1. SE 76+ gets to learn 4 skills from Bish's and EE's 2nd prof. EE and bish gets to learn 1 skill from SE and another of the 3. All available for OE. Can be replaced by another for 10 mil (this one is not confirmed though)
2. new series of solo quests for 79+ that give exactly 30% XP at 79th level (about 600 mil XP and 60 mil SP). Could be hard to finish all of them though. First 6 quests give 50milXP and the 7th gives another 300 mil XP.(numbers are rounded)
3. Several existing hunting grounds have been re-designed for 80+ players. There are S80 armor and weapon quests and even full S80 drop from mobs in these new old locations. Also dino island is made into solo nuker (sans necro lol) paradise, in addition with about double SP gain from mobs over there ...
4. Vitality lasting longer for 76+ chars (not confirmed if for 79+ it's the same as now or also improved)
5. there is a new damage penalty for 78+ when hitting things 2 or more levels higher than the player. probably only in PvE but who knows.
6. when enchanting skills, adena is consumed instead of XP. basically OE everything you want before gracia+ or prepare to part with some huge sum... it's inevitable though.
Adena instead of XP isn't really bad. On average, you will make more adena in the time it took to XP for than Enchant, then it will cost to enchant it.
Territory Siege
There will be more rewards available with siege tokens.
Book of Giants - grey, green and red books
Talisman - buff cancel, buff steal, cp boost+cp restore, less pvp dmg received, all resistance(resist increase for all element)
Pvp potion - hp, mp, cp
Belt - Rune clip belt (faster hp and mp regeneration), magic belt (pvp stat increase)
Strider - Stronger pdef than current strider and has special skill.
Hunting grounds:
Stakato Nest - LVL 82+ / 4man +
Field of Silence - LVL 83+ / nuker
Forge of Gods - LVL 78+ / nuker party
Primitive Island - LVL 83+ / 4man +
Mithrill Mines - LVL 81+ / Archer
Giants Cave - LVL 80+ / melee party
Dimensional Rift - LVL 80+ / 4man +
Changes to Zaken Raid
In order for more variety of players have chance to raid, it changed to instant zone type. Can choose to do day/night raid.
day - 9~27 man party.
night - 72+ man party
Instruction - When you enter, you have to turn the light on the candle in the small room then you will get info about location of zaken. The later you find Zaken, the harder the raid will become, and the faster you clear the raid, the better reward.
Time limit - 60 minutes for day raid, 360 minutes for night raid.
Other changes
- you can teleport in front of zaken room using NPC in Giran.
- Minions will return to original location when it goes off certain distance.
- Changes in the reward from raid.
New pet
Teinonikus - can be obtained at Dino Island
New Strider - can be obtained from Territory NPC with badges.
When you log into the game in the middle of hunting ground, you will not pull agro from aggressive monsters for 10 minutes. But when other action is taken, monsters will become aggressive.
New Vanguard skills
Boost mortal - for 2 minutes, when sword/blunt/dual sword is used, accuracy 8, critical rate 150, critical dmg 30% is increased.
Gilotin attack -Attack skill when using 2 handed sword and blunt.
Triple blade slash - Dual sword attack skill.
SYSTEM UPDATE
Mailing service
Now you can send items to your friends through this mailing system.
There are 2 types of mails you can send.
1. Sends mail along with items, receiver can click it to open.
2. Sends mail along with items with desired price, receiver has to pay that amount in order to get them.
Sounds good, just did a bit of research on it myself, Someone said that in this patch ncsoft are making it easier to lvl so less grind i guess. When are we liable to get this new patch??
Sounds good, just did a bit of research on it myself, Someone said that in this patch ncsoft are making it easier to lvl so less grind i guess. When are we liable to get this new patch??
"easier to lvl" are: better use of the vit system after lvl76 and new lvling zones 80+ and 7 new quests for lvl 79+ which gives in total around 30%. Thats all. I dont think this makes "lvling easier". The grinding will stay like before.
They should add that new quests for each lvl and not only 79. Than it would be "easier to lvl by quests".
