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Lineage II Classic starts tomorrow - pre-download available

L2Classic early access starts at 16.00 (CET)

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It's just been confirmed: https://4gameforum.com/threads/544212/ 

Sadly it's just before dinner times or most of Europe so I guess that the first 2 hours the servers will be crowded and then become quiet a bit before it'll be a madhouse during the evening...

Lineage 2 Classic (Innova/4game) is a GEM

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Yes. Absolutely yes! This is the game I missed in the past. But for now I'm duoing with my Orc Mystic (Warcryer) and Orc Fighter (Tyrant). This game is a trip back to the old school. 

Some initial experiences in the first couple of days in game:

Moving from place A to place B is slow. I know we have teleports but it's not free so people prefer to walk instead. Leveling is slow and money is scarce. You can be attacked almost everywhere by other players except in towns i think.

I was moving from starter village to an area where to kill some quest mobs and on my travels I noticed some gear laying on the ground. I decided to check them out and wow they were better than my characters were wearing on that time. I looted them and equipped all immediately. I managed to continue my travels only a few meters when I saw some guy running towards me and shouted: "Hey friend! Did you see my items by any chance?" I was like I didn't know what he was talking about and we continued our travels happily =) Maybe that guy was killed by a monster and he dropped something from his inventory or he left them on the ground for his alt on the same account who knows but it was hilarious nonetheless.

Orc lvl 10 weapon quest "back to da old school camping"  O.o fortunately that npc had a 5min respawn but always 10-20 players camping him so had to make a macro for targeting and attacking the npc and pray for the quest item lol. That was painful but as the situation was like it was people started to chat with each others and friendships were created and partying and joking etc. etc.  :) 

Couple of guys tried to PK me while I was grinding and third guy nearby came to help me and we killed both aggressors together and chatted for awhile after that.

All I have to say is I will be playing this gem as long as we have enough players on the server. I recommend this game for all of you who were playing games like this and who are still looking for an experience like it was back in the day. I'm an ex-EVE and Anarchy Online player and I'm enjoying every second I'm playing this game.

It costs only a 10€ per month. The graphics still look good if you like the style. And no cash shops!

Ertheia Full Story Trailer

EU server..? Kidding right?

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Skelth, our EUROPEAN Lineage II Classic server, run by Innova who's known for keeping their server free or rmt and botting and enforces the EULA. Well, none of it at all! This 'European server' is a ******* joke (and I was afraid it would happen).
This server is TOTALLY NOT an European server, and it's far from the legit server Innova was hoping to achieve. The 'top clans' are all Russian who're either botting 24/7 OR sharing accounts. Both not according to EULA, but since Innova is a Russian company nothing much is done. Heck, alll those 'top clans' took the 1st and 2nd waves of clanhalls easily (10M/20M adena each - how on earth did they do that?) and they're also level 4 or 5 clans as well (you need 1K proofs for level 4 and 10K for level 5, not even mentioning the amount of SP needed).
Along with these 'top clans' and bottings comes an other problem - real money trading (RMT). In every town you see more 'players' yelling for one or an other rmt site than I've seen on the NCWest servers - chat is pretty much unreadeble because of all those rmt yells IMG Not ot mention the amount of PMs I get, even on characters that have just entered the server (how do they know those toons?) advertising for the rmt/powerleveling service along with a 'sorry for spam' in it IMG I report each & every one of those RMT names I come across, and all that's done is a chat ban on those toons and they're flagged for later ban (why not immediately?)
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And these cheaters know nothing much is done and are becoming bolder and bolder. Just look at the shop I've marked on the image above. WTF? $30 for a top-D weapon and advertising like it in the open? Luckily this dude has been 'imprisoned' and looses all his stuff while waiting for the ban, but still - this is only the tip of the iceberg...
Russian 'top clans' that are already level 4/5 and have people in their ranks that are level 55 already? It's just impossible to get your character at this level with the XP curve L2Classic has if you're playing legit. One of our clannies is close to level 40 and he's playing already 8-10 hours a day, having a pretty easy class to level. SO how on earth can thse Russian clans have level 55 players in their midst, other than botting/account sharing?
One thing is clear for me. When the 3 months are over, I'm not gonne resub to this mess. Like I started, NCWest servers are even 'cleaner' than this one, and those are already a fest of botters and cheaters...

