Festivities begin on March 7, 2012 and continue for two weeks, with a special secret event to be revealed later on! Celebrate the Harmony Festival; a series of events focusing on the launch of the Goddess of Destruction™: Harmony update!
Activities include:
Harmony Festival Pack: a special and useful L2 Store and L2 Galleria bundle available for a limited time only.
A free Party Mask head accessory and echo crystals!
The Harmony Celebration settings event: includes no XP loss on death, Nursery re-enter timer reduction, and more!
The Masters of Aden GM event: meet the staff as they give buffs to each server throughout the week.
Another surprise to be revealed later on!
These events sound awesome! Simple, yet so desired by the players. Especially the no XP loss on death. It feels like NC has taken some advice from the players from the few previous events. Thank you Sace! Looking forward to these events and the ones to come.
gms will be giving event buffs and blahblah at 5pm (pst) time zome... that means for us in europe like 2-3am right?
Blah Blah Blah At least the GMs will make an appearance. You can always join the Europeon servers for more appropriate times, other than that just Keep Calm and Carry On.
Blah Blah Blah At least the GMs will make an appearance. You can always join the Europeon servers for more appropriate times, other than that just Keep Calm and Carry On.
too dumb to realize gm's are from NA and do not login on EU servers when its euro prime time?
gm's asked us last time when we would like them to come and they never came at these times then why hell gm's asked.
also why stupid event to earn vit. just do it like how it was when it was pay2play
give buffs and vit restored at same time not to hand full of people i wouldnt want to waste my time doing some mini game to get some vitality
It smells like a litel bit of discrimination if the GM's don't come in EU prime time only when its ~3AM GMT +1
/Jokeoff
Even if all server times go towards GMT+1 the GMs are working PST and 3AM is what? 8PM? They should have everything in Euros and all GMT+1 times, because that is 80% of their customers.
Who cares about Euros, cmon.. we play Korean game, on US servers, supported by US company with Euro timezones.. and we will get buffs and GM activity in US timezones... HAHAHAHHAHAHA
This is 21st century guys. Cmon.. free 2 play game.. we should be happy we are allowed to play it.
Seriously.. you were afraid of income loss after F2P and moved the game to cheaper US DC? I don't get it...
I'm on fiber connection and I have 150-180 pings... but hey, we have Harmony now, new events, funny items... only new /social_actions missing to pure awsomeness of the whole NCWest picture.
14. 3. will be exactly 10 weeks from Tersi Light Event and this squash event was right after 10 weeks in korea
Lets see how much drop and (no)rewards gonna surprise us :)
Thankfully, no. Many of us are completely sick of squashes (and watermelons) at this point, and if we have to run it again I will smash a watermelon in frustration. :) Note that the teaser doesn't actually say "event"...
gms will be giving event buffs and blahblah at 5pm (pst) time zome... that means for us in europe like 2-3am right?
We are taking into consideration the different server times and are in most cases (other than siege activities this weekend) structuring the server rounds accordingly so that we are as close as possible to each server's peak time.
hummmmm
Ah, below the main banner, I'll change that. Regarding the "secret" some people may call it an event, others may not; we're simply trying to manage expectations. It will be fun, and let's be glad its not a squash event. ;)
Ah, below the main banner, I'll change that. Regarding the "secret" some people may call it an event, others may not; we're simply trying to manage expectations. It will be fun, and let's be glad its not a squash event. ;)
Sace is probably the best Community Manager NCSoft has ever had. He/She/It has probably done more for the Community and in the Community than all the previous Community Managers + NCSoft ever did.
I'm beginning to suspect Sace isn't a person but a bot...**** these botters!
Ah, below the main banner, I'll change that. Regarding the "secret" some people may call it an event, others may not; we're simply trying to manage expectations. It will be fun, and let's be glad its not a squash event. ;)
Sace, I think what will happen March 14th. It's not an event, it's some as account services re-open...
More one event based on 24/7 players.
