A week ago, I announced here that RF Online’s Update “Novus Rising” has been announced by RF GM Cydie at the Level-Up! Live Blog. Earlier today, Community manager, Vessago, announced the Novus Rising FAQ and with it is the patch date which is April 24, 2009. (Yes… this friday) So download the new RF Online – Novus Rising Client now before the server maintenance on Friday.

You can download the new RF Online client at the following sites:

http://ftp.levelupgames.ph/ - for Direct Downloads

http://torrent.levelupgames.ph for Torrent Downloads

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2515312 - Torrent uploaded by me.

For those who want to download via torrent, I’m seeding the full client with the main seed in our office. The trackers for this torrent are:

http://202.57.118.94:6969/announce - Level-Up! Tracker
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce - Public Tracker 
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce - Public Tracker

Not being redundant or so but here’s something that you should take in mind while downloading the client.

Download and Installation Instruction

1. Before Installing the Novus Rising Client on April 24, uninstall your old RF Online-ph client.
2. If you want to be sure, install only on the 24th of April.

For more information with regards to Novus Rising, please visit www.rfonline.ph or the RFboards.

If there’s one online game in the country that has been through a lot of hardship and challenges, I can say that it is definitely RF Online.

Earlier at the Level-Up! Live Blog, RF Community Manager, Vessago and Brand Manager, GM Cydie, announced that the patch / fix for the server downs in RF Online is here and currently being tested.

The Novus Rising patch includes the blue and yellow patch of RF Online Global. The level cap will be increased to level 65 as well. In my opinion, this is a good move since the dupped items caused by the bug and player misconduct in the past is level 50 to 55 items. Increasing the level cap will make this dupped items useless.

For more details about the Novus Rising patch, keep on visiting www.rfonline.ph

PS: Most of you know that I work for Level-Up! as Perfect World’s CM. Even if so, I’m not allowed to say or blog anything unannounced at our official sites. So just wait for Cydie and Vessago’s official announcement on the details of the patch. Thanks.

We’ve been playing Rohan Online since August 2008 in its International Version and recently, Level-Up! Inc. has launched its Philippine Version in Closed Beta Testing.

Now we want to share on how to allocate those stat points and where to put the skill points for the Human – Guardian Knight build. I myself have been playing a Dekan character since the start and I only started using a Guardian Knight last December.

Guardian Knight Build

I’m using a dual-wield Guardian Knight with a sword as the main weapon and a dagger in place of the shield. Remember as well that if you want your Guardian Knight to wield 2 weapons, the dagger should be in place of the shield slot.

Anyway, my stat has been distributed to 3 STR: 1 VIT every level.

3 STR: 1 VIT build gives me enough strength to deal damage and the VIT, of course, gives me HP and defense.

Skill Point Distribution

As for the skills, here’s how I distributed them.

5 Frozen

1 Taunt

5 Rising Might

5 Sharpen Blade

1 Invoke

Only to those skills. Yes. I only distributed 17 points out of 50 in the Knight class. I saved the other 33 for the Guardian Skills which are the following. For the Frozen, I chose Frozen since it slows down monsters and other players.

5 Sword Mastery

1 Taunt Roar

5 Rush

5 Crazy Strength

1 Final Crash

5 Crazy Standing

1 Blue Drain

5 Order

5 Heavy Weapon

5 Crit Aura

1 Roha’s Blessing

5 Knight Symbol

5 Stone Skin

These skills gives me superb offensive power and at the same time defense to survive most of the PVE and PVP attacks.

If you think I can improve this build farther, feel free to leave a comment and hopefully you learned something here.

Thanks.

As most of you have already noticed, we gave a few Rohan Philippines Closed Beta Accounts on Plurk and here. My stock of accounts has been sent already to those who left a comment here at chinoyray.com and I would like to say thank you to those who joined.

Rohan Philippines – CBT Coming Very Soon

Of course, if there are CBT accounts already, that means that the Closed Beta is almost here. So watch out for the announcement at our official site – http://www.rohan.ph

More CBT Accounts

I know. I know. A lot you are still asking for Rohan CBT accounts. Once I get my hands on another set of accounts, I will give them away. Maybe at my personal blog, my Multiply or at Facebook.

Great news to those who are waiting for Rohan Philippines!

You may now view its website at: http://www.rohan.ph/

It contains the Rohan trailer and information on Revenge System, Township Battle and Exchange Center. It also has gallery and a link to its official blog .

Stay tuned for the Rohan Online Philippines Client. Be updated when the Rohan Client comes out by subscribing to RohanPH news feed.

Don’t be a noob, be updated by joining RohanPH message board and RohanPH Plurk!

See ya in game soon!

Greetings! My name is Kahto, a mage from Montt city. I’m here today to teach you about the tutorial zone.

The tutorial zone is the best place for a newbie to learn the basics of playing the game. It will teach you about using your inventory, talking to NPCs, trading with NPCs, and killing monsters.

