The Lineage II 10th Anniversary celebration has begun! Join us in celebrating 10 wonderful years of fun and mayhem with events, code giveaways, contests and special promotions going on all month long.
No proper ingame event? Silly me thinking you guys were going big for the 10th anniversary.
Will participate in the screenshot and in game celebration probably.
Happy bday!
2x SP event would be so awesome, but NCwest isn't awesome, so there can't be an awesome event, therefore this Anniversary can't be awesome, but I am awesome so everything is ok.
This looks to be very disappointing. Unless you're sitting at home in front of your PC waiting to enter twitter codes and play forum games you can't benefit. That said I find that feature useless.
Trivia contests again? Yes that was a total cheat fest with edited posts after making a troll post to be first.
Then you're going to wait until the 28th to a run a store sale? What the F?
And excuse me for asking, what exactly are you doing for players that ARE 10 years old? Hmm? I am extremely disappointed in this, I've stuck it out thick and thin all this time for some poorly thought out events that we've had in the past even.
The clue is most probably that there will be YET ANOTHER AGATHION (the blue dragon thingie) which if you will feed NStore quest items (or dropped quest items--with very low drop rate), it will give a 0.00001% chance to get a dragon weapon. HURRRAY!!
And excuse me for asking, what exactly are you doing for players that ARE 10 years old? Hmm? I am extremely disappointed in this, I've stuck it out thick and thin all this time for some poorly thought out events that we've had in the past even.
long time customers will get the same veteran rewards they got in the past 9 years! NC love us all!
For a 10 year anniversary this is really lame. If I where to give my wife the equivalent for our 10 year I would be homeless and divorced right now. step it up. so basically we get a poetry contest? rly? no exp bonus no in game events? this seems no different then a normal weekly event.
ewwww, got no Screenshots from old days but got Tons of vidios from back on Gustin when Synergy vs Gustin but got no screennies of when iw as lvling up in combined Doom and Avadon heavet Set lol.....whould have been so funny to see again but lost that hard drive years ago :)
For a 10 year anniversary this is really lame. If I where to give my wife the equivalent for our 10 year I would be homeless and divorced right now. step it up. so basically we get a poetry contest? rly? no exp bonus no in game events? this seems no different then a normal weekly event.
Exactly, I don't think it would have killed them to let loose a double xp/sp no loss on death weekend topped with a epic ban hammer. A special jewelry item or buff pet for veteran players. This could have been a really fun month done right.
I just can't fully swallow how disappointed I am. I was really excited to be here for 10 years and then.....this. Just fail
10 years of experiences with NCsoft and you are dissapointed? Oh c'mon, then you've learned nothing over the last ten years. Not even saying that last events are always only store events.
10 years of experiences with NCsoft and you are dissapointed? Oh c'mon, then you've learned nothing over the last ten years. Not even saying that last events are always only store events.
When did you start using ranger?
Never? I'm pretty tired of people like you who try flame other people with this. You have no clue about me, so go back to your cave.
This looks to be very disappointing. Unless you're sitting at home in front of your PC waiting to enter twitter codes and play forum games you can't benefit. That said I find that feature useless.
Trivia contests again? Yes that was a total cheat fest with edited posts after making a troll post to be first.
Then you're going to wait until the 28th to a run a store sale? What the F?
And excuse me for asking, what exactly are you doing for players that ARE 10 years old? Hmm? I am extremely disappointed in this, I've stuck it out thick and thin all this time for some poorly thought out events that we've had in the past even.
Just sitting here shaking my head disgusted.
She sounds mad. did you finally go meet your favorite GM irl ? He hit it and quit it, didnt he ?
Wanted to apply but when a dude said ranger is a must, I declined their offer.
**** i will be kicked from clan then :( Thank you for info, now i can prepare myself for it. I will aply to Nova, i heard they never used this kind of programs.
This is just the beginning of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. We have many awesome in-game events to come. The 10th Anniversary will definitely be the biggest anniversary we've ever had!
