On March 7th, adventurers all across Aden and Elmore will be able to travel to the curious shores of Fantasy Isle for free, where its diminutive inhabitants are hosting a special celebration event called Bunny Money. You can take part in the celebration by visiting Fantasy Isle to search for Treasure Boxes, or by hunting monsters for Treasure Sack Pieces. Participants will have a chance to win many valuable prizes! Check out the event page (http://www.lineage2.com/archive/2008/03/bunny_money.html) for all the details!
The event managers will apparently stay in town even when the event item drops arent "live".
Does that mean you will still be able to buy the rabbit transforms every 12 hours from them during the "off" week, thus stocking up for the last weekend?
all the money in this event will be made from 2nd place sacks.
that is all.
nice event. i know i'll definitely be hunting furiously for some pieces. 50 per seems adequate for those higher place bags, but for buff potions its a bit steep.
all the money in this event will be made from 2nd place sacks.
that is all.
nice event. i know i'll definitely be hunting furiously for some pieces. 50 per seems adequate for those higher place bags, but for buff potions its a bit steep.
So true and its not like anyone needs any more of those buff scrolls. Wonder how much those 1 and 2nd class treasure bags will sell for.
I mean, as it is, one can only participate in the event for 10 minutes at a go, twice a day.
That's... so lame it needs crutches!
"Collect 50 Treasure Sack Pieces by hunting monsters and retrieving the pieces they're hoarding. "
You can use the bunny transformation 10 minutes twice a day, but you can get the treasure sack pieces also from normal mobs. At least that is how I understand it.
Yes, it has 2 parts one for transform and another by hunting mobs.
Sounds nice, hope the prize rate won't be 245376354 number 6 treasure sacks and 2 of number 1...
Looks like a nice event with nice prizes that doesn't totally benefit the 24/7 crowd. :) Can't wait!
I agree on that this will be a really nice (and probably really funny too) event...
But since sack parts are needed and they drop from mobs,it's just another 24/7crowd benefitial event...
It says the drop period is only on the weekends, but I expect you can buy the transformation scrolls during the week as well.. But will the treasure chests also spawn at the isle during the week so you can transform into a rabbit and get some treasure there as well?
I liked the concept of the event a lot.
I much rather hunt for chests 10min 2x/day for 4 days, but having a decent chance to get a nice prize, than have a 24/7 30 days grind event where you are almost granted to get only pots and buff scrolls
Lets see how it works.
You replied here pretty fast, ppl waiting for an answer for weeks in that post...
If I had an answer, I would not be keeping it to myself. I am still awaiting news of when we will be able to open those two servers for transfers again, and what the plan is. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to post that I have no new info to share, every day, until I do.
But let's keep this thread about the event, please. :)
You replied here pretty fast, ppl waiting for an answer for weeks in that post...
If I had an answer, I would not be keeping it to myself. I am still awaiting news of when we will be able to open those two servers for transfers again, and what the plan is. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to post that I have no new info to share, every day, until I do.
But let's keep this thread about the event, please. :)
Are you able to buy the scrolls and leave them?
As in
Player A on Account A logs in every 12 hours, Talks to NPC B and buys Rabbit scroll.
Player A collects 4 scrolls, and Uses them for 40 minutes (4 x 10 minutes back to back)
Is it gonna work like that?
Also
Are any of the items related to the event transferable?
Sack Pieces, Sacks, The Transform Scrolls.
Just wondering how I should attack this event to get the most out of it.
You replied here pretty fast, ppl waiting for an answer for weeks in that post...
If I had an answer, I would not be keeping it to myself. I am still awaiting news of when we will be able to open those two servers for transfers again, and what the plan is. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to post that I have no new info to share, every day, until I do.
But let's keep this thread about the event, please. :)
Would it be so hard to give this answer on that thread?
Its like you ignore and you dont care for all those ppl who want and deserve an answer. There were so many questions on the reasons that dont let you open those servers yet, as a GM you should know. Noone asked for an exact date, just for more clear info and the reasons you hesitate to open em. We can keep this thread clear as long as you come and give some answers to the ppl waiting on the other thread. 25 pages of frustrated ppl...
Would it be so hard to give this answer on that thread?
Its like you ignore and you dont care for all those ppl who want and deserve an answer. There were so many questions on the reasons that dont let you open those servers yet, as a GM you should know. Noone asked for an exact date, just for more clear info and the reasons you hesitate to open em. We can keep this thread clear as long as you come and give some answers to the ppl waiting on the other thread. 25 pages of frustrated ppl...
So what are you going to do? Highjack every thread that an NcSoft employee responds too. If you haven't realised yet, they comment in complaint threads unless they have something constructive to say. No new info yet on your questions so the haven't commented yet.
