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This topic will cover the changes coming to DION x3 server in next monday - 21.04.2025 1 - HUNTING ZONES 2 - ITEMS 3 - NEW EPIC BOSS - ANTHARAS 4 - OTHER CHANGES 5 - NEW FEATURE - EPIC SLAYERS BANNERS HUNTING ZONES The Hunters guild recovered from one of their expeditions to some ancient temple's library some scrolls mentioning 2 ancient tribes that have been at war since the beginning of their existence. The Ketra orcs and the Varka silenos. Scrolls talk about a mysterious island, with some especial power and some unique relics hidden within. They talk about how this tribes have battled each other for ages in order to gain control over that island, not only for the chance of finding this relics, but due to the strategic position of the island being it was a completely isolated place from the rest of the world and hard for someone to attack it so it would be a very safe outpost for any tribe at war. Reading this, the hunters guild immediately decided they wanted to study this island and this tribes, not only to know what war secrets and combat tactics this tribes might have (being them a warrior tribe for so long sure they would have something you could learn from), but also they were very curious about this relics the scrolls talked about, with some passages of the text mentioning "ancient weapons of great power". They formed a expedition led by Master Hunter Helena, a very young but very skillful hunter in the guild. When the expedition arrived to this mysterious island, they figured out something was not as much as the scrolls described. Upon landing on the island they right away start feeling a wicked feeling of intimidation, like something was living there that they have never seen before, or even heard about it before, and its power was so huge that they could feel it in the air around them... This island definitely had some wicked power about it. When they ventured in the island they quickly realized the stories from the scrolls were no longer real. You could indeed find some ruins and reminiscences of what once might have been a Varka outpost, and not further ahead what was left of a Ketra village, but this tribes no longer live in here. Houses still standing, you can still see their flags up on the poles, there is still weapons and armors and daily utensils laying around, but no sign of any living creature that once belonged to this tribes... Not even any bodies... Shocked by what they found on their first day of expedition and with the fall of dusk, the expedition decides to go back to the beach and set camp for the night. There is more to investigate tomorrow. As the night sets, weird noises can be heard from inside of the island, sometimes heavy stomping, sometimes loud roars, and sometimes just a so strong silence that could make their souls chill. Helena wakes up next morning just to find she is the only one left in the encampment. All the gear from all members is still around, all their equipment, cloths, tools, everything still there, except the members of the team themselves. Left alone in this new mysterious world, young Helena made this her home and decided she would figure out all about this island, being it what now seems to be faulty information from the ancient scrolls, or something else that is going on in that Forgotten Island. RELEVANT ZONE INFO - Recommended levels: 79+. - Characters under level 76 are not allowed in this territory and will automatically be teleported out of the island. - When escapes are used on the island character will be teleported to Aden. Outside zone recommended group: Solo / small group. Inside zone recommended group: Full group. - Monsters on the island are mostly all social and will help each other. - Monsters on the island are mostly aggressive. Pterosaurs patrol the inside part of the island and are slightly stronger then the rest of the monsters and use a set of different debuffs that can go from simple bleeds to stronger debuffs like paralyze. Tyrannosauros can spawn ANYWHERE in the full island, they are much stronger then the rest of the monsters and its advised to not take on them alone. Sailren is the boss of the island, he lives in a hidden cave and will come out only to feed, or to fight whoever is crazy enough to challenge him. Helena is your friendly NPC in the island. You can talk with her to buy normal grocery