Mystikal

As a solo tank, you'll have to borrow some from Tyr setup, because you'll need to deal more damage than normal. After you get higher level, or wealthier, you can then change to true Sigel setup. Don't worry about losing value. Tyr items generally carry a higher price tag than Sig items, so in the end you'll get a return on your investment. Just to start... 1. Enhanced Shadow Cutter. It gives you everything you get with Enchanted Exalted Cutter, but you get 450 attribute damage. 2. +8 R99 Bloody Heavy or Light set. If you go light, you can always tweak your skill tree to get more p.def, if you need it. 3. Cloak -- Best way to improve damage and survivability. Elmore works fine, if you can't find a Ferios. 4. Radiant Circlet -- Prices have dropped for these, so should be easy to get. 5. La Vie en Rose jewels (normal, not Greater, unless you can afford them) all level 4 and at least a 5 stone brooch. 6. Talismans - Longing is nice, but Insanity is better. Talisman of Protection can be bought at NPC and enchanted up to +4 at least for more p.def. Guard Agathion Charms are also a fairly cheap way to go to get more p.def. If you wear Heavy armor, you need Masia. If you wear Light armor you need Paulina. Someone mention 7 Signs. It's ok, but for 11-12b, it's way overpriced for benefit. There are other ways to get the same results spending less. 7. Bracelets and Agathion - If you're lucky enough to find one of the old Taurus agathion bracelets on sale from someone, buy it. Otherwise, go with the new seed bracelets. Stage 2 - Stage 3 is all you need. Then you can equip multiple Agathions that boost p.def, p.atk, crit damage, etc., as you see fit. The Exalted bracelet works fine in the short term. 8. Artifacts, artifacts, artifacts. 9. Enchant skills and learn Forgotten Skills. 10. If you haven't already done so, make a Dual Class and learn skills at least up to 105.

Jewel boxes need to be sold through NPC for reasonable adena price. Change enchant rates so that it is a bit more difficult, but not impossible, to make a level 5 jewel. Also, make these jewels unable to combine to Greater Jewels. That way people still participate in events where Greater Jewels drop, but in the meantime most people can get by with Stage 4 and 5 jewels. Also, brooches up to 6 slot should be lowered in price, sold for adena through NPC, or awarded via a Level 105 Mentor quest. If you're already higher level than that, the Mentor brooch can be obtained through Mentor NPC in exchange for 100,000 marks.

Isn't that what Chronos is for? Everyone else playing on the Chronos server who doesn't like the server event times should leave. Bye bye, gtfo. By the time they restore server transfers you could have started a new character and rebuilt all of your wealth on Naia again. I joke only a teeny tiny bit when I say that. But it's been a loooooooooooooooooong time since they stopped server transfers.

Getting rid of the Cursed swords is the best way to handle this. That way no one complains about not being able to participate, or the rich getting richer in ways that 99% of the player base cannot ever hope to realistically. And don't want to hear any crap about "donors." You've ruined this game. What's the point of keeping the lights on if when you flip the switch all you see is sh** on the walls, black mold on the ceilings, and giant cockroaches and plague carrying rats running rampant?

Dwarf crafter that dual classes a Lucky (LUC) dagger for enchanting is what most people choose.

If you have your PC set on low settings, or if you had a really crappy PC like I used to have before I upgraded, sometimes you can't see all of the arrows being fired. It looks like you only fired once, but you really launched a normal attack in addition that you didn't see.

It's Halloween, let's discuss something scary. How bad would it be for your character if they got rid of cloaks? Would you have to change class, or worse, quit game? Or would the change barely affect you? Discuss.

Yeah, I would expect a major uproar heard around the world if the nerf was as bad as people claim. Archers will be fine. Top archers anyway.

Me too.

Whatever the cost is, the bottom line is that they need to figure out a way for players to gain immediate access to those items, whether we're talking about dawn crystals or elpy pelts. Waiting around for months for usually paid promotions to get this stuff is bullshit. They need to start back up quests where people can get a decent number of these things daily and build toward something. Or better yet, let these items drop from normal mobs at a reasonable rate. People are complaining about grind, but everyone will shut up if they know they can get all of the Dawn Crystals they need for upgrades, or all of the Dragon pots necessary to get the stones that they need for upgrades. That way they can then make paid promotions about truly RARE stuff, not stuff that people should have had 4 years ago, but still don't. Idiots! They need to stop screwing up the game.

It only takes one crit from a stacked archer to wipe out a bunch of people all at once. Reducing it 50% means they'll buy up every way in game to increase power and reduce skill cool down. Instead of pressing their Function key once, they'll have to press it twice more often and you'll be dead in 3 seconds instead of 1???

That long a down period usually means they are making stealth changes. I hesitate to call them improvements.

