Tool_of_Society

L2coin drops from mobs that drop adena at an extremely low rate capped at like 100 a day. IT used to be higher like 300 and a much higher rate of drop. So you missed all those nerfs. You buy the L2coin pack in the ncoin store.

Not sure but it's something we first noticed in closed beta. Was kind of neat to see the "real" percent chance was in line with guesses from +10 years ago.

I doubt it as mage weapons have a noticeably lower enchant success rate.

Lack of response is due to the jaded nature of what little playerbase remains after constant screw ups on Ncsoft's part. Ncsoft has never been effective at bot control as they refuse to invest the time/money required to do so. Instead they like to rely on useless "bot detection" such as gameguard which just creates vulnerabilities in your computer. It's cheaper/easier to do that than to say pay a couple GMs to head out on the servers for a few hours each to ban obvious bots. At this point I'm pretty sure Ncsoft is scared to have an actual effective anti-cheat team as they know it would catch a whole bunch of whales.

I would be very surprised if the majority of parties in TOI are not using some kind of automation/bot. The damage done by higher level mobs is at such a ridiculous level there's no way for autohunt/macros to deal with it. I guess if you drop +10 grand on P2W you could do it but your buffers are going to be highly vulnerable. Combine that with how slow leveling is in the high 80s into the 90s and you provide an incentive to use bots to manage the party so the buffers enter buff and leave. Ncsoft has a terrible record of bot/script/radar control. Big problem is that mob difficult jumps tremendously at +80 yet gear drop still sucks. Our Pay 2 win is vastly more expensive than other regions and we lack other features to help. So at this point I basically just run off and die at 80 because I cannot level in any of the areas that drop adena and isn't packed with bots/farmer alts. Leveling in the elemental areas till the end of time is not viable as I don't have an army of alts farming for me like a lot of people. My hope is that I am able to build up enough adena at some point to be capable of leveling in those higher areas but until then I'm going to delevel and go back to the grind.

For a new player going through the full set of quests is the best way due to the items and consumables that are thrown at you. I like your little diary here and I wish you luck with continuing it. An experienced player with a good blunt weapon and at least B grade heavy can go straight to Cruma3 after finishing the quest that sends you to Gludio. I straight up leveled an elf summoner from level 15-56 with a two handed +7 tuning fork and unenchanted BW heavy. I of course used full consumes (storm scrolls buff from the GK for the ROA quest) and shots with auto hunt set to melee. From character creation till 40 took me about 30 minutes.

There was a large exodus of players after they changed PKing to have no downsides and NCsoft didn't care then so good luck.

I reinstalled the x64 version first because I didn't think much about it and was shocked when it didn't work. Took me a moment sitting there to remember that the game was developed in the 32 bit era and NCsoft can't be bothered to update the client to 64 bit.

You need to install the x86 version of microsoft visual C++ Redistributable package. The game is a 32 bit game so the 64 bit aka x64 version won't work..

I used to have that issue. I had no issues with latency at all in any online game except lineage 2. My tracerts to the servers were under 70 ms (I could physically drive to dallas/austin in a few hours). Turns out it was my router that I was using. It just seems one day the router decided it no longer liked lineage 2 and even a factory reset didn't solve the problem. Whatever was causing the problem it didn't effect the number four port. Ports 1-3 would guarantee a dc from lineage 2 sometimes within minutes. Port four though had no such problems. The router had stopped working a couple times during the day when it got really hot (texas lol). So I kind of assume it was partially heat damage that was the issue.

Indeed the memory limitations of 32bit causes some of the problems people experience when a client is running for "too long" and has been around the game world map. What I find amusing is that out of four machines only one of them experienced this issue. Anyone else have to reload a post multiple times before the forum finally allows your text to be posted?

Indeed that is what drove the first big exodus of the game as after they changed PKing to have no downsides rage quitters dedicated themselves to killing everyone in an attempt to kill the game. While I did not conduct extensive surveys it seemed the rage quitters were generally mad about the P2W stuff that was coming out and our feedback being utterly ignored by korea. I tried to edit this in on my post but after 30 refreshes I gave up on that option ever loading.

Best part for me is I'm at work or sleeping when the good stuff is listed. So best I can hope for are coins.....

Then no newbies would be able to level up elemental at all. As it is right now the elemental areas that drop adena are packed. Even if a room is empty it's inevitable that the "owner" will show up and gank you. Once again one of the core issues is that Ncsoft removed all the downsides of PKing years ago. Predictably the big farmers have perma reds that are +80 with better gear than a legit/new player would have. I've tried to fight them but they are rocking OEed S grade weapons and gear so I died in 2-4 shots with my A grade stuff. The best was the level 85 red that almost one shot me...

Indeed it's quite difficult to do the level +85 stuff due to the amount of damage the mobs give out and how much HP they have. So basically you have to p2w items along with some bot software it seems (for adding/removing buffers and healing properly etc). Since I refuse to do anything contrary to the ToS I'm stuck using auto hunt and repeating macros to try to keep up. I don't know if I'll ever be able to do something like TOI even as a titan... Having said that I'm still finding fun to be had in many different areas of the game.