IN-GAME CHARACTER NAME: Mpa3 THIS IS A GUIDE FOR NORMAL PLAYERS, WHICH DONT DONATE OR DONATE ONLY FOR PREMIUM ACCOUNT Premium Account is a must have if you are going to play L2 for a long time. Until you get some decent gears finding party at mid-high levels will be difficult, because of that for first character you will need something good for single target farming and if you have premium account ISS Hierophant box account with him. CHAPTER I: BEST CLASSES FOR NEW PLAYERS 1. WYNN SUMMONER Elemental Master > Spectral Master > Arcana Lord PROS Powerful summons and good buffs/passives for them Can heal his summons Have debuffs for reduce enemy defenses Have debuff to refill his hp/mp when his summons hits the target Dont need skill crit rate, skill crit damage, skill power, skill cooldown reduce items (which are VERY expensive) Can farm yellow/red mobs with low equipment It's not so much items depended Cheapest soul shots CONS No good skills for AOE Low desired in farming parties 2. TYRR MAESTRO PROS At 106 level get "Golem's Spirit" buff that increase his skill power and makes his auto-attacks have chance to deal 30% of the normal target current HP as damage. At 106 level get "Golem's Power" buff that increase his skill power and makes his auto-attacks have chance to deal additional damage powered by P. Atk. x 5. Have skill with decent cooldown which reduce mob HP bellow 20% to 1. Strong buffs/passives for damage, defense and HP Can AOE with good equipment Got high range provoke skill Got AOE stun with low cooldown Can farm at higher level with low equipment CONS Kinda slow to level up until 106 Cant AOE without good equipment "Golem's Spirit" buff have very low proc rate and with reduced effect on yellow/red mobs. 3. EVISCERATOR PROS Got since low level passive that makes his auto-attacks have chance to deal 30% of the normal target current HP as damage. At 105 level get "Gravity Switch" buff that makes his auto-attacks have chance to deal additional damage powered by P. Atk. X 5. Got skills with very high power Strong buffs/passives for damage Buff for 30 sec immortality Can farm at higher level with low equipment CONS No good skills for AOE Low desired in farming parties 4. OTHELL Ghost Hunter > Adventurer > Wind Rider > Fortune Seeker PROS Half-kill / instant-kill chance skills with low cooldown Strong buffs/passives for damage Can turn himself invisible Can farm at higher level with low equipment Cheap weapons CONS No good skills for AOE Kinda squishy Low desired in farming parties CHAPTER II: MUST DO THINGS AFTER CREATING CHARACTER JOIN A CLAN – by doing that you will acquire good passives and very good auto-get buff when clan leader/officer is online. Also there is a useful rewards for leveling up your character, which can be acquired only if you are in clan and some of them are required for learning new skills. GET AN ACTIVE MENTOR – by doing that you will always have buffs when your mentor is online (after level 100 the free buffs from adventure guide are no more) DYE POWDER – after getting and adding your first dyes from the quest chain, you will get option for very good extra buff from the dyes, to activated you must buy dye powder from the grocery store, be sure to always have some dyes powder in inventory to recharge the buff. CHAPTER III: ITEMS PRIORITY – WHAT TO BUY/GET FIRST Queen Ant's Soul Ring & Angel's Ring+6 R99 BLOODY ARMOR SET+10 (making armor set BLOODY give you the following extra bonus: received PVE dmg -20% and PVE dmg +5% in total) DAMAGE INCREASE JEWELS: - for P. ATK characters – GREATER RUBY + GREATER RED CAT'S EYE (lv.1+) - for M. ATK characters – GREATER SAPHIRE + GREATER BLUE CAT'S EYE (lv.1+) Ruler's Authority belt lv.2 Enhanced/Superior La Vie En Rose's Brooch THOSE ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO GET FIRST !!! CHAPTER IV: ADENA FARMING - The main source for adena farming is SESSION ZONES - Session Zones — Knowledge base Lineage II (l2central.info) - Other popular source is fishing, but for it you must buy a fishing rod which is expensive. (at level 100 there is a quest which will reward you with fishing rod for 7 days, some fishing baits and shots. But