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  1. @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

  2. @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  

     

     

     

  3. @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

     

     

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  4. @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

  5. @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

  6. 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

  7. @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

  8. 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 : 

    1.  Elemental bosses- Ch3 drops, sometimes brilliant varnish random stuff... 4-5 items 
    2.  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)
    3. Frintessa raid (instance) - rarely drops anything worthwhile
    4. 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.

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    Many suggestions out there ... i'm sure you have read them.  Here are some additional that i have not seen..or maybe missed

    1. Add full Codex drops to Epic Elementals-Add XForms to drop Rare/legendary/mythic
    2. Add all chapter drops to regular Elementals, increase number of elemental zones that drop from loot
    3. Add Buff book slot 4 to Frintessa, incrase the chance that it will drop a frintessa earing.  Add XForms to drop Rare/legendary/mythic
    4. 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)
    5. 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)
    6. Reinstate extract scrolls permanently in the game in the l2 store -  
    7. Add S gems, A gems to the grocery Store
    8. 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

  9. @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

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  10. @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,

    1. Why  can't go up as a group with your cp/or group.
    2. 500k for every time you port there-- (you leave to get songs/dances/buffs/kitty ..whatever)
    3. 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-

    1.  no pvp allowed (not a very popular option by the winning side or some true l2 fans)
    2. 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...
    3. 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

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  11. On 2/12/2021 at 9:03 AM, xCaim said:

    The problem with stuff like this is the transparency involving the whole update procedure. We got detailed patch notes for mundane things no-one cares about and there was no information concerning reduced adena rates and L2Coins not working like before. Moreover, the patch notes were released 1 day prior to the update deployment, this by itself is unacceptable for a major update.

    It's unprofessional to change the rules of a game without any announcement, it shows disrespect towards your player base and customers,  your communication skills are severely lacking at best. Company politics need to seriously be reconsidered IF this business is to remain afloat, @Juji @Hime transfer this complaint to the upper ups, don't just accept this situation and remain in the sidelines while this whole project inevitably sinks.

    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

  12. Again, you fail to "FIX" any real issues with the game.

    Before i go on the negative side, 

    Pros-

    1.  the removal of the +10 jewel to make +4 boss jewels is a good addition.  Plus the 100mil cost "NO FAIL COMBINE" to make it a lvl 4.

    2. the PK system changes are a "step" in the right direction but you gave everyone a pass who have 600-700pks and basically cyber bullied their respective enemies for the past year.

    3.  The ability to share within the account A-grade Imprint equipment, Activation Armor (Imprint), Talisman of Fate, Dragon’s Belt, Gems, Talisman (of Speed, Aden, Eva), Talisman of Baium (Imprint), and Heroic Circlet------- from that list only baium imprint, talismans (speed/aden/eva), gems, Heroic Circlets- talisman of fates are tradeable

    4.  the addition of new armor from the crafting system- too early to tell, don't understand it to well yet.

    5. Arrows weight reduced to 1? why not just make them Zero.  Why penalize a class that unfortunately isn't played much due to the Over poweredness of the Summoner/nuker classes

    6.  Addition of Core/Zaken doll- 

    Cons-  

    1.  You have not fixed the debuff system   a.  Can't see debuffs on raid bosses/mobs/players.  Have not adjusted debuffs by allowing us to lvl them past lvl 74 etc to land on HIGH lvl mobs (i.e. TOI mobs, Raid bosses)

    2.  Adena/Exp rates need to be adjusted.  When you do exp/adena events no one complains- then you remove it and we are back to nickel and dimes, slow exp.  TOI floors 5+ difficulty of mobs and experiance gained from hunting them are not worth the time.-  Also debuffs hardly land on these- goes pack to point #1

    3.  No content update-  Epics still drop loot at same rate, but now you have made lvl 5 jewels require a lvl 1 jewel and its a FREAKIN 3% to 4% chance respectively.

         a.   Epic Elementals don't drop Chapter  4 buff books or for example more of certain items lvl 2 armor stones, etc... limited rewards

        b.   Frintessa Epic (instance) Have never seen it drop a jewel.  Should add Chapter 4 buff book to it.  ADD Chapter 4 codex and 1-2 codex to it as well.  Fix jewel drop rate chance.