Ok i was about to participate on the screenshot contest, when i see this:
NOTE: These Prizes are only available to residents of the United States.
So, a game that have worldwide players, and makes all this adds to "celebrate" dont permit that players wolrdwide really submit a screenshot?????
Did NC really thought about the rest of the world? I mean, if it was a real cash or real trophy i would understand, but for adena or an in-game item (this means pixels...) com'on!!!
The brooch thing may seem interesting but it will probably be another pay to win thing or need insane ammount of adena that its almost imposible to get (legit) due to drop nerf due to bot issue we all know, or both. The rest just seems a late april's fool prank.
Dragon weap? probably a cosmetic thing or a spend 1million u$s and still dont get the real thing like shirts or yogi staff
Hero coins? Still need to mortgage ur house and spend the money on ncoins to get something that feels like a reward for spending money on game so it can keep on going
Wish to read that we are getting the famous fix that was suppose to arrive on march.
Like Juji mentioned the in-game events haven't been announced yet but there will be quite a few!
As for the forum contests, don't mind the legalese, just submit an entry. As long as you don't include "Hey, look at me, I'm not from the US!" we're good.
Like Juji mentioned the in-game events haven't been announced yet but there will be quite a few!
As for the forum contests, don't mind the legalese, just submit an entry. As long as you don't include "Hey, look at me, I'm not from the US!" we're good.
how long do you plan to run the dandy dragon weapon event?
Like Juji mentioned the in-game events haven't been announced yet but there will be quite a few!
As for the forum contests, don't mind the legalese, just submit an entry. As long as you don't include "Hey, look at me, I'm not from the US!" we're good.
This is just the beginning of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. We have many awesome in-game events to come. The 10th Anniversary will definitely be the biggest anniversary we've ever had!
Like Juji mentioned the in-game events haven't been announced yet but there will be quite a few!
Many? A few?
Which one is it?
And why isn't it starting now? You had 10 years to plan for this event!
And why isn't it starting now? You had 10 years to plan for this event!
I'm going to say "Many different ones" maybe multiples ones at once? Sometimes events motivate me to actually log in or play longer as funny as that sounds.
In any case I've been crabby this week. Long hours at work and all. All I can say is Tomorrow is Friday..praise the **** Gods!
This is just the beginning of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. We have many awesome in-game events to come. The 10th Anniversary will definitely be the biggest anniversary we've ever had!
Juji you made my day, I hope you're right imo The 8th Anniversary was the best anniversary of all time, lets make this one bigger!! :D
This is just the beginning of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. We have many awesome in-game events to come. The 10th Anniversary will definitely be the biggest anniversary we've ever had!
We'll have some monster drop mini games, servers settings, Dragon Weapons, Dance cat buffs, GMs running around and more coming later this month. It's gonna be lot of stuff going on.
so i sent in an email for this event, but i forgot to include my character name+server, i sent a second email a few mins behind the 1st, is this a problem?
so i sent in an email for this event, but i forgot to include my character name+server, i sent a second email a few mins behind the 1st, is this a problem?
We'll have some monster drop mini games, servers settings, Dragon Weapons, Dance cat buffs, GMs running around and more coming later this month. It's gonna be lot of stuff going on.
Will all the submissions be published or only the winning ones for each contest?
We will be posting some of the submitted screenshots throughout the event. And of course will be posting the official winners for both contests at the end.
We will be posting some of the submitted screenshots throughout the event. And of course will be posting the official winners for both contests at the end.
What I meant to ask is that if you're considering sharing the works, both selected for the podium and not selected, not only the names of the winners.
Will you also publish the works from the writing contest? If not, I have an idea how to use mine, after the end of the contest ofc :)
We will be posting some of the submitted screenshots throughout the event. And of course will be posting the official winners for both contests at the end.
IF I am not in top 100 I'll sell you to north korea, because you didn't get me a kitty outfit for a super hoat and amazing screens!