@Juji @Hime It would be nice to get an update on the possibility of weapon modification returning. If the anwers is "never" fine, but please tell us something.

Well, in theory, there shouldn't be an easy way for most normal players to get a +30 Limited weapon, either. Or even a +16 one. But here we are. NCSoft wants players to finally take advantage of all of the content in game, including high overenchants. That's the real reason why what people are calling exploits is being allowed. Otherwise, there'd be no restoration, no Gold save, nothing. Then we'd really see who the best enchanters in the game are.

A +30 or even +31 Limited Bow isn't that powerful. In many ways it's less powerful than a Standard Dragon Thrower. I have this info on good authority from someone who had a +30 Limited weapon and compared it to a Dragon weapon during the DW event a few months ago. Remember, a Dragon weapon gives you 30% P. Skill Crit Damage and 30% P. Skill Critical Rate. For Yul, that's huge. You can't get that with a Limited Bow. It also has higher P. Atk and Attribute (500 element) than a +30 Limited Weapon. Limited get PVE damage, but this person used the borrowed DW weapon in the event instance and always recorded a higher score than he did with the +30 Limited. So much for PVE bonus mattering all that much when you crit higher and more often. But if you're still not happy, augment the DW and you'll probably get a very good augment, too. (This I found out for myself.) +30 Limited weapons are nice to have, but not the end-all, be-all that people think they are.

This is a good point. I bet everyone spends more on XP boosts in L2 store when there is an XP event than they do when there isn't one. I know I do. Not paying for extra pots to double the normal .0000000000000000001% per mob that I get now. I might as well pretend I'm Scrooge McDuck and throw cash into the fireplace.

You can't really call it leveling or fun when you earn less than 2% a day, can you? Let's face it, L2 is killing the planet. The only thing players are doing is running up the electricity bill. Thus energy providers have to destroy more of the environment in order to churn out the massive amounts of energy necessary to keep the gaming community going.

They should create two tiers of Prestige Pack. The first one for $15 is the same as we have now. But the second tier "Greater Prestige" pack for $30 should include everything from the original (except the daily cube), a 30 Day Bloody rune, two 14-day Vitality runes, a 30-day Attribute rune, a 30-day Greater Ruby. a 30-day Greater Sapphire, a 30 day rune that works like the Red Libra buff and a new daily cubic that drops 1 random item like Erupt pots, Freya's Blessing, Nevits pots, and similar XP and hunting boost aids each day. The catch with the pots is that they expire in 24 hours. Use them or lose them.

A week won't cut it. They'd have to stop for a month. And all that would really do is force NCSoft to figure out other ways to grift players out of their money. It's the whole point of this gaming business model. Lots of vulnerable personality types play these games. NCSoft preys on them.

Now that the overenchant limits have been lifted and people can get +31 and higher weapons, it's time to give some love and prestige back to Dragon and Demon Weapons. Maybe not stage 3, but at least make Stage 1 and 2 weapons tradeable through the NPC that crafts them. Same level trade only. Or better yet, make it possible to deconstruct them to basic mats and claws/bloods. That way people can then buy other fragments and create whatever type of weapon they want. There really should be more of this stuff in game, not less. In order to do that, we also need more pathways to get these things, not less.

Horse is out of the barn. Anything you do now won't address the people who already have their items +++++++. It will only stop new people, people who play by the rules and the rest of you who apparently are too busy crying about fairness to realize that if NCSoft/GMs allow it, it's fair. The GMs know when they get multiple requests from the same people. They aren't stupid. They permit it. When they get fed up, they'll change the rules. Until then, shut up, follow that car, and just go with the flow. This is the game now. Sad as it is.

Blame the adena farmers. It's good that we don't have all areas farmed 24/7 by wynn parties.

All the AFK macros are making people brain dead zombies.

There was an event a few weeks back where people won the Standard DW. Some people won multiples of them. They are probably selling them now in AH, since during this event claws, bloods, and other ingredients for Dragon and Bloody weapons are supposed to drop quite a bit. The problem is that at current market prices you can't really craft a Dragon or Bloody weapon. It costs over a trillion in adena, unless you get somehow get lucky enough to gather parts during events without having to buy any claws or bloods from other people. Slim odds of that. Because of high cost to craft, people try to buy the stage 1 DW for relatively cheaper prices in AH than it costs to craft the DW. By the way, don't be confused. There are DW fragments and Stage 1/2/3 DW full weapons. Fragments are not the same as full DW. They have the high base stats (i.e., patk/matk), but not the bonuses (e.g., PVP +30%), they don't have element (Stage 1 DW has 500 element), and you can't augment them. Fragments aren't completely worthless, but pretty close.

THANK YOU!!!! @Hime @Juji