      C. Antharas still unkillable even with the powerful lvl 90s on the server.

    4. Instance Zones need more daily instance - Add Butler as a daily instance-  Add more rewards to Baium/Antharas/Zaken instance,  Clan Arena once a week, make it  2 or more times a week.

    5 PK system not sure how that will stop people from abusing the pk system .. to early to tell-  Should have penalized them by negative attributes and power... 50% after 4 pks (or equivalent karma), 75% after 10pks (or equivalent karma)  lets see how it goes.

     

    @Juji thanks for a new update, but we also need the directors vision of where you are taking this game.  The fan base can tell you have very limited to no input on this game.  We came to play classic but instead  we have a hybrid and a p2w system.  The ingame content does not provide enough activities for active players.  The server populations have died off due to broken game mechanics, lack of true customer service support to protect the player base from online bullying/harrassment, or pking to protect their adena farms/adena making instance (Butler Key aka Tomb of the Ancient Pirate).  Your prices for Chance to succeed is disgraceful and comes down to just pure gambling.  I urge you to fix the game mechanics (debuffs), raid bosses drop rate/loot tables.... make the risk/vs reward worth while for a raid force....its just sad doing frintessa Raid getting 4 items, and only one of them people even care about...  I've yet to see Antharas killed.  Fix the rates... drop rates, adena rates, Combination rates so that people can enjoy your p2w events, honestly remove the chance from it, people like to get what they PAY for, not a chance.  All of this has been discussed before.  And we are still talking about it.

    HammerForge

          

     

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  13. @mixa

     

    If i remember correctly you don't even play.  So stop trolling the forums.  Its a legitimate question.  There is currently no way to tell when something has been restored.  And since its part of the game, people should know if the item they bought is restorable..  It would add value in a way to the item

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  14. @SheOrc

     

    Beppler made a good post.  He did have a frame of reference.  So as you put it my whining, lecturing, scolding?? Served well as a basis for him to cut and paste and just make bullet points.  I have yet see you post something constructive in agreement or disagreement.  All you do is take cheap shots at me.  Even Beppler didn't do that, and we don't always see eye to eye on things.  Learn from him.  

    @WhoDat

    Same applies to you.  Both you and sheorc aren't adding to the post.  I know both of you in game.  You have lots of experience and time playing Lineage 2.  Make posts that show your knowledge of the game, and how to improve it.  

     

    I missed and didn't talk about Olympiad, Beppler did.  I don't know everything but I do see the game from "my foxhole", my frame of reference.  You guys have yours.  So post your thoughts about improving the game.  If the game is working perfectly then don't post. 

    HammerForge

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  15. @WhoDat

     

    Obviously you are two scared to post with your in game name and you didn't read my post correctly.  Stop trying to derail the post with your insinuations, that have no bearing on what I posted about.  Instead you should agree or disagree with the post, and add your 2 cents and opinions.  This post is to point out things that need fixing with the game.  Anyways the post will have a life of its own.  Folks have been playing this version of the game for almost 2 full years now.  I'm sure even you have some good points ...whoever you are.  Hammerforge

  16. @Juji, @Hime

    Bare with  me as I point out a few issues with L2 Classic.  Classic turned out to be a bit different the most of us remembered.  Skills were different i.e. Raging Force did not reduce HP when used, Frenzy did not scale when HP dropped below 60% or 30%, Soul Crystals vs Classic SA's (here did 30%HP go, Conversion, etc go), Summoners are the nuker  and melee of choice (super OP, not a balanced class), No noble or subclass available so no way to buff NOBLE…every time you die you lose all your buffs (Noble buff was never added to the game, it was part of the Castle items you could get from the Castle….but then you took all castles away except one …Giran).  Raid boss jewelry statistics  were diminished and the actual jewel was not the original l2 stats…the boss jewel were watered down, you needed 4 regular AQ rings to make what was still a slightly less than what I remember jewels being on the Live version (granted I have a Tauti Ring and a Ring of Creation..so couldn't compare).  But you would think that since you need 4 to make a full ring, or 8 in the case of a lvl 4 AQ ring, that you would make the drop rate 100%.  That would make killing the boss and equipping members something doable for an alliance of lets say 100 peeps more manageable and people wouldn't grow old waiting to get their epic jewelry.  Instead the drop rate was maybe 20% for all boss jewels.  One of the first implementation of NCSOFT tweaking drop rates to create an artificial scarcity, that would later be used to promote P2W sales that had Epic jewelry as possible rewards.  The addition of cloths to unseal A  and S grade for no apparent reason then to create more of a grind and "encourage" the player base to buy into some events that had cloths etc.  Your Ancient Kingdom cloaks, their effects were watered down from live version… my +7 Elmore Cloak on live has 50% PVE damage for 2mins as opposed to 30% pve dmg for the same cloak…

