The gate is open again.

AegisRO2 brings the 2007 Ragnarok Online 2: The Gate of the World back to life on the Aegis Engine. Now with a new 64-bit client for smoother play. Join the alpha, choose your jobs and explore in English or Korean.

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NewsPTR16 October 2026

Test realm - not the live game

PTR update 25: the Enchanter (test build)

The Enchanter got a full review, skill by skill.

Its skill list is now: Fire Bolt, Cold Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Napalm Beat, Soul Strike, Fire Ball, Fire Wall, Frost Diver, Increase SP Recovery and Sword Stick Mastery. The old Enchanter skills are gone; skill points you spent on them come back to you.

Choose your skill level: arrows next to each skill in the skill window set the level you cast. Drag the skill to your bar and keep a low and a high level side by side.

A new casting pose, with glowing hands and rings of fire, ice or lightning while you cast.

Fire Bolt, Cold Bolt and Lightning Bolt: one bolt per level falls on your target.

Fire Wall: a wall of fire orbs. Monsters that touch it burn and are pushed back.

Frost Diver: ice bursts out of the ground towards the enemy and can freeze it. A frozen monster turns to water, so lightning hits it extra hard.

Increase SP Recovery: a new passive that restores SP while you stand still.

Your own spell impacts can now be heard from further away.

Start the launcher to get the update.

NewsPTR16 October 2026

Test realm - not the live game

PTR update 24: the Thief (test build)

The Thief got a full review, skill by skill.

New skill: Venom Splasher. A finisher that spends all your LP: 220% of ATK plus 50% per LP spent (up to 5), and 1.5 times the damage on a poisoned enemy. Needs at least 1 LP; 10 SP, 5 second cooldown.

Envenom: now a 3 m stab, +25 damage per level, 20% to 65% poison chance, and +1 LP when it hits.

Hiding: you can walk while hidden; your first hit from Hiding on a monster deals +10% damage per level. Cooldown 5 seconds.

Double Attack: the double cut now plays, with its own hit effect and sound, and shows the full damage as one big number.

Steal: the grab is twice as fast. When a Steal gets nothing, MISS shows on the monster.

Sand Attack: a big sand cloud. A blinded monster now shows the Blind icon under its name; while blind it hits and dodges 25% less.

Detoxify: can now cure another player (9 m).

Rapid Run: glowing sparks while it lasts.

Find Stone: any weapon, no SP, its own stone icon. Throw Stone is greyed out without a Stone.

Short Sword Mastery: +4 ATK per level with a dagger.

Equipment window: ATK now shows your hit range in one line (lowest ~ highest hit, before the monster's defence).

New and clearer tooltips for all of these.

New client: the launcher updates it for you. Restart the game after the update.

PatchPTR16 October 2026

Test realm - not the live game

PTR updates 20-23: buildings and walls on 31 maps, smoother monsters, Charge fix (test build)

Buildings and walls on 29 more maps: floors, bridges, piers, stairs and walls now count for monsters on 31 maps in total (Hodemimes and most fields and dungeons around it and beyond). A monster only notices you when it can see you, cannot hit you through a wall or from another floor, and walks around walls and up stairs to reach you.

Smoother monsters near buildings: a monster blocked by a wall no longer repeats its path checks every moment (less server load when many monsters are pulled at once), and a monster that cannot find its way back home after a drop now returns within about 8 seconds instead of getting stuck.

Charge (was Bash): if your character had Charge above level 5, it is now set to level 5 so you can use it again, and the skill points you paid for the levels above 5 come back to you.

No new client this time.

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Preserving a classic.

AegisRO2 is a non-commercial fan project. Our Aegis Engine runs The Gate of the World again, with a client rebuilt from recovered source code.

The world includes Hodemimes, Prontera and Alfheim, alongside the restored maps from December 2006. Our World Editor helps us study the old maps and build new ones.

Recovered concept art for The Gate of the World

The lost 2006 maps are back.

Prontera as it was in December 2006

Visit 13 restored maps alongside the 2007 world. Talk to the Old Maps Guide to travel there and back; the portals between the old maps work too.

The Video settings let you switch to the 2006 textures, music, glow and camera.

The world in numbers

6
Jobs to play
5,186
NPC talks translated from Korean
13
Maps from 2006 restored
6
Characters per account