Vhaldemar

Yes, I have a clan and some of the gear Connex mentioned. What I was trying to say is that the game is over 17 years old and we still go to these instanced zones to waste our time since the drops are (in my opinion) ridiculous. For example people have carried me in Imperial Tomb like 100 times, and the rarest thing from the reward boxes is R-grade weapon scroll. But I guess NCSofts logic is that I will do the IT quest with my 3 accounts and 7 chars = 21 times in day. That equals to approx 630 times in a month and 7665 times in a year and so on. So I would get too many good stuffz from just the IT quest only, that it wouldn't be tolerable! You're probably talking about most of the people at the top? I was talking about most of the people I have met during leveling from 90->107 that have been on the same train with me. There really has been a lot of new people that would've been interested in the game, but the progress gearing after 105 is so slow and the instance drops aren't helping, so they have given up. Someone saying you need better gear to get more worthless drops in these instances just drawed my attention.. I know how it feels if the noobs that are starting to play today would catch you a little without spending thousands of $/€'s. My thousands and thousands of old materials were also removed from the game (I still miss those CBP's!) and when I last time came back, my character was around lvl 90. So all those thousands of hours of grinding and sitting in front of my monitor had gone waste, since you get to lvl 90 in a couple of hours these days and get better gear for free that I had. People have paid thousand of €/$'s to be decent in the game that is dying and new players are not wanted (unless they empty their wallet too!). Hell, I have probably paid over thousand euros to play this game, since back in the day I was paying for two accounts to have a buffer with me for multiple years. Now I'm paying for only one prestige pack. I understand your way of seeing things Mete and I agree with you on many things. I just wish even some of those great people I've met would have continued to play the game, but they're gone now and probably won't be coming back anymore if nothing changes.

Thanks for your good and informative reply Connex. I've seen you posting a lot on these forums and even I don't always agree with you, I still think you're one the best content providers around. I've been playing Lineage 2 from the open beta (Sieghardt) so I've seen the ups and downs. What I just was trying to say it's been 17 years. So maybe, just maybe even the drops could be better instead of going worse and worse all the time? I've never used bots, bought adena or used any illegal ways to gain advantage on the game and I've never been in the top clans. I'm not even looking to be a best dd, but I would still love to see my character progress forward without paying thousand of dollars. I think some of the oldies on the servers would also like to see some new people joining the raids / sieges from time to time, but maybe I'm wrong. I first believed its all NCSoft's fault that the drops here in NA servers are bad, but I'm beginning to think it's because most of the people here are ok with it. Even the miserable incident with the last dragon slayer event didn't bother many people. Or maybe it did and they just quit playing. There have been less and less players on the servers every month since I came back.

It's always funny to read these posts where someone is pointing out a problem and then someone else comes and says "you just don't have the gear". As a new / returning player I don't have much to do after I've done the exalted quests. Updating the gear from these items seems still so far. Currently I'm lvl 107 (almost 108) with my Yul and I don't get any groups anymore since I don't have the gear. Like SibuLeoDoG and many others have said here in the forums that it's year 2021 and we go to these daily instances to get... pretty much nothing. I can duo Crisis with my iss and daily I get 20-30 boxes and I end up getting 10 R-Crystals, 10 Soul Ores and 10 Spirit Ores. What a joke! :D Sometimes I even get a party in PI and some of those times I'm lucky to get one or two enchant scrolls that has success percentage around 5-10 %? Or I can sell them for 25-100M adena.. People are telling here in the forums that good DD needs approx 1,5Tril worth of gear. I'm making 10-50M adena hunting daily, so with current speed it would take me 80 - 400 years to get 1,5T adena. Of course it would be faster, since I would get some lucky drops and it would get faster and faster to farm along the road, but still it would take years... But in my opinion defending this current drop rates is just stupid. I've met good people that would have made L2 more fun to play since I came back few months ago, but most of them have quit because... well it's 2021 and you're not supposed to spent thousand of hours (or thousands of dollars/euros) to get some decent equipment in a game anymore..