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1) P2W events, not yet available. 2) Special craft > spellbooks. Use items to craft books and gl! Chance is now displayed so you know what's ur chance of getting what you need. 3) Drop from 83+ raids, epics and end-game instances. Not yet available for the casual-low tier players.

Drop rates changed since the last patch (the old one, not the one going live today). They increased drop rates for D-C-B items as you need both normal or imprint items for collections. No, the rate didn't change. I had like "24h" with 0 drops and the "24h" after i dropped 3 gloves, 4 boots, 1 helm, 1 shield, 1 weapon and 1 main plated...soooooo ^^"

It's not a bug, that's working as intended. You can claim the pack once again, it's not true that "you can't claim on a toon that got it already". On EU servers i had 4 valakas necklace. On 1 toon. And the same can be done here. I took it on another toon while the tank from my CP claimed it on his main again.

That's not how it works. Your toon has a passive skill that, when wearing robe, increases casting speed. This is the reason why, when wearing robe upper/lower, your casting gets higher. The light armor mastery gives you 90% casting speed BUT you lose the effect of the other passive. Means your casting spd is almost unchanged, it's not gonna increase ur casting by 90% of the cast you had with robe.

There's no need to cry so much guys...let me give you a few hints. So basically, i know that most of you guys are not...you know, a 360° players, so for the most of you l2 is what you play and that alone. But for some others, like me, i like to see weekly updates from KR just to know to expect. And not just that. They announced the new patch coming in few days...and since EU and RU servers have it already, i went to check around what's coming for us. To give you a little example, altho i know is not much but: the transcendant daily quest will give you *70* cookies instead of 3, which means you get ur sayha gauge almost full only with that. Plus, you have 30 sayha blessing available, altho you gotta pay 1.5kk adenas for it, which means you can DAILY refill ur sayha from 0x to 24x 100%. Altho i don't use the storms to farm adenas, my boxes that farm adenas can easly farm for 36+h with the 100 blessing we had for free. Sayha blessing prices from clan shop price went down to 2 per unit, means you need a clan level 3 and 500 lcoins and you can buy those 15 sayhas (capped per day), spending 30 clan coins, for 15 days. With 500 LCOINS. Also in latest server maintenance in korea (if i'm not wrong was this one, or the previous one anyway) they changed the amount of adena required to buy the 30 sayha blessing i mentioned above. 45k per unit and no-limit. So basically you can farm adenas on alt, send the farmed adenas to ur main and buy unlimited cookies. The game is heavy p2w, but we getting some quality of life improvements under certain aspects. Classes being totally unbalanced, for example, are slowly getting "gapped" with each reworks. Tanks and daggers next week, in 3 months we getting the archers and mages. The update after we have FOR SURE the new class for the Orc race + any other rework we might get (not many left, summoners and human warriors).

Mah, unlikely. If you wanna just PVE, then maybe you can go on, but not 24/7. Even if you want to spend 50 euros per month, you will still struggle. You can buy a few packs but "not so much worth it" as they wont give you Sayha blessings. But you will have quite some Sayha storm...but you know how it works. For 120 Ncoins daily, you can buy up to 3 packs (so 360 coins daily) that will give you, in total, 150 blessing, 30 storms and 30 XP scrolls. Prices here a lil higher than EU with 1 l8000 costing 25 instead of 20. So let's say you buy ONLY packs for XP, you buy 1 pack that gives you: 200 storms, 200 xp scrolls, 20 purple pots, then you buy daily, for 5 days, the 3 packs and you get 750 blessing, 150 storms and 150 xp scrolls...that should be enough for XP, not sure if that last a whole month if you farm 24/7, unlikely, but yet you'll farm on Aden gear. Perhaps put 10 euros extra and buy the equip kit with B+7 weapon and C+4 armor. Then yeah, you might go for PVE.

