Hammerforge

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@Juji, it is impossible to assist the main party leader with Autohunt. This takes away from the idea that people should group, and form better parties. I recommend that the Devs add this feature to Aden and Classic. Add assist Party Lead to the Autohunt toggle. This will improve the overall grouping experience, and allow parties to actually assist each other on autohunt. And not go off on their own targets in open fields. Only other way to assist the party leader is to be active or use a 3rd party, and we all know NCSOFT does not want people to use 3rd party software. Help out the community make the right changes for the right reason... HammerForge

@Juji, The similarities between Classic and Aden are now almost indistinguishable. The launching of Aden has been the nail on the coffin for Classic. I don't see why you cannot make classic into ADEN... the two are extremely similar, with the amount of time and money invested in toons on Classic, to see it all go to waste. Now you want the player base to overlook all the bugs, lousy enchant rates, lack of gm support, lack of effort correcting incorrect game mechanics by moving over to Aden? Serious thought should be put into converting the current classic servers to Aden- Serious thought should be put into improving the enchant and drop rates in Classic/Aden--- this includes all P2W items, we obviously don't have a problem with paying for items through the l2 store, but we do have a problem with paying to "Gamble" with the current rates for every single item that can be enchanted... I saw people spend 400.00 usd to improve a Lvl 3 + 3 pendant to try to get it to lvl 4... and the pendant is still lvl 3+3 .. I know this is a business, but people don't like throwing away their money. They like to get "Gains" for their money and time. take for example your recent patch and upgrade to Collections... Leave it for the Collection I- gives 2% Magic Lamp Gauge Recharge.. for the a pita of only +10 PVE ADV (Virgo, Capricorn, Libra, Taurus) As Important as the Main Equipment- gives debuff resistance +2% .. for the pita of +8 blessed belt, +8 belt, Brooch lvl 5, Agathion lvl 5, talisman bracelet lvl 5... out of those items...only the agathion lvl 5 and talisman bracelet are easily doable. TOP-grade Gem Lv 2 Set II- gives Dmg +1 % Hp potion additional recovery... requires TOP grade lvl 2 (Jades, Ruby, Sapphire, Vital, Cats Eye Red/Blue) These aren't even out? It takes Hundreds of dollars just to make a regular lvl 5... I don't even have a lvl 4 ruby... Top Grade Gem lvl 2 Set 1 gives dmg recieved -1%... again Top grade lvl 2s .. .. AGAIN thousands of dollars for insignificant gains. NO ONE can get those, unless you have 20-30k to spend once the event comes out that allows you to make top grade? ... Those recent changes "the new" collections also pushed/made people quit Classic--those gains cost thousands of dollars for crap gains. Most people don't have 1 lvl 10 pve agathion... no one has top grade gems... few have lvl 5 gems... you have not added C,b grade Enchant armor/weapon scrolls to the store or l2 store to help people with finishing collections, you haven't even added Improved enchant weapon/Armor C, and IEW/A Bs to the store this would be a huge addition to players who actually want to use their adena/l2 coin to push and make these collections sets (the regular ones..not the ridiculous ones).. Guess what those enchant scrolls (minus the improved enchant ones) are in the store in Aden ... We should not be dropping car payments every month, or mortgage payments (during events) on a game we play as a hobby and to have fun with friends and clan mates. HammerForge