What I meant to ask is that if you're considering sharing the works, both selected for the podium and not selected, not only the names of the winners.
Will you also publish the works from the writing contest? If not, I have an idea how to use mine, after the end of the contest ofc :)
Yeah we'll post some of the submitted screenshots and stories throughout the event.
This is just the beginning of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. We have many awesome in-game events to come. The 10th Anniversary will definitely be the biggest anniversary we've ever had!
Any person with half a brain and some business sense can see that current L2 business model is not sustainable... Am I the only one that find it odd?
Any sane business manager would think of expanding customer base, yet lately, NCWest has been making decisions only to shrink its customer base. They're solely focusing on the hardcore buyers and simply "kicking" out the casual buyers, and it's pretty obvious that even though it will bring short term profits, it will destroy the business in the long term.
The theory is simple, usually the market is segmented into categories that range from low-end (high volume, low margin) to high-end (low volume, high margin). In cars, Ford Fiesta is low-end and Ferrari is high-end. In computers, $100 AMD CPUs are low-end, $1000 Intel CPUs are high-end. In the context of F2P games, casual buyers are low-end and hardcore buyers are high-end.
With that said, except for very few business models, companies must focus on both ends of this segmentation to survive. Even if high-end products has higher margins, they don't have the volume to raise enough cash to keep the business running, that's why Ford still has to make cheap Fiestas even if they gain way more money selling Mustangs, the same reason Intel has to produce $200 CPUs even though they profit a lot more from $1000 CPUs.
So in F2P games, the casual buyer is necessary to generate cash volume to be able to pay the expenses (GM Staff, Servers, etc), while the hardcore buyers will increase the profit, because hardcore buyers are usually less than 5% of the F2P games customers, you can't get enough money from them to pay for everything, they don't generate enough cash volume alone, F2P games have to rely on casual buyers too. For that reason alone, it's dumb to simply throw away that part of your customer base. Also, in MMOs, the casual buyer is even more important because they're the ones that keep the game interesting for the hardcore buyer, so they can keep spending.
Now, after the long explanation, I find it very strange that NCWest has been only making decisions focused only on the high-end, the hardcore buyer. After every P2W event, more and more casual buyers are getting mad and quitting the game, because they're getting too under powered compared to the hardcore buyers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the hardcore buyers shouldn't get advantages over the casual buyers, but there's a balance you should keep to make both casual and hardcore buyers happy, and NCWest is very far from this balance. What NCWest has been doing is completely illogical, it is very well known that the customer base will evaporate and the business won't last if they keep going like this, and I can only think of 2 plausible scenarios where those kind of decisions make any sense:
Scenario A: NCWest is suffering a lot of pressure for short term profits from its investors with no clue about F2P business model or MMO market.
Scenario B: NCWest doesn't have any long term plans for the L2 business and has intentions to shut it down soon, and it is desperately trying to raise as much money as possible while it can.
Either way, in 2 or 3 years NCWest and L2 will be the subject of lots case studies about how to not manage a F2P game.
PS: if this post gets deleted, scenario B is true.
I thought there would be more excitement on NCWest's side considering the milestone achieved.
10 years of Lineage II...
Where's the two-month long event?
Where are the genuinely free items that are injected to every account's highest level character? (Haven't seen this in a long time.)
Why is the in-game event starting so late in this "celebration"?
I'd say "Needs more cowbell" but no amount of cowbell will be enough, I'm afraid.
Scenario A: NCWest is suffering a lot of pressure for short term profits from its investors with no clue about F2P business model or MMO market.
Scenario B: NCWest doesn't have any long term plans for the L2 business and has intentions to shut it down soon, and it is desperately trying to raise as much money as possible while it can.
Either way, in 2 or 3 years NCWest and L2 will be the subject of lots case studies about how to not manage a F2P game.
PS: if this post gets deleted, scenario B is true.
