Fellow players:
Good afternoon to all of you!
Please excuse me if my excitement transpires into this post, but I'm overwhelmed by nostalgia right now. Allow me to begin with a brief introduction:
Born in Ukraine, living in Argentina since I was 5. By the time I was reaching my last school years, I was a videogame nerd. I played everything I could and enjoyed it, but never had much money to purchase current gen stuff. I was vaguely aware of the existence of MMORPGS, but back then I didn't have a powerful PC, nor even an internet connection.
Then came the days when my friends and I discovered that Argentinian "cyber-coffees" began installing interesting games. And big was our joy when we discovered that one of them had Lineage 2. This was back in 2005/2006, and we didn't had the money nor the means to pay for a subscription, but Argentina had several private servers with very big populations. We didn't even fully understand the difference between a private one and retail, but we didn't care. We could play, that was all that mattered to us.
It was amazing. Literally, a whole new world. We spent years in there, with various degrees of progress along the way. Of course, it wasn't the "real thing", but it was a really good server (with constant updates, maintenance, and +2000 players online at any given time).
I met my first girlfriend in there. She was the leader of a very big alliance, and once we made an IRL event to take the whole alliance to the cinema. It was fun, we were like 50 people blocking the entrance with our nerdy talks. We began seeing each other, and things went on naturally from there.
Ka works and the world moves on. Years passed, I got a nice PC, an internet connection suddenly become a service taken for granted, even for me, and the server began to slowly die. So I moved on. That was more than 5 years ago.
In the times that came, I almost forgot about the existence of this game. I did try other MMORPGs, with different results. Right now I'm playing Guild Wars 2.
And here I find myself, living alone, with a decent job and having built my dream PC, I discover that Lineage 2 still exists and is F2P. I finished downloading it in the night, and can't wait to get back home and try it!
But I've only played from Chronicle 3 up to Hellbound. Things seem to be very different right now. I will enjoy discovering the new stuff by myself, but in order to avoid my previous knowledge interfering with the current state of the game, I'd like to ask a few questions:
- Back in my day, 3rd class changes were pretty rare, and a symbol of high status. Now it seems that they are common, and the new cool end-game status is being some kind of "awakened class". Cool. But, there are like 30 base classes, and only 8 awakened classes. What does this mean? If, for example, we take a Spellhowler and a Spellsinger, do they become the same when they turn into a Feoh Wizard? Or they retain stuff from their original class?
- I remember that some classes began to transform into "hybrids": elders being able to enter in a nuker stance, and tanks entering a melee dps stance. Is it still like that?
- Back then, if you didn't have a dwarf alt, you could consider yourself as permanently broke. Is it still like that?
- How many people can fit into one clan?
- I remember that balance between classes didn't exist at all. Nor anything close to a "rotation". Everyone simply spammed their main attack with one finger and the CP pots with another, while praying to get a critical hit. Did anything change?
- Not that it worries me too much, but I see that there is a paid service that increases max HP and reduces skill cooldown. That sounds... kinda "pay to win", doesn't it?
- It kinda surprised me that the client weights less than 10 gigabites. I'm not completely sure, but I think I remember it having a bigger size than that. Did they remove something since Hellbound?
- And lastly, I'm inclined to roll an elder or a tank. Any recommendations there?
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this!
Good afternoon to all of you!
Please excuse me if my excitement transpires into this post, but I'm overwhelmed by nostalgia right now. Allow me to begin with a brief introduction:
Born in Ukraine, living in Argentina since I was 5. By the time I was reaching my last school years, I was a videogame nerd. I played everything I could and enjoyed it, but never had much money to purchase current gen stuff. I was vaguely aware of the existence of MMORPGS, but back then I didn't have a powerful PC, nor even an internet connection.
Then came the days when my friends and I discovered that Argentinian "cyber-coffees" began installing interesting games. And big was our joy when we discovered that one of them had Lineage 2. This was back in 2005/2006, and we didn't had the money nor the means to pay for a subscription, but Argentina had several private servers with very big populations. We didn't even fully understand the difference between a private one and retail, but we didn't care. We could play, that was all that mattered to us.
It was amazing. Literally, a whole new world. We spent years in there, with various degrees of progress along the way. Of course, it wasn't the "real thing", but it was a really good server (with constant updates, maintenance, and +2000 players online at any given time).
I met my first girlfriend in there. She was the leader of a very big alliance, and once we made an IRL event to take the whole alliance to the cinema. It was fun, we were like 50 people blocking the entrance with our nerdy talks. We began seeing each other, and things went on naturally from there.
Ka works and the world moves on. Years passed, I got a nice PC, an internet connection suddenly become a service taken for granted, even for me, and the server began to slowly die. So I moved on. That was more than 5 years ago.
In the times that came, I almost forgot about the existence of this game. I did try other MMORPGs, with different results. Right now I'm playing Guild Wars 2.
And here I find myself, living alone, with a decent job and having built my dream PC, I discover that Lineage 2 still exists and is F2P. I finished downloading it in the night, and can't wait to get back home and try it!
But I've only played from Chronicle 3 up to Hellbound. Things seem to be very different right now. I will enjoy discovering the new stuff by myself, but in order to avoid my previous knowledge interfering with the current state of the game, I'd like to ask a few questions:
- Back in my day, 3rd class changes were pretty rare, and a symbol of high status. Now it seems that they are common, and the new cool end-game status is being some kind of "awakened class". Cool. But, there are like 30 base classes, and only 8 awakened classes. What does this mean? If, for example, we take a Spellhowler and a Spellsinger, do they become the same when they turn into a Feoh Wizard? Or they retain stuff from their original class?
- I remember that some classes began to transform into "hybrids": elders being able to enter in a nuker stance, and tanks entering a melee dps stance. Is it still like that?
- Back then, if you didn't have a dwarf alt, you could consider yourself as permanently broke. Is it still like that?
- How many people can fit into one clan?
- I remember that balance between classes didn't exist at all. Nor anything close to a "rotation". Everyone simply spammed their main attack with one finger and the CP pots with another, while praying to get a critical hit. Did anything change?
- Not that it worries me too much, but I see that there is a paid service that increases max HP and reduces skill cooldown. That sounds... kinda "pay to win", doesn't it?
- It kinda surprised me that the client weights less than 10 gigabites. I'm not completely sure, but I think I remember it having a bigger size than that. Did they remove something since Hellbound?
- And lastly, I'm inclined to roll an elder or a tank. Any recommendations there?
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this!
Five years later, I'm coming back. Need advice.
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