wouldn't be called jackpot if lots of them popped up... they would call it something along the lines of Santa's Giftbox - Common or Santa's Giftbox - Regular.
1 gift and no..err, wait how come I only have 1 gift? I have gone at least 30 buff rounds since the event started, most of which were when santa was out making his deliveries.
1 gift and no..err, wait how come I only have 1 gift? I have gone at least 30 buff rounds since the event started, most of which were when santa was out making his deliveries.
meh.
honestly, just afk whack something that can't be killed....and won't attack you. I know it sounds lame, but as a new player I am having a very difficult time making money....even though I have about 20mill in mats I have yet to find a worth-while buyer (ie those not buying Steel for 100 adena each:rolleyes:). So my only real chance at getting a decent weapon is by afk-hitting.
PS: MERGE THE FREAKIN NORTH AMERICA SERVERS ALREADY...:mad:
Besides, with the current server pops NCsoft could merge all the servers into a single shard; like EvE OnlineStop comparing L2 to EVE. It's a terrible comparison and horribly wrong.
NCsoft would have to completely rewrite the server engine in order to do what you are asking. Whereas EVE has had the same system in place since day one.
Stop comparing L2 to EVE. It's a terrible comparison and horribly wrong.
NCsoft would have to completely rewrite the server engine in order to do what you are asking. Whereas EVE has had the same system in place since day one.
Somewhere around here there's a post about the current number of players on each server (granted I think it's several months old) and all servers (NA/Euro) had anywhere from 900 - 1.9k players on them. Not sure if it was primetime, weekend, prior to major releases (like Aion). In either case I'm pretty sure the servers had more than 16k (round all up to 2k * 8 servers), now it's pretty safe to say that no server that used 'Realms' could handle 16k on a single time so we'll say at most there was 5k online per server during the Good Ol' Days; so at least all NAs could be merged and all Euros could be merged so you'd have a NA-shard and a Euro-shard.
As for bots, nothing is really going to be done about them. They are now a necessary evil. Remove the bots and I suspect the profit margin of Lineage II will dip below exceptable levels and Lineage II will end up like Tabula Rasa; closed (NA-servers at least).
Hey Ivon, I'm gonna let you finish but what you're talking about is not the topic of this thread.
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I've also opened about 100+ gifts and all have come through as regulars, though what hits me is when you go and exchange the regular weapon coupon to santa, and he tells you this "I'll have to make you a nice weapon now, eh? If you're lucky, you might even get a +12 enchanted A Grade weapon!"
Am I to understand that whether I have a regular or jackpot coupon I have a chance to get a +12 enchanted A Grade weapon, what's funny is that Santa doesn't tell you that, for you to have a chance at getting such weapon you would require a "jackpot" coupon.
The text to me seems like the same from the last christmas event where you only had that one coupon to exchange for a weapon and that you would then have a chance at getting this +10 A grade weapon, I think it was +10 anyway I never heard of anyone getting such weapon last year, and for this year I still haven't heard anyone getting a +12.
All of this is so unclear and unjustified, I feel like it's a waste of time trying to get the +12 weapon. I'm still enjoying the buffs and shirts.
In either case I'm pretty sure the servers had more than 16k (round all up to 2k * 8 servers), now it's pretty safe to say that no server that used 'Realms' could handle 16k on a single time so we'll say at most there was 5k online per server during the Good Ol' Days; so at least all NAs could be merged and all Euros could be merged so you'd have a NA-shard and a Euro-shard.If we assume each server has roughly 2k players, then you couldn't fit all the NA population on one server. There are 5 NA servers and 3 EU servers. EU = 2k * 3 servers = 6k players. NA = 2k * 5 servers = 10k players. Seeing as the server caps are set at 6k right now (for very good reason), you couldn't stuff NA into one shard. Plus, running the servers at max capacity in their current state is not a good thing. We already have server problems with the current population numbers.
Anyway, I'd hate to derail this topic any further, so unless I have something to add to the original topic, I won't post in this thread anymore.
Please continue with your regularly scheduled topic.
the day they merge servers again is the day i quit
already enough bots around, dosent need more
Just talking NA/Euro servers,
Most bots are run by the Adena Sellers....they play all servers....so merging all servers would not cause more bots cause the same Adena Seller's Bots would have to compete against each other.
