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Shadow Rappelz
Everything that sets Shadow Rappelz apart from the original Rappelz: rates, house rules, added zones, exclusive items and NPCs.
26 sections · The same help is available in game with the H key.
What sets Shadow apart from the original Rappelz — and nothing else.
This guide gathers everything that sets Shadow Rappelz apart from the original game: rates, house rules, added zones, and the items and NPCs that exist nowhere else.
Everything else works like classic Rappelz. Anything not written here has not been changed.
The same help is available in game: press H. It is re-read every time you open it, so it is always up to date without reinstalling anything.
The multipliers, and the party experience rule that changes everything.
| Gain | Multiplier |
|---|---|
| Experience | ×2 |
| Items dropped by monsters | ×4 |
| Gold dropped by monsters | ×3 |
| Quest rewards | ×4 |
| Pet cards | ×1 (original rate) |
| Chaos fragments | ×1 (original rate) |
| Max level | 200 |
PARTY EXPERIENCE IS FLAT. This is the server's single most important quirk: every party member earns exactly what they would have earned alone, whether you are 2 or 8. There is no party bonus and no party penalty.
In other words, playing together never dilutes your experience, and nobody is penalised because the party is full. The only point of a party is to kill faster, kill higher, and survive.
You no longer lose items or durability. Only experience is still at stake.
Death has been made far gentler on Shadow. What you no longer lose:
Direct consequence: the Fairy Lock has nothing left to protect. It is no longer consumed and no longer does anything. Do not buy it.
What you do still lose: experience. The death experience penalty was kept on purpose.
Durability is gone. Nothing wears down and nothing breaks.
All five sources of wear from the original game have been set to zero:
You therefore no longer need repair powder, a hammer, or a trip to the blacksmith. The items that used to repair gear are still in the game but serve no purpose.
If an item in your inventory still shows durability eaten away before this change, it is frozen: it will not drop any further.
The ×4 applies to the percentage — and a 15-level gap cancels everything.
Two rules decide what drops, and they surprise people often.
1. THE ×4 MULTIPLIER APPLIES TO THE TABLE PERCENTAGE. An item listed at 0.5 % therefore really drops at 2 %. The roll inside a group of items — which exact piece you get — is not multiplied: it stays evenly weighted.
2. THE LEVEL GAP CAN CANCEL LOOT ENTIRELY. If you kill a monster far below you, loot melts away:
| Level gap | Loot received |
|---|---|
| up to 10 | 100 % |
| 11 | 80 % |
| 12 | 60 % |
| 13 | 40 % |
| 14 | 20 % |
| 15 or more | NOTHING |
Farming far below your level therefore yields nothing at all. The other way round, above you, loot is not the limit — your accuracy is: the genuinely profitable band at end game sits between levels 190 and 205.
Loot goes straight into your inventory; no looter pet is needed.
Putting a class skill onto a Governor armour piece.
Skill Cards let you place a class skill onto a Governor armour piece. Where to find them:
| Source | Rate |
|---|---|
| The 10 Colosseum tower guardians | 5 guaranteed cards each |
| Goblin Chief, Goblin Kingdom | ≈ 19 % |
| The 3 Lawless Land bosses | 2 % |
| The 3 Guild Mine bosses | 2 % |
| The Chaos Phoenix | 2 % |
| Reviac, Devildom Master (tier 6) | 2 % |
A full Colosseum run yields around 50 cards as loot, plus 15 from tier rewards. Ordinary goblins only drop PCSA, never cards.
UPGRADING A CARD: in the Combination window, the main card, a Skill Cube and a second identical card. The Ancient Cube is far more reliable than the ordinary one.
| Starting level | Ordinary Cube | Ancient Cube |
|---|---|---|
| +0 | 100 % | 100 % |
| +1 | 50 % | 80 % |
| +2 | 40 % | 70 % |
| +3 | 30 % | 60 % |
| +4 | 20 % | 50 % |
| +5 | 10 % | 40 % |
| beyond | 10 % then 5 % | 35 % |
Add a Protection Card and the main card survives failure; the other components are consumed anyway.
The racial bonus against every race at once.
The Shadow universal belt is the server's ultimate belt: it carries the racial bonus against EVERY race at once, where a classic Yushiva belt covers only one.
HOW TO GET IT: at the Yushiva Forge in Horizon. The NPC takes all NINE racial Yushiva stones and returns the Shadow universal stone. The nine stones are: Angel, Mortal, Demon, Undead, Beast, Ain, Mecca, Dragon, Ancient. They drop in game, and are also sold by Vulcanos's Servant for 50 Gold Coins each.
WORTH KNOWING: the BASE Yushiva belt no longer grants any racial bonus on Shadow. No “Spirit” stone exists — that bonus was only a hard-coded leftover. The base keeps its stats, its set and its +1 to skills; all racial bonus now comes from the stones.
Random bonus lines, and a way to reroll just one.
Awakening adds random bonus lines to an item, on top of its normal options.
Reroll Stones I to VII reroll A SINGLE awakening line — the first, the second, and so on depending on the stone — leaving every other line untouched. No more starting over for one bad line.
Awakening Stones II and Reroll Stones drop in the Dungeon of Hope, and are also available in the website shop, under Craft.
