The much anticipated Birth of Draco event finally returns tomorrow, January 14th through February 4th.
During the event period, all Venir Talisman stages will have 100% compounding success rate.
More on this event will be available after the maintenance.
A New Year welcomes a new Hero Coin Rewards list. We'll be posting the new Hero Coin Reward items tomorrow.
Don't forget that all existing Hero Coin balances will be reset to zero effect 5:01am PST, on January 14, 2015.
woot... now i just need more Venir talisman...
wait? you mean top billionaires will have level 24ish and normal people have 8-16... wowsers.
that is a large number of items being removed from the store.
i hope that we get some good items in return although i suspect they didn't sell as well as you would have hoped.
woot... now i just need more Venir talisman...
wait? you mean top billionaires will have level 24ish and normal people have 8-16... wowsers.
that is a large number of items being removed from the store.
i hope that we get some good items in return although i suspect they didn't sell as well as you would have hoped.
it's still very expensive to get past 14 so it won't be "normal" people with 16 Venir talismans, unless there's going to be many many new Venir talismans coming..
say there will be even more talismans then last event that had them and say 14 talismans will cost around 750mil (doubt it will be that cheap though) to get do the math as to how much it will cost to get anything past 18 ;)
So, this always bothers me .... Why would you release the info about an even when its already started ? It's like, "we will tell you what you are the prizes when you win" - That makes no sense. Tell us whats the event all about so we can get hyped about it.
PS - I'm not expecting any answers, but I had to say this :)
99% sure that draco birth gonna be p2w only l2store event!
Oh Please dude would you rather have to farm days for event items and have little mice sell them at high prices and have tons of them? We do not pay a fee anymore so suck it up and drop 20 bucks in the event and see what you get dropping 20 per event is still cheaper than paying 14.99 dollars in monthly subscription.the game is free to play if you want some boosts in xp and other items you need to buy coin otherwise enjoy the free part and stop QQ.
Oh Please dude would you rather have to farm days for event items and have little mice sell them at high prices and have tons of them? We do not pay a fee anymore so suck it up and drop 20 bucks in the event and see what you get dropping 20 per event is still cheaper than paying 14.99 dollars in monthly subscription.the game is free to play if you want some boosts in xp and other items you need to buy coin otherwise enjoy the free part and stop QQ.
newbie complaining
then spend on imaginary thingies and be totally satisfied for the big nothing :o
Oh Please dude would you rather have to farm days for event items and have little mice sell them at high prices and have tons of them? We do not pay a fee anymore so suck it up and drop 20 bucks in the event and see what you get dropping 20 per event is still cheaper than paying 14.99 dollars in monthly subscription.the game is free to play if you want some boosts in xp and other items you need to buy coin otherwise enjoy the free part and stop QQ.
99% sure that draco birth gonna be p2w only l2store event!
So what, better than another bot to win event when Nova/Geno/FS/Enmity/Africa/ICA/DW/SH/DH and other botted/unlegit clans run thousands of bots on server to farm event items. Like this etleast you have chance to login on server and play and you pay your adena to people who paid real money for event items, not botted them or get them by cheating.
Or you still prefer event bot to win rather than pay to win? I like this way ptw way more.
then spend on imaginary thingies and be totally satisfied for the big nothing :o
You have 2 choices pay a little to enjoy your personal time or not pay and enjoy your time In game. Either choice is still imaginary as it's still pixels. QQ more
When you buy a game on steam you're spending money on pixels
When you buy a PS3, PS4, Xbox or whatever you're spending money on pixels too
When you buy a game on blizzard you're also paying for pixels and I'm pretty sure everybody here does buy some other "pixels" that's not in lineage. So suck it up. Want to buy and support the game then go ahead. If you don't want it's fine either.
NcSoft is a company like every other. Its not a charity institution it's past the time to realize that all companies aim for PROFIT, your boss aim for profit everything in this stupid world it's all about profit don't expect ncsoft to be any different
Now stop QQ about p2w! Don't like how it is? You can always go play archeage or another "pixel p2w " game
So what, better than another bot to win event when Nova/Geno/FS/Enmity/Africa/ICA/DW/SH/DH and other botted/unlegit clans run thousands of bots on server to farm event items. Like this etleast you have chance to login on server and play and you pay your adena to people who paid real money for event items, not botted them or get them by cheating.
