The server has an official Ventrilo server and an official IRC channel.

Ventrilo is a voice chat program available for Windows and Mac OSX. The Ventrilo server requires client version 3.0.5, which can be downloaded from the official Ventrilo website.

The server connection information is:

Hostname: tro.ventrilo.org
Port number: 3816
Password: No password required.

IRC is a multi-user text chat protocol. GMs and players can often be found in the official TempestRO channel. For Windows, three of the most popular clients are mIRC, xChat, or ChatZilla (a Firefox addon).

The channel information is:

Server: irc.deltaanime.net
Port: 6667
Channel: #tro

Max base level: 99
Max job level (supernovice): 99
Max job level (trans): 70
Max job level (normal): 50
Max base stat: 99
Max aspd (player): 190
Max aspd (monster): 199
Instant cast: 150 Dex
Stun immunity: VIT + (LUK/3) >= 97
Storage count (different items): 1000 (from 600)

10x multiplier on base experience.
10x multiplier on job experience.
10x multiplier on quest experience gains.
30% bonus exp per additional party member in an even share party, up to 11.
20% bonus exp per additional attacker on a monster, up to 11.
Multiple level gains from one experience source is enabled.

Normal Monsters: 7x Items / 7x Cards
Minibosses: 7x Items / 3x Cards
MvPs: 3x Items / 3x Cards
WoE Treasure: 3x Drops
Autoloot is disabled after about a minute of inactivity. Idle timer is reset by moving or using an item or using a non-self skill.
WoE cards at double drop rates (14x)

-- Map of the Week -- A random field map is chosen to be the Map of the Week each week. This map gives +50% base experience and +50% job experience and +50% drop rate for all monsters killed on the map.

-- New characters start with 15 Battle Manuals that give +100% experience for 30 minutes, and persist through death. They can be kept through transcending, and they weigh 0.

-- Endless Tower cooldown at 2.5 days, minimum base level 50, time limit 4 hours.

Old Purple Boxes modified to have a chance to drop Glasses[1] and Sunglasses[1] at a low rate.

-- Battlegrounds modified to start at 7v7, and announce the current queue count when 10 or more people are registered for Battlegrounds.

-- Battlegrounds medals and equipment able to be placed in storage.

-- Rachel Sanctuary quest modified to be started with 20 donations of 50,000z (1,000,000z per character) until 10,000 donations have been reached. These 20 donations earn Temple Lottery Tickets, and one can donate for additional tickets after completing the quest.

-- iRO repeatable exp quests enabled.

-- War of Emperium lasts 1 hour instead of 2.

-- War of Emperium is currently only First Edition -- Second Edition is planned for a later release.

-- Treasure Chests are randomly chosen from all castles.

-- Treasure Drops are 3x.

-- Generic box: Muffler[1], Shoes[1], Chainmail[1], Buckler[1] at 24% (after 3x) changed to Wool Scarf[1] and Tidal Shoes[1] at 1.5% (after 3x), Odin's Blessing[1] and Stone Buckler[1] at 6%.

-- Guild skill cooldown reset to 5 minutes upon logging in.

-- Available guild titles: 76 (up from 20)

-- Town Warper NPC, and able to warp to New World after completing the access quest.

-- Job Changer in Prontera, but to transcend one still needs to go to the Valkyrie NPC in Yuno. If one does the job change quest instead, one earns 5 donation credits for 1st job, and 25 donation credits for 2nd job.

-- Stat Reallocation NPC in Izlude able to refund status points to a limited degree.

-- Login Settings NPC in Gonryun to set login defaults.

-- 1/1 Resetter NPC in Morroc able to reset to 1/1 Novice or Baby Novice or Novice High, depending on class, for 5,000,000z zeny + 5,000,000z per previous reset.

-- PVP Warper in most towns, able to warp to 3 arenas.

-- Map of the Week NPC in Payon will inform what the current Map of the Week is.

-- Dye NPC in Prontera able to change to 25 hair styles, 8 hair colors, and 303 clothes colors.

-- Endless Tower NPC in Alberta.

-- Same sex marriage NPC in Prontera Church.

-- Commands can be accessed using either @ or !.

-- Main chat enabled by default.

-- @allychat / @ac -- Chat to all allied guild members who have Allychat enabled, using guild chat colors (@alliancechat ).

-- @multichat / @mc -- Join and chat to specific channel public chats (Usage: @multichat <#> ).

-- @whosells / @ws -- Find a player vendor of an item.

-- @guildhp -- Shows HP bars for guild members outside of a party.

-- Duel and autotrade only usable in towns.

-- Damage is dealt halfway through an attack, rather than at the start or at the end of an attack. Teleporting away from damage is still possible, but damage happens earlier than at the end of an attack.

-- Kaahi fixed to only use SP and heal if below maximum health.

-- Normal monsters and summoned MvPs show % HP and level. Normal MvPs show level only.

-- Player hitlock rate at 20% normal, Monster hitlock rate at 60% normal, MvP hitlock rate at 20% normal.

-- Teleport level 1 enables instant teleporting.

-- Homunculus hunger rate is twice as fast as normal.

GM-Trojal has been a server administrator for the past 5 years, and a GM on 3 previous servers over the past 5 years. His primary interests are network security and innovative web programming. He hopes to maintain a constant interest in the server by coding fun and balanced innovations for players to enjoy.

GM-edg3 doesnt have previous experience with being a GM on a Ragnarok server. His primary aim is to organise fun events for the server to keep it fresh and interesting for old and new players alike. His main interests are game development and programming, which for the most part are self taught.

GM-Advi has been a GM on 3 different servers in the past 4 years. He has been programming as a hobby for over 10 years and is currently in college for video game development. He hopes to use his skills to add new enjoyable and innovative features to RO.

GM-Den Masters has been an RO Game Master on 2 different servers over the past 6 years. His interests are computer programming, music, and sports. He hopes to share his knowledge and skills with the community and to help TempestRO attain the reputation of being one of the best RO private servers.