TheHaggarDagger

Simple answer to your question - No There's a hard pay wall at about 105, not sure if it's moved up since but doesn't seem like it. In fact, it seems to have regressed. No subscription and or destiny pack will give you the ability to scale that wall. Only cold hard cash. It's probably easier to get something that will help you survive these days via exalted store set and corresponding enchants but you will still be shelling out 50-100 bucks depending if you got a free set from event like the current that is giving away sets. Once you hit 110 that's where the real fun starts. Unless you're super patient and willing to play the market which is very doable albeit low margins (and even then would require a small initial investment as new players literally have zero real capital to work with.) playing this game f2p is just not feasible. Honestly, at this point in my l2 "carrier" I would advise all new or returning players to reconsider. I couldn't in good faith recommend this game to anyone. It's plagued by "macro" users, RMT, GMs that don't give a flying F, over priced items on L2 store, wealth transfers server to server, extreme class imbalances... Just to name a few. Maybe the situation in Chronos is better but from what I've observed it's probably worse. To put it in an easy to understand analogy, "Recommending this game is like recommending Heroin. Sure, you'll feel good in the start but at the end of the road it will destroy your life and you'll find yourself doing things you never thought yourself capable of just to survive."

I think this is great. It really shows us where NC stands regarding balance. This will save me a lot of time and money. Archer meta was dirty but could be dealt with. This Tyrr/evi/DK meta is just disgusting. I was on the fence about hanging up my daggers. I had my hopes up for this patch, things were indeed looking up. With this news the choice is clear. We're not considered. Vote with your wallet. and while my wallet might not be as mighty as some, this company does not deserve my dollar.

I've been thinking about this for a while. This might make a lot of people angry but I'm gonna go ahead and say it. I think lag on NCWest Lineage 2 exists because of their lax policy against hardware macros. I don't use them but I've seen plenty of videos of them being used and they're literally spamming hundreds if not thousands of commands per minute. One person might not be a problem but what if 7/8ths of the server uses these hardware macros? Would it not cause an overload of requests.. ultimately causing all of this lag?

Because stabs aren't missed. You simply didn't crit. If you don't crit, you don't yield damage. Which is why I laugh at every Othell that says "CRIT DAMAGE ALL THE WAY WHY YOU SPEC CRIT CHANCE/DEX dyes HURRRR" Because "missing" a crit is a lot less damage than not. If it's blood stab, then yah... Positioning absolutely required.

lol going to just assume you have little to no experience in real pvp or are just weak. Feoh with half my gear take real effort to kill while everyone else outside of invulns are one hit kills. my point still stands no DD has defense buffer like feoh take away the buffer and make them one hit like everyone else and I'm totally for giving them more crit rate.

Sure, when Feoh trade in Mana Barrier so they're one shot like everyone else.. I can get behind this.

I'm sure you guys have out-leveled your areas but I will answer the question for anyone looking in the future. Basically, spoil/plunder has turned into a supplementary skill rather than the class specialty. Granted, you're the only class with that ability, it no longer defines the class. What now defines the class is higher than average PvE damage (due to coin damage buff and old OFS passive). You wont, or can't rather.. Spoil/plunder anything under 105 if I recall correctly..

Okay... So you confirm that they're super exclusive. And? It's a limited resource and once opened can't be traded. Your argument is moot. So because the exploit (which does in fact work in Oly.) isn't as effective because of a closed space, it shouldn't be addressed? What kind of BS argument is that? Nobody said it wins fights(although I have seen it win fights). It allows these specific classes to avoid fighting all together. As I said before, NOTHING counters Double Jumping other than double jumping. Not snares, not close range or pull skills. Nothing.

You mean the Agathion charms that can no longer be acquired in game? Hardly a work around if it's extremely exclusive. Try and buy a Capricorn that has jump forward, let me know how that goes. Yuls, I can't disagree. Not the best defenses however, you trade those defenses for easily best damage in game. As for Feoh, really? Glass cannons? Have you ever even fought a good Feoh? They're thick af. It's an exploit because you're using skills in a way they weren't designed to gain an unfair advantage. The only reason it works is because they've made WSAD properly responsive. NOTHING catches double jumping classes other than double jumping classes. As for your argument "every single class..." fair enough however, most of those skills are target and are used to close range, not jump out of range of all skills with like a 5s cooldown..

It's about time we talk about double jumps used by Yul and Feoh. The Problem "Double jumps"- referring to the exploit of the forward and rear escape skills held by Yul and Feoh classes. Okay, so I've been pvping for a good while now and there's one thing that absolutely gets abused and needs a hard nerf. Yuls and Feoh using forward and rear jumps in succession (effectively granting the player two full length forward jumps if done correctly) to either beat you to the punch while doing swords or total evasion and or escape from potential harm. Targets that should be easy kills are granted almost absolute immunity from being caught from any other classes that don't share this skill type. The solution It's simple, really. Both jumps should share a cooldown or have a hard capped cooldown not affected by minus cooldown gear. While I might agree that this skillset had it's place in old lineage 2 with massive (1200 was it?) range skills... As it is, this skill set gives these classes that are already at the apex of pvp even that much more of an edge.

Not without extraordinary investment. The game operates with class synergies, ISS for special buffs and wicked debuff, tank for pull/soak and buff, healers manage sustainability, dds.. dd. It's a group game first, if you want to solo, break out your card and start buying. They make it easy for you.. the Paulinas set is what? 600ncoin now? Gives you a full set of armor and some pretty snazzy jewelry for about the price of a combo meal from your favorite fast food place. If paying for your entertainment leaves a sour taste in your mouth, well.. As a pretty staunch capitalist; I will point out that someone, somewhere, is working to create, support and sustain these products and services. If you're going to pout about paying people for their time and IP, I believe you have other priorities in life to worry about.

4r4m's content, Korean l2 content.. Is still about 8 months ahead of us. I also just want to add, if you watch some of the Korean L2 streamers and compare, here on NA servers, we hit a lot harder. Like, a lot.

There are no stupid questions, only the stupid people that ask them... The item is clearly labeled (Exalted) It doesn't take an <expletive deleted> to point that out for you, genius.

Bow has most patk of any weapon which is also the slowest weapon. Couple that with an easily reached attack speed cap and you have disaster. Not to mention half-kills which used to be Rogue exclusive.. It's a broke class. Face it. No single class regardless of level and equipment should be able to show up and single-handedly wipe entire siege fields of dozens in a few skills. Do you even siege? Current meta is strongest archers win. I believe Yul should do really fat damage but their AoE capability is genuinely out of hand. Couple that with some of the best survivability skills of the game and it's no wonder why Yul is pretty much top dog.

wtf is your problem with the caps lock button?