Grand Crusade

There is not really reason to panic. World bosses will be changed to pure PVE. Only 1 CC can enter, the one who click first and u saw in past Beleth, it was pretty random with entering and i supose killing Antharas/Valakas not gonna be hard for 50 any people and they will manage to do it if they click first. With Lindvior might slightly problematic, because of 10 minutes limit for last 20%, but still ....

As about open bosses, they are not farmed on our server at nights, and questionable is if u need to do last hit or most DPS. If it will be about last hit, it will be pretty random, about DPS race it might be a bit problematic...

 

At the moment it is already being discussed for all overseas versions. If we get that change, we will inform everybody here as well.

 

Question to @CM Fragola at korean server after update there was event which one give chance to switch dual to main or seperate dual from main. Is such thing in plans at Core?

 

As far as we are aware of, there's no "switch dual to main". There is a manual service that separates dual from main into a separate character, cleaning all progress on quests on dual, keeping items on main, so you get a naked character with level and class of your dual. As this can trigger a lot of mistakes on you main (creating new char is easy, but clearing your main from your dual is not), we do not plan to offer this kind of service at Core until the developers provide us with automated tested scripts.

 

The easiest way to let people change their main to whatever class they want it's tested already and it was used in the past in every server w/o many problems from what I recall, it's simply called Stone of Destiny, which it's same as using GM commands to simply change the classes.

 

Problem of stone of destiny is that every1 gets human status.

 

In order to do that, couldn't you use brute force? Let's say you have DE Archer / Iss Enchanter and want to make it Iss / Archer, couldn't you just simply if they put level 1 toon in the account go and make it same level in main Iss / dual archer with same percents? and even copying inventories shouldn't be a big problem I guess also, it's a bit stupid way of doing it, but if it works it ain't that stupid

 

Our dear L2 has a very weird way of keeping duals and quests in DB. People who moved here from Aria can tell you a lot of stories where it went wrong in the provided transfer script and our L2 team spent months transferring them manually. So what looks simple as an idea can go wrong in soooo many places in practice and we don't want to risk and ruin your chars in a live server environment.

 

so GC in innova ru launched today. ncwest launch it 29th march.. can we get approx date when we get it here?

 

2020 year

 

They have a new server to open now! 4 months and we will get Red Libra event!!!! SRY i mean GC update!!!!! SRY again we will get NOTHING.

 

I am reading GC patch notes and i hope server will never get updated. My eyes are burning and im crying inside as to why they are self-destructing themselves. Changes =/= improvements. If you ask me, Awakening was the best GoD update.

 

what exactly make you sad?
as for me.. i saw enough for this update, there is nothing left to do fdor me.. only lvlup... new exalted quest and some new instances would be nice for me. my class is for pve, so i focus on pve only.. and there is nothing left to do. 100d quest done (i think i was 1st in server who did that quest, 2nd was my iss), factions almost all needed for new exalted is lv 5-6. what else to do?

 

They are destroying pve even more on each update, adding new content is not so much a solution, increase level every update ok we got it its very not creative. New quests new raid yadda yadda it will get boring after some time also. They should focus on balancing the game first pve and pvp. By pve i mean bringing back a reason to play the game manually and go in open world ( i remember how fun it was to go like orbis trying to get r95 full drops and some war clan was looking too and then boom open world pvp ). Right now its make instance go afk log back tomorrow. They need to also balance pvp by stop adding so many ways to get OP. Before there was no such shenanigans as all this brooch and all this +++++++++++ items wtf is all of this items such nonsense. This game was known for its open world pvp and its turning into something very sad. I wish there was another server out there stopped at Tauti or Glory days there was no such thing as tarots back then and u could farm get lucky and get some full drops. There was no such nonsense as +12 pvp sets back then. Things were balanced maybe classes needed a lil adjustments and that's it. I am studying in networking now and if i ever find the possibility i will start a Awakening server and stop it at Tauti or Glory days and i will make l2store very very balanced cause im not some greedy *******.

 

Factions and boosting the xp from mobs will add some open world pvp but I guess you're not playing often to get to those conclusions.

 

Good info for you.
NCwest released Patchnotes like some days ago
http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=292116

So atleast you can save some days to create your patchnotes and focus more on fast testing. Noone cares anymore about your patchnotes if we have the same 3+ weeks faster

 

When you complain did you actually check how it's going to be in next update? Seems you don't. I was complaining also about next update until I saw it myself how it will work or how it's supposed to , and it's going to be more or less the following:

-10% adena bonus (not going to change much) in most of open areas of level 99+ with very little drops boost
-New instance seal of shillen for way more xp (so people on lower levels can catch up)
-New long exalted quests lvl 4/5 that will force everyone that wants to do them to populate current xp spots so you have a lot of pvp outside
-New instance in gracia with really really good drops (This starts to be the start of a proper way to fix the current state of game, but should be open field not instance)
-Fix of 2 out of 3 main DD classes for pve/pvp to make them way more viable than now (and Summoners / Tyrrs will be fixed or should at least in the update we will get somewhere around xmas, EP5.0 Salvation)
-New Tavern Instance, with real chances to drop 3rd SA crystal fragments (current drop rate in the 3 we have 0.5-1% aka never, on new one we have 5-10% aka farmable)
-Boost of xp in open areas from 50 to 400% (400% in EV as it's revamped, rest of areas getting +50-100%) so people leave instances, add on top of that 30%/100% xp rewards passive bonus buff from exalted 4/5

Now this changes seems to be in the right direction, let's see if those changes will make any effect, which I hope so. The only thing that needs to be fixed is adding 3-4 more areas where you can farm a lot of adena/h to be able to catch up, and making those to need full pt properly formed to farm there, like this people willl catch up way faster and believe it or not, because people will have adena to spend, they will ask to get someone to sell l2store, so those will increase also as more players will stay and stop quitting. They just need to make area for end game pt's to get top adena spot, middle spot dropping less than 1st one so mid tier pt's can catch up eventually with top ones, lower one so tier 3rd pt's can catch up with the above ones and some instances like the one they adding in Gracia this update so new players can get r99 basic gear / elements / adenas and can start catching up properly, in addition to new and revamped material system making spoil / craft alive again finally.

 

ev actualy nerfed not boosted.. yes it has more xp but u cant make trains on it.. cause mobs like in hb desert quary are grouped in 5 and cant move more than 100/200 pases from spot
3rd sa hasnt changed actualy (u can check curent ru wiki, % is the same, and answer in their faq is "in the moment of testing it was actualy lower than we have now, and on live its boosted (compared to test) to the same value) maybe it will be faster cause of 3x/week but i doubt that will impact the price to drop to 10b or so
also about fixing dds, yes they fixed dd's increasing their dmg, but in same time new AP system broke healers/tanks/isses casue they loose 20% hp and defs
also "dds" tree has increased dmg, that makes archers even more OP compared to others (more patk, more skill crit, more reuse (like before was or crit+reuse or patk, now they have both in same tree)

also all open areas are boosted on xp, but in same time boosted their defs/hp/resistances that makes them harder to kill for lower ppl in which case doesnt make boost at all