Back on topic. Will guest accounts be able to participate in the event? I hope not would be a very easy way to exploit the event.
The event looks to be well constructed. Attaboy to you all for the server specific drop periods, as well.
The rewards seem good and it all seems to be packaged in a fun format.
Still waiting for it to start but "A for effort" from me on the design so far.
Pure, Imagine that you have a trail account running.
None of the stuff is transferable, BUT you happen to get a stage 13-14 crystal, top grade 70/76/80 lifestone, dark/light attribute stone, or a top A weapon, or various S armor pieces.
Would it be worth it to pay the money to activate that account for a month to retrieve said items? Most would say yes.
ok - been trying to find restictions on trial accounts but can not find the info - anyone got the link - or Spam can you respond.
I haven't found much either, but I know for a fact they can pm from a guest account :mad:
I have heard that you can't trade or sell items but can you drop items or just not pick them up when thier on the ground. Sounds like NcSoft should expect alot of trial accounts this weekend and next.
Trial accounts can't trade nor drop items.
But vqjbvlbre and co on newbie territories aren't trial accounts. They are unbannable because NCsoft only works on denunciation, and not worth the kill. In fact, not worth the ban either if you can't catch the botmaster and all its little toys.
will the event items drop when you are using manor seeds on the mobs
Good question!! I never tried it during other events either. I imagine if they dropped during other events they will now. But who knows guess we will find out tomorrow afternoon.
I don't know if this has been asked, but can every toon on account buy 1 scroll each and transform to a rabbit, or is it only 1 pr account? That is within the 12 hour periode that is?
I don't know if this has been asked, but can every toon on account buy 1 scroll each and transform to a rabbit, or is it only 1 pr account? That is within the 12 hour periode that is?
from the event notes:
You may purchase a Rabbit Transformation Scroll only once every 12 hours, per account.
It says the drop period is only on the weekends, but I expect you can buy the transformation scrolls during the week as well.. But will the treasure chests also spawn at the isle during the week so you can transform into a rabbit and get some treasure there as well?
I expect not, but had to ask ^^
can we get a answer for this plz...I was wandering the same thing.
And the notes is a little confusing on this matter, tbh I'd rather grind none stop for 20 hours, then stop grinding to go do the ******ed isle for 15 minutes, then try to get my XP spot back from the bots that stole it while I was gone for 30 minutes porting to the isle, doing the event, etc!!!
Yeah you can't satify people anymore. Even when it comes to free items and equipment, they want everything handed to them. Seriously though, if your sitting at home grinding away 20 hours in one day then you seriously need to go out a bit more. 3 to 4 hours is hard enough for me, but sitting for 20 hours would make me throw my PC against a wall.
Four hours to sleep each day is a waste of good grinding time. Let's not forget this is a Bunny Money Event weekend. You can sleep at work(school) on Monday! Not to mention, but you will get all the sleep you need when you are sent out to the old folks home. Now get back in the game and grind as much as you can before the event starts!
A quick question, are event items effected by mob levels, i mean like say i decide to go kill some elpy in TI (and im much much much higher than those elpy) will my chances of drop still be the same if i were to attack mobs my level?
A quick question, are event items effected by mob levels, i mean like say i decide to go kill some elpy in TI (and im much much much higher than those elpy) will my chances of drop still be the same if i were to attack mobs my level?
Yeah you can't satisfy people anymore. Even when it comes to free items and equipment, they want everything handed to them. Seriously though, if your sitting at home grinding away 20 hours in one day then you seriously need to go out a bit more. 3 to 4 hours is hard enough for me, but sitting for 20 hours would make me throw my PC against a wall.
look I was exagirating the amount of time (I sleep about 8 hours a day ruffly).
the point is tho, the event starts at 7 pm est, that means I could spend all night till the morning grinding, only stopping to restock, why would I want to take the chance of losing my XP spot, and 30+ minutes of grind to be forced to the island every 12 hours.
you know that the only chance of having event item drops is on the weekend, it's also stated that you can only buy the scrolls dooring the weekend also, but it doesn't state if you can also use the scrolls dooring the work weeks.
A quick question, are event items effected by mob levels, i mean like say i decide to go kill some elpy in TI (and im much much much higher than those elpy) will my chances of drop still be the same if i were to attack mobs my level?
No, no it wont.
I wouldn't be so sure. There have been plenty of events where level difference between the player and mob didn't make any difference for getting event drops.
Farming TI event mobs on my 70+ SwS was an easy way to get lots of event items.
are these drops (the pieces) going to be on ANY mob throughout the world?: or only on mobs that will be spawned on Fantasy Isle or w/e during the event times?
are these drops (the pieces) going to be on ANY mob throughout the world?: or only on mobs that will be spawned on Fantasy Isle or w/e during the event times?
if you read the event information you'd knwo the answer to this!