Or you still prefer event bot to win rather than pay to win? I like this way ptw way more.
This argument doesn't work.
Because it's the same either way.
These items and rewards are not locked to your character.
So, old method:
Bot up event items -> profit.
New method.
Bot up adena and a few event items, buy more event items from players -> profit.
The bots win either way.
I also don't mind that they have the items in the store, what bothers me is that it's the ONLY way for a player who doesn't have legions of bots to get any amount of items even worth getting. Or any at all in some cases.
The big difference, from a legit standpoint, between the two options I put above is that in the first option, a player can go out and farm enough for a few turn ins without no lifing the game or running bot trains.
In the second option an average player can make maybe a few hundred mil to a few bil. But most aren't going to be dumping hundreds of USD into the NCstore per event to make billions.
The bots just shovel a ton of botted adena into event items to game the system and make 10's of billions (or more) off of it. They don't ever need to directly pay a penny to the NCstore.
This argument doesn't work.
Because it's the same either way.
These items and rewards are not locked to your character.
So, old method:
Bot up event items -> profit.
New method.
Bot up adena and a few event items, buy more event items from players -> profit.
The bots win either way.
I also don't mind that they have the items in the store, what bothers me is that it's the ONLY way for a player who doesn't have legions of bots to get any amount of items even worth getting. Or any at all in some cases.
The big difference, from a legit standpoint, between the two options I put above is that in the first option, a player can go out and farm enough for a few turn ins without no lifing the game or running bot trains.
In the second option an average player can make maybe a few hundred mil to a few bil. But most aren't going to be dumping hundreds of USD into the NCstore per event to make billions.
The bots just shovel a ton of botted adena into event items to game the system and make 10's of billions (or more) off of it. They don't ever need to directly pay a penny to the NCstore.
Agree, once they Banhammer more often and make the game be suitable to be played by players that use fingers all our problems will be solved
Looking for information about max enchant with Heavenly EAR.
You can enchant armor up to +7 with Heavenly EAR. From +7 to +8, you need to use a different enchant scroll.
Scroll of Blessing (R-grade)(Campaign) Changes the appearance of a C-grade weapon to that of a different weapon of the same grade or a lower grade. You need an appearance item, which remains intact after its appearance is extracted. An appearance-modified item has no change in abilities. Double click to use.
is it really this function? LOL if it is that's a big fail! :P
Scroll of Blessing (R-grade)(Campaign) Changes the appearance of a C-grade weapon to that of a different weapon of the same grade or a lower grade. You need an appearance item, which remains intact after its appearance is extracted. An appearance-modified item has no change in abilities. Double click to use.
is it really this function? LOL if it is that's a big fail! :PIt has the wrong description on the website.
The Blacksmith of Mammon can exchange standard Requiem, Immortal, Apocalypse or Twilight equipment for Blessed equipment for you at a low probability. Small fee is charged.
As the amount of money doesn't raise any individual chances, it just gives you more times you can try and get lucky with the miserable chances for anything decent.
When you buy a game on steam you're spending money on pixels
(which is stored locally on the harddrive and never have server crashes. You can play your game during monthly maintainence and updates. You own digital rights to these pixels)
When you buy a PS3, PS4, Xbox or whatever you're spending money on pixels too
(Just like Steam but stored on discs)
When you buy a game on blizzard you're also paying for pixels and I'm pretty sure everybody here does buy some other "pixels" that's not in lineage. So suck it up. Want to buy and support the game then go ahead. If you don't want it's fine either.
(Both Blizzard and NCSoft require you to store content locally that can only be accessed with an active account. When that account is closed by either company, the content becomes forver lost. The player does have an option to open another account but without certain content that existed on the old account)
(Games purchased through Steam can be enhanced with DLC which has a set retail price. Games hosted by NCSoft are encoded with a microtransaction system which introduces a never ending stream of content that is available for purchase for an unset price. The more you pay, the more content you will receive and enjoy.)
