ROSE Online

ROSE Online
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Developer(s)	Gravity Interactive, Inc. (North America) Faith Inc. (Japan) PT Serenity Mega Media (Indonesia)
Publisher(s)	Gravity Interactive, Inc. (North America) Faith Inc. (Japan) PT Serenity Mega Media (Indonesia)
Platform(s)	PC
Release	naROSE: December 1, 2005 jROSE: July 7, 2005 idROSE: still in beta test
Genre(s)	MMORPG
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

ROSE Online, or Rush On Seven Episodes Online (Korean:로즈 온라인) is an MMORPG which was created by Korean company Triggersoft and was published by Gravity Corp.. Triggersoft gave up the development of the game in 2007, so it is now developed (and hosted) by three different companies:

• Gravity Interactive, Inc. for the North American version (naROSE - accessible everywhere in the world)
• Faith Inc. for the Japanese version (jROSE - only for Japanese players)
• PT Serenity Mega Media for the Indonesian version (idROSE - currently in open beta)

The development of the game is not anymore provided by one single development team, so naROSE, jROSE and idROSE are three different servers with different developments.

Story

The seven planets of the world of ROSE Online were created by the goddess Arua. However, Hebarn, the god of malice, took over the seventh planet and renamed it after himself.

To protect the others planets from Hebarn, Arua created the Visitors and sent them to Junon, the first planet.

The seven planets are: Junon, Luna, Eldeon, Orlo, Skaaj, Karkia, Hebarn.

Gameplay

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A screenshot of the game, showing the pre-Evolution user interface.

A screenshot of the game, showing the current Evolution user interface.

Gameplay is a free roaming typical level-up based MMORPG. You fight monsters, level up, obtain new skills and equipment to better yourself for upcoming battles. You can travel to different planets and explore new environments as well as battle other players and declare wars against other clans [guilds]. The game features its own in-game economy which is directly controlled by players. Supply and demand can change each day so it is up to you to seize the opportunity. You can obtain one of 4 branches of jobs at level 10, and 2nd Advanced jobs at level 100. The max level currently is 210. At level 210 you do not get experience but you are able to refine [upgrade] your weapons and armor to increase your power for Player vs Player.

In addition to leveling through the method of acquiring experience points leading to a level after the defeat of a monster, a character may also aid their leveling experience with the use of Quests. Quests are initiated after being spoken to a NPC. Some quests are given a time limit so the character must complete the quest to be eligible for a reward. A reward may be constituted of material items and is usually accompanied with an experience point reward. Rewards from quests are affected by the amount of charm a character has.

There are three types of items, to which the Inventory is divided: Equipment, items characters may wear on their bodies; Consumable which consists of consumable items that may recover HP, MP or Stamina, or perform an effect (i.e. dance, learn a skill, shoot fireworks, socket items), and Etc which covers general miscellany, such as materials for crafting, gems, and ammunition for weapons that need them.

Tuning System

There are a total of 3 forms of transportation available in ROSE Online:

Cart

The cart is basically a car. In order to drive a cart you have to complete a quest. The quest can be obtained by anyone level 50 or higher. The cart is owned by the player, and the player can buy better pieces for the car to improve its performance. You can equip cart weapons.

Castle Gear

Castle gear is what every high level player needs. It is a giant robot like thing, which the player drives. The player needs to be level 70 in order to drive castle gear. Castle gear is mostly used in pvp (player versus player). It is not used to get somewhere fast (like the cart), but it has a massive amount of power, which can become even more if the owner buys new and better weapons for it.

Flying Vessel

Unlike Carts and Castle Gears, the Flying Vessel cannot be owned by a user. It is operated by NPCs and ferries players from planet to planet. To an extent, the flying vessel is a prop employed by the game as to create the illusion that the character has traveled or will travel a considerable distance, as the "trip" is accompanied with a post-rendered video of the ship in question traveling towards a planet. The use of this service is provided if the character supplies the NPC who operates the vessel with a sum of in-game currency. A quest must be completed to acquire the ability to use the Flying Vessel.

