YMMV / Ragnarok M: Eternal Guardians of Love

• Broken Base: In regards to Third-party Add-ons, the playerbase is divided into several groups: those who want the ones who use any kinds of Add-ons to be permanently banned, those who only use them out of necessity and wouldn’t dare to touch the ones that are easily detected by the developers, and those who don’t care about them since the information gathering can be done quickly anyway.
  • When it was announced that the game will have brand new fourth tier classes, players were divided onto several camps: those who think it is a breath of fresh air due to the stale meta, those who are skeptical on their implementation due to Power Creep but otherwise didn’t mind that the developers are trying to do new things, and those who despise the idea of a new class tier since at the time of its announcement the original ‘’Ragnarok Online’’ didn’t have fourth tier classes yet and ‘’Eternal Love’’ only had two of the six Expanded classes.
  • Collaboration classes to this day are still sparking countless debates about their limited availability and cost, as well as how they are either underwhelming (Ronin) or being so powerful that they pretty much replaced the base game’s class they’re based on (Ryuoumaru and Slayer).
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Certain builds on each jobs become popular builds on most players due to their efficiency and strength that can reach absurd levels, so popular that any other options would be regarded as impractical or would be chosen by players only for fun and change. The only thing that stops them from being a complete meta builds is it tends to create huge demand on the gears required which causes their price to skyrocket in market. Notable builds are Bash LK/Dragon Breath RK, ADL Rangers, and Wizards and Blacksmiths in general. FS Priests could fall in this trope if only there are any other options for support builds, although other builds for Priests are only taken by those with access with Ymir's Notebook who wants their beloved Priest to be able to kick butts for a change.
  • The stereotypical party for pretty much every Instances released after the implementation of fourth tier classes consists of four Runemasters and a FS Saint. Sometimes Novice Guardian and Chronomancer are included for additional support.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • Monsters that can use Spiral Pierce like Bonguns in Payon Cave and Myst Cases in Toy Factory, as that skill guarantees a stun which spells danger on players that auto-grind on these maps.
  • The * version of Rideword in Glast Heim Hall.
  • The Guardians in Clock Tower 1F.
  • The * version of Cruiser in Toy Factory is even worse as they spawn everywhere except the area near entrace and unlike other "*" monsters, they spawn every minute instead of specific times.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Jormungard is getting this treatment by both the playerbase and developers in each of his subsequent appearances starting from Clock Tower’s Main Quest. This is the same Jormungard who cursed the bloodline of Gaebolg royal family in the lore of the online game, and is mentioned as one of the Apostles of Freya in the manhwa, anyway.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Ambrose and Tammi’s sidequest, despite its early availability, is highly regarded by the playerbase as one of the best quests story-wise.
  • Carried over from Ragnarok Online, the NPCs that would become Biolabs monsters are still popular here. Special mentions to Egnigem Cenia and Laurell Weinder, whose characters get a touching Adaptation Expansion.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • Exactly how the game’s story fits into the timeline of Ragnarok Online is still up for debates. It’s generally accepted that the game is a Prequel, but when it takes place in accordance to the online game and the original manhwa is where the problem lies. The chief of Payon, Himmelmez, and Bijou are still around when they’re killed off during the manhwa’s story, for example.
    • The Japanese server’s developer team classified the game as an Alternate Universe on the pre-release interviews of fourth tier classes and Japanese ‘’Ragnarok Origin’’. This is likely because ‘’Ragnarok Online’’ Korean server had already released their own fourth tier classes by then and ‘’Ragnarok Origin’’ having a more faithful rendition of the online game’s lore compared to ‘’Eternal Love’’.
  • On a meta-level, there are speculations that the English translation being as bad as it is currently is because the translators don’t have prior knowledge of the franchise and are using machine-based translator.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The game is extremely popular in Thailand. To the point that whenever there are real-life collaborations, Thailand will always get them first.
• Goddamned Bats: Teddy Bears in Toy Factory 1F are proven menace on non-premium players who try to reach the 2F as they are heavily concentrated on the path towards 2F yet they are largely ignored by grinding players due to their neutral element and high defense and magic defense.
• Low-Tier Letdown: Monk classes are regarded by most players as an underwhelming class to play despite their notoriety back in original game. They may hit absurd damage should they hit their Asura Strike, but other classes could do the same amount of damage without drawbacks. Other builds for them are also less efficient as well, especially when compared to the popular Knights, Hunters and Blacksmiths.
• Memetic Badass:
  • The unique Bathories from April 2019 event’s extra daily quest, mostly because they can do One-Hit Kill to the players who are within their attacking range.
  • Ariel, and later Stefanie, because they’re in every available maps of the game regardless of how dangerous the area is.
• Memetic Loser: Assassins, especially in regards to Endless Tower party run.
• Memetic Molester: Orc Lord, due to its new Card artwork.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Save the Smokies from extinction! ^Explanations During the first weeks of Southeast Asia version’s launch, so many people were struggling to finish the Adventurer Rank E quest because it needs Smokie’s Raccoon Leaf. Cue the hunt of Smokies leading to several server crashes.
  • Play Moderately and Spend Wisely. ^Explanations The message that is displayed in Auction menu. After some infamous cases of over-spending in Auction, some have taken this message as a Schmuck Bait.
