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But the fact that Augment Stone Boxes looted on Jamao's Camp do not reward Brooch Augment Stones nor Circlet Augment Stones for over 6 months while various reports been made doesn't make you fix this. Clearly points out the priorities.

Great job on not posting patch information in last 24 hours. But... @HermesIn the patch information of Korea from late September there is clearly stated that Gameguard and Lineage II been fixed to work with Windows 11. Nothing of this information can be found in our patch notes. This change on the Korean client has been done around same time as the changes to the Ability System so they should be included. Many of us, your player base, did not upgrade to Windows 11 because the game is unstable, crashes and disconnects because Gameguard and Windows 11 do not work together at this moment. Will the patch of March 15 fix this? Or do we have to wait another update cycle, so till September, for this fix? Making it for people that bought new fresh OEM PCs recently unable to auto-hunt and be reliable party members in instances, timed zones and exp fields.

@Hermes@Primali 4Game announced update for Russian servers and patch notes are out NCJapan announced update for Japanese servers and patch notes will come this weekend EU has announced two weeks ago that patch will come mid to late March NA servers always get updated same day as Japanese servers, so when you're going to announce and post patch notes? The 14th of March giving us 2-10 hours to prepare?

So... is this because BR nerf isn't working? Or because compound Mystery Box lv 7 to 8 is to close to a real 1%?

It's not my fault you didn't adjust to the P2W model of Lineage II and are stuck in an old way of thinking this game works. If you cannot gather 200m daily to keep your vitality up, something is wrong in your gameplay. But my point is about a Community Manager @Wissp announcing that they forked up, and announcing we get compensated. And than taking 4 whole days to return to the forums announcing they actually didn't forked up after majority of players burning the consumable because of the first announcement.

You can craft 100 Beora Tonics per day. They will last you 16h on vitality and roughly 12h when burning Freya Scrolls. There is no reason to wait for an event (which will never come since in next update you can craft even more Beora Tonics per day) to use Freya Scrolls.

So, 4 days after you told us we getting new codes because of the error, resulting in everybody burning their 100 scrolls, you tell us with 48h to go before maintenance that we are not getting a new code because after "investigations" it is 'working as intended'. This results in 90% (if not 99%) of your players burning a rare resource often only used during major exp events. Just... fubar

Nobody uses the UTC in Europe. Please use GMT like you always did. Also... What are the increased rates? 7% instead of 6.5%?

So, @Hermesthis means the compound rates never been adjusted for the event? Or they been adjusted downwards and now back to what they should been? One of my clan members crafted 100 lv1 Ruby's (game says its 60% chance success, he average 53%) and out of the 100 crafts he made one level 4. All of his Ether is gone and you announce higher compound rates? Is this a scheme to dry the server from Ether before introduction of a new high Ether demand item in the upcoming update? Or a fix of a ninja fix that made crafting and compounding Brooch jewels (which Naia and Chronos are starving off since introduction 6 years ago!) harder than it initially was to bleed more adena out of the server? Also @Hermesthe addition of the Attendance Checklist is a pleaser to make is forget how horrible the Jeni's Secret Shop is? Nobody is even trying it any more on Naia and for the whole last week none of them completely "sold out". I think in the last week only 4 of the 3 STAR rewards been randomly given out. The players have deemed the event rubbish and have turned their backs to it. You have seen our feedback on Jeni's event and no reply on it whatsoever. We do know that tickets only costs 10m adena to buy on EU servers, but we always get a 1:1 copy of whatever Japan is getting. And our servers are not even closely geared to what Japan has. Start listening to us here on the forum, not just to those on the "Community Discord"!

It is funny you consider your +8% augment very good, because I would say it's barely an augment. You can get +20% on R110 and Dragon Weapons so you're far from having a very good augment. And you cannot go for +20% without having 100+ stones to thin out the garbage and increase your odds. Yes, I understand the game mechanic. It is pure random and I theory you can have the perfect augment on your first try. I have been lucky on my Brooch rolling two useful stats AND getting the max roll in under 20 tries. I have seen others burn 100 stones and not get anything useful. Your pricing is also way off. It is all based on before event. When people still had major stacks from the Letters event. I think within my CP along we have 500 stones stocked from that event. All of them have lost 40-60% of their value in the last week. Thanks to the Pass and everybody selling, and the Jeni event which cause more stones to enter the market because people try to recoup losses from buying tickets. There is no money other than the Kaliel Augment which they had behind major paywall a while ago. Veteran players will offload everything to market because they already got the augments they have. Regular and mid tier players don't get enough stones to try good augments OR just lack the items. Dawn Crystals are so limited available that many have first stage (e.g. Leather Shirt and not Rind). And prices plummeted because everybody fire selling. Your 'its 54b' maybe will be 20b at best... I still say the L2Pass should be a tool to better your char and offloading junk items to market isn't bettering you char if there is no market that buys and everybody is under cutting eachother to recoup losses. No. The pass, as I said, is worse than last month because it gives to little quantities of to many items.

