[PK system.]

The real problem here is that PK system is completely bleeped, what is this "no drop no punishment" system for PKs? Absolute nonsense, since the biggining of times of L2 being PK was a complete risk, you couldn't do it without risking the chance of loosing more than you were winning by killing someone unflagged, you would loose items, and that's the final punishment. With this system you won't loose shit, cause you "drop" things that you can recover for 100k, 100k!? Really!? On a game that has a market value of BILLIONS for just one simple item. Yes, killing people and being PK is a part of the game, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be punishable propperly. War is one of the most common things (and fun) of Lineage, 2 clans or ally beating each other over some conflict, completely natural. But when you have a bunch of Lv.87-90+ players killing EVERYONE ON SERVER (and this is not exageration, they're clearing the whole map) and saying "blame X person" like if that would make it reasonable. It's not natural anymore, cause they don't have a propper punishment for this, maybe if they had, they would think twice before just going killing people non stop for no reason. And we all can agree, that this is a childish behavior that should be punishable with a higher fee than recovering items "dropped" for 100k. I don't think making higher lower level chars inmune to dmg from chars +10-15 lvs apart is a solution, but i think the drops should be real, not just phantom drops that nobody can pick up and you can recover for an ammount of adena that means absolute nothing on this server. By the way, we all know who is doing this childish behavior since ever, and it's always the same side, you can get in the cross-fire with some people, but with most if you talk and make them understand you're not war related, they will listen, but there are others that don't care at all and have been doing this for the past 5 years, they can't fight their real enemies so they say "if we don't farm, nobody will" and go killing everyone on server, and that's the actual phrase they used, said by their leader who got banned for botting, leaving behind the mad kids on his clan unprotected and doing the same childish things they were taught to.

[Classic Server Maintenance: March 8, 2023]

So, no more montly codes? Or are we suppose to accept this as a code? Cause last month you gave Rubys Lv.5, so where are the Sapphires of this month? We won't get Sapphires? You're constantly fixing or buffing stuff from warrior classes, when warriors are the most played and most worth classes, since mages can barely kill at TOI unless you have +20 S weapon and all the high end gear at top lvl. I still remember when you fixed the recover for Hardin Lv.10 that was recovering 400 HP insteado of 600 as it says, and you just fixed that, and not the MP recovery which till this day keeps recovering 400 instead of 600 MP. And now you give Rubys Lv.5 worth a month and next month instead of Sapphires you give us 100 melodys, fruits and elixirs, wtf? I knew this was going to happen since i saw the Rubys, cause since i started playing this server never seen any love for mages, any fix, any update that is not graphics, and i've been playing for more than a few years now.

10 hours ago, Hermes said:

The Update Commemorative Pack will become available for 1 week!

 

[Classic Server Maintenance: March 1, 2023]

This is the link of the last code they gave us https://forums.lineage2.com/topic/26213-special-monthly-gift-–-february-2023-edition/, it says Posted February 3. So it's not the 8, we should have had the new code by now since it's the 6th of March already.

[Some Classic suggestions from active players]

7 hours ago, Senhorita said:

Hey guys!

First, we would like to tell u that we can see some changes in Classic and we are happy with the new content and events you have been delivering us lately! Keep doing it, please!

With the new GM, we have hope we´re gonna be listened, so we opened a channel on our discords and gathered some suggestions we would like you to consider:

- PVP events would be great sometimes. Also, considering the amount of active players in both servers, giving us dimensional PVP like in Primeval garden raid or SIEGE would be fun.

- Instances that require clan effort like in Aden server (Core instance, fortress...)

- Fix adena drop in TOI and other areas

- Revamp TOI,  so we can use the upper levels (today only used up to 5th floor)

- Give Mages some area with good adena and XP as fighters have TOI

- Increase level to +80 in some low level areas that areas that are empty

- Review PK system, allow players to collect dropped items from defeating high karma chaotic chars

- PETs would be a boost and fun stuff for us to do

-  Removing IMPRINT from transformation books, turning them back as it used to be. Transformation books are useless for our buffers and farming them for selling was a way to help new players. Plus, we had no warning this change was gonna be applied and many lost loads of potential books.

- Some P2W essential items (ex. armor/weapon/agathion/cloak/ enchant scrolls) should appear as rewards from events or activities and even quests eventually, giving opportunity to players to get them too.

- Add more levels of inventory expansions tickets

- Items from event like letters should go directly to event collection, not inventory. And no need to run to pickup, this is bad for mages

- Add victory coins reward on l2pass pay version

- Turning on some quests with nice rewards would give players reason to leave the AFK farm and enjoy running around the great non explored areas the developers made for us. 

