you can criticize all you want still what i said is true, and you can still farm, since 2012 farming was insanely hard because of botters, i remenber when mobs droped 20k in bloody swamp then a update came and mobs were droping 500 adena or less, and u cant expect to get into a 16 years old MMO and catch up to the guys who spend real money and the others who spent years, some people have like hundreds of toons just for oly farm... the current price in normal books means you can make decent adena just having 12-15 chars in oly... most of the tryharders and non expenders farm at least 50 toons in oly just log a bunch and leave them to lose in oly
as far as being "limited" u can use a char to level up and play the main when you want to, when i got back as i said had apoc +6 and tw+3 could barely make nice exp in blazing that was the best thing being on the pool's, so i made a summoner to lvl me up simple like that now she's just another toon waiting for some use...
Runestones can be farmed they just nerfed the insane number you could take per week, i was getting 16 -20 runes per week and i was not even tryharding, since u can do balok/octavis twice in a week and a lvl 103 toon can drop runestones almost 100% of time, and if u cant have VM in the moment i would recommend having a friend, just 1 to split the drops and then both can learn skills, L2 was not meant to be played alone
Also my life werent all roses since i got back i was hunted like not being able to leave the village, just cause a player whose name i wont say was using radar on my main nick and insta porting after me, what i did? crying on the global? no i went farming other ways, if u really want to play and do something in the game just do it, just play dont worry about what top players are doing, cause u wont be playing alongside them at least for a couple years if u dont spend real cash...
And about leveling having a simples party setup can get u up to tanor ez/pz, tanker iss and a dd, some dd's do more damage than others but they still do, and dont try to compare yourself to a guy having a +12 weap and +10 armor that can solo tanor u prob did not farm the same time he did or even spended the same amount of cash he spent... Lineage 2 is a game for FEW... few crazy people and few rich people... the others should consider playing something else