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I cant go inside either, when logging in for first time today after maintenance was over, have met all the requirements to participate and in the UI window says "Cannot Enter"...

Sadly i dont think those will be fixed guys, its been almost 4 weeks and no one has taken any action on fixing this error on their end, just prepare to lose them, hopefully in future they will make good XP event, where everyone can participate (not only lv76 and below characters) or give consumables to compensate the loss.

Hey, @Hermes what about compensation for all the people who spent adena, many different consumables in preparation for the event to begin and mobs never spawning? There is just couple hours left, will the event be fixed by then or we are missing on another day?

In typical NCSOFT fashion, this happens once again (problem), not to mention in your news page, where you publish information and details for events, it was showing 21:30 server time for GIRAN server for the event to start yesterday! Today this time was edited to 20:30, well done and gg.

Hello, as others pointed out, l2 coin drops need to be returned to elemental zones, also there needs to be overall buff on the drop rate. The way its now it changed from being able to buy one or two talisman / heroic chest per month, before vanguard update to now having to farm for 3-4 months to just afford one. Considering those items brake super easily and if you make one to +5 out of 9-10 tries, then you are considered lucky, developing and making one for your character can take years with how its set right now. I am not even talking about the more expensive items in the l2 coin store for example 2000 l2 coin inventory expansion tickets (those will take even longer to farm the coins for), please make a change. As others pointed out top farming areas are practically empty, simply because the difficulty of farming in those zones doesnt match, what you get in return for killing the mobs there: Zones like Ketra/Varka/Lair of Antharas/Dragon Valley, Imperial Tomb have barely anyone farming there, if you run around you can probably find 2-3-4 players max per each zone, who are only farming there for the subjugation collections. Those zones are not self sufficient and will remain empty just like that, until something changes in them (increase adena drop rate, decrease spawn rate of mobs, make them a bit easier to kill for the average player without the need of insane gear).

The drop rate of l2 coins is down in the oblivion now, you would have to farm for months to be able to afford even the cheapest items available in there. Dunno how you cant realize that, not to mention the l2 coin drops, are completely GONE now from elemental zones why? @Arctic@Juji

Totally agree with what you have said, AT the very least there should have been an warning about them, turning non tradeable, so that everyone exchanged theirs, we all know everyone owns multiple chars, now all those fragments are stuck on alt boxes with no purpose or use for them. We no longer can trade the sealbooks to main and learn them nor we can sell them to other players (many people used to do that, to cover the consumables expenses, especially useful for new people). Now that this is out of the picture, what do we do with them? learn them on the box buffers? what is the purpose of this change @Juji please explain why would that be intended and dont you see it makes no sense to be that way?

He is right at first the "Dragon's Special Elixir Lv. 3", which came from the "Figure Fighters Event" > "0 Adena Bundles" was char restricted, but without timer / expiry date. Same happened for some of the other from these 6 items listed, they were possible to claim every day for the duration of 2 weeks. If you go to the event page you can see that those items were never mentioned for removal. What happened is because this particular and other items shared the same item ID in-game as the "Dragon's Special Elixir Lv. 3" in this case, which also started dropping a week later in the "Steel Guild Event", an time appeared and screwed all the ones without timer (they got mixed all together), not staying as different entities. I was also thinking about making an topic about it, but i dont think i would have achieved anything out of it (speaking from past experiences). There is another member of the community which made a topic about this issue > Dragon Potions - first unlimited time, now with time limited By Shura, January 21

I thought the frozen canyon collections will be removed on 12/8 as the news article stated, why are they already gone from the game? @Juji @Hime Event Collection Players can complete an event collection with Frost Crystals during the event period. Collection Name Requirements Collection Effect Deletion Date Collection Effect Cold Feet 100 Frost Crystals 12/8/2021 XP/SP +5%, P.Def./M.Def. +50, Atk. Spd./Casting Speed +10 Cold Hands 600 Frost Crystals 12/8/2021 XP/SP +10%, P.Def./M.Def. +50, Atk. Spd./Casting Speed +15, P.Atk/M.Atk. +50

"Beacon of Blue Sky" - for some reason this one has been left in my mind from while, brings back old memories, cool boss really like the look of it.