Then it's no problem mate, following ur own logic, i just debunked ur whole video. Doesn't change if f11r was active (archer vs tank) or he was afk: the whole video is trash. Keep it up mate, can't wait for the next video with all the good cuts and edits! Try at least to put a 2-hours skip video between frames when you claim it and don't cut in half a 20 seconds clip to fake it. GGWP. Next please ~

Frankie hunts AFKs the same everybody else does. This game is designed to be afk most of the time...so what? i let you XP 24/7 cause you are enemy BUT afk? please. What is balanced? 7vs4 is balanced? 10 people camping 1 guy on TOI is "balanced"? Be serious. What does the last question mean...?

Really? go on then, post the others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGz3f88zhVw Since you guys like this kind of video, i hope you will enjoy this one as well ~ @JoyD thank you for the amazing video, i had quite some fun replying, hope you enjoy! Feel free to ask for a remarch any time, 4-1 is still a bad score.

Which one should i've recorded? the fights vs Sabi? Why? My Nvidia records up to 3 mins, the fight with that tank went on for several mins with him on melissas etc, you can see even his UDs on almost half-delay...just sayin I didn't record it cause the first 3 times she came she died, prolly forgot melissas...the other time we engaged pvp she had melissa spam on, but i didn't put auto, and after a while a titan from clan came in, knocked her down and it was 1 sec...And i'm cool with propaganda, but at least don't base that on fake and altered videos (like the clip where he kills F11R that was afk and the 2vs1, sabi+kind vs paketo, where paketo was afk...). I already commented about the PI part lol. Oh nono, i don't mind. I rofled hard watching the video. I mean, clips there are so old that there's still the clan witht he "K" tag that i don't even recognize anymore and same goes for "cocain" from our clan that is not around since...idk, 1 month maybe? And beside clips there's no quality at all, there's no pvp, there's no fight, there's nothing at all. It's a showcase of you hunting afks, an SE killing himself and a clip from PI that is lowkey the best editing part of the video. Since i've some spare time, guess i'll edit a second a new PVP video, got some "extras" to use. Hope you wont mind re-watching ur video!

I downloaded ur video so i can reply to it properly later on I will just leave a spoiler here: the last part where you go in Primeval island and got NovaSK on follow...you make transition saying "2 hours later"...and the record is literally 10 seconds later the first clip. You can see ur PI time going down of 1 min, your XP didn't move and recording timer went up 20 seconds. Also, sadly, i didn't record Sabi's previous fight and full fight. He died 3 times, bsoed 1 time and he putted the record after we fought 5 mins and i went auto-hunting cause it was boring. I will gladly kill him later, i hope he will kill me again

Well there's not much you can do. You guys should try and understand that the game is no longer how it used to be, so you have different options. F2P route. P2P route. P2W route. Or, kinda. F2P route will still require you to spend...umh, let's say...25-50 euros. Well, it's not really a F2P but, let's say, you're paying once to "buy the game". You go, buy the items you need to farm like sayha, scrolls etc and you're good. This option, tho, doesn't allow you for anything but PVE. P2P route is a lil...let's say tryharder, wont you? So you spend more than that 25-50 euros as start, let's go up to 100. So you can afford a few P2W items, you can gear up a bit and try to be a little bit more competitive since P2W items are currently capped. Now here, let's put the tryhard part, what does it means: turn on ur brain and play the game with boxes and market. Doing so, you'll have chance to keep up and get stronger and stronger. You might have a chance to join a side clan (currently Epidemic) and improve ur gear "for free" by being active. But sadly people are super mad at Epidemic for playing the game so...i doubt we will recruit more. We are too many and there's no "heavy" competition, for now, from our server and cross-server events. This option allows you for both PVP and PVE. P2W route is literally you throwing LOTS of money into the game. So your "AP2W" is a kinda fake option. I can tell you that for the last event i managed to spend 75 euros. That's all i spent. 3 boxes for Lcoins with adena farmed in game and 3 boxes for Ncoins with euros. The "Starter kits" brooch and agathions, same: 3 & 3 bought for Lcoins for free with farmed adenas and 2 & 2 with 100 euros with Ncoins. It's really that simple...but people complains they want to get on top by spending 0...it's not an option in a "F2P" MMORPG guys...deal with it.

