Tanda posted the Pet Skill trees for Epic 5 pets. He also released the Rappelz Official Wiki (which really isn’t a wiki since its not publically editable). Heres the scoop.

Hello,

In case any of you were looking for information on the new pet skills, we have the new pet skill trees up on the Rappelz Wiki.

BTW we still need contributors to the wiki!

Here are some links:

Rappelz Wiki

Pet Information Page

Tortus Information
Pantera Information
Poultry Information

Yeti Information
Blue Pixie Information
Red Pixie Information
Siren Information
Orc Information
Skeleton Information

Hawkman Information
Salamander Information

Kentaros Information
Angel Information

Cerberus Information
White Dragon Information

Metapage.

So, I finally finished downloading the client (Rappelz_USA_080805). Quite big at 2gb, but not unusual for a game these days. Patching was over in seconds downloading at about 100kb/s according to my Internet Monitor Server. Not bad if I say so myself.

Now installing and getting ready to play I think first impressions require a post of their own, more on this after I get something for dinner.

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Starting up the client greats me with a animated image of some kind of rift in space and time? Still, quite impressive methinks. Logging in nothing special, apart from the fact I can now look at credits and change my secondary password (this password is used for password protecting the warehouse that you store items in and then share between characters on the same account)

Logged into Yeti (my server of choice) and chose one of my old characters just to have a look around. First thing I notice is that they now have many different loading screens when you are loading,  sometimes loading can take up to two minute on my older computers, great for a short break between grinding

As soon as I log in I am greeted by about thirty players who are all doing their idle animations in Katan. This is because NFlavor decided to take off Stamina when you are offline, opting to make us pay for the stamina if we want it offline. However you can get a low powered laptop to AFK in the middle of the town, but ultimately the power bill can cost more than if you just brought a Tent from the item shop.

They also have Guardians now, that Patrol the towns, level 200 but at this point of time they don’t attack or seem to do anything but walk. My guess is that they will attack people with bloody names and/or Wrath that take a trip to town, however if the guards kill them, they will be sent to town, and the whole thing will repeat itself.. we can only wait and watch I suppose.

Shout chat was acting per normal, blaming the GM’s for developers errors, something they have no control over and another person whining about rappelz and how people can pk. No surprise that my guild was empty apart from only me, 7 months of inactivity does that to a guild

After skilling my Tortus (The best pet in rappelz, not in power but in personality… yeah my tortus talks to me) and hoping I havn’t stuffed up him too badly, maxing the defence passives and then getting a few attack spells, I got Weapons and Armor (there is an event on currently for returning players, they get free weapons and Armor for a limited  time) I then decided to call it a day and go out on to the field later. Grinding at 1am is not what I want to get back into, MMO’s tend to be addictive but I think I am strong enough to know when enough is enough… for the time being anyway

More info after the break.

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I know I said I was going to sleep but I must vent… I own four computers, one as a server, one as a media center and two that I use for gaming and browsing the internet. One of these computers is a beast of a computer, and can play Crysis at Ultra High and get about 40fps average. That same computer gets 28fps in the middle of a town. You may say “But Crysis has better graphics, Physics to render, and alot more load on your system? How can a game, with no Physics to render, and graphics that are many times worse give you less performance?”, this is a problem that has plagued Rappelz since it’s release of the Epic2 client.

This is yet another one in the long list of problems that have not been fixed by the developers. The lag is caused because the client program is bloated and not optimised enough. For example in why this could slow the game down, instead of using five lines of code to do something, it uses twenty, that means your computer must work four times as hard to carry out that operation. Another problem the Rappelz client has, is the memory leak. Granted it was not as bad as it was in the start of Epic3, but still after playing for some time, computers with under 2gb of ram will start to have some stuttering problems, and in a MMO that usually means death as your computer lags but the servers don’t.

You may think, “Why don’t they just fix the code”, the answer is simple. “The developers are lazy”. They send out new content and try to distract the Rappelz community by giving them small changes and small additions, while forgetting about the bigger picture. The pet cancel bug was one of the worst bugs I have seen in a game, (when pets used skills they stopped attacking and casting the skill about 80% of the time) and made some pets very hard to use. This went on for about six months if I remember correctly, and new dungeons and weapons and items were released before it was fixed (granted the error only occured on the International Rappelz not the korean, but you would think they would try and find out why, since Gpotato has brought the rights to their game to sell it to people over the world). One would think the bugs should be fixed before new content is released, but it seems the developers are more focused in releasing content for an already buggy game.

