We have made several changes to the way that the event works during today’s maintenance.
The first thing that you will notice is that the event periods will now begin at 3 am CDT for US servers and 2am BST for EU servers. This is when the event will reset every day instead of at the same time for each server every day. For the US servers, this means that 1am PDT / 3am CDT / 4am EDT / 8am GMT / 9am BST is your reset time. For EU servers it is 6pm PDT / 8pm CDT / 9pm EDT / 1am GMT / 2am BST.
In addition to the time zone changes, we have extended the period for which you can collect the rewards on day 10 and 14 to 24 hours. Once your server has reached the blessing period, you will now have 24 hours to visit Jack Sage and retrieve your reward so that players who might not be awake or able to collect the reward right away will all be able to receive rewards on these days.
Lastly, the rewards for Day 10 and 14 have been changed due to player feedback on the event. We have introduced a new reward to the event and removed several scroll rewards from the chests for day 10 and 14. On Day 10, all chests will contain Vitality Replenishing Potions (Yes, that was plural!) and our new reward, a 5 hour duration Rune of SP 30%. When you open the chest for Day 10, the rune will activate and the timer will start counting down so you will not want to open the chest until you are absolutely ready to begin using the Rune of SP. The Rune of SP 30% is not tradable.
Day 14 chests will now contain a 5 hour Rune of Experience Points 50% and a 5 hour Rune of SP 50%. Similar to the Day 10 rune, the timer for these runes will begin as soon as you open the chest. It will not be possible to stop the timer once the chest has been opened so make sure you are ready to begin using the runes when you open the chest. Every chest will contain the same rewards so you will know exactly what is inside. These runes are not tradable.
The following rewards that were initially mentioned on the Event page are no longer available: Experience Rune 30% (This has been replaced with the 50% variety), transformation scrolls, several buff scrolls. All of these rewards have been replaced with extra vitality potions, more potent experience runes, and the new SP increasing rune.
We hope that all of these changes will make the event much more enjoyable for all of our players and we are grateful for all of your feedback that you have provided.
Awesome just awesome. Not the rewards (even though I like them) what is awesome is the direct response and quick changes based on player feedback in an event. I don't know but this mat be a first
Thank you for listening to the customers. This is the first time during my Lineage 2 "Career" that I have ever seen NCsoft take the feedback from the players , repsond to it and actually fix something.
Thank You so very much, I personally appreciate it immensely.
We hope that all of these changes will make the event much more enjoyable for all of our players and we are grateful for all of your feedback that you have provided.
Thank you!
wow finally a CM who listens to the (legit) community! thanks Lyzira! <3
The chests are not tradable either, but if you recall from the Day 6, you can pick one up on all of your other characters so there will be no need to trade amongst them.
Just please make sure that all of your friends and clan members know not to open the chests until they are ready to use the runes! :)
Seed drops were not changed. The big rewards for days 10 and 14 were the reward changes mentioned above.
OK i've misunderstood.
BTW thanks to take care of our remarks.
I think it's the first time i see that. Thanks for your job.
But i continue to think that seed drop don't match the difficulty to get them.
I am trying to remember a time that NC actually reacted like this. I can't. They usually showed dinosaur-like reflexes. I guess there is a first time for everything. Congratulations.
Lyz, I feel bad that people yell at you all day we are a feisty bunch...anyway thanks for listening this is cool. I was very very curious to see the transform scrolls though I thought those might have been really cool. Also expanding the time frame is a huge huge huge ++++++ for those of us that work and especially for your casual player variety. I think this takes this from a low/mid event to high in my book even though it started rough, thanks!!!!
hey dont laugh!! i ask you something and do not told me!
and i have ask you one more question still,all REWARDS...such as (rune of experience and vitality potions) when removed from the game?
Why? Because they don't want to make it so. They are already doing you a huge favor adding them in to day 10 and 14. Now stop QQ'ing. Just like I said, these carebears have a little taste of something good and keep wanting more. You guys don't complain because you really want something. We can see that because now that you got what you wanted, you will continue to complain. It's just in your nature. Now get in game and play instead of crying about it here.
Just please make sure that all of your friends and clan members know not to open the chests until they are ready to use the runes! :)
Just to help players who don't visit the forums often, could you have them put in a system announcement message before day 6 to say not to open the chests until ready to use because the timer will start when opened? :)
and to make room for the new announcement, please tell the devs to fix the invisible Red Soul Crystals so that message can go away :p I actually level the dern things and it's really annoying, plus I have to remember to hunt all over my inventory to make sure I'm not carrying a Red which makes the leveling of another crystal not work ><
You seem to have Spam's whip to get things done ^^
and WooT for these new changes!!! I am a happy camper :D Thank you very much for the extra work.
Thank you NCSoft and Lyzira. I agree with the others in saying this is a new feeling of actually being heard and something done about the events. Keep up the great work!
