As a player who has exclusively one-tricked a SL since the beginning of my RO career, TalonRO has done a terrific job at prioritizing class balance so that every class has a chance to do incredible things. With steady updates, friendly community, active players and GMs, and many custom instances and events, I strongly recommend giving TalonRO a try.

Talon Tales is a very enjoyable pre-renewal experience. Every class feels like it has a use (although some are definitely more meta than others), all items feel obtainable/available, and the community is very active and generally quite nice. The Dev team is a bit small, but they still manage to create around 2 very big updates a year.

Einherjar is a thorough and thoughtful reimagination of what RO is. The server receives constant updates from its incredibly dedicated and hardworking GM, bringing reworks to core mechanics like DEF/MDEF, crit, flee, hit, etc to make the game feel more balanced and intentional. With many new classes to try and rebalances to old ones, you are guaranteed to find a class you enjoy on this server. The biggest weakness of the server is its low population, but that can easily be solved by joining!