DukeGr

Depends on class and how much $ are you willing to spend. Provide info on both and i can give you a more in-depth anwser.

Well, this problem is only at low levels, once you reach higher levels you will quickly hit the SP cap. Just learn important skills and passives when levelling up and you will be ok. Do not buy SP scrolls, its a waste of money. Lastly you will need to spend money if you plan to play seriously later on, the server is balanced with this in mind. If you dont spend money it will be brutally hard to make any meaningfull progress.

Is this a Horizon Zero Dawn Expansion?

Cruma is the best up until you can farm in El. Zones (Exp wise). You can also try Catacombs but it will be hard to find a room.

Also most of those items are made using Stable Enchant Scrolls. When failing an enchant while using those scrolls item doesnt get destroyed and enchant level remains. Of course they are very expensive.

Mobs dont have 100% Adena drop rate, this is normal. The average adena drop rate is 70%.

Imprint (Items with Red Borders) Weapons and Armor cant be traded or enchanted/augmented, they are there to help starting players.

I completely understand your frustration, it is almost impossible to find a sustainable exp/adena spot after level 76+ I farmed on El.Zones and traded some stuff from l2store to gear up my main. After that i could move to LoA and farm normally. But it is true, right now unless you are 24/7 behind the kb and compete with the RMT bots it is impossible to level up without spending tons of cash. It is a shame to think that the main reason people quit is not because they dont like the game but because they cant actually viably play the game.

If you die from PvP (other players) you dont drop items regardless of Karma level. If you die from mobs you can drop items if you are red. This is from the last update they did a few months ago.

Why? Classic already has the VIP system which is essentially the same thing.

Do you really need a Glassdoor review to know that NcSoft is out of touch with the Western market? This has been going on for at least 10 years now since Goddess update.

For general information you can use this website: https://l2wiki.com/classic/Main_Page, although it is abit out of date. There are no more quests in classic, just a few left mostly to guide you around. Quests got replaced by daily missions that you obtain automatically. You get all the gear you need via quests, after that you can use the Newbie Pack from the L2Store and can slowly farm 10-20m adena to get a full B set+weapon or just sell something from the shop to other players to get like 100-200m and buy directly A grade. Catacombs are there but without Seven Signs, its just another exp farm zone.

If you like the auto-hunt feature then you will most likely have a good time. This is the primary reason i decided to play again after 10 years due to lack of time. Just play for the chills and dont overdo it, the game can be fun if you dont take it too seriously.

Well there isnt anything going on ingame atm, besides being afk for months to get level 86-87. The most excitiment we get nowadays is every Wednesday to see what new OP item will be added to gamble for in the shop. Maybe i will be even more OP to oneshot everyone after spending another grand or so.

There's a simple solution to this problem, they just need to add a scalable debuff based on the karma one has and of course reinstate the dropable items. This way perma pk alts will be useless and mains will not risk dropping their 2k $ weapon.

The game is heading down a slippery slope, i had friends that started the game last week, people that never played lineage before but liked the whole setup and atmosphere. They messaged me today saying they are getting killed all the time for no reason and asked me if they are doing anything wrong cause it didnt make any sense for clanless level 60 players to get killed multiple times per day while levelling. I bet they will quit soon. No new players = mathematically game will die I know multiple people that have quit the game and have high level characters that just log in to wipe out entire areas of low level players for fun. This is wrong for a plethora of reasons but what is baffling is that ncsoft allows toxic behaviours like these and even promotes it with questionable patches that alter core game mechanics in favor of this. Either we will see some PvE Protection Buff added soon to the shop (so they prepared the grounds for huge sales by making these changes) or the team at ncsoft just does blind changes without the proper testing and feedback from the community. In any case, things will certainly change soon, for better or for worst it remains to be seen.

This will solve absolutely nothing, those areas will be full with bots in a matter of days along with their pk guards. The only solution is to remove the ability to farm tradable resources such as adena from low level trash mobs and maybe substitute for some kind of untradable newbie coin that will be tradable for resources such as soulshots, imprint gear etc. This way people could level up to endgame in peace and also have some basic gear.

I assume you are being killed in Cruma or Catacombs, high exp/drop areas that favor auto-hunt are full with pk characters. It is part of the game and wont change anytime soon.

If you plan on spending money you dont need farm spots with Adena, just farm in El. Zones then move to LoA etc. The problem is that 90% of those players are using 3rd party tools to aid them with automatic farming routines. People shouldnt compete for resources against automated tools.

Clan Halls, usually people sell them, search Dual Weapon Crafting Stamp in Giran.

Pendant level remains, what is lost is enchantment.

Hehe, i hope you opened some strong stuff to wash down that failure, man what a waste of money.

I think this is the case too, i've been seeing an increase in OP P2W items and a decrease in chances to obtain them. This yells bait all over it. For the past events i am taking a completely different approach and ive stopped spending on random casino chances. I just buy stuff from the shop the first days and resell to make a few billions, then the second week i buy directly the item i want. For example i got a Magic lvl3 +5 for approx 600$ with zero gambling. Of course i could hit the jackpot and get that item for much less but i dont believe in luck and certainly lighning almost never strikes twice. The problem with an approach like this is that im pretty sure almost everyone that spent money on this event will follow my method when the next event pops meaning that NC Soft wont be making much money in the next events. Stuff like this can only work once, people become extremely cautious the next time.

1) About raids sure, moreover they could add some daily instances either solo or group with good exp and adena rewards 2) Not needed, it will only increase prices since the actual price for 1billion adena/ $ will increase accordingly. A better solution would be to remove the consumable costs, specifically soulshots either by removing them altogether and increase base weapon damage or by adding them to the daily missions. 3) What they should do is make spoilers spoil random crafting herbs and for warsmiths to have lower costs and higher chances in random crafting depending on their stats/level. 4) This is something that needs to be toned down, there are way too many OP P2W items available ingame right now, a briliant example is this new pendant. 5) Quests wont work well with how the game is currently configured, its all around auto-hunting and multi-boxing. The only way this could make any sense would be to make the quest rewards be substantial so someone will stop their auto-hunt loop for 1 hour and make it worth it. 6) I dont understand why there arent other castles available, its one of the few fun things left in the game. Having just 1 castle is boring. 7) There are some big topics discussing this in the forum, to sum it up the whole way PvP works now is very wrong and promotes toxic behaviour. 8) Subclasses are good, add more variety for people at level 85. 9) Hunting areas need a revamp, they make absolutely no sense atm. The only areas that make sense are Elemental Zones which have no drops. 10) Nostalgia? For me it was the auto-hunt as it allows me to make competitive progress without playing all day cause of real life/work. 11) New people dont join Lineage 2, its only old people with money

I think what he means is that any class is good IF he has the gear. The original poster obviously was talking about the difference between normal geared players, a mage will always do better DPS than an archer for example with A Grade and no P2W or epics.