with this rod fishing take longer than with normal rod) - At beginning you can make easy starting money by getting mentor who pay for mentee Mentee 104->105 price at the moment is 500 000 000 adena. CHAPTER V: DUALCLASS WHAT IS DUAL CLASS? - after hitting 105 level you will get a option to add another class to play. At the moment leveling your dualclass is more important than leveling your mainclass, because of item called "dualclass certification" used to acquire extra passives and which you will get by leveling your dual class, and which are for both main and dualclass WHAT CLASS IS GOOD FOR DUALCLASS? - Best choice is class who can use your current items (weapon, armors, accessories, etc.) and need the same items bonuses. There two universal classes good for everyone no matter what items he is wearing – ISS ENCHANTER & AEORE HEALER. If you want something else here is the most popular main/dual combos: - same class as main, but different type for example: Wynn Spectral Master (main) / Wynn Elemental Master (dualclass) - Eviscerator / Tyrr Grand Khavatari - Sayha Seer / Feoh - Tyrr Maestro / Tank (not so good coz those two classes need different items bonuses) - Death Knight / Tank (not so good coz those two classes need different items bonuses) I STRONGLY RECCOMEND FOR NEW PLAYERS CHOOSING THE SAME AS MAIN CLASS FOR DUALCLASS AND FOCUS ON RAISING DUALCLASS FIRST, FOR TWO REASONS: Faster getting dualclass certifications Starting from 99 level and ending at 105 level (this is for main and dual) each time you level up you will get clan quest reward "RUNESTONE/S"(total 16 – 8 from leveling main to 105 and 8 from leveling dual to 105) which is required for learning/upgrading class skills (most of the class best skills are acquired that way), but they are never enough for learning all the skills. My advise is: level up your main to 105 without using runestones and when you hit 105 choose dual class same as your main and use those runestones on the dualclass.
(oh cant edit anymore hope this add counts) U P D A T E CHAPTER VI: HOMUNCULUS Making it - 1 million adena + Vitality + SP + HP + waiting time - 2 million adena + Homunculus Hourglass (reward for leveling after 105) Homunculus types – for best info check the patch notes (top left section in the game launcher PATCH NOTES -> ALL UPDATES) for "Homunculus" and "Return of the Queen Ant" updates. Upgrading it - for each 500 mobs kill (they must give exp to count) you get 1 point – 5 times per day - at the cost of vitality – 2 vitality bars = 1 points – 5 times per day DONT UPGRADE LOW/GENERAL RANKS HOMUNCULUS. FOR START GET EXPERT RANK OF HOMUNCULUS GOOD FOR YOUR CLASS AND ENCHANTED FOR STATS GAIN CON/MEN/LUCK/CHA+2 (THAT YOU CAN DO AT LVL 1 HOMUNCULUS) UNTILL YOU GET 1000+ POINTS TRY TO GET TOP/LUMI... GRADE. CHAPTER VII: LEVELING FOR BEST EXP GAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOWEST AND HIGHEST LEVEL IN THE PARTY MUST BE NO MORE THAN FIVE LEVELS !!! 1. Untill level 100 – just folow the quest chain. 2. level 100-105 Blazing Swamp / War-Thorn + 1 hour per day "Abandon Coal Mines" session zone (always in full party) 3. After 105 level – open map, click world info button at bottom right section and look at recommended hunting zones, BUT because of being low equipped farm in lower level zones (for example you can farm in 102 level zones until you hit 108 level, after that mobs become light blue and give low exp) – daily party instances – untill you get good equipment and hit min 108 level my advise is to do only Baylor 105 and Kamaloka 105 (you can easy make or find party) – daily quest for "Imperial Tomb" sesion zone (auto-get when you enter the zone) – there is alot of high levels which makes party room and soloing IT for free (for there level difference between party members dont matter, you are doing this only for the quest) – daily Kastia solo instance – provides good exp and exp buff items reward for completing. – session zones – best go there when you are at mob level or minimum two levels bellow the mob. Session Zones — Knowledge base Lineage II (l2central.info) - SESSION ZONES INFO ALL INSTANCES ARE ENTERED FROM ADEN TOWN NPCs AFTER THE STAIRS.