NcSoft is a company like every other. Its not a charity institution it's past the time to realize that all companies aim for PROFIT, your boss aim for profit everything in this stupid world it's all about profit don't expect ncsoft to be any different
Now stop QQ about p2w! Don't like how it is? You can always go play archeage or another "pixel p2w " game
(you, as a consumer, have choice to play an online mmo with a microtransaction system, an online mmo mmo that offers DLC, or a standalone game that offers DLC. Enjoy)
Haven't done this event before, but what are the reward differences between the Large and the Small. Unless I'm misreading something, I fail to see a differentiation, ie. Can get all prizes from both Small and Large eggs.
Haven't done this event before, but what are the reward differences between the Large and the Small. Unless I'm misreading something, I fail to see a differentiation, ie. Can get all prizes from both Small and Large eggs.
The difference is that with the Large Eggs you have more chance to gets more gifts and, more importantly, more shiny gifts. Pay attention that once you succesfully hatch the Large Egg, everyone in party gets their amount of shiny/normal gifts = more profit.
Anyway, I'm a bit disappointed with this event, since you, NCWest, basically just re-dumped the same old event criteria. I thought you guys were doing a new era in the events when we got the Hungry Horse event schedule, where or 1) you could only use NCStore or 2) you would need to be live by playing your character to realistically participate in the event and get the recquired items. In both cases, the bot impact was near of zero, till now when you seemed to have changed your minds.
Now, the bot owners will keep their $$ in their pocket and only true legits players will need to cash out to even dream participating in the event, because no matter how loud some leg0t players scream and moan for open farm dropable events, there's no way, in this world or in any other, a truly legit player will be 24/7 on their computer and even if some crazy peeps do it, this wont be not even 5% of what some hardcore botters will achieve. So this is no valid argument to rise up, sorry to break away your dreams bubbles, naive leg0t people.
But it seems you guys r going a way back, and this is not really that good. So in my opinion, atm we have a good event but with an awful and sloppy model. I bet some botlords be like in perma 0rgasm right now.
I bought 2000 small eggs to start with. I was gonna sell em, but ****'s keep lowering the prices to the point where I'd rather just open them. So I'm about 200 in...man it's so boring. I've had 20 something shiny gifts....every single one of them has been a Venir stage 1.......has anyone actually gotten anything else? I mean, it's an easy way to get a high lvl one, but it's more mouse clicking lol.....so sick of it ^^....I'd rather see the shiny box be empty once in a while, just so I can pretend to be excited when I see the Venir ;-)
And Lyn Draco appearances..........what's the rate for it appearing? Haven't seen one yet, although someone did cuz it came across my screen like a command channel msg.
I've opened ~500 Shiny boxes, 95% Venir and a very low number of Elcyum, BEAR, GEAR NOTHING else.
I had a Lynn Draco also and it gave me a GEWR, look at the list of items it gives, it's terrible, not even worth getting hopeful.
Overall absolutely terrible non-event.
To be honest the lack of enthusiasm from NCSoft is kind of getting me down at the moment to the point I'm wondering if I want to continue bothering with the game.
* Patch notes less than 1/2 a day before maintainence, no info on events in advance.
* TONS of economy breaking events: You simply can't make adena through trading.... trading was one of my favourite parts of the game, now people only spend for events and anything you invest in is likely to be worthless on a whim of a gm and an event.
* Game breaking items such as brooch jewels that AREN'T back in store yet: I mean I have the equivalent of a +8 Eternal set, Full Boss Jewels for my class, +7 Dark weapon and more and I'm still gimp because I missed the **** brooch event.....
* Anything that used to be an achievable way of making adena is in the NC Store now (E.G. Rune Stones..... they used to be one of the better raid drops).
What can I play for when any in game goals I want are simply "Wait to pay money"? People play an RPG to spend time earning rewards and building a character, getting it from a shop isn't an achievement, it's boring.
To be fair, the patch notes thing is pretty much business as usual for a VERY long time.
The rest is pretty spot on. It's blatantly obvious they want events to be "played" through the NC store.
Getting items in the game for real players? Please, you're lucky if you could get 100 of the eggs in a normal days play time without the use of automated help.
~80 eggs solo in a very high single target kill rate over 3 hours is the best I've heard so far. But then you have someone that was hunting for over an hour and got none at all. I went and killed for a bit and got less than 10 small draco eggs.