The recommended spec’s on the main download page would require someone with alot of patience, as I found the weakest rig to play rappelz on without much spikes, would be a 7600gt, with 1gb of ram and a 1.8ghz core2 or equivalent. Just something to watch out for if you play this game.

There is also alot of Server side lag again, due to the fact that rappelz net-code is not one of the best, however that is only really seen in seiges. A little bird told me that in less than two months we will be getting upgrades to some of the servers, so watch this space.

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This is a short guide on what you may see in the Rappelz world
Edit: I found a better list than mine on the Rappelz Forum, I have edited it a tiny bit in some places for your reading pleasure.

(number) + - At least that level or higher. For instance, people will shout for a 55+ party, meaning they want people higher than level 55, and likely NOT higher than level 65
(number) + (number) - Referring to pets, the first number is the pet’s current level and the second number is the pet’s number of overbred levels. For instance, 65+10 would refer to a pet that is currently level 65, and has 10 overbred levels.
(number)x - Somewhere in that ten-digit level range. For instance, someone between 20 and 29 would be 2x and someone between 80 and 89 would be 8x
(number).(number) - The person is at the first number’s level and the second number’s percentage to the next level. For instance, someone who is 70.8 is level 70, and is 80% of the way to 71.
1h - One handed weapon
2h - Two handed weapon
Abby - Abhuva, dungeon boss in Moonlight Remains
Acc - Accuracy
AE - Ancient Element
Afk - Away from keyboard
Agi - Agility
Agro/Aggro - The mob’s attention (short for aggravation) Also, it can mean a mob that will attack on sight, versus one that will not attack you.
AH - Auction House
Alt - Alternate character, i.e., not your main character
AOE - Area of Effect
Atk - Attack (usually when referring to your character information, and prefaced by m or p)
B Pixie - Blue pixie
BB - Bye-Bye
Bio - Going afk for a bathroom break
Bish - Bishop (Cleric second job)
BK - Battle kahuna (Kahuna second job)
Blksm - Blacksmith
BP - Blue pixie
Brb - Be right back
Brt - Be right there
BS - Battle Summoner (Sorcerer second job)
Bubble - A heal over time spell that creates an image of a blue sphere around you (see HoT and RPW)
Buff - Positive status effect given by a player or pet
CC - Crowd control (i.e., stunning/freezing/slowing additional mobs that are coming towards you)
Champ/Chmp - Champion (Fighter second job)
Clean - Not upgraded (with cubes or at the blacksmith)
CM - Chaos Mage (Dark Magician second job), or occasionally Crystal Mountain, the location of Crystal Valley (see CV1/CV2)
CS - Cash Shop
Cuz - Because
CV1/CV2 - The dungeon Crystal Valley (there are two instances of the dungeon in two separate locations. Please see a map for where each dungeon is located)
DA - Darkness Arrow
DC - Disconnected
DD - Damage dealer (someone whose role in a party is to hurt things)
DE - Dead end (a small room at the end of a hallway in a dungeon that has several mobs that spawn there)
Debuff - Negative status effect
Def - Defense (usually when referring to your character information, and prefaced by m or p)
Dex - Dexterity
Dlvl - Delevel (to go down in levels)
DM - Dark Magician
DMR1/DM2 - The dungeon Dry Moonlight Relics. See Moon1/Moon2 - they are the same place. (There are two instances of the dungeon in two separate locations. Please see a map for where each dungeon is located)
DoT - Damage over time
DP - Dungeon party
DPS - Either dungeon parties or damage per second, depending on the context
DPLF - Dungeon party looking for
Drop-only - Not purchasable in an NPC shop, this item can only be gotten from monster loot or from other players
ePro - eProtect powder
eRep - eRepair powder
Ev/Eva - Evasion
Evo - Evolution (of a pet - there are three total)
EW - Enchant Weapon (Kahuna skill, has four possible elements)
Farm - To kill the same mob or group of mobs over and over again, hoping for a particular drop (usually a pet card)
FB - Fireball or Fairy Bottle (Cash Shop only item)
FFS - For f**k’s sake
FTL - For the loss
FTW - For the win
GD - Good duel
GG - Good game or Good going (usually sarcastic)
