‘Tis the Season

The Santa Claus guild trainees are back! The guild has dispatched young apprentices all over Aden to spread holiday cheer and offer blessings and gifts wherever they go.

During this event, monsters will drop an assortment of special items to make the season bright, including unique Echo Crystals that play holiday carols.

* Echo Crystal – 1st Carol: “Jingle Bells”
* Echo Crystal – 2nd Carol: “Joy to the World”
* Echo Crystal – 3rd Carol: “Jingle Bells”
* Echo Crystal – 4th Carol: “Deck the Halls”
* Echo Crystal – 5th Carol: “Deck the Halls”
* Echo Crystal – 6th Carol: “Jingle Bells”
* Echo Crystal – 7th Carol: “Auld Lang Syne”
* Echo Crystal – 8th Carol: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
* Echo Crystal – 9th Carol: “Deck the Halls”
* Echo Crystal – 10th Carol: “Joy to the World”


Special Trees

The monsters roaming Aden and Elmore are also carrying tree branches and ornaments that can be given to the Santa Trainee to create your own small Christmas tree.

To make your small Christmas tree, you will need 4 Star Ornaments, 4 Bead Ornaments, 10 Fir Tree Branches, and 1 Flower Pot.

Give the Santa Trainee 10 small Christmas trees and he will give you a special Christmas tree, which has a magical effect of increasing health and magic regeneration while under its branches. Special Christmas trees can be summoned anywhere, but you will not receive the magical effects of the tree if it is summoned inside peace zones.

Santa’s Hat

This small guild of the Dwarven Village is led by a mysterious, yet jolly, Dwarf known only as Santa Claus. The apprentices managed to bring along a stock of Santa’s Hats with them to the villages. However, they won’t give up these hats easily! Collect 10 small Christmas trees and the Trainee will exchange them for a bright red Santa’s Hat. This hat can only be worn during the holiday season, and cannot be dropped or exchanged.

Holiday Blessings

The Santa Trainees in the starting villages also give holiday blessings. These buffs will help you in your hunt for both monsters and presents.

As any mmorpg blogger can probably relate to, it sometimes gets a lot harder to blog as you get more involved in a game. It is as if every spare minute you have available, you want to spend in the game rather than opening up something else, like email or IE, which is why I'm currently blogging during my lunch hour at work .

A few updates:

1) I'm sad to say that my friend 'A' who posted as a guest, unfortunately got 2 of his accounts banned. I don't know the exact details of how it occurred, but in terms of his losses, he probably has lost close to 1 billion adena's worth of game currency, materials, armors, weapons and miscellenous items. Not only that, his main toon was in the high 70's level and that's probably related to about a year's worth of work, particularly while he is also a father of 3 children and a full-time employee. Also his other toons which were on the same accounts were his dwarf crafter which had a multitude of top grade recipes learned and was probably generating a daily income of 10 million adena. When he called me to tell me of the incident, he was pretty drunk (fortunately he was at home when it happened) and so, was not feeling too much of pain due to the loss of his accounts.

On that note, he was not the only casualty of the latest wave of game banning. Multiple bot groups have disappeared from the game - looks like that NCSoft finally grew a pair and utilized a major game cauterization. Unfortunately it also was rather generalized and happen to hit dedicated players like A. Also, I've heard rumors that the GMs also banned toons that were supposedly reported to them to be bots, but they did not actually do proper investigation. Granted I understand that they are probably overloaded with petitions on a daily basis, but sometimes you wonder how far they will take their God complex.

As for A, a friend of his with a generous heart bought 2 brand new accounts for him so that 'A' can get back in the game. A still had his wife's account, so they were not at a total loss but he is determined that he will spend Thanksgiving doing some serious leveling. More updates on that soon.

2) I've come to the conclusion that in order to be able to survive in this game, I had to create a crafter. So I now have Shiiitake, my bounty hunter, and Porchini, my crafter (yes, there's a reason we have a theme, and yes, my spelling isn't the best). Together with my husband's dwarf crafter, JamesonCEO (if you watch the Ghost in the Shell series, you'd get the reference), we have created a crafting clan called FungusAmongus.