  • Comparisons between Lusya (the mermaid you help in Prontera Culvert’s main quest) and Astolfo were rampant due to the translation’s misgendering her as a “he” in Adventurer Notebook. This has died down ever since a patch fixed some of the translation mistakes.
  • Weird Goblins. ^Explanations A That One Sidequest which requires the player to find and kill the * version of Goblin by using Fooling Laser Gun item on a normal Goblin.
  • Bronze Sword.^Explanations One part of Sunset Lovers quest requires the player to find the aforementioned Bronze Sword in South Prontera Field. The problem is that there is no indicator of the sword’s whereabouts in the map aside from a vague clue given by Tammi, which tripped off many players.
  • Everything is an indirect buff to RM / Can’t let the dev’s son look bad^Explanations Runemaster, the fourth tier class of Knight, is often seen as Creator's Pet due to their powerful skillset and being more likely to receive buffs instead of nerfs. As such, whenever a large-scale update is implemented, players jokingly try to find things that might count as buffs to Runemaster.
  • Cats’ feet can’t reach the pedals^Explanations The developers’ excuse for the Doram’s initial inability to use Gunslinger’s class mount, which is a motorcycle. Doram eventually gets to ride the shrunken version of the motorcycles, but the ridiculousness of the excuse is still laughed on.
  • “Alberta when?” “When there is a story reason to go there” ^Explanations Alberta, despite being one of the first six cities in ‘’Ragnarok Online’’ and having a spot in the World Map, is not yet implemented as a visitable location in ‘’Eternal Love’’ after five years and still counting. Not helping that whenever Alberta is brought up during livestreams, the developers’ answer is always the same. This leads to players mocking the excuse as lazy, as well as pointing out that the newer Ragnarok mobile titles (particularly ‘’Ragnarok Origin’’ and ‘’Ragnarok X: Next Generation’’) have Alberta since their launch in spite of its lack of story relevance in those games.
• Permanently Missable Content: Or rather, Permanently Missable Hairstyles — some of the fancier hairdos can only be unlocked via Hair Design Guide. Unfortunately, said Guide happens to be a lottery item, and a rather rare one at that.
  • All of the things obtainable from collaboration events, which ranges from achievements, character icons, headgears, cards, furnitures, hairstyles, and eventually classes. The last one is especially notorious for those who aim to unlock every classes for the bonus stats.
• Play the Game, Skip the Story: True to the source material, you can easily ignore the main quests and go straight to hunt monsters, or just do the quests that gives you access to more game features. Even the game acknowledges this in one of the loading screen tips.
• That One Boss:
  • In Endless Tower, the Kobold Leader and Time Holder are usually skipped by players due to their nuisance, as the former spams a lot of hard hitting AoE attacks which could instantly kill any non-tank players, and the latter is feared for its reflect ability. Both bosses also appears with another boss which makes fighting them more difficult.
  • Same with Wolf Grandma as they can strip equipment and appears on higher floors, thus never fought alone.
• That One Sidequest:
  • The Adventurer Rank-Up sidequests are turning into these for casual players.
    • From Rank F to Rank E: At first glance, it doesn't seem to difficult: first take a picture of Ghostring, then submit a few drops to the NPC. Easy right? However, at this point there are already roving parties of players actively hunting "mini" bosses like Ghostring, so more often than not the monster will be dead within minutes of spawning. Second, one of the drops that need to be submitted is the Racoon Leaf, an already-rare drop from another mini-boss, the Smokie. The only other way to get the latter is through sending your pets regularly on Pet Adventures at Prontera to get the Prontera chests, which give you a small chance to get said Racoon Leaves. Good luck.
    • Moving from Rank E to Rank D is even worse, as not only does it require yet another rare material (3 Four Leaf Clovers this time), but one now has to both take a picture THEN defeat specific MINI bosses. What's worse, it forces a player to hunt down the Osiris MVP boss as the final requirement.
    • Rank D to C. It requires the player to have 1 million zeny (fortunately it won't be taken away), then go to Payon and give 1000 Evil Horns to the NPC. After that, the player has to kill the Doppelganger MVP boss. The players is also required to clear at least 70 floors of Endless Tower and finally, give three different boss drops and 500 Necklaces of Wisdom. The best way to get the item is to buy in exchange but all of them would be really pricey. Not to mention, it has a lot of detours on Prontera, Payon and Geffen.
    • Rank C to B is notorious for that one battle with an Assassin NPC with an extremely high HP which takes time to defeat especially for less offensive classes like Priests.
  • The Collection-type sidequests introduced in Glast Heim update. They require the player to beat a Scaled Up version of a monster, collect its rare drops, and turn them to an NPC at the entrance of the dungeon. What makes them qualify as this trope is that the required monsters have triple the stats of their normal version, there can be only one of such at a time, and they take approximately three minutes to respawn.
  • Unlocking Glast Heim, Al De Baran and Gingerbread City headwears are real pain since it require the beating the main and side quests, and the aforementioned Collection sidequests which includes beating special boss monsters (referred to as SMVP) that spawn two hours after they are last killed but only one kind out of 3 or 4 will do spawn each week.