The second season of L2Pass is a total theft of NCoin. All the rewards are useless. It gives out less potions than the first season, with less 'pages' to go while the potion is clearly designed to be active 24/7. The abundance of augment stones in it looks nice on face value but it horrible in the bottom line. It doesn't help out any one. New/lower geared players don't get enough to try for a decent augment, veteran/end geared players don't get enough to feed into Collection. Why do we only get 5 (or is it 10) Top Grade Augment Stone while nobody ever made the +20% augment on first stone. Same goes with the Circlet, Brooch and Shirt augments. You don't get good augments with just 5 stones. I used 25 Dragon Shirt augments and got only 4 augments that were M.Atk related. Good luck with the 5 Stones L2Pass gives you. The augment stones should have been 10 at a time, not 1. Nobody is getting anything from 5 tries. Ever. And the market is flooded with them ever since the Letter event from a few months back so it wouldn't be market destroying either. The abundance of Cloak augments is also hilarious. They can only be used on +15 cloaks. Which less than 5% of all cloak owners on server have. I have reports in clan that people blew 1000 of them last L2Store promo and got not a single useful augment. And the pass... It gives you 4 of each. And nobody is using Ferios or Elmorden so that is just warehouse fodder. The Pass is not rewarding, not challenging to complete if you 24/7, run all time zones. It is nice it gives "free" Freya Ice Rose but knowing in EU you can just buy those from the store at €0.01 each. And could be obtainable from Einhased Shop if Juju wouldn't had forcefully removed this from NA client. No. This L2Pass just isn't worth it. I have it. And I wish I had thought twice on clicking the buy button. Ideas for next season (which are just empty words because we get whatever JP gets); full season giving 60 Dawn Crystals, 48 Artifact Crystals, 50 Dye Crystals, Tickets to trade for lv5 Dyes, 1 Greater Rune Stone, 16 Rune Stones. Give players consumables they need for their char progression or to feed in Collection.

@Hermes Mr. Tomokazu Arai , your colleague from Japan, said in an interview with 4Gamer that they doing long term user care How is going to reflect to us? Since we're basically getting a carbon copy of whatever is being done in Japan I assume you have the same tools as the producer in Japan. Mr. Arai isn't clear on what he means with this but are we finally going to be able to delete legacy items from our warehouses that are no longer being used but completely blocked from deletion by the game client and support? Are we getting features that are already in the client but only used on Lineage II Aden such as the (amazing!) function /invitetoclan and the Status overview that shows total of stat modifiers? Are you going to look into the system so we do no longer have four different stacks of the same items (e.g. Freya Ice Rose) because different Item ID's are being used every event. It would really be great if we get some Quality Of Life updates at the ones mentioned by me above. I am sure many of my fellow players can name a thousand other things that annoy us for a long period of time that clearly could've been fixed by easy QoL updates.

The people that think these prices are sane, are the people not buying NCoin and just farming adena with tons of characters buying everything off the market.

@FaaaaaaaaaaaastBecause it looks Hermes doing exactly the same as Juji and using the "Community Discord" as a representation of the server. But everybody on the Community Discord has a history of selling adena, power level services, items and doing all other shady things like PvP using scripts and programs and running 500 accounts on 1 IP. @HermesWHEN EINHASED SHOP?????? This is just another example nobody at NCWest gives a single floggle and rather takes out game content that is designed to balance the game for means of profit.

Can you explain why this change been made? Cursed Swords are activity for only a very small population of the server. Extending the time the Cursed Swords drop will only hurt more players. The possible outcome of who gets the reward at the end of the cycle is pretty locked down. But majority of the server has to deal with two additional hours of able to loot an item that disrupts your exp guaranteed. Also... Why is it able that Cursed Sword time is adjusted, but Dethrone not? Dethrone is almost impossible for EU based players to join because it starts so damn late. And it's even worse if you want to guarantee your party is good, able to exp there all night OR get out there before PvP is unlocked. Please explain the decision making process. Also, as I asked in pm while you @Juji and Hermes @Hermes gave GM buffs; please post screenshots of all new appearances. You've been adding a bunch to every single "event" reward table, people charging billions for it but there is no posting on how they actually look like. Same with ones added for the 18th Anniversary.

@JujiThis is your player base. Someone questioning what to do with Crystal of Dawns, while they are the upgrade materials to some of the most powerful items in the game. Locked behind paywalls, removed game mechanics and insane low (even while running 200% runes) drop chances.