Random times sux players with real life.
GM's can't put this event to run one time only and restart with instance restart time? Oh noes! This is hard!!!!
"remember, you are playing for a long time, consider break"....
It would be nice if the events were run at various times, to ensure that all players get to take part. As it stands, the GM buffs and vitality refill have been hosted at the same time each day.
Does the Giant's Improvement Box only give you a chance of obtaining one of the 4 rare items (Hair Accessory Life Stone, Hair Accessory Enchant Scroll and Giant's Weapon Scrolls) or are you guaranteed one?
I've collected all the feedback from before this post, and we're taking note of feedback given while we're on the servers, but we'd like more! :)
Sooo.... What do you guys think of the GM event?
gm sace the new update is awesome! :D one more thing. :p pls can you make the No XP loss upon death every weekdays but not on saturdays and sundays so that we can pvp every 5 days a week :D .thankssss
I've collected all the feedback from before this post, and we're taking note of feedback given while we're on the servers, but we'd like more! :)
Sooo.... What do you guys think of the GM event?
))) +++1
but since im Iss, 1hr buff for me naaah)))
i dont know if it was a dream, but i read somewhere that gms will refill vitality too...
so i stayed at FI over night and saw only 1hr buffs (( no vita refill (***We'll be giving buffs, and will be running a game that rewards players with a Vitality refill.***) how does this work?
i dont know if it was a dream, but i read somewhere that gms will refill vitality too...
so i stayed at FI over night and saw only 1hr buffs (( no vita refill (***We'll be giving buffs, and will be running a game that rewards players with a Vitality refill.***) how does this work?
thanks Sace you are the best CM in L2 history!!!
The game goes like this : the GM will spawn a "portal" at random location within fantasy island. You have to find the portal and use it "Jump in". There you will wait your turn to have vita refilled.
The game goes like this : the GM will spawn a "portal" at random location within fantasy island. You have to find the portal and use it "Jump in". There you will wait your turn to have vita refilled.
sent the below as a pm to Juji cause the Vita refill aspect doesn't work on crowded servers..
"as u probably already heard but on Naia when half the server goes to FI the lag alone makes it near impossible to move around so the "5 minutes" to find the right dimensional door is a bit of a bad joke and will only lead to much frustration of those that port to FI in the hope to refill their vitality..
also porting into an open pvp zone isn't smart as on Naia we take our wars serious and will kill/attack on the spot if we see any..
just saying in case this wasn't clear yet.. "
Yesterday on Naia there were like 2+k ppl on FI during that time which causes more lag then the most zerged TW/Siege we ever had on Teon (when all sides had ~400ppl at Rune castle)..
The gm events should come in 6 hourly blocks. As it is, I've yet to meet and greet since the event keeps occurring at some god forsaken hour... The most recent one was 4 am my time zone.
Thankfully, no. Many of us are completely sick of squashes (and watermelons) at this point, and if we have to run it again I will smash a watermelon in frustration. :)
it dosnt realy matter what we smash .. as long as we get our beloved ead and ewd as rewards! ofc with a new tag, so that they dont stack with the other 5 different kind of ead/ewd we already have :)
I would like the gm vitality event to be on fixed hours for servers,announcement on forums.The idea of randomly spawn door for vit and pig transforms may sound tricky and nice but for us,the players,its not playfull at all,its lag lag lag and waisted of our time as we wait to get some vit we never get because we can not move and find this door.Please try to understand that we play without x2 rates and without vitality all days to our way to 95+(some day).Would be nice if events would help on this.
The idea of randomly spawn door for vit and pig transforms may sound tricky and nice but for us,the players,its not playfull at all,its lag lag lag and waisted of our time as we wait to get some vit we never get because we can not move and find this door.