A quick question, are event items effected by mob levels, i mean like say i decide to go kill some elpy in TI (and im much much much higher than those elpy) will my chances of drop still be the same if i were to attack mobs my level?
No, no it wont.
I wouldn't be so sure. There have been plenty of events where level difference between the player and mob didn't make any difference for getting event drops.
Farming TI event mobs on my 70+ SwS was an easy way to get lots of event items.
Considering the event is going on right now and I was AoE farming dark blues... no such luck :/
are these drops (the pieces) going to be on ANY mob throughout the world?: or only on mobs that will be spawned on Fantasy Isle or w/e during the event times?
It's pretty simple...
You hunt regular mobs you get event items. You get 50 of those, you get a chest from the event cat. Open the chest, you get a random item.
You want more? Sure! Run to the getekeeper and port to the adventure island after buying a potion to become a rabbit. Trnasform into that rabbit on the island, use the first skill you get as a rabbit to find hiddent chests and the second to open them. This can be done twice a day, once every 12 hours.
Basically two ways to get items. No one is forcing you to go to the island, keep your fruity [censored] exping spot (directed to the guy complaining), you just miss out on the extra items chances to get more drops.
Oh and to the guy saying he farmed event items in the past on TI using a 70 SWS I call [censored]. I tried it before and it doesn't work. If you get lucky you get like 9 or 10 adena for every dozen mobs you pole, nothing more.
are these drops (the pieces) going to be on ANY mob throughout the world?: or only on mobs that will be spawned on Fantasy Isle or w/e during the event times?
It's pretty simple...
You hunt regular mobs you get event items. You get 50 of those, you get a chest from the event cat. Open the chest, you get a random item.
You want more? Sure! Run to the getekeeper and port to the adventure island after buying a potion to become a rabbit. Trnasform into that rabbit on the island, use the first skill you get as a rabbit to find hiddent chests and the second to open them. This can be done twice a day, once every 12 hours.
Basically two ways to get items. No one is forcing you to go to the island, keep your fruity [censored] exping spot (directed to the guy complaining), you just miss out on the extra items chances to get more drops.
Oh and to the guy saying he farmed event items in the past on TI using a 70 SWS I call [censored]. I tried it before and it doesn't work. If you get lucky you get like 9 or 10 adena for every dozen mobs you pole, nothing more.
Is it 6 already!!!?
For those that cant read:
On March 7th, adventurers all across Aden and Elmore will be able to travel to the curious shores of Fantasy Isle for free, where its diminutive inhabitants are hosting a special celebration event called Bunny Money. You can take part in the celebration by visiting Fantasy Isle to search for Treasure Boxes, "OR" by hunting monsters for Treasure Sack Pieces. Participants will have a chance to win many valuable prizes! Check out the event page for all the details!
:D
Oh and to the guy saying he farmed event items in the past on TI using a 70 SWS I call [censored]. I tried it before and it doesn't work. If you get lucky you get like 9 or 10 adena for every dozen mobs you pole, nothing more.
These were the events where you had to kill the event mobs, not ordinary mobs. Groups of 20-30 event mobs would spawn every 3-4 hours in known spawn locations, and any level could kill them. After the spawn announcement I would run to TI, the Wastelands and a couple other known spawn spots and clear out the mobs, accumulating lots of event loot.
alright no need to be a bunch of {censored} children. It didn't specifically say either way about the mobs so I thought I come here to ask... excuse me.
don't worry, it sucks.
10 minutes rabbit, looking for chests, long reuse time of tornado skill (to open chests). And chests, even those with fireworks, only give treasure sack pieces.
Event for bots, again.
alright no need to be a bunch of {censored} children. It didn't specifically say either way about the mobs so I thought I come here to ask... excuse me.
Uh?
No one flamed you at all, the question you asked was answered in a polite manner.
They were flaming the other guy (Meate) for injecting useless crap into the discussion :P
10 minutes only for rabit transform & that long tornado reuse time is LAME. Botter ppls are going to register lots of trial accounts, not saying about 24/7 mob hunt. Normal users are as usual in worst conditions - very litte fun time on isle and most if it is going to be wasted for skill reuse & chest search.
10 minutes only for rabit transform & that long tornado reuse time is LAME. Botter ppls are going to register lots of trial accounts, not saying about 24/7 mob hunt. Normal users are as usual in worst conditions - very litte fun time on isle and most if it is going to be wasted for skill reuse & chest search.
