Omega’s Cat smiled at her master, happy to see him alive and whole. Her memories of the recent events were mostly a blur. She could recall the many adventurers who had listened to her sad tale and gave wealth earned by their own spoils of battle. Omega’s Cat doubted that their intentions were really to free their master. She had seen their eyes light up at the sight of the crimson masks and horns, glittering crystals, and more that came from the depths of the Coffer of Shadows. No matter, she thought, she had still reached her goal. She had only dim memories of racing from the town, carrying a sack filled with jingling coins; she had stood before the leader of the undead army and demanded the return of her master.
Omega’s own memories were, unfortunately, fresh and vivid in his mind. The endless days of imprisonment and hopelessness would haunt his dreams for many nights to come. He had overheard some of the army muttering that their old commander, Dafstin, would never have left a prisoner alive. But this new leader learned from Dafstin’s mistakes. Other whispers from the undead had revealed the leader recognized the value of money and was determined to properly outfit his army. They had long been gathering crafting materials to create weapons and armor, and the paid ransom would no doubt go toward the same cause.
Omega glanced at his pet, and shared the smile for a moment. “I’m forever in debt to you, my brave little Pavv,” he told his faithful servant. His smile faded. “But it’s too soon to relax. They are preparing for a war… and I plan to give them one.”
Omega’s Revenge
Omega has returned from beyond with reports that the undead legion has been deployed across Aden and Elmore. The denizens of the dark are hunting unwary adventurers, and gathering and hoarding crafting materials to arm themselves for an invasion. Hunt them down and stop them from their task.
Monsters across all level ranges will randomly appear in various locations carrying crafting materials for various B Grade armor, L2 Day scrolls, Enchant Armor scrolls, and more. Be on your guard and join in the fight this menace!
im left wondering where a supervillan buys 8000 rusted swords. i think Pavv should have killed Omega, and split the gold with Dafstin's henchman. then all the people who bought the boxes would really feel bad. maybe.
...Pavv could totally pwnzor Buzz, btw.
well i dont see any reason at this event.. im allready in full b grade and those are only dropping armor b grade materials.. and l2day scrolls and so on.. nothing witch could help me to get into A grade. :(
o dont get me wrong, i love the upcomming event, if it is what i think it is. and i really liked that they attempted to put a "twist" into the storyline (you just helped fund an army of evil, unbeknownst to you, oh noes!). but the twist simply wasnt twisty enough for my taste. we should start rating backstories on a sliding scale, i give this one 7 out of 10.
Ok, time to bring out my crystal ball and see if I can predict how this event will go.....
[How it works:] Mobs randomly appear.
Good: They appear on mob death. (Like a quest mob/event drop.)
Bad: They spawn in preset locations like the Raid(Dafstin/Invasion) mobs at semi-random intervals.
Most likely result? BAD. End result, high level chars will run around on striders finding the most likely spawn points and camping them. (Like the last mob event.) Majority of players will miss the mobs as mob TTL will be short. (Time to Live)
[Rewards:] B grade Armor parts, Crafting mats, L2 Scrolls and Enchants.
Good: Hundreds of needed Items such as Iron Ore, Key items and higher level enchants. Probably some soul Crystals as well.
Bad: Mobs drop 10's of mats (aka 30 Thread) Key Items are B armor ONLY (B Recipes and Weapon parts are harder to get than B armor...), average drop will we 4 A Crystals or WW/GMHP type pots and enchants will be insanely rare just like the soul crystals.
Most Likely? BAD. (NC sure likes to nerf rewards hard.)
[Originality?]
Good: Nice backstory, new event.
Bad: Recycled event with new names for the old backstory.
Most Likely? GOOD. Backstory has a good theme, writing could have been done better though. Extra big bonus however for a new event that hasn't been recycled to death.
[Participation:]
Good: Everyone has a chance at killing some mobs and getting some items.
Bad: Mobs spawn at preset (semi-random) intervals, thus only those on constantly and roaming for spawns (or just timing them and camping.) ever see more than 1 group.
Worse: Mobs spawn completely randomly but rate is only high during 'peak hours'.
Most Likely: Bad.
...and the Crystal ball grows cloudy again.
C'mon NC....prove me wrong about this. (I am not holding my breath on it though.) :(
Oooh I hope it's like that one event where stuff spawned in various places, where hints were given out in the splash screen. I cleared out ENTIRE areas by myself, several times ^ ^
wow yeah nice event just one more thing excuse me do you have any idea how high level SEs can be benefited by the event like all the other class? go solo mobs that are 20 levels below? will they get drops then?
yeah SEs are overpowered and need to be nerfed more!!
well i dont see any reason at this event.. im allready in full b grade and those are only dropping armor b grade materials.. and l2day scrolls and so on.. nothing witch could help me to get into A grade. :(
Wow... You really arent thinking are you? Enchant scroll sell everyday, L2day scroll sell at a fairly good price if you give them a week or so after the event, and b grade mats always sell (other people than you are going into b grade soon i am sure). There are plenty of ways in this event to make SOME money to work on your a grade. Just think about it and dont shun the event until its here.
Sure B grade sells, problem is however not the key items LOL, it's however the mats.
