New ish player.

[SwordBreakerX]

So I have not played sense 2010.  So I know that loads of things have changed sense that time.  So everything basically make me new to the game again and I want to ask what´s a good class for solo play and not that hard to play.  I preferably wish to play as Melee.  But what do I  Like what class should I pick on each class change. 

Or is it a time now where picking a class rely don´t matter that much and all of them are ferly good solo play and easy to play and hard to master ? 

Like dang I barely remember crap from when I played in 2010. 

[Mete]

 

1-85 takes 20 minutes including all class changes

85-105 takes from 5-6 hours (gear+pots) to a couple of days (no gear or pots)

105+ if we are being honest requires you to spend RL money , there are no drops of any use to you in game, you can't farm enough adena to buy anything till 115+

IMO as a baseline, to progress with a semblance of expediency the minimum you should expect to spend is $200/month, obviously the more you spend the faster you progress. I realize that sounds expensive, but that's reality. You have to catch up to what everybody else has been doing for 10+ years. The smart way to spend that money is to buy whatever "sales" item are available (we 're talking gacha boxes) and DO NOT open them, sell them ingame to other players. Use the adena you earn to buy items for your character. That will probably change next week, with the introduction of  a new premium currency (einhasad coins) which are tradeable and can be sold directly for adena.

Easiest/cheapest class to play is Eviscerator (Ertheia Fighter). Needs the least amount of gear BUT is limited exclusively to single target (kills one mob at the time). Second cheapest character to play IMO is Maestro (Dwarven Fighter). Both Eviscerator and Maestro have a skill that has a chance of removing 30% of a mob's hp with a hit. That's what makes them cheap to play.

Faster progressing classes are aoe classes (kill multiple mobs at the same). But these need a lot more gear. Currently Death Knight (Human male special class) is the most popular class, but don't expect to be able to play it with the free stuff the game gives you. Other options are Mages (will get boosted with the upcoming update on August 1st), Dreadnoughts (spear users), Archers. All these require A LOT of gear (meaning a lot of money) to be played effectively.

You are currently allowed to have 3 Lineage 2 windows running at the same time. Make two isses (A hierophant (human mage) and a Sword Muse [elf fighter]) party them with your main and make them follow and gain exp after 85 (everybody can get to 85 easily solo). You get Free buffs until level 99, after that the 2 buffers will be your main source of buffs/heals and no you can't play this game without buffs. Population is low. Expect to find parties easily from 100-105 (blazing swamp) and 105-108 or so (silent valley) but if you choose that route, you will find yourself at 108 unable to even kill a mob solo if you don't have buffers.

When you complete your final class change at level 85 you get a free vitality maintaining rune for 7 days. Take advantage of it to exp quickly to 105, and exp your dual class quickly to 105 too. You will gain skills that are pretty useful once you do. After that, you grind. Expect to spend most of your time ingame alone. Basically, to be honest, the game now pretty much runs in the background 95% of the time, you just live play for a few minutes (at 105) to a few hours as you level up doing your dailies. Yes the game includes a botlike function that allows you to auto kill mobs with the game running in the background while you watch cat videos on youtube.

 

[Connex]

most of what he said is true but here is where i have a different opinion

best class to play with little to no gear is indeed the eviscerator, due to its high evasion and evasive skills.

2nd class I would put a dagger  (fortune seeker) , has 30% pve damage passive and also has good evasion, you sill get hit but with the right skill rotation you will have no issue.

3rd class I would put a Titan, because you can gear the toon up for single target but slowly transition to aoe. 

[SheHa]

4 hours ago, Mete said:

 

1-85 takes 20 minutes including all class changes

85-105 takes from 5-6 hours (gear+pots) to a couple of days (no gear or pots)

105+ if we are being honest requires you to spend RL money , there are no drops of any use to you in game, you can't farm enough adena to buy anything till 115+

IMO as a baseline, to progress with a semblance of expediency the minimum you should expect to spend is $200/month, obviously the more you spend the faster you progress. I realize that sounds expensive, but that's reality. You have to catch up to what everybody else has been doing for 10+ years. The smart way to spend that money is to buy whatever "sales" item are available (we 're talking gacha boxes) and DO NOT open them, sell them ingame to other players. Use the adena you earn to buy items for your character. That will probably change next week, with the introduction of  a new premium currency (einhasad coins) which are tradeable and can be sold directly for adena.

Easiest/cheapest class to play is Eviscerator (Ertheia Fighter). Needs the least amount of gear BUT is limited exclusively to single target (kills one mob at the time). Second cheapest character to play IMO is Maestro (Dwarven Fighter). Both Eviscerator and Maestro have a skill that has a chance of removing 30% of a mob's hp with a hit. That's what makes them cheap to play.

