Lineage2 Update

[Fardomar]

I just thought I would update everyone on my Lineage2 progress.

I hit level 20 today and did the quest to change my profession to Palus Knight. Pretty easy I thought. Should have been longer and harder.

I farm for money everyday for a couple hours trying to keep myself in top or near top gear. Seems like gear is very, very important.

I think the game has HUGE potential.


I think if BWC played as a whole guild there it would be totally awesome.

Guess I'll play this until we hook up in WoW sometime this decade.

[Sirion]

i would have hit 19 today, but the game keeps crashing on me for some reason, ill be 20 tomorrow for sure, gogo assassin, i saw ting on today, hopefully this means that we can get some form of group going, i think the game is fun, but anything can get boring when you have to solo all day every day.

[Hall]

ive been pretty bored. What I do not like is the RATE in which my spells
DOT and SLEEP get resisted. it either lands or i spend between
4-9 casts trying to land it. It is very very retarded the best part is i have to run away try to caste get hit by the monster Run away and rinse and repeat and pray it fucking lands. Ive already died like 5 times because my dot wouldnt land on a mob after about 9 casts in succession.

GO GO gay game.

[Cadwin]

I'm out.
Way too much catassing for me

[Gorilla]

i heard and read that the class u picked, ORC MAGE is it? , is the hardest class to solo with at first but later on u get crazy ass debuffs and buffs and are almost essential to groups and clan sieges

[Sirion]

well im willing to group with anyone anytime, i can help you level while farming cash if nothing else it doesnt really matter to me, my only problem with the game is the boredom thats comming from soloing 100% of the time. i mean today i went ld and didnt bother trying to log back in (even though i probably couldnt have anyways) just because i knew that all i was going to be doing was kiting mobs around the swamp for another hour and a half trying to get 20 and my new bow. i think the key to making this game fun for everyone is to get together play in a group and try bigger harder things with good rewards... could just be me though /shrug

[Gorilla]

as a healer ive tried to join many a group anywhere i can but i have yet to gain more xp grouping than soloing and das freakin sad as a heler.

on the plus u get massive sp over time of course and money as well

[Bulor]

quit and wait for WoW, after playing WoW in alpha, then returning to DAOC, then hitting up L2... WoW isn't all that bad., i just need it to have a solid PvP system, and i'm all over it like a fat girl and a PB&J sandwish.

[Gorilla]

hoook me up then just for a day even though i prolly know iw ill love it GIVE TO ME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gorilla]

bah super is right this game sux takes like 2 hours to level from 14-15 getting 300xp a kill ever 2 min i cant imagine level 20+ or 30+ plus u cant even play the clss u set out to b and the whole game is based on soloing i have yet to get any decnt xp in a group its allways far less than i can do solo and im specced in healing for gods sake

[Sirion]

leveling solo sucks for a healer because you are a healer. this game (as far as grouping is involved) is just like every other mmo group centric game, you need to have a good group, and you need to be fighting things that are higher level than you (5+ levels most likely). grouping with 6 people and then killing soloable whites will net you less cash, SP and xp in the long run, in fact, you would probably be better off soloing lightblues than being in a group that is killing underconning mobs. its just like daoc, you dont get into a fg then pull yellows, and you also dont group with all mages and one healer so you guys wipe every pull when you get resisted. and in all honesty, seeing as im trying to make money while i xp, not really rip through the levels as fast as possible, i find that chaining lightblues is actually pretty good xp, and very good money, not too great SP wise, but you have to take a hit somewhere i suppose...

the real problem is, none of the people that are playing this game are playing together. it gets boring to solo, it doesnt matter if your class can do it or not, i can solo lightblues-yellows all day every day and only rarely die (which hasnt happened except once thank god) but ill still get bored and it will feel alot slower than it is. im not sure people will stay in this game for long, because you die to pk and you lose xp, but you get nothing for killing people as the system is currently implimented... also, the lower levels arent hard to get through, but they arent the cake walk you get pling in modernagrav either. i mean i got to level 19.9 just doing the money quests over and over trying to get into the top notch newbville gear.... /shrug

[Winke]

L2 sucks in my estimation. It's boring, has no real purpose, does look pretty but I unfortunately do not play for PvE or pretty. This game is going after EQ not DAOC.

Winke

[Sirion]

you say that because you have absolutly no experience with the siege or the pvp aspect of the game. the problem here is, people are trying to pound out the levels so they can pvp to the fullest. you can make absolutly NO speculation on how the pvp is going to be in this game except that you know you will lose xp and possibly items when you die. this is the problem with a guild so centric around being PL'd, you guys are never going to go to another game at this rate because you dont want to xp. daoc is old, and its getting shittier and shittier each patch. WoW has like virtually no pvp (at this point) and even IF it gets pvp, its a PvE centric game so classes and skills WONT BE BALANCED WITH PVP IN MIND. so just remember that shit when youre entire group is perma mezzed and there isnt shit you can do about it but wait to die.

in L2 its a bitch to level, everything comes slowly, and i admit it gets tedius especially when you solo everything, but at this point you guys are taking JUST the pve portion of the game and the extreme negatives of the pvp (which i admit suck, atm there is virtually no reason to pvp) and judging the whole game based on that. i mean jesus if i played daoc to level 20 and said the pvp endgame sucks because the pve sucks what kind of retard would you think i was?

edit: oh and btw, when you get into siege battles, noone goes red when you kill people, and seeing as its basically storming and defending a castle, i would figure most of bwc would be interested to see what its like. dont forget, you had to struggle through the shit daoc leveling grind once before you could rvr and have fun, and for the people that remember when there was no malm and DF and modernagrav, you should remember just how shitty it was too when it all started.

[Candide]

I agree to an extent with what Sirion is saying. My big problem is if the fun begins at 50, why the hell do we have to "grind" to that point? Just kind of tired of the graphical MUD's. I have yet to play one near as fun as the old text based MUD's were. There you had over 1000 to choose from and find one that fit what you wanted to play. Today they want hundreds of thousands of players in their game, they try to design around appealing to the masses, but the masses and the developers have no clue what it is that the masses want. And in the end you get a game that is mediocre at all points.

I'll seriously be suprised if I play a MMORPG heavily in the next few years. Someone has to change things around for me too look into it more.

[Nese]

My stance on L2 has nothing to do with the PvP system. Infact, I kinda like the lowbie pvp. My issue with the game is that the xp curve ramps up too steep too fast. I was able to solo to 9 in no time getting anywhere from 1 to 4% per kill. As soon as I hit lvl 10, the mobs got more challenging, which was great. I liked actually having to think a little to conquer my foe, but the risk wasn't equal to the reward when after killing a oj mob and only getting 1% at most. It felt like hitting a wall.

When I compared it to daoc xping, daoc's curve is much more gradual. So to me, the daoc level grind (which I have 3 toons that I leveled myself, no PL) is much better compared to what I have seen so far in L2.