Mystikal

Nice! Congratulations. What are the bonus effects on the +5 Veteran mask? I never get higher than +2 so far.

Power of positive affirmation... Today server will work with zero lag. Today GMs will provide Buff NPCs and Tersi for the entire weekend. Today I will enchant Aden, Elmore and Ferios cloaks to +20. Today I will enchant weapons on all of my alts to +25. Today I will sell all of useless stuff in my WH and make a 3T profit. What, don't laugh! It could happen...….

Unfortunately, augments aren't an easy pick buffet. I get p.atk 5% almost all of the time so far, but never pve 5% or p.skill crit damage. Same with p/m skill power. Never get the 15% one. The 10% one comes up more for me. Most of the time, though, the augments are crap. Stuff no class really benefits from as much. Like Wit +1 that I got 6 different times on Elmore. Will use my last 50 stones today to see if my luck is any better.

Why? The servers haven't been completely right for years. That is a constant and not changing any time soon obviously, if ever. That shouldn't stop them from continuing to find other ways to improve other game offerings.

@Juji We need a better, faster way to exchange weapons than to wait for Red Libra once a year. Why not create a Weapon Change service that works like Name Change or Gender Ticket services? Or maybe just add weapon change to one of those existing ticket options? All players would need to do is buy Gender ticket, but submit a ticket to NC Support saying that they want their weapon changed from dagger to bow, or whatever their preference is, not their gender. If demands gets out of control you can limit it to only Bloody/Dark R99 and Bloody/Dark/Limited R110 weapons only. Is that too hard to implement? You could earn more income for sure that way.

Yes, I need Red Libra now.

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Looking at Sayha ring at crafter. The "normal attack" part is confusing me. Does that mean the same thing as p. skill critical damage? Anyone know?

Even with +10% scrolls it is still tough for many to get too high an enchant. That's why I advise everyone to set a low budget and stick to it. This event will leave you with 0 adena and no +++++ Legendary Cloak to wear.

Correct, Maphr's Shirt enchant bonus does not apply to No Grade Items. Cloaks are No Grade items.

It doesn't have as much to do with LUC as you think. I have well over 80 LUC. See my thread about 60 scroll fails.

At this point I'm curious to see how many Legendary Scrolls I'll burn to get a Legendary Cloak. I managed to get a Ferios to +10, but I can't enchant it higher and I can't trade/sell it, or move it to my other accounts until it becomes Legendary. Going back two Cloak events ago I've been trying to make it a +10 Ferios Legendary. I'm at around 62 63 64 tries. All fails, obviously. Talk about being on bad side of Korean random. Anyone else have a similar horror story? Don't want to hear from people that got Legendary on your first 4-10 tries. You're the outliers from where I stand. Want to hear from people that had lots of fails, because I'm sure this must happen to more people. Or does it?

Exploding death into vapors.

And haven't forgotten 450 attribute.

I've been playing too much, my brain is fried. Someone please refresh my memory. Do the Elysium weapons that are handed out during Red Libra also passively boost a player's normal stats (e.g., Max HP/ MP/ CP+?%, P. Skill Power +?%, Atk. Spd +?%) ?

First, thanks for this timely and informative post. I feel your pain. But I'm just curious: What do you think would be appropriate compensation for the loss of those recipes? I've never known the GMs to compensate players for items purchased at "market value", or the grossly marked-up price that players set. I've also never known them to recompense anyone for time spent accomplishing any task in game achieving said item. At most they might give something of equal value as the "NPC store price" of the item. But something tells me in this case that is a vastly lower price than the billions that you paid for the recipe. Given that, I'm curious to know what your expectation of service is from NCSoft; what would make you whole?

It wouldn't be the first time that the L2 store sold something that was either (1.) cheaper to find in game, or (2.) players could get something similar, if not better, for free by doing a quest. The store should have a general disclaimer added to the Enhanced Brooch that a quest for one type of brooch is available in game at no cost. If they did that, though, they'd also have to do it for all of the other items that you get for free via quests and leveling up, like R grade soulshots, blessed spiritshots, etc, etc., etc. But to play devil's advocate, this game has lots of lazy, willfully ignorant players who want things now without having to work too much for them. Those players tend to play this game with their bank accounts and credit cards, so in a way, NCSoft is just appeasing that segment of their consumer base. No point in leaving them out in the cold and not profiting from their need for convenience.

Do you seriously not remember, or are you calling my bluff? If the latter, perhaps you can speak to my Kamael Sigel Shillien Templar (Main) how she got that way nine or so years ago. Before Stone of Destiny that was impossible to do because of the previous restrictions imposed on race/gender/path.

Well, if we're being honest, while there is some difference between a +5 Bloody R110 and a +7 Bloody R99 statistically, especially if you max out the attribute to 450 on the R110, in practical terms you can't really tell a significant difference when you're hunting. You will XP a bit faster, but not OMG PVE WAR MACHINE lightning quick faster. So if you don't want to do the necessary things to upgrade your weapon, don't. Save yourself some adena and keep using the weapon that you have. Or better yet, use the adena to enhance your character in other ways, whether that be through skill enchants or any of the more affordable and less risky ways to increase your damage output rate. As in real life, this game never intended to make everyone equal or equally elite without anyone taking any risks. We'd all still be in caves if that was the case.

I'm curious, too.

Yes, I know what the Stone of Destiny did and all of the back and forth at that time. I've been around forever.

As it turns out, the Fantasy Isle Gatekeeper isn't working at all. It doesn't 'port me back to town. WTH?

I can't access the Fantastic Fishing Spot, even though I have the coupon in my inventory. Did they take that offline without telling anyone? Sucks that the one pass that I have will probably be gone before I get an answer to this question, but thought I'd ask anyway.

Amazing how fast things change. Now the "top" isn't Tauti, Bl. Valakas, or Bl. Antharas. Swap out all of those for either Dragon Jewels or the new God's jewels (Paagrio, Sayha, etc.) Lindvior is still a good pick, if you can't get Dragon/God's earrings.

Archers in general require good equipment to XP and are not as good as other classes if you want to farm. I would probably pick a summoner for that. But if you want to play Yul, and you are able to get nice gear, they are one of the best classes to play, no matter which Yul specialty you pick. PVP, PVE, you won't have any problems getting parties.