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• • Class Choice 2

  • Originally posted by thamighty213 

    I notice your guild is predomenantly Euro timeframe's is Aria a euro server ?

     

     

     

    Aria is not a euro server, but all servers have a mix of players from around the world (all American servers have Euro, all Euro servers have Americans.)

    Franz, Teon and Luna are the Euro servers.

  • Posted: 7/17/08 11:35 PM
    Lineage II
• • Lineage 2: Gracia Update Allows Faster Leveling

  • Originally posted by wolferey 

    Well, yeah, but that's taking it slightly out of context. What I mean is, with almost no chance of getting drops (unless, like I said, your extreamly lucky), an absolute minimum of adena drops and a player market where items now cost 50-200mill++ adena, and now faster leveling up to those levels, only those who were there from the beginning (the now rich people) are those who can survive the game.

    If you were to start up L2 now, for the first time, you'd practically get the door slammed in your face. Its like having a job that requires you to have a jetplane bought with your own money, and the daily pay is a dollar, if you get what I'm saying ;p

    It's supposed to be a game, with a high focus on PvP, especially mass PvP like fortress and castle sieges, clan-against-clan and alliance-against-alliance PvP, with a grind-based PvE and large-scale raids, and instead you get a money-grind game, because the costs behind leveling up (gear, jewelry, accessories and especially SS/SPS) and pvp (atleast before, when you had the chance to loose your equipped weapon.. and the costs of siege golems, cp/hp pots etc.) far outweights everything else.

    It was hard before, how the hell will leveling faster help the new ones now? You'd have to go from 1 to 60 back to 20 up to 60 back to 30 up to 60 back to 40 up to 60 back to 40 - 60 - 40 - 60 etc. just to afford stuff, so basicly, ur back to the same speed it took you to get from 1 - 60 again :p

     

    Either you're forgetting the fact or you just don't know, that they have already put C-grade gear into the NPC shops and will be putting B-grade gear in there in the upcoming update. Sets that used to cost 15+ mil, will now cost just a few hundred thousand from the NPC. The cheaper gear will also lead to cheaper crystal prices for C and B grade, which will lead to cheaper SS/SPS. Through this, clan oath armor and shadow weapons, the cost of leveling to A-grade is significantly reduced, allowing players to save more money.

    Will the ability to level to A-grade quickly affect the market? I'm sure it will, because there will be more demand for A and S grade gear. However, I don't think it's going to be as disastrous as you seem to be saying it will be. The new players can devote the time to making money just like the old players have.

  • Posted: 7/17/08 12:26 AM
    General Discussion
• • Thinking about coming back

  • Well, it depends.

    Luna is a Euro server, w/ Euro based sieges, so siege on Saturday would be mid-afternoon and siege on Sunday would  probably be late morning. (Not exactly sure, w/ daylight savings time in the US and not knowing your timezone.) Also, Olympiads (which you won't be high enough to compete in for quite some time) would be earlier as well, maybe, mid to late afternoon?

    And of course Luna is going to have a lot of Euros on it. On the other hand, it also has a lot of Americans. Some new players, some old players that wanted a fresh start on a clean server, etc. And even the American servers have a lot of Euros on them, so you're going to find a mix no matter what server you go to.

    Luna probably would be easier to find groups on and you'd be closer in range to the majority of the player base, as opposed to the older servers where the majority of players are 78ish w/ 1-2 subs. So on Luna you'd have more ppl your level to hang with, more competition your level and you'd be able to compete (pvp-wise) sooner, since you won't be going up against so many 78s w/ epic jewels and S-grade gear.

    If you're not all about being a high level PvPer, then any of the servers would be fine. On every server there's a large body of casual players, who are not level 78 yet, who have mains (or alts they play a lot) which will be closer to your level, who are willing and happy to take a new player into their clan and help that player level, earn gear, etc.

    So it really comes down to what do you want out of this game?

  • Posted: 7/16/08 11:51 AM
    Lineage II
• • Thinking about coming back

  • The game's definitely going to be around a while. They still have Lineage I running, so it's not likely that they'll pull the plug on L2 anytime in the next few years. That being said, as far as the end game pvp'ers are concerned, the glory days are over. We used to see random 200 players vs. 200 players pvp on a weekday afternoon, with 500+ at sieges. Nowadays, a siege w/ over 300 players is rare (that's including both sides). But, that doesn't mean that the game is dead. The game itself is actually better in many ways than it used to be and w/ Gracia it will be even easier to earn xp (and it's already easier than it was a few years ago).

    Bartz actually runs higher than your current server in FFXI. It averages about 2,500 during normal play time. Franz and Teon are the highest populated servers w/ 4,500+ players most of the time, Luna runs about 3,500 and is also a new server, so there are lots of lower level players leveling up. Some of the older servers were recently merged so they (Aria, Phoenix and Sayha) run around 1,800 - 3,000 (I'm guessing, based on their numbers before the merge.)

    Gracia will be on the Test Server on Thursday but they haven't given a date for release on the live servers yet. I'm guessing it will probably be about 2-3 weeks from now.

    A little bit of advice if you do start - get in an academy ASAP. A clan is almost essential to enjoying this game. :)

  • Posted: 7/16/08 1:46 AM
    Lineage II
• • Does China still run this game on NA servers?

  • I think it's been about two years since any real Chinese farmers were a presence in L2. Back in OB - C1, we actually had print-out cheat sheets of Chinese so we could communicate w/ the farmers. At the time I never really did. However, a little over a year ago, I started studying Chinese and I would LOVE to meet a real Chinese person in game to practice my Chinese with, but in all that time I have not seen or met a single Chinese person. =[   LOL

     

    Oh and Teon is the most populated server, runs about 2000 more people than Bartz on average.

  • Posted: 7/08/08 11:13 PM
    Lineage II