    I will try to capture most, not all of what should be and can be fixed within the L2 Classic game. 

    1. Constant changing of the game.  One of the problems have been your constant changing of the GAME to include the Rewards received at certain levels.  For instance, you used to receive Elemental Stones from a quest line that introduced you to every elemental zone and awarded Elemental Stones (Fire, Earth, Wind, Water); Used to receive all the chapter books 1-4 for achieving lvl 80-84 for the lvl 80 CODEXs; Castle Sieges…. There were a few of them, Oren, Dion, Giran, Aden… Changed and reduced to ONLY one castle.  With the addition of the Kamael Patch you really did some negative changes to the game;
      1. You destroyed the cancel ability, Steal Divinity, , this allowed for countless hours of griefing epic bosses and regular bosses by Buffing the boss.  We no longer had the ability to remove buffs.
      2. Epic raid bosses were made so that block wind walk, block shield, and some other debuffs would no longer land on them.. And to make things worse you Beefed up Baium's Aoe and Antharas pdef…
      3. Epic Baium and Antharas became undoable.  6 months Later we discovered we could do Baium by putting all support for the titan/gk/tank/Super summoners where Cherub Galaxia spawns and send only those classes up to hit Baium (while using debuffers to run in and run out (Stigma, Necro)
      4. Zaken was taken out of of his raid instance and spawns outside his boat.  No issues but you allowed him to be resettable… who ever had aggro could pull him through the tunnels till he respawned at his spawn point with full health.  This led to months of griefing on our server.  People quit the game b/c of this issue…. He is the only resetable epic raid boss in the game (I have video of Baium being taken out of his floor but YOU supposedly fixed that../shrug)
      5. Removed the Cancel Target effect from the following skills-Stunshot, Bluff, Trick, Auraflash, ShieldBash, Shadow Step and a few others…  Why would you remove these skills?
      6. Fishing- Changed from giving buffs and exp scrolls to I don't know what? Does anyone really fish on Classic.  I can fish on live, but then again I use Fancy Fishing Rods.
      7. Removed the ability to see buffs and debuffs on raid bosses and Player characters- This is a detrimental change to the game.  It has been brought up numerous times and has not been fixed
      8. Removed the names of Summoner pets.  You have no idea the name of the PC who owns the pet.  Kamikaze Incognito pets of death!
    2. The Auto hunting feature and repeating macro.  The auto hunting and repeating macro system was introduced to L2 Classic after it started.   The first system was like the one on live, but then you changed our auto hunting feature with the winter of war update.  @Juji The auto hunting feature-  What is the intent of this feature, was it meant to be used in a party situation- how do I heal?, or cure paralysis with auto reuse?  There are very few spots that this is useable in Classic due to the small concentration of mob spawns, unlike on live where the density and grouping of mobs everywhere  (like outside Aden castle, or blazing swamp) allow this autohunt feature to work well.  The autohunting in my opinion is not really optimized for party hunting, and definitely not for DV, AL, TOI.  Improve the AutoHunt feature-  Add a targeting option for Chaotic Characters that targets them and THEIR red pets!!!  Provide a tutorial for your autohunt feature.  That would be a first, but yes please provide how to use it effectively. 
    3. Adena and Item Drop Rate.
      1. One of the first  and constant complaints from your player base has been about the adena and item drop rates.  They have never been high enough to support a parties SPS/SoulShot farming. 
      2. It has always proven more beneficial to hunt in lower lvl areas to farm more adena, as the higher lvl areas (Dragon Valley, Lair of Antharas, Imperial Tomb, and Now Tower of Insolence) do not provide an adequate adena and item drop rate for the difficulty and lvl of the mobs you fight.  The risk vs reward is not there.
    1. EPIC Raid bosses.
      1. Their loot table was changed when you leveled them up to level 85.  Their drop table removed cloths from Zaken and shrunk the loot table to about 4-5 items.
      2. You spend more in shots/sps to kill it then what drops.  And you are supposed to share this with your clan/alliance.  1/4 loot share of nothing is nothing.
      3. Frintessa is your only Instanced raid boss, but can take 1 hr to 2 hrs to do.  In the old days (orginal Lineage 2) in the 2nd room, the instance dropped arrows.  These arrows were used to stop frintessa from doing certain songs/skills would help you do the event.  I haven't seen them, not sure if its working as intended
      4. Antharas still undoable.
