RAN-Online is a full 3D MMORPG and it is free to play, with no monthly fees, however upgrades may be purchased.

In order for the characters to advance faster, players can opt to buy from the Item Mall shop. The shop offers items to increase experience, large quantities of healing potions, accessories to boost healing and other attributes, weapons, armors, costumes and more.

Players can buy these items by buying ePoint cards or load. Once they have purchased their items on the Item Mall, the bought items will automatically inserted in their character’s item bank and can be used immediately. The first few levels and myriad of quests can be done alone but high level maps and monsters requires players to team up with other players and form parties. While there are only four classes of characters, each class is divided into 3 different builds. For the fighter, archer, and swordman these builds are Dex, Pow, and Int. Dex builds are generally the tank types offering the highest defense and evasion gain and tend to attack the fastest giving them an advantage in disrupting attacks upon them. Pow types are just as the name implies. They offer high physical damage and tend to be slower and not as durable. Int types focus on a variety of magic attacks that tend to attack the most number of enemies. Magic skills never miss making their damage very reliable. However, they are often slower, slow to develop, and weak physically which tends to throw their stats off as they were designed to be physical attackers.

Qigong have 3 builds as well but they fall under pow, attack based int, and support based int. Pow types are the same as pow based types of other types though these attack very fast. Attack based int shamans are your mage class; offering the highest magic attacks in the game and focus on disrupting enemies. They have freeze and stun skills. Support based int shamans or ECs are your standard cleric type. They heal and have supported beneficial spells or buffs. The game plays similar to most Korean games where ‘leveling up’ is the primary objective center of the game.

This makes the formation of guilds an important aspect in the game. Parties are always formulated with a healing player or two, a clearer (generally Int based characters), and “lurers” or those that get the monsters to kill. On lower levels those with poor defense skills are often less important to a group making attaining experience more harder to gain. However, later in the game when lurers do less and less damage to as many “mobs”, the clearers role is realized and are welcomed to groups. In the item mall “water” had become of high importance as it lets a person play the group popular role but then “water down” or reset skills and stats and allocate them to the desired type.

The entire road feature in-game are based on the actual measurements and props in real life, therefore it gives you virtual reality feeling!

Currently, there are three campuses in this game, each campus sells clothing of different levels with the basic uniforms from all three campuses and all the exclusive clothing from different societies. All added up will come up to over a hundred types.

Players can experience over hundreds of different missions. When a mission accomplished, players might get the tools or weapons that fits his/her level, or can even gain the XP and gold coins. Meanwhile, players can have a better understanding in maps and game play by carrying out missions.

The Chat Function is divided into: Normal, Team, Group and Speaker… with different kinds of frequencies. Players can choose whichever option they prefer.

Using ?Duel? is a fundamental and must be agreeable by both parties. Players can fight with each other in the PVP mode and it will not affect the development of characters.

Meanwhile, the highest level in this game is up to Level 300 that allows players to challenge high levels characters.

Abrasive Potion can be used to increase the attack power and defense power of the weapons and guarding tools, the level of damage to the opponent may vary.

There is a function added where players can set up their own shop, which allows players to sell their equipment they have, while practicing.

In the game, it doesn’t matter if it is weapons or guarding tools, it will contain the Fire, Ice, Thunder and Poison…(types of elements). The elements in the weapons will cause the related damage during attacks, and guarding tools being upgraded by the Abrasive Potion will also increase its defense power against these elements.

The characters of combat section are hardly seen in other fantasy games, this is a character that fights base on their bare hands. By looking at the outlook of the characters, it looks like those modern day gangsters. By using their hands, feet and body as the fundamental skills, base on the form of development, players can become the Martial Expertise that fight with QiGong or just with bare hands & feet.

The Qi gathering time for the characters from the combat section are shorter, therefore it can perform higher dexterity skills as compared to other societies.

When the character practice their [Fist] to be the mastery skill, those it can have a very quick attack mode, but the attacking power is lower. Whereby for character who master the [Leg] skill, though the speed is slower, but it can produce very powerful attack; besides if a character develop to the stage that master the [QiGong], it speed of attack is slower, but the attack range and power are much greater and forcible.

The typical Sword Warrior is representing the characters in Sword Section; good in close Range attack, and they consist very high HP and attack power. The tools used in Sword Section are basically split into two major categories, [Sword] and [Dagger]. Depends on which weapon used by a player, the character in the Sword Section will develop into different kind with different skills.

Character that uses [Sword] in the Sword section, will mostly be affected by strength and dexterity, this is due to the [Sword] tools requirement value are closely related to the strength and dexterity of one character. Because the concentration on the dexterity increase, naturally the scale of strength will be lower than character that uses [Dagger]. Even though it is kind of weak in the attacking part, but the defense power and accuracy will be higher, and when reach the higher level the characters will possess numerous skills.

Character that uses [Dagger] in the Sword Section, must concentrate on the development of Strength because the requirements of tools used are base on the Strength of one character. When all the points are pumps into Strength, the character will be extremely damaging, but at the early stage the growth is very difficult (attack is inaccurate due to low dexterity), and the defense power is also lower than the character tat uses sword.

The characters in Archery Section are being represented by the typical Archer’s image in all online games, As compared with Sword Section, this character is good at long range attack, though he HP is lesser, the attack power is more powerful.

Just like Sword Section, the characters in Archery Section are being divided into different kinds base on the weapons use (long Bow and Short Bow) by one character.

The minimum damages in Short Bow is greater, where else the maximum damages for Long Bow is longer, but the difference is not much, hence in Archery Section the characters are mostly with high dexterity, defense power and a high shooting rate.

Characters in QiGong Section are different from the Mage characters in other online games, even though this character is very strong in attacking and facilitate others, but it also uses weapons that look like spears from the Sword Section.Therefore it is being divided into different types like Spears, Magic Attack, and Facilitate Magic kind of characters.

There are 2 types of weapons used, which are Spear and Wand.

If player select Spear, it will produce a very strong object attack power when the Spear is used, but then the character won’t be able to cast any attack spells. If uses wand though the object attack power is lower, but character can still use all sorts of attack spells and defense spells. Based on the game play, there is a significant difference between using the Spear and Wand, that’s why it is a class that is harder for new players to grasp.