This would be a dream. I agree 50/50. I agree that having bosses into instances would make things much more balanced (IE: Live servers where you could get basically end-game epics even w/o being in a top clan). I disagree cause it will turn everything into an instanced PVE. You already waste 80% of ur time auto-hunting, at least during those epics time one should go back to be active and fight for it. Lately we are getting some contest, altho it's poor cause they have no organization and they have lesser numbers. If you guys expected to come into Aden/Essence, being a total random, and get ur hands on top items for free...no, this ain't the right server. Stay away untill P2W events with boxes will come, then, at that point, you will be able to get end-game epics by spending A LOT of $. Totally for free, you wont get anything.

Well keep in mind essence is FOR NOW (cause it seems to be changing) a solo-based version of the game. Dances and Songs are self buffs, mostly are even passives now. You can only give to party/clan/friends songs that can learn lv 2...which currently are Earth, Wind and Hunter, but you need rare spellbooks for that. Also keep in mind that there will be *TEN* boxes available so...worst case scenario you can level up singer AND archer at the same time and decide on ur way up which one to gear up and build as main. SWS offensive is kinda meh, it survive current meta and all reworked classes but by itself he does no damage...i remember 2 sws on essence EU: when i was dagger he was not killing me but i was reflecting back a lot of dmg...then i rerolled to BP and i used to fight an SWS with more gear than mine but it simply couldn't get my HP...mostly the fight was over due to MP issues and boredom cause we couldn't kill each other. Up to you tho! Not everyone wants to wait for reworks but wanna start on top ^^

Not much between human/de/elf but quite a lot with kamaels. Basically the 3 main archers are divided with the same old ways: Human has higher HP pool and quite balanced atk and atk spd. Dark elf is the lowest on HP pool and the slowest but it's also the strongest. Highest p.atk compared to other archers. Elf is medium on HP and the fastest archer, for obvious reasons, they also have the lowest p.atk. Kamaels are quite different as they have lesser skills and their main skill hits twice landing damage 2 times. Their UE is also stronger than other archers since it gives p. evasion + p. skill evasion AND m. evasion + m. skill evasion. And also speed. Now, what makes them different in the long run is their self buffs that are also getting a rework, but basically nothing's gonna change, they resemble the H5 archers: Human will have improved feature from his main skills and will learn a buff that will increase their critical rate chances, both auto attack and skill. Their new skill "Flame arrow" is going to DOT the enemy and damage opponents on the skill trajectory. Dark elfs will still land insane damages. New buff will boost their critical damage from auto attacks and skills. Their new skill "Piercing arrow" will damage enemies in front and also decrease their p.atk, p.def, m.atk and m.def by 15% (at lv 89). Elfs are gonna LITERALLY rain arrows on you. New buff will boost by a lot their atk spd and skill delay. Their new skill "Arrow shower" is going to damage the target + enemies around it and decrease their atk spd, casting spd and spd by 20% (at lv 89). As for kamaels, they will get the biggest boost probably. New buff will boost their offensive power in general and increase land rate of fear and hold skills. Their 2 new skills will both be AOE. One damage target + enemies nearby target while the other one will damage target + enemies nearby AND will also root them. For sure they will still have issues with DKs and titans if they get in the range of the AOEs but with a good positioning archers will be back to land trucks of damages. Please note: everything i wrote down is basically how they will be AFTER the rework. So if you planning to start one archer now, you'll be stuck being suuuper bad for a few months before the update hit NA servers.