Twenty-one emblems, one and the same bonus.
Emblems go in a dedicated slot, on top of your normal gear. Every emblem handed out gives exactly the same bonus:
They differ only in look and name. There are twenty-one of them.
BEWARE OLD TOOLTIPS: some emblems long displayed ghost bonuses inherited from the original game — a “Critical Power +25 %” that never did anything. The descriptions have been fixed; if you still see an odd bonus, it is a client that has not finished updating.
Over 500 looks, and the button that shows your real armour.
The server's cosmetic catalogue covers armour, helmet, gloves, boots, cape and wings.
The “Show / Hide Decorations” button in the equipment window shows your real armour instead of the costume.
Town Return, the Buff Sphere, the Lava Elixir and the house boss cards.
PK field: only your party protects you.
The Lawless Land takes up the whole southern half of the Dark Dungeon block. It is a PK field: anyone can attack you, and ONLY YOUR PARTY PROTECTS YOU.
Three bosses are planted there. They are visually different copies, but all carry Yushiva's combat stats: expect a serious fight.
Each drops Skill Cards at 2 %. The rest of the block — the mine and the guild house — is not a PK zone.
One hundred waves, solo, from level 160.
REWARDS: a package every ten tiers, dropped straight into your bag with its contents announced. It holds tradable Taming Shields, Ancient Force and Defence Cubes, the four energies, the Juicy Tomato and Giant Nail pair for evolving pets, Blessed Repair Powder, PCSA and Skill Cards.
The ten tower guardians each give five guaranteed Skill Cards, drawn at random from the fifteen classes. A Scoreboard can be consulted in Horizon.
Free portal — no pass, no level requirement, no party.
The Parallel World is an instanced dungeon of six boss waves, in two versions.
FREE ACCESS: on Shadow the Special Investigators open the portal without asking for a pass, without a level requirement and without a party. They stand in all five towns: Laksy, Katan, Horizon, Ruined City and Hidden Village. The one-hour re-investigation buff comes with it.
The free portal leads to the first version. The second is reached through its dedicated quest, which consumes a temporary pass. LOOT: Governor bags and PCSA drop here, and Parallel World loot has been doubled.
Level 190, Devildom 6 stats, doubled density.
The Dungeon of Hope has been raised to level 190, with Devildom tier 6 stats and twice the monster density.
| What drops | Normal monsters | Rare |
|---|---|---|
| Awakening Stones II | 2.5 % | 7.5 % |
| Reroll Stones I to VII | 0.5 % | 1.5 % |
| Gold Ingot | 1 % | 1 % |
The Hope-Bearer set also drops here.
WHAT WAS REMOVED: all ethereal gear, and the Ice Pack. The loot list went from over three thousand items down to one hundred and twenty: what drops now actually has value.
Six tiers, ten floors each — and it is defence that stops you, not hit points.
Devildom has six tiers, first to sixth, ten floors each. The first tier follows on from the Ancient Ruins, at the level of the Crystal Witches. Doors open automatically.
IMPORTANT POINT ON DIFFICULTY: monster hit points are capped by the game engine, a little above two billion. High-tier bosses are therefore already at the ceiling. What actually makes Devildom hard is DEFENCE, not the health bar: without enough attack, your hits fall to the damage floor and nothing moves. Raise your attack before raising your tier.
Reviac, Devildom Master, guards the sixth tier and drops Skill Cards at 2 %.
Bears, Arachnid, Ruins, Vulcanos, Cubric, Shadow Challenge.
Whole zones that do not exist in the original game.
They inherit your buffs and your Luck, and no longer wear down.
PET IN A BELT SLOT: a pet placed in a belt slot grants its bonuses through the passive skills it has learned. Percentage passives arrive at level 40 for stats, at level 90 for attack and defence. Each bonus channel is capped at 30 % in total.
Pet renaming is available from the Summoners, in all five towns.
Private house, instanced mine and a coloured name.
At the City Siege, the prize goes to everyone who landed a hit.
CITY SIEGE: three genies spawn at each of the eighteen spawn points. THE PRIZE GOES TO EVERYONE WHO LANDED A HIT, not only to whoever strikes last — a single hit is enough. Pets tag the target in their master's name. Big wins are announced server-wide.
Who does what, and where to find them.
Two currencies, delivery to the cash inventory, automatic refund.
The shop lives on the server website. It takes two currencies: Vote Points, earned by voting for the server, and Shadow Coins.
What you buy is delivered to the in-game CASH INVENTORY, the “shop” tab. Any character on the account can pick it up. If delivery fails, you are refunded automatically.
A Boss Cards tab is available.
A hundred-billion cap, and the purchase block fixed.
GOLD CAP: the carried-gold limit is one hundred billion. Above it, the server used to refuse your PURCHASES with “not enough money”, which made no sense. That block has been fixed: spending works whatever the size of your pile.
H, T, Ctrl+H, and the comfort added to the client.
| Key | Effect |
|---|---|
| H | the in-game help window |
| T | the control panel, with its emotes and shortcuts |
| Ctrl + H | hides the whole interface, for screenshots |
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This guide is updated alongside the server. If a section looks wrong or incomplete to you, report it: it will be fixed in the next patch, with nothing for you to reinstall.