Due to various ongoing backend changes on the servers and website, server maintenance for July 11, 2012 is being postponed by one day, until July 12. Stay tuned for a maintenance notice tomorrow that will announce the revised maintenance schedule.
What is happening on Wednesday, July 11:
The servers will not have scheduled downtime.
Vitality will be refilled at 6:30am server time. This is now an automatic weekly process that does not require maintenance, therefore Vitality will not be refilled during the maintenance of July 12.
The Appearance Stones (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/store-promos/appearance-stones-store-update-new-item-details.php) will leave the L2 Store at 8am server time. They will leave the L2 Galleria at noon PDT. Due to the unexpected postponing of this maintenance, the Restoration Stones will also leave the L2 Store at 8am server time, but they will return to the store at the end of tomorrow’s maintenance. The Exploration Pack bonus items will not change until July 12.
The Tauti Launch Kickoff perks end at 7am PDT (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=News+Informer%2C+Event+Gatekeep er%2C+Servant+of+Flames+NPCs+leave+the+game&iso=20120711T07&p1=234). At this time, the News Informer and Event Gatekeeper NPCs will leave the game.
The Birth of Draco (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/events/birth-of-draco.php) event NPC will leave the game at 7am PDT (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=News+Informer%2C+Event+Gatekeep er%2C+Servant+of+Flames+NPCs+leave+the+game&iso=20120711T07&p1=234). This means it will no longer be possible to trade in Shattered Egg Shells, so be sure to do that before this time.
The Birth of Draco event items scheduled for deletion on July 11 will not be deleted. They will remain in the game an extra day, until the maintenance of July 12. The list of items to be removed on July 12 can be found on the event page. (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/events/birth-of-draco.php#Duration)
As thanks and compensation to our players for bearing with us during the server crash issues of the past week (now resolved), conventional Gatekeepers (not Primeval Isle guy) continue to offer free teleports for an additional week, and Angel Cat returns to the game for a week.
Angel Cat will leave the game and Gatekeepers will resume charging for teleports on July 18, 2012.
Angel Cat will arrive in-game at noon PDT (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Angel+Cat+Arrives&iso=20120711T12&p1=234) on Wednesday, July 11. He gives the Angel Cat’s Blessing item. Players can obtain one of these items per game account per day. The item is not tradable so you must claim the item on the character you wish to use it on. The item lasts 30 days and you can consume it when you like in that time.
Angel Cat’s Blessing: For 60 minutes, increases M. Atk. by 20%, P. Atk., P. Def., M. Def., Atk. Spd., Casting Speed, and Max HP and MP by 5%, and XP and SP gained through hunting by 30%. No reuse time.
Lastly, please note that the maintenance of July 12 will be an extended one, beginning earlier and possibly ending later than the normal time frame. The full details about the maintenance and what changes it is bringing will be posted tomorrow, however rest assured that the changes are passive and will not impact any players in a forceful manner.
You know, I'm really getting spoiled by the free ports. It's gonna be eye-opening when they start charging again. I'll have to actually think about what I'm doing...
ok fine, lets look at the bright side: angel cats blessings is nice and i appreciate that they are changed from buffpots to enhancement buff + 30% XP. thx for that.
at this point i would like to point out that i dont understand why the timed draco hats will be deleted that will expire after a week anyways.
oh and if i may comment: man did i get screwed after buying draco XP scrolls for 300m daring to gamble a profit for some later time and getting the updated notes the day after. oh well, cant change it now.
...however rest assured that the changes are passive and will not impact any players in a forceful manner.
yeah right, we will see about that AFTER the maintenance!
Well I want to say thanks for the event....thanks for the cat....thanks for the extra day...thanks for the free ports....and thanks for all the other freebies you provide. To those who forget how to say thanks.....sucks when its all gone and the game shuts down. Bleh! I'm appreciative for the efforts.
Thank you for good event and for ruins all my plans. I spent 3 weeks to hunting, collect and open these Draco eggs to receive Draco’s Blessing (1 hour and 3 hour) and use it after event. And what I see now? It will remove exactly after event or 1 day later? What point of it? Why you give us good event with good rewards and don’t give possibility to use it? I understand when you remove eggs, not opened gifts and bracelets. But rewards? Thank you so much for your kindness. I spend 3 weeks for nothing, I am very grateful!
Thank you for good event and for ruins all my plans. I spent 3 weeks to hunting, collect and open these Draco eggs to receive Draco’s Blessing (1 hour and 3 hour) and use it after event. And what I see now? It will remove exactly after event or 1 day later? What point of it? Why you give us good event with good rewards and don’t give possibility to use it? I understand when you remove eggs, not opened gifts and bracelets. But rewards? Thank you so much for your kindness. I spend 3 weeks for nothing, I am very grateful!