The majority shareholder at NCsoft is Nexon, a company that has very much experience with the MMO market and especially with the F2P business model: http://global.ncsoft.com/global/ir/structure.aspx
They know fully well what they are doing. Scenario B is true :D
Open wallet has been starting in 9th April 2014, buy more and more jewels box, NC will give you 10th anniversary birth day gift LV5 jewels :D.
Originally Posted by Juji http://boards.lineage2.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?p=3418559#post3418559)
This is just the beginning of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. We have many awesome in-game events to come. The 10th Anniversary will definitely be the biggest anniversary we've ever had! This is just beginning to open player wallet for 10th anniversary celebration. NC have awesome in-game events to come but player must donate us to work. The 10th anniversary will be definitely be the biggest anniversary NC's ever had and time to get more donation from player. Nothing truly free, because celebration need money to do so. :D :p no money = no gift
Would be too dificult to make a really important celebration of the 10th anniversary of L2?
You know, something like this:
-> Some special prize to all players that played in Beta.
-> Some special prize to all players that always payed the monthly fees, since Prelude until the game turned into free-to-play.
-> GMs making the role of "special RBs" to be fighted by players in some places, acessible to every player, with some special prize to the participants.
-> Hide and seek games organized by the Gms, trough the map, with prizes to the ones that found some items 1st.
I was looking at the brooch announcement/information page and I notice the words: "It's our anniversary & we're giving away jewelry".
Dear Folks at NCSoft,
You are misleading your customers by using the word "giving". When you use it, you expect us to give you money and you give us the jewery. However, since this "giving away" stigma tied into "The 10th Anniversary Celebration" of this game, we expected the jewelry to given to us for free. I know that it is pointless to pursue this issue further on a legal standpoint, but I would like to point this glaring, and yet clever, misdirect/clerical error. However, if it's your company's intention to give away what is being sold in your virtual store, I certainly like to know when. Since you did close the brooch thread on the forums, are you going to change the words "giving away" to "selling" to do some damage control before someone else figures out that your improper use of words is going to start another wave of dissension among what is left of your disenchanted players?
well I expected as much when I read their latest hero coin program announcement or what else did you think the below statement would mean ?
"And for those of you who might still be lamenting your inability to afford the reward items of your choice, take heart. We’ll be introducing some special promotions both this month and in the future designed to help you increase your Hero Coin balance."
As I had stated in previous posts about the Hero Coin Reward program, majority of the players are fooled into thinking that the Hero Coins are free. They are not free, they are rewards. Rewards are something you get when you complete a task or transaction. In this case, purchase an item that is worth 80 NCCoins, you get rewarded with a coin or two, if there is a special. Nothing free about buying an item to get an additional item. Hence, the word "reward" is included in the announcement/bulletin. NCSoft, yet again, is trying to fool their players/customers with the "giving" statement. However, some of us are not fooled and are educated enough to know the definition of certain words.
As for me, I don't expect anything else but to have NCSoft stick to their promises, policies, and the EULA. But, as usual, promises and due diligence are beneath NCSoft's business practices but the almighty currency is not. NCSoft has garnered mistrust from their players and bred conspiracies among the community at large.
Far be it from me to say that I do not dabble in the NCCoins and I much rather care about other things than "game breaking", "donators", "unbalanced", and "the rich players will be the top players". I've purchased items with my meager earnings for a leg up with the competition, so I can't claim myself above it all. I just like to point out glaring errors that NCSoft makes in writing and posts.
You people are on here piss and moaning when you KNOW DARN well that NOBODY in NCsoft is listening. It's simple.......they don't care as long as there are people in this game that are still willing to waste their money on in game items. The players spending money still out number the players who are displeased with this game. NCsoft is just going to keep milking money while they can until they finally have enough to happy with shutting it down. So keep pumping money to these idiots while they laugh all the way to the bank.
I don't look forward to events anymore simply because I don't want to spend irl wonga. I'd be happy with a week full of vit; that's what it's come down to.
