Hey dear ncsoft.This full instance exping isnt very at all.Just to let you know what people like becouse as i can see your developers do huge mistakes considering human psihology.
1. 1st of all game need action + adrenaline. its your problem how u create those situations but DO it.
2. peoples like massssss and masss minions to kick their butts :) idk where how but DO it.
3. pplz like competition and get decent rewards for competition. Make wars rewardable so they have reason to be best!.(NOT zerg winer! Quality has to be winner).
4 just do more motivation to do this or that no mather what u decide to do.
And those instances 100 times a day becouse u get most exp pts. is **** Boring srsly.U have to be nuts to do that until 99 2 times lol.
5. ah and yes give exp for pvp points :D example 100 pvppts trade for 1 bil exp scrol .
I'm waiting for a game with the pvp system of the old lineage C1-Interlude times, off course with almost no instances, but with the gameplay-classes of the modern MMOs nowadays(Guild wars 2, Blade& Soul, ...).
I find L2 classes and gameplay very boring compared to other MMOs I play currently, the same with crafting system, L2 has the poorest crafting system and a very small item variety when I compare to other games.
But these new games don't have the freedom L2 had in its golden days: no instances run, good pvp-pk and clan war system.
If someday, somebody join the old pvp system and persistent world L2 had in the past with the fluency and richness of the modern MMOs regarding gamelay, fun and interesting classes and skills + a very wealthy crafting system and item variety, this game will be perfect for me.
3. pplz like competition and get decent rewards for competition. Make wars rewardable so they have reason to be best!.(NOT zerg winer! Quality has to be winner).
Yes, let's do it, to help those "top quality pvp clans" made of lvl 99 cheaters freely farm pvp points off the "zergs" of low level players and get rewards for that.
How exciting! How truly competitive!!
ah and yes give exp for pvp points :D example 100 pvppts trade for 1 bil exp scrol .
Yes, let's allow everyone to kill his/her own lvl 1 alt 100000 times in a row and acquire enough xp to become lvl 99.
Genius!
And those instances 100 times a day becouse u get most exp pts. is **** Boring srsly.U have to be nuts to do that until 99 2 times lol.
Indeed, grinding in the open field for 0.0000001% per hour must be times more exciting. Every botter will agree with you.
Everything is quite the opposite what Jacky wrote down since l2 has become what it is right now by getting everything what ppl want.
Those points are almost everything what l2 was. A game with its identity that wasnt suited for emo wow kids.
I think the Lineage 2 isn't boring if you know the way how to play.
But totally agree, that those who only make the instances can boring the game easily.
But yes as Furunkulus told nowadays lesser the variety now at the end game as before this will change in the Chapter 3 1.0 patch, but might be will need some more patches, that the classical Lineage II feeling maximally be able to return.
When this update release at us will be spring of 2013. So I think until the best if you try to achieve the maximum levels and farm a better gear and over enchant your skills, maybe level up some new toons.
I wait too the times, when again the main focus will on the open field areas as it was in the old times.
I think isn't a good idea to modernize the Lineage II, this game was perfect as it was until the Chaotic Throne 2.1 patch, from the 2.2 started the instanced gameplay what isn't so funny I guess.
At least we have some reasons to watch the things positive in the future, that the developers work on it to reset the old Lineage II style.
Ahh still something to the end, yes the craft and spoil system is really problematic nowadays, but if you read the Korean powerwiki about the upcoming craft and spoil system I guess it will make this part of the game again to useful and funny too.
@jacky, maybe when you see "l2 is getting boring", your should read "maybe its time for me to find a new source of diversion to spend all my free time". Anyway, I wish the best for you, just remember to close the door and leave your keys after you go, please.
Lol, well, lyns can be destroyer too(actually, any race can be any class, you choose the class at the moment you are creating you character).
I wonder if a Lyn destroyer does something like this to a bigger race, I'd want so see something like that, a little lyn destroyer grabbing a huge character and throwing it away.
Hey dear ncsoft.This full instance exping isnt very at all.Just to let you know what people like becouse as i can see your developers do huge mistakes considering human psihology.
1. 1st of all game need action + adrenaline. its your problem how u create those situations but DO it.
2. peoples like massssss and masss minions to kick their butts :) idk where how but DO it.