:)
I'm hoping this is the typical stuff that happens every event that eventually gets fixed / adjusted (usually on Monday when they get back to work). You also have to keep in mind that drop rates most likely increase during central time prime time. It is only 3:00PM here...
On March 7th, adventurers all across Aden and Elmore will be able to travel to the curious shores of Fantasy Isle for free, where its diminutive inhabitants are hosting a special celebration event called Bunny Money. You can take part in the celebration by visiting Fantasy Isle to search for Treasure Boxes, "OR" by hunting monsters for Treasure Sack Pieces. Participants will have a chance to win many valuable prizes! Check out the event page for all the details!
You may purchase a Rabbit Transformation Scroll only once every 12 hours, per account.
Wonder if this is per account period or if I have toons on different servers can those toons get one every 12 hours too.
That's pretty smart lol. Make toons on all servers, Go 15 minutes one each server, wait it out, rinse and repeat. Get something worth hundreds of millions, transfer it to your main if it's worth it :)
oh, btw just for the background story... Grand Opening with empty lands... yeah right. That's called a teaser. With "Soon™" written everywhere.
The smart people who said the 3 pigs event bows were lasting too long won. Instead of having the possibility (not forced) to play the event 3 hours/day, now everybody is limited to 2x 10 minutes/day. The advantage of this event is that people are not fighting over the pigs/chests. But that means the main event is for bots.
I took advantage of the madness of the first day to make 1.7kk by selling event items. Sorry I didn't want yet another form of buffs scrolls. Nor EWD/EAD. As they say : fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
So far I was awarded a bunch of hour buff pots, a midgrade 76 life stone, a midgrade 70 lifestone (i think it was 70), an EWD, and a fire and dark stone. Sold the stones for a few EWA's so that I could enchant my SOM to +8. Not too bad, considering I haven't played the nuker in months.
I did the fantasy island on 1 account, got 60ish items, which i think is pretty good.
did something else for 3 hours
did it on another and got 41 pieces
thats going from 5-7 and the occasional 8/9 per chest down to 3/4 per chest
Wish they would make a consistent event sometime, just so you don't get shafted for playing at the same time as everyone else.
why juices from 6 lvl sacks can be trade, but coktails from 5 lvl cant?
god, i buy and exchange 50 pieces with my 1 lvl dwarf which was in Giran on trade. and now i got 10 useless coktails?
i cant even use freight service to transfer it to my main char....
please make it possible. i dont wanna sell it , just transfer to another char on my account.
Mhh, it really seems it has been lowered or whatever. Dont know if its only temporary like during some daytime or its permanent. If its permanent, wait how the prices for sacsparts will come sky-high...we will see
As usual europeans gets shafted unless they're on euro servers. Drop rate is only high during NA prime time (drop is 80% less atm). I guess I have to stay up and play late tonight Z.Z
As usual europeans gets shafted unless they're on euro servers. Drop rate is only high during NA prime time (drop is 80% less atm). I guess I have to stay up and play late tonight Z.Z
Come on you know the drill. Drop rate is high during peak hours and falls the rest of the time. Same on all servers. Every event has been like this since C3/C4. We all know why they do this and it isn't to punish EU player on NA servers or NA players on EU servers.
That doesn't mean we should be happy about it. If we don't tell them when we are unhappy about something, there's an even tinier chance they'll change it.
If you're american it's a great event. I've been getting clannies/friends to help me estimate droprates.
I got 4 clannies/friends in each timezone on bartz and 4 freinds on erica to tell me how many items they got off mobs.
In euro playtimes for past 2 days, 2 nights droprate has been an average 10% chance off mobs from lvl 40-80.
American time (1am-6am euro time) droprate has been roughly 70% off the same mobs in four different levels/areas since they kept parties going just simply swapped players.
So far this morning on bartz I've killed roughly 100 mobs and got 5 items..... where someone playing 4 hours earlier would have got about 70 items.
Why treat a large portion of your player base so disgracefully? I pay and contribute as much to this game as anyone else does so why am I being treated so badly?
If you're american it's a great event. I've been getting clannies/friends to help me estimate droprates.
I got 4 clannies/friends in each timezone on bartz and 4 freinds on erica to tell me how many items they got off mobs.
In euro playtimes for past 2 days, 2 nights droprate has been an average 10% chance off mobs from lvl 40-80.
American time (1am-6am euro time) droprate has been roughly 70% off the same mobs in four different levels/areas since they kept parties going just simply swapped players.
So far this morning on bartz I've killed roughly 100 mobs and got 5 items..... where someone playing 4 hours earlier would have got about 70 items.
Why treat a large portion of your player base so disgracefully? I pay and contribute as much to this game as anyone else does so why am I being treated so badly?