You will start in the Hall of Revelation. Approach the blue orb in front of you and with the right click button, click the blue orb to talk to the Light of Revelation. The Light of Revelation will teach you about using your inventory and will give pointers about questing. You will receive 2 novice health potions and 2 novice mana potions when you’re done reading. Continue to the next blue orb to learn more about hunting monsters. Your first real quest will be killing a young varg that can be found just outside of the Hall of Revelation. Don’t forget to equip your weapon by opening your inventory and double-clicking the weapon in your bag or dragging the weapon from your inventory to your weapon slot in the character window. Young vargs are easy to kill and will only take 2-3 hits. Also, don’t forget to pick up the crones and equipments that the monster will drop when they die.

Proceed to the Teacher of Progress (Skill) after killing 1 young varg. You will get a reward for completing your first quest. The Teacher of Progress (Skill) can be found northwest of the first chamber. It will teach you how to increase the level of your skills. Move forward and talk to the next blue orb NPC, the Teacher of Progress (Stat).

The next part of the tutorial area will teach you more about trading, forging and refining equipments. The first NPC you will encounter is the Teacher of Trade. This NPC will teach you about NPC trading. It will also show you the icons that represent different merchant NPCs when you open your map.

Let’s continue with the next NPC, The Knowledge of Forging. Forging has three kinds: Weapon forging, armor forging and potion mixing(alchemy). Forging is available to all players and doesn’t require additional fees. The NPC will reward you with 3 types of weapons and 2 for each type. By talking to the master weaponsmith, you will be able to forge using the materials given to you.

We move on to the Teacher of Refine. Refining is a technique that lowers the requirements of equipments, excluding accessories. There are two types of refining: Level refining and Stat refining. If you choose to refine your freshly-made weapon, talk to the Level Refiner. You can reduce your equipments level by 1, 2 or 3 levels. The price will depend on the option you choose. You can also talk to the Status Refiner but since your weapon has no stat requirement you can’t use it right now.

The final part of the tutorial zone involves killing. The first NPC you’ll see is the Light of Split Path. This NPC will give you a quest depending on your race. Humans, Elves, Half Elves, Dark Elves, Giants and Halflings will have a different path from Dhans and Dekans.

Your next quest is to find the Teacher of Battle Strategy. The Teacher of Battle Strategy will teach you about the monster kill bonus experience. Monster kill or M.kill indicates the number of monsters you have hunted. The M.kill bonus experience is an additional experience award you will get for every 20 monsters hunted. Your first task is to kill ten young vargs and 10 young imps. After that, return to the Teacher of Battle Strategy to receive a new task. This time you will have to kill 10 more monsters. Submit the Proof of a Swift Hunter to the Light of Dispatch.

The Light of Dispatch will award you newbie accessories, adventurer’s talisman and a fishing pole that will help you with your adventures outside the tutorial zone. This ends your adventures in the Hall of Revelation. You can go outside by talking to the Gatekeeper of Hall of Revelation.

This concludes my lecture about the Tutorial Zone. Your journey to the world of Rohan will lie on your choices and your dreams will start to unfold.

As promised, here are the steps with screenies on character creation.

Since I have already posted stuff about how to get inside the game, I’ll start with this screen – character selection/creation.  This time, click on the <Create> button.

You will then have this screen after you click on the <Create> button.  Click on the image of the character you wanna create and then click on the <Next> button.  I’ve selected Human (male)  for this tutorial.  The image/character you selected gets highlighted after you click on it.

You may now choose your desired Face and Hair for your character.  Click on the <Next> button when done and you’re back to the character selection/creation screen.

Here’s a video on character creation as well.

Enjoy!

Some of you might be curious on how to get inside the game so I’ve posted here the steps and screenies for each step.

First, click this RohanOnline icon on your desktop.

And then it will load this screen.  In this stage; the system will scan the game files, check for new patches and optimize data.  The <Play>button is enabled as soon as its done with the process.  Click on it when you’re ready to play the game.

GameGuard will do its thing, securing the game, after you click on the <Play> button.

After GameGuard had made sure that everything’s OK, the next image that you will see is the YNK screen.  YNK is the developer of Rohan Online.

This is the log in screen.  Just enter your ID and Password and click on the <Login> button.  You may opt to tick the <SaveID> box if you don’t like typing your username everytime you log in.

After the server has authenticted the account info you’ve provided, it will then ask you to choose your server.  Rohan International has 5 servers: Torian, Silva, Syrephis, Marea and Ahkma. Click your desired server and then click on the <Confirm> button.

Then you will see one of Rohan Online’s loading screens.

You will see character selection next.  Just click on the character you wanna play (it will move forward after you click on it displaying the basic character information as well) and then click on the <Start> button.

And then another loading screen.

And Voila!  You’re now inside the game!

My Level 30 Healer

I will be posting about character creation soon so stay tuned!