I enjoy my nice quiet lag free hunting area while most of the server is in FI :)
I appreciate the effort (I honestly felt bad for the GMs doing this), but please don't do one of these "mini-game" vit events again. I don't see why you can't just throw some aoe vitality and buffs, or better yet just a good old fashioned scripted vit event like the star buff. I'd really like to see something like the eva's rune event or the enchant event again too if it's still possible.
I've collected all the feedback from before this post, and we're taking note of feedback given while we're on the servers, but we'd like more! :)
Sooo.... What do you guys think of the GM event?
My honest two cents are if you're going to buff and offer vit refills just give it to us rather than jerk us around with it. it was done in the past so what the difference now? The events have been rather cheapened lately. I also would add that the event chest in the L2 store could use some rethinking. When I buy something I want the exact items promised, I'm not willing to buy a chance at anything because I know full well what that means in L2...major fail.
It's probably so people won't just stay perma-logged on.
Yea I get that, but if that's really their reason then they could just randomize the location on FI but announce it once they come on and not switch it every 5 min.
Yea I get that, but if that's really their reason then they could just randomize the location on FI but announce it once they come on and not switch it every 5 min.
Personally I think they should randomly spawn in PvP locations, but that's just me being ornery.:p
Today for the first time we had gm event that was good!
Christmas trees near gk of FI that gave item for vit and buff and gm who was running in an open area NEAR the trees (so we could find him even with our tonz of lags) and filled our vit.Some players funny transforms,some ''valakas'' spawns for fun.
That's it, you did it!Smart,playfull and usefull.Now that you have it keep it up for all week pls. :) We deserve it!
on Naia 1st lvl tree, and how we can get Vit?:eek:
Buy Vitality items from the L2Store or wait until Wednesday after maintenance and your vitality will be refilled.
Aside from that there is nothing else you can do to regenerate it.
Ok, not really angry, it's my tagline ya dig? but YO! GMs!! Instead of submitting a ticket that I am SURE ANGRY BOYS of various servers have already have done, I am going to be ANGRY here about the vit xmas trees. THE TREES on CHRONOS and NAIA have gone back to LvL1!! and that makes me and several others just plain ANGRY!! If they gonna stay at LvL1, that's cool. I can roll with that. But if it was the intention to keep them at the awesome ANGRY level of 5, I think someone needs to come back to the servers and replant the LvL 5 ones. RAWR I am ANGRY!!
ANGRY EDIT!
RAWR NOW I AM ANGRY THAT THE LvL5 TREES are BACK!! NEVERMIND THE ANGER of the ANT. GO about your ANGRY DAY!! :D
Buy Vitality items from the L2Store or wait until Wednesday after maintenance and your vitality will be refilled.
Aside from that there is nothing else you can do to regenerate it.
If you're going to answer a question, make sure you understand what they're asking before spouting nonsense. You're not an employee of NCSoft, leave the cookie-cutter answers to them.
Due to the massive amount of players in Fantasy Isle, we cannot give out full vitality refills for our GM event today. However, we are putting up Christmas Trees that give 1-hour Vitality Recovering items. The trees will be up until tomorrow, so you can go back as many times as you want to get these items and they will NOT be removed after maintenance.
One flaw with your plans guys, the trees reset till lvl 1 they dont give the items now...
One flaw with your plans guys, the trees reset till lvl 1 they dont give the items now...
I'm spawning the Level 5 trees on all the servers every 2 hours :)
The last round of level 5 Christmas Trees have been spawned. They should reset back to level 1 around 4:00 AM PST. About 1 hour before maintenance begins. There will not be any level 5 trees during that hour....unless I wake up from a nightmare or someone else spawns them.
The last round of level 5 Christmas Trees have been spawned. They should reset back to level 1 around 4:00 AM PST. About 1 hour before maintenance begins. There will not be any level 5 trees during that hour....unless I wake up from a nightmare or someone else spawns them.
lol Atarth u know the answer to that, this week we're supposed to get something else though so who knows.. and even if I got that wrong the no XP loss upon dead will still be around this week which is nice for suicidal xp/pvp ^^