Im happy with any event as its all a bonus, so wasnt complaining - but I do love vitality potions very much :) Great changes
Like many others already posted I am indeed impressed at the listening, responding and actually changing an event midway - completely unheard around here as I'm sure you can tell :)
Funktastic, looks like you are fast winning over this hard to please community. We all love you. And wd to all nc staff involved in the process of making the changes happen.
smittie gonna start cutting himself now we are getting vita pops but it is good to see a change mid event instead of the usual "we will make it up to you in 6 months when we have the next event"
Tell me i read this right we are talking SP as in skill points :D :D
this is like rain in the desert I always want it to have something like this :) :)
smittie gonna start cutting himself now we are getting vita pops but it is good to see a change mid event instead of the usual "we will make it up to you in 6 months when we have the next event"
Nah no need to cut myself lol. Im quite happy I didnt use a single seed prior to this though.
Im thinking of waiting even longer with using them though, and let ppl cry a bit more on the forums, maybe we can get even better rewards near the end of the event?
Not to spoil the good mood, but a good improvement would be that the timer on those 5hr runes, stops when you log off, so that you can open it, play 1-2 hours today with increased xp, then play 1-2 hours tomorrow etc, meaning the timer does not run when you are offline. This would help a lot.
Also I expect to see what happens with the time change on the daily reset of the event. Until now I have never gotten any of the daily xp bonus myself, as the 2 hrs from when the bar is full are usually work hours for me.
So my suggestions on this would be that
either instead of 2 hours the bonus is increased to 4-5 hours
or that the xp bonus lasts until bar resets (:))))))))
or that after the bar is filled everyone gets 2 hours of increased xp, until the bar resets again. So if for example bar is full at say 15.00 and I log in at 20.00 I still get 2 hours of bonus xp. If I log at 2am I get only one hour (until the bar resets). If I don't log until bar resets, I get nothing.
I suppose that maybe this is too hard to code, though. It would make a lot of people very happy if it happened:)
Our team is very happy to see that you guys are all excited about the changes that we've made to the event. None of these would have been possible without the hard work of every member of our team including Moxie, Cryo (who has not yet been formally introduced, but is an integral part of our team) and of course Omega, all of whom really wanted to make this event enjoyable for all of our players.
Even though some members of our team may not post often...we hear what you all have to say. :)
hey what the hell is this again, restart server again on Aria? we were 2bar away from our XP bonus and its out again? im sorry to be rude but dont misunderstand me, im ******, theres only be 1 day in this event without server restart c'mon guys ... we understand you got to restart server.. but at least set event back where it was!
hey what the hell is this again, restart server again on Aria? we were 2bar away from our XP bonus and its out again? im sorry to be rude but dont misunderstand me, im ******, theres only be 1 day in this event without server restart c'mon guys ... we understand you got to restart server.. but at least set event back where it was!
Best regards,
Blazero, Cardinal 78 on Aria.
The bar will be put back to the same place after the downtime. The progress will not be lost.
The bar will be put back to the same place after the downtime. The progress will not be lost.
This will be a first .. BUT nvm that i am very very happy that NC finally gave us a support team that heard us "AND" made changes in a timely manner you guys are great... keep it up!!
The bar will be put back to the same place after the downtime. The progress will not be lost.
woot, im amazed, nice job, but why before previous downtime during the event, progress bar was not set back to where it was? I'm sure i speak in the name of many when i say we were most angry to see that and were affraid it would do it again this time, hopefully it wont, thx 2 u
What about other drop?
Eva's Rune Packs, Eva's Circlet Packs, QHP, Healing Potions, etc... Will they be deleted?
During our regularly scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, September 8th, all Seeds of Fire and Explosive Seeds of Fire will be removed from the world. All other items will remain once the event is over. Jack Sage will remain for one extra week.
ah.. so when the blessing period hits... you can only get those from the reward itself by talking to the sage...... therefore you can ONLY get ONE chest for the period.... with no chance of it dropping as say 3 hour rune of 20% from event mobs... (if it were even 5 or 10% 1 hour runes, people would be doing seeds like crazy)
ah.. so when the blessing period hits... you can only get those from the reward itself by talking to the sage...... therefore you can ONLY get ONE chest for the period.... with no chance of it dropping as say 3 hour rune of 20% from event mobs... (if it were even 5 or 10% 1 hour runes, people would be doing seeds like crazy)
Can i pick it up today and use like 2 or 3 days later or there is some time window to use those event boxes ?
Yes. When you get the reward today, it will be inside of a box. Inside this box are vitality potions as well as the 5 hour duration Rune of SP 30%. Now as SOON as you open this chest, your Rune of SP timer will begin so do not open the box until you are ready to use that reward. (The vitality potions don't have timers or anything, but they are inside the box with the rune.)
You have 24 hours from the time your server achieves the blessing period to collect the box from Jack Sage.
