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Lineage 2: Gracia changes
I originaly posted this as a reply to a thread here: Lineage 2: Gracia Update Allows Faster Leveling. in the news forum. But seeing how my thoughts and observations on the new update for lineage 2 looks more like evanglization I figured I might as well repost here and actually evangelize the game I play.
I played the Gracia update on the public test server, and it is extremely noob friendly. Having played L2 since OB I have mixed emotions over this. I will be happy to see new players in the game, some old friends come back and so on, but at the same time I am a bit pissed that new players can reach end game content as fast as the vitality system allows. From my experience on the Public Test Server I can tell you that players can go from lvl 1 to 20 in 1 hours time, from 1 to 68 in just 5 days. Drop rates pretty much stayed the same but there are now alot more quests for items and better paying money quests, not to mention that every Item from no grade to top c grade is now in the shops and at such a low price every single dwarf in lineage 2 is screaming bloody murder. should new players decide to buy standard items instead of the normal ones we are so familiar with. They can get a complete top C grade armor set for under 200k top c grade jewls for under 100k and a top c grade weapon for under 100k
so while drop rates for adena and items have not changed it no longer matters since everything from no grade starter gear to top c grade gear is so cheap.
B grade Items are now sold in the lux shop, and since SLS is so low priced you can crush the SLS (both single and dualed SLS) for the C and B crystals to buy B grade Weapons and Armors. Players can even make A grade weapons at a low price by just picking up and Dualing the Kesh from the lux shop.
Teleports are free for all players under lvl 40, noob buffs can be obtained from lvl 6 to lvl 61 just by visiting the noobie guides. new players can visit the noobie guide for a starter weapon at lvl 6 thats actually pretty good. they can go to kamel village to do a quest for decent starter armor, do another quest for soul shots and spirit shots. Vets who probably remember all to well of having mobs trained on them no longer need to worry about that since it wont be possible to do anymore. Raid bosses drop more complete items now. are once again easier to do and have the extra effect of raising your vitality points - dont ask me how killing a raid boss is considered rest, lol ncsoft - For those who like to craft, this ones for you. now when ever you craft an item you have the chance at getting more then 1 in return, or possibly even a rare version of that item. So IMO the dwarves that are crying about cheap D,C and B grade gear need to get real. They are going to get filthy rich crafting A and S grades.
The character classes that appear to be on top in Gracia are
mages (any race any kind) up to 10x magic crits. although the spell howlers seem to be the mages of all mages in terms of DPS still
Dagger Classes (any race) damn near impossible to hit them now that evasion got such a big boost and each time you miss you get stunned, target cancelled ect. depending on the race of the dagger. tanks are going to be pretty upset at being dropped left and right by thier old nemesis again. (c2 anyone!)
Bishops (human healer) not only do they have the best heals and Rez in game but they now have a nuke too. combined with thier existing skills it makes them pretty damn tough at end game and next to impossible to kill solo.
Some tend to think of archers as having suffered a nasty nerf, maybe for the play styles of those people this is true. However I can say that at high lvl and attacking from a 1400 range the archers are going to 1 shot most of thier targets. the only hope anyone has against them at that range is to zerg them and hope that they target the person next to you instead of you. once you get to close range the archers damage is reduced to almost nothing unless of course that archer is smart enough to carry a dagger and use UE. I also want to point out that archers have a similiar evasion rate as daggers even though they do not get the extra passives that daggers get for evading. They can however normally survive a zerg rush long enough to run away and attack again from a distance. ( Snipe or not, archers were never intended to stand toe to toe with a tank or a dagger class so IMO this was a much neaded fix)
The one archer class that suffers the least in Gracia is the Phantom Ranger, they do insane damage from a distance and now just as insane damage upclose if they switch to dagger. Skills like Sting, Bleed and poison are giving a gigantic boost and the PR has all of those along with HEX and Power Break Freazing Strike. Your best bet against a PR who knows how to play thier class is to just hope they dont see you, or get your archer buddies to take them out for you. Getting close to a good PR is close to being suicidal in Gracia
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Thats a very good read thank you, think ill play it when its in, when is it applied to the main servers?
I believe august 5th but I might be mistaking on the date, best to check at plaync.com