History YMMV / RagnarokOnline

* Asura Strike/Guillotine Fist. A OneHitKill move.
* An unimplemented performance skill 'Ragnarok', for use by a Bard and Dancer in combination, was locked away after initial testing when it proved to not only be a gamebreaker but a terrible means of harassing other players. Once active, it paralysed its casters and for its duration and repeatedly cast random, maximum class/level spells over and over on the surrounding area with no distinction between friend or foe. The skill is still locked away, as the developers ''still'' haven't found a way to balance it without rendering it redundant.

** From monsters' side, [[PsychoRangers Biolabs mobs]] are surprisingly popular with newcomers and veterans alike. Though [[TheStoic Eremes]] and [[MadScientist Flamel]] stands out from the rest.
*** naturally, Eremes' popularity leads to his reappearance in [[VideoGame/RagnarokIILegendOfTheSecond LotS]]

* DemonicSpiders: Among others, Mimics and Ridewords. Good luck to whoever likes grinding at the Clock Tower...
* EnsembleDarkhorse: believe it or not, the Expanded Class. Especially Super Novice, Ninja, and Soul Linker.
** [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure The Pope]] [[{{Moe}} of Rachel]]. '''FULL STOP'''.
*** How about High Priestess Niren? Or Nemma and Panno? The {{Hentai}} doujinshi artists love them for [[NaughtyNuns a fairly obvious reason]].

** the amount of Khalitzburg fanarts skyrocketed after it's revealed that [[spoiler:[[http://forums.irowiki.org/showpost.php?p=1250098&postcount=7 she was a girl]].]]

* {{Gamebreaker}}: There are no particularly bad examples in the game proper, however an unimplemented performance skill, 'Ragnarok', for use by a Bard and Dancer in combination, was locked away after initial testing when it proved to not only be a gamebreaker, but a terrible means of harassing other players. Once active, it paralysed its casters and for its duration repeatedly cast random, maximum class/level spells over and over on the surrounding area, with no distinction between friend or foe. As yet, the skill is still locked away, as the developers ''still'' haven't found a way to balance it without rendering it redundant.
** But wait, Maestros and Wanderers, their 3rd Job counterparts, have a skill called "Saturday Night Fever" (no, I'm not joking). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au7jmdLz5to See for yourself]]. It deals [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill 9999 damage and gives +500 ATK to anyone who is inside the skill's AoE]]. Ouch.

* MemeticBadass: Haha, Troy wins again!

** [[http://irowiki.org/wiki/Sign_Quest The Sign]], for its sheer length and Dancing Test part.

** [[http://irowiki.org/wiki/Sign_Quest The Sign]], for its sheer length and Dancing Test part.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Kiehl]]

** Du Lian and Mark Sheen

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorld: [[spoiler:Kiehl]]

** [[http://irowiki.org/wiki/Sign_Quest The Sign]], for its sheer length and Dancing Test part.

* ThatOneSidequest: [[http://irowiki.org/wiki/Veins_Siblings_Quest Veins Siblings quests]]. Good luck [[spoiler:gathering the poos]] and going to [[ThatOneLevel Thor's Volcano]] three times.

*** The Glast Heim Underprison altogether. You can trace how the prisoners were tortured back in this dungeon's heyday if you look closely at the place. There are guillotines, chairs with shackles, chains on every wall, cages, pools of water, and red-hot pokers. The skeletons are still there, some of them still in the cages or with their ball and chains on. There are also blood splatters on the ground. Now, look at the zombie prisoners, the skeleton prisoners, and of course, the Injustice monster.

** The lord of the flies Beelzebub.

* ThatOneSidequest: [[http://irowiki.org/wiki/Veins_Siblings_Quest Veins Siblings quests]]. Good luck [[spoiler:gathering the poos]] and going to [[ThatOneLevel Thor Volcano]] three times.

*** naturally, Eremes' popularity leads to his reappearance in [[VideoGame/RagnarokIILegendOfTheSecond ''LotS'']]

* ThatOneBoss: [[spoiler:Kiehl]], at the end of the Kiel Hyre quest. He's an extremely powerful enemy compared to what you've had to deal with during the quest. Granted he IS the boss, but he also has extremely high flee and hit, meaning that he is very difficult, in fact nearly impossible without some very difficult-to-get gear, to dodge with agility classes, and difficult to hit without using a ranged class (all of which generally use Dexterity for their damage, which increases hit rate as well), critical hits, or magic. He's also pretty damn fast and hits like a truck. You had better have a good party to face him, or you will get splattered. He reappears as [[spoiler:Kiel-D-01]], even stronger than before, though that can be excused as that version is a roaming MVP boss, and as a result never has to be faced for any quest, and can be ignored altogether. At least you get an exceedingly rare and valuable item for defeating [[spoiler:Kiehl]].