Indeed, it has come to that. I seldom log in. When I do log in, I burn down the 1 minute's worth of vit and try to complete my dailies before getting bored. As for the people who spend their wongas (may I borrow that word? It's cool sounding.) on pixels and the gratification of taking out their IRL anger on faceless people, well as soon as NCSoft pulls the plug, they would spend the wongas on the next microtransaction game in a sad attempt to recapture that superior feeling that drives them to stay alive.
The sad part is that when the servers close it won't matter how long you've been here or what you bought. It will all be gone as it's not your property, it's not even a physical item. You'll have nothing for your investments when it's shut down. NOTHING. This is why I don't want to hammer a ton of money into this. They can't even manage the botting and RMT problem.
Now if there was another installment of Lineage coming and veteran players were offered a perk for their loyalty I'd be persuaded of coarse.
Open wallet has been starting in 9th April 2014, buy more and more jewels box, NC will give you 10th anniversary birth day gift LV5 jewels :D.
This is just beginning to open player wallet for 10th anniversary celebration. NC have awesome in-game events to come but player must donate us to work. The 10th anniversary will be definitely be the biggest anniversary NC's ever had and time to get more donation from player. Nothing truly free, because celebration need money to do so. :D :p no money = no gift
So far this anniversary has been, meh... There isn't much to be excited about the game for being around 10 years, you'd think NC would do something to make 10 years something to be excited about. Unless, there is something big and you guys are holding out on us, though I'm not holding my breathe on it.
It appears scenario B is what's going on. I mean how many times have they unbalanced this game in the past year with destruction scrolls, ghost pots, epic jewel packs etc. At least with most of those they could not be used in oly, but now they offer skills to bypass ud's that are useable in oly. Why you keep upping the ante unless you want everyone to fold? If you can't spend hundreds of dollars for each of these "events" you can barely compete in pvp or oly anymore. It's no wonder there are so many bots now farming adena. The funny thing is I wouldn't mind making the investment if NC Soft enforced the EULA for EVERYONE, but they don't so I won't. Keep alienating your player base NC Soft, your on track to kill the game.
Its really sad to see players older in this game than the stuff being not happy at all with this fail events. NC didn't respected at all those loyal players. And the most sad part is that we can't do anything to change this becouse the big wallets that keep giving their money in every fail event are botters,heroes and scripters...Almost all loyal players are legit to the bone and NC must learn to RESPECT...
I would say that game, which is PvP based is now, after 10 years only for people who love PvE, quests etc. If you do not want spend lot of money every single event and every single l2 store update to be competitive in PvP and oly, you do not have much chances against all those people who spend real money for brooch and other stuff. So good job NCsoft.
Still waiting for the 2 weeks not exp lose, double exp (wo vitality), 1 adena aug and free teleports, the best settings for anniversary, who cares items.
With the discussion thread about the Code "Giveaway" being closed as soon as it was opened, I suppose NCSoft prefers all comments to be read on this post. Yet again, NCSoft got their players hopes up with the word "Giveaway". With the Code "Giveaway", players have to follow the game on Twitter for a chance to win this "Giveaway". Now, we all know the appropriate word for this sham of a "Giveaway" is Contest.
What kind of 10th anniversary celebration is this? Previous celebrations before the P2W model had us collect items for prizes and scramble to a certain spot for chance to meet the GMs for pretty awesome buffs. Now, they have the players jump through hoops via a social media site in order to be the declared not the fat kid in this kick ball contest. What if some of your players prefer not to have a Twitter account? Why are you even trying to force them to even open one? Is this an attempt to generate visits to your Twitter account, NCSoft? If it is, then I have to say that it's really pathetic to trick your players with an alternative motive to prove that your game is not losing it's popularity and population.
To be honest, I'm just pointing out the fact that for a celebration it's really disappointing to most of the players. And I am not talking about the ones that feel like they are obligated just because they keep the servers alive. It's not really a celebration if everyone isn't having fun with it.
Well, i would like to know if NCsoft will fix the topaz skill cause you are just cancelling all the UDs and protection skills of the whole game...
