Admit it: This was a GOOD Event!

Many of us are quick to voice our displeasure with events, and pretty much anything/everything else that goes on around here. Time to give credit where credit is due.

No, this isn't a perfect event, but it is one of the better events, with a clear story and a simple, straight-forward path to rewards.

I admit the Fantasy Isle chest hunt is a little annoying (the recycle time on the keys could be reduced), but if you hunt there during off-peak hours when drop rates are low anyway, you still come out ahead.

Aside from that, this event is just what the doctor ordered.

Not so much, no.... at least the island was fun to explore, I just wish most of it did something.

It's really sad to see something that a team of people obviously spent a lot of time and effort on that will get almost no use within the game.

Eh, its the same as any other event, get drops while you grind. Most people don't like events like this because it favors those who don't stop grinding ever. Even though it was just the weekend they still got alot more out of it than the average player.

The island was fun to explore, but having already swam there to do that it wasnt all that good (the refresh on the tornado skill is WAY too long. can make 7-8 pieces from drops in that time if you kill fast enough.)

I like anything that gives me free stuff w/o tons of letters (or w/e) cluttering up my inventory. ^_^

That being said, I haven't gotten anything really good from the event except cocktails.... which aren't that great cuz I dual box a buffer.

Oh yeah, and I got an enchant armor D.... whoopee. :p

Oh, I don't know. I think there will be plenty of people who go to the island. I personally won't (unless they have games that give me those buff cocktails) but there will be people who use it provided the games are a bit more intersting than the monster race track.

Being a soloing Swordsinger, I don't have the world's fastest kill speed, and the mindless tedium that is the L2 grind bothers me after about 20 or 30 minutes.

So at least, at first, I had a 1:1 drop rate on pieces, and that was fun. Then they changed it, and it ceased to be fun, so I stopped playing.

I have some fruity drinks for grinding later, I suppose... though I am not sure the mix of buffs they grant are a good combination, but I suppose we'll find out.

Being a soloing Swordsinger, I don't have the world's fastest kill speed, and the mindless tedium that is the L2 grind bothers me after about 20 or 30 minutes.

That's just a buff round. Sounds like you have problems with the game in general. I played an SwS alt at one time, and the killspeed isn't nearly as bad as it was for my dwarf.

I have some fruity drinks for grinding later, I suppose... though I am not sure the mix of buffs they grant are a good combination, but I suppose we'll find out.

The sweet cocktails and the fruity cocktails are the perfect mix of buffs. They give either all fighter-type buffs or all mage buffs. They give you clarity, berserk and VR, which puts the L2Day scrolls to shame. They last an hour. What's not to like?

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The sweet cocktails and the fruity cocktails are the perfect mix of buffs. They give either all fighter-type buffs or all mage buffs. They give you clarity, berserk and VR, which puts the L2Day scrolls to shame. They last an hour. What's not to like?



I can't freight them to toons that really need them. That kinda sucks.

Not so much, no.... at least the island was fun to explore, I just wish most of it did something.

It's really sad to see something that a team of people obviously spent a lot of time and effort on that will get almost no use within the game.

It's not done yet and won't be till ct1.5 :p

and yes I like this event you can get xp in this one but I had fun with the pig event. I still need turn in my stuff and see what i get thou.

Being a soloing Swordsinger, I don't have the world's fastest kill speed, and the mindless tedium that is the L2 grind bothers me after about 20 or 30 minutes.

So at least, at first, I had a 1:1 drop rate on pieces, and that was fun. Then they changed it, and it ceased to be fun, so I stopped playing.

I have some fruity drinks for grinding later, I suppose... though I am not sure the mix of buffs they grant are a good combination, but I suppose we'll find out.

don't do it that way!!!!

Make an alt, give it the best ng. Get the noob buffs. You will kill faster and still get the same drop rate.

OR... just go to the island and get the chests. Each chest you open has several (one had 8) pieces.

I say that you should do it because I (who have no luck at all... really) got a Dark Stone, Wind Stone, some really cool cocktails and a life stone.

I can't freight them to toons that really need them. That kinda sucks.

This is why one should not open the level 5 sacks until they are on the toon on which you wish to use the cocktails. ;)

The sweet cocktails and the fruity cocktails are the perfect mix of buffs. They give either all fighter-type buffs or all mage buffs. They give you clarity, berserk and VR, which puts the L2Day scrolls to shame. They last an hour. What's not to like?

I can't freight them to toons that really need them. That kinda sucks.





True, but if you know that the lower level sacks are the most common, why not use those other toons to trade in the sack pieces? Just a thought.

I can't freight them to toons that really need them. That kinda sucks.

I haven't tried or actually looked at it but can you trade the actual treasure sacks themselves before you open them, or are they nontradeable also?

Just something I was wondering about earlier today.

yes, that is helpful information, but seeing as that was unknown the first night of the event, I have about 25 of each cocktail on an alt, wasting away. (does the fruit ever go bad?)

You can trade the sacks before they're opened.

I have to agree, this has been one of the better events for me. I've made out quite well so far. Got a bunch of Lifestones, a shadow wolf (which is quite useless, but fun nonetheless), a Water Stone, an EAS and other enchants, and tons of cocktails.

I wish the Tornado skill had a much, much faster reuse time on it. During the bunny transformation, you should be able to get 2x-3x more event drops than normal grinding, but this isn't the case.

yes, that is helpful information, but seeing as that was unknown the first night of the event, I have about 25 of each cocktail on an alt, wasting away. (does the fruit ever go bad?)

Nop, *hic* thay jus furrrmint *hic* a wee bit. It rruuly *hic* gud.

I agree that for once they gave rewards that are worth getting even if your dice sucks and you get just buffs.

I can't freight them to toons that really need them. That kinda sucks.

I haven't tried or actually looked at it but can you trade the actual treasure sacks themselves before you open them, or are they nontradeable also?

Just something I was wondering about earlier today.



You can trade the full sacks. You can sell the full sacks. Some of the juices you can trade/sell, but the cocktails, not so much.

The juices, I understand, have the same effects as the cocktails, only you just get one of the buffs. So there is a clarity juice, a focus juice, a might juice, etc., etc. (Although the names are more creative than that.)

I like this event a lot, just wish the bunny tornado was a little faster. The mage cocktails help me a TON when grinding.

yes, it was a best event i've seen. The only thing it was absolutly abnormal was the drop rate during euro daytime.

the scroll for rabbit transformation was a very good idea. perhaps 12h reuse time is a bit too much.

10 minutes was fine to find some treasures, but reuse time of the skill to open chest was too long. divide it per 2 (u still not have time to open 2 chests for 1 pop chests) and i will be fine imo.

Surprise--I'm actually not a huge fan of this event.

I think parts of it were clever--I appreciated a bit of a new design--I thought some of the rewards were nice (and REALLY appreciated that it didn't just give a ton of buff scrolls).

I'm not so happy with the "bunny transform 10 min out of every 12 hours though". At least personally.
I can see how it is tilted towards more casual players (and I'm one of those) but I think it could have been made a bit more frequent without too much damage being done.

Overall, I gave the concept an "A" before it started....now I'm down to a "B-".

10 minutes was fine to find some treasures, but reuse time of the skill to open chest was too long. divide it per 2 (u still not have time to open 2 chests for 1 pop chests) and i will be fine imo.

I think that is what bothered me most... in the 10 minutes I had to run round this bad acid trip, compete with the other bunny-people, and then find the spot to hit the first skill... 3 chests appear but I can only open 1? They all give the same thing?

If they all give the same thing, then give me 1 chest and a faster re-use on the Tornado....

I liked it except the drop rate changing. Overall I had fun, I could have make money from it but I decided to play the game instead.

They should put a few NPCs with permanent games on Fantasy Island it's a nice place, I liked the paintings spot.

