains and a hillside. Horizon is usually more crowded than Laksy or Katan due to it being located relatively close to the two lower-level dungeons Relics of Arid Moonlight and Lost Mines.

• Laksy

Home town for the Devan race. It is a floating town off the Rappelz map that can be reached by visiting the Laksy Anchor. Laksy Anchor is located in the north of the mainland, it being a small island surrounded by and connected to the mainland by a set of bridges.

• Katan

Home town for the Asura race. It is set in a dark and gloomy environment in the south of the mainland, located between a formation of mountains.

[edit] Rondo

Rondo is a large square city that looks like a castle. It is located at a central position in the mainland, allowing for relatively fast access to several of the dungeons and main areas. Rondo is regarded as a home town for those who have reached character level 50.

[edit] Hidden Village

The Hidden Village is not on the Rappelz map. It can only be reached by purchasing a Hidden Village Ticket in the Cash Shop, and visiting a Hidden Village Teleporter in any of the other towns. Hidden Village is a place where items, such as equipment, can be bought with a discount. Some items can only be bought here.

[edit] Dungeon System

Dungeons are isolated places reached through portals. The monsters in dungeons are stronger than normal monsters with the same level, but the experience and job point reward for killing one is also higher. There are also items that can only be obtained as a dungeon drop. Dungeons are usually entered as a party, or dungeon party. Dungeon parties consist of a variety of classes, most including a healer/buffer, a tank, and multiple damage dealers. This enables the party to efficiently kill monsters and gain experience fast. Parties in Rappelz may contain up to 8 players. Dungeons are not instanced, meaning players will be able to interact with other characters and parties inside the dungeon. This also allows for kill-stealing (attacking a monster that was first attacked by another character outside their party, with the intent to 'steal' it away from them and/or receive a portion of the experience gain), and 'mob dropping' (pulling a large number of monsters towards another character or party, usually with the intent to have the 'mob' of monsters attack them instead, often resulting in the 'mobbed' party dying).

[edit] Dungeon Raid

Rappelz has a feature in place that allows for guilds to 'own' a dungeon. Ownership of a dungeon brings certain advantages, such as a Lak and rupee 'tax' for characters using the dungeon. Acquiring ownership of a dungeon requires two steps. First a Dungeon Raid should be performed. Dungeon Raid is also called Time Attack, and consists of killing the two bosses that guard the specific dungeon. For example, for Relics of Arid Moonlight, these bosses are Oforia and Abhuva. During the Dungeon Raid, the dungeon is instanced, meaning no other player characters will be encountered.

[edit] Dungeons Siege

If the raid succeeds, and manages to kill the bosses in the shortest amount of time compared to Dungeon Raids from others, the guild that performed the raid will move on to attempt a Dungeon Siege. Dungeon Sieges are held once a week on a set time. A Dungeon Siege is a war between a defending guild, the guild currently owning the dungeon, and the attacking guild, the guild who performed the Dungeon Raid. If the siege succeeds, ownership of the dungeon is transferred to the attacking guild. During the Dungeon Siege, the dungeon is instanced, meaning no other player characters will be encountered (with the exception of the opponent parties in the Siege).

[edit] Guilds

Rappelz features a simple guild system, where any player above level 20 can register a guild at a Guild Official (NPC) in the major towns. Guilds offer players a group to play with. Up to five guilds can also come together to form an alliance. Players cannot player-kill another guild member or alliance member.

A character who has just left a guild cannot join or create a guild within 7 days. This was implemented to avoid guild-hopping.

An alliance owning a dungeon cannot add any other guild to the alliance.

[edit] In-game administrators

Rappelz's Game Masters are responsible for the day-to-day administration of the game, including tasks such as planning and running of events, bug tracking, testing, solving customer service issues, and answering player queries.

GM's and QA's can be recognized by their [GM] or [QA] name tag, glowing aura, orange chat text and being able to buff themselves with higher buffs than is possible to obtain in the game. They're usually nowhere to be found and will rarely appear to help or assist a player.

[edit] Technical issues

The game has a fairly high (as of 2006) minimum system requirements, similar to other games such as World of Warcraft.^[25]

Users have experienced server instability, for which the logout timer has been found responsible. Because of this, the logout timer has been temporarily disabled.^[26]

Rappelz uses an anti-cheater program called GameGuard, which install itself without warning during client installation. ^[27]

[edit] Rappelz O.S.T.

Like many other MMORPGs, Rappelz has its own soundtrack. It does not, however, feature all of the music which is played in-game. The Rappelz O.S.T. is available free in MP3 format on the Korean Rappelz website.

1. "Rappelz" – 2:52
   • The main music of the game
2. "Pioneer of the Distorted Land" – 2:08
   • Music played on Trainee island"
3. "An Epic of the Absolute Creature" – 2:08
   • Music played on the Horizon login screen (first)
   • Music is also used in gPotato's "Honor Vs Wildseven Trailer"
4. "Breeze of Old Forest" – 2:51
5. "Morning Breaks of Rondo" – 2:38
   • Music featured in the login screen of the beta.
6. "Crystal Fountain" – 2:31
   • Music played on the night Rondo login screen (second)
   • Music is also used in gPotato's "Rappelz's Official Trailer"
7. "Sleeping Ruin in the Bleak Land" – 3:01
   • Music played on the Laksy login screen (third)
8. "Mythical Desert" – 2:50
9. "Dusk Kahthan" – 2:44
   • Music played in the Asuran capital city of Asura Katan

Songs 7,8 and 9 were performed by Studio EIM.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Official websites

• Rappelz South East Asia English Website
• Rappelz English Website
• Rappelz Original Soundtrack
• Rappelz Russian Website

Fansite

• The Rappelz Wiki - English articles on game play and game systems.