Thank you for good event and for ruins all my plans. I spent 3 weeks to hunting, collect and open these Draco eggs to receive Draco’s Blessing (1 hour and 3 hour) and use it after event. And what I see now? It will remove exactly after event or 1 day later? What point of it?
It has been known from the start of the event that the Draco Blessing scrolls will be removed when the event ends, so it should not come as a surprise now that they actually WILL be removed. You even get one more day to use them with this postponed maintenance.
Due to various ongoing backend changes on the servers and website, server maintenance for July 11, 2012 is being postponed by one day, until July 12. Stay tuned for a maintenance notice tomorrow that will announce the revised maintenance schedule.
What is happening on Wednesday, July 11:
The servers will not have scheduled downtime.
Vitality will be refilled at 6:30am server time. This is now an automatic weekly process that does not require maintenance, therefore Vitality will not be refilled during the maintenance of July 12.
The Appearance Stones (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/store-promos/appearance-stones-store-update-new-item-details.php) will leave the L2 Store at 8am server time. They will leave the L2 Galleria at noon PDT. Due to the unexpected postponing of this maintenance, the Restoration Stones will also leave the L2 Store at 8am server time, but they will return to the store at the end of tomorrow’s maintenance. The Exploration Pack bonus items will not change until July 12.
The Tauti Launch Kickoff perks end at 7am PDT (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=News+Informer%2C+Event+Gatekeep er%2C+Servant+of+Flames+NPCs+leave+the+game&iso=20120711T07&p1=234). At this time, the News Informer and Event Gatekeeper NPCs will leave the game.
The Birth of Draco (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/events/birth-of-draco.php) event NPC will leave the game at 7am PDT (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=News+Informer%2C+Event+Gatekeep er%2C+Servant+of+Flames+NPCs+leave+the+game&iso=20120711T07&p1=234). This means it will no longer be possible to trade in Shattered Egg Shells, so be sure to do that before this time.
The Birth of Draco event items scheduled for deletion on July 11 will not be deleted. They will remain in the game an extra day, until the maintenance of July 12. The list of items to be removed on July 12 can be found on the event page. (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/events/birth-of-draco.php#Duration)
Please! Leave draco's blessing ! why to delete them??? Please!!
I think of all the things in all these events past several months, I will miss the free teleports the most. I guess I'm just THAT cheap. And thank god for deleting the stupid hats I can't stand the way they look but bonuses so good, have to wear them ;x
Thank you for good event and for ruins all my plans. I spent 3 weeks to hunting, collect and open these Draco eggs to receive Draco’s Blessing (1 hour and 3 hour) and use it after event. And what I see now? It will remove exactly after event or 1 day later? What point of it? Why you give us good event with good rewards and don’t give possibility to use it? I understand when you remove eggs, not opened gifts and bracelets. But rewards? Thank you so much for your kindness. I spend 3 weeks for nothing, I am very grateful!
Yeah no one said that blessings would be deleted! Me too I spent time and money for nothing! :( I didn't read properly neither :(
but if possible, as teleports and cat blessing, please leave draco's blessing 1 more week PLEASE
anyway, thank you so much for this extraordinary event, the best one I ever got
if you are unable to list an item, do a search for anything, then return to the sell tab. used to be I would have to restart a new client when too many things listed but it appears just doing a search also clears the impediment.
As far as I know, this is the first time and AWARD from an event is later deleted, not talking about the event items needed to collect like an egg, the award itself. It was not told in game, and how many go to the forum and website to check updates?
Also, I'll suggest if the forum is going to be the norm for updates and everyday information, please start banning people who abuse it, if I am now forced to check it to see information that is important to ingame features I do not want to see users with 3-10k+ post trolling all the time. THANKS!
What about those draco health / mana potions, aren't they "Event" items also and should get removed cause it ruins any PVP when you can spam 3k hp / cp potions non stop. With all eggs have been opened we will be able to run them for another 1-2+ month making any PVP a disvantage for those who doesn't use them.
As far as I know, this is the first time and AWARD from an event is later deleted, not talking about the event items needed to collect like an egg, the award itself. It was not told in game, and how many go to the forum and website to check updates?
No. Remember the collector's gifts for the 8th anniversary? :rolleyes:
No. Remember the collector's gifts for the 8th anniversary? :rolleyes:
Guess it's good I put as far as I know. And if this is the truth which I am not aware of, pretty sure those were not deleted a weeks after the items stopped droping. Plent of time to use and plenty of awareness. I believe they even gave extra weeks to use them.. But yes they did eventually delete them.