As far as top tier player Bots...now, where there is one bot there would be 4 bots competing for the area. They would just keep killing each other until some quit :)
BTW if you think there are 2000 legit players per server...then....well...i'm speechless.
the day they merge servers again is the day i quit
already enough bots around, dosent need more
amen
Most bots are run by the Adena Sellers....they play all servers....so merging all servers would not cause more bots
WRONG! Lionna had very few bots before the Merge just like Aria now. after Merge the server was over run by bots. they just spread out more and take up more hunting spots.
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Aren't you guys tired of talking about bots AND server merge on every possible thread in the General Discussion section? Seriously... keep it together peeps
I really believed that this thread could be legit and constructive, to finally find out if someone on any servers did get the "+12 enchanted weapon". But now i'm not even sure if people are interested in replying to this thread due to half of it being about bots and server merges.
The 'drop rate' of the A-weapon is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of the drop rates of weapons off mobs, which means it's probably 1/60,000+.
Now if the event started exactly on the 15th and ends at 11:59pm on the 5th. You should have at most 252 presents*
Seems he delivers every other hour so in 24hrs he delivers 12 presents. So 12 presents per day multiplied by 21days (15th -> 5th). Therefore, it's a fat chance in Hell that you'll get it.
Which is odd, since most players are in S-grade (Armor and Weapon) -or- already have A-weapons with at least +7 enchantment. So the group that would benefit the most would be new players or alts.
i bet they only wrote about them so people would at least bother with those useless untradeable gifts, i still don't though. this is the worst event ever, stupid rudolfs are useless too, only have to summon one to pick stupid event drop. which i do not since i need my kooka ... so for me this event is basically only a pain in the a.
shirts? i don't care, mobs are the same number of nukes for me with or without them. +2 int is a joke... 9k matk or 10k, who cares
i bet they only wrote about them so people would at least bother with those useless untradeable gifts, i still don't though. this is the worst event ever, stupid rudolfs are useless too, only have to summon one to pick stupid event drop. which i do not since i need my kooka ... so for me this event is basically only a pain in the a.
shirts? i don't care, mobs are the same number of nukes for me with or without them. +2 int is a joke... 9k matk or 10k, who cares
I was skeptical about this event to begin with but now I think it has alot of merits.
First off it is super easy to get gift boxes, find an npc outside of town and go afk for a while hitting it (hope no jerk blazing skins it) and you'll get a few boxes. Sure a low enchant shirt isn't great but if you get a +16 shirt (not to hard) you get +5 Str, Con, Men, Int for 24 hours. Not to mention the 50 defense to all attributes. Also the weapons you get DO HAVE SAs. Don't believe me, go get one and see for yourself. I am currently levelin a dwarf alt for some cash and with npc buffs, herbs, and reindeer scratch I have 170 Crit Rate on a +14 Star Buster (B Grade 2 handed blunt).
Also having rudolph out rocks because you will have Rudolphs joy buff that will give between 10-20% attack speed that stacks with haste. I have gotten one hour vit buff twice now.
Make no mistake this is a pretty decent event for lower lvl players. It's not a big money maker but it helps with lvling ALOT.
I got a vitiality buff.....on my lowbie academy toon.....tytytyty love full vit on a toon that levels an entire lvl after hitting 3 mobs AWESOME
(for u ehem challenged individuals out there, u know who u are) I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!
lol, ya I saw three players in A-grade gear sittin in Giran with the vitality graphical effect on them...came back around about 5min later...it was still there (rules out a potion).
knowing my luck I'll get the vitality buff and 3min later end up dieing from a pull gone bad:(
I was skeptical about this event to begin with but now I think it has alot of merits.
First off it is super easy to get gift boxes, find an npc outside of town and go afk for a while hitting it (hope no jerk blazing skins it) and you'll get a few boxes. Sure a low enchant shirt isn't great but if you get a +16 shirt (not to hard) you get +5 Str, Con, Men, Int for 24 hours. Not to mention the 50 defense to all attributes. Also the weapons you get DO HAVE SAs. Don't believe me, go get one and see for yourself. I am currently levelin a dwarf alt for some cash and with npc buffs, herbs, and reindeer scratch I have 170 Crit Rate on a +14 Star Buster (B Grade 2 handed blunt).
Also having rudolph out rocks because you will have Rudolphs joy buff that will give between 10-20% attack speed that stacks with haste. I have gotten one hour vit buff twice now.