I got so much B grade key items I duno what to do with it, no selling them does not work very well, sure they sell after a few weeks. Have like almost 1k BO key items, over 600 zubei key items and so on.
Another problem is that there currently is so much Adena flooding the market. And to top over that, not enough mats, due this, mat prices rice because the Adena is there.
Hopefully this event actually give mats, sure the market really need floods of mats right now to make up for it but some help should be enough.
wow yeah nice event just one more thing excuse me do you have any idea how high level SEs can be benefited by the event like all the other class? go solo mobs that are 20 levels below? will they get drops then?
yeah SEs are overpowered and need to be nerfed more!!
For us live SE's events will be per definition not that much fun if we are to try to do it solo.
To have fun solo there would need to be a balance between classes.
Balance between classes are the keywords. However I do believe those words are alien to most only some can comprehend the meaning of it.
I will basically try the event ("try" meaning again hoping for a non-prime-time oriented event) on my Necromancer/Spell Howler. If I am to participate with my true main (aka SE) it would just be too depressing.
I wish this flood of adena your talking about hits me. I am broke. This event will help. Weither you get 50 WW and sheild scrolls you will make some money and some money is better than no money right?
The event was going good, until I came across, "Monsters across all level ranges will randomly appear in various locations carrying crafting materials for various B Grade armor." The time when people actually could have gotten real use out of this was during C2 to C3. We are well into C5 and approaching C6. The people who need help with their armor need help getting A grade equipment not B, and if I had to take a guess, they, like me, need help only getting the A grade helmet for the set of their choice.
This event would be good if the mobs had a chance of dropping random A grade helmet recipes, there are no need to make the parts drop, there are already plenty for cheap purchase in Giran.
For me, who hunts the mobs who still drop high grade B to low grade A equipment parts already, these event mobs are going to be exactly like the mobs I'm already hunting, and even if I do kill one, I'll probably never know it was an event mob instead of a normal mob unless it drops avadon armor parts instead of blue wolf armor parts.
Therefore I'm going to give this event a preliminary rating of 2/5 because something is better than nothing.
Acurate start and end times would be appreciated :eek:
and to know if the spawns will be evenly distributed or not?
seems too short these need to be at least 7 days so people who work get a fair shot :( but I do like this type of event :) key mats meh... make it good recipes for all grades! (appropriate grade to the lvl of the mobs) :p
Would be nice if this event was longer? I cannot play on weekdays since busy but weekends I am able to.. Sad to see this one being really short compared to others.
the average player is dumb, for any other player who takes the time to learn spawning patterns or likelihood of spawns and gets down spawn times within 2 days the events reap huge rewards. More events for the dumb and lazy and stupid? No thanks, keep it up.
Too bad not all of us can play during the times when the spawns actually happen. But of course, understanding that people have responsibilities outside of the game is an impossibility.
Finding where the mobs spawn and when they spawn is not a matter of being intelligent, its a matter of both luck and a large information network. You only know where and when they spawn if you can be there at the time and place when they spawn or if you know somebody who is willing to share this information with you. But as per the above statement, for some people who can only play this game during set time intervals, this may make participating in the event impossible even if they have the network needed to find the spawns.
Before you call someone else dumb, do us the favor of looking in a mirror.
Ok, time to bring out my crystal ball and see if I can predict how this event will go.....
[How it works:] Mobs randomly appear.
Good: They appear on mob death. (Like a quest mob/event drop.)
Bad: They spawn in preset locations like the Raid(Dafstin/Invasion) mobs at semi-random intervals.
Most likely result? BAD. End result, high level chars will run around on striders finding the most likely spawn points and camping them. (Like the last mob event.) Majority of players will miss the mobs as mob TTL will be short. (Time to Live)
[Rewards:] B grade Armor parts, Crafting mats, L2 Scrolls and Enchants.
Good: Hundreds of needed Items such as Iron Ore, Key items and higher level enchants. Probably some soul Crystals as well.
Bad: Mobs drop 10's of mats (aka 30 Thread) Key Items are B armor ONLY (B Recipes and Weapon parts are harder to get than B armor...), average drop will we 4 A Crystals or WW/GMHP type pots and enchants will be insanely rare just like the soul crystals.
Most Likely? BAD. (NC sure likes to nerf rewards hard.)
[Originality?]
Good: Nice backstory, new event.
Bad: Recycled event with new names for the old backstory.
Most Likely? GOOD. Backstory has a good theme, writing could have been done better though. Extra big bonus however for a new event that hasn't been recycled to death.
[Participation:]
Good: Everyone has a chance at killing some mobs and getting some items.
Bad: Mobs spawn at preset (semi-random) intervals, thus only those on constantly and roaming for spawns (or just timing them and camping.) ever see more than 1 group.
Worse: Mobs spawn completely randomly but rate is only high during 'peak hours'.
Most Likely: Bad.
...and the Crystal ball grows cloudy again.
C'mon NC....prove me wrong about this. (I am not holding my breath on it though.) :(
Aren't you the little genious... that's cute... you shoukld complain some more about getting fun little entertaining events that liven up the game...FFS
BTW, great job NC for keeping the events comming :) never a dull momment in L2, you guys do a great job keeping my time occupied ^^
Aren't you the little genious... that's cute... you shoukld complain some more about getting fun little entertaining events that liven up the game...FFS
BTW, great job NC for keeping the events comming :) never a dull momment in L2, you guys do a great job keeping my time occupied ^^
I've 'participated' in just about every 'event' that this game has had since Open beta. And given that experience, I'd say my pessimism is pretty well justified.