      5. Baium- Doable but only b/c of the setting up the healers and buffers below him (at Cherub Galaxia spawn point), don't forget to pull the angels down.  I'm sure some of our players who are stacked and have reached lvl 87 or even 89 can do it in a more normal way, but his aoe dmg is still too wide and maintaining aggro by a tank has always been an issue.
      6. RECOMMENDATION-
        1.  Since Frintessa is instanced, might as well make ALL the epic raid bosses Instanced.  Why have one epic raid boss instanced and the other 3 aren't?  Even though Antharas is still unkillable.
        2. Fix the debuffs so they land on EPICS and all high level raid bosses.
        3. Reduce  Baium's Aoe range by about 300 range, its too wide since the kamael udpate.
        4. Adjust the loot table and the % drop for the epics.  People want epics now, not in 2 years. 
        5. Crafting packs-  Fix them to include all materials and items needed to click the craft.  Who ever heard of a crafting pack with just the key parts (13 blades) and the recipe.  What about the S crystals, gems, and materials???
    1. Class Balance.
      1. There is no balance between the classes.  Almost everyone has re-rolled to a nuker or summoner.   Nukers win over almost everyone except Summoners (which are NUKERs and Melee).  Melee classes do not stand a chance in the current version of l2 classic.  As a Titan, I can get two shot by a nuker.  I'm lvl 84 and with decent gear.  The removal of the cancel target skill from many melee type classes have not helped this at all.
      2. Currently there is nothing more OP then a Summoner.  Leading with the Elemental Summoner.  It’s the nuker of choice, the AOE'er of choice with the pet.  I believe Pandalicious pointed out a bug for the summoner pet, where if the summoner has Navy Admiral Transform up (or any mythic/legendary transform that procs), it just resummons the pet and the pet reactivates the special proc of the Mythic/Legendary Transform. 
      3. Recommendation-
        1. Fix make Zealot a skill we can use at 90% for both the GK and the Titan.  Fix Frenzy to scale as HP drops. 
        2. Fix cancel target to all the skills and classes you removed it during the Kamael update- Stun Shot, Bluff, Trick, Stun Blast, Switch, Aura Flash, Earthquake, Shield Charge, Shield Bash, Shadow Step. 
        3. Summoners- add a reuse to their summons.  Summoners should not be allowed to resummon a summon indefinitely when its stunned, slept, rooted.  Unlike on live, Here on classic Summoners nukes keep leveling.  Their nukes are not as powerful as a normal nuker but with spirit sharing, their matk and cast speed exceeds all normal nukers.  Take a look at that and see if that’s what the intent is.
        4. Add a summon Cursed Bones to Necros so that they can summon it and not spend so much adena per shot when using Death Spike, or add it to the grocery store at 15-20 adena. Each.
        5. Tanks- improve their aggression.  They can't keep aggro on raid bosses over damage dealers.  Tank skill Shield Deflect Magic skill should last at least 15 secs.
    2. Grocery Store Items and Pona items- Recommendations.
      1. Add A gems and S gems to the grocery store, possibly add Cloths too now that they don’t' drop from Zaken and you further nerfed drops in DV, and the new Item Creation allows you to get unsealed items both A and S grade.  Putting cloths in the store would allow people to unseal A and S grade items instead of crushing or throwing them in to the crafting points and gambling it away.
      2. Add Transformation extraction scrolls to Pona
      3. Add an option to turn in lower transform scrolls for the higher grade ones.  Currently only way to get legendary/epic rares is through events.  We want to enjoy the game and play it to the fullest.  At certain levels maybe after lvl 80 or lvl 85 your dailies gives you partial book transformation sealbook fragments for the HIGH Grade random Seal Books.
    3. Daily Instances- Recommendations - ADD MORE
      1. Make Clan Arena a daily instance- Tweak as needed.  This will help with leveling clan levels.
      2. Make Goldberg a daily instance-  Add passes to do Goldberg like on Live for Kamalokas.  Change the Tomb of Ancient Pirates- timed hunting area with great exp, drops, and adena.
      3. Make Elemental Bosses doable more than once a week.  Tweak as you see fit.  But would give clans more to do.
      4. Epic Elemental Bosses tweak their HP down a bit, or allow 1hr time limit like regular Elemental bosses have.  Currently only way to get Chapter 4 books is by defeating epic elemental bosses.  Ignis being the one most people would try.
      5. Tweak the Four Sepulchers difficulty level as well.   Will allow more people to explore and have something else to do.  But if EPIC elementals are not unbeatable by 96% of the server population, most won't bother with the Four Sepulchers.
    4. Hunting Zones Recommendations
      1. Elemental Zones and all hunting zones, improve mob density so that auto hunting stays within a certain area.  Where did the Evolutionary Stones go?  Add adena drops to Elemental Zones.
