This is a Guide for those who don’t know how to dungeon party effectively, since I have been in so many dungeon parties where everyone dies quickly.

First off.

What is a Dungeon Party?

A dungeon party is when a group of people form together a party and go to one of the many dungeons in Rappelz.

Why do you need so much people, I can solo Godzilla.. Dungeons can’t be that hard…

Inside the dungeon there are many fast spawning mobs that have alot of health alot of hit points and can pack a big punch, for the low levels out there, think double the strength of godzilla, and about six of them per room, and then there are the dungeon bosses, the most powerful mobs in the game.

Ouch… So how can you take them down?

The answer to that is simple. Teamwork.

Right… So how does this “Teamwork” work?

Generally you have a cleric, or/and a huna (a healer and buffer) a few DD (damage dealers) a tank (to take aggro) and that is your party.

And what do they do?

Cleric heals, Tank takes the damage and tries to make the Cleric heal only him to make the clerics life easy, the tank also tries to stop the Cleric from drawing aggro and becoming the tank. The Damage Dealers also try and protect the cleric while attacking the mobs to get them dead as fast as possible. The Huna heals and buffs, again to make the clerics life easier.

Seems like the whole party is trying to keep the Cleric alive…

Yep, thats the way it works, without your cleric, you have less buffs, no way to get more health quickly and the mobs will quickly overcome you, without a tank you have nobody to get the mobs on one person or take the mob off the cleric, with no DD’s you kill too slowly and the Cleric has to heal more, so in the end you still work as a collective team with each of you with your own role to full.

Any more comments?

Yes, just because mobs are a higher level doesn’t mean they will give you more exp per kill. For example if a red leveled mob gives you 300jp, and a white leveled mob gave you 200jp per kill, and you killed one red leveled mob every thirty seconds, and killed one white leveled mobs every fifteen seconds you would be getting 100jp more than if you killed the higher level mob, plus the fact that the damage would not be as hard on the cleric.

That is all, good luck in the dungeon party and watch each others backs!

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Ok, everyone knows that the xfire event “Dare to Rappelz” Event ended on August 11th and the “Rappelz Live Chat” Event ended on the same day.

Now the winners of the ‘Rappelz Live Chat’ were announced at the conclusion of the chat, and 99% of everyone who was there were tempted to go there for the 30-day HV pass.

Ok so it has been already a week, wheres my damn 30-day HV PASS??!!

Also the “Dare to Rappelz” Event ended on August 11th and after a week theres still no indication of any winners or such.

Yea events like this suck and many people report that Xfire has the crappiest events ever since they take forever to process and give out the awards.

Anyway my biggest gripe is my 30-day HV pass, I mean come on, the winners were announced and I had to email xfire my account details. It should just be a matter of emailing/mailing the winners list to the Rappelz Staff so they can give us our prizes… Even the GMs don’t know whats going on…

How stupidly disorganized this is…….

Metapage.

Yay maintenance.
You would think that restarting a server would take less than four hours, one would also think it wouldn’t be too hard to get an accurate status page to say when the servers are down or up, most MMO’s have them why not rappelz?

Enough with the ranting however, it appears that Rappelz has become less demanding or at least more compatable, shown are screenshots of rappelz on my Eee since Epic5 (before Epic5 it just crashed to desktop with a korean error) (intergrated intel graphics for the win)

Still gave me 10fps, but at least those with bad graphics card can try to play… and now I can check the auction house while on the run.

Another thing worth noting is the translations, since Rappelz is a korean game the Gpotato team have to translate everything, so far I have found no traces of Rappelz being a korean game (eg bad translations) this is really hard to do in a game so a bit thanks to them!

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Since we have been left in the dark I went in search of what was changed recently in the last patch so far I have found

Quick paint jobs after the break

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If I had a Rupee for every time I hear this, I wouldn’t need to worry about NPCing return scrolls, thats for sure.

Now, i’m not going against those who ask for help from the PK’ers, don’t get me wrong, however I do have something against those people who complain over and over again about pk, make youtube videos about it, spam the forums and rave all day and night.

What is PK? PK stands for player kill, and does exactly what the name says, allows you to kill other players. To turn pkon in rappelz type /pkon. To turn it off type /pkoff. Note: It takes five seconds to turn it on and thirty to turn it off, during that thirty minutes you cannot attack anybody but they can attack you.

