FryderykChopin

It's not about being easy, it's about being fun. I'm playing since day 1 on this server, I know what I'm talking about. Yeah, we couldn't use shots, but there were tons of people to play with on early levels. Now there's virtually nobody there. As I said before, this game is meant to play with party, and if you can't get one - which you simply can't in current state - the only way to play most chars is to have a dualbox. I'm repeating myself but if someone wants to play e.g. sorcerer or destro and is supposed to play these chars solo, it's real f***ing stupid and it's obvious such players have 90+% dropouts and server is dying because no new players = no future. It's not about me, I don't give a sh*t, I'm buying dualbox for adena which is a pocket money for me at this point, it's about keeping this server alive which is simply not possible unless dualbox is enabled for newbies. Bring me a real counterargument.

Disagree, I believe much more serious problem is the dualbox locked behind a paywall. Most newbies join during a new patch and the influx decreases over time, yes, but the main issue is that only reasonable way to level basically any char except for summoners is to either A) have a box or B) join a party. Most people don't care to drop 10€ just to "try out" a free server and B) is borderline impossible on early levels, so we ended up in a vicious circle where newbies leave because there're no newbies. The whole donation system needs to change to enable 1 free window for server to grow. The ammount of people who leave because playing a nuker or destro without a box or party is simply not fun vastly outnumbers the ammount of people who'd potentially leave if there were some kind of +10% XP/SP runes in shop.

I suppose it has something to do with resolution on a windowed client. Have you tried going full screen if the problem remains?

Can't say which of those will give you more m.atk (my guess is that +4 INT will give you more m.atk tho), but you can check what the set bonuses will look like on 2.5 patch: https://l2wiki.com/classic/Armor_Sets (the wiki is on newer patch but I believe there were no major changes with set bonuses) - generally speaking you should be aiming at Blue Wolf set anyway since it's the only one that gives you a stun resist, which is extremelly important in PvP. Give or take few points of m.atk don't matter as much as the stun resist here

You gotta be kidding... Has it always (not) worked like this? I recall that since I started playing L2 I've had at least couple RBs that we either had to re-do or failed completely because everyone tried too hard to land those overhits

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Just restart and it should appear again, it's just a visual bug

The premium shop needs to be reworked completely and cloaks are just one of the things that need to be added - I'd add even stuff like the 2015 Christmas outfit or colored title if the price is high enough (the older the item, the higher the price) - I actually own both of these (got the colored title in 2015 event as well), and even though I'm a collector and I like the fact that I have something that's quite unique, I'd be okay with whole server having those if it meant getting rid of the paid dualbox. Because this is one of the main reasons the server is not growing, if you lock the dualbox behind paywall and force newbies to farm solo in completely empty low level zones, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that server won't grow. So: add cloaks, add more accessories, add some soft P2W stuff like +10% XP/SP runes, but make a second window free (PA required only for 2 or more windows... It could also give some basic XP/SP/Adena/Drop bonus as well, literally anything is better than forcing newbies to play solo without buffer)

Damn, high quality stuff, +1

You can check real prices in Giran Harbor (free teleport from each gatekeeper) - the buyers in starting towns usually lowball so I wouldn't count those. If you want me to check the prices for you anyway, throw me a mention (@FryderykChopin) tommorow

If I was in your place I'd try to contact support to help you transfer it manually if you can't progress with it.

Baium +6 already? NANI?! ? Q1: It's just that Necro is so incredibly more powerful than rest of the mages on Classic. There're few situations when other mages can perform better, but in 99 out of 100, necro just does it better. I mean they stripped all mages of their Surrenders and kept Gloom to necro, not sure what NCsoft meant by this. Q2: It's always about what you enjoy playing. As you mention, you got the dirty work done, now it's time to play what you like. No point in playing something just because it's op imo. Q3. Dunno haven't played Zaken yet, but generally speaking chars without aoe will always have harder time leveling up - on top level, Zaken patch brings some new locations out of which some are solo targeted as well so it's not going to be too shabby for them either, but I'll repeat myself from Q2 - you should play what fits you, not what has easiest time leveling up Also, from my experience, basically all chars that have at least some sort of AoE skill get invited into AoE parties - so even though e.g. Sorc has higher AoE output than destro, they're in the same party and get same ammount of exp. Q4: AoE locations will stay as AoE, locs like ABG are just completely useless for single-target farming... Didn't quite catch the second part of the question, sry

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Mass unban would be only a temporary solution, to boost the server in a longrun they need to hire new coders + rework the ingame store with a bit more P2W to pay for the coders. Virtually no other way, the tempo at which the things are done here is absolutely atrocious, it's not just about slow patches / bug updates, the server needs to adapt to current needs which at this point is impossible since any suggestion for improvement gets thrown off the table because 'admins don't have time for this because they need to work on patches' But worst of all is that admins listen to QQers instead of reasoning. The game at its current state could not be any less or more P2W regardless of what ingame store changes are - people can buy adena, they can buy RB jewels, ++items, buffers, even high level chars, there's basically nothing that you couldn't buy with money. If there're some kind of +10% XP/SP runes in ingame store, the game will become 0% more P2W because if someone wants fast levels, they buy a char via RMT anyway. The only difference would be that money goes into admins' pockets instead of RMT's. But there'll always be people who don't understand this so they'll raid the forums crying 'OMGWTFLOL P2W' out loud -> admins get scared and back off -> no money for new coders -> server continues slowly dying. Sad storka but not much can be done.

I don't feel like kicking a dead horse tbh Heard of the cloaks but it's not like it can get much worse than it already was

Not a mage expert but why would there be such a difference between SPS and socka so that they use different setup? Imo flip a coin, if you guess the side then it means you're lucky so go for shield, otherwise get 2h /case closed. //Also the buffs are kinda factor here, whether or not you have access to Bless Shield/Advance Block is a major factor

Y but that's only theoretical solution, in reality it's way too difficult to find people on this early level. It's the same as when people say the dualbox for 10€ for newbies isn't a problem because they're supposed to play with other people - yes they are, but it just doesn't work on nearly 4 year old server. Server needs to adapt to current needs, not to what is theoretically correct way.

Haven't been there myself but if they're really as hard as you say, then I agree something should be done about it... This server is already making newbies' lives miserable with locking dualbox behind paywall, no need to make them suffer any more. +1 for nerfing those quest mobs.

I never thought I'd be so relieved that the event items stopped dropping. Every single fruit that I got was reminding me that this mess is actually a summer event and that we most likely aren't getting anything for next couple of months. As Dr. Seuss says: