[2020] Quality of Life Changes & Events for Lineage II Classic

Hello All,

First, we’d like to thank you for your continued feedback; the feedback is important for us to influence the necessary changes to our game.
We have made progress with the quality of life points many of you have mentioned in your feedback and you will see them reflected on April 22 with the Lineage II: Dawn of Heroes update.

A Starter Pack for Lv.1 ~ Lv. 39 has been added to the L2 Store

• Can purchase once per account. Cannot be used by players above level 39.

PK System Changes

• Harsher penalties for players with negative karma and kill multiple players in a row
• New debuff added that restricts escape and teleportation for players with -5760 Karma and higher
• PK Character Tracking System on Mini-map

In regard to raid boss difficulty and increasing adena drop and the item drop/spoils rate, we will be running special events for two weeks. As you play through these events, we’d like to hear your feedback regarding your game experience during the event period.

World Boss Difficulty & Drop Boost Event (4/22 ~ 5/6)

• The HP will be reduced by 50% on the Antharas, Baium, and Frintezza epic raids.
• A rare accessory box has been temporarily added as a drop item for level 80+ raid bosses including Zaken

XP & Drop Boost Event for Lv. 75+ (4/22 ~ 5/6)

• +50% XP boosts for lv. 75 and higher
• +150% quantity of Adena acquired for lv. 75 and higher
• +100% earn rate of items/spoils for lv. 75 and higher

We understand these changes and events do not address all the concerns with the game, but we want you to know we are taking the steps needed. There are other game improvements we are working on with the dev team such as re-evaluating the scaling of hunting zones, properties of materials that drop, and world boss adjustments. We aim to share with you these additional game improvements at a later time.

Hello All,

We have been busy fixing issues with the Dawn of Heroes update, but I wanted to share some new updates regarding changes to high level hunting zones. Starting in a week or two, we will have a new event for two weeks that will reduce the difficulty on monsters in the following hunting zones (more details will be shared closer to the event):

• Giant's Cave (Lv. 76 ~ Lv. 80)
• Forgotten Island (Lv. 79 ~ Lv. 82)
• Imperial Tomb (Lv. 78 ~ Lv. 82)

The Dev team is also reviewing more hunting zones and changes to other parts of the game that were mentioned before. We will continue to share updates regarding these changes to the Classic Server in this thread. Please do not hesitate to respond with constructive feedback.

Thank You!

Thank you all for your feedback! We have added some more changes in the form of a new event today during the maintenance. Please let us know your feedback and if it has helped improved your hunting experience.

-----------4/29 Changes: Hunting Zone and PVE Boost Event-----------

• A new Hunting Zone event and PvE Buff event will start for two weeks (4/29 ~ 5/13) to address player feedback regarding high level hunting zone content:
  • Base Physical/Magic Attack stats on monsters will be temporarily reduced in the following hunting zones:
    • Giant’s Cave (Lv. 76)
    • Forgotten Island (Lv. 79)
    • Imperial Tomb (Lv. 84)
• Added a special PvE buff to the 16th Anniversary NPC (Hermina) for two weeks (4/29 ~ 5/13).
  • Player’s Wish Buff
    • The buff will be in 3 stages and has a duration of 8 hours at each stage
    • As levels increase as the  buff expires, it will give a more powerful effect.
    • The Player’s Wish buff will be removed when the character dies, server connection ends, player logs out, or teleports to an instanced zone.

    • Player’s Wish Buff
      Level	Duration	Effect
      Lv1	8hr	PVE damage increased by 30%
      Lv2	8hr	PVE damage increased by 50%, all stats + 1
      Lv3	8hr	PVE damage increased by 100%, all stats + 3

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

The World Boss Hunt, Rare Accessory Box, and XP/Drop Boost Events for Level 75+ will come to an end during the maintenance tomorrow. Please share your feedback regarding these temporary changes, as we will be reporting it to the Dev team along with our findings in the game data early next week.

We also have some good news to share regarding crafting materials and drops. The Dev team is now working on a new crafting system that we are planning to implement later next month. As soon as it is ready and fully tested, we will share more details!

 

14 hours ago, Quanar said:

@Juji

Is there any update on the Agathion Soulstones? 

We are waiting to hear back from the Dev team on the Agathion Soulstones and if they will remain or be replaced with a different item.

23 hours ago, Ank said:

@Hime @Juji 

we need events with clan items, Blood crystals are near of imposible, just with clan arena one time every week and with % of drop from chest is a trash, we need a best way to get this item, i have a year trying to upgrade the clan skills and nothing...

another good event is red libra, we need more times of this event and upgrade the items to sell, we need advance and stable enchants for D, C and B items, so make that items available for NPC to sell in this event, believe me is the only way to get this items.

We will check with the Dev team regarding the Blood Crystals and finding other ways to obtain them.

The Red Libra event is something we are already planning for this summer. Either June or July.

Thank you all for continuing to share your feedback on our recent QoL changes! We have seen requests calling for the reduction of NPC attack power in Varka, Ketra, and Lair of Antharas.

Our next hunting zone update in 1-2 weeks will implement a permanent reduction to these areas and several more! We have also been discussing plans for renewing epic raid bosses within the next few months.

Please keep tuning in here for updates and checking the maintenance threads weekly for when we implement new changes!

Hello All,

The following hunting zones had permanent reductions to monster attack power during the 5/20 maintenance to help increase player survivability while hunting:

• Giant’s Cave
• Forgotten Island
• Imperial Tomb
• Kertra Orc Outpost
• Varka Silenos Barracks
• Dragon Valley
• Antharas’ Lair

In addition, we also increased the Adena drops for Level 76+ monsters by roughly 16%. Please share your feedback regarding these changes here in this thread.

There will be a major change to five epic raids very soon. Stay tuned next week for more details!

World Raid Boss Renewal - 5/27

The dev team is continuing to make adjustments to the game content for the Classic Server after receiving many requests from players to update low level content. The world raid bosses below will have their drops renewed and difficulty level scaled up to level 85 next week:

• Queen Ant - Lv. 40 => Lv. 85
• Core - Lv. 50 => Lv. 85
• Orfen - Lv. 50 => Lv. 85
• Zaken - Lv. 75 => Lv. 85
• Baium - Lv. 80 => Lv. 85

Stay tuned for future improvements and content changes!

Greetings everyone,

Please stay on topic. Please be civil with each other. There is no need for insinuations or mean behavior.

-Leto

37 minutes ago, Play2own said:

Any idea when the next round of Quality of Life changes will be coming? @Juji

We have more quality of life changes coming in the next content update.