I have to say, I am having a great time leveling the dwarves, because they have incredible physical defense, physical attack and also decent running speed. Not only that, their health gauge is higher compared to other toons and I've been able to craft/spoil on my own.

So Yas/Kaeyah has been put on hiatus for a while until I can get my spoiler/crafter up to levels so that they can actually start making money for me. A-grade gets expensive and Yas will be there for a while.

With that, I wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and a safe one. I'll be going camping so I'm going to be technology-free for a few days. Till next time, happy Gaming ^^

Well well well…….my first blog appearance -Not really sure how to approach this so here goes my best effort. I play Lineage II, an MMORPG.

In this game I have developed a toon most all my interest:
Toon # 1- my main char is a 70+ Bladedancer (this is the character that I use to basically kick some butt with. He is topped off with the best gear possible for A-grade.)

Toon # 2 - Dwarf – Artisan (This is my money maker. When I got my main character into the 60’s I found it extremely expensive to keep leveling. So I decided to take a few weeks to get a dwarf that I created a while back, who was stuck at 36 forever, up in levels so she could craft stuff for others in game for a reasonable price (income). Once I reached lvl 62 with this toon, it took a lot of money and time to equip this char with the recipes that are in demand. Still short 3 or 4 recipes, she is almost complete. Now I make roughly 4-10m a day which provides me the ability to 1) craft whatever I want when I want 2) keep my main char supplied with SS and such.

Toon # 3-Lvl 61 Hawkeye- This character is a free for all toon that I PvP with and Pk with when need be. I basically use this toon for farming Kali coins and when I am tired of playing my main toon and need a break from the norm.

Toon # 4- Dwarf - Lvl 50 Bounty Hunter – This is a toon that was created and used to spoil different mats/parts/recs for when I craft. I usually like to save my adena to roughly around 30m and try a big craft. If the craft goes I put the weapon on the market……slightly higher than normal price, and wait for it to sell. I enjoy the rewards and reinvest the profits into another craft.

Toon # 5- Lvl 45 Treasure Hunter – This is a toon I get much enjoyment from. She has the ability to silent walk. I like watching bots go DOWN. Before the newest patch, I would round up about 15-20 mobs and drop them right on a bot train and wait for them to drop some armor. I would then take the armor and crush it for crystals. Sell the crystals and make cash’ ola.

I am all about making money in game. The more you make the better/faster you can level. I look forward to all your comments and questions.

** Note from Reai0314 - you can leave comments with this posting and I'll make sure A gets them ^^ **

I hit Level 61 the other night. Finally. Took me three attempts because I kept pulling too much aggro, so I kept dying. At least I have enough skill points to get my new skills when I hit 62.

So I get to put on my new clothes ^^ however, the new clothes got a new look too!

Before C5 Launch:

After C5 Launch:

Isn't she pur-ty? Next: Majestic jewels (top A-grade jewellery) and the Damascus duels.

At 12 pm CST, a new Lineage II event starts and will last the next week or so till Oct 3rd. Medals will drop from monsters you kill and by collecting the medals, you can trade them in for rewards. What am I looking for? Enchant weapon scrolls!!

Talk about lack of sleep for this week. Eek.

So I finally managed to get back online, the cable guy fixed the cable wire and very kindly tacked the cable higher so that it is inaccessible to the canine member of the family. A lot has happened since then.

1) The Deliverance Alliance has been dissolved, though we do keep in touch with the Aluminati clan (they're awesome!). The clan leader of the other clan in the alliance, Rememberance, has gone to the Faded clan, who supposedly try to be the most notorious clans on the server. Hmm... honestly, the game has been around long enough that we have about 2-3 big clans with members who are in their 70s. So there really isn't much of a monopoly so far.

