Hello to all GM's
As a old player in you'r server i will share some of my knowledge and what i hear in general that ppl would like from events/promotions to actually be obtained to upgrade their character to close the gap between high geared and lower geared players! and to be better in PVE also in general its so important nowadays and many items are missing from promotions for months and years now.
1: Bottle of Gods Soul (jewels to change for bottle are rarely dropping making the jewel close to impossible to upgrade for any player, and it benefits a few players who has upgraded them before when it was possible and it was cheaper) The idea would be to drop Bottles X10 on promo boxes (like it was done when jewels was launched) could be a big commercial success and money income for ncwest. Second option make the jewels to crystallize for bottle more easy to get from promo boxes since its the only utility of those jewels nowadays (wyrm ring, tauti, bless antharas, valakas etc)
2: Splendor Fragment: Same problem than God bottles, they are never being dropped from Promo boxes for years now making it impossible to make a Wings of splendor anymore other than buying the one that was made years ago (causing a huge disbalance between players) The idea should be to drop X10 splendor fragments from promo boxes or make the jewels/items that we can change more obtainable in general.
3: Dragon Claws: The server back in 2022 had a promo called "Dragon slayers" and we could make Claws for quite a decent price(depend point of views) and upgrade our weapon to stage 3, now since then the same event was held in january but was a Fail in term of sales due to the Nerf in enchant rate, it was impossible to enchant the slayers and get a claw for the same price and even for x2 x3 price. Many people was waiting this event and were disapointed and decided to quit, this was one of the worst Business plan from The Staff back in january. (With all my respect) So the idea would be to make the same event like in january 2022 , so people could upgrade their dragon Weapon (and other stuff that was dropped from that promo also) or make other promos that actually gives a decent amount of claws because once again its causing a huge Disbalance in the server. (knowing stage 4 is coming, we are expecting claws to be obtainable)
4: Greaters agathions +5-10: Greaters agathion in general doesn't cost alot of money and somehow drop from a few promos but making them +5 and +10 is where it become very challenging due to the impossibility to find scrolls and they are barely if not dropped at all during promos. Same story than my other point, its causing a disbalance and a gap between old and newer player who haven't made them and simply can't. The solution would be to focus on events with boosted rates so people can crush greater agathions for scrolls in a decent price or simply drop them more from promo boxes. also the holy Growth scroll from +5-10 are impossible to get and are not dropping for months/years from promo in a sufficient amount for the server making the price so high.
5: Shining Gran kain Scroll Weapon/armor: With the arrival of Legendary set/Weapon, people will have to make their weapons to +30 and armor to +30 to upgrade them. It is quite impossible right now to make those items in a decent prices and amount. Many people are not willing to gamble to Royal gold ticket due to the frustrationg of spending alot money and failing and losing their weapons. This can be a big source of frustration and people are unhappy and quitting due to this matter. (i talk from experience) , giving people a safer way to enchant stuff is always a good alternative. but that alternative must exist.
6: Collection with Beads, and Collection in general: Many things from collection are being impossible to make ingame and the currents events promo are not focusing on collection in general. Please take a look onto it, it could be a big source of power for players to be obtained there, and money for NCWest in general. Exemple +20 Enchanted weapon, Armors, Beads, Baium collection, etc etc are all very costly for little benefits, take a look onto it and make like a promo dedicated on collection could be appreciated by many players.
7: Historical Tome: in order to make Tomes from lvl 1-200, it requires a huge amount of tomes, like 700k+ , and they are not being dropped in enough quantity ingame to even think about it, and neither from any promos, this was implented a few updates ago and yet many players haven't even passed lvl 20-50+ , Every update mobs are getting stronger and we can't be able to get strong enough due to the impossibility to upgrade our toons on these aspects. (Huge nerf on Dethrone drops also affected ppl and frustrated them, please find a solution)
8:Talismans enchant/compound: We had uptade to upgrade Talisman heaven/Epic talisman last update but yet it's been months and our server didn't get the chance to Enchant these talismans yet. we simply don't understand why. Shining energy of protection or shining sayha talisman energy are not dropping also since a very long time and those items are being needed in huge quantity on server. Solution would be to make a promo based on Talismans upgrade (all sort of talismans)
Dragon cloak: was implented 2 updates ago and yet Zero promos event implented them ingame making the patchnote talking about obsolete thing and prove us that the company was not so professional about advertising something for an update and never implented that item ingame.
I Maybe missed many other things, but in general i think i covered a big part of what our servers need and would like to expect to come from future promos. I am a Dedicated player who would like to enjoy the game and make the game more enjoyable for everyone in general. All of what i said above could help players and play a big part on the revenue NCWest get from Lineage 2 for Live Servers.
Thxs.
Andouille.