Make no mistake this is a pretty decent event for lower lvl players. It's not a big money maker but it helps with lvling ALOT.
I know what you mean lol. But I'm lvling 68 OL with a grade stuff instead. 1900+ patk and almost 1500 mdef. <3 Event.
Unlucky, my main and sub are S grade, and S weapon without element is just joke.
I've chosen AM (got +12 ) and I had 50% less then using my +3 AM with element.
If you add slower cast speed it total wasn't best idea - but I had to try :D
Shirt was really nice (I got +12 max) ... about Jackpot I haven't got nor heard about anyone.
i've had a toon wacking at a npc outside of town for nearly a week steady, i've managed to get anywhere between 1 gift a day to 3-4, averaging about 2 gifts a day.
I've however SEEN while lving, someone get a gift 5 times in 1 hour. 9 of us in party, and this got over 20 gifts in the 6 hour span i was lvling with him. Me, i got none.
I went 48 hours of steady outside village lvling or afk hitting an npc, and got 0 gifts.
Unlucky, my main and sub are S grade, and S weapon without element is just joke.
I've chosen AM (got +12 ) and I had 50% less then using my +3 AM with element.
If you add slower cast speed it total wasn't best idea - but I had to try :D
Shirt was really nice (I got +12 max) ... about Jackpot I haven't got nor heard about anyone.
Having a +3 S grade MW duals with 150 holy compared to that of +12-16 santa event duals, while the damage is almost identical, the attack speed bonus on them make them unbeleiveably more powerful.
If i deal 200 dmg per hit with my +3 and switch to the +12-16's and deal between 175dmg or 190dmg per hit, but my attack speed goes up from 900 to 1300, it makes one hell of a difference. I could solo the 78 rift raid boss vs before being killed in a matter of seconds.
In regards to that vitality buff you saw someone have that lasted longer than 5 minutes....
That was probably the birthday vitality buff. It is a 12-hour long vitality buff, that you can get if you talk to the gatekeeper on your character's birthday.
You can find out what your character's birthday is by typing in /mybirthday.
Hope that helps!
-Kokoro (who finally hit level 75 on one of her toons)
lol, ya I saw three players in A-grade gear sittin in Giran with the vitality graphical effect on them...came back around about 5min later...it was still there (rules out a potion).
knowing my luck I'll get the vitality buff and 3min later end up dieing from a pull gone bad:(
i haven't heard of anyone let alone seen anyone running around with +12 a grade weapon thus far aside from people that had them previously.
I'd love to try and get one, but i can't get a **** gift box, yesterday again, afk wacking a npc outside of town i managed to get 1 gift box in over 24 hours....
I've 2 toons doing this constantly haven't shutdown since the event started nearly on both and i think i've received a total of 30-50 boxes.. meanwhile most people seem to be sitting at about 100-300 boxes and they haven't been outside town for even a fraction of the time i've had my toons.
from what i gathered there is a time period in which you can not be outside town and inactive...
As to test this several of us sat in the fort completely AFK standing around and not once did any of us get gifts, however if your in the process of running, attacking, or doing anything that isn't 100% AFK.... you get gifts.
from what i gathered there is a time period in which you can not be outside town and inactive...
As to test this several of us sat in the fort completely AFK standing around and not once did any of us get gifts, however if your in the process of running, attacking, or doing anything that isn't 100% AFK.... you get gifts.
wrong ... first couple of days of the event I logged my dorf in, soed to fortress with the intention of crafting, left home, came back 18 hours later, she was sitting there with 15 gifts. So no. Your theory is wrong :)
wrong ... first couple of days of the event I logged my dorf in, soed to fortress with the intention of crafting, left home, came back 18 hours later, she was sitting there with 15 gifts. So no. Your theory is wrong :)
then that clearly shows how incredibly lucky you are
You pretty much just needed to be out of town to get a gift... I have gotten about 40 Santa's Gifts in total throughout the event, and I really don't play all that much. Roughly a third of those came from just sitting waiting for group members, or doing nothing special at all out of town... so you didn't need to be in a group that was actively XP'ing either to get one.
Somewhere around here there's a post about the current number of players on each server (granted I think it's several months old) and all servers (NA/Euro) had anywhere from 900 - 1.9k players on them. Not sure if it was primetime, weekend, prior to major releases (like Aion). In either case I'm pretty sure the servers had more than 16k (round all up to 2k * 8 servers), now it's pretty safe to say that no server that used 'Realms' could handle 16k on a single time so we'll say at most there was 5k online per server during the Good Ol' Days; so at least all NAs could be merged and all Euros could be merged so you'd have a NA-shard and a Euro-shard.
