Locations of Blacksmith Ores in RO2

If you have already learned how to craft a specific ore from a blacksmith expert in RO2 but cannot find any in the field that you are in, then this short guide will be of help. Again, let’s see what are the ores that a blacksmith can craft.

So blacksmiths can craft copper, iron, silver and gold ores. Also, if you press hotkey |J|, you would see that your blacksmith character has learned to craft rock ores by default.

Now, the locations for the ores that your blacksmith will need are listed below:

– Rock ores can be found in East and West Mjolnir
– Copper ores can be mined in South Plains of Prontera and Izrude Hill
– Iron ores are scattered around Payon forest up to Maple forest
– You’ll find silver ores in Divided Plain and Verda Delta
– And finally, gold ores are found in Sograt Desert and Road of Bless

But don’t just go rushing to get gold ores even though you have a powerful companion to assist you. Learning to craft ores has a profession level requirement so as long as you are not within the level requirement, just craft and craft until you do.

It’s not hard to miss the opportunity to craft ores since the requirement is a multiple of 10.

– Learn copper ore crafting by profession level 10.
– Learn iron ore crafting by profession level 20.
– Learn silver ore crafting by profession level 30.
– Learn gold ore crafting by profession level 40.

Credits go to SapphoJezebel of the HOMRA guild for the locations of the ores.

RO2 Blacksmith guide 101

Ragnarok 2: Legend of the Second has totally revamped the merchant class. Each character. upon creation is required to have a dual identity by choosing from one of the four current professions. Currently, these are the blacksmith, artisan, alchemist and chef professions. This guide is meant for players who really know nothing about the game and is just starting so this will focus on what you need to know first in order to become an accomplished blacksmith.

It is also my recommendation that the combat class of your character be a swordsman since most of the gears blacksmiths craft are heavy armors and weapons.

When you log in to the game (and just like in the original), there will be two experience bars. One is for combat and one is for the profession.

The main difference from the original is that you gain more profession points through gathering materials and crafting the desired gear whereas in the original, you have to slay monsters to increase your job level.

This is what you get to see when you roam around. There are glowing rock scattered along the field that you can gather materials from.

Just hover your mouse over the glowing rock, right click, and your character will begin to mine the minerals. after gathering for sometime, access the Crafting menu by pressing the letter “J” on your keyboard.

What you need are Ingots. Ingots are necessary to craft low level gears.

Since all characters are set to spawn at the Elemento Academy, you have to take note where Blacksmith Expert Mos is located. Blacksmith Experts by the way, are NPCs that enable your character to learn how to craft gears whenever you reach a certain profession level.

This is the spot where Mos is located. Once you right click on her, a menu that let’s you choose between the items she sells or learn how to craft.

If you opted to purchase materials, you would see that she is selling anvils.

 

Don’t confuse this with the original that with a higher quality anvil, you get to forge better gears. The mechanics in the sequel require you to have a specific anvil type and specific number of anvils of that type in your inventory before you get to craft gears. Now, if you forge in real life, you really only need one anvil. I’m not sure why the developers chose anvils instead of hammers though.

If you select the option to learn how to craft gears, you will be informed about the profession level required, the materials needed and the NPCs fee.

If you explore the “Craft” menu, you will see that most of what you can craft are heavy armors meant for the swordsman class. Other classes will only find this profession beneficial through the production of weapons. The earliest job level where you can learn to craft materials is at Profession level 6. You will have the ability to craft gloves and boots. These gears can only be worn if you are also Combat level 6 or above. The gloves and boots can only be worn by swordies and if you’re wondering what profession makes the gears for the other four classes, that is the Artisan. In addition, the earliest level you can craft weapons is at Profession level 8.

Let’s discuss the materials now. So you need anvils Ingots and the third one, I guess I’ll call them catalysts. Now, these catalysts come from monster drops. Every monster drops them and the chances are random. But the most common that you will need are Spirit of Ruin, Earthly Trace, Monster Fragment, Firmament Essence and Root of Life. As long as the description contains the word “Material” don’t throw it away.

Some final words:

– If you notice that you can also craft Copper Ingots and are wondering where to get copper, those are scattered around the South Plains of Prontera.

– There are level gaps before you can craft certain gears so make use of monster drops and quest rewards.

– If you have alternate characters, you will be able to send them weapons through the use of the game’s mailing system.

Changing In-Game Music in RO2

In my first review, I mentioned that I have not delved far into the game to make any positive or negative statements about the music in RO2. Well I posted that review a few minutes before I entered Prontera and was really disappointed with the lack of care put into the selection of appropriate music. So I tried to check if I can fool the game system into playing the “Prontera Theme” from the original and it turned out to be a simple endeavor.

First, you open the BGM folder in RO2 by following this path:

Well, if you don’t find your RO2 folder using this default path, then it’s because you specified that RO2 should be put on another location during the installation.

Under the BGM folder, you would see that the music files were named according to the locations they are played. Here’s an example:

So if you still have the original Ragnarok Online installed in your PC, just copy and paste into RO2’s BGM folder and rename it to “Prontera Theme” to overwrite the current music. I have both iRO and pRO installed and the Theme of Prontera has a filename of 08.mp3.

So there, you now have the ability to  enjoy the music we all fell in love with from the original.