Botting allowed as long as you're there?

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The Innova L2C forums have been buzzing this morning about a twitch streamer that's clearly botting, or at least having his gameplay automated. I immediately reported this 'player' to Amarantha and DeepBlue (who both have certain GM powers in game as well), and here's the reply I had from Amarantha:

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As you can imagine, I was furious about this answer and I dropped this screenshot in the buzzing topic with the comment "So botting is allowed as long as you're at the keyboard", followed by a comment that I'll request a refund because Innova clearly can't keep their end of the bargain of the EULA (and thus according to EU law the contract can be canceled).

It might not come as a surprise, but dropping this screenshot got me banned on the forums till the end of March (long live my own domains and infinite forum accounts :D) ad the message was deleted. Oddly enough, Amarantha did come up with some weird reply...

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I'm not sure, but I don't think they were AFK at the momen. I suspect that the revolting player on the forum did kinda push her to take this action, and indeed, on the steam I saw them disconnect one by one.

Now the odd parts of this all...
1. This dude is as dumb as dumb can be - he kept streaming an other hour after he got his D/C with all of his toons...
2. This dude is from Russia, made a ticket and did get support, while according to Innova's own policy, those not living within the supported area (2.9 from the EULA that I posted earlier) will not get support. GMDoctor told him his character (not account :!:) was suspended for 7 days. Okay, his stream showed he has 6 days of sub left, but IMO he should be banned permanently. Later in that ticket he also admitted to have been banned from Grand Kain (L2C RU) and there he promised not to bot anymore - PERM BAN FOR SURE!
3. During the time he kept streaming I've seen lots of info (and recorded it - 94 minutes of a cheater at work :D). Amongst the info I saw was also his WebPay account, where it became clear he's one of the adenasellers on the server. Of course, this part of the recordings I've uploaded and shared with Amarantha & DeepBlue...

But I ask you... Why on earth is botting (or in this dude's case automated gameplay - he didn't use a 3rd party program) allowed when you're still around at the keyboard. Eventhough I doubt he's been at the keyboard the whole 10 hours of his stream, IMO automated gameplay IN ANY FORM should be an INSTANT and PERMANENT BAN, regardless if you're using 3rd party software, your programmable keyboard or even have some keys pressed by weights. You are automating gameplay FFS!

Well, at least this guy got banned. Hopefully all of the characters played from his IP address and in his party will be banned as well now that the adenaselling has become clear. But none the less, I have filed the refund request anyway, becuse this whole debacle just shows how bad Innova actually is at enforcing their EULA...

L2 classic europe - Registration starts in April


Lineage 2 Classic: What went wrong?

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The forums are full of people complaining saying L2 Classic is dying and people are quitting. 

To the people that play I want to hear your thoughts.

Is it really over already?

People Are Quitting

https://4gameforum.com/threads/560182/

7 days free! Plus half price sub!

Brand New Interlude x7 - 16 April 2016!

Lineage 2 Classic +50% XP Event

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Innova is having an xp event +50% for a week. Plus if you are under the level of 40 you will get scrolls for another 50%, Boxes with limited time weapons D grade and soulshots/sps to help newer players with leveling.

https://4gameforum.com/threads/567991/

Grouping?

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Just getting started after years off. Was curious if there is a group finder, dungeons, instance dungeon finders? I always play healers and I hate soloing so grouping is very important to me.

[L2j] Lineage][DeathWhisper 27-04-2016

Lineage 2: Real Life PVP!

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I lol so hard when he went red after he 1 shot  the guy and made him drop the bow.  =)

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Explain Lineage to me

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So this is a bit random, but here goes.

I was browsing message boards on one old school gaming site and noticed that Lineage 2 board had the most users on it. It was almost 500 users vs 50 for WoW. This had me intrigued, because I've been looking for a grindy/community-based MMO to play for a while now, so maybe L2 is it? So I looked more into it, and now I am feeling confused.

What's going on with servers? Are there official 'live' versions of the game? Is the live version of the game good, or has it been 'casualized'? Are there official 'legacy' servers? Which expansion was the best one, which one killed the game? I see there are a bunch of private servers? Which server / patch should I play on?