items, especial items or to challenge Sailren. ITEMS Together with Frogotten Island territory, a new array of weapons A grade will be available. - This weapons can only be obtained in the Forgotten Island. - Different recipes and parts can be spoiled in the different monsters both on solo and group area. - Pterasaur can give by spoil any recipe or part. - Tyrannossaurus can give by spoil or drop any recipe or part. - Sailren has a small chance of droping the full item. - Create Item level 8 is required to be able to craft this items. Sirra Blade Naga Storm Cabrio's Hand Behemoth Tuning Fork Sobekk's Hurricane Themi's Tongue Shyeed's Bow Barakiel's Axe Daimon Crystal Sword of Ipos Tiphon's Spear PRIMEVAL TALISMAN Helena will have available a new talisman that can be improved into a better one using some items that can be farmed in the island together with the normal items required to make a talisman. NAME EFFECT REQUIRED Primeval Talisman - Scout pdef 19, mdef 16, poison bleed resist/attack 5% stun attack 5% MEN+1 40x Elemental Stone 10x Talisman Crystal CANNOT TRADE/DROP 100x Primeval Bones Primeval Talisman - Searcher pdef 31 mdef 22 poison bleed root resist/attack 5% stun attack 5% skill reuse-1% MEN+1 CON+1 40x Elemntal Stone 20x Talisman Crystal 150x Primeval Bones 100x Dinosaur Tissue CANNOT TRADE/DROP 1x Primeval Talisman - Scout Primeval Talisman - Ranger pdef 42 mdef 30 poison bleed root resist/attack 5% mental resist 5% stun attack 5% skill reuse -1% mp consumption -1% MEN+1 CON+1 DEX+1 100x Elemental Stone 30x Talisman Crystal 200x Primeval Bones 100x Dinosaur Tissue 10x Carbonemys Shell CANNOT TRADE/DROP 1x Primeval Talisman - Searcher Primeval Talisman - Escort pdef 51 mdef 39 poison bleed root attack/resist 6% mental resist 6% stun attack 6% skill reuse -2% mp consumption -2% MEN+1 CON+1 DEX+1 WIT+1 100x Elemental Stone 40x Talisman Crystal 250x Primeval Bones 200x Dinosaur Tissue 50x Carbonemys Shell 10x Pterosaur Talon CANNOT TRADE/DROP 1x Primeval Talisman - Ranger Primeval Talisman - Commander pdef 62 mdef 49 poison bleed root resist/attack 8% mental resist 8% stun attack 8% skill reuse -2% mp consumption -2% skill power +1% MEN+1 CON+1 DEX+1 WIT+1 INT+1 200x Elemental Stone 50x Talisman Crystal 300x Primeval Bones 200x Dinosaur Tissue 50x Carbonemys Shell 15x Pterasaur Talon 5x Tyrannosaurus Fang CANNOT TRADE/DROP 1x Primeval Talisman - Escort Primeval Talisman - Leader pdef 73 mdef 63 poison bleed root resist/attack 10% mental resist 10% stun attack 10% skill reuse -3% mpsoncumption -3% skill power +2% MEN+1 CON+1 DEX+1 WIT+1 INT+1 STR+1 200x Elemental Stone 100x Talisman Crystal 500x Primeval Bones 200x Dinosaur tissue 50x Carbonemys Shell 15x Pterasaur Talon 5x Tyrannosaurus Fang 1x Sailren Claw Adena 50.000.000 CAN TRADE/DROP 1x Primeval Talisman - Commander System works similar way with tower of insolence talisman, you bring the items to Helena and you can try to upgrade your talisman to the next level, note that with exception of first and last level, upgrade can fail and leave you with the same talisman you had or in some cases even delevel it for the version before. NOTE: As of this moment Dion Sailren will not be dropping Forgotten Scrolls for the Rune skills. NEW EPIC BOSS - ANTHARAS Antharas the Land Dragon has arrived to the club to wreck havoc on everyone who dares to face it. To face Antharas you need to dwell inside of the deeps of her lair. Deep inside Lair of Anthars you will find the Heart of Warding. This is the seal keeping her locked inside of the nest and protecting us all from what would be the world if this evil beast would roam free. The bravest adventures can try to challenge her by using a Portal Stone on the Heart of Warding to be allowed to go inside of her nest. Up to a max of 200 players can port inside to face her at one time. Be advised this is a foe like you never faced before, a daughter of a goddess, a dragon creature born out of evil, hate and spite with only one propose in life, destroy all that exists in the world in the name of Shilen. Bound to be the hardest challenge adventurers have to face since their path started. During the fight Antharas uses a huge list of different type of skills, some of them are only debuffs like paralyze and fear or curses, while other are some devastating damaging strikes, some of them are usually telegraphed by some specific movement she