Jobs

• 1st Job: Level 10
• 2nd Advanced Job: Level 100 (whereas it was at Level 70 in an older version)

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 feather in your hair (for males), a pink ribbon (for females), a Wooden Sword and 200 Zulie (currency of ROSE Online).

Muse

Muses use magic to attack enemies or heal/enchant fellow players. Muses use intelligence as their main stat. Muses use magic staffs or wands, the latter usually with a support tool. If Muses reach level 100, they can choose a second job: Mage or Cleric.

Mage

Mages are powerful spell casters who cast spells such as Meteorite Flow, Icy Hailstorm or Staff Stun. They are often used in parties as damage specialists. They can do a tremendous amount of damage when buffed. Mages do not only add points in Intelligence, but also in Strength so as to gain more attack power, defense, HP, and weight limit. Mage only use staff for close fighting.

Cleric

Clerics are the supportive branch of Muses. Clerics focus on making their healing spells and enchantments[buffs] stronger and mostly dependent on parties to level, but if needed they can summon monster to attack like an Elemental or a phantom sword, or can alternatively use summoning capsules. They are also the most versatile class in the whole game, some players put their stat points solely on intelligence, others may choose to put on some Strength in order to hold a shield, or some Sensibility to gain more attack power and to inflict more critical hits.

Soldier

Soldiers are melee/ranged fighters, who focus on offense or defense. Soldiers use strength as their main stat. They party with other classes and provoke enemies to form a mob of monsters for higher and faster exp gain. Soldiers use one-handed or two-handed swords, blunt weapons, spears, axes, and shields. 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. Knights have good defence and area attack.

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 from (or "tank") multiple enemies at once.

Dealer

Dealers are the money-making class of ROSE. They typically use guns or launchers in combat, which use bullets and canon balls, because of that dealers could be rather expensive to level. Dealers are also skilled in crafting items. They can later change classes to become either an artisan (crafting) or bourgeois (money maker). The dealers main stat is their concentration, mixed with sensibility.

Artisan

Artisans are the item making branch of Dealers. Artisans can craft equipment, carts and castle gears, and cut gems. 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's are the money making branch of ROSE. Bourgeois, or commonly referred to as Bourgs, are all about finding items and dealing damage. Bourgs are also known for their strong mercenary summons, which cost money to use. Bourgs have gun skills which are especially suited for PvP or launcher skills which are especially suited for PvM. Bourgs deal high damage to single enemies and have the greatest distance of fire, they are commonly used to gather materials to make zulie.

Hawker

Hawkers are fast characters, and wear light armor . They base themselves on dexterity, which is their main stat that supports damage and dodging. Hawkers use katars, dual weapons or bows. They can also hide, boost up their critical and dodge rate, and throw poison knives at their enemies.

Scout

Hawkers who prefer using bows advance to the Scout job, effectively allowing the Hawker access to the Scout skill tree which consists of skills that are involved in the projection of arrows. One skill that is unique to the Scout is the ability to conjure a Hawk summon, which aids the Scout in the game by attacking the character's highlighted hostile target. The ability of this hawk is highly controversial. Scouts are also given active skills that increase their attack range, as well as dealing additional damage or ailments; all of these supports are of less effect than those of a cleric.

Raider

Hawkers who prefer knuckles or dual weapons advance to the Raider job, which allows them to access skills which mainly inflict damage. There is one skill unique to this job, stealth, which allows them to become neutral, so no player nor any monster can kill them.

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. 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. A variety of "melee" weapons, including Axes, Swords, Bows, Katars, and Spears, exist in the game, along with guns and launchers, and also "magic" weapons, including Wands and Staffs.

