I'm a relic of the official 2002 game in my country, holding collectible topup cards. I've been to many private servers after the official game ended in my country. Sadly, the fun and stable ones close down soon. BalikRO is young, but a promising server where it's close to the nostalgia of the official server and a stable one without lags nor map crashes in my experience so far. Acolyte going to Priest and looking forward from this quarantine... Hey, what's a Pastor should do today anyways?

I enlist MYROPH to my top 5. For a month and everyday grinding, I find this server with strong connections and no lagging. If there's mishap, the programmers are quick to fix the errors. But I could have given it a perfect 10 if not for the lack of commands @noks and @autoloot. Why? a lot of level-99 players ransack low-level dungeons hunting for rare items, kill-stealing then teleport to avoid screenshots. Thus leaving a pile of loots around and no monsters for us new players to levelup.

I've returned playing ROK since this quarantine times and hunting the suitable server made me enlist HERO as first on my top 5. The aesthetic art is astounding it's like a sequel of the game. Customization is cool and enough to pour fun times setting up my characters. You won't even worry for a meltdown like other far-eastern servers do, HERO has been here like years old. There's just times that it's laggy, though it's because I'm halfway around the globe. Hope there'll be a proxy on Asia soon.

I must say that Adamant is a server which does NOT want you to play. It's been a week now in jail for a single mistake which they themselves caused. Puzzle blocks your view, unable to answer correctly. GM's not active, rendering my character stuck like forever. I've been playing Ragnarok since the Gravity days of pay-to-play in 2003. But this is one of the worst I've seen. It seems they're just for a circle of friends. Drops is near impossible. Economy is a disaster, prices are skyrocket high.