I took an alt with full vitality, destroyed his vitality down to vit 2 with 99% (so just down to 2 from 3), used a potion and went up to vit 4 with 50%.
So if http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=199043 is correct, and considering your and my observation, the vita potion gives maybe 5500-6000 vitality points. Or in other words, maybe 45% or so of lvl 2 vitality. 3 of the potions would nearly fill you up, if there wasn't the 30 min reuse timer.
Yes it's unbelievable, after 5 days when the bar didn't fill up, first reward day i got a death wishper scroll for 1 hour on my prophet :P (not tradeable), now we got these 4 vit replenish pots that are useless, used already 2 of them from lvl 1 vit and i got to lvl 2 and 70%.
I don't understand why they made such a complicated event that needed a lot of fixes and still the rewards are really bad. I got absolutely nothing from this supposedly XP event of 2 weeks other then some HP pots. Better just put in our inventory again some revita pops or just repeat the cream puff event and everyone is happy...
man wtf it would be worthwhile if each pot refill full vitality, ncsuck is so cheap with their event wtf
Its still worthwhile just a bit of a sad surprise....but between this and the xp rune that probably adds up to pretty close to 4 full vitality bars as vit last like 20 minutes on a high level toon. Personally im using them to level my alts and subs
wow, ppl get xp bonus every day, now they got vita pots/sp rune, they can sell seeds or the 3/5 hours rewards and they can use qhp, ghp and juices...but they still cry...unbelievable.
Yes. When you get the reward today, it will be inside of a box. Inside this box are vitality potions as well as the 5 hour duration Rune of SP 30%. Now as SOON as you open this chest, your Rune of SP timer will begin so do not open the box until you are ready to use that reward. (The vitality potions don't have timers or anything, but they are inside the box with the rune.)
You have 24 hours from the time your server achieves the blessing period to collect the box from Jack Sage.
Tkx Liz, happy to see a better turn on the event with the rewards :)
Last question, the day 14 Rune stack with Birthday Buff or should be used separatly, i dont want to mess anything ^^
OMG!Hey eattherich is right!!!:cool:
I get many usefull things from the event!And the better ofc u get 4+4=8 vita potions!!!That worths about 2vita pops!!!And u still upset?!?!:confused:
Be satisfied this changes has be done!Still in last time!!!:p
I don't mind so much that they don't refill vit completely, but it would be nice if there wasnt a 30 minute reuse delay so that if we wanted to use all 4 at once to get our vit up as high as possible, we could.
but any vit is good vit. certainly better than a DW scroll!
Did 10% in ToI with those vita and eva bless on level 76 in 3 hours. Almost exactly 10%. Used 3 vita potions, best time to use them when extra exp is gained.
I wonder if i do paliaka with exp/sp rune, will i get the extra boost ? It would certainly be worth it.
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I wonder if i do paliaka with exp/sp rune, will i get the extra boost ? It would certainly be worth it.
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No, since Pailaka Exp/SP is given you by a quest, not by killing mobs. You get some exp from mobs, but its not the "big chunk" of exp you get when you complete the quest.
The Rune of Exp 50% and the Rune of SP 50% from the large chest are not working on the Phoenix server, lots of clannies are having this problem, but i have not opened mine yet.
The Rune of Exp 50% and the Rune of SP 50% from the large chest are not working on the Phoenix server, lots of clannies are having this problem, but i have not opened mine yet.
Its korean random, it has a 33% fail rate... erhm I am serious.
This event ended with a bang. It started out really crappy, but it ended really good. One note of feedback I would give for this event is to keep in mind that we are LAZY :), so remember that when you design the events.
It would have been far more enjoyable if all we had to do was summon the seed and it would slowly die when it was summoned. Other than summoning seeds being annoying, it was all good.
I'm happy this crappy event is finally finished.
Bad drop, bad reward, 10 maintenance for a 14 days event, crashes, lags, buff you can't get because you are not online at time.
Korean got 14 days of xp x3, we've got ... that :)
I won't ask for another vitality event anymore, it's a good lesson :)
Although the event was ok, the rewards were so so, I think that NC shouldn't really run these until they are ready to handle them. The server issues were really frustrating during this event. Sorry for complaining but I tried to talk to the GM's and so forth with no luck.
man if those 50% xp/sp runes dont work that is hilarious in a way. Lyzie is cool and all but man they just dont have any staff on L2 with Aion coming out. There are still 100k+ subscriptions making me figure they would have some people supporting things still but its obvious that its just going to bleed. Im still going to play as I do like the game but this would have never happened 3 years ago around the time we had that raid boss event. The real reason we dont have the raid boss event anymore is because gm's have to spawn the mobs and there is no time for that.
Just look at the PTS servers, c3/c4 had chaos week with gm's doing all sorts of crazy things. C5+ have only a few chaos hours because the staff just doesnt exist.