What do you mean dropt rate 70%? I am getting a sack piece for every mob kill. Do you mean when you are on the island hunting chests?
If you're american it's a great event. I've been getting clannies/friends to help me estimate droprates.
I got 4 clannies/friends in each timezone on bartz and 4 freinds on erica to tell me how many items they got off mobs.
In euro playtimes for past 2 days, 2 nights droprate has been an average 10% chance off mobs from lvl 40-80.
American time (1am-6am euro time) droprate has been roughly 70% off the same mobs in four different levels/areas since they kept parties going just simply swapped players.
So far this morning on bartz I've killed roughly 100 mobs and got 5 items..... where someone playing 4 hours earlier would have got about 70 items.
Why treat a large portion of your player base so disgracefully? I pay and contribute as much to this game as anyone else does so why am I being treated so badly?
What do you mean dropt rate 70%? I am getting a sack piece for every mob kill. Do you mean when you are on the island hunting chests?
I went from stats friends gave me from 1x hp mobs, 4x hp mobs and 1/2 hp mobs of different levels. of course the 4x dropped about 90% but the average was 70%.
What's with the firework chests? Anything special about them?
The chests that spawn and have fireworks have a chance of dropping A grade weps, shadow braclets and of course more sack pieces.
I have now seen 5 chasts with fireworks. 4 of them I got more pieces and one I got the wolf braclet.
As for drops rate of pieces. This event is the same as any other hunt and collect pieces events. During peek playing times the event items have a great drop rate. During non-peak hours the drop rate gose down considerable. During peak hours I was getting 200+ an hour and non-paek hours I was getting about 60. Just think about it when you want the drop rate to be high all the time. If it was you would have those wonderfull stores in Gran selling 20k pieces instaed of 6-8k pieces. I for one am not going to spend 55k Adena per TSP. Maybe at 10k apiece it would be worth it to buy them but definatley not 55k.
So rather than having 200+ an hour at some time and 60 an hour at another time, why not have 100 an hour at all times?
Seriously I don't understand the logic behind making the drop rate differ at different times at all. Other than the fact it's a Korean event and all the people playing on the Korean servers are in the same time zone, so the devs thought it'd be a good idea. I doubt there's much chance of getting such a change in events on our servers.
The 'automated players' play 24 hours..... changing droprate over timezones only makes it worse for legitimate players.
I love how you make a totally uneducated argument about shops selling too many pieces then complain that prices are too high.... supply and demand you pay high prices because no european players can get the items, just the guys who play at night.
The 'automated players' play 24 hours..... changing droprate over timezones only makes it worse for legitimate players.
I love how you make a totally uneducated argument about shops selling too many pieces then complain that prices are too high.... supply and demand you pay high prices because no european players can get the items, just the guys who play at night.
Actually "you pay high prices because no european players can get the items," is the dumbest statement I have seen on these boards. Thanks I needed the laugh.
The 'automated players' play 24 hours..... changing droprate over timezones only makes it worse for legitimate players.
I love how you make a totally uneducated argument about shops selling too many pieces then complain that prices are too high.... supply and demand you pay high prices because no european players can get the items, just the guys who play at night.
Actually "you pay high prices because no european players can get the items," is the dumbest statement I have seen on these boards. Thanks I needed the laugh.
ok, it doesn't read how I intended it. With low supply you pay absurd prices for the sacks as many people want them. Since they only drop at a decent rate for 6 hours it is hard to get them.
Getting aside from the complaining, I want to say that I really like the rewards you get from the event those buffer in a bottle coktails are the best low reward ever given on any event I have been so far in the last 2 years of playing, and the Island is so funny looking, this is the 1st time I was there, and there are so many places to see. The only thing the island needs is more of those miniature looking npc wandering around to give more life to the island
ok, it doesn't read how I intended it. With low supply you pay absurd prices for the sacks as many people want them. Since they only drop at a decent rate for 6 hours it is hard to get them.
Yes I understand that and yes it is harder to get. I didn't write my point very clear when comes to cost of the event items. So I will try bette this time.
The event items are limit to 3 days for 2 weekends. Supply and demand does come in here but only in the terms of it being a limited amount of quest items that will be introduced into the the game. You also have to take into consideration the prizes and the rate in which the good items are being received. Trust me RMT's know the odds and price in the maximum they can get no matter how many pieces they have.
For Devianne the sack pieces are selling for 55k average each. Thats 2.75mil for 3 juices considering thats whats mostly recieved. I would never spend that much, but I would spend 500k (10k ea) for that chance of something great. Atleast you could make your money back selling the juices, at 2.5mil a pop you cant.
Personally I think they would still sell at the same price even if the drop rate stayed the same over the entire event period. They would just have more to sell.