does before using the skills, try to study it to get the hang on whats going on in other to avoid getting your raid force obliterated by some of her skills. At certain stages of raid Antharas will call for the help of her Behemoth Dragons, this counts as a boss itself and will, if survive for long enough, enrage like normal bosses. Make sure you have either someone to control this or you kill them as they spawn to avoid extra chaos. At random occasions Antharas will also spawn a zerg of little dragon bombers, this one will spawn, run from center of the room to the walls and explode when their path finishes, make sure you are no where around one of them by then to avoid massive damage. By defeating Antharas players can obtain a lot of high end items including a new epic jewel - Antharas Earring. NAME EFFECT Antharas Earring mdef 74 mp+9 bleed resist/attack + 5% stun resist/attack +5% Mental resist/attack +5% Healing power +6% MP consumption + 3% Vampiric rage +2% In order to enter Antharas nest player need to obtain a portal stone. this item will be consumed by the Hear of Warding to allow the player to move inside of the nest. Every player wanting to go inside has to have on inventory a Portal Stone. To obtain portal stone players must complete the quest "Audience with the land dragon" Quest "Audience with the land dragon" can be started after lvl 76 by talking with Gabrielle in Giran Town next to the CH auctioneers NPCs Antharas will spawn 20 minutes after the first player ports inside. If no one attacks Antharas for a long time She will go back to sleep and kick everyone out of the nest. Antharas respawn time will be 10days +12h of random window. A CC of at least 25 people is needed to enter antharas lair. As per usual on new added epic bosses ANTHARAS WILL BE DEAD ON THE UPDATE DAY AND START SPAWN WINDOW FROM THAT SAME TIME. NOTE: To better accommodate the community state in terms of player base and gear levels on Dion server this antharas is a heavily nerfed version of antharas, We will monitor it closely in order to understand if more nerfs or buffs are needed in close future. OTHER CHANGES We understand sometimes is very frustrating for players to spend a long time to set up and kill epic raid bosses and at the end come out empty on terms of loot, sometimes even for multiple kills in a row. In order to try to combat this feeling, not only we are increasing chance of drops for epic jewels to 50% for all epics, as we are also adding a new item to the game in order to make it less painful if that coin toss doesnt go your way. With this new items jewel fragments, even if the boss doesnt drop your epic jewel, you can work your way into one. - Epic Jewell Fragment added to all epics and epic priests. - Epic Bosses have 100% chance to drop this fragments. - Epic Bosses Priests have a smaller chance of dropping this fragments. - Players can save this fragments and after a certain amount trade them on NPC Baggins for a respective epic jewel of the fragments they have. - Number of fragments required to exchange for a jewel are based on their spawn times, difficulty and power and goes as: Queen Ant - 6 Core - 6 Orfen - 6 Zaken - 4 Baium - 4 Antharas - 3 - Zaken HP/PDEF/MDEF reduced by 20%. - Zaken lvl 3 is now available on NPC Baggins. - Some adjustments were made to drop lists of Queen Ant, Core and Orfen in order to better match their higher level status (instead of lvl 40/50), so it can drop B grade items in a more constant and reliable way. Besides this groups changes, some new items were added to this bosses drop table in separated groups in order to make it more rewarding for the players who decide to hunt them. The new items added are: Life Stones (normal, mid and high) Enchant Armor A grade Enchant Weapon A grade Gemstone A grade Cloth Piece Greater Dye +4-4 (all types) Spellbook Box - 3rd Class Transfer NEW FEATURE - EPIC SLAYERS BANNERS After the slaying of a epic boss, an announcement will happen and a banner will now appear in Giran for a limited time that players can talk to and receive a buff. Banners will appear in center of Giran town. - QA/Core/Orfen banners gives lvl 1 buff: +30% EXP/SP, +1 to all Stats. - Baium/Zaken banners gives lvl 2 buff: +30% EXP/SP, +2 STR/INT, +1 DEX/WIT/MEN/CON. - Antharas banner gives lvl 3 buff: +30% EXP/SP, +2 STR/INT/DEX/WIT, +1 MEN/CON. - This buff last one hour and stays after death.