If they all give the same thing, then give me 1 chest and a faster re-use on the Tornado....

They don't all give the same thing. My wife and I would run together and when one of us found a "startled" and spawned the chests, we would get different amounts of items from the same trio of chests.

Good event, I think.

Player frustrations seem to be of the 'i want MORE" type, which we will always see. Kinda like when I give a panhandler $2 and they give me the evil eye and say "i want $5".

Good job NCSoft, ty!

They don't all give the same thing. My wife and I would run together and when one of us found a "startled" and spawned the chests, we would get different amounts of items from the same trio of chests.

That's still the same thing, pieces... whether I get 6, 7 or 8 Treasure Pieces makes no nevermind... howabout spawn 1 chest per "Gaze" and give me a random chance for 18 to 24 Treasure Pieces at a go?

I love the event. The bunny transform part is my favourite, but I do wish that the transformation would last a bit longer. 15-20 minutes per scroll would have been good. I feel like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland "gotta hurry, gotta hurry" :)

I think that might be part of the idea?
But, then, I end up standing around, waiting for Tornado to reload... I know where the spawns are, I just can't do anything with the chests 'cause I can't kick them.

Maybe the devs have never had rabbits as pets? They'll kick your [censored] like Chun-Li....

Bunny transform could of been a little longer, but it was a fun break from grinding and you could usually get 50 peices per bunny... so that was 1 sack w/o grinding.

I got some good attribute stones and a few mid-grade life stones, so I am pretty pleased. While I do have boxed buffers, the cocktails are still sweet, best freaking buff pots they have ever given us. If you wern't smart enough to open the lvl 5 sacks on your main, well, your just an idiot. :P

I loved this event and I look forward to doing it next weekend.

Once I sell all the loot I got during this event it will be a great event. of course I may have to wait a month to sell it though.

I really like the event almost as is. Just think shadow items should be given at the most common packages only.

awsome event nc
woot woot :)

Problem is, some people will NEVER be satisfied. Ever.

I am LOVING this event. This is, by far, the best event I've taken part on. Three things that could have been changed:

- Euro droptime. It's ridiculous. And it's very unfair to those euros that either didn't want to, couldn't afford or didn't manage to transfer to an Euro Server.

- The tornado skill. I mean, if you spawn 3 chests, make it so we can OPEN at least the 3 chests you spawn. NOt that you spawn three and we can only open one. Makes no sense.

- I really really wish we could still hunt for pieces during the week at the Isle...

The rest, I have absolutely NOTHING to complain about. Great rewards, great fun to be a rabbit, I LOVE the new isle (I wonder if the rides will be rideable... heheheh).

I guess some people are never going to be satisfied with anything they come up with, even if it's the best thing they've ever thought of so far.

Event isn't bad, there are a few things I don't like about it.

-The fruit cocktails are not trade able, I am stuck with several on an alt I'm probably never gonna bring to lv40, and even if i do, I'll never ever use the mystic ones.

-The new version of the buff-scrolls, why can't they just have 1 type of buff scroll? saves inventory/warehouse space, saves database space, makes sense overall, doesn't it?

-10 minutes/12 hours is kind of ridiculous since you have to be there every 12 hours to really benefit from it. Would much rather have received X amount of transform scrolls and then be able to use them whenever I please.

-Spawning 3 chests for 18 seconds makes no sense with a skill that recharges once/minute

-There really is no good reason to shaft part of the population on drops just because of the time they play at, why can't drops be the same at all times?

-Why does a 4th sack reward you with crap like D enchants? when you can get better (read: more valuable) stuff from a 6th sack

It feels pointles mentioning any of it though, it's been mentioned at virtually every event, and it's still a lot of the same problems we see(inventory clogging, droprates/time, useless rewards)

Surprisingly enough I had the most fun on fantasy island chest hunting, simply loved it. And the island is very well designed, I don't know why but it felt good beeing on it.
Some areas of the island are truly splendid and reminded me of fantasies such as Alice in Wonder Land and even the twisted version of Alice in Wonderland , American Mcgee's Alice :p. (even thou things were not "dark")
THe event itself wasn't that great, but the hunt was nice, reminded me a bit of the pig event, however the huge restrictions made it so i enjoyed the event very little. (from hunting I got very few sack pieces, albeit I didn't grind for hours on end ;)).

