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Wow chinese have a special updater with all the chinese messages and stuff? That's pretty sweet tbh

/upperoni

The reward could've been one of the ~10 items (buff scrolls, 7-day agathions etc.), but you're right that the rune is a bit tricky since it's probably the only 2-hour item there... It probably should've been either specified in advance that it might contain shadow item or it should've been changed so that you'd have to double-click the rune to activate it. I assume many people have experienced the same problem, they opened a rune and couldn't really make much use of it, which probably ended up doing more harm than good as a reward. Well, either way you just had a bad luck But it's the same as if someone who has box buffer 70+ gets buff scrolls for lv 1 buffs, not everyone can win, maybe you'll have better luck next time

San0's face when he sees Modoy's 128th attempt to enchant the Drake boots even tho they set the chance of successful enchant to +8 to exactly 0%:

It's a new feature on Zaken patch, you need 2 parties to take the RB down (or a perfect party with D bows++ and high buffer). It's fine on higher levels where it's much easier to form 2 parties in reasonable time, but I agree that on lower levels it's a bit unofortunate since often forming even one party is a bit difficult... I'd probably vote to remove the zerk on RBs under 40 tbh.

Play what you like, but this is not some High Five where all chars are good at something, so don't count on "there must be something they didn't tell me about dagger". Some chars simply pulled a short straw for L2 Classic, e.g. there is a Chain Heal but only bishop has it, so EE/SE are virtually irrelevant for healing here. NCsoft just doesn't care here, and tyrant is better in virtually every way.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++ It doesn't really need to be all fancy, if it's possible then just drag all the monsters drops in some basic .txt file just so we could ctr+f in it... It would be an absolute bomb tbh.

@San0 Approximately at what time can we expect the downtime for update plx?

yeah the wording could've used a little more work... But it's important it's out there

Ah my bad, I probably registered with some alt acc. All good then ? ?

It's a mighty tool yet it doesn't seem to be used here too often (if at all, I don't really remember getting a mail from club tbh). Now it's pretty much the best time to start anyway.

My guess is ~1500 but most of them are high level so you'll hardly ever meet them. There's more than enough people for lategame competition but getting to that high is a bit tough if you don't have CP. Wait for Zaken patch if you want to start, there should be more ppl for you to play with.

It's not necessarily a bad idea, it actually works pretty well on servers like Asterios, but it's mainly because those servers are usually Gracia++ where you reach 'ultimate endgame' fairly quickly and after that there's virtually nothing to do. Classic is a bit different because there's virtually no such thing as reaching a point of no progress, so you don't really have the need to recycle the game for those people. Also on servers like Asterios you know you always have enough people for both projects with no server lacking people - this server is decently populated, but if you were to cut this population in half, both servers would be lacking people which would very easily turn into a vicious cycle of people leaving because there're no people to play with. And finally, the admins refuse to hire external coders which means they're having enough work keeping up this one server (a lot of people left this server because Zaken patch took over 1 year longer than the server needed). But anyway you should check in next week when Zaken patch gets implemented - it should bring a lot of other newbies for you to play with to help you catch up with us old folks

Should we collectors be afraid about losing other 'irregular' items? E.g. I'm saving an unopened 'reward chest' from all events, would be pretty sad to lose them... Or e.g. the 6 months anniversary cakes, the patch 2.0 invitation card (the elpies thing) etc... Is the eggs an isolated case or should I make a ticket listing all the 'endangered' items for the scripte to check?

Yeah another cloak event would be nice... But I guess it can wait, we're getting Zaken patch so most people exploring the new stuff and all ?

I don't really think Club H5 is going to happen anytime soon, if ever. I'm still 98% positive that the "lineage.club" project that ran I think around 2 years back was theirs and it was not very successful. I don't want to roast them now that they're finally giving us the Zaken patch after all, but let's just say they have enough work with one server. Better to give 100% to one server than 50% to two of them.

Well SWS/BD is universally needed, either you go obviously for the dances/songs or you pull trains of mobs, so they're useful in almost all situations. But as Humbleki mentioned, you should play what you enjoy the most. All chars can find their way eventually, even EE/PP, it's just not going to be that smooth,

For real though, been playing EE for around 4 years here and NCsoft seriously hates EEs on Classic. They're virtually the worst char right now, the fact that bish got chain heal and EE didn't basically turned that char into nothing but a PR machine... Classic admins don't follow all the stupid NCsoft's decision but unfortunately they don't do anything about this one.

Good2know, thanks

Eh 2015 squad coming in, nice Anyway nothing much, hbu?

I'd probably wait for update, it should bring some more newbies for you to play with and perhaps even for some sort of semi-CP. With RB parties it's a hit or miss, because many times the low lvl ppl are smurfs who bring their 70++ buffers, so WC isn't exactly always needed. Later on you might find yourself a spot in single-target parties as well, but it's not exactly a guaranteed spot either since obviously a lot of people will box their buffer... On the other hand you shouldn't have an issue doing some farm solo because Othel runes exists (up to +375 crit rate on any weapon) so with your native focus/DW buffs you should get some job done, but I'm honestly not 100% about playing solo buffer without any friends. In other words: if you really want to play WC you can make it work, but it won't be as easy as with other chars.