Im a tyrr and i died with giant barrier activated and other time i died with healer's celestial and unding will...
you are changing all the game with this skill...
all the protection skills that can give u a breath and do your strategy means nothing now with this Topaz skill, and a party that killed me had a good configuration cause i had more than 30k of hp and died instantly....
this is madness...
Just an example: an Iss 90+ can kill the top tanker of the server in oly with this topaz... if the iss have a topaz lvl 4 he can hit the tanker, transform into stone, hit again with topaz, transform again in stone.... and can win for time... even a tanker with dark set +8 and full boss jewell means nothing kkkkkkkkk
Simple fact that nc soft cant give back after 10 years and reward loyal players that have not been banned and have start dates of 8-10 years is very sad.
I dont understand why ncsoft could not reward players that have made it many years by placing in there warehouse or inventory items exclusive to time played as a reward and one that would not focus on a toon who was just made yesterday that will drop 3k dollars to get items that are supposed to be a chance for a company to repay its players for there loyalty.
Its like they waited for the most epic time there 10 year anniversary to get the most money out of players who have to spend in a "Truely Free" game even more so now to keep up with these jewl skills and mainly Topaz itself as im seeing guys straight beast a tank with ease that before even lvl4 topaz were fish food to same tank. This is one small example.
Your games have failed aion and countless others and they chose to put more time into lineage and came with God and went free to play yet the areas for high lvls is very very limited based on the footage and size of the map and the fact they did path of awakening and made itso easy to lvl to 85 and even bypass lower xp areas where mobs are still there in dead areas, take those dead areas re code the mobs and give the avg lvl in lineage many many options. 99's only having 1 areea to really focus on sp which was also another time and money sink to act as if we are being rewarded yet all were doing is now paying for 200% runes for sp something that was free before, so maybe mp will be next and shiny socks,shiny gloves and other countless +++ events yet the xp/sp areas are very limeted , how about take some of this same money and effort that you put into the ncstore and items and put into re boosting areas for your general population which is atleast 95 lvl and up now in 2014.
The rward items from hero coin may be the ultimate slap in the face and now the boasting that its also tied into our 10 year celebration with 70% discounts that people are still no where even close to being able to purchase even after this broach event. Which makesme think those items like longing and the top belt and other priced hero coin items are in there for a different reason, maybe masking real money thats being filtered through a game of pixel items to atleast cover yourself on paper for the transactions, something is massivly wrong with the prices and how you came up with those prices.
Im a 10 year player and was really hoping to see something put back into a game by a company who has made far more than it has spent atleast on the north american front and yes i myself have spent money aswell as time and its a shame what imo is still such a beautiful game one that i was hooked on soon as i got 1 lvl in april 2004 turn into what it has become now in 2014 with even less given back to players.Your dealing with pixel items would not hurt a biliion dollar company to actually reward and uplift its players for one month out of 10 years.
"NOTE: These Prizes are only available to residents of the United States. "
Rly?! :( Its getting better and better.... just wait...
Vali already said to not mind the legalese and just submit your works, codes and whatnot. As long as you don't say: "I am not from US" it is fine by them.
Re: Brooch event. I've read and heard about this event and if I'm honest no-one has any good thing to say about it. I didn't fall for buying the bigger brooches and stuck with the 1 adena one and bought a jewellery box *20 and by gum I have never seen stuff blow up as much as I did from this event. It was all POW on going to level 2 so I count myself lucky getting 2 level three's. Ouch. You simply cannot afford this event unless you have bags of money to burn.
Re: Brooch event. I've read and heard about this event and if I'm honest no-one has any good thing to say about it. I didn't fall for buying the bigger brooches and stuck with the 1 adena one and bought a jewellery box *20 and by gum I have never seen stuff blow up as much as I did from this event. It was all POW on going to level 2 so I count myself lucky getting 2 level three's. Ouch. You simply cannot afford this event unless you have bags of money to burn.