You dump a bit of $$ into the NC store and you're going to get several times more than you EVER will from legitimately hunting.
Or you invest tons of adena to buy it from people who do and reap the rewards they couldn't... because you need to statistically open thousands of these before you are likely to get anything worthwhile.
To be fair, the patch notes thing is pretty much business as usual for a VERY long time.
The rest is pretty spot on. It's blatantly obvious they want events to be "played" through the NC store.
Getting items in the game for real players? Please, you're lucky if you could get 100 of the eggs in a normal days play time without the use of automated help.
~80 eggs solo in a very high single target kill rate over 3 hours is the best I've heard so far. But then you have someone that was hunting for over an hour and got none at all. I went and killed for a bit and got less than 10 small draco eggs.
You dump a bit of $$ into the NC store and you're going to get several times more than you EVER will from legitimately hunting.
Or you invest tons of adena to buy it from people who do and reap the rewards they couldn't... because you need to statistically open thousands of these before you are likely to get anything worthwhile.
To be honest I was referring to the game in general, not events when I said about purchasing items from the store. There's simply nothing to play for or aim for apart from XP unless you trade, and trading is slow and extremely risky since investments get made worthless quickly.
The events do play their big part in basically making the game pointless though.
There used to be a booming ingame economy, multiple avenues for making adena, multiple quests you could spend time farming alongside XP and tons of goals to aim for.... now there's just NCStore items, terrible quests and goals of a long grind to hit 99 so you can be still worthless at 99 since your most likely have bad gear.
There's simply no decent way to earn adena or farm gear or play the game.
Even with good gear you're worthless without brooch jewels.
To be honest I was referring to the game in general, not events when I said about purchasing items from the store. There's simply nothing to play for or aim for apart from XP unless you trade, and trading is slow and extremely risky since investments get made worthless quickly.
The events do play their big part in basically making the game pointless though.
There used to be a booming ingame economy, multiple avenues for making adena, multiple quests you could spend time farming alongside XP and tons of goals to aim for.... now there's just NCStore items, terrible quests and goals of a long grind to hit 99 so you can be still worthless at 99 since your most likely have bad gear.
There's simply no decent way to earn adena or farm gear or play the game.
Even with good gear you're worthless without brooch jewels.
I agree they have trashed like... 95% of the in game economy that isn't directly tied to the nc store in some way. All under the pitiful guise of "reducing bots"... (how's that working out in practice? Yeah, about as well as anyone with a brain told you it would, thought so).
The jewels mean a fair bit, but they aren't the be all, end all. As with most of the event stuff, on its own it won't make a difference.
All other things being equal, a person with those will obviously have an advantage over one who doesn't have them (or has lower level of them). But there's so many tweaks in the game that most tend to be lacking one or two larger items that impact PvP that the jewels won't be the be all/end all difference in most cases.
The only one that is complete BS is the Topaz, that one is a whole other layer of complete idiotic design.
The Problem what NCSoft not understand is the economy. You can't make Money anymore, because there is no Money in circulation. Only the let's say "non-sleeping-ppl" have tons of adena BUT they also have all they need. +16 Dark/Bloody weapons, +8 or +10 armors and so on. What should the buy from other ppl? Even shots are no good income because you get mysterious shots from Event or store or whatever.
As "normal" ppl you can't Play like in old time and farm your mats, adena or armor because there is no drop. And if something Drops it cost really really too much to get it if you don't be rich :)
Btw it's nothing wrong with Events where you can get the items even in the store. They don't want that only bots get the most items. BUT bots Play all the day 24*7 so they get even then the items. :)
I think there is ONLY Money in circulation because of the bots. They are the only ones who "generate" Money. because l2 has too many things where you blow up your Money :P
In the last days it was very hard to sell anything because I think the ppl have no more Money or if they have, then they want to spend it for something Special. I don't know.
But NCSoft has to think about the economy (not to say "national economoy"). It is like in the real life. If a Country dont have enougth Money they get bankrupt and all save the Money because they want it for later :P
PS: Marketing was and is not the strenght of NCSoft :)
once your toon is 99/99 16ap why should you play this game anymore unless you farming dragons or pvp oly/seiges?
nothing to do/boring dead game now. and if you do dragons/pvp you get to deal with bots/scripts. game is dead!
and draco events in the past I have spent 6k+ and gotten nada of top items. so have fun with draco, its the worst event ever imo.