Its a fun event indeed, but i wish i could keep the bunny transform as a real transform skill for my dorfie <<. (though hunting rabbits in cat form is also fun)

To be honest this was one of the events that i liked the most. But as you also could see is that the market prices were skyrocketing.

For an average player to take advantage of this quest you have to seel the pieces. Meaning that if you would exp 1 day you would have 1000 pieces or something around that. During the night you could sell them for 55K on kain at least. This gave me a profit of 55million. . Now I myself like to have the value of things that I have instead of gambling with luck on chests. In the end I was happy with this event coz it permitted me to enchant my arcana mace to +3. I finally had the money for it.

Cheers to this quest :)

Its a fun event indeed, but i wish i could keep the bunny transform as a real transform skill for my dorfie <<. (though hunting rabbits in cat form is also fun)

actually that is not suck a bad idea... hunting rabbits in cat form :)

or a droprate boost on items while grinding in transformed mode :)

- The tornado skill. I mean, if you spawn 3 chests, make it so we can OPEN at least the 3 chests you spawn. NOt that you spawn three and we can only open one. Makes no sense.

I think most would be ahappy with just 1 out of every 3, if you didnt have to wait 30 seconds before getting the next chests to pop to open one.

Those complaining about going to the Island every 12 hours for 10 minutes.... Just buy the scrolls every 12 hours (you can buy from ANY SNOW in any town) and save them. Go to island just before event closes, or the next day, and use them all in one visit!! :-)
Don't know if after this weekends event closes you can still go to island and do chests, but last weekend I figured if I couldn't do them during the week at least I could do them the next.

I did this the first weekend. With 4 scrolls I went to island on Monday and had 40 minutes of FUN!! Also joining with 2 others to search for the chests meant you GET all, then split the drops. Also for those that think all chests give you the same thing, wait a few seconds and see if one chest does fire works, if it does you will get MORE scrolls and possibly some thing else like braclets, full sacks, I got one #3 from one, that gave me a Mid lvl 61 LS.

Those that are complaining about PRIME TIME (when drop rates are higher) being too late for them, well you chose to go to the server that your on knowing that events like sieges and olympiad would be geared for the time zones that the server is in, SUCK it UP!!!

I like this event so far!!!!

Those that are complaining about PRIME TIME (when drop rates are higher) being too late for them, well you chose to go to the server that your on knowing that events like sieges and olympiad would be geared for the time zones that the server is in, SUCK it UP!!!

You have no idea how tiresome it is to hear this ignorant remark from someone with no empathy, so quit repeating it. For your information many of us started playing before there were any events like sieges or olympiad, and there sure as hell wasn't any euro servers back then either. We didn't have a choice, and we don't have one now because both euro servers are full. If I could transfer to a euro server with my equipment intact I would have moved yesterday.

Those that are complaining about PRIME TIME (when drop rates are higher) being too late for them, well you chose to go to the server that your on knowing that events like sieges and olympiad would be geared for the time zones that the server is in, SUCK it UP!!!

Typical reaction of someone who hasn't been playing since OB and doesn't know there was NO EURO SERVER at the time. Noob!

- The tornado skill. I mean, if you spawn 3 chests, make it so we can OPEN at least the 3 chests you spawn. NOt that you spawn three and we can only open one. Makes no sense.

I think most would be ahappy with just 1 out of every 3, if you didnt have to wait 30 seconds before getting the next chests to pop to open one.


I was going to keep this to myself but I'll share. This is like the end of the Dark Mansion quest and if you listen carefully to the chests you can get the better one. I wasn't able to fully test it because I was able to get only 1 scroll since I was gone most of the weekend. By the time I thought about it I was down to 3 minutes on my scroll.

