"what is your goal in L2?"
That`s a very good question.
My real goal is to play L2 with others. That means:
1 - Participate in siege and win or loose only because the winner have better strategy, skills (fingers), level or quantity.
2 - Don`t die one shot for any thing with same level (mob or player). If both have same level, excluding boss, i don`t expect to get 1 shot. And the answers to dont get 1 shot is always to invest more and more money on my toon.
3 - Do PvE with a live party without create a CP or wait hours and hours to find a group. And when you find a group would be nice if every one dont go afk with autohunt (exept night xp in open fields). The normal instances should be more dificult and need skills to survive. Skills NOT gear (money)
4 - Do PvP in fair situation if same level. On C1 you have mostly fair situations and pvp stands longs. Nowadays the only way to have a fair situation is those heros in top clan with all +10 top and a $$$$ worth toon. Maybe for those 20 guys PvP is funny for the rest of 2000 in server is not.
"do you open lot boxes?"
Absolutely not. In real life I don`t go to casino and here is the same situation.
Instead, I expect to farm and/or do clan stuffs to get items, like old times.
The diference between C1 and this "new l2" is that in C1 all the points above was true, I mean, fair pvp, pve ecc ecc and now I don`t.
I can`t pvp, I auto hunt all the time, it`s hard to do dailies and even if I expent $100, $200 a month I still far away from top players and I can`t invest more.
So, why I`m playing this game?