I agree with you on the quests because when i started my character last week i got to lvl 24 in one day because of all the quests at the start, but now there are no quests that give xp for me at the moment. NC should have quests so people can get to higher lvls quicker and with reletive ease, because most of L2 population are very high lvls.
I agree with you on the quests because when i started my character last week i got to lvl 24 in one day because of all the quests at the start, but now there are no quests that give xp for me at the moment. NC should have quests so people can get to higher lvls quicker and with reletive ease, because most of L2 population are very high lvls.
you shouldn't be complaining. it used to take several days to get to just lvl 20.
don't turn L2 into another version of WoW where the grind is way to easy.
you shouldn't be complaining. it used to take several days to get to just lvl 20.
don't turn L2 into another version of WoW where the grind is way to easy.
Im not complaining mate, personally i like L2 grind cus i love the look of the game so it doesnt get boring for me. But i was saying that the majority of L2 players are high lvl i meant that put a few extra quests in so players can get to high lvls a lil bit faster to join in on raiding and territory war etc.
you shouldn't be complaining. it used to take several days to get to just lvl 20.
don't turn L2 into another version of WoW where the grind is way to easy.
Heh,or like Guild Wars...game started to suck after you got to lvl 20,and you could get to lvl 20 in less than a week because the quests are so easy to do and they give you like a whole level after you complete them.
(Its really boring when you lvl that fast,especially when there is only 20 lvls.)
Heh,or like Guild Wars...game started to suck after you got to lvl 20,and you could get to lvl 20 in less than a week because the quests are so easy to do and they give you like a whole level after you complete them.
(Its really boring when you lvl that fast,especially when there is only 20 lvls.)
I remember playing guild wars it sucked so bad lol, i guess it probably would make the game boring. Its not my place to say just yet my toon on L2 is only lvl 24.
Well,if you think about it there is 85 lvls in L2 i dont think that they would give that many quests to get to 85,besides in the new G+ after 79 but atm i like how the grind is set up.
Well,if you think about it there is 85 lvls in L2 i dont think that they would give that many quests to get to 85,besides in the new G+ after 79 but atm i like how the grind is set up.
The grind is decent cus its not too slow xp and its not boring, plus you can kill mobs at a very fast rate.
wtb G+ asap lol.. can't wait for more xp spots where 80+ ppl can get some decent xp outside of HB which requires a full party to get anything decent done.. >.<
Yea,thats the good thing.Plus you can get partys which makes lvling even less boring lol.
Hmm i havnt tried partying up yet, i think ill party up with some clan members when i can get on the game xD
Adena instead of XP isn't really bad. On average, you will make more adena in the time it took to XP for than Enchant, then it will cost to enchant it.
are you exping without soulshots, spiritshots, healing pots, ghp, gsap?
And here is a list of the new hunting grounds: http://www2.elliebelly.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=876
The headlines in square brackets [...] are links to detailed walkthroughs where you will find among other things info about the Elemental Attribute of the monsters. Be sure to check that out before you put an Element on your weapon and/or armor you might regret in a few months.
Since those new quests are clearly on the side of the Lords of the Down, I really hope that in the future they add some Dusk quests, ie on the side of Lilith and Shilien. Because now it is not fair to the dark elves. I hope though that having Down quests completed won't block possible new Dusk quests :) The best would be of course if they added 2 alternative quest series instead of just one, but who I am talking about.
In the Shadow Fox quest series you can choose at lvl 38 whether you want to work for Dusk or for Dawn. But since development costs nowadays seem to be a major factor for NCsoft, I somehow doubt that they will spend the time and effort to devise two alternative quest series for CT 3.
But there are enough other questions that provide a background for further Epic Quests. What has Iason Heine, a very shady character, have to do with the Merchant of Mammon? Where did the weapons and money come from that the Mammon Guild provided to Shunaiman for his crusade against the Children of Shilen? Why was Shunaiman locking up Anakim in the Disciple's Necropolis with four Seals? (See here (http://www2.elliebelly.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=915)).
I guess it is quite obvious that the so-called "good guys" are utterly evil.