If anything, I may be overly hopeful considering NC's track record on providing a balance of events and rewards/participation.
And running an event from monday to friday pretty much excludes the 'weekend' players from this event right off the bat. A Tuesday to Tuesday (Or even Thursday to Sunday!) event would have been better in terms of allowing everyone (in NA) to 'fully participate' in ANY event. (Barring a 'weekend only' event anyway.)
I can understand you being ****** off about the days of the event. However, this is a way for people to have fun. If you dont like the idea because of those of us who hunt down and camp the event spawn places then dont participate in this event or fight for your right to camp that area (Dont forget pvp aspect of the game).
Nc soft cannot email all of the people that play this game and ask their veiws on a new event how many days, what days, and what drops. So they make do with what they can. My server seems to have a ton of fun during events like this and make good money. As i have said before its not all about one player weither its me that complains or someone else. Over all dont like it dont do it.
While your opinion is yours, you must understand there have been weekend only events in the past. They change the event duration periods around for a reason.
I love it. Again a nice little event, which NC didn't have to even have, and again the whine hoses are out in force! Nice to see people complaining about the event before it even begins. And better yet those who already know how the event is gonna happen and have already deemed it useless. Whine, whine, whine! Just go play and kill some mobs! GL to those who are looking forward to this event with a positive attitude!
Flame away!
Not everyone playes exclusively on the weekends...
And this game was not design for te NA market, the fact that you areable to play the game at all shouls suffice.
If you want a game that opperates exclusively on the NA clock than play WoW, you'll be right at home with all the other Americans, sinse that game has next to no international clientel.
Lineage II is a vastly INTERNATIONAL game, that means all the events don't revolve around anuyone's schedule... some events are on weekends, some the week days, some weeks, some months... you don't like it? Cry about it... :p
The undead are a rowdy bunch and they will make their presence known when they arrive. (There should be an announcement on the server when the monsters appear.)
So there gonna be a message this time??? Last time they just spawned at random times with out any message if i remeber correctly and last time some one said there should be a message when they spawn and there was not :(
Not everyone playes exclusively on the weekends...
And this game was not design for te NA market, the fact that you areable to play the game at all shouls suffice.
If you want a game that opperates exclusively on the NA clock than play WoW, you'll be right at home with all the other Americans, sinse that game has next to no international clientel.
Lineage II is a vastly INTERNATIONAL game, that means all the events don't revolve around anuyone's schedule... some events are on weekends, some the week days, some weeks, some months... you don't like it? Cry about it... :p
I think we can all agree that a weekend for me corresponds to at least one day in in a weekend for someone else, while I might be going into my Sunday when someone else is going into their Saturday, we are still both going to have some specific time where we each have a weekend day. It is not possible to live on Earth and be more than 1 days ahead or behind one other person. Now if you move to another planet which rotates more slowly than the earth, I will concede that people can be more than 24 hours apart.
Because the game is international, it actually needs to make sure that the players in each time zone are made equal, or rather are offered equal oppurtunities within what would be a fair time for their time zone. So this would exclude events which only occur at 1pm est, as this would not be fair time for every player of L2. But we see already that the game does not operate this way. Except for on the European servers, the times are very much centered around a North American, just ask our international players how much fun it is to siege on Bartz or Lionna or any nonEuropean server. What we see is that the game does operate exclusively on the NA clock and is NOT a vastly international game even though it has players from all over the world (though I believe that Japan and China might each have their own set of servers).
When NC sends me a check for $15.00 a month I will be more than willing to cater to its needs, but unti such a time, I will keep sending NC $15.00 a month so long as they can provide a product I feel is worth at least $15.00 a month. Of course, we can always stet discussing whether I would continue to pay if the price rose, and at what point I would be unwilling to pay for the current service ($40.00 give or take $5.00). If we look at the events as a way of providing additional utility to the game, this is an attempt to capture the money of those players who were unwilling to pay for the raw L2 service at $15.00, and for each person the amount of utility that the event has to add is different. In order to maximize the amount of utility added by an event to tmept as many fringe people as possible, the event has to be as good as NC is allowed to make it. so to say it has to create as much utility for this group of players while detracting as little from another group of players who are paying customers for the core game at $15.00 per month to maximize the total monthly revenue. And it is here that the event fails miserably, the additional utility added by having a very short event with time and location dependent spawns who don't drop anything of high value (unless they drop brez scrolls with a high probability) is likely to be very small for all players. While this will keep the disruption to current basic L2 players to a minimum, it also adds the fewest additonal customers. And some of the current customers who would also participate in the event upon seeing the event being so short and so unrewarding might become upset and lose utility because they perceive themselves to be getting ripped off or some such and could either become a nonpaying customer or move closer to becoming a nonpaying customer.
And so Fushigi what you are saying and what we are seeing simply do not correlate.
The undead are a rowdy bunch and they will make their presence known when they arrive. (There should be an announcement on the server when the monsters appear.)
