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Hello, Im playing here around 1 month and i came here to play oldschool l2, like it was around 10 years ago, when i liked it the most. Unfortunately i see many things dipper classic server from c3/c4/c5 chronicles.I can understand class balancing factors(changes in skills etc) but let this game atleast look like good old l2. My hearth hurts when i see every1 runing in heavy or robe sets. Where are all these light armor users? Why isnt it viable option like it was on old l2 chronicles? Im playing light armor using class also(tyrant), unfortunately light armor passive(agile movement +10 speed +3 accuracy) has been removed on classic version (i dont kno what was the reason..) I also have many friends daggers and archers here and i see them complaining everyday on clan chat, how bad they feel about runing in hvy. My friend AW looks like SK without cubics... The problem is using heavy sets on these classes has its reasons. Light armor rly sucks here, evasion doesnt even help on pve, mobs can hit u even through ultimate evasion. Its either mobs having too high acuracy or characters too low evasin in light armor. But this is a minor problem, I would care more about pvp. Lets be honest, who the hell auto attacks on pvp? Its either warriors stuning, casting skills or archers stuning + double shoting or mages nuking. You would attoattack only when ur out of mana. I understand it was always like this but ON OLD CHRONICLES SKILLS DID MUCH LOWER DMG THAN NOW. SKILL DMG FORMULA CHANGED ON INTERLUDE TO INCLUDE SOULSHOT X2 DMG BONUS. Ppl used more auto attacks ebcause skills were weak back then and i feel like evasion worked in different way, archers were missing daggers etc. IT WAS COOL. Main problem is that this is how it works on official servers, and this how its meant to be by ncsoft. But does any1 like it? I agree to keep most of things original, not customized. Customizing things lead to rly bad situation. We all know it from high rate servers ( NPC buffers, custom sets, stucksub, faction). I dont know how about you but i rly hate these things BUT if we make custom changes smart, we can improve the game. We can make it more offschool, more classic And i guess this is what we all want. Just keep in mind not to change class ballance. Here are my suggestions how to solve this problem: 1. Improve light armor mastery passive or add 2nd passive with New effect( so the character has 2). You could for example double p def bonus from the passive, other option is to greatly increase evasion the passive gives (15 instead of 7 evasion). Double passive bonus option is the easiest to implement and it doesnt change class ballance much, passive p def bonusx2 and +14 evasion might be good option. Other option is to add new effect. I played tyrant a lot and he had nice passive to motivate ppl for using light set. It was +10 speed and 3 accuracy. I think you could add 10 speed to light armor mastery( this can change kiteing mechanics so it might be bad idea and ppl would still switch to hvy in most situations). You could add bonus +3 str, or +3 con +6 evasion while wearing light. Other option is to add like 5-10% atk speed bonus or 5-10% p atk bonus(this could have bad influence on mage/fighter class balance, if there is any :P). There are many ways you could change that, im up for other suggestions. My best suggestion (dunno if its possible or easy to make) is to add 1 new effect to passive light armor mastery skill - greater agility- has a chance to avoid physical skill damage(avoid also stun dmg but not debuff, it would be passive working like daggers ultimate evasion from hellbound chronicle if someone remembers, but passive skill and much lower effect) 5% on 20lvl, 10% on 30lvl, 15% on 40lvl, 20% on 50, 25% on 60 and 30% on 70 and increases character evasion by 6/7/8/9/10/11(on 20/30/40/50/60/70 lvls), eventually +2 MP recovery bonus I think would have good influence in game, and would make light armor option viable for some classes, also dont change the passive on buffers which have also other armor masteries. You could consider addint it to glad and destro tho, its up to u, but main classes im talking about are daggers and archers. 2. Nerf Heavy armor usuage bonus without heavy armor mastery skill. You can either decrease speed/atkspeed (-10/-10%) for these who wear heavy w/o skill mastery, or decrease p def by 10% or so. 3. Keep it like it is now, retaillike and watch these daggers/archers in full plates, bw and doom heavys. Vote a poll please and add your sugegstions /discuss