      2. Adjust adena and drop rates in all higher hunting areas adequate to their difficulty.  Currently They are all sub par (Dragon Valley, Lair of Antharas, Imperial Tomb, Tower of Insolence).  You currently reduced the drop rate of items in Antharas Lair and Dragon Valley with the latest patch.
    5. Revenge System-
      1. If I kill a red toon, he should not get a revenge on me.  He was Chaotic.
      2. Reduce the amount of time you can be revenged.  Cut it by 12hrs.
    6. Clan War System-
      1. Was broken before, didn't really do anything.  If you were at war you still flagged when fighting it allowed for other people not flagged to get involved in the fight. 
      2. Your changes are fine.  The change made it so there is no clan war, just identify friend or foe…and everyone flags.
    7. Siege-
      1. Bring back the sieging of multiple castles- Original Lineage 2 had multiple castles to siege.  L2 Classic did as well untill it was changed. 
      2. Make sure people can only step on the siege field if they are signed.
      3. Add Noble buffs NPC to sieges, or add it to the game for people to use.
    8. Constant changing of your Restoration Policy
      1. I believe you have changed your item restoration policy at least 3 times since L2 Classic began.  First year, I didn't even know one existed…
      2. Your latest change of your restoration policy came in between two P2W events.  Where many people counted on the token restoration policy to attempt to level, lets say  for arguments sake +8 dragon belts.  They blew them up unaware of your latest change to the restoration policy, going on good faith with your policy.  You've left many people upset and dissatisfied with your current changes.  I'd recommend you honor the token restorations, as you made the changes mid P2W and did not warn your player base.
    9. P2W- Items/Sales of items
      1. Recommend you put items that people can buy if they want.  Leave the Random Number Generator Loot boxes etc etc for the free to play… but allow for players to purchase "Guaranteed" items or scrolls to lvl them that DO NOT fail.  For example.  You could have sold the Talisman of Authority and the scrolls to guarantee it to a Noble Talisman of Authority.  Then you could offer another pack of scrolls to take that Noble talisman to a radiant talisman for 2000 NCOIN (just an example).
      2. Same example applies to everything, your Aden/Ferios/Elmore/Elmoreden etc.
      3. I believe people will play your Heroic Circlet event, but you made it untradable and bound to your toon, I already played it a little bit and was dissapointed at the enchant rate, couldn't get it pass +3.  Make most items tradable and if not tradeable shareable within the account.  (will allow people to re-roll or try other toons when bored and still have the items they invested in).  No one likes spending hundreds of dollars and have nothing to show for it.
    10. Over priced VIP Levels and Maintaining
      1. Currently it takes $1,012.50 United States Dollars to get to VIP 10.  Then it takes $375.00 without tax to maintain the 30k points we lose every 30 days.  The cost of getting to VIP 10 is a mortgage payment to some people, that’s the cost of 2.5 xboxes, or 2.5 nintendo switches.  The cost of maintaining the VIP 10 is a car payment.  I truly don't see normal people spending this kinda of money and justifying the expense.
      2. Recommend cutting the cost of VIP 10 by 400%.- that would be around 250-280.00 to get to VIP 10, and 100 to maintain (with taxes).
        1. Other options Cut it by 50% to get there, then add a monthly $15.00 subscription to maintain VIP 10 or don't charge points once you achieve vip levels.
        2. Recommend that the rewards for VIP 10 get switched out once of a month (from aden talisman to eva talisman, etc), like some people have mentioned (Pandalicious)
    11. L2 Classic is Marketed to all of North America, Central and South?
      1. Recommend if possible (I know mobile games have it), add an ingame translation ability to text chat in support for Spanish, Portuguese, and English.    This would help with communications between your player base.
    12. No Ninja nerfs and patches, be fair to your player base!
      1. Announce all changes to the game.  There should be no unannounced changes to the game.  We are all adults, publish your changes.  You've ninja changed bugs, drop rates, without adding them to your patch notes.  But then there are times where you know something is wrong and you don't fix it : i.e.
      2. When you merged servers with Talking Island, everyone who came from the other server had their nom nom and yum yum candies, While the entirety of Talking Island players did not have this advantage.
      3. You removed Caravan Transformation from most players, but you left it on some others.  So for 4 months some people had lost that transformation till you fixed it with the patch 2 weeks ago, but some other folks still had the Caravan transformation in their skills bar.

