Hi folks, As you might remember during the previous discussion I promised to take to the team these: 1) Rework on the spoiling/crafting system 2) Making Zaken and other low-level raids interesting again 3) Maybe a way to upgrade your current equipment without the need to buy a completely new one 4) Address the issue of leveling up faster than gearing up 5) A possibility of gearing up without creating hoards of toons Our Lead Project Manager just returned from Korea from the meeting with the overseas team and I can share some thoughts on these points. ****************** 1. Rework on the spoiling/crafting system At the moment the devs can't give a definite answer on this and say they need to think more about that. 2. Making Zaken and other low-level raids interesting again While there's no news about Zaken, the rework on the low-level raids is already being made. We expect new Freya, Frintezza and Orfen to arrive to us with the next update this year. 3. Maybe a way to upgrade your current equipment without the need to buy a completely new one. This is not going to be applied universally to all gear anytime soon, but I hope to bring you more news next week about one of the options. 4. Address the issue of leveling up faster than gearing up At the moment the devs can't give an answer on this. They want L2 to stay a team/clan oriented and so that people would team up for achieving common goals. 5. A possibility of gearing up without creating hoards of toons Devs are gradually reworking old instances and hunting grounds, so they are moving in that direction. ****************** Also, I'm not allowed to talk much about upcoming changes that we are trying to get from the devs. So here's a code for that:
Not many details but I still like the idea. This system was killed by GoD update....so...I don't think will be easy to "ressurect" it. Now ertheia is making more valuable items than crafter/spoiler which are "dedicated" as economy working engines. If drop rate will be also increased...wil be good...else, there is no point of making them stronger but still without competitive drops. I am dreaming about this since long time ago....I hope that we could change items till top/dragon ones...not similar but close to that... If devs don't include a normal drop rate...else this will be another option to reduce the extra reduced already adena from drops. People created toons because soon only adena sellers will have adena. Like someone said above, adena drop was reduced too much. To all of this I would make a new enchanting system...where people can enchant their items without break them and that system to not be called "l2store" only...i wanna see crafter crafting special items for that or something like this.
I dont understand what anyone here is thinking. Zaken farm was never good maybe except from hi5 chronicles. Even two years or so ago when the max items where lvl5 brooches +8 pvp sets and 7s/abu talisman zaken farming was just a small stepping stone for beginners to get some adena but it wasnt something incredible. Now that players need lvl6 x6 or more brooches zaken would literally take 100 years for that even if it was pre-nerf status. Not only that but it was a terrible system which encouraged making boxes and not playing your main character. Sorry for the negative comment but looks like there is literal zero chance to save this game.
How is this related to team/clan effort exactly? It's almost entirely a solo objective - do monstrous l2store purchases and PRAY to get something useful out of that. If that's what you call team effort (someone cheering for you to have some luck on clan chat).. Yea, perhaps. To be frank, you didn't provide any useful information besides what was already known - developers don't want to give us a way to gear, they want to recycle content so they just adjust old stuff a bit, giving bosses a bit higher level, but drop is for sure ignored in the grand scheme, as for example new epic spezion, who is even thinking of doing that?
What also is a big concern is ur market strategy, u let people pay thousands of euros for Items, which one or two updates later become literally useless , that might also demotivate players to donate/work towards them, the knowing that all the money/work was for nothing, cuz later u get those things for 1/10th of price.
yeah...basically the only changes we will get are the ones already present on the next update. The others ones don't really pleases the DEV's, so they will be a no go. As the possibility of merge was already floated and some people from the fighting side on Ramona were banned (those 2 combined with the completion of 1 dragon weapon on a server with less than 1 year of life spooked enough players as to make aden have only 15~20 shops and cause people to not want to buy or sell any goods because fear or merge), might as well just merge the 2 servers right after the 2x Exp planned for may and try anything from there.