3. pplz like competition and get decent rewards for competition. Make wars rewardable so they have reason to be best!.(NOT zerg winer! Quality has to be winner).
4 just do more motivation to do this or that no mather what u decide to do.
And those instances 100 times a day becouse u get most exp pts. is **** Boring srsly.U have to be nuts to do that until 99 2 times lol.
5. ah and yes give exp for pvp points :D example 100 pvppts trade for 1 bil exp scrol .
Maintain the cutthroat PVP! Open world pvp!
Instance exp/raid can be fun but field EXP concept can still live on!!!
And to negate some of what is said in this thread, you can grind all day long after you have done your instances obtaining adequate EXP! There are plenty of areas to grind, and if you are 95+ even more are availible since Glory Days!
I miss the old L2!! I still have fun on this GoD L2 but come on.....we need a perfect mixture of both! which they are heading in that direction.
I agree that L2 gets boring and moving from instance to instance to get 00.15% in 25' isnt gaming at all.
On the last update before awaken,game had achieved a balance between classes/people who had all from bot/ebay and the ones who were making only through gaming.Most of old active toons could afford +30 skills,endgame armors/weapons/epics and ofcourse lvl and 3 subs.This gave free time to players to do stuff just for fun,like go around lf pvp,camp a port,log only for pvp outside a raid ect.
When awaken system striked,all started from scratch,players were divided not only into botters and non botters,but also to donators and no donators,since even by botting you couldnt reach 99 and get a dualclass to 99 without coins.About pvp,the dmg gasp from a 95lvl party that cant afford coins superior elixiris and draco potions to a 99lvl party that use everything,made pvp just a waste of time/crp/.
Well what im trying to say is look those instances are good i say nothing of they are GOOD i dont say its BAD but what i wuold realy like to is some MOre places for competition between pplz . NOt only atharas .Remember Baium fights ? hey CLAN ud PORt and there was RLY fun if they could make MOre places like this where u have to enter instance but before that u need win Party pvp or 3 party pvp .Or even for example . Make a coridor where only can enter lets say 2 or 4 partys 2 from 1 side and 2 from Other side and they have to wait inside some time lets say 30 minutes and all those 30 minutes u need defend your Doors from hostile clan party :D.If you win them and can stand 30 minute u enter instance. becouse u have right and u are confidental to do so :) . and nice prizes given for this action. maybe not exp maybe some equipemnt.Just make those instances FUN ) . Its just some ideas anyway :)
what make me feel bored of l2 sometimes is cos for everything you need a pt.
im only lvl 91, and talking about magmeld (yeah maybe in other server with more people things are different), is pretty hard for me find a clan and so make a pt with them, all big clans ofc wants lvl 95+, all small get from 90 (or even from 85 sometimes) but they are...mh..empty? i just log and only 3/4 people on, rest is all latinos clans (and i dont understand anything tbh).
so i need to pray to get a good random pt, make group for kartia, fortuna etc is not a problem at all, but when you talk about 'grind' omg, is like ask for a miracle.
I would prefer back in the days when you could actually lvl up alone, with your times, when you wanted etc, but now GOD dont really make this happens
what make me feel bored of l2 sometimes is cos for everything you need a pt.
im only lvl 91, and talking about magmeld (yeah maybe in other server with more people things are different), is pretty hard for me find a clan and so make a pt with them, all big clans ofc wants lvl 95+, all small get from 90 (or even from 85 sometimes) but they are...mh..empty? i just log and only 3/4 people on, rest is all latinos clans (and i dont understand anything tbh).
so i need to pray to get a good random pt, make group for kartia, fortuna etc is not a problem at all, but when you talk about 'grind' omg, is like ask for a miracle.
I would prefer back in the days when you could actually lvl up alone, with your times, when you wanted etc, but now GOD dont really make this happens
Everything you said is what made me stop playing 12 hours a day to 6, then it went to 4 hours, then it went to everyother day. Now I log into the forums more than the game in hopes of some major change, but it's just hope.
5. ah and yes give exp for pvp points :D example 100 pvppts trade for 1 bil exp scrol .
LOL NOOOO!
For u do some a random dagger from clan "Stronghold" on Bartz server (I don't remember the nick, grumpy or same), kill 2k+ in 1 month killing ur ISS, nice PROZOR