So that's why I never seem to get anything extra from the firework chests. The one shooting fireworks is the bottom one...
:mad:
OK, took me a bit, but I figured out the 'multiple chests' thing.
Basically, there are a set number of spawn points, and a set number of chests that spawn.
BUT, since chests do not move, eventually a set of chests will spawn right on top of each other. Since there is no clipping and respawn locations are (korean) randomly drawn.
So when you find a superimposed set like that it's a matter of luck which one you get.
The island is broken up into zones like the rest of the game, so some areas with more 'junk' hiding the spawns means that overtime those spawns will stack in the least accessable location, as the crappy spawn points are not found. (And NO I'm not sharing my 'good' areas with you. =P )
I agree with the other people about the drop rates. They should be the same all the time, not just during "prime" time. It screws European players over who are on the US servers. It also screws over the average working joe who works nights or second shift.
We all pay for the game, so it's not fair to penalize us for the "automated players" running around (which NC Soft has failed to fix after what, 4 years now.)
Hopefully, next Fri. - Sun. I won't hunt for 12 hours a day to only have 61 sack pieces.
1.3K pieces during the week farmed and grom bunnies.. Though I grinded all weekend EXCEPT for night time. I noticed a huge difference in droprate depending on the hour. Early morning GMT was pretty good, then a few hours later it was like 10% drop rate.. I cried.. On sunday the drop rate seemed to be better all day long though.. This is on Lionna.
Note: I AoE 8-12 4X mobs at a time.
I support the notion of removing ******edness from events >.<;;
I wanted to take a second to comment on this event.
First, I love the creativity behind the event. Transforming into a bunny running around looking for chests on Fantasy Island was a lot more fun than I would had thought. Also, I like events where event items drop (such as the letters, medals, etc) and then you trade it in to get something bigger (treasure sacks in this case) in which you click to find a reward.
Secondly, even the worst prizes this time were great. Those juices and cocktails although arent the much sought after S armor, A weapons, crystals or stones, are very handy. And I love the graphics for each item.
The flip side of this was that I really think that the reuse time of the skill to open chests should have been a lot quicker or perhaps allowed us to hunt as bunnies for a full buff round (20min). The 10 minutes was really much to quick considering the torando skill reuse time.
Additionally, I know it was done this way in recent events, but why not have the event for the full week instead of just on the weekends. There must be plenty fo people who play during the week only as opposed to those who play mostly on the weekends.
Finally, why not incorporate events such as the letter or medal events one or two weekends a month? Then have mega events at the rate you have the regular events. I think having these tried and true events once/twice a month, one on each weekend, would keep more people playing. To clairfy, say have the letter event first week of April, then have the medal event second week of April, then have another old event from the past on the third weekend, etc.
And lets not forget those events where the mobs attack the city. I absolutely loved those events where you would find the spawning mobs and kill them, then get into groups with your fellow L2 players (many of which you dont know) and work together to kill each of those new raid bosses that would spawn. (and you really need to bring back that little orc that use to stand next to the raid boss, he was a classic surprise and quite rewarding when you hit him =D)
Anyway, with that being said, I give props to NCSOFT for what I think was a very fun, creative, and colorful special event this time.
I wanted to take a second to comment on this event.
First, I love the creativity behind the event. Transforming into a bunny running around looking for chests on Fantasy Island was a lot more fun than I would had thought. Also, I like events where event items drop (such as the letters, medals, etc) and then you trade it in to get something bigger (treasure sacks in this case) in which you click to find a reward.
Secondly, even the worst prizes this time were great. Those juices and cocktails although arent the much sought after S armor, A weapons, crystals or stones, are very handy. And I love the graphics for each item.
The flip side of this was that I really think that the reuse time of the skill to open chests should have been a lot quicker or perhaps allowed us to hunt as bunnies for a full buff round (20min). The 10 minutes was really much to quick considering the torando skill reuse time.
Additionally, I know it was done this way in recent events, but why not have the event for the full week instead of just on the weekends. There must be plenty fo people who play during the week only as opposed to those who play mostly on the weekends.
Finally, why not incorporate events such as the letter or medal events one or two weekends a month? Then have mega events at the rate you have the regular events. I think having these tried and true events once/twice a month, one on each weekend, would keep more people playing. To clairfy, say have the letter event first week of April, then have the medal event second week of April, then have another old event from the past on the third weekend, etc.
And lets not forget those events where the mobs attack the city. I absolutely loved those events where you would find the spawning mobs and kill them, then get into groups with your fellow L2 players (many of which you dont know) and work together to kill each of those new raid bosses that would spawn. (and you really need to bring back that little orc that use to stand next to the raid boss, he was a classic surprise and quite rewarding when you hit him =D)
Anyway, with that being said, I give props to NCSOFT for what I think was a very fun, creative, and colorful special event this time.