What's the game about? Is this full loot pvp? Is there pve content? Dungeons and raids? What do you do at end-game? Is combat typical tab-target trinity?

Thanks a lot!

[L2J - High Five] L2 Order VS Chaos [Faction][NEW SEASON][20.05.2016]

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Hello guys i promise you will have fun on this server, we wait you on friday!!
Events
The gameplay is based on a routine of events which will run constantly, each event has its own goals.
* Maps - The longest events with biggest kinds of goals to accomplish, maps will end faster if their goal is achieved, a raid boss will spawn 5 minutes before the map ends.
* Faction Events - runs for the winning team of a map (in case a map ended in a tie, this type of event is skipped), if they complete it they get extra rewards.
* Mini Events - Starts once the faction event is over, this is a short type event with only funny objectives, registration to event is required.
* Grand Bosses - In peak times, there is a chance that a grand boss event will start for all players after a mini event ends.

Buffs
* AIO buffer with 7 premade editable schemes (no Counter Critical / Song of Wind Storm).
* 4 hours buff duration.
* Buff slots 20+4.
* Summons restore buffs when resummoned.
* Buffs kept after death (including toggles).
* Cubics casted on self are kept after death and last for 4 hours.
* Anti buff griefing system.
* Symbols and Event buffs do not take a buff slot.
* Cancelled buffs return after 7 seconds.

Enchanting
* Retail enchant rates.
* Only blessed enchant scrolls available.
* Auxiliary stones can be used with blessed scrolls.
* Safe enchant +3 (+4 full body).
* Max enchant +16.
* Attributing enabled.
* Life stones chances: Low 3%, Mid 6%, High 9%, Top 12%.

PvP
* PvP rewards with EXP/SP/Adena/Items which players can use to make progress ingame.
* Players get rewarded according to damage done on enemies when they die.
* Players can be spoiled for extra rewards.
* Debuffs and heals also count as damage.
* Players get rewarded for resurrecting (limited to 5 minutes per player).
* Healers, tankers, supports and summoners can gain PvP points by EXP.

Class Balance (no effect inside olympiad)
* Necromancer summons can only receive speed buffs.
* Players with less than 13k Elo counts as newbies.
* AoE charge damage skills damage are divided by sqrt amount of targets.
* Mana burn skills damage doubled.
* Steal abnormal acts as normal cancel.
* Mirage will have no effect on attacker if damage dealt is less than 500.
* Energy stones cannot be used to increase charges.
* Heroic Mircale duration reduced to 8 seconds.
* Rush Impact chance reduced to 10%, limited to 1-3 targets and 300 range.
* The above chance increase if enchanted by 1% chance for every 2 levels enchanted by chance.
* Magic critical rate reduced by half vs newbies.
* Magic critical damage reduced by half vs newbies.
* No buff sharing between Phoenix Knight and its summon.
* Fear/Stun base duration is 2 seconds.
* Silence base duration is 4 seconds.
* Paralyze/Debuffs with duration of 120 reduced to 30, duration of 60 reduced to 20 and duration of 30 reduced to 15.
* The above durations increase if enchanted by 1 second for every 2 levels enchanted by time.

More Balance Changes
* Bonus buff for people who die too much without making kills.
* Bonus buff for newbies to increase resistance.
* Bonus buff for losing team during an event.
* Elo/Count based balance systems.
* Team balance system.
* Gear dependent reward system.
* Anti farm system.
* Anti AFK system.

Olympiad
* Only 1vs1 class irrelevant matches available.
* Time left until olympiad period ends shows up for players upon login.
* Runs only at Friday/Saturday/Sunday 18:00 GMT +2 until 22:00 GMT +2.
* Weekly cycle with 1/4 rewards, heroes every Monday.
* Fights regardless of player's faction.
* Minimum participants needed is 5.
* 3 Olympiad quests enabled.
* Registration to olympaid is open only for players with at least rank 5.

Parties
* 5 Members maximum inside events.
* Increased EXP/SP/Adena rewards when playing in party.
* Party limiting to 28 points max, so a party cannot become too strong.
* Healers count as 15 points, tankers as 12 points, anything else 0.
* Brown title color for party members.

