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Adoption System

Overview

The adoption system in RO is basic and requires only a few steps and 3 people:

Step 1: Have a couple become Married.

Step 2: Both parents have to wear their wedding rings.

Step 3: Invite the character that is to become adopted into the party.

  • Note for Parents: Must both be level 70 or higher and must have their wedding rings equipped.
  • Note for Adoptee: Must be a First Class, Novice, or Super Novice in order to be adopted.

Step 4: One of the Parents must right click the child-to-be and select "Adopt -name-". Said character will be prompted if they want to be adopted by you - if they click OK, they will become the Parents' child.

A couple only can adopt one character for their entire lives. Be sure the child-character you pick is the one you want.

Skills

Along with the mentioned "Upsides," adopted characters and their parents gain access to new skills.

Skills for Adoptees

  • Mom, Dad. I love you!
    • Parents will have no death penalty for 5 minutes; Requires 10% of the child's MAX SP Amount
  • Mom, Dad. I Miss you!
    • Summons parents to the child's location.

Skills for Parents

  • Baby, come over here.
    • Summons child to parent's location

Benefits of being Adopted

  • The child will be able to share with either (or both) of their Parents at any given level, as long as the Parents are both 70+. This makes leeching a baby from 1/1 to 99/50 possible. (Both parents need to be in 10 levels range of each other in order to share between themselves, this is not lifted by marriage nor adoption)
  • The child is now Size Small. This renders Skel Worker Cards ineffective in PvP against child characters, as the only aspect of it that will affect them is the +5 ATK per card.
  • Since the child is Small sized, the Knight skill Pierce will only do 1 hit.

Limitations of being Adopted

  • Child's HP and SP are only 75% of Max HP and Max SP.
  • Adopted characters cannot increase a stat past 80 base (tip: if a character has a stat over 80 base prior to being adopted, it will stay as such - although it cannot be raised any further once adopted).
  • Adopted characters that have base stats past 80 currently cannot use the stat refunder NPC, as it would revert their stats back to the hard set limit of 80 once attempted ( Confirmed bug, in progress of being fixed).
  • Adopted characters cannot rebirth nor become expanded classes
  • Adopted Blacksmiths' and Alchemists' Forge and Brewing skills rates are decreased by 50%.