There are different rarities and forms of weapons and armor, their name are labeled in different colors:

• Yellow: A common version of a weapon. These can be crafted by Artisans.
• Blue: An uncommon version of a weapon that has boosted stats (Grand, Golden, Demon, Dark, Elven and Legend prefixes) or a lower level requirement (Saint prefix).
• Purple: These are very rare and special weapons. Unique weapons, easily detected by their purple names, they are weapons with no level requirement and only require fairly large amounts of their weapon type's significant stat, usually ranging from 150~200. Regardless of their name, unique weapons aren't unique, but very rare. Each unique weapon gives a fixed bonus of their own, usually a very substantial advantage. Unique weapons are never prefixed. Unique weapons are unrefineable in naRose, but in jRose they can be refined using Braveman's Talisman.

Gems & Sockets

Gems are a highly sought after material in ROSE Online. a Gem possess powerful stats that will make its wielder more powerful. Each Gem has 7 different grades, each grade is bigger and gives a more powerful stat, Gems can be created by Artisans with the Gem Cutting skill.

• Ruby: adds Strength
• Garnet: adds Dexterity
• Sapphire: adds Concentration
• Topaz: adds Intelligence
• Emerald: adds Sense
• Diamond: adds Attack Power
• Peridot: adds Attack Speed
• Pink Opal: adds Physical Defense

The ability to create sockets is to find rare items called Drills: drills can create sockets in weapons, jewelry and chest armor. Once a Gem has been placed in the socket it cannot be removed.

Stats

Stats are obtained each time a character levels, and each stat influences different things. The six stats are: Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Concentration, Charm, and Sensibility. Strength, Dexterity, and Concentration mainly influence melee characters, while Intelligence and Sensibility influence magic type characters. Charm is beneficial equally to all classes. There is no restriction on which stat players can add to their characters. Along with in-game descriptions of the individual effects of each stat, there are also hidden elements of what each can do.

ROSE Online Services & Variants

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.

Korean ROSE / Japanese ROSE

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.

Note: As of 4/11/2007 Korean ROSE has been deemed to shutdown.

Philippine ROSE / North American ROSE

The game's main quest, or commonly referred to as "Episode 1" was more developed in the International ROSE, the quest is much changed in more current versions.

Starting at level 10 until level 210, you will gain one SP per level. 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. You will also gain Mp to use skill

On July 4 2007, Level Up Games Inc. the company that franchised Philippine Ragnarok Online, ROSE and soon Ragnarok Online 2: Gate of the world all games by gravity announced that they will be shutting down as stated in the company's website. This will be effective August 1, 2007.

http://www.levelupgames.ph/news_detail.php?id=439

As you may already know, we were put to the test when Triggersoft (Gravity’s development team for ROSE) not only ceased development and technical support for ROSE Online but also shut down all operations recently. Many thought this was the end. But resilient as we are, we found a way to survive. We decided to follow the free to play business model, a risky and bold move, but one that we were willing to take… all to keep a great game going, keep everyone happy and most of all, keep our community solid, intact and alive.

ROSE Evolution

ROSE Evolution is the new version, or massive update of ROSE, with the GUI, skills set, materials and crafting system completely changed. Japan ROSE migrated to Evolution the first, followed by Korean ROSE, Philippine ROSE and the last North American ROSE on 24th August, 2006. ROSE Evolution is a union of both previous variants. The noticeable differences are:

• A complete redesign of the User Interface.
• New maps, including Desert of the Dead.
• Change of starting location.
• The refining system now uses weapon and armor grades.
• Introduces completely new monsters.
• Buffs have been changed to include percentage buffs.
• 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, back shields and wings can no longer be refined. (As per version 148 Japanese ROSE, back shields, bag and wings are refine-able)

ROSE Legend

After the closing of Korean ROSE and the end of the development by TriggerSoft, the two remaining providers, Japan ROSE and ROSE North America, decided to develop the game separately. Japan Rose chose to change its name from ROSE Evolution into ROSE Legend in the same time of introduction of the 4th planet Orlo on December 25, 2007. naROSE, however, stays with the name ROSE Evolution.

