I don't know which classic you mean, but on Skelth the mithril robe a.k.a banana set was top and something to aim for even with the moon sets. You could say that it's easy enough here etc. , but it's not the server start anymore. Now most of low lvl people are alts, rerolls or friends of someone, so the real new players without any higher level friends are left out. For raids everybody is asking for bow, for tanks - brigandine, for mages - top D staffs. How a new player is supposed to buy all that? The armor would save some money at least to get better weapons or so needed bow. I played Skelth and 90%+ of the population was wearing that moon set. Why bothering buying a banana set? For +1 wit and some more mana? It wasn't worth, you could save that money for C grade, which was what me and my clan did. Only a few lucky people could afford a banana or brigandine set. But that's how Lineage 2 used to work. I'll tell you something. I got a friend which started to play like a week ago or something. He got 2 characters with top D. How? He created a dwarf and farmed all the good spots. And he even has some money for C grade. Now, I kinda agree with you, that almost all the "new players" here are alts with top D grade, but that's how Lineage 2 has always worked (well, a MMORPG has always worked like that). If there's not that much influx of new players, all low lvls that you see are alts or friends of someone. I really think that having top NG weapon + moon set armour would be a bad idea.