Don't wait for the announcement. Ride to the sounds of the screaming!!!
Thanks for another event Mistryl!
And.. Since this event does not seem to be related to Christmas, I suspect another event will follow shortly, yes?
My guess is yes, low levels will be able to hunt them. However I think the drops will be different. I don't think a level 20 - 30ish mob will drop anything other than L2Day scrolls. I can't see them dropping B grade mats, although that would be nice.
True random spawn or random spawn in a certain "area"?
Level range for players. depending on the "area" of the spawns?
Actual armor pieces or B grade armor mats?
There are random spawns in certain areas; the level range should be appropriate for the area. The event rewards consist mainly of crafting materials and scrolls, not full armor drops.
To my knowledge among my previous 2000+ posts, I never once complained about an event. There were some, that I made money of, there were others, where I did not make a dime of and some that I couldn't take part at all, due to RL.
This time, I want to give a bit of feedback though.
A friend of mine just killed one of the event raid bosses and they got several hundreds of base materials, some key materials, scrolls and enchants.
Most of it is all fine and dandy, but somehow I am getting the feeling, that this event is the ultimate anti-BH event.
Raidbosses not only do not spoil anything (making a BH a worhtless addition on a raid party), but they also do give hundreds of material.
What they got from just one raid boss would take me over a week of my playtime to make with spoiling.
I am truely curious, just what kind of "economic" improvements, the dev team got waiting for us. Maybe some day there will come the time, when I will say "Hey, good, that I did not delete that char."
almost no one plays a BH as a main because it has 0 pvp abilities. Even warsmiths have more usage in pvp then them they can at least use their summon.
There is no where near as many bh as needed to get the key mats and mats to craft things so please this is much needed i like this event.
Only problem i had was with it was only found 1 spawn and me and my clan looked all over the map. I like it when they spawned raid bosses because it stopped people from aoeing the mobs which people were doing in the one spawn.
Can we put raid bosses in wit the spawns so people dont just aoe all the mobs?
almost no one plays a BH as a main because it has 0 pvp abilities. Even warsmiths have more usage in pvp then them they can at least use their summon.
There is no where near as many bh as needed to get the key mats and mats to craft things so please this is much needed i like this event.
Only problem i had was with it was only found 1 spawn and me and my clan looked all over the map. I like it when they spawned raid bosses because it stopped people from aoeing the mobs which people were doing in the one spawn.
Can we put raid bosses in wit the spawns so people dont just aoe all the mobs?
Like we can spoil mats anyway, your point being? BH got nothing truthfully, one of the most broken classes in game. And NCSoft is not even fixing it yet in Interlude... I wonder if ever... but who the hell I don't care anymore, My friend need 15% more then we quest and then I never **** EVER switch back to my main.
You have to look at it from a different direction.....
If you can get your hands on one of those mob groups, it's going to give you a boost in craftable goods. If you hold onto these, it will give you along term profit.
True random spawn or random spawn in a certain "area"?
Level range for players. depending on the "area" of the spawns?
Actual armor pieces or B grade armor mats?
There are random spawns in certain areas; the level range should be appropriate for the area. The event rewards consist mainly of crafting materials and scrolls, not full armor drops.
Thanks again for your timely and well-worded response.
The undead are a rowdy bunch and they will make their presence known when they arrive. (There should be an announcement on the server when the monsters appear.)
Lol, good. Last time a huge pile of mobs and a raidbosses just snuck up, and appeared all around me. Being fairly new at the time, and didnt know if they aggroed I almost pooped my pants out of fright, lol.. ahh, that was fun ... ( the excitement, not the **** part you perverts )
Not quite agreeing with you, if anything it simply deprives the automated buddies of their earnings, you can still easily earn money.
Yes, the event won't be terribly useful to dwarves (I intend to take my BH there anyway, IF the darn things spawn at the right time of the day so I can play), but I think overall its going to be good.
Ok, found 'em, killed 'em and i liked it :)
I've got hundreds of varnish, thousands of animal skin, key mats drop in bundles of 13, got recipes, EWB, scrolls... oh yeah, and imperial crusader parts from a friend's spoil. sweet!
I just wonder if only 1 group of mobs spawn at a time, on the whole world.
Ok, found 'em, killed 'em and i liked it :)
I've got hundreds of varnish, thousands of animal skin, key mats drop in bundles of 13, got recipes, EWB, scrolls... oh yeah, and imperial crusader parts from a friend's spoil. sweet!
I just wonder if only 1 group of mobs spawn at a time, on the whole world.
I've been on the game for a hour to four hours and I have not seen not one spawn of them.. and that's really bad cause it means once again the spawn rate of event creatures are once again at it's lowest.
There are random spawns in certain areas; the level range should be appropriate for the area. The event rewards consist mainly of crafting materials and scrolls, not full armor drops.
LOL yeah right.
Lv 4x area, outside oren castle, lv 65-69 mobs.
Lv 5x Area Aden, outside cementary..... lv 85 mobs or so.... ANd some of them in Full A grade, lv 75, melee hit you for 600-800 in damage, and mage attack up to 1,5 ( AOE ).
So duno how you could get that to be good lv range LOL.