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Subject: Suggestion Regarding Soul Bow Attack Speed and DPS Balance for Archer Classes To whom it may concern, I would like to share a concern regarding the current balance of A-grade longbows, specifically the Soul Bow and Shyeed’s Bow, in Lineage II Classic—particularly how they compare unfavorably to lower-grade weapons like the Hazard Bow and even the Bow of Peril in terms of DPS. ⚔️ Test Setup & Observations A comparison was conducted between: Soul Bow +3 (A-grade, P.Atk 552) Hazard Bow +3 (B-grade, P.Atk 424) Both bows were tested under identical conditions: Character: Level 78 Ghost Sentinel No buffs applied Target: NPC Holly (Aden Town Store) Attack Count: 40–54 swings for each weapon ❗ Key Issues 1. Unexpectedly Low Attack Speed Even considering that Soul Bow is a longbow, it shows a lower number of attacks per minute compared to the B-grade shortbow Hazard Bow. This contradicts the behavior seen in D-grade bows, where both longbows and shortbows share the same number of attacks per minute, indicating an inconsistency in weapon design across grades. 2. Lower DPS Despite Higher Attack Power Due to the reduced attack speed mentioned above, the Soul Bow, despite having 128 more P. Atk than Hazard Bow, ends up showing lower overall average DPS. This is a clear issue, as higher-grade weapons should naturally offer better performance. 3. Skill Delay, Firing Motion, and Reduced Attack Frequency It is understandable that longbows have longer firing motion animations, which affects not only auto-attacks but also skill casting speed, making them less effective in hit-and-run or PvP scenarios compared to shortbows. This aspect can be accepted as part of the intended design difference between longbows and shortbows. However, the additional drop in attacks per minute, leading to reduced DPS, appears to be a balance flaw rather than a design choice. Especially when D-grade longbows and shortbows share equal attack speed, it is hard to understand why A-grade longbows like the Soul Bow suddenly lose efficiency in both speed and performance. 🧩 Balance Concern If this issue remains unaddressed, A-grade longbows such as the Soul Bow and Shyeed's Bow risk becoming less valuable than B-grade bows, leading to them being effectively abandoned by players. 📝 Suggested Improvements We kindly request a review of item settings to ensure that A-grade longbows do not suffer from additional penalties in attack frequency compared to shortbows. Furthermore, we urge you to resolve the abnormal cancellation issue of the archer debuff skill [Real Target], and to reassess the overall weapon balance so that higher-grade equipment can offer clear and meaningful advantages. We appreciate your attention to improving the archer class's performance and gameplay satisfaction, and we sincerely hope for a positive review and implementation of the above concerns.

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**introduction** First of all, unlike the attack/defence assistant healers, Elven Elder, and Silien Elder It is a class that performs a group of main healers in a party, not an auxiliary role, and a group of main healers in a coalition. However, Bishop, the current human healer, has clear limitations in skill composition. Elven Elder, which is focused on defense, has essential buffs related to hunting/pvp, There's** Mass Vitality**, a party hill faster than any other class, and the **Tree of Life** that releases the debuff of the entire party. Buff skills and mass vitals, and high wit levels of 1 tree + elf not only help In certain situations, it is also possible to play a role as a main healer. Silien Elder, who has a strong tendency to attack, is less utilized than Elven Elder, As for paralysis, the current PVP trend, its utilization may increase further in the future. In addition, the utilization of **stigma**, which lowers marten and weapon resistance, cannot be ignored. However, in tk servers with an average leveling of 83 to 84, Cadinal's utilization and defensive/offensive healer Elf/Dark Elf's While there is a clear role, Bishop has very vague boundaries. **point** Bishop now is a de facto abandoned class, except for Balance Life and Clans. The main heel, **Great Battle Hill**, is not much different from Elven Elder, but rather, due to the heel volume critical The amount of heel is lower than that of Elven Elder. **Restore Life**, which fills up your physical strength with percentage, is rarely used because of the visual acceleration. Additionally, since the Clans skill is a single target, all party members are in the "tree of life" skill that unlocks the debuff incomparably compared to Claesson is Bishop's only skill that's so good, but since long ago, the debuff fight is the main focus on pvp rather than damage The skill delay is too long to use for party members until today. But because we know each other so well about the importance of Bishop, the core of the party, we're the most important target in pvp It is also lacking in viability because it is prioritized and removed. It just so happens that a patch to adjust the balance in operation is scheduled, so I suggest it to the forum like this. **in conclusion.** First of all, additional skills are needed regarding Hill, Bishop's identity. I ask Cadinal for **major heal, major group heal** skills. I think it would be better to have a skill level difference with Elven Elder. It's actually a high-five version of Cardinal, not a classic server Heal can't be followed by Elven Elder. Next, I think the delay in** balance life and clans** skills should be reduced even by a second or two compared to now. The** Clans** and **Balance Life** now have too long delays in farm and pvp situations. If skill construction such as** purification field** is not possible, the **skill delay of Clans** should be reduced even a little. Finally, regarding viability, the group version of the **Turnstone** skill in PP and the **block windwalk and block shield** in PP Request addition of ****mass block windwork, mass block shield.** ** I'm not suggesting Bishop should be the best, but as a user who's only played Bishop for about three years It's a suggestion to improve balance and class characteristics, so please check it out.