*** naturally, Eremes' popularity leads to his reappearance in [[VideoGame/RagnarokIILegendOfTheSecond ''{{LotS}}'']]

** Howard Alt-Eisen - AmbiguouslyGay to Eremes (or Seyren, [[FanPreferredCouple depends on your shipping preference]]). Or, SmallNameBigEgo BiTheWay with some [[DeadLittleSister little sister issues]] (the 'little sister' is usually played by [[NotBloodSiblings Armeyer Dinze]], another Biolabs ghost). If he's straight, he's usually have SlapSlapKiss relationship with Cecil.

** Also, Biolabs. This one may be a bit subtle...however, the more time you spend there, the more you begin to think about the...things that supposedly happened there, the creepier it gets.
*** To elaborate: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Biochemical laboratory]] with ghost-like shadowy figures walking around and attacking everything. Naturally [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]]: All of them are high-(level)class character-avatars (It's even possible to create lookalike characters)with a back-story, all of them being described as good people, especially the priestess who was willing to sacrifice her own life for her team.
*** [[ItGotWorse It's much worse]] if you do the quest(s) related to Biolabs. First, you're required to have a pair of handcuffs with you at all times while doing this quest, which causes you to think, what's a monster like that doing with handcuffs anyway. Then, at one part of the quest, you come inside a room with a caged Peco Peco...who can barely talk. Aside from that, you'll eventually learn that people from the slums of Lighthalzen have been slowly disappearing after they supposedly got a job from Rekenber, the owner of the Biolabs. Put them all together and you can suspect that everyone in the Biolabs [[FridgeHorror are the results of an illegal human experimentation]].

** Let's also not forget the lord of the flies Beelzebub.

** From monsters' side, [[PhyscoRangers Biolabs mobs]] are surprisingly popular with newcomers and veterans alike. Though [[TheStoic Eremes]] and [[MadScientist Flamel]] stands out from the rest.

** Howard Alt-Eisen - AmbiguouslyGay to Eremes (or Seyren, [[FanPreferredCouple depends on your shipping preference]]). Or, TedBaxter BiTheWay with some [[DeadLittleSister little sister issues]] (the 'little sister' is usually played by [[NotBloodSiblings Armeyer Dinze]], another Biolabs ghost). If he's straight, he's usually have SlapSlapKiss relationship with Cecil.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: [[ReTool RENEWAL!]]
** There's a plan to advance the Expanded class? Hooo yeah!
*** Okay, so Kagerou/Oboro is out. Good I guess....eh? What is it? They can DualWield? And their max level is upped which means more HP and further more damage for Killing Stroke? Screw [[GameBreaker Sura]], Kagerou/Oboro all the way!
** Byalan 6F. This time with [[BossMonster an MVP]]. Cue the old time fans of the dungeon rejoiced.
** Biolabs 4th floor AND an [[BonusStage Instance Dungeon]] which explain the whole story about [[spoiler:Wolfchev's true intentions]]. The last one is pretty much an oasis for RO lore analysts.

** One of the Incarnations of Morroc is a crab-walking, eyeless, bloody woman whose arms seem to be on backwards. Discuss.

*** [[http://ragnarok.asiasoft.co.th/gameguide/library/card/images/CARD/Weapon/InjusticeCard.gif The Injustice Card]] turns that creepiness right around into hilarity. Not only while RO is cute is it scary, but while it's scary, it's cute!

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The backstory for Nameless Island. And the explanation on the wiki about the monsters' origins.

* NightmareFuel: While largely quite cute indeed, there's a lot of this lurking.. and combined with FetishFuel, this Troper would like to argue that this is actually one of the reasons RagnarokOnline is so good. The game's bright, cute exterior serves as quiet contrast to a lurking, dark, almost Silent Hill-esque element that leaves something at the back of your mind just a ''bit'' sceptical about taking your character to a place like Glast Heim; that there might just, no matter how impossible for the game's nature, be something worse around that next corner or alleyway, be it in Glast Heim dungeon or just Prontera's back alleys. And all in all that sense of 'fragile goodness' validated the game and its content in ways that most MMORPG's, ''especially'' the RO clones, but also the other 'pure cute' or 'dark' ones, just ''don't get''. Including, sadly, even Gravity's new attempt at making a true horror MMO, [[http://www.playrequiem.com/ ''Requiem: Bloodymare'']] - most apparently find RO scarier.
** This troper kind of thinks it's due to the pixel depiction of pretty much everything. You ''know'' the game makes everything cute, like a filter. But, hell, these things are scary even ''when'' cute. So, your mind thinks, '''what the hell are these things when you take the cute filter off?!'''

* HoYay: Even this game isn't safe from this. Aside from [[AnAdventurerIsYou [your character here]/[your friend's character here]]] pairings, some {{NPC}}s behave this way to your character or to each other. The worst offender seems to be Maku and Digotz from Friendship Quest.

* HoYay: Even this game isn't safe from this. Aside from [[AnAdventurerIsYou [your character here]/[your friend's character here]]] pairings, some {{NPCs}} behave this way to your character or to each other. The worst offender seems to be Maku and Digotz from Friendship Quest.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This popularized {{MMORPG}}s in the Philippines, to the point where you can expect most private server players to be Filipino.