I found the mobs which spawned where I was to be within the right level range, sure they appeared to be dark red, but after assembling a quick team of one level 66 spellsinger (me), a level 69 dagger, 55 elven elder, 60 prophet and 52/53 swordsinger we were able to easily kill the event mobs.
You can find both types, though I haven't seen them all in the same area yet. The regular mobs come in all flavors of different hit point types, with some dropping items and others not. From what I've seen, each normal mob and raid boss have been weak to holy type attacks. The boss mobs seem to always drop items in much greater quantities than than the normal mobs.
if u can find one... i've been running all along aden this morning for like 2 hours now, saw only 1 raid boss lvl 69 (which, considering im playing on franz is likely impossible to beat). do they even respawn? give some locations pls
You obviously never saw me [censored], little one.
Maybe you do not understand the difference between a complaint coming with disappointment and [censored].
Also I did not see my crying or demanding anything. Just stating my views on this event.
So cry me a river, but do not call me [censored].
Oh and you better not ever complain about anything, as sure as hell, I will be right there and call you a whiner, no matter how valid your complaint is.
Crying Kitten
Edit for clarification: All the [censored] in my post is just the word with the bit he used, but without the spelling mistake.
Does anybody seen them on Lionna? Especially in low lvl areas?
I never heard anybody announce their coming.
I just ran into a pack of event mops near Dwarven Village last night. So yes, you can find them in low lvl areas (or "very" low lvl areas - depending on how you define the word "low lvl" :o). Good luck!
I found the mobs which spawned where I was to be within the right level range, sure they appeared to be dark red, but after assembling a quick team of one level 66 spellsinger (me), a level 69 dagger, 55 elven elder, 60 prophet and 52/53 swordsinger we were able to easily kill the event mobs.
Yeah, they're not unkillable, but having monsters from Forge of the Gods in the Aden Cemetery region was a little amusing. And certainly level 85 6x HP monsters aren't gonna be killed by the level 50s that hunt in the area; our small party which was all 60+ and mostly 75+ cleared it carefully with Lure (even for us the monsters were too difficult to clear except one at a time). And none of us have hunted cemetery in many, many levels. Likewise, the level 40s players hunting in Oren aren't gonna be able to do the mobs from TOI5 (especially as they para).
That being said, I think the level ranges that are being spawned in each area are pretty good. Past events have sometimes been putting far too easy of monsters; this event certainly doesn't have that problem. In fact I prefer challenging to easy, even if it does mean more blessed res usage.
Seriously i ve never seen an more annyoing event then this one ...
first of all u have to be lucky to be on when the mobs spawning ... ( at least no mobs spawned since 12 hours i guess )... when ur online at this time u have to find the mobs... if the mobs are close to u u gonna try to set up a party and call some friends... but before the friends are close any stupid high lvl ppl came and killed the mobs in 1-2 hits...
so this is an event for 24/7 gamers only? for this event u dont need anything... u just need to be a freak who is sitting 24 hours a day infront of the pc and keep camping close to a town till the big announcment appears...
LOL I would wish I where able to kill the mobs in 1-2 hits, non of the ones I hitted, even the dark blue ones took many many hits to kill.
The 85 mobs we did hit, as arigato said was sure not easy, and we ALL where 60+ in the party in an 5x area, most where 75+ except 3. Some of hte mobs AoE'd us for over 1500 damage, lets say they where farm from killabel from an lv 5x char, in fact if a group of 5x chars would have tried them, they would be dead.
I can't even find anything to kill. Where the heck are you guys finding these mobs? I've got an over buffed BD that took out a group in Oren.... but since then I can't find jack! :(
I can't even find anything to kill. Where the heck are you guys finding these mobs? I've got an over buffed BD that took out a group in Oren.... but since then I can't find jack! :(
thats a secret :D
they are the same as last event same mobs same spots for respawn just different time
That doesn't help me, I wasn't here for the last event. It was during one of my hiatus' from L2. They are supposed to be around Oren/Aden I thought, but that hasn't worked out for me.
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an event is supposed to entertain ppl. i cant even see the beginning of entertainment in running around the whole world map while ppl who played longer times on the servers got advantages... those rich ppl who got the money to pwn this mobs getting more money... those ppl who just want get some changes are watching how ppl killing the mobs.( if they find the mobs ) <-- that's pure entertainment. TY NCSoft. Get the xmas event started...
This is seriously a clan quest, work as a clan, when you guys see the announcement, scan the entire world, yeah as a clan you could have like 20 scouts, finding one group goes really fast, gater up and work together to kill them.
Thats what this type of quest is, yesterday I know our alliance managed to find 5 piles of groups and got 3 RB's killed.
They appear after announcement, all our clan has popped on alts when a clannie spotted a lower lvl group and we got some awesome drops. Use your clan for this event and you can find some great groups!!!
almost no one plays a BH as a main because it has 0 pvp abilities. Even warsmiths have more usage in pvp then them they can at least use their summon.
?
Like we can spoil mats anyway, your point being? BH got nothing truthfully, one of the most broken classes in game. And NCSoft is not even fixing it yet in Interlude... I wonder if ever... but who the hell I don't care anymore, My friend need 15% more then we quest and then I never **** EVER switch back to my main
it sounds like you may want to reconsider your choice as a charecter as well...I dont feel BH's are as usless as you describe..and you are describing em as broken charecters without many benafits.
