Ragnarok Online: Ash Vacuum is Here!
August 6, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under MMORPG, MMORPG News, Ragnarok Online
Talk about timing. Just as I was gearing up to put in some serious gaming time in the 2D massively multiplayer online role-playing game hit Ragnarok Online, the local publisher announced a new update, Ash Vacuum.
The update, which was launched on August 5, 2009, on the Philippine server of Ragnarok Online, promises great features, including new maps, monsters, guild dungeons, and a quest to gain one of two godly items, Asprika and Brynhild.
Oooh, where to start. Let’s begin by checking out the description and stats of the new godly items.
Asprika is a garment just like your basic hood and muffler. It gives five points to your defense and is wearable by any Ragnarok Online character level 94 and up. What makes Asprika, or the “Light of the Gods,” special is the 30-percent resistance bonus to all elements, 30-point increase in flee and five-point rise in magical defense. It’s also indestructible. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the fact that it gives characters Level 1 Teleport.
Brynhild, on the other hand, is body armor that increases maximum hitpoints by 20 times your character’s base level. So if your toon is level 99, this godly armor raises your MaxHP by 1,980 points. It also boosts MaxSP by five times the base level, physical damage by 10 percent, and magic attack power by 10 percent. Whoever dons Brynhild in battle cannot be knocked back.
Great, eh? So is the quest to get them. The first stumbling block to players wanting a shot at the two godly items is that the quest is only available to guild masters who own any of the two new Agits, Valfreyja in Rachel and Nidhoggur in Juno. The second catch is that the Agit must have Level 60 Economy and Level 40 Defense. Tough order, that.
Regardless of how you manage to start the quest, it is highly recommended that you bring along 16 to 20 guild members for the dungeon. Ragnarok Online’s Okolnir is a dark, foreboding place which only gives a guild an hour to complete the quest. If you fail, you face a 12-hour cooldown before you can access the dungeon again, and that’s a long time considering other guilds come knocking on your Agits doors twice a week.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a Ragnarok Online character to level.