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I didnt know until today what virtual machine is, either way i dont know what your intentions are and if you are legit player, being affected by the changes i genuinely feel bad for you and i hope fix is coming soon, i have friends having issues as well. For me everything works perfect, just as it was before update. BUT... if u are using it for the purposes @Amedeo pointed out in the other topic, to overcome the 10 client limit and login more chars than what is allowed, then this update has done a good job, yes the bot infestation in the servers is big and so it the RMT, but overcoming the client limit is absolutely still bad thing to do. Giran server lost almost half of population from the day prior to wednesday and the giran server has been in light traffic for +/- 3 months now, (its only going downhill) all i can say is that i definitely see more free spots to farm now, spots which were taken by huge majority of bots without a question before. I do believe those bots will be back sooner or later, the same way they have returned earlier, the happiness of the legit casual players will soon diminish and everything will be back to how it was, including the declining server population. PS Before you group me up with the other people responding to this topic about the update, would let you know that i have only few characters - my main + some boxes to help my main, i dont have alt parties farming adena for me, i dont have solo ES/WC/OL going around farming adena, everything i have ever farmed is with my main since 2018 till now and it will continue to be like that, until the day i leave the server myself, as the general situation is not good and i dont see it improving considering my experience with the server for the past almost 3 years.

I totally agree with what is being said here, leveling this bracelet takes a lot of dedication and time, back when the server opened and the year after (2018-2019), there wasnt many talismans to equip and therefore this talisman was ok as it was. Now this has to change, just as how the server changed as it became older, there is so many different options to equip and being limited to just 4 slots, when you level it up all the way to lv6 its not enough. To put things into perspective, fully developed lv6 bracelet requires 6000 clan coins, from the level 4 clan supplies everyday you get between 6 and 8 clan coins, this makes an average of 7, that means it would take approximately ~857 days total, which is 2 years and 3 months, occasionally you can receive a very small amount from doing clan arena, i believe it was 10 clan coins, the odds are not good i have got that reward twice or thrice, though the years. It would be nice if something can be done about the bracelet, considering how much time it takes to level up. @Hime @Juji

There is no appeal to it, as you mentioned the hype at the beginning was big, there was thousands of players everyday, they even had to open two more extra servers because of it, of which last year both had to be closed due to how empty they were. After time (the first 5-6 months), they started going heavy into p2w events one or two every month, many people lost interest playing, slowly and slowly now its 2 and a half years later, the last few people left playing are the ones that have invested too much time or money into it to quit, we can say both actually to be fair. The p2w its not the biggest problem, there was several game updates or game changes throughout time that were straight horrible, which also pushed many players away. So once all those people who decided to leave the server, also left empty farm spots behind, which were quickly taken mostly by other old players, making them self alternative parties to farm more adena or straight up 3rd party software users. That is the reason why now you can see quite a fair bit of players having 15-20+ characters (some up to 40-50 chars) made just by them self and i cant blame them to some extent the way this server is designed, its almost a must thing to do, making any progress takes a lot of time if you choose to farm with main party only. The bad management (things i said above) as well as pretty much the non existent anti bot policy, there is bots that have farmed for months if not years, without being disturbed at all and the fact that there is almost no feedback from the GM have led to what the servers are today. My advice would be pack your bag and dont bother playing, i wouldnt advice playing here to anyone the choice you made the first time was right. To answer your question about lvl60 and above, no things dont change i would say its even worse, all the good or somewhat good spots are taken by people farming with alt parties (leaving you farming at the worst zones), so that they can support their main parties and continue farming, and are strictly protected by permanent PK chars, that loggin very fast to take care of you, in case you try doing things. Putting any fight against them would be extremely hard as they have been doing this for years, they obviously have much better gear than what you can afford/get and outmatch you heavily. From what i know from other players, people use 3rd party software even at sieges/epic rb fights or other similar activities so i wouldnt call it "active" by any means either. In any case best of luck my friend, hopefully what i said is enough to take the right choice again.

I agree with everything else said in this topic, this is beyond acceptable, then again things like this have happened before, nothing new under the hood. If things carry on to work the same way as now, i am sad to say the servers will continue to have declining player base, just as for the past 2+ years. Fix it while it is, otherwise nothing good comes next for us the players (customers) and you for that matter.