8th Anny Gifts were fool prove in that they had their expiration date on the actual item description, guess it's needed for every event item that will be removed nowadays as ppl fail to read actual announcements..
8th Anny Gifts were fool prove in that they had their expiration date on the actual item description, guess it's needed for every event item that will be removed nowadays as ppl fail to read actual announcements..
Yep, it should. Either an expiration date, or how many days left for use. People don't fail to read annoucments, the one about draco items in game, to tell you to go to the website was only put ingame a few days ago, and was only because players started shairing info that items were going to be deleted. Face it people just don't go to the forums or website often.. Things need to be ingame faster, and from the start.
event pages has said they would be deleted since the event started. need to read the **** event pages instead of just glancing the procedure and rewards.
July 11, 2012: The event NPC leaves the game and the following event-only items are deleted:
Spirit of Flames Agathion bracelet
Draco Eggs (Large and Small)
Shattered Egg Shells
Draco’s Blessing (1 hour and 3 hour)
Draco's Gift
Shiny Draco's Gift
Temporary Draco’s Hats
Yes, my bad. I don't pay enough attention on it. But I don't even imagining that kind of NC SOFT kindness (he-he). I play so many years, and every time after event we had time to enjoy our rewards. I believe I have in my w/h some reward items from very old events. And I think it is so stupid and not logically to remove that kind of rewards immediately after event. What point of event at all? I can spend only one, max 2 hours in game after work. Even if I read all this carefully, I can't enjoy, like it was before. It is very sad. Now I understand why we lost so many old players. NC Soft doesn't love as any more....
The Appearance Stones (http://www.lineage2.com/en/news/store-promos/appearance-stones-store-update-new-item-details.php) will leave the L2 Store at 8am server time. They will leave the L2 Galleria at noon PDT. Due to the unexpected postponing of this maintenance, the Restoration Stones will also leave the L2 Store at 8am server time, but they will return to the store at the end of tomorrow’s maintenance. The Exploration Pack bonus items will not change until July 12.
wait, you announce with only 4 hours warning that you'll remove appearance stones?
this post is made at 4am in my country and when i came back from work (20 minutes ago) appearance stone were already gone, pleas put them back for another week or just till tomorrow maintenance, i really need to buy the accessory appearance stone! (or add it to my inventory and take the ncoins away)
wait, you announce with only 4 hours warning that you'll remove appearance stones?
It has been known for some days that they would have been removed. Didn't you see the in-game announcements the past days?
Does anyone ever effen pay attention to the in-game announcement shouts? They've been warning and reminding you about the draco event and maint. If you didn't pay attention and check the website then that is YOUR own ignorance.
If you actually thought NC was going to let you stock pile xp scrolls you were sadly mistaken. That's part of their income and they let you get some freebies during an event.
It has been known for some days that they would have been removed. Didn't you see the in-game announcements the past days?
no official announcement on site or forum and who the hell look in-game annuncement? 99% of the time they say "help us report 3rd party program users!" ^^
p.s. the few times i looked announcement on these days they were only anti-botters shouts and draco event related, no mention of removing l2store items made to stay there forever as this thread made us think http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=241889
no official announcement on site and forum and who the hell look in-game annuncement? 99% of the time they say "help us report 3rd party program users!" ^^
Sadly, those in-game announcements contain precious information, usually covered by the following 3rd party-stuff crap. But some stand-alone announcements (and login announcements) have been made.
start making it a habit to check the official announcements then as this was all explained at the start of the event as well for the nc store items as most of those are temporary..
really stop hiding behind your own laziness or inability to read announcements
start making it a habit to check the official announcements then as this was all explained at the start of the event as well for the nc store items as most of those are temporary..
really stop hiding behind your own laziness or inability to read announcements
problem is they only said draco events were going to be removed, and not appearance stones
no official announcement on site or forum and who the hell look in-game annuncement? 99% of the time they say "help us report 3rd party program users!" ^^
p.s. the few times i looked announcement on these days they were only anti-botters shouts and draco event related, no mention of removing l2store items made to stay there forever as this thread made us think http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=241889
problem is they only said draco events were going to be removed, and not appearance stones
it's clearly ninja added now by sace! wasn't here today and the past week!
Appearance Stones Unavailable on July 11
With the maintenance of July 11, Appearance Stones (http://www.lineage2.com/en/game/the-library/items/) (Armor, Weapon, Hair Accessory) will cease to be available for purchase in the L2 Store and L2 Galleria. Stones purchased before this maintenance will remain in the game; you are not obligated to use them before any particular time. Restoration Stones (Equipment, Hair Accessory) will stay in the L2 Store so that you continue to have the option of restoring your items back to their original appearance whenever you like. Stock up on Appearance Stones before July 11!