No we don't need exp event. We need GEAR ON THE SERVER. Exp is not the issue, the gear is. Naia and Chronos suffer from extreme gear starvation. There is no need for a company to boost exp for people to level up and stay alive vs equal level mobs if the player base would be wearing the gear that those exp zone were designed for. A zone like Sel Mahum, Wall of Agros or even low level like Tanor isn't designed for people still wearing Exalted Gear or running around with a +7 R110 Weapon with nothing else. These zones been designed for people wearing at least +10 R110 Sets with proper augments, attribute coverage and Lv15+ Forgotten Spellbook skills and a bunch of +5 artifacts. Level has nothing to do with it. The damage output bonus you gain from the Lv115 Spear skill is minimum to not existent compared to average gear levels in Korea. We need monthly, or just every weekend, an event like the Skeleton Keys that we had recently. The server heavily lacking basic items like Dye Crystals (so many people run around with basic +3 Exalted Dyes), Artifact Crystals, Forgotten Spellbooks and Crystal of Dawns. Things NCSoft have fixed, and made more accessible in other regions by introduction of the Einhased Shop. Something that has been purposely removed from our client by Juji (or atleast not fought hard enough against removal by him). Have fun making a FOS110 party with randoms, inviting some Lv117 Yuls that die one shot from mob AoE because they have 0 gear.

Is it April Fools again? Adding completely obsolete Freya Art of Seductions while every event gives Freya Ice Rose or Brilliant Freya Ice Rose. Costing € 1,00 each while on EU servers for that price you can get 10x Freya Ice Rose. I expect @Jujito add all Einhased Shop items to Hero Coin rewards to monetise on a removed feature but this is even worse!

It is nice to see you guys actually reading and replying to things. But it is sad that you miss the basic thing that we players try to express. Everybody in this thread has expressed that the difficulty of the hunting zones is due to lack of gear on the server and not due to the hunting zones itself. We can all read the patch notes and event information for every other region and we all want the NCWest NA servers to be closer to a 1:1 copy of what Korea is. The closer we get to that, the more people will return to NA servers. With this, you're doing the exact opposite. You're going to tweak and adjust NA servers to become one step further away from the Korean version. And we have already so many tweaks to hour servers that make gear progression harder (like the removal of the Einhased Shop) that this will not help any one on the servers. Zones like Silent Valley are perma filled with people using multiply pcs to farm the little adena possible. Neutral Zone is nice, but same thing. We need to close the gear gap between NA and Korea. Not have exp zones be made easier, because what is the point? You'll be level 114 and still killing mobs in Neutral Zone or Tanor Canyon because mobs in the zone where you should be at that level (e.g. Field of Silence, Whispers, Sel Mahum) will murder you because you didn't gain the gear (or adena to buy gear) to do so. Also... We need Naia to become a real GMT+1 server again. This ninja change of making Naia a GMT+0 server is really ruining the 18th Anniversary Orc Raid and makes it impossible for majority of players to participate in Dethrone.

This update, and the exp zones are fine. They are not the problem. The problem is years of item starvation on NA servers. Every single update in Korea the mobs get adjusted to average gear level of the player base. The average gear in Korea is on the same tier as upper-mid range players on NA. Having +20 Limited R110 weapons in considered basic in Korea, while those weapons only exist a few on Chronos and Naia. Same goes for Dragon Weapons stage 2 and 3. These are everywhere on Korean servers, yet only a select view exist on NA servers. And the list goes on and on. Players in Korea have way easier access to enchanting items like Royal Black Tickets, Royal Gold Tickets, Shining Kain Scrolls and upgrade items like Crystal of Dawn. We're starved out for items like that. And the list goes on and on. When the dev team changes areas for mobs to do more damage, because Koreans wear +16-20 armors, but 90% of the player base on NA is wears +8-12 there is a big problem. The exp zones are fine. Item starvation is not.

I've been saying this for years. The servers are complete dry on basic needed consumables like Elcyum, Gem Energy, Rune Stones, Giant Codex that prices sky rocket every day. And as long as the mid-tier players cannot progress the top 1% farms 15-50b/week in TOI and got nothing to do with their adena. So as soon as an event comes around they clean out the market straight away and reset the cycle of mid-tier having nothing, and them stockpiling.

Just a shame that unlike the previous 10 years, you now do a 2,5h maintenance during the holidays. All the previous years the the "holiday maintenance" was nothing more than a 30 min reboot.

I had my petition go through the mill of NCSoft/PURPLE and their reply was basically "go stick it where the sun doesn't shine". In the meanwhile, a whole load of players originating from countries on NCWests block list (which include Russia, Belarus, Ukraine) can still happily play the game.

They did this circlet 4 times already. Every time it gets deleted.