This could be a legit guide if you are going to ignore the reworks that we all know are coming. Currently you are right, or kinda, about those changes, altho: Tanks are getting some extra DPS and some more bulkiness, even tho i really doubt they will stand a chance against toons like DKs or titans ignoring most of their p.def, landing insane damages. Daggers looks kinda of sick with all the reworks, PROBABLY gonna get back to the top 1v1 class or small scale pvp class with all the new damages/CCs. Archers are also getting a huge damage boost + "ultimate form". Dwarfs also got some buffs and "Ultimate buffs" increasing their atk power by quite some %s. EE is still useless but don't forget BP and SE got quite some boots on healing power and that SE are able to erase any transformation from the target. Mean that a DK facing an SE with the new debuff will end up exploding. Not the way he likes it tho. And don't understimate BD potential. Even tho they are anti-mages they can be REALLY strong and annoying with a proper setup and gear. Altho SWS seems the best pick if you wanna play a sorta of support as they are way bulkier and they are anti-physical DDs...and since most of the players will play DK/Titans/GKs cause who cares about fun, all we care is win, it might be a good choise. Also don't forget that a full stack sylph is probably stronger than a DK with all those dmg and that insane snipe/dragon dmg skills. The real problem is: you gotta pay and try ur luck with the LOWEST and MOST EXPENSIVE p2w system of crafting books. Or else just wait 10 months to drop a book you need with that 0.0001% chance.

Yup this is going to be the hugest p2w server...basically it doesn't matter much about skills since you get none to use, it's all gonna be about ur gear + char skill vs other gear + char skill. If you are lv 70 fighting a lv 80 but ur gear is waaay better than his, he's gonna die. No matter what. The real issue wont be with the p2w but with the other illegal side of the game. On EU servers at some point we had to quit cause the enemy side was literally buying every top char we had on our side so we lost any will to play...it's quite annoying helping someone, spending quite some money (gear up, lcoins for daily pvp, lcoins for epics, lcoins for teleports, lcoins for ress) and then they just quit and sell their char to the other side breaking the whole balance there was.

Holy moly you are right. Well since we'll have dimensional instances...might be possible that the servers will share the same GMT? I mean, some "epics" like the Behemoth inside antharas lair have a fixxed timer which used to beee...at least on EU servers, like 21.30 GMT+1? 22? So if we gonna have different GMT servers, how the instance will be? Cause if you set it up to open at 18 GMT EU...it's like super early morning for NA...if you make it at 18 NA time it's like super night time for us. Sooo...i wonder how it'll be.

The one well faraway from zergers and RMTer. But yeah i just realized that we might have some GMT issues there...fuuuuu-

#2 Mana potions are a thing even for officials. KR and RU servers both had it. Only on EU we lost it cause we never had events with Mana potions involved and they removed them later on. Just like they did with Blessed Soulshots. #3 PKs will PKs even main, it's not gonna be an issue for adena farmers only. It's gonna be a rush to the level up farm so you will move and start PKing lower players to prevent them from levelling. If the PK system will be improved like the korean one at least they will have quite some hard nerf while PK and also risk of losing items that they will have to pay to get back.

Ok let's ignore the dual class questions as there is no dual nor sub on Essence. The main class feature should be implemented later on as a fixxed feature. Or at least, in korea they improved it. Currently for EU servers we bought a ticket, we could change to any class we wanted (no limit) and everything would change according to the class we pick. So if i was a female orc and picked human DK, my toon would turn into a male human DK. I'd lose all my skills and earn extra SP scrolls to re-learn skills. But you would end up losing all skills, which means that if you are a healer with divine beam, you will lose the skill. In korea they modified this feature so i'm not sure if now you get a payback of some kind or you earn a "Sealed" spellbook of the skill you lose, so in case you are switching from Bishop to Shillen elder (example) you would be able to learn again Divine beam. L coins will be your main value to improve your char. EVERY. SINGLE. ITEM. is worth lcoins. Problem with current L2 is that it's pure P2W and no "F2P" friendly at all, i'll take into example the EU prices so idk how it'll be here but: Aden talisman. Item that increases stats and XP gained. Current price, on EU, is 600 coins per box. Which means that 1 l8000 allow you to buy around 13 boxes. So 1 l8000 = 20 euros = 13 aden talismans. To make the Aden talisman "competitive" you must get it to +7, enchant where the talisman has the maximum XP/SP boost (50%). Let's say that you are lucky enough to get it with 130 talismans (which is both possible and impossible, it's all about %), you'll end up spending 200 euros ONLY for ONE talisman. You need to apply the same logic to around 20-25 more items counting: different talismans with lower enchant rate than aden that needs to be 5++ to be worth, cloak 7+, belt 5+, pendant (25% compound chance) 3+, 5 agathions to 7+, dolls that are expensive as hell and have 7% chance to compound to lv 2 to make them viable... Not to mention that LCoins will also be ur main value for "blessed ress" (on essence bishops have 80% ress max and SE/EE 20% only) and it will increase everytime you die up to 100 or 200 coins per ress (depends on what NCWest will decide)...and also will be the main value you'll use for mass pvp as people will spam share locations + teleport that will cost 400 coins per teleport (if i don't recall that wrong). So prepare you wallet cause L2 Essence is 99% how much you pay and 1% how you play.