Those that are complaining about PRIME TIME (when drop rates are higher) being too late for them, well you chose to go to the server that your on knowing that events like sieges and olympiad would be geared for the time zones that the server is in, SUCK it UP!!!

Typical reaction of someone who hasn't been playing since OB and doesn't know there was NO EURO SERVER at the time. Noob!



Oh I have been playing since OB, it was brought out as a NA release. Those that are not in NA and choose to play I have NO sympathy for. Mainly because at that time (4 years ago) PINGS were bad going from contenent to contenent. Like I said it's a choice those out of NA made, so live with it!!!!

Play the Korean servers, would be the same thing. :p :p :p

It's everyone (not just euros on NA servers and the other way around) that do not play during their server's prime time that get screwed. Yes, we do have to live with it, but much like every other situation that we aren't happy about, we're going to, and have to speak up if we think it's bullpoo.

Oh I have been playing since OB, it was brought out as a NA release. Those that are not in NA and choose to play I have NO sympathy for. Mainly because at that time (4 years ago) PINGS were bad going from contenent to contenent. Like I said it's a choice those out of NA made, so live with it!!!!

You're an idiot.

Oh I have been playing since OB, it was brought out as a NA release. Those that are not in NA and choose to play I have NO sympathy for. Mainly because at that time (4 years ago) PINGS were bad going from contenent to contenent. Like I said it's a choice those out of NA made, so live with it!!!!

You're an idiot.


+1

You're an idiot.

I couldn't agree more.

Oh I have been playing since OB, it was brought out as a NA release. Those that are not in NA and choose to play I have NO sympathy for. Mainly because at that time (4 years ago) PINGS were bad going from contenent to contenent. Like I said it's a choice those out of NA made, so live with it!!!!

Your main argument for being a disagreeable jerk is invalid. The ping for european players hasn't changed much since OB. I had 180ms then, and I have about the same now. So that senseless drivel about a choice, would you just shut up about it?

And dude, the korean servers doesn't allow europeans to play. NCNA did and that makes them responsible for us too.

The basic idea is perfect but the implementation leaves something to be desired. The issue is the low drop rate during the day. This weekend I had my evenings already taken. I had to grind during the day, the the sack drop rate was abysmal.

Luckily the sack piece drops continued a hour past the scheduled stop time. I was able to grind during that hour and make up for time missed.

The sweet cocktails and the fruity cocktails are the perfect mix of buffs. They give either all fighter-type buffs or all mage buffs. They give you clarity, berserk and VR, which puts the L2Day scrolls to shame. They last an hour. What's not to like?

I can't freight them to toons that really need them. That kinda sucks.





True, but if you know that the lower level sacks are the most common, why not use those other toons to trade in the sack pieces? Just a thought.



OMG. I did not know you could not transfer the potions. I opened most the sacks on a naked toon I use to sell shots . I did that because I wanted the potions to be all on one toon that does not use them.

I am reading the event description now. I see nothing there about the potions being non-transferable. I can't get in game to check this. Am I screwed or what?

Those that are complaining about PRIME TIME (when drop rates are higher) being too late for them, well you chose to go to the server that your on knowing that events like sieges and olympiad would be geared for the time zones that the server is in, SUCK it UP!!!

This is an ignorant remark. I am in Texas, and I could not play evenings this weekend. My plans were made long before this event was planned, and could not be changed. Other people have to work at night, so they play during the day.

Last year, during one of these weekend events, I was out of town for hunting season, my play time was limited to the week days.

NCSoft's special event policies exclude real people, not just bots. Despite repeated complaints from the player base, they continue with the discrimination, with no explanation why they do this. They are very misguided on this issue.

I got a ridable wolf as a reward. I was disappointed to find out that using the Dismount skill keeps the wolf "equipped" and uses up the shadow time, even though the wolf isn't summoned. I didn't realize this until I only had 40 minutes left on the timer. Oh well...live and learn I guess.