Fox_DL’s Guide/Review of RO2

Prologue

I logged in to the game expecting that the world that I will encounter will be entirely different from what I was used to. And when I did, I can’t help but marvel at the game environment. It was indeed overwhelming. The user interface will take some time to getting used to. So if you have been really turned off by the severe monetization of pRO but need a little more convincing to delve into this new world, I hope this piece will be able to.

Downloading Experience

The first steps are always the hardest. First off, you need to download the game which is at least 4GB. I downloaded mine under the “others” section. The other categories are specific to the countries that PlayPark has released the game. I used Pando to download the game. There are other mirrors (or duplicates available from other hosting sites) but I suggest that you don’t get the installer from any of them. They are crappy as they can get. Also, Pando crashes with Avast and Comodo firewall so I turned those off just leaving my anti-malware on. Now, once you’ve downloaded the game, you need to download the latest manual patch. You have no choice but to download them from the crappy file hosting sites. the manual patches are 70MB in average so that takes at least an hour to do.

Logging In

The client allows you to log in using FaceBook which is entirely up to you if you want to use FB or not.

Once you get past that, you will be asked to enter a second password which is made up of 4 numerical digits.

The next screen takes you to selecting your preferred server. There are several “channels under but pay no attention to them if you are playing solo. If you play with friends, you need to be on the same channel so that you can party up on dungeons.

Character Creation

The ability to customize the look of your character’s hair, facial features, voice, up to the eye color is really a step above above from the original. The hairstyles for female chars were nicely done. You will be happy to know that you now have the ability to keep both genders under one gaming account. As mentioned from the previous reviews, you are not allowed to enter spaces or special characters for your IGN so come up with something nifty.

With regard to job classes, you can only choose five at the moment.

There are five basic classes:
Swordsman
Thief
Archer
Magician
Acolyte

The basic classes eventually branch out to two other second-tier classes. Also, at character creation, you need to select your character’s profession. The profession for your character is permanent so be careful. The professions available are:

Blacksmith – you mine minerals at the field and use monster drops to create superior weapons and armor.
Artisan – your character will be able to create accessories by mining field minerals and using monster drops just like the blacksmith.
Chef – food buffs are very important in sieges so this profession will really come in handy. You will be able to harvest ingredients after killing a monster. Once you take the loots, select the monster again to take the cooking ingredient.
Alchemist – the potions you create are 50% better than the once sold by NPCs. Collect ingredients from the field.

At last, Midgard!

The initial spawn point will always be the Elemento Academy Main building. from here, you will be completely overwhelmed with a barrage of messages in your chatbox where people want to party up to defeat a monster or trade specific items. Pay no attention to them since your main concern will be to start the levelling quests.

The important items are the ones labeled as “Material” don’t sell them to NPCs if they are labelled as such. If it happens to be an item you need to craft accessories, etc., you will surely regret it later.

Interface

The screen, especially the text, will be cluttered. Get used to moving around first. Character movement is best done by using the WSAD keys. Familiarize yourself with the map. Instead of the F or function keys, you get to use skills using the number keys on the keyboard. Just like selecting weapons in Counterstrike. Talk to NPCs by right clicking on them instead of left clicking. I’m not sure why this was implemented but you will get used to this after playing for an hour.

Combat

There surely is some latency involved but it will not ruin your experience a lot. What I did find is that it really is irritating if you try to attack mobs and your character is facing the other way. Also, if you get to face multiple enemies during low level, then by all means, run! Be careful when using recovery potions. They have a cooldown of 10 seconds so you just can’t mob monsters which was a way of life in the original.

There are instances where some mobs go through trees instead of going around them. The tree leaves also block camera view so if you want to make a strafing move if you’re an archer, forget it if there are trees around. Just do it inside dungeons.

Quests

This game is a quest driven game. The story line is really promising. The quests force you to explore every bit of the map you are in before moving on. If you are playing your first character, don’t just accept quests and be a happy clicker. Read the plot and you will be able to appreciate the effort the developers put in the game. The drawback for a quest driven game is that it gets old once you play your alternate characters. You just get the quest, kill the mobs, loot and then report back to the npc.

Every now and then, there are animation cutscenes complete with voice acting that let’s you sit back and enjoy. But you will then be surpised that PlayPark failed to put English subtitles in so you’ll be left to wonder what the dialogue was all about afterwards.

Inventory

Your inventory as well as kafra storage is severely limited. This is the aspect of the game that PlayPark might heavily monetize. The difference from the original is that characters do not share the same Kafra storage. If you need to send one of your characters loots or weapons they need, just use the mailbox service. The mailbox service still permits you to send money as well and the fee is just 10 coins.

Some more words

If you were really turned off by the way how pRO failed to polish the typos and grammar of the original, you will be happy to know that PlayPark did a good job with the translation. There are still some typos with PlayParks release but those typos are minimal. The equipment labelled with the Investigator prefix had some typos though. There must have been something wrong with the coding. The grammar that I have come across is really commendable but is not perfect overall, of course. It is understandable that PlayPark will be prioritizing major bugs instead of the text in-game in the beta stages.

I have not really advanced far into the game to write about the music but so far, the musical score is pleasing to the ears but not enough to get you pumped up.

The WOE environment in the original may be irreplaceable due to the dynamism and lag issues that one may encounter when servers are located far away from home.

There are still a lot of issues that PlayPark is dealing with at the moment so expect some downtimes.

Be sure to research what are Khara quests.

And finally, if you have some questions, don’t be afraid to post it.. 😀