Lineage II

Ok first let me say that I am very new to Lineage 2. But an experienced veteran on 90% of all MMO’s. I decided to check this game out because it’s so HARDCORE, I like a challenge(and heard that this game will be close to Aion, which I am waiting for).

Ok my problem:

I started a human fighter and got to level nine. I done a quest and finished but once I finished the quest, the quest giver told me to go to a city on the Main land (Gludin). Well once I got there, everything is red. So I am thinking, hey I need to go back. But the ticket to the main land was 1500, well the ticket back is 6000+, and yes I don’t have the cash. Is there anything I can do to get cash here? Or is there a place to go locally to fight and just play there?

Ok, I seen in another post that Bartz was a good server for Americans, is it?

While playing my son was watching and now he has decided to play. My son wants my wife (his mom) to play also, and to top it off my brother in law was watching and liked the game and he’s going to play. So I have my own little group.

What Class/Race would be good for all of us to be?

My son and I made characters last night on Bartz and got to level 7. My son was having a blast. So I guess I will be sticking around for awhile. But seeing the post on Hear-Sayers it seems that this game is slow and will require other things to do (like socializing). What are some of the other things to do besides kill everything that moves?

If you are going to play a human you should stay on talking island until 20.

you can also have members of your family play other races and join you as you are given gatekeeper tokens to other new player areas.

Keep in mind that there are only a few tokens and they can only train their skills in their own starting area (or in one of the larger mainland towns/cities.

I couldn't begin to tell you what group woudl work as there are so many choices. you should go to the main forums for L2 and do some searching or ask there perhaps. I'm also a big believer in play what you enjoy. As L2 has a hard grind and you will be with your character for quite some time you should play something you like.

If someone if playing a buffer and they hate it, they really will hate it at higher lvls.

Bartz is a fine server for you to start on as it has a pretty large population.

I have another question about grades. I hear people say get grade D weapons. But then I hear grade C. Which is better?

Also what are soulshots?

Originally posted by Gkarn

I have another question about grades. I hear people say get grade D weapons. But then I hear grade C. Which is better?

 

Also what are soulshots?

different grades are available at level intervals.

at level 20 you can use D grade.  At level 40 you can use C grade and so on.  Naturally, C is better than D but you must have achieved the skill level to use it or you'll be penalized pretty severely.

Once you hit 20 go to Giran and check weapons and Armor shops.  You can find partial topD sets there.  Players will charge over 1m a piece for Brig armor which can be had for 200-300k at the NPC shop.  It always helps to know whats avaialbe at NPC's before you buy from a player shop.

soulshots are used to add damage to your weapon.  Think of it like ammunition that is loaded into the weapon for additional damage. 

drag the stack of soulshot (SS) to your hotkey bar.  Once its there, right click on it.  The icon will change to a wavy animation.  Each time you attack you will automatically use soulshots. Right click it again in the hotkey bar and it turns it back to manual.  The amount of SS you use per hit depends on the weapon which can be checked in its description.

you may not want to load/use SS each time you land an attack automatically.  In that case, just hit the relevant hotkey that you placed the stack in during battle to give yourself additional damage.  Using SS gets expensive once you get in the habit of using it automatically and its no longer recieved in quest rewards.

Originally posted by Gkarn

the quest giver told me to go to a city on the Main land (Gludin). Well once I got there, everything is red. So I am thinking, hey I need to go back. But the ticket to the main land was 1500, well the ticket back is 6000+, and yes I don’t have the cash.

You wanted HARDCORE?  Welcome to the mainland fresh-meat!

haha, just kiding, but anyway, good luck.

Haha wow this brought back memories.. I remember in closed beta I bought a ticket as quickly as possible (because I basically thought the goal was to get off the island) and when I got there I was like level 6/7 or so (this was at the time when the monsters outside of Gludin were pretty darn close to the main entrance as I recall). I ended up delvling so much trying to run all the way to Elf Village because I did not take the roads and then ended up having to level there with all the elves because I was too poor to do anything lol.

Moral of story: don't buy a ticket to get out of TI if you are new unless you are 15+.

Guys I must say thank you for the information. It really helps me understand. And for being fresh meat. Well I am that right now.

Lineage 2 has some of the best people on it.

WELCOME TO DEADAGE TWO, where it is really hard to grind shit now...

Lineage 2 since i quit two years ago or so and came back has had many changes made to it, its a lot harder to kill mob's in dungeon's for seven sign's, and that was a good way of profit in lineage 2 to get your c grades, and ect, ect...

I have to admit though, fighters can kill stuff on some lower level dungeon's, SH,SORC, and SPS cant...

Fiding a group on my server is hard i went to both my level dungeon's, and NOT A single group there at all GEE...

Lineage 2 DEAD? I think so, is it worth playing now I dont really know :P, the ecnomics have came down, but ecnomics are no good if you cant kill anything... =O and all the servers have light ammount of players on it =O