Bloodstryke

I realize this thread is two years old, but I would like to ask for an update. I've had a ton of varnish, thread, and i think ive even had some iron ore, but when selling them to the merchants, I am basically giving them away for free cuz it says 0 adena. Did something change with basic mats? Are they even used for crafting anymore? Are higher level mats able to be sold? Somebody help me out here please. I really dont want to waste time with a scavenger and/or a warsmith if they cant even do the basics that i remember from the true classic L2.

WTF?!?! Mark this day in L2 history. Just went to abandoned camp for that part of my journey and I am alone, completely alone except for my box!! Absolutely no pony farm bots at all. Is it a farmer holiday today? Perfect time for melee toons to level without having to try to get a kill before those casters take it. This is nice, I’m cancelling all IRL plans for the rest of the day!!!

I'm feeling your pain right now. Just got my ISS Heiro to 100...what a pain it was. I would normally box my ISS for my Yul or Othell for this very reason. My question is this though, Isn't it fairly expensive for the self buffs as opposed to the free ones from ISS? Granted, my DDs are only between 95-99 but it seems the cost of the spirit ore would be greater than the income....unless of course the income increases greatly at the higher levels; which i HOPE is the case. If I were to go that route right now, it would cost me just a little over $1 million per hour for the self buffs I can do. The 11 buffs that I can do will take 2020 spirit ore to keep them up for an hour; at 520 adena per ore, thats over the $1 million. I don't think I'm clearing that at this point. If I am, its not by much. So please tell me the income supports it later. If not, I have to keep rolling with my ISS.

I get it, I was trying to use auto-hunt just to get a kill/xp for myself but there was no way, they are too fast. I got fed up with it and did what I did many years ago...perma-red. I brought my Spellhowler in and wiped out their entire camp. As you say though, they had a preset waypoint and kept coming back, not even trying to attack me. I must've killed 50 before someone decided they wanted to kill a PKer. I think it was some random guy, not even a farmer bot enforcer type. After that little bit of enjoyment, I went back to the live, or retail, or whatever we are calling the current version. I managed to grind my ISS to 100 after countless hours of auto hunt overnights. I accepted the next quests and went to the area only to get completely smashed by the mobs. I think I have reached the limit of my free R-grade event gear. There is no way, even with the amount of hours of grinding I have done that I can afford the cheapest R99 players are selling....i am in the low double digit millions, not the billions that they are selling for. Just one more thing to entice us to go to the L2 store, get 30 days of R99 for 500ncoin. I dont know if I missed something, but I went to the coin event quest giver and was not able to do it because that is for 105 and above. I admit, I dont follow the forums and everything going on as regular as I should, so if i miss something, that is on me. It just seems that once you hit 95, they slow it down quite a bit. Then hit 99 and they all but put the brakes on. All the shouts in chat LFG seem to be 105 and above. So WTF is supposed to happen from 100-105? How does one get to 105 if groups arent looking that low? I am not part of a clan yet, eventually yes, but not yet. So that was my rant for today. Love the game and the game mechanics, but absolutely hate how you cant afford anything in the economy without spending real $$ at the store.

Thx to both of you for the insight. I also have played and loved daggers since ‘04. I dabbled with other classes but dagger was my “go to” guy. I definitely like the forward facing style over rear and flanks..that requires a bit more effort (not that I’m lazy) and someone to hold aggro so you can get to those spots. As of right now I’m just solo two-boxing so it seems the FS is the best option for a dagger for me and my situation. I don’t expect plunder to make me the richest toon on the server, I just like having that little extra something. And if they will be accepted in parties later, that just helps even more. I’m just finding the grind from 99 to 100 to be insanely slow. I am still using the free R grade stuff cuz I cannot even come close to affording the good stuff folks are selling and I am trying hard to not buy Ncoin to get the 30 day stuff....trying hard!!