Faster progressing classes are aoe classes (kill multiple mobs at the same). But these need a lot more gear. Currently Death Knight (Human male special class) is the most popular class, but don't expect to be able to play it with the free stuff the game gives you. Other options are Mages (will get boosted with the upcoming update on August 1st), Dreadnoughts (spear users), Archers. All these require A LOT of gear (meaning a lot of money) to be played effectively.

You are currently allowed to have 3 Lineage 2 windows running at the same time. Make two isses (A hierophant (human mage) and a Sword Muse [elf fighter]) party them with your main and make them follow and gain exp after 85 (everybody can get to 85 easily solo). You get Free buffs until level 99, after that the 2 buffers will be your main source of buffs/heals and no you can't play this game without buffs. Population is low. Expect to find parties easily from 100-105 (blazing swamp) and 105-108 or so (silent valley) but if you choose that route, you will find yourself at 108 unable to even kill a mob solo if you don't have buffers.

When you complete your final class change at level 85 you get a free vitality maintaining rune for 7 days. Take advantage of it to exp quickly to 105, and exp your dual class quickly to 105 too. You will gain skills that are pretty useful once you do. After that, you grind. Expect to spend most of your time ingame alone. Basically, to be honest, the game now pretty much runs in the background 95% of the time, you just live play for a few minutes (at 105) to a few hours as you level up doing your dailies. Yes the game includes a botlike function that allows you to auto kill mobs with the game running in the background while you watch cat videos on youtube.

 

Good resume.

There`s also some "game style" and depending with that you will expent more or less:

1 - One main toon - CP Based

If you want to play in a constant party (CP) this game will be hardcore since you will need to invest money and time. Top CP you will need to invest alot of money and low-medium CP you have to invest less according with avarange CP gear.

 

2 - One main toon with own support

This is classic style on this game. That`s what Mete is talking about. You create a main toon and 2 supports  to boost your main to level.

You will be playing with that trio until you hit 110~115 than you will be able to play with the mostly of server players.

And it`s a long running from 105 to 110~115 depending how much you invest on your toon.

On this style you will try to dailies with your main and try to find PT to open field area like Neutral Zone. If you have no party you can play "solo" (trio) with you crew on solo spot.

3 - Self party

Here you make 5 (or more) toons and play with at least 2 computers (I hope they change the limit of 3 clients)
That is the old "farmer" style and I like so much this style since as a "veteran player "(with wife, kids, social life ecc) I can not have a CP or wait for others to do dailies or open field XP party.
With your own party you will be able to play when you want, if you want taking your own time, even if you are slow you don`t care.

Welcome back btw.

[iLunas]

Nowdays it's better to play support class instead dd, like tank or iss.
Join nice clan and cp. Don't do things alone, will be impossible to advance in the game without big investments.

[Connex]

4 hours ago, iLunas said:

Nowdays it's better to play support class instead dd, like tank or iss.
Join nice clan and cp. Don't do things alone, will be impossible to advance in the game without big investments.

i think this is sort of a wrong approach. As a support you still need defensive stuff, yes they are cheaper and you can get away with a few cheaper items but once you start doing 107+ areas, you will need better gear to survive since most people around your level, either are f2p looking for a free ride or simply do not have the damage, this means that without enough dps in groups, you will die most of the times, either the group will wipe, or you will die first etc. 

In all cases, it can be tricky, you need gear, support and evis can do more with less gear but eventually, you will have to make big upgrades,

[Helmina1]

the real gear check for every classes is DT imo...in open fields you can manage with blessed exalted to go up to 110 with your team relatively easely considering you have at least a decent weapon to go along the blessed exalted stuff...then if you wanna push your experience further in you will have to decide whats your next approach.

DT is awsome XP if you have a decent CP but requires good gear. open field xp with your team is much slower and will it a wall at some point.

and i am personally playing actively a healer and part of decent CP in DT atm. and even as a support like other said, you need a minimum of gear to survive. 

[Connex]

TBH all the content starts at 115, I had a hard time realising it myself even with all the gear I had, my toon was useless.

the instance description is when you are allowed to enter and not when you will be usefull, maybe you can leech or buff/heal at that level.

DT/ToI/Atelia is no joke, with DT being the hardest one.

It all comes down to xp/hour, realistically speaking you will not really find a group for DT below 115, so use DT time to level up the DT stats for a low price and at a later time, you will be able to join a group.