Question: If the news informer disappears does that mean we can't exchange territory badges anymore? Are the territory war badges deleted also? Where should we exchange them?
Question: If the news informer disappears does that mean we can't exchange territory badges anymore? Are the territory war badges deleted also? Where should we exchange them?
If you don't use them at the news informer you'll be forced to trade them at the Aden reconstruction manager dwarf for a chest and a fee and one badge. The rewards suck btw
There are so many comments on this thread... But i still wonder... why noone commenting this:
Vitality will be refilled at 6:30am server time. This is now an automatic weekly process that does not require maintenance, therefore Vitality will not be refilled during the maintenance of July 12.
Whyyyyyyy? Whyyyy... i waaaant iiiiiit :)) Haha... Now start commenting :))
The vit refill is something that happens at a specific time each week, it is no longer bound to maintenance. While I understand you want to spend all your vit and get it refilled, that is not how it works.
There are so many comments on this thread... But i still wonder... why noone commenting this:
Vitality will be refilled at 6:30am server time. This is now an automatic weekly process that does not require maintenance, therefore Vitality will not be refilled during the maintenance of July 12.
Whyyyyyyy? Whyyyy... i waaaant iiiiiit :)) Haha... Now start commenting :))
You got it this morning which means you wont tomorrow because it was automatically done this morning
The vit refill is something that happens at a specific time each week, it is no longer bound to maintenance. While I understand you want to spend all your vit and get it refilled, that is not how it works.
I dont want to spend anything :) Just wanted to get it. Why if the maintenance was today, it get refilled (as it happens every week), and if it is tomorrow, it is not.
P.S. Hope we have no crashes anymore though, cuz the angel cat event on Naia was like: where is the caaaat? I don't know... server crashed 2 mins ago. Wait till 10 p.m. to appear... Oooo :( i missed another day with a kitty ;)
It is very interesting to me, NC Soft really considers that, if they simply rob me removing all rewards that I have earned during event stimulate me to run in store and immediately buy similar items for real money. Are you will? Really?
I am sorry for my crying. I am too upset and disappointed. I believed that this event helps me to make level 90 quickly. It seems I should have a rest a little from this game instead.
I wish all of you successful hunting, good luck, pleasure and new good events.
P.S. And please, the following time, read very attentively all conditions of event. Don't repeat my mistake. May be it is not necessary to spend your time on it.
It is very interesting to me, NC Soft really considers that, if they simply rob me removing all rewards that I have earned during event stimulate me to run in store and immediately buy similar items for real money. Are you will? Really?
I am sorry for my crying. I am too upset and disappointed. I believed that this event helps me to make level 90 quickly. It seems I should have a rest a little from this game instead.
I wish all of you successful hunting, good luck, pleasure and new good events.
P.S. And please, the following time, read very attentively all conditions of event. Don't repeat my mistake. May be it is not necessary to spend your time on it.
There are so many comments on this thread... But i still wonder... why noone commenting this:
Vitality will be refilled at 6:30am server time. This is now an automatic weekly process that does not require maintenance, therefore Vitality will not be refilled during the maintenance of July 12.
Whyyyyyyy? Whyyyy... i waaaant iiiiiit :)) Haha... Now start commenting :))
Wait does that mean no more free vita for Wednesday early birds? Or is it just for this week?
Mora than so much free ports I will like old Noblesse ports, 1k adenas to almost everywhere, when they change it they frakk it up, oly to hunt areas and no more noblesse cost from ports from town to town.
Wait does that mean no more free vita for Wednesday early birds? Or is it just for this week?Vitality will be refilled at 6:30am server time every Wednesday from now on. The note about "Vitality will not be refilled on Thursday, July 12" is only relevant to this week, as we're having our maintenance on Thursday instead of the usual Wednesday this week. Players are used to having Vitality refilled with the maintenance (downtime) but now downtime/maintenance is no longer required in order for Vitality to be refilled.
And what about instances? they will be reseted with server restart or not?
Instance resets do not require downtime; they happen automatically regardless of maintenance. Most instances reset at 6:30 am server time.
what time is the maintenance tomorrow?
We will post a maintenance notice for it later today that has all the times. Current estimations are that it will start a little bit earlier than the normal maintenance timeframe.
any chance to extend or do again the appereance stone event?
The Appearanace Stones' time in the store will not be extended but perhaps they will return again in the future. We will have to wait and see.
Thanks for your quick answer sace, i was questioning about istina or others intances with bigger reuse.
exemple: if i do today, tomorrow i can do anothe ristina intance? or no reset tomorrow?
The reset for Istina is at 6:30am server time Wednesdays and Saturdays (epic is only Wednesdays); no maintenance/downtime required. Thus the reset already happened today.