I disagree with you.
And as far as mats n stuff dropping...thank you NcSoft for this event. Our clan was getting sick of the inflated prices over Kain, so we get a week or so of financial rest.
That is if we can find the mobs.......
Between last night and this morning, I've been in-game for about 4 hours. Didn't see any announcements. Didn't find any mobs. Will keep looking in the low level areas and hope I get a pack of them all to myself. :D
I'm going to rebut the "this is an anti-BH event" thinking. First, all the recipes and parts are b-grade. So, yes, if you are a level 50-65, it sucks for you. But, many of these mats are going to be used to craft higher grades, things that high level bounty hunters can readily spoil. Let's face it, basic mats are the realm of the manor, not bounty hunters. So for the 65+ bounty hunters, I think you should see this as a positive event, it'll make your spoils much more in demand. And its definitely a good thing for artisans since the drops are mats and parts, not full drops.
65+ bounty hunters can only gatter 3 things, key mats and recipe of a few A grade items, And lastly some high lv mats ( who is really topping the NPC price a bit )
Now truthfully, if you hit 75, you can't spoil the A grade mats anymore, sure you can spoil S grade key items. Theres just one dillema here. Both A grade and S grade key items, there is a TON of them, my BH alone spoil easily +100 key items in a day hunting, I can't even sell them, except to NPC's will say. And sure if you run a sell shop a few weeks you may be able to sell them.
There is really no cash anymore for any +75 BH; sure 65 you can make cash now due the A grade recipe addon but how long will that last? Not forever.
BH was at least for Interlude, C1, the way to gatter matreal and everything else needed, and was a class who was completely needed. Now you wouldn't need any BH at all up to even A grade your just as fine without it. For S grade sure you need a few active ones to cover the server as yeah S grade key items is spoil only, but there is a ton of them allredy.
Ok, seriously people, it is NOT an Anti-BH Event. Im a 70 BH, this is NOT a bad thing for us. WE CAN PARTICIPATE AND GET MATERIALS TOO. I spent the last 2 weeks farming and gathering materials for an Elysian craft(failed), and the majority of my materials came from seeding even though I was using a Scavenger most of the time. And do I care if the market is flooded with B grade recipes and parts? Not really, have you SEEN the prices for B grade lately? Its all kinds of stupid. And besides, it only seems to be main armor and helmet recipes/parts.
When Mistryl puts up the poll about this event, I'll be clicking the option for "Best Freaking Event Ever". I've got warehouses full of enchant scrolls I cant sell and piles of buff scrolls I've been working my way through for a while. Remember, Materials are even MORE quickly consumed than EW/EA scrolls. This will give the market a minor correction for a little while, which I give a hearty thumbs up(we pulled in like 2 dozen 60% avadon robe recipes, cheap B crys FTW). I'm not going to let my greedy BH side make me so bitter that I begrudge the rest of the players a chance for easy materials.
The mats from the event aren't going to kill us BH's, since we have the same chance as everyone else to get some of those free mats. On top of that most of the money coming into a BH's pockets aren't from base mats anyhow - at least if you're a smart BH.
None of that changes the fact that BH is the most gimped class in the game, and we would be absolutely and totally unplayed and worthless if it weren't for a handful of needed recipes.
This is coming from a 74 BH, so yeah, I do know what I am talking about.
In the long run, this event will benefit Bounty Hunters a great deal. Our profits take a large hit when recipes and parts are hard to come by, as people do not do as much crafting for profit, and thus our primary skills go to waste and our materials sit in our WH collecting dust.
The market is saturated with D/C/B Enchants to begin with, be happy they are giving you different things.
So the mobs have spawned once in the last 28 hours on devianne..... GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT event >.>
I dont know spawning 3 times a day was fine with me gave everyone a chance to at least get a few groups of mobs before the event ended but the event is going on for 4 days and 1 and half days gone already with only one spawn.
WHAT IS NCSOFT THINKING WITH KILLING EVERY HALF WAY DECENT EVENT >.<
Seems they spawn every 12 hours or so. Todays spawn would have been before downtime or during, so it was wasted or missed. There should be another one tonight.
-The spawn rate needs to be increase. As it is people who work and can only play 4 hours a day may never see the mobs.
-Dont spawn them all at once
-Forget the announcements make it so people have to constantly look.