[Kitaro]

On 7/28/2023 at 10:07 AM, Mete said:

 

1-85 takes 20 minutes including all class changes

85-105 takes from 5-6 hours (gear+pots) to a couple of days (no gear or pots)

105+ if we are being honest requires you to spend RL money , there are no drops of any use to you in game, you can't farm enough adena to buy anything till 115+

IMO as a baseline, to progress with a semblance of expediency the minimum you should expect to spend is $200/month, obviously the more you spend the faster you progress. I realize that sounds expensive, but that's reality. You have to catch up to what everybody else has been doing for 10+ years. The smart way to spend that money is to buy whatever "sales" item are available (we 're talking gacha boxes) and DO NOT open them, sell them ingame to other players. Use the adena you earn to buy items for your character. That will probably change next week, with the introduction of  a new premium currency (einhasad coins) which are tradeable and can be sold directly for adena.

Easiest/cheapest class to play is Eviscerator (Ertheia Fighter). Needs the least amount of gear BUT is limited exclusively to single target (kills one mob at the time). Second cheapest character to play IMO is Maestro (Dwarven Fighter). Both Eviscerator and Maestro have a skill that has a chance of removing 30% of a mob's hp with a hit. That's what makes them cheap to play.

Faster progressing classes are aoe classes (kill multiple mobs at the same). But these need a lot more gear. Currently Death Knight (Human male special class) is the most popular class, but don't expect to be able to play it with the free stuff the game gives you. Other options are Mages (will get boosted with the upcoming update on August 1st), Dreadnoughts (spear users), Archers. All these require A LOT of gear (meaning a lot of money) to be played effectively.

You are currently allowed to have 3 Lineage 2 windows running at the same time. Make two isses (A hierophant (human mage) and a Sword Muse [elf fighter]) party them with your main and make them follow and gain exp after 85 (everybody can get to 85 easily solo). You get Free buffs until level 99, after that the 2 buffers will be your main source of buffs/heals and no you can't play this game without buffs. Population is low. Expect to find parties easily from 100-105 (blazing swamp) and 105-108 or so (silent valley) but if you choose that route, you will find yourself at 108 unable to even kill a mob solo if you don't have buffers.

When you complete your final class change at level 85 you get a free vitality maintaining rune for 7 days. Take advantage of it to exp quickly to 105, and exp your dual class quickly to 105 too. You will gain skills that are pretty useful once you do. After that, you grind. Expect to spend most of your time ingame alone. Basically, to be honest, the game now pretty much runs in the background 95% of the time, you just live play for a few minutes (at 105) to a few hours as you level up doing your dailies. Yes the game includes a botlike function that allows you to auto kill mobs with the game running in the background while you watch cat videos on youtube.

 

Hi i recently just came back as well and there's not much i remember from the old L2, and thank you for this overall summary.  what im curious is that how to get to 85 like you said "20 minutes".. im stuck at below 70 now and its been days.. not sure if im at the correct spot. and it's hard for me to do solo at the end when my MP always finish, and HP pot runs out.

[Mete]

15 minutes ago, Kitaro said:

Hi i recently just came back as well and there's not much i remember from the old L2, and thank you for this overall summary.  what im curious is that how to get to 85 like you said "20 minutes".. im stuck at below 70 now and its been days.. not sure if im at the correct spot. and it's hard for me to do solo at the end when my MP always finish, and HP pot runs out.

there are no spots, just a series of quests that begin with Tarti in Gludio. It's basically get teleported here, kill 30 mobs, click the yellow cube, get teleported to the npc that will give you the next quest and teleport you there. Rinse and repeat. At 20, 40, 76 and 84 you get teleported back to tarti to start your class change quests that take between 1 and 5 minutes to complete. At 40 and 85 you get some gear. When the quest chain ends Tarti teleports you to Aden to start another quest chain that will take you to 100 , give you some more free gear, and eventually after a little bit of grind to 105.

If you haven't followed the quests go back to gludio and talk to her, she's across from the gatekeeper. At worst ... start a new character

[Kitaro]

2 hours ago, Mete said:

there are no spots, just a series of quests that begin with Tarti in Gludio. It's basically get teleported here, kill 30 mobs, click the yellow cube, get teleported to the npc that will give you the next quest and teleport you there. Rinse and repeat. At 20, 40, 76 and 84 you get teleported back to tarti to start your class change quests that take between 1 and 5 minutes to complete. At 40 and 85 you get some gear. When the quest chain ends Tarti teleports you to Aden to start another quest chain that will take you to 100 , give you some more free gear, and eventually after a little bit of grind to 105.

If you haven't followed the quests go back to gludio and talk to her, she's across from the gatekeeper. At worst ... start a new character

okay thank you so much. After u mentioned Tarti, and i tried looking for her. but couldnt. it seems that i played in the wrong server (Aden)... lol.. no wonder its hard to level.. now im in (Live) server.. thank you again.