I cane back to L2 after a very lengthy break. All my surviving toons were moved to Naia but I can’t really play them as they only have up to S gear and certainly not enough $$to buy even basic R so I created new toons and leveled with the free gear very fast to 99 BUT that’s where it slowed down almost to a stop. With that little bit of grinding I still don’t have the $$ to upgrade. The xp gain for my party of two was probably less than 1/100 of a percent. decided to try classic. What a mistake. Go to the areas you are supposed to quest in such as abandoned camp (or anywhere there is a concentration of mobs) and it is absolutely overrun with farmers. I’ve got a melee character and there is no way I can compete even if I put it on auto hunt. the elf caster classes whip out spells at a rate that beats my foot travel to the mob. I remember a time when NCSoft banned accts for automated play other than basic macros but now they include it in the game so farmers don’t even need a third party program. that leads us normal players to either accept the super extended grind because of reduced xp gains or visit that nice little L2 store. I understand that this is a business and they are in it to make money but FFS normal players can’t compete without forking over cash just to be able to grind. IMHO this WAS the best MMORPG out there, even when I paid monthly. It still is the best as far as graphics, mechanics, and general game play, but NCSofts greed ruined the average players ability to compete with the farmers and use the economy . where does that leave us? Using auto hunt to get some scraps from the farmers until we can level high enough to do parties in other areas maybe? I dunno, but I’m hoping there is something better in a few levels.

I am curious as to whether it is in my best interest to continue with my FS. I’ve always loved the idea of spoil/plunder to supplement my income with something I can sell. Basically I am wondering if it is worth the time and effort and will the spoils be relevant and worth a damn. I talked to another FS in game and asked about the drops. He was still in low 100s so only thing he was getting was fragments of something that when combined would sell for what seems to be a decent price. I’m not, nor I have I ever been concerned with being the top pve/pvp toon, I just want something enjoyable and not too stressful. I am currently boxing an ISS and it seems to be a good combo Pre-99. any thoughts on if it will stay a viable grinding/farming option will the plunder make it a decent income supplement?? Or am I wasting my time? on a side note, I’m on the fence with this auto-hunt button. I was using it and just hitting various skill buttons every so often. Things were going well until I nodded off and started drooling on my desk!!

Thx, i obviously have to read up on the do's and don'ts and cans and can'ts when it comes to this.

Interesting. I was thinking the same thing but other way around. I am currently leveling a Fortune Seeker and thought that the Maestro would be a good fit...spoils plus crafting all wrapped up in one....that is if it works like that. I'm still a little behind the curve on dual classes.

Thanks. Once i got back in game, thats exactly what i did. I'm not "feeling it" with the summoner though. Not likely to be for me.

At this point ISS is in the running for my true main. As much as i love playing a straight DD, ISS Doomcryer was fun getting to 95; can DD decent and self buff for free, whats not to love about that. I did notice though that all my toons so far get those same buffs but they have to buy the stones to do it. Seems like that can get fairly expensive. If i find that $$ money wont be an issue to sustain that, then I may go with the DD, either Yuo or Othello.

Thank you. I'll check it out once the server comes back up. This is not likely going to be a main for me, never was back in the day either. I just want some variety and to make sure I try everything before settling for a main, an alt, an alt main, and a main alt.....yeah I have a bit of alt-itis still after all these years. Autohunt was definitely not in-game last i played. The last time I stopped playing was some time after they implemented dual classes and the last class change that we have now. It seems that i lost all those toons i loved so much. Not to worry though since we can level to 95 and get R gear in just a couple hours....INSANE!!!! I played all those years and only had one toon in the 90s

After many, many years, I just returned to L2 (not sure for how long) after getting bored with all other MMORPGs that just dont stack up. I created a summoner but for the life of me cant figure out how to get my summons to attack. I can right click its name and i see defensive, passive, and cancel summons. If I recall correctly, there used to be buttons to make it attack my target but as I stated, I am not seeing those actions anywhere. Is there a pet skill bar somewhere that I am missing? I have been toying around with several other toons just to see what I want to focus on and this is the only one that has actually got overwhelmed and died while leveling. I did notice that it attacked while I had it in defensive mode, but that was only after I was attacked. Bartz FTW. RIP