Wintermelon Woes Event

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Hello everyone,

Here is your holiday event this year: Wintermelon Woes (http://www.lineage2.com/archive/2010/12/wintermelon_woe.html). Some of your may recognize it as being similar to the squash events that have been held in the past. That means that you get to enjoy smashing "wintermelons", sometimes with funny-sounding Chrono weapons, with the goal of loot the valuable items inside.

The event begins next Tuesday, December 14, and will continue until December 28. Be sure to read the event page for more details and all of the instructions on how to smash the Wintermelons!

Also, all characters will be receive some holiday gifts in their personal warehouses that day. Enjoy the holidays! :)
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yeeeeeeeey, ok i take my post back from x2 XP/SP weekends :P but id still like vitasnowballs or ice-creamvita pops

omg omg omg im 2nd omg omg omg im gonna peee my pants.... weeeee
nice..i hope for alot vita stuff :D
Cool - actually looks like fun, like old times. Someone's listening.....maybe there's hope yet.
Gogo elves!
We love u
Tigers copy event? No thanks... My fingers still hurt..and what more..? Only 5 revita pops and 5 vit maintenance potions? That's all??? I think I miss last year's Rudolph event...
Wow Sace, absolutely great gifts from 2010 Holiday Gifts thingy.

Thank you :*
what... no Enchant Weapon/Armor D grade... event sucks!!

/runs away before Sace beats me to death..
i just hope that l2.bin wont return with this new event since it was arround this time event last year when it started and lasted for like 6 months
Hello everyone,

Here is your holiday event this year: Wintermelon Woes (http://www.lineage2.com/archive/2010/12/wintermelon_woe.html). Some of your may recognize it as being similar to the squash events that have been held in the past. That means that you get to enjoy smashing "wintermelons", sometimes with funny-sounding Chrono weapons, with the goal of loot the valuable items inside.

The event begins next Tuesday, December 14, and will continue until December 28. Be sure to read the event page for more details and all of the instructions on how to smash the Wintermelons!

Also, all characters will be receive some holiday gifts in their personal warehouses that day. Enjoy the holidays! :)

Sace question about "2010 Holiday Gifts". We will get those items after maint right? What about chars from subclass separation? I plan to make subclass separation this Tuesday. Will my new char from subclass separation also get those event items?
This sounds great ty :)
This sounds dangerously close to the tiger event for my sanity...
1 Rudolph's Nose: Ghis item gives your character the appearance of a having a bright red nose similar to that of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Uses two accessory slots. Not tradable. Expires after 14 days

Quick fix "Ghis" typo
thank you for another wonderful event <3
Event looks like fun :) more vitality also :)
Wow Sace, absolutely great gifts from 2010 Holiday Gifts thingy.

Thank you :*


If i got it right...they will be ''many uses'' items with a cool down...like the dice is for example!

That's absolutely awesome!
Looking foward to this event and to seeing what the new "Chrono" weapon looks like, hoepfully it is something new this year.
Tigers copy event? No thanks... My fingers still hurt..and what more..? Only 5 revita pops and 5 vit maintenance potions? That's all??? I think I miss last year's Rudolph event...

+1 Only tiger event had better rewards...
tiger events... type of event *****!:mad:
This sounds dangerously close to the tiger event for my sanity...

The devil is in details. While "active" ppl had some issues with the tiger event, this one looks like designed for them. Another hint that strategy changed to favor again the "active" accounts, because this looks like drop-based event.
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what... no Enchant Weapon/Armor D grade... event sucks!! ..

yea .. we want the NC back we know! .. This is realy disturbing .. so many events, gms giving buffs and full vit, double exp weekends, support listen to players, even some bots got banned .... what the hell is wrong with you guys!?
Hello everyone,

Here is your holiday event this year: Wintermelon Woes (http://www.lineage2.com/archive/2010/12/wintermelon_woe.html). Some of your may recognize it as being similar to the squash events that have been held in the past. That means that you get to enjoy smashing "wintermelons", sometimes with funny-sounding Chrono weapons, with the goal of loot the valuable items inside.

The event begins next Tuesday, December 14, and will continue until December 28. Be sure to read the event page for more details and all of the instructions on how to smash the Wintermelons!

Also, all characters will be receive some holiday gifts in their personal warehouses that day. Enjoy the holidays! :)

Hi Sace,
a question .. when a toon recieves 5 Christmas Cake Boxes and is going to be transfered to the other server , will that toon lose his 5 Christmas Cake Boxes ?
gms giving buffs and full vit

Where ? Where ?
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Where ? Where ?
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i guess not on naia :D
aden grocery shop right now and will be buffing for like 15 more minutes
aden grocery shop right now and will be buffing for like 15 more minutes

Yep, was just going to bed, we already PRed, nice timing, 2-3 minutes later...
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why is this event so black?
were is the apple pie event ?
Watermelons has nothing to do with christmas or the holiday seaon. they are more of a spring or summer time fruit. Great job to picking a event out of the evnt hat and rolling with it
ONE SLOTTED RUDOLPH NOSE are better !!!

I'm still sad I couldn't use my Santa Antlers with the Rudolph Nose last year ! *sobs*
Sace question about "2010 Holiday Gifts". We will get those items after maint right? What about chars from subclass separation? I plan to make subclass separation this Tuesday. Will my new char from subclass separation also get those event items?