I agree, I actually like this event.
For the most part, I collected pieces without going to fantasy island. I really just couldn't be bothered. However, late last night I decided to take an alt to the island just to see what the bunny part was about. And though I felt the timer for the hurricaine could be a little faster, it was actually kind of amusing to be scooting all over the place looking for the clues to where these chests were.
And as you said, even the lowest lvl items are actually useful! Especially the cocktail drinks. One of the best things I've ever gotten in an event.
To be honest, I usually don't take part in these events. If they are not the monster attacking events (which are my favorite) they tend to just be events that fill up my inventory with a lot of stuff I don't want.
I found 2 firecracker chests, and both gave level 5 chests (one of them someone tried to ninja it but I got to it first).
What annoyed me though is that you don't always see the firecracker go off. I'm pretty sure sometimes it doesn't even go off, but the stupid thing says "Hey, did yuo see that firecracker", and I have no idea which one of them to pick, hoping to get the one that did shoot firecrackers but never showed.
Anyway, the even is awesome.
Oh and if you don't have time or want to be bothered with the bunnies, just SOE from your hunting spot every 12 hours, get the transformation item and go back to hunting. You can save as many as you want. Then on the last day before the even runs out, use them all one after another and rack up the sacks. I stayed 30 minutes on the island with a character sunday :).
I had to laugh at that. I have access to 'round the clock buffs from an SE, PP, and EE...yet even I found the level 1 pots useful. In fact, most of the weekend I didn't even bother stopping to get buffs from the aforementioned, I just used the cocktails and juices. To each his own, I guess. :eek:
I'm liking this event in general. I like the "only on weekends" schedule, I think the chest hunting is fun. I even like it to be limited to 10 min every 12 hours.
I looks like the prizes and their random distribution is about right . A clannie got Major Arcana gloves, a handful of friends got books and attribute stones. I am still to get something usefull for myself (best thing I got till now was a mid 61 LS and a shadow item :( ) but at least I can see people I know getting some good stuff.
The only thing I didn't like is having non-tradable shadow items in treasury sacks better than lvl5 and in the "fireworks chests". Those kind of stuff should be limited to the most common prizes.
I wanted to take a second to comment on this event.
First, I love the creativity behind the event. Transforming into a bunny running around looking for chests on Fantasy Island was a lot more fun than I would had thought. Also, I like events where event items drop (such as the letters, medals, etc) and then you trade it in to get something bigger (treasure sacks in this case) in which you click to find a reward.
Secondly, even the worst prizes this time were great. Those juices and cocktails although arent the much sought after S armor, A weapons, crystals or stones, are very handy. And I love the graphics for each item.
The flip side of this was that I really think that the reuse time of the skill to open chests should have been a lot quicker or perhaps allowed us to hunt as bunnies for a full buff round (20min). The 10 minutes was really much to quick considering the torando skill reuse time.
Additionally, I know it was done this way in recent events, but why not have the event for the full week instead of just on the weekends. There must be plenty fo people who play during the week only as opposed to those who play mostly on the weekends.
Finally, why not incorporate events such as the letter or medal events one or two weekends a month? Then have mega events at the rate you have the regular events. I think having these tried and true events once/twice a month, one on each weekend, would keep more people playing. To clairfy, say have the letter event first week of April, then have the medal event second week of April, then have another old event from the past on the third weekend, etc.
And lets not forget those events where the mobs attack the city. I absolutely loved those events where you would find the spawning mobs and kill them, then get into groups with your fellow L2 players (many of which you dont know) and work together to kill each of those new raid bosses that would spawn. (and you really need to bring back that little orc that use to stand next to the raid boss, he was a classic surprise and quite rewarding when you hit him =D)
Anyway, with that being said, I give props to NCSOFT for what I think was a very fun, creative, and colorful special event this time.
I agree, I actually like this event.
For the most part, I collected pieces without going to fantasy island. I really just couldn't be bothered. However, late last night I decided to take an alt to the island just to see what the bunny part was about. And though I felt the timer for the hurricaine could be a little faster, it was actually kind of amusing to be scooting all over the place looking for the clues to where these chests were.
And as you said, even the lowest lvl items are actually useful! Especially the cocktail drinks. One of the best things I've ever gotten in an event.
To be honest, I usually don't take part in these events. If they are not the monster attacking events (which are my favorite) they tend to just be events that fill up my inventory with a lot of stuff I don't want.
So good one NC.
I also really like the event. :) I believe that NC has listened to players comments about past events.
