Experience rewards from altar raid bosses must be significantly reduced

[utangka]

The Dion server is not in a good state.

Most players now run nine accounts by themselves and play only solo.

Players hunt only altar raid bosses and no longer do field hunting.
Party play has disappeared; everyone simply runs nine accounts alone, farming badges to kill altar raid bosses.
Primeval Isle is no different—it has become nothing more than a place to farm talismans.
The excessive experience provided by the Ketra and Varka altar raid bosses has eliminated field party play.
As field party play has disappeared, the number of PvP encounters with enemies has dropped drastically.
There is less time spent talking with friends and clan members.
Everyone just hides and farms badges on their own.

In addition, allowing unlimited accounts on a single computer has become poison to the Dion server.
Lineage II is a game where multiple players form parties and hunt together across many different fields, but the Dion server is no longer like that.
Like the Talking Island server, it is becoming barren and dried up.
At this point, reverting the unlimited-accounts-per-computer policy is extremely difficult.
That makes the situation even more disappointing.

1. Experience rewards from field monsters must be significantly increased.
Bottles are not the solution. Bottles are not enough.
Players should be able to level up at a reasonable pace without being forced to hunt altar raid bosses.
Simply hunting together in the field while talking with friends and clan members should be enough to level up.

2. Experience rewards from altar raid bosses must be significantly reduced.
Party play while hunting field monsters should provide the best experience rewards.
Just as the experience from the Antharas raid boss was reduced, the experience from altar raid bosses should also be drastically lowered.

Altar raid bosses should be reduced to content mainly for obtaining items such as the Researcher’s Earring.

3. Primeval Isle should also have its experience rewards increased, similar to Ketra and Varka, so that party hunting can take place there.
As it stands, Primeval Isle is still a hunting zone with poor experience rewards.
Players go there only reluctantly for Primeval Talisman farming.

4. Abandoned hunting zones should also provide better experience rewards.
Experience should scale smoothly across hunting zones—
Antharas’s Lair → Tower of Insolence → Giants’ Cave → Ketra / Varka / Primeval Isle—
so that players can hunt in a variety of locations.

When field hunting disappears, the game disappears with it.

As a player who truly loves the Dion server, I am writing this in the hope of doing even a little to help save it.

If you have any good ideas or suggestions, please leave a comment.

[이진언]

This is a very good suggestion.
The game needs to move in a direction where party hunting can be revitalized.
When users consistently have things to do, they log in more often and stay engaged longer.

[DonVito]

All of this is meaningless because it's too far gone. The clans and CPs have long left, and the ones who remain will keep playing with the changes you propose or without. Better ask for fresh server so that there's again an influx of people and these content updates can happen. And mean something. 

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The experience of the altar is not the problem
It's a matter of the server's war structure

The Dion server is led by one clan

We're in a hurry to merge with an island server

[Koll]

On 1/27/2026 at 10:55 AM, utangka said:

The Dion server is not in a good state.

Most players now run nine accounts by themselves and play only solo.

Players hunt only altar raid bosses and no longer do field hunting.
Party play has disappeared; everyone simply runs nine accounts alone, farming badges to kill altar raid bosses.
Primeval Isle is no different—it has become nothing more than a place to farm talismans.
The excessive experience provided by the Ketra and Varka altar raid bosses has eliminated field party play.
As field party play has disappeared, the number of PvP encounters with enemies has dropped drastically.
There is less time spent talking with friends and clan members.
Everyone just hides and farms badges on their own.

In addition, allowing unlimited accounts on a single computer has become poison to the Dion server.
Lineage II is a game where multiple players form parties and hunt together across many different fields, but the Dion server is no longer like that.
Like the Talking Island server, it is becoming barren and dried up.
At this point, reverting the unlimited-accounts-per-computer policy is extremely difficult.
That makes the situation even more disappointing.

1. Experience rewards from field monsters must be significantly increased.
Bottles are not the solution. Bottles are not enough.
Players should be able to level up at a reasonable pace without being forced to hunt altar raid bosses.
Simply hunting together in the field while talking with friends and clan members should be enough to level up.

2. Experience rewards from altar raid bosses must be significantly reduced.
Party play while hunting field monsters should provide the best experience rewards.
Just as the experience from the Antharas raid boss was reduced, the experience from altar raid bosses should also be drastically lowered.

Altar raid bosses should be reduced to content mainly for obtaining items such as the Researcher’s Earring.

3. Primeval Isle should also have its experience rewards increased, similar to Ketra and Varka, so that party hunting can take place there.
As it stands, Primeval Isle is still a hunting zone with poor experience rewards.
Players go there only reluctantly for Primeval Talisman farming.

4. Abandoned hunting zones should also provide better experience rewards.
Experience should scale smoothly across hunting zones—
Antharas’s Lair → Tower of Insolence → Giants’ Cave → Ketra / Varka / Primeval Isle—
so that players can hunt in a variety of locations.

When field hunting disappears, the game disappears with it.

As a player who truly loves the Dion server, I am writing this in the hope of doing even a little to help save it.

If you have any good ideas or suggestions, please leave a comment.

Hello.

Thank you for taking the time to share your suggestion and for clearly explaining your concerns - we appreciate the effort and the intention to improve the overall experience on the server.

That said, the changes you’re proposing are quite significant, and it wouldn’t be appropriate to move forward based on a single forum post alone. Decisions of this scale require much broader feedback from the community so we can properly evaluate their impact on different playstyles, and the long-term balance of the server.

Regarding some of the points you raised:

The reduced amount of PvP is not primarily caused by the lack of account limits, but rather by the current dominance of your side. Removing account limits actually helps the opposing side reach the level cap faster, as different players can run the same group at different times.
Reducing experience from bosses in Altars would remove one of the few viable ways for them to catch up, leaving mob farming and epic bosses (such as Antharas) as the main progression paths. Since your side controls Antharas, this would likely increase the existing imbalance rather than reduce it.

Bottles were introduced specifically so we could quickly and precisely buff certain mob types without affecting bosses in the same areas. This gives us flexibility to adjust progression where needed without causing unintended side effects. We would genuinely like to hear more detailed feedback on why you believe bottles are not an effective solution.

We encourage other players to share their perspectives as well, so this topic can be discussed with a broader range of experiences in mind. Thanks again for contributing to the discussion -  feedback like this is valuable when evaluating potential changes.

[utangka]

I do agree, to some extent, that altar raids are a fast way for players who are at a disadvantage to catch up in level with those who are ahead.
However, altar raids come with a major risk: if they are taken over by the opposing side midway, the loss is significant.
Altar raids are also difficult to defend against enemy attacks during the process.
This is often because many players are logged in mainly on support characters used for altar raids.
In addition, even players who are at a disadvantage mostly farm badges in the field rather than engaging in real field hunting.
I believe the communities among disadvantaged players have also shrunk significantly.
In any case, this is an issue that requires further thought.

 

!!!!! That said, I firmly believe that increasing field experience is absolutely necessary!!!!!

Field hunting rewards players directly in proportion to the time they invest.
Clan members who log in can immediately join party hunting, hunt together, and naturally build an active community.
For this reason, increasing field experience is extremely important.

The bottle system seems designed so that less important characters keep their inventories full, allowing players to concentrate bottles on a few key characters for leveling.
This system itself is not bad.
The bottle system should remain as it is.
However, the experience gained in field zones such as Ketra, Varka, Giants’ Cave, Tower of Insolence, and Antharas’s Lair should be increased overall.
This would allow players to level up through a variety of hunting options, instead of being forced to rely solely on altar raids.