We're going to do the item insertion after running the account services, so you should get the items just fine. If there's a problem, please submit a ticket afterwards.
I got a question. How will happen reward distribution for Honey smashing party's?
I don't remember this being a major issue in the last couple of Smash Melon type events.
Might be wise to test it on the non-honey melons to see what happens there. The Finders Keepers setting and having the owner of Melon do the pick up works. The game does give information on who gets everything which is picked up, if you have the system messages turned on. Really, you need to test it yourself to see.
I do know that it was a problem a while back with events which dropped items to be picked up. Then you needed to leave party so you got your items, or party with good people who made sure your stuff got back to you.
Watermelons has nothing to do with christmas or the holiday seaon. they are more of a spring or summer time fruit. Great job to picking a event out of the evnt hat and rolling with it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_melon

Winter melon has a very long keep time. Also we are not talking about watermelons... The GMs do something nice and you complain. Try and keep in mind this is an ASIAN MMO. Try an american made mmo if you want to go rescue rudolf.... ****
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_melon

Winter melon has a very long keep time. Also we are not talking about watermelons... The GMs do something nice and you complain. Try and keep in mind this is an ASIAN MMO. Try an american made mmo if you want to go rescue rudolf.... ****

We had rudolph last year dummy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_melon

Winter melon has a very long keep time. Also we are not talking about watermelons...

Well to be fair, the things we're bashing in game look nothing like wintermelons. They look more like a watermelon/melon hybrid.

I guess the devs felt wintermelons had too much of a phallic shape or something...
We had rudolph last year dummy.

I took a few years off :(
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You ain't 1st...my posts just get deleted before anybody sees em....jk
I got a question. How will happen reward distribution for Honey smashing party's?

They just drop. Who picks up first gets them (so I suggest random party loot)
I have a question to you Sace please.

I know that the packages will be removed from game after 3 months but what about the cakes that come from the packages? Will they be removed after 3 months aswell?

Thanks
Oha. I cant break a HoneyMelone alone since I am a SE77.
I am enforcedd to party with strong chars and to share while they get their loot alone. This event is again such a bot friendly event.

Thanks alot , for excluding me from event.
What class can kill the big ones alone?

I thought you needed like 3 or so to kill one.

Luckily for me, I can box 6.

(Eat it, Piro.)
Get haste and guidance buffs and use the fist weapons.


If you attack it immediately it will finish it off before the 1 min 30 seconds.


Ive killed about 10 of them already without any failure using the fist weapon + haste method described above solo on my PP and lowbie destroyer.
Oha. I cant break a HoneyMelone alone since I am a SE77.
I am enforcedd to party with strong chars and to share while they get their loot alone. This event is again such a bot friendly event.

Thanks alot , for excluding me from event.

every class does the same damage ... doesnt matter if your a SE or a Destroyer or whatever. Ask your clanies to help you .. and help them to kill theirs and everyone is happy. Or yust sell the nectar and get rich and famous.
every class does the same damage ... doesnt matter if your a SE or a Destroyer or whatever. Ask your clanies to help you .. and help them to kill theirs and everyone is happy. Or yust sell the nectar and get rich and famous.

wrong, it does matter the class. BDs, tyrants, daggers any class with a high atk speed is far better than the others. even being able to solo the big ones.
I remember when was an event with eva's runes and those fire things which we killed with unequipped weapon, warcryer with their soul cry could kill it soo fast :D
Oha. I cant break a HoneyMelone alone since I am a SE77.
I am enforcedd to party with strong chars and to share while they get their loot alone. This event is again such a bot friendly event.

Thanks alot , for excluding me from event.

Just set Party Loot to Finders Keepers and only melon summoner is allowed to pick. If you are SE 77 I think you must have a few ingame friends who could help you.
Like they use to say in the military, "choose your rate/MOS choose your fate" you chose to play a class that had a slow attack speed now you have to live with it. If your lvl 77 and have no friends to help you do the watermelons without taking any loot its time to choose new friends. Im so glad life isn't fare it would be really boring if it was.

I did large watermelons last night. Got a Top 82 life stone, few other High grade life stones, some powerful mental elixers, powerfull healing pots and A/S gems. The odd thing is I got better rewards from spoiled watermelons than from the high grade ones. The two high grade watermelons only gave me 2 S gems each.
Just set Party Loot to Finders Keepers and only melon summoner is allowed to pick. If you are SE 77 I think you must have a few ingame friends who could help you.

I decided to share. Its the christmas-spirit. And I dont sell the nectar because I like to gamble. And I find indeed enough people to party in aden and to crush my honeymelons. (1 so far hehe)
wrong, it does matter the class. BDs, tyrants, daggers any class with a high atk speed is far better than the others. even being able to solo the big ones.
Very true I use my tyrant and he can solo the large ones easily.
So... the event was too short. Dammit, the drop from mobs wereduring the hectic time of preparing for Christmas. :/ Couldn't really play much. And still got bad luck. Got the best watermelon out there and it only dropped 1 thing - BEWA. T.T Why me? :(

GMs, choose better timing next time, please.