I'd say toons that are 99/99 and both 16AP/100% are in the minority.
Hell, I'd say just 99 16AP/99 is already not a large number of active and live players.
So just getting to that point you have specified, there's a ton of people who aren't at that point yet.
But even once you are there... there's a huge amount of tweaks you can do with a character, and not that many people have the resources to get those right away (or ever, for some).
And of course, very soon it's going to be a scramble for the "pwn everyone" group that IS at that point (99/99 2x 16AP/100%) to get their mains up to 102+ first so they can continue to have the advantage and dominate people.
no investment, most/all my friends quit game due to scripts/lack of gm bans/pay2win. so now nothing to do/no reason to spend money/gamble.
much of the money i spent was blowing stuff up/giving stuff to cp/friends. it was fun, but not that much fun. out of all that money I spent, I never won anything from any event after the 1st aden wheel. talk about an epic nerf on my toon.
so now nothing to do/no reason to spend money/gamble
****, why you spent more than 50 000$ in game to be AFK most of the time in CH??
Do you know why this game is boring for you. Cause you are too lazy to play like normal ppl (party by party, Raid boss sometimes, even Epics, try to get drops and make some money, leveling, Xping and saving money for top gear, month by month, year by year).
But you, you achieve end game so fast, that there is no more satisfaction for you anymore.
This game is like career in real life. Step by Step, meet new colleagues, learn so many new things and one day you get promotion to next level.
Just imagine what could you buy with 50 grands. Fast car, world trips and even international cheap women, but you .....you stay afk in CH and complain....
I hope you are aware of the server suffering (cronos) cause of the countless bots logged in to farm eggs. Just saying no complain. I just hope you know ...
Hey NCsoft, how about rebooting the servers immediately, and fixing the lag issue?
Or cancel the event, since you obviously haven't learnt anything from the past experience, and seem to love to step on the same rake over and over again.
For the Lyn Draco... does it only happen on when it hits 37 degrees and you get one instead of a Shiny or could it happen during a regular incubation and get one instead of Draco?
Anyone know the odds? I've opened quite a few and nothing yet.
I have a question please, I have spent over $300 opening large and small eggs even the 50 bundles and have not gotten one lyn Dracos gift box, am i doing something wrong or is just fail event?
past draco events i averaged 1 lyn draco for around 300 dollars. ofc every draco box i got gave me the lowest reward. korean random might get you 5 boxes in 50 dollars however. i said earlier the draco events are the worst imo.
For the Lyn Draco... does it only happen on when it hits 37 degrees and you get one instead of a Shiny or could it happen during a regular incubation and get one instead of Draco?
Anyone know the odds? I've opened quite a few and nothing yet.
All I know is you supposedly have a chance for Lyn to appear any time you successfully hatch an egg.
PS: Marketing was and is not the strenght of NCSoft :)
It' a Korean based game, what more do you want? It's creeping on 11 years old in NA. You aren't likely to see any TV ads like Wow. Anything that is done for L2 here has to be approved by NC Korea. They aren't always quick to get on things either.
I don't try to convince anyone who complains how amazing this game is or was. They aren't wrong for complaining about the same things everyone else has for years. I'll admit I haven't logged in but maybe once since Christmas. It's boring and very cookie cutter when it comes to the cash shop. People go from one store promotion to the next because most of us can't make much to sustain ourselves through basic mechanics of the game. Some people have managed yes and others have given in to the game store for whatever their budget allows.
It's the same instances and daily quests and after about doing those day in and out you just get lamed out. No open areas to hunt and any dungeon oriented spots are all crammed with botters. Drops are so nerfed due to bots it's pointless to try farming anything of worth so it's all cash shop directed again. I've reached the point that I'd rather do something else with my time and money.
Dear NC-Soft (No Coment-Soft) We NAIA players from the server so you will please spokuj already gave myself with these ******** type of event
Because that's what we'll remember the event included a lack of SS
Most of the things that you do to make the event a player is total ****, and how they do not pay it's message does not have. Do something once it right and not too clever bums money ....