This event we are collecting one, note that "ONE", event item to turn in. Not the usual ungodly amount of event item clutter.
The prizes, even the lowest, are useful and a good selection. As has been asked in the past, this event even sees S Grade items included as rewards.
Personally I didn't notice any automated efforts to farm the island. -Possibly due to server, time I went there or the fact that transform is only 10mins. But it shows that thought is being placed into events to help prevent 'issues' that have arisen in the past. (Obviously this only refers to the 'Island' part of the event.)
The main issue this event has been the drop rate times. This has effected other events too, but those events have also had alot of other things to complain about. The other issue of either transform lasting longer or reuse timer to open chests being shortened is more a balance issue I guess. A 20min 'buff round' for the transform I think would be good with the current timer. Possibly a better spread of chests too as they seem to spawn in 'clusters'. Which either has you sitting there waiting for the reuse timer on the next chest, or madly running around desperately attempting to find chests before your transform ends.
The only solution I can think of for the issue of drop rate being low/high due to what is deemed 'prime time' would be to require the drops be 'activated'. By that I mean you have to see an NPC or use an item to activate the drops. You 'use' your special 'event scroll' and that then toggles event drops for you for the next 4 hours. That way everyone gets 4 hours (or whatever time is deemed appropriate) to hunt for event drops. This would allow people to get the drops in their own 'prime time' regardless of what that time is relative to others. It would also allow those that wanted to opt out of an event to be able to not participate. Activating drops works solo but issues could arise if you are in a group. The event items could either go into quest inventory or directly to normal inventory for the person(s) who has the drops activated. (Not sure if a mob can reward up to 9 people an item at once.) Some sort of system like this would help remove the advantage that hunting 24/7 gives over us mere mortals....
A good event IMHO and nice to see past issues being addressed. Thanks NC.
Did you look all over the island. I did while looking for a secluded area totransform and collect chests. Found a few differnt places with one toon running with three bunnies and the one toon was picking up all the pieces from the chests. I got suroius so I watched. The three bunnies turned back into regular toons disapeared momments later three toons in auto follow came running to the spot. All three transformed at the same time into bunnies. I watched this cycle happen three times before I went off to trnasform myself.
great event but 50 pieces to collect is just too much because you normally get only 6th and 5th treasure sacks and when you are in bunny form not so much item either. But you can make more profit just selling them.
I got three 5th packs so thats 30 cocktails lol but its great.
Interesting how farmers are using trial accounts to farm events from fantasy isle. Trial account opens chests and a registered one picks up. I think I'll go sign up for 50 trial accounts. Problem would be solved if items went directly to inventory like when you get a fire works chest.
I noticed that myself. Not so much on Devianne but on Teon the Island is a mad house of bunnies everywhere. I went there today just before work. Out of all the chests I opened 2 were firecracker both of them I had bunnies try to KS the loot from them. Looks like they did something right and onlt let the person who spawned the chests open the fireworks chest. All the others I spawned there was only one chest that didnt get opened. Still amazed at how many bunnies there were on Teon.
By the way if there is anyone on Teon looking to buy a Giant's secret book of Discipline? I have one for sale :) :) :)
Fun event
usual gripe
I had a warehouse full of L2Day - Scroll Of whatever and Scroll Of Whatever (Event) now I got a 3rd version of the same in juice form :S
We need 1000 slot warehouses
The event items are cleared on maintenance do not include the sacks themselves? I just want to make sure. I've been buying and selling a lot of pieces and have gone from broke to rich many times.
the only thing I can complain about the event it was the drop rate during non US prime time I live in Central America but work on night shift and one night after work I play for 3 hours on my manor toon and got like 17 sack pieces at the next day (my day off) during prime time I got that same amount on 10 minutes on the same toon.
Other than that the rewards and and the bunny morphing part were really good, unfortunately the best thing I got was a EAS
Nerfing drop rates of ANY kind during none prime hrs hurts far more then it helps. I'm a NA player live and play during EST/EDT hrs yet I find I usually have much more free play time during none prime hrs.
The Kayakers and Pro-Farmers "farm" non stop 24/7; they will still collect the event pieces no matter what, less drop rate simply means that instead for 6000 pieces they have 4000 pieces.
By restricting the drops you are artificially creating a greater demand for said objects. The only people truly hurt by this action is the players who cannot grind continuously during none prime hrs.
Nice mix of rewards from this event. Of course the majority of rewards received were juices or fruit coctails. The coctails I think were a great idea. The juices are nice and I like the idea of juices instead of scrolls.
gratz. but i have a boxed buffer so i don't know what i should do with lvl5 and lvl6 prize bags. i really don't know. huh, well, i have some attribute and life stones so i got some luck.