- Make it last over a weekend
- More events like this :)
Killed a lv69 RB today, was easy, done with just 1 party:
1x Ancient Book - Divine Inspiration (Original Language Version)
1x Skull of the Dead: A-Grade
192x Rice Cake
14x Scroll: Enchant Armor (Grade C)
6x L2Day - Scroll of Guidance
6x L2Day - Scroll of Death Whisper
6x L2Day - Scroll of Focus
6x L2Day - Scroll of Greater Acumen
6x L2Day - Scroll of Haste
6x L2Day - Scroll of Agility
6x L2Day - Scroll of Mystic Empower
6x L2Day - Scroll of Might
6x L2Day - Scroll of Windwalk
6x L2Day - Scroll of Shield
2x Recipe: Doom Plate Armor (60%)
26x Doom Plate Armor Temper
2x Recipe: Avadon Robe (60%)
24x Avadon Robe Fabric
2x Recipe: Leather Armor of Doom (60%)
24x Leather Armor od Doom Design
2x Recipe: Blue Wolf Helmet (60%)
32x Blue Wolf Helmet Design
1473x Stem
1509x Varnish
6489x Animal Skin
1773x Thread
1179x Iron Ore
1179x Coal
111x Charcoal
3285x Animal Bone
162x Silver Nugget
111x Stone of Purity
81x Mithril Ore
108x Asofe
Keep em coming =)
hmm killed 30+ RB same drops only little differences he did not drop
1x Ancient Book - Divine Inspiration (Original Language Version)
1x Skull of the Dead: A-Grade
and we had EAD 14x + some D gloves
but all drops have been nearly the same 30+ raid vs 60+ raid hmmmm
so my thoughts. On Lionna from around 22.00 - 02.00 (GMT +1) there were 2 announcements. First, we saw only Raid boss near the Dwarven Village which we didn't killed after being killed 2 times. The Boss was killed by A/S graders. And they got the event items (Guess no penalty for event items). Like hell lowlvls without clan will have anything from this. Next announcement, we searched the whole Dwarven village and saw nothing.
Not to mention that I'm far too poor to travel around everywhere and look for them.
Whatever you say about this event, it's not for lowlvls. I'm fresh D so it sucks. :(
Monsters across all level ranges will randomly appear in various locations (...).
Well, it seems like "various locations" doesn't include most of the lands of the Elmore Kingdom. :(
Shouldn't it be time NCSoft put some love into the new lands? They don't have any catacombs or necropoli (shouldn't those been all over the space of the Elmoreden Empire, not just the southern half?), they get significantly less fortresses in Interlude than Aden (7 vs. 14), now they don't even get the new event. Since they're new, they need to be made more attractive, not less ...
On Hindemith yesterday we came accross an undead army of lvl 50-70 mobs. Killed it. Maybe 15 min later a clannie sees another army, but almost dead so we didn't bother. And a couple hours later the same clannie finds another army of lvl 15-25 mobs, which we killed too.
In the end our clan warehouse was happy to receive over 2K animal skins, 1K coal, 2K animal bones, hundreds of charcoal, varnish, stem, some rice cakes, EAD, a few EAC, and buf scrolls.
I like this event :)
Well, as far as i'm concerned, they NEVER spawn. Never. Not anywhere. I've been sick for the last couple of days so i had to stay at home, played Lineage almost all day long, and i NEVER saw one of them. I gained 4 levels, became Zaarr The Almighty, Lord Of The Wasteland ( :p), hunted in different places (including the Wasteland obviously), and i NEVER saw one of them. And tomorrow i'm going back to work so i probably wont be able to play until this weekend when all of this will be over.
Awesome event.
It seems that they spawn only 1/day as far as I've been able to determine. Maybe there's a second time in the morning, but I haven't found it. Usually the mobs are dead within an hour of spawn, though the event raid bosses last a little longer.
Advice to NCSoft? Randomize, randomize, randomize!
On Gustin they spawn at least 2 times a day when im on.
I always get the anouncements at 7-8 pm and later on 11 to 12 pm my time ( euro time ). Since i cant play on other times due work and real life i cant tell if they spawn more earlyer in the day too.
So far i can tell most time the mobs where placed and killed by high lvl players before the anouncement even was out.
I wont complain about it since i know a few spawn points and if im lucky and fast enoght i can get event mobs.
For ppl that dont know the spots well do it like me look for em. A big hint for you most time when you see an event raidboss you can be sure there where some normal event mobs around him too.
BTW there have been events before i didnt seen any event mobs too ( like the bunny events ) but you wont see me complain about it. I see events as some extra fun factor that breaks up the grind a little. If your lucky you will get some nice rewards from the event if your unlucky u get none.
Complaining about it wont help you thats the same like complaining about you didnt get a weapon drop or the recipe from spoil you hunting for 3 weeks.
Yeah not to mention give us lonely no clan people time to find the mobs lol
Yeah, no kidding.
I've possed up with a few strays here and there just trying to find the event mobs. no luck. Fortunately I don't work on Friday, so will have a better chance of finding them then. I hope :confused:
i am so dissapointed for this event. Did they want to make euros happy this time? There is zero spawns for american prime time 5pm-10pm cst not a single one..no announcment nothing it really sucks especialy how godo the last events were.
Okay... Finaly i got to see them.. well, what was left of them..
So here is the deal... I ran from oren, found the mobs, tryed to solo one (dark red) and before i was done.. all of them was killed, by the (ZERK) from the server... sweet..
I got home from work, just before the announcement, and ran around to find the event mobs.. found them, and then got told that they only been on the server (devianne) 2 times today... it's now 1:00am in europa, and now im thinking about this twice...
Is this event worth staying up for all night, and then fall asleep at work and maybe get fired ? or could there at least be some more spawns then just 2 ? From what i read on this post, they only apear twice a day..
Dear NCsoft... try to pull yourself together just a bit.. not all of us had the EURO server back when we started the game..