Rappelz is a game that involves pk, pk underlines the very fabric of the game. A common complaint I hear about is “Why do you pk this is not a pk server”, however Rappelz has no “non-pvp” servers. It has Hardcore PvP and PvP servers. The difference for those who don’t know, is that on the PvP servers you do not lose items or exp if you are pked without lak. There is also a system that if a high level kills a low level they get a red name and can be attacked by anyone, and a wrath debuff quite nasty for anyone who likes soloing, donating to the altar gets rid of the red name, and you have to wait out wrath for the two or eight hours you have it for.

But people complain all the time about PK’ers still, maybe they are to lazy to walk all that 5 minutes away? But the fact remains PK is part of the game and if you don’t like it… Rappelz is not a game for you.

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Where have all the GM’s gone long time ago,  one of the leading problems with Rappelz is lack of GM’s in-game or avaliable to talk to, this is because of the fall of sites like Spartancommand, a fan site that had regular GM chatting and updates.

Also ever since they scrapped the VGG’s there is nobody that helps or tells people and act like a bridge between the GM’s and the community. The reason that VGG’s got disbanded was because alot of people thought that the VGG’s had GM powers and harrassed them, I would like to see them with basic GM powers to mute spammers. However the problem would be finding trustworthy people who could do this without getting corrupt in-game, something they had a bit of problems with the old VGG’s as well.

Something that also dissipoints me is that there is no night-shift staff, as sometimes servers can go down or lag and you have to wait eight hours before anything is done. Another thing that lacks support is good old technical support, without clear guides or anything, your breeding a recipe for trouble and multiple posts with the same question.

Maybe they could try and make a Oceania base of Rappelz? Then you would have round the clock support and GM activity plus servers that would have good pings to the southern part of the world,

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This is a response to a friends blog about GMs, TheTurtleTimes.

Where have all the GM’s gone long time ago, one of the leading problems with Rappelz is lack of GM’s in-game or avaliable to talk to, this is because of the fall of sites like Spartancommand, a fan site that had regular GM chatting and updates.

Also ever since they scrapped the VGG’s there is nobody that helps or tells people and act like a bridge between the GM’s and the community. The reason that VGG’s got disbanded was because alot of people thought that the VGG’s had GM powers and harrassed them, I would like to see them with basic GM powers to mute spammers. However the problem would be finding trustworthy people who could do this without getting corrupt in-game, something they had a bit of problems with the old VGG’s as well.

Something that also dissipoints me is that there is no night-shift staff, as sometimes servers can go down or lag and you have to wait eight hours before anything is done. Another thing that lacks support is good old technical support, without clear guides or anything, your breeding a recipe for trouble and multiple posts with the same question.

Maybe they could try and make a Oceania base of Rappelz? Then you would have round the clock support and GM activity plus servers that would have good pings to the southern part of the world,

I am not defending the position of the GMs not being on most of the time, but I believe the main reasons they aren’t on is that Gala-Net has a lack of administrator support, and the ones currently are active apparently have other game projects they administer, such as Tanda being the administrative GM of both Rappelz and Flyff.

The strange thing is that all the GMs, including Tanda, have enough time to monitor the forum activity instead of the games they are supposed to be administrating.

As for a night-shift team, there is a night-shift team and a weekend team, but they are at significantly reduced numbers.

Also don’t forget, this is a FREE-TO-PLAY MMORPG, you get what you paid for (as in you don’t pay squat), for the people who do regularly pay real money to play this, don’t expect better service from Gala-Net since this is mainly for people who don’t want to pay.

Metapage.

There is a big uproar currently about how Rebirth scrolls are now not being able to be traded, this has been in effect on the German server so it turns out that the developers must have the power over the drop rates, something I thought GM’s had limited control over. Now, i’m not sure in Korea but i’m quite sure if they made them not for trade It would be some kind of false advertising as alot of people brought them in order to resell them to people after they went out of the item shop.

Rappelz Gpotato GM ikoki states that it is a known bug and will be fixed… but how soon? Even though bugs like the Pet canceling randomly bug take ages, bugs like the “everyone can go to HV”, and bugs like that are fixed within five hours, I doubt this will be fixed by next week, however we can hope

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