2) The ROTX clan was going to be disbanded, but turns out that a few people who are friends of the clan decided to join up with us and push us onward, which is cool. So instead of disbanding, we are now moving onwards as fast as we can to get to level 70s and to become an elite guard clan for the Darkside alliance.

3) C5 has been pretty interesting since its release, particularly with the introduction of the Demonic Sword Zariche! Here's some info on it and a picture:

"Demonic Sword Zariche

The weapon of slaughter, the Demonic Sword Zariche, was once used by the Demon Bremmnon, one of the four demon kings.

All monsters in the world have the potential to drop it. However, only one of these exists in the whole world. When Zariche is dropped in the world, the entire world becomes dark for a short period of time, the ground shakes, and a system message notifies all players that the demonic sword has been found.

The character that acquires Zariche goes into a chaotic state (red) instantly, and his/her HP, CP, and MP are fully recovered (100%).

When a character acquires Zariche, it is equipped automatically and is impossible to un-equip. It is impossible to drop, exchange, or destroy this item from your inventory.

Zariche automatically disappears after a certain period of time (once acquired), regardless if the character is logged in or not. When the player wielding Zariche kills another player, Zariche’s lifespan shortens but the sword's abilities increase. The character who possesses Zariche will be notified by a system message with how much time is remaining.

When a character who possesses Zariche dies, it disappears or is dropped immediately."
* Taken from the Lineage 2 website (www.Lineage2.com)

Currently a major bug with the demon sword being used in the same area as a player may caused the player to get kicked off the game. It happened to me twice, though I did managed to see the sword in action. It's pretty neat but unfortunately it's monopolized by the larger clans who will pk any lower toon that happens to get the sword.

4) I've started a dwarf - she's called Shiiitake and she's my little bounty hunter .
Here's a picture of her with a friend's dwarf. The funny thing is that the male counterpart of the dwarf class is this old fudgity pudgity character of a short old man who is absolutely unattractive. Mine's the redhead ^^.

5) And yes, I did notice that the comments in my last few postings were from commercial websites selling L2 adena. The irony of it... Is there no way for me to delete any comments?

Being a little behind in posting lately. Here are some images from a summer event we had in Lineage a few months ago... pollen would drop from mobs you hunted (actually they would just 'magically' appear in your inventory) and you could get squash seeds from event managers that had appear throughout the major towns. Then depending on whether you got a large squash or a small squash, you would break open the squash to get scrolls, potions, crystals and other goods. If they were large, you had to have at least 5 people with chrono weapons (weapons with no p.atk or m.atk but were souveniers from previous chronicles) - otherwise you could break the squash yourself.

Then here's a picture of me in Tallum light armor, which is what I'll get to use when I hit level 62 (A-grade). I'm currently sitting at 57 which is taking longer to level because I'm currently hunting for mats and hitting lower level mobs i.e. low low low experience points .
I can't wait.....

Wow.. it's been a busy week (or two). I have Yasamina up to 56 (w00t!), Kaeyah up to 43 (getting there!) and all of Yas's black ore jewellery (used to increase her magic defense). Here's what they look like:

I had to craft most of it but I got lucky where I managed to buy one ring for 1 million adena. Going price right now is at least 2 mill. With Yas now in her Black Ore stuff, all her C-grade jewellery can go to Kaeyah who's at the right level.

In other Lineage 2 news, NCSoft has now opened up the public test server to test Chronicle 5.

Existing customers with accounts can log in, and start a new toon on a separate server to help NCSoft test out any kinks and such. The toons will be level 75, and 100 million adena as well as around 75 million skill points will be made available. Of course what happens? Server wide PVP. I logged in and started a buffer toon, and I instantly got pk'ed on the way to the village to get my stuff (you start off in a newbie zone without any armor except a stick and cotton clothing). It sucked.

When the Chronicle is officially released after being fully tested (usually for about a month), all toons on the server will be wiped out. Then C5 will be loaded to the retail servers. We'll see how it goes.. already a lot of the public have been complaining about a lot of the new changes and how it affects their game play, especially when it affects the toon they currently worked on so hard on the live server.