And since we can't transfer our toons to another server.. well that's just great..
Thx NCsoft for this event tho.. but for real... you can do better then this..
Well, as far as i'm concerned, they NEVER spawn. Never. Not anywhere. I've been sick for the last couple of days so i had to stay at home, played Lineage almost all day long, and i NEVER saw one of them. I gained 4 levels, became Zaarr The Almighty, Lord Of The Wasteland ( :p), hunted in different places (including the Wasteland obviously), and i NEVER saw one of them. And tomorrow i'm going back to work so i probably wont be able to play until this weekend when all of this will be over.
Awesome event.
Did you ever come to elmore? Cause i had event mobs coming out of my [923]
Did you ever come to elmore? Cause i had event mobs coming out of my [923]
I did - it's natural for me, both as a Dwarf and because my clan currently owns the Schuttgart castle. I level pretty much all the time there. No mobs whatsoever in the central Schuttgart region, no sightings in Goddard and Rune either (although I didn't check that good, really), and just two Tiraks at the same place near the Cave of Trials.
Compared to that, the mobs in Aden are plenty.
That's another bug with the event: Either some of the raid mobs spawn double (at the exactly same place, so you can miss that easily, and then half of your party attacks the one raid boss' minions and the other half attacks the other one's ...), or they spawn even if they weren't killed yet, leading to the same effect.
Mat numbers where rounded down to the hundreds kekeke.
Not counting enchant armour B scrolls, B recipes, B parts, and L2day Scrolls ( 16 each ). Also not counting what clan mates got... or what RBs dropped ( those went straight to the clan ch ).
Totally not worth the effort on my home server ( 13m for 30+ hours playing? )... but it is so awesome on Franz!
They where spawned with other mobs... but they where never taken down. It isn't a bug.
The bug is being two of them at exactly the same space, overlapping each other. The same with their minions.
In a typical raid boss setup (one character is the tank for the boss, another keeps the minions down, everyone else assists as needed), it's almost impossible to tell if the minion you're targetting belongs to the raid boss you're fighting or his clone. It is impossible to tell before the fighting starts, so one simple mistake here, and you have two raidbosses trying to kill you.
There is no bug. Each spawning yields a RB in certain locations. If the boss isn't killed in one round... he may very well get a visit from his twin brother or sister in the next round.
They where spawned with other mobs... but they where never taken down. It isn't a bug.
The bug is being two of them at exactly the same space, overlapping each other. The same with their minions.
In a typical raid boss setup (one character is the tank for the boss, another keeps the minions down, everyone else assists as needed), it's almost impossible to tell if the minion you're targetting belongs to the raid boss you're fighting or his clone. It is impossible to tell before the fighting starts, so one simple mistake here, and you have two raidbosses trying to kill you.
just pull one out, thats simple
1 party can kill 3 raids in 30 min thats mine personal record muhahaha
So far, we only found Tirak (level 28 - so up to level 38 in the raid force) and Callibus (level 34 - up to level 44, then) outside of their typical places, so we'll see if we can gather a mixed Academy/twinks party and give them a go.
So far, we only found Tirak (level 28 - so up to level 38 in the raid force) and Callibus (level 34 - up to level 44, then) outside of their typical places, so we'll see if we can gather a mixed Academy/twinks party and give them a go.
calibus is blue to 40lv, tirak is blue to 38lv = less drops, chance to get silence and more... for tirak you maybe need 2 partys, hmm have 4-5 more reids locations hmm but good luck, if you need back up party pm here ;)
calibus is blue to 40lv, tirak is blue to 38lv = less drops, chance to get silence and more... for tirak you maybe need 2 partys, hmm have 4-5 more reids locations hmm but good luck, if you need back up party pm here ;)
The event drops seems to be not influenced by the level of the people, just the normal drops. In any case, Tirak is present at least four times on Teon currently (in addition to his usual place in the Forgotten Temple), so we have lots of possibilities to test this theory.
Yep, you are correct. An a-grade syndicate killed a group of level 20ish event mobs on lionna and got the same event drops I was getting on my d-grade toon.
Yep, you are correct. An a-grade syndicate killed a group of level 20ish event mobs on lionna and got the same event drops I was getting on my d-grade toon.
yes coz from 30 mobs that respawn are 5 with 100% drop success
Worst event ever! Apparently the group mobs don't spawn at night? I've spent the last 3 nights from 7 PM EST to 3 AM EST running around to 8 known spawn locations, with 4 different characters on 2 accounts, and have yet to see a spawn, or even see an event announcement. The announcements are happening during the day, with the last one at around 5-6 PM EST, and no new accouncements for at least 12 hours.
During the last similar event, it seems the group mobs spawned every 4-5 hours...during the day AND night. The event this time seems to be targeting daytime players.
you know between this whole thing I cant help but think of the layoffs at nc between the last raid boss and now and it makes me think they didnt have the staff to run it like the past two times with 3 spawns between 16 hours. It is really sad because this event is missing so so much of the fun from the last one.
The little messages giving hints where they spawned the mobs, the multiple spawn times, the big spawns the last day. Now they just spawned in one spot the whole time...i cant describe how much of a dissapointment this was and I would rather have no event than to see the raid event turn into this.