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Thanks for the list of compensations @Sunshine It's good that these are going out sooner than later, especially for the people who were interrupted during their transcendence dungeon instances so many times (when the lag was occurring).

Thanks for the reply, I'm sure many players look forward to receiving the compensation sooner than later. Hope you and you team are having a nice day

@SunshineWas the compensation a lie? Still nothing and it's been a while, is this a priority?

@Sunshine Per your previous post, when is the compensation coming to Blackbird players for all the downtime and inconveniences from the server issues?

@Everyone, server is back online. FYI

@Sunshine @Juji Blackbird server has no monsters, at least in Silent Valley and for the event. I haven't checked elsewhere. Monsters are despawned probably server-wide.

It's up now

No, the server isn't up/accessible. It still says "Down". I just restarted the client twice to double check for you and whomever else. As of right now it still says "We are currently undergoing game server maintenance. Please log in again later."

I actually just had this happen to me a few minutes ago. There was 7-8 minutes left on the Transcendence Dungeon Instance and the server crashed. This is the 3rd or 4th time that my Transcendence Dungeon instances have experienced issues from server-related problems.

The server has been down again for the past 20 minutes. FYI

@Sunshine It's been a few days since compensation was mentioned. Many people have died repeatedly, been logged out numerous times a day, failed on their transcendence dungeons (due to extensive HP potion lag and/or server crashes), lost items in some rare cases, and more. Meanwhile, the other server has 100% uptime and no lag interfering with their gameplay. To many players' experience and concern, compensation has not been pro-active thus far (nothing for days of issues so far and no hint in sight). So, after your team fully resolves the issue, will it still reasonably account for the disadvantages and inconveniences that players have experienced?

Yea it is kind of strange. I would have enjoyed playing Death Knight with a Elf or Dark Elf female. They likely budgeted the cost by limiting the animations and gear models etc to one sex only.

The title of this thread has changed to COMPLETE, but in case no one noticed due to there not being an extra post for it : The server is back online now.

Over the past 2 days HP potions would not work while doing the Transcendence Dungeon. Players who may be strong enough to do it without potions aren't affected, although a lot of playerbase can be. When you restart the servers for maintenance this time, I recommend resetting the Transcendence Dungeon for everyone so that at least those players who had issues can have some fun this time around. It's also puzzling why your team wouldn't give some form of compensation in general for the inconvenience.

I figured it out, thanks to the help of someone on Discord named Vex in the L2 Community. Warsmiths get Tenacity level 4, regen extra hp when hit etc. They also get Mechanical Assist which spawns golem attacks or something upon attacking targets, and another Stun Mechanical Assist at 76 with a rare book needed. Apparently Bounty Hunters are better at all other combat aspects of the game beyond AOE, but require rare skill books though. FYI in case anyone other than myself was wondering someday. Cheers

Does anyone know if warsmith gets any pet AOE? Everyone I came across said that Warsmiths were the best at AOE because of their pet. So I leveled one up to 65 and I'm only seeing the dwarf's skills called Provoke and Spinning Slasher. The summon mechanic golem is the only available summon and it only has 2 single target abilities. Thanks

Happy to see you got a drop. How much adena are the Evolution Stones worth approximately?

NCSoft Support will likely inform you that if the Deluxe pack is already retrieved/activated through "Apply Code", then refunding it is not an option. If you try to take it further to resolve this, it may take day(s) or weeks to see a resolution.

Thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback. Looks like I will be planning to go SE.

Originally, I started playing Lineage 2 as a Spellsinger; I particularly enjoy the Elf race and the look of the female characters. I'm struggling deciding on whether to play Shillien Saint or Eva's Saint. I'm not sure if the current version includes the patch called "Freezing" from Lineage 2 Essence, but if it does - would that make Eva's Saint more viable? I'm guessing the useful "Stun/Shock Resistance" Buff is called something like "Resilience" now and is a self-buff only as well? How is Eva's Saint compared to a Shillien Saint long term? Are the mana issues that terrible with Eva's Saint? Does anyone really care about having an Eva's Saint in their party/clan compared to a Shillien Saint? I saw that Eva's Saint may get the following skills: Now, the other healers in the game definitely get new skills and improvements as well. But, does anyone know if these new Eva's Saint skills are incredibly useful or not in group PvP and/or PvE? Thanks for your feedback!

Thanks for the clarification @Gustin1. Given the new name Lineage 2 Aden, all of the advertising for specifically reworked classes, and the emphasis on the work that the staff here at NCSoft West described that they were putting in, there definitely have been more expectations floating around than only taking an out of the box version of Lineage 2 Essence and performing regional/language adjustments. With respect NCSoft, regardless of the underwhelming changes, I still would like to say that I am very thankful for my experiences with Lineage 2, and the quality of the services NCSoft provided leading back to 2002-2006. Like the L2 Classic re-release, I'll also still give this version a try for the nostalgia. Perhaps there will be surprises and improvements in the future.

@SunshineSo, other than regional aspects and maybe some content releases to come, is Lineage 2 Aden nearly identical to the other Lineage 2 Essence versions out there? Primarily speaking, are character class makeups and balance the same as the Lineage 2 Essence versions? Or is this something that you do not feel you are allowed to say? I still look forward to giving Lineage 2 Aden a try tomorrow with the Deluxe Pack. Although it does seem like a similar version release process to when L2 Classic was ported over here to the Americas after previous releases elsewhere; except if my understanding is correct, then this time it's based from a version called Lineage 2 Essence?

Ok thanks you guys, appreciate the insights!

Oh wow. If that's true that sounds like there could be potentially unhealthy features to come, as many others in the Lineage 2 community have been concerned with. A lot of these Korean based games have so much gambling in them already through enchanting alone. I played Black Desert Online for a while as well, where they are very experienced with getting their players into cyclic gambling behavior. To ask again though (if you know by chance), do you know if the warsmith + titan pulling tactic is worth playing alongside in PvE compared to just playing 2 Titans or 2 strong classes in this solo based version of the game? Are there really any benefits to it? My friend and I are considering this combination, but understand any disclaimer that this could change based off of patch notes and changes upon release.

Sounds just like Lineage 2 Revolution (Mobile) all over again lol So do you think it's honestly worth it for 2 friends to do the Warsmith and DPS combo? Or does any kind of team play like this in Lineage 2 Aden not really help anyways?