@Juji, The current auto hunt is lacking and certain skills do not work well with it... Having played a little on Aden and my time on Classic. I would recommend a few changes. 1. The Option to assist Party Leader when in group with Autohunt turned on. This on classic is not that much of a big deal, but in ADEN you cannot right click an assist macro. So those people on Aden in party and assisting must be using 3rd party, unless they are live. 2. Skills should be fully right clickable like on Aden. I believe the current autohunt was made with this intent. There are skills you cannot use in classic .. i.e. Frenzy, zealot, guts b/c they require your HP to be at 90 or 30%. On Aden you got it right, those skills are right clickable from the get go..and frenzy/guts do NOT overwrite each other. Zealot (on Aden) is right clickable when ready and does not require the HP to be at 30%. 3. Because of z range limitations and b/c of incorrect spawn locations in Classic (Elemental zones, Giants Cave to name a few), which have been reported many times and over 1.5yrs ... macro/autohunting will not hit mob respawns that are bugged/incorrectly spawning. People have to be creative with aoe. to hit them. 4. Ranged toons are unable to pick up drops with autohunt, both nukers/archers... only melee benefits from the autohunt/autopick up. Need to fix this. ON Classic we can get by with an assist macro with pick up and delay. It should not be this way. HammerForge

@Juji Thanks for the response, So i currently have 330% exp boost. I remove my vital 3, it drops to 324%, i requip the vital 3 and it goes to 330%. Now i remove the 7 day vital 5, the boost remains at 330% and doesn't move. Now my passives show the 15% exp/sp and sayha grace -30% consumption. So the game recognizes it in the passives that i have it equipped but the line in the UI (bottom left) where the exp is shown .. i.e. EXP 32.6456% the boost line doesn't change when you equip it or remove it. v/r HammerForge

@Juji Can your team check the bonus given from the vital 5. My exp boost does not move when I equip the lvl 5. It remains the same and it should move 30% points... Anyone else notice? HammerForge

@Juji, So last time you provided us a cats eye it had both Matk/Patk... but now you've split the two into a RED and Blue cats eye (like live server). My assumption is that you'll introduce them to the jewel box of random jewels and then we can buy lots of random jewels to work on the specific RED or Blue jewel that we'd want. So its more of a money sink eventually. And I say its a money sink b/c ,both on live server and on Classic, there hasn't been an event or store option to buy just the jewel you want. So you cannot buy large quantities of the jewel you want to make your lvl 5, and the combine rates are dismal. Why not give the remaining players the ability to focus on Ruby, Sapphire, Garnet, vital, whatever the Jewel that they want to work on. I bet people would prefer to buy a 100 or 60 jewel box of ONE type of jewel. People don't like wasting their $$, no matter what currency its in... money is money. The combine rates are already low.. why don't you ..the Producer of l2 Classic give us all a bone and fix combine rates, enchant rates, the ability to specifically buy the jewels you want... Anyways just my 2 cents, thank you for the temp jewel, venir, baium doll 2, rune of boost, vital stone 5 (think its broken doesn't show an increase in exp boost when equipped) HammerForge

As far as an anniversary event, it sucked for a server wide population (currently greatly diminished as mass exodus over the past year). But for Omega and its allies who were well organized it was great. They received every reward except 5, 3 that DidAllCould managed to get some hits in and get last hit on the Baium tower boss. They also lost 2 as they timed out and Baium disappeared (as the opposition attempted to run and keep Baium off the 14th floor) like i said in my first line, as a server event ... anniversary event ..pretty crappy. As a stand alone event , it definitely rewarded the organization and pvp brought on by Omega and its alliance. If you would have it as a non pvp zone on the 14th you would have seen the server attempt to get up there and stay and try to get last hit... more participation, "probably" a different distribution of loot among the server population. But that's just my thoughts on the matter. HammerForge