Pricing

Monthly Fee

Each game provider has their own pricing scheme. Below is the pricing scheme for naROSE and jROSE (the other servers have been shut down).

naROSE

New players get a free trial of 7 days or 35 hours (whichever comes first).

naROSE monthly pricing is monthly based as follow:

• With an auto-recurring subscription:

Plan	Price	Item Mall points
1 month	$11.99	110
2 months	$22.99	240
3 months	$31.99	390
6 month	$56.99	840

• With a non-recurring subscription:

Plan	Price	Item Mall points
1 month	$12.99	100
2 months	$24.99	220
3 months	$34.99	360
6 month	$62.99	780

jROSE

Note: Only people living in Japan can play in jROSE.

jROSE pricing is feature-selection based; You only pay the features you used. The pricing is summarized as follows:

Feature	Price	Item Mall points	Remarks
Entry	Free	0	Player can play the game, but can't use trading, personal shop, storage, and community features. Buying from personal shop or NPC is allowed. Only 3 of 5 characters/server can be used. Note: Community features become available to Entry Plan since 2007/09/04
Premium	¥480/month	24	Entry features + trading, personal shop, 1st storage, and community features.
Extra Storage	¥200/month	10	2nd, 3rd and 4th storage
Extra Character	¥200/month	10	4th and 5th character

• Yen to US$ conversion is available at xe.com

Item Mall

It is an online shop of the provider's site where you can buy special items (which are only obtainable in the Item Mall). The available items depend on the server (naROSE/jROSE) and may change frequently.

Item Mall points are used to buy items in the Item Mall. Item Mall points can be earned when you pay the monthly subscription, and they can also be bought separately. Each provider has a different pricing for the Item Mall points.

Release History

• January 2004: ROSE Korea (kROSE) begins its closed beta phase under the name "Seven Hearts Online" (S.H.O.).
• September 15, 2004: kROSE begins its open beta test phase with a new name: R.O.S.E. Online.
• September 24, 2004: ROSE Japan (jROSE) begins its open beta test phase.
• January 1, 2005: International ROSE (iROSE) begins its open beta phase.
• January 20, 2005: kROSE is officially released.
• April 28, 2005: Taiwan ROSE (twROSE) begins its closed beta test phase.
• May 15, 2005: iROSE's reset.
• June 2005: Philippine ROSE (pROSE) and twROSE begin their open beta test phase.
• July 7, 2005: jROSE is officially released.
• August 1, 2005: jROSE begins its pay to play service.
• August 31, 2005: iROSE is officially closed.
• September 1, 2005: ROSE North America (naROSE) begins its closed beta phase.
• September 29, 2005: ROSE Europe (euROSE) begins its closed beta phase.
• October 7, 2005: euROSE and naROSE begin their open beta phase.
• November 10, 2005: euROSE begins its pay to play service.
• December 1, 2005: naROSE begins 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.
• March 10, 2006: twROSE closes permanently.
• May 1, 2006: jROSE becomes a 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's transition to ROSE Evolution.
• August 10, 2006: euROSE's database is transferred to pROSE.
• August 12, 2006: kROSE's transition to ROSE Evolution. kROSE becomes free to play.
• August 17, 2006: pROSE's transition to ROSE Evolution.
• August 24, 2006: naROSE's transition to ROSE Evolution.
• April 18, 2007: pROSE becomes free to play.
• April 25, 2007: kROSE permanently closes at 10:00 AM local time.
• May 2007: jROSE's intellectual property is transferred to Faith Inc., the new development team assigned for jROSE.
• June 26, 2007: European players can no longer access pROSE.
• Summer 2007: Gravity Interactive, Inc. (naROSE's publisher) acquires the rights to develop naROSE.
• August 6, 2007: pROSE officially closes at precisely 3:00PM GMT+8:00.
• December 25, 2007: jROSE changes its name from ROSE Evolution to ROSE Legend.
• March 17, 2008: ROSE Indonesia (idROSE) begins its closed beta test phase.
• April 1, 2008: idROSE begins its open beta test phase.

Official Sites

• Official ROSE Online Site (North America)
• Official ROSE Online Site (Japan)
• Official ROSE Online Site (Korea)
• Official ROSE Online Site (Indonesia)