Clans
* No clan penalties.
* 10 members maximum in main clan.
* 5 extra members for every royal guard/royal knight the clan has.
* 2 clans maximum in an alliance.
* Free leveling up to level 2.
* Levels 3, 4 and 5 requires SP and quest items (buyable from GM shop).
* Levels 6, 7, 8 and 11 requires fame.
* Levels 9 and 10 requires fame and quest items (buyable from GM shop).
* Only same faction can be inivted to clan or alliance.
* Weekly retail like Aden castle siege for clans.
* Clan wars - clans can declare war againts clans of opposite faction.

Voiced Commands
* .info - used during events to show the top players, the score of each team, the goal of the current event and to see own score.
* .playalone / .playinparty - turn on/off random parties while joining events.
* .shotsoff / .animon / .animoff / .allanimoff - show/hide animations, use if have client lags.
* .scoreon / .scoreoff - show/hide the scorebar during events.
* .msgon / .msgoff - show/hide killing streak messages on screen.
* .setpin / .changepin / .writepin - manage character-level security pincode.
* .debug - shows the player how his stats affect the final result (in damage, enchant rate etc).
* .elo - if used on others can show others Elo points, otherwise shows self Elo points.
* .joinparty - auto join a party during an event.

Features
* Unique achievements system with levels and amazing rewards.
* Rebirth system with certification skills as rewards.
* Global vote reward system for Adena.
* Personal vote reward system for temporary passive skill.
* Double EXP/SP event at random times during the day.
* Shift+click players in town to view their items/stats/clan and skills.
* Ctrl+click on GCP/QHP to activate auto use of them.
* Player ranks system.
* Killing spree system.
* Events voting system.
* Announcements upon raidbosses/grandbosses death.
* Advanced GM shop with stages, gifts, stocks and more.
* Grand master for subclasses, clan/ally management, skill learning (including Pomander skills) and more.
* Toggle skill for CP/HP/MP instead of potions.
* Return skill for all classes instead of SoE.
* Free 1st/2nd/3rd class change.
* Free subclass.
* Dedicated private store zone.
* Special town for both factions for improved server economy.
* Base starting level 80 (including subclasses).
* Max level 85 (including subclasses).
* Offline shops.
* Trade chat is faction only chat.
* Shout chat is region chat and will show player's faction.
* Hero chat is global chat and will sow player's faction.
* Players can duel in town.
* Services NPC (faction change, gender change etc...).
* Tranining Dummy NPCs to test your class from different prespectives.
* Tablet of Information which shows useful tips, info and boss status.
* Free mail.
* Free Warehouse Keeper.
* Augmenter.
* Symbol Maker.
* 10 seconds spawn protection.
* Increased weight/inventory/private store slots.
* Players do not lose exp upon death.
* No death panalities.
* Max 2 chars per PC (only 1 in event).
* Character pincode system.
* PvP items are elementable, tradeable and augmentable.
* Mini games.
* Wedding.
* Spoilers can spoil players.
* Auto loot.

Website : L2 Order VS Chaos Factions Server
Forum : Forums - L2 Order VS Chaos Community
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/L2OvC

L2Aria.net x200 Interlude October 2 OPENING !

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l2Aria_Logopng

GRAND OPENING: 2015/10/02 18:00 +3 GMT

Open Beta : 2015/09/18  18:00 +3GMT

Hello ! 
  We can finaly proudly announce about our Interlude project l2Aria.
Our staff members worked really hard on it ,for almost half a year , regularly from 4 - 8 h per day.
  Our team consists of 4 Lineage 2 veteran players, that have a dream to create a  unique server mostly based on what the community wants , wich is rarely seen nowadays.