@Juji Instead of being helpful GMS seem to do everything in their power to not do anything, by giving "canned" scripted responses, specially when it comes to the restoration of items. I have not done a full on restore with my accounts as I've been waiting to do so, but now i wonder if 'll be able to as i keep reading in discord multiple people, more than 10 having issues with the restoration of items. Lets look at this example, I went on vacation and visited a real life friend who i also play lineage 2 with. I log on to my toons while at his place so we can play together.. siege/raid whatever. Now our accounts are "tied" by IP. So if he attempts a restore on an item..no biggy, then lets say i attempt a restore (on a clean item) the general tendency is to state that you are exploiting the store policy - "your account is connected via IP to an account that has already requested a restoration on this item category or item" (OMG, what do you mean ITEM CATEGORY) If you insist and say that that's messed up, you already approved in a previous ticket the restoration ..you receive a warning "please be warned that pursuing this may lead to your account as well as other accounts connected via IP address to be denied restorations in the future. Regards Senior GM Wrath" So my understanding is that "EACH" Account is entitled to "restoration tokens for the following categories (Weapon, Accessory, Armor, Dyes) per token period (January to June or July to December)" So why are you treating it as an IP thing. The accounts themselves get token refreshed, what does it matter if its the same IP. I have more than 10 acounts between my household, so I'm exploiting if I use restore tokens on each of my accounts? .. They are YOUR rules, its insane what you guys are doing. You should just give up the restore policy and fix enchant rates to "reasonable" rates. The fact that you have a restore option but your GMS aka Customer Service Support are not consistent in their policies..or cite that you are exploiting by attempting to restore items is pure Malarkey... uphold your own rules or change them like you consistently have done with the restore policy but don't play games with your player base, its insulting. HammerForge

My bad..frintessa Necklace... not earring... OOPS it was late..and i was tired.

L2 Community, What do you need to do well in L2, you need gear, lvls, and buffs. to get the lvls you need gear, to get the gear you need adena (or ncoin, or gamble at the l2 events), to use it all you need buffs. party requires, wc, prophet, bd, sws, shilien elder, warlock. But you you don't promote grouping @JujiFolks make more experiance, adena (if in a zone that drops adena) soloing/duoing. Box the support and kick them ...so the solo person or duo makes all the experiance. There isn't much incentive to add people to parties... why require a bd, sws, pp, ol/wc ... might as well bring the ISS class from live server to classic... less toons to box or play .... (that will fix lag) this isn't l2 classic or old school lineage 2 so don't worry about having iss.. There is nothing we really gain from doing as a raid force the following raids : Elemental bosses- Ch3 drops, sometimes brilliant varnish random stuff... 4-5 items Epic Elementals (other than brilliant varnishes, since we ended up with codex boxes awarding 1, 2, 3, 4.. awesome ..in my opinion; but a few events before you charged almost 50 usd to get a random ch1 ch 2, ch3, or ch4..and the only one we cared about was ch 4) Frintessa raid (instance) - rarely drops anything worthwhile Antharas ..still undoable No real gear from any of that. Special Crafting - is the only real way to get stuff ..which means you need adena and items to convert into points and gamble it away. No real sense of accomplishments. --- Many suggestions out there ... i'm sure you have read them. Here are some additional that i have not seen..or maybe missed Add full Codex drops to Epic Elementals-Add XForms to drop Rare/legendary/mythic Add all chapter drops to regular Elementals, increase number of elemental zones that drop from loot Add Buff book slot 4 to Frintessa, incrase the chance that it will drop a frintessa earing. Add XForms to drop Rare/legendary/mythic I'd say tweak Antharas so its killable but then that means the current server Gods will get it everytime ... so instead improve the rewards in the Balthus Instanced Baium, Antharas, Zaken, Frintessa- Let it drop 1 boss jewel, or give out more of the varnishes to make real jewelry... you need 4 anyways to make a lvl 3 and 8 jewels to make a lvl 4. Improve the enchant success rate and drop rate of the Balthus Knights Glittering Varnishes, and Shiny Varnishes (or sell them in the NPC that spawns upon completion) You've added Collections to the game... great- Now add C grade enchants (armor/weapon/improved), B grade enchants (armor, weapon, improved) to the grocery merchant, l2 coin store. give us the ability to have these items accessible ..improved B enchants went away when you removed them from the lvl 70 raid bosses (the dark knight that would spawn, and when you changed Zaken's drop table) Reinstate extract scrolls permanently in the game in the l2 store - Add S gems, A gems to the grocery Store Make Goldberg a daily instance, add more instances..reinstate the daily rewards for 4 sepulcher passes.. I'll stop there- look at the rewards --- they are not worth the time to do and worse are the enchant/success rates on a lot of these things (i'll devote another posting to that later) good night HammerForge