Old habits never die: Ghost hunter.

Well we getting the prices like last day before lunch or something like that, right? So...i wonder why. Beside that, class balance CAN kill the game as not everyone is willing to play 2 classes, altho most handless people will. Luckly we know what's next on KR classic already. We know that dwarfs are reworked, tanks are reworked, daggers are reworked and also archers are reworked since the other day. Knowing this you should be able to give urself a timeline and idea on what's best for you. Then some day someone will explain to me why koreans are so bad at games that they reworked all classes and gave them a sort of "ultimate form" skill (titan, gks, maestro, spoiler and now even archers) but didn't give anything of that kind to tanks nor daggers for some reason. PK system can kill the game depending on how weak/willing to spend the average player is. If he doesn't want to spend much and there'll be PK 24/7, they will quit. If they see they can't be competitive as they want and end up getting oneshotted by the boosted toon of the opposite clan, they will quit. So let's hope prices will be right, whales are gonna whale ANYWAY since they have money to spend, no difference for them if they spend 5000 or 2500 euros to get on top. I just hope, and it's 10/10 my fault, that we wont see the same shitshow we had on EU with people selling their accounts every other day, killing people will to play or even bother to help clan mates.

People will always cry for something. And since NCWest, and mostly all the companies, need a profit, who cares about what YOU want? Just look at how pathetic players are in classic. Heard people qqing about L2Essence being p2w, and now the classic is getting one after another all the p2w items (3rd p2w items in a row) that will break the server. Fun fact : they are spending WAY MORE than what'll they spend in essence. Heard about players who spent over 360 euros for frintezza boxes and the best item they got was a DLE, in essence with 360 euro you can be god for the actual situation...so please. People complaining over EVERYTHING : EU server classic is pay to play and no pay to win (but i mean, people call "p2w" the XP RUNES) but none wants to play there 'cause "the game is old, not worth paying 10 euro per month for this game" so they quit. And now that the server is 'old' they wont even bother going there. Then we have this huge NA fail which is a f2p model, but ofc, f2p = p2w, so that's what you guys get. Actually, the server would be way more enjoyable if it was a REAL classic and not a sort of "l2java" server with custom rates. Back when the server went live, we had rates being WAY WAY WAY lower than any other version. I wont go deeper into details, but a guy named Juji (who's suppose to be one of the GMs) told us that we were running "f2p rates". Wanna know a really funny thing? KR and JP servers were also f2p, and guess what? Adena drop rate/amount in KR is TWICE the NA version. Also, VIP system there is made of 7 levels, not 4. Should i tell you the differences between vip 4 in JP and in our? Easy : JP server world shout = 10. NA = 3. Jp server death penalty = -15%. NA = -20% Jp server XP/SP bonus = +25%. NA = +25% Jp server fishing bonus = +20%. NA = +20% Jp server item drop rate = +250%. NA = +50% Does it rings a bell? Oh, and let's not forget : KR, JP, EU and RU classics have the ingame value "L-coin", which allows you to buy "p2w" items by grinding. NA server doesn't.