⚠ Server currently is in "Closed Beta" Stage. ⚠
⚠ It should take roughly 2 weeks untill "Open Beta" Stage ⚠

★ L2 Aria Interlude International server ★

Server security from bots (L2Walker, L2Net, L2Tower).
Security from all kinds of ddos attacks, provides http://www.HyperFilter.com

Server Information:

❗ SERVER RATES ❗

♦ Exp – x200
♦ Aden –  x1
♦ Drop – x1

❗ ENCHANT RATES ❗

♦ Safe enchant:  +4 (Armors/Weapons/Jewels)
♦ Max. Enchant:  +24 for Weapons , +10 for Armors / Jewels
♦ Normal and Blessed enchant scrolls share the same enchant rate

❗ GENERAL INFORMATION ❗

♦ Chronicle: Interlude
♦ Main Town Gludin Harbor
♦ Buffer / Scheme buffer
♦ Buff Time: 2 hours
♦ Buff Slots: 24
♦ Wedding Manager
♦ Class changer
♦ Auto Pickup
♦ Auto Learn skills
♦ Starting Level 40
♦ Low Level Protectors
♦ C/B/A Grade Free
♦ Free! class change / Sub

❗ NEW FEATURES ❗

♦ Chaotic zones around all Epics
♦ Event Shop
♦ Item Exchanger (You can upgrade your items)
♦ New Unique Dark Dynasty Jewel`s
♦ New Unique Dark Dynasty Armor`s
♦ New Unique Dark Dynasty Weapon`s
♦ Majority of skills are reworked for increased balance
♦ Special Noblesse system ( Totaly reworked nobless system)
♦ New mats / currency
♦ L2 Aria weapons
♦ L2 Aria shields
♦ Angelic & Demonic Wings
♦ L2 Aria Unique jewels ( Drops from Raid bosses )

❗ OLYMPIAD ❗

♦ Olympiad Starts 18:00 (+2 GMT)
♦ Olympiad Ends 24:00 (+2 GMT)
♦ Weekly Heroes

❗ EVENTS ❗

♦ Korean
♦ Hide and Seek
♦ Raid Boss Event
♦ Simple 9 vs 9
♦ 5 vs 5 Random Grade
♦ High Rate Event (Main Event)

See You In Game !

Lineage II Classic

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I don't really know where to post this, so if a mod feels that another place is more appropriate, no worries of course !

So, I almost cried of happiness when I heard that Lineage II is about to launch a Classic Server for those of us old timers who enjoyed this real MMORPG in which what the players do actually matter and change the game world  !

Every MMO nowadays claims to be "different", but Lineage II was really different, as it was a real MMORPG from back in the days, unlike all those over-easy single-player-set-in-a-multiplayer-environnement games that we have today...

Unfortunately, it has evolved over the years to everything I just said above, to appeal to the younger audience, but as more and more people got dissatisfied with it and were tired of playing WoW clones just set in different environements, they have now decided to re-launch the game on a Classic server just like it was before !

Just imagine : 

- 5 different Races and 31 (31 !!) different Classes

- Different starting locations for each Race and different Racial Quests

- No instance whatsoever, only open game world concealing many dangers

- Real levelling where each level is its own achievement and accomplishment

- Open PvP world

- Player-driven economy

- And of course, iconic Clan Wars and Castle Sieges

And it still has awesome graphics (using the Unreal Engine), and the best art direction I've ever seen in any MMO.

So what are you waiting for ?

Just head over here and start playing a real MMORPG for real gamers : http://eu.4game.com/lineage2classic

See you in the world of Aden !!

L2exhale

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NEW SEASON GRAND OPENING: OCTOBER 9TH -FRIDAY- 19:00 GMT+2

In this new server you will find 3 exclusive features:
-Imperial Tomb Chaotic (Free area to PK and PvP without any penalties)
-The Ancient Weapons (Re-balanced to fit higher rates)
-The Special Ability Armor Sets also re-balanced:
Draconic Ranger/Assassin/Evasion
Major Arcana Cultic/Holistic/Hardiness
Imperial Crusader Swiftness/Fortitude/Superlative
 
WEBSITE WWW.L2EXHALE.COM

Here is a preview of our features:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eKhJYTW.jpg[/IMG]

The famed Ancient Weapons, C4 style:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bZ6wD0r.jpg[/IMG]

The Chaotic Weapons, C4 Style:

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The main zones:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/C8aE5ly.jpg[/IMG]

We are expecting all of you to join this project, old fans and new members!
 
We are sure that you will have A LOT OF FUN! Our team is very proud of the hard work we have done in this project!
 
Please post your suggestions in our forums!
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