I tried a few times to get a jewel to level to see how many times it'd fail and NONE of my attempts worked. Three times and I quit trying. If I can't get ONE out of three to go to lvl 2 then it's just a waste of money and time.
Embrace the suck people, it's here to stay. My interest and motivation to this game has gone to the level of not wanting to even log in anymore and that's saying a lot for me seeing I've stuck it out for 10 years.
can you please post the details about the in-game celebration before Wednesday I want to know whether or not it will be a ncoin event so I can spend that money on a 4 slot brooch, i think i have an idea but i want to be certain :)
Brooch event was the best money-maker for me ever. Without using L2 store. I wouldnt call it an "event" but still I enjoyed this a lot as I like to play the market and I made around 12-15b in 10 days.
About the chance to upgrade the jewels, I have heard the following % rates:
up to lvl 2 = 80%
up to lvl 3 = 66%
up to lvl 4 = 18%
up to lvl 5 = 5%
My own experience (lvl 2 and lvl 3) is much lower, more like 50/50 or even less.
Does anyone know the real chances of success?
I assume you buying and selling the stones then in that case if you are not using L2 Store. And in that case, the way you do it is the way for the players who already have several bil to put in to it.
And about the success rate percentage, whats the text say does certainly not have to be the same as what the success percentage really is.
...Without using L2 store. I wouldnt call it an "event" but still I enjoyed this a lot as I like to play the market and I made around 12-15b in 10 days.
Every time I see a post over those pay-to-participate events as we have in the quote, I'm like this:
But you do realize that I said this L2Store stuff was quite easily available with investing only adena, yes?
I would have signed your comment if the stuff wouldnt have been tradable at all, but the way it was designed you could either just invest RL $ or some of your time on the market to get what you want from this "event".
I still do have tons of boxes left and I havent decided yet if I should try my luck to upgrade my lvl.3 jewels or just sell them altogether.
Concept worked fine for me so I don't quite understand all the raging about it, you had different ways to obtain something.
Brooch event was the best money-maker for me ever. Without using L2 store. I wouldnt call it an "event" but still I enjoyed this a lot as I like to play the market and I made around 12-15b in 10 days.
About the chance to upgrade the jewels, I have heard the following % rates:
up to lvl 2 = 80%
up to lvl 3 = 66%
up to lvl 4 = 18%
up to lvl 5 = 5%
My own experience (lvl 2 and lvl 3) is much lower, more like 50/50 or even less.
Does anyone know the real chances of success?
It was more like:
up to lvl 2 = 30%
up to lvl 3 = 9%
up to lvl 4 = 1%
Personally I think the chances are alot Lower, because to make some Jewels Lv.2 I already failed alot. It kinda felt 1/3 chance already at this point. It reminded me of Skill Enchant +8/+9/+10 chance ratings.
Considering I made quite a few Lv.4 Jewels. To make one Lv.3 I used an average of < 20 boxes of the same type. To make one Lv.4 I used an average of < 50 boxes of the same type. Lv.5 to be continued since it will cost me alot more resources. I will try make them the next round. I think it will be around minimum 250 and maximum 500 boxes of the same type, considering the loss of making Lv.4 and fail rate to Lv.5 which should be lower then making one Jewel Lv.4.
I know from expierence to make one Lv.4 the chance would be around 25% (1/4) Most of the time I would fail 3 times and make the 4th time. If lucky at the 1st time already.
Lv.2: 40% chance (I already failed alot here)
Lv.3: 30% chance (I failed alot less here then previous)
Lv.4: 20% chance (same as Desire by default)
Lv.5: 10% chance (same as Longing by default)
To make one Lv.4 I used an average of < 50 boxes of the same type.
Very helpful post, thanks!
Encouraged me to finally try it:
I could make all jewels I wanted to lvl 4. One went to lv.4 right away, another one needed 10x lv.3 until it finally succeeded. Evens out to around 50 boxes on average.
Cheers!