Most of these changes would be good for classic servers, PK system sucks, has nothing to do with what "classic" means, has no penalty at all, you can recover your items with almost non existent adena or Lcoins, and the only "real" penalty is the debuff that lower your defences. More clan instances like aden has, would be great too. Elemental raids are almost pointless at this point, drops need to be improved there for sure. I don't know about revamping TOI, but fixing adena there is essencial for player to be able to maintain the party, consumables and SS without needing to have another farming party to do that, after all, is the highest zone on server. We heard a while back about an "incoming update" giving some new areas, and one specific focused for mages, but that was it, so we don't know if that will still happen or what, LoA is good for mages, but mobs over there have bow weakness, not much focused on mages, and XP is not half what TOI gives, and i'm not even going to talk about adena there, you can't afford your soulshots even if you use a x1 weapon. Xform books being imprint is a waste really, as she said, buffers don't need xforms, and its a big part of the market for all level players, we heard that "that was always meant to be imprint", but really seems like a bad decision. Regarding P2W essential items, you can always put them on L2 pass, you already improved the rewards for this second season, past ones sucked, these ones are better and more useful. Also the "pick up" thing from some events like letters, makes the ranged chars almost not able to play it, you can't pick up 1/4 of what a melee class can get, things going directly to inventory is way better for sure, and i think a really great idea is creating a new tab on inventory for event items only, meaning letters or any other time-limited too, couse for example now we have soulshot tickets being "time-limited", i don't know if this was a mistake couse of the event or this will be permanently, but you're forcing us to use all our soulshot tickets before event ends.

Hope you take these suggestions as they are intended, to improve gameplay for all of us as most of the active players want. Besides all this said, i agree since we have you @Hermes, you've been doing a really good job, so keep it up, and thanks.

[Feedback Request: Hunting Zones]

On 4/9/2022 at 5:27 PM, KuroiHime said:

@Arctic

1. Set back the ToI adena drop before the update if it is because we get suspicious stone, you can remove it and just set back the adena back as it is.
2. scale the exp and adena drop better from ToI 5 and up so people can move up.
3. increase adena drop in Lair of Antharas, Dragon Valley, Imperial Tomb
4. add back the Wolf and hatchling Pets.
5. Reintroduce Soul shots crafting so at least the dwarfs have some purpose
6. Open up Rune Town with the following areas
   1. Valley of the saints, (75+)
   2. forest of the dead (75+)
   3. Monastery of silence (80+)
   4. stakato nest (82+)
7. enable sieges for Gludio Castle, oren, Goddard and Aden, Rune 
8. Forgotten island (set it back to the dino's why have ketra and varka mobs if you have ketra outpost and varka outpost)
9. never understood why enchanted valley area is made smaller?
10. put back some quests not sure why it is removed its up to people to decided in doing those or not. some people may actually enjoy them.
11. Elven fortress, school of dark arts make them 75+ 
12. add back some adena value to mats. bots dont pick them up anyway due to they will be overweight so why dont they have value? people now just leave everything on the ground. if they atleast have some selling value people will pick them up and sell them will help new players as well.
13. add adena drop in tom of ancient pirates not many go there anyway there better exp area's and it cost some money to enter why not give some value back while you go in there.

 

I mentioned some lv.75+ area which do drop adena, the reason is I know a lot of new players always have a problem after lv.75 the only decent EXP place is elemental zones but it doesn't drop adena adding some normal lv.75 zones will help to keep them in game.

 

if the reasoning why we getting so little adena at higher level is due to bots then you basically don't know where all the bots are. they are at the lower levels not higher levels. by reducing adena drop rate at the higher levels you only will INCREASE BOTS

This is some quality content answer, alongside with many of the other answers people gave in here. Most of them are about the same, i'm not even gonna talk about the last changes, we all agree that MOST OF THEM were bad, with the exception of mail changes, and new victory system for people that wasn't VIP. But there's some things i don't get, like, how if everyone complains about the same things, ask for more accesible zones for chars not geared AF, or mages, or more castles available so people can fight for different territories and don't need to go and fight the super whales all gathered at Giran, neither pay the same taxes depending on where you sell, bringing back quests that were actually useful like Nobless quest, crafting SS for dwarves so there's another way to get into the market, how is that devs don't see this things? I've been seeing people complain or ask for this kind of changes since EVER, its called L2 Classic, but has almost nothing about Classic. You guys launched a new Ice Castle zone that nobody can do, i bet that not even the super stacked whales go there, and if they do, i'm almost sure they're not able to kill the boss, otherwise there would be some Ice weapons around already. So please, be real with us, we're not asking ridiculous things, we're asking real quality content. Take the time to actually read people and you'll realize that we're all talking about the same things.

[Steel guild event is being cheated/rigged? TI server]

Thank you NCWest for ruining the game we all love by allowing something said by yourself on your rules, that "no 3rth party programs are allowed". You simply don't give a bleep about your player base, and you are witnesing the result as Classic servers are slowly dying, keep the good work with the f2p events to reward the people who own 30 bot accounts, and you'll end up seeing your servers completely dead in not much more time.

[L-COIN drops not working]

On 2/22/2021 at 8:38 PM, Juji said:

The L2 Coin drops for the elemental hunting zones will be fixed during the maintenance this week. 

How is that when this gets "fixed", you didn't realize that L2coins are not dropping for party members who don't do dmg? You're slowing the progress for all of us in an unfair way.

[Forgotten Island NPC bugged]

Well, that's it. I can't enter Forgotten Island, couse the NPC doesn't work, already happened to me a time ago, and then fixed by itself, now again. Just left Forgotten to go to the city, and when i came back couldn't enter. Same happened for some other people i know. No warnings, no "system" messages, nothing, just can't enter inside neither passage.