     

    @Juji  These are my thoughts, my opinions and suggestions after being a LINEAGE 2 PLAYER SINCE OPEN BETA, I have a few more but I already went on too long.  You've been at the helm of this game for a while, your knowledgeable, you've communicated openly with the community through the forum and through things like JUJI's lab, but what we need is more fixes to the current content, and soon, not fix it when most of the people have quit.  We need more GM interactions to support the player base.  Understand that this is a game, and it’s a business for you, but we can't throw our money away with your events and get nothing from them, we can't keep playing a game where the EULA is not enforced ( no harassment, sexual or otherwise, cyberbullying, pking for exp/hunting spots, items and extorting adena) to include enforcing it for the use of 3rd party software… OR change the EULA and allow 3rd party as your autohunting doesn't cut it, I hate to say it but botting seems to be ingrained in the Lineage 2 DNA.  It is a slap in the face when you @Juji log in to the server and the number one botter (s) shout for you to ban the bots.  It is ridiculous.    I don't know if you can or will change anything that I've mentioned, but I needed to get it out there.  Too many players don't bother posting on the forums b/c nothing ever happens, people stop reporting b/c nothing ever changes.

    I'd like to remind you of your  Producers Letter - January 2019-  You were engaged and excited about L2 Classic and Changes to Live server.  But most of all was your last 2 paragraphs where you stated,

     "One of the most pressing concerns from the community is the topic of botting after the launch of Lineage II Classic last year.  Since the launch, our security team so far has banned thousands of accounts… I would ask that players continue to be rigorous when submitting bot report tickets to our support team, so we can remove cheaters that have made attempts to bypass our detection methods.  Lastly, we Truly appreciate all the feedback we received from players after the launch of Lineage II Classic.  Your feedback was vital in helping our development team improve the game for the community and we hope that you will continue to send us feed back for the betterment of Lineage II.

    Sincerely,

     

    These were your words that brought hope that you would have a bot free game, fast forward 21 months later…NCSOFT removed the XIGNCOD3, the bot report button in the action bar, and any successful "macro" group in high level areas is using 3rd party software as your auto hunting does not cut it with the difficulty level of the NPC/MOBs in these areas.   3rd party botting reports get the usual canned Customer Service response and nothing changes.  They continue investigating and never let you know if they closed the investigation or at least let you know whether it was found or unfounded. 

    Not sure how long I'll continue to play this version of Lineage 2, but if nothing changes then part of being an adult is knowing when enough is enough and that its time to move on to other things.

    Sincerely,

    HammerForge 102 Tyrr Titan- Chronos

    HammerForge 84 Titan- Talking Island

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