Sharing my observations on day 3:
- Though the community is small, it is very active, and there are A FEW people very friendly towards the newbies.
Advice: Find an active clan with Discord
- PK Wars: The classic version on both servers has those wars happening, and it affects new players A LOT!
This is the moment you understand if this is the right version for you.
Do read the description: https://www.lineage2.com/en-us/classic
It mentions - the HARDCORE version of the game. More "boomer" game style, not consistent with the snowflake mentality. You would survive and enjoy this version if you are GRIND LORD with no emotions and an Excel spreadsheet ready to record your exp, adena per 10/30/60 mins. OR you find people to chill and play with and will farm together and give 0 fs for PKs since chatting with people and doing just fun stuff like exping your toons//farming collections//books at level 40 while chatting discord and sharing memes. It is difficult for NCSoft to make the PK system more friendly for the newbies because they want to prevent multi-computer/software-enabled farms where people launched 100s of summoners for daily auto grind. So your cries will only disgrace yourself rather than make any real change.
- Find your spot and chill. There is no insta-progress in this game since Classic implies you play longer term with fewer "dungeons" and pve spots to ease your grind.
- Multibox: Classis is multi-box, and you might find it more difficult to survive as a solo box player. You would have to come with friends who would play a certain class (support/dd) so you do not exp your own dd/support or watch out for new players and see if they are happy to play together. (The difficulty with it is there not a lot of people on a monthly basis 1) coming to the server 2) staying on the server after a few days 3) fitting the desired class you need)