4。only 99+ can do coc. All else needs to buy pass. Because what the heck is the point for you to do coc if you are below 99? just to be butchered?
No Sab, we do such because the game rules "FORCE US" to... Same thing as Oly!
Let me entertain all you with my theory, based just on observations, let's try to get inside the L2 designers' heads... :D
- At some moment, they noticed that needed to show how much 99s are powerful if compared to us. Should be rewarding since as you may know, until the noobiest 99 can beat a 95- guy.
- Well, it's a game, and nobody likes to lose. And since some 99s are better geared than other 99s, this brought them to the situation that until the poor 99s should also get their 15 minutes.
- The obvious way to provide some flesh to this audience, is to convince/force ALL characters created after F2P to pass through this slaughtering festival.
- But they got a trouble... How to do this? :confused:
- Well... Is just to decrease so much drops and mess so much the game market that the only humanly/legit/possible way to get R95-R99 gear, good R jewels, valuable talismans, or some valuable comodity (potions) to sell is: as rewards from these competitions
(IF we could call these things competitions since is like throw Bermane Stivern and Abner Mares on the same ring*, awaiting by a miracle ^^ ).
* If you don't know what I'm talking about... link (
http://www.fightnews.com/rankings-2)
- Bigger proof they could make this fair is the "class restricted week", and the own CoC level requirement. They could pretty well to implement a level match system, but this would make some less lucky 99s just quit the game.
Here goes a player (me) testimonial...
I see some people just AFK on Oly/CoC not because they're bots, but because they are tired from lose.
Bigger proof from this (they're not bots) is that some people (Immortals, Twilights) when I'm doing Oly with my Maestro subtly begin to react!
Others, until when I do Oly with my main also does this (react!), this make me happy, and usually I recommend then since we were not allowed anymore to chat and type the cordial "gf".
Imho the game's system and rules are almost completelly tailored to pull people to rmt, botting and all illegal actions, and I confess sincerelly that sometimes I feel dumb by don't doing such.
I would be ashamed on deploy a game system that makes people think/feel like that, but is the price we all have f2PAY because some designers refuses to think as players and notice these small details.
Maybe because this more and more PvP players do migrate to MOBAs these days. :rolleyes:
PS1: This is far away from being a QQ, if you watch an OGH on Black Vorpal on Oly/CoC, you can be sure that regardless your set/level I'll try to beat you. :mad:
PS2: If I can't, I'll bleed so much on your armor that you'll need to expend a lot of Adena on laundry to get all clean again!:p
Regards!