As for bots, nothing is really going to be done about them. They are now a necessary evil. Remove the bots and I suspect the profit margin of Lineage II will dip below exceptable levels and Lineage II will end up like Tabula Rasa; closed (NA-servers at least).
You are new to the game and already complaining this much. My advice to you is to deactivate your account now. Save us all the trouble of listening to you anymore.
from what i gathered there is a time period in which you can not be outside town and inactive...
As to test this several of us sat in the fort completely AFK standing around and not once did any of us get gifts, however if your in the process of running, attacking, or doing anything that isn't 100% AFK.... you get gifts.
as the other day i had gone nearly 3 full days without a single gift again afk wacking a mob... and then in a 8 hours period while i slepted... i got 52 gifts.... figure that crap out
I am not sure, but since the rudolph have dissapear the santa give us more often his gifts, this week i get more gifts in 4 hours than all the 2 weeks before new year :)
Unlucky, my main and sub are S grade, and S weapon without element is just joke.
I've chosen AM (got +12 ) and I had 50% less then using my +3 AM with element.
If you add slower cast speed it total wasn't best idea - but I had to try :D
Shirt was really nice (I got +12 max) ... about Jackpot I haven't got nor heard about anyone.
The event Maces have Acumen SA built into them, just like the Cream Puff Event Weapons. They also have a pretty good CP Bonus.
The casting speed doesn't make up for the damage loss, though...
But you casting speed with Event Mace should be faster than with an Arcana Mace with Acumen SA.
I checked.
Good if you're in a group doing nothing but debuffing MOBs (OL and Soultaker in some cases), or using non-Attributed AoEs like Corpse Burst. Horrible if you are using you main Attributed Nuke, like Death Spike or CDL.
I am glad that no one got the +12 weapon. People who try to scam the event by farming the NPC's in various hunting areas (and get 150+ boxes) don't deserve such a reward in spirit.
I've seen the Rudolph buff on a player in Dion town, the little elf chick sidekick is awesome. Quite rare though which is unfortunate.
And +16 S grade weapons are useless when they do less damage than a +3 S grade with 150 element. They should have made the S grade weapons have a random ++ and a random element at random strength, so S graders could explore various elemental damages on a different element.....
the rate of reward of a +12 A weapon should be increased - we know of no one who got one. at the least there should be several per server, maybe 10 or so. and it's an A grade weapon, it won't be game imbalancing in any way as it cannot compete with S grade, so reward rate should not be so low as to be nonexistent :/
You know what jackpot is? in lottery its one chance in several millions and I believe they made the same here. There seem to be not enough players in the whole game to trigger even one occurrence.
I believe there is better chance to win 4 bil in aden game for red stones than to receive +12 A weapon, which is ridiculous because +12 A weapon nowadays is basically useless, I think the realistic going price for that is no more than 500 mil, maybe 1 bil tops for +12SoM...
Why are you guys so surprised that no one got the +12 weapons? If you recall, no one got them last year either. Whenever NCSoft does an event with a good prize attached to it, the chance of getting one is always set to 0.0000000001% per attempt. So you have a 99.999999999 chance of not getting it each time you open a box.
Why are you guys so surprised that no one got the +12 weapons? If you recall, no one got them last year either. Whenever NCSoft does an event with a good prize attached to it, the chance of getting one is always set to 0.0000000001% per attempt. So you have a 99.999999999 chance of not getting it each time you open a box.
I wonder if some of my pics are being printed and posted in the break room at NCNA? or left taped to in this case nyx pc monitor?
if i had a great shot of all of u from different angles i would have just photo shopped us around said person portraying nyx but u all get the idea. glad u all could laugh with it and i didn't make anyone any particular char in pic to be mean... well drtulip... but have you ever read some of his posts?? really that deserves to be portrayed as the balding guy lol jk hope you all had a good laugh ;)
korean also get nice pets to buy, teleportation bookmarks, ALL TIME better events (more usefull, better benefits like LC/sa cry ). dunno why they dont implement this here. we pay for the game. and i would pay 5 euro more if we get same possibilties like NA server....
they have the best lib about monsters drops etc. and our documentation?