GJ - Good job (sometimes sarcastic)
GL - Good luck or Guild Leader (better name for guild master)
GM - Guild master or game master (the people who run the game), depending on the context
GMFB - Godmother’s Fairy Bottle (Cash Shop only item)
GPots - G-Potatoes (The currency for the Cash Shop)
Gz - Congratulations (Congrats)
Hawk - Hawkman
HB - Headbreak (strider fear skill)
Hf - Have fun
HoT - Heal over time
HP - Hit points (current health)
Huna - Kahuna
HV - Hidden Village
HW - Holy Warrior
IGN - In-game Name (the name of your character)
Imho - In my humble opinion
Imo - In my opinion
Int - Intelligence
Jlvl - Job level
Jp - Job points
Kk - Okay, cool
KOS - Kill on sight
Ks - Kill steal - attacking a monster someone else is attacking when they’re not in your party
LB - Lightning Bolt
Lck - Luck
LFDP - Looking for dungeon party
LFG - Looking for group - not common in this game, you sometimes see new people from other games using this abbreviation.
Liki - Likirus (spelled differently different places, including Rikirus), dungeon boss in Crystal Valley
LM1/LM2 - The dungeon Lost Mines (there are two instances of the dungeon in two separate locations. Please see a map for where each dungeon is located)
Lol - Laugh out loud
Lvl - Level
M - Magic (usually as a preface to atk, def, res, or regen)
Main - Main character
ML1/ML2 - The dungeon Moonlight Remains (there are two instances of the dungeon in two separate locations. Please see a map for where each dungeon is located)
Mob - A monster
Moon1/Moon2 - The dungeon Moonlight Remains (there are two instances of the dungeon in two separate locations. Please see a map for where each dungeon is located
Mp - Mana/Magic points (used for skills and spells)
MS - Meteor Shower, a Chaos Mage skill
Nm - Nightmare
Np - No problem
OB - Overbreed(ing)/Overbred. This is when a pet is not evoed to the next evolution until after they’ve gained more levels. You can overbreed a pet a maximum 10 levels from evo 1 to evo 2 (evoing at level 60 instead of 50) and a maximum 15 levels from evo 2 to evo 3 (evoing at level 115 instead of 100). When OB is referring to a character, it means instead of transferring to a second job at jlvl 40, the character transferred at a higher jlvl. The maximum jlvl is 50. This gives additional stats to the character.
Ofo - Oforia, a dungeon boss in Moonlight Remains
Omg - Oh my god
Omw - On my way
Oom - Out of mana (see Mp)
HV Pass - Hidden Village pass
PC - Price check
PK - Player kill
Pot - Potion
PP1/PP2 (PS1/PS2) - The dungeon Palmir Shrine on the Palmir Plateau (there are two instances of the dungeon in two separate locations. Please see a map for where each dungeon is located).
PVE - Player versus environment
PVP - Player versus player
Pw - Password
R1 - Rank 1, which is level 1-19
R2 - Rank 2, which is level 20-49
R3 - Rank 3, which is level 50-79
R4 - Rank 4, which is level 80-99
R5 - Rank 5, which is level 100-119
R6 - Rank 6, which is level 120-150
RP - Red pixie
Regen - Regeneration (usually referring to hp or mp regeneration)
Res - Resistance (usually when referring to your character information, and prefaced by m), sometimes Restoration, a cleric HoT skill, or Resurrection, see below.
Res/Rez - Resurrection, a cleric or blue pixie restore life spell, or refers to a resurrection scroll, a purchasable restore life targatable spell. Please note the cleric and blue pixie spells give back some experience points, while the scroll does not.
RP - Roleplay
RPW - Restoring Purified Water (Kahuna’s skill)
Sala/Sally - Salamander
SB - SoulBreeder (Breeder second job)
SH - Shadow Hunter (Strider second job)
Sin - Assassin (Strider second job)
Skel/Skelly - Skeleton
Sorc - Sorcerer
SotW/SoW - Speed of the wind (kahuna buff)
SpS - SpellSinger, usually favored over SS
SS - Stamina saver, SpellSinger, or screen shot, depending on the situation (usually stamina saver)
Stam - Stamina
Stats - Statistics, the different numbers that make up how powerful your character is. (See Str, Agi, Wis, Int, Vit, Lck)
Str - Strength
TA - Time attack
Toon - Your character
Ty - Thank you
Tx - Thanks
Vit - Vitality
Water - Restoring Purified Water (Kahuna’s skill)
Wh - Warehouse
Wis - Wisdom
WTB - Want to buy
WTS - Want to sell
WTT - Want to trade
Xbow - Crossbow
XP - Experience points
yw - You’re welcome

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