@DukeGr, Valid points, appreciate your input. This was meant to have people talk. I don't expect everyone to agree. @Beppler- to each his own. But i don't see you on Leoz... ? not good enough to play it in that event. As always people will gear/tune the toon to take advantage of the current game mechanics and toons power (your GK is super OP), but anways.. 5mil to join the event hmmm possibility, but then you exclude lots of folks as well. Lag problem is game mechanics/server .. we've seen it with the CAKE event that the cancelled what like 2 years ago...everytime there is an event that gives rewards like this, the entire server goes...but things should be easier now that the server population is low...but there are TONS of mobs as well for this event... reduce the number of mobs might help. @Juji as you see, @Beppler's solution is to charge more, and decrease the area so his side can pk everyone ... There are no real consequences for pk. I believe there would be more posts here, but i believe people have given up on reporting bugs (that never get fixed), reporting issues with game mechanics which people abuse, being in raid bosses, or pvp, pk, etc... look at the long posts people have been posting ... i'm still waiting for you to "Produce" and make l2 Great Again... Come on down to Austin if you still have offices there, gladly drive up and buy you a StarBucks and chat. HammerForge

@Juji, My perspective from talking island... So not sure if you have been following the Baium tower event but you should watch it. Things that don't make sense, Why can't go up as a group with your cp/or group. 500k for every time you port there-- (you leave to get songs/dances/buffs/kitty ..whatever) open pvp zone, You get picked off as you port to the last floor if you made it that high- doesn't matter if Baium has been killed already. Suggestions- as its a server wide event- no pvp allowed (not a very popular option by the winning side or some true l2 fans) 30 mins allow folks to get to the highest floor, then spawn Baium where everyone has at least gotten to whatever their highest floor was, or everyone is ported to Baium at the end of the 30 mins, you collect only the highest reward of the floor you attained, but everyone gets a chance to attack Baium, this is either open field or not ... if everyone is up there at once all together , it would be more like open siege field, and folks would stand a chance to win, besides the usual suspects... Same as number 2, but only those that made it to the 14th floor get to fight Baium (limits the number of people that can effectively participate but continues to reward higher lvl players and well geared players). By making it an open pvp system with last hit, its a pk fest on the top floor if you make it up there. Where was the dice event we all were waiting for... guess it was too good to us players so you didn't bring it back. Look at the server, the community, whats left of it, those that are left are still waiting for the fixes, updates, "cough cough" class balance?, daily instances, we've all waited some more patiently then others.... Feel free to disagree, agree or post other suggestions, always need the community to speak up and give the producer feed back and ideas for improvement. HammerForge

xCaim, I agree with your comments... it is "TRULY" unprofessional they way they run these servers. Besides what you have pointed out, they change the rules when ever they want to suit their needs.. i.e. the Restore policy for items that blow up..... How many times have they changed that? they have even changed it mid event (first time the Belts came out, they changed it mid event) Had a friend fail a +8 combine to +9 and the changed the policy while he requested the restore..so he lost the belt. The policy for restoring items has always been Vague, upto their interpretations, you never get a CLEAR answer from customer support but thats how they want it. Example number 2. Anakim/Lillith runes-- you try to + the anakim/lillith rune and you fail the combine and get one. You would expect that if you restore, the only Rune that gets flagged is the one you recalled. From GM Zai, "To Answer your inquiry, yes, the even though one rune is not destroyed, both of them are not eligible for restoration." .... and previously i know from other players that they had restored the remaining one upon attempting to combine it again with no issues. There is no consistency with their policy. Truly unprofessional. HammerForge

yep massive DCing and server lag.