Lineage2 russian servers

So the other day I decided to test out the Russian servers, to see how they had things and how to get it to work, so this will be a small guide / article about how to do it and how it was.

When I first heard about the "grass is greener on the other side" servers, I was reading about it on Elliebelly about there Autoban system that "should" make it harder for people to cheat - like botting and using radar ingame, if this is true or not I don't know becuse I dident check it out long enough on the servers to actually see it.

But first I downloaded the client from the offical russian website http://l2.ru/  and created an account on there sister site https://my.4game.ru/hello.html?serviceId=6&utm_source=l2_ru&utm_medium=link&utm_content=download&did=

Using google translate tool bar this was hardly any problem as the translation works very well, After I had downloaded the client I started it up and I had to download a started program from 4game to get Lineage2 going. As Lineage2 started up it promted that I was not in the right location to play on these servers, but this was easy with just going in to your control panel and switching the location to Russia instead of mine Sweden.

So when I started it up this time I started like a charm, but ofc everything was in Russian so I had to fix that to, and as I had the English client on my computer I just replaced the files in the system folders that had the -ru extension with the english client files that had the -e extension and then the interface and almost everything was turned in to English, I got everything in to English expet the NPC's dialogs, I am sure this can be exchanged to but I dident wanna put to much time and effort in to it as I only wanted to check it out.

The first thing I noticed when I logged in to the Lineage2 russian servers was ofc the new Interface bar for there Micro-transactions button.

*Stones the Increase the Enchant rates of weapons.

*Tickets that do so you can enter Kamaloka more then one time aday.

*5 hour buff pet.

One thing that that I also noticed is that all these screenshots was not saved in the system folder but in a screenshot folder, Don't know if this is a Russian thing or will come with Freya to NA/EU to.

After I had looked around in the itemshop I decided to do the Wooden armor quest, and even if I dident understand Russian I had done it so many times before it was no issue, and the arrows pointed me were to go. I did all the started quests and ended up on level 20, I even meet a russian person that buffed me and laughed and wondered what I was doing there as I was no Russian.

After I dinged I decided to go and check the major towns like Giran and Aden, So I toke the gatekeeper there, and the towns were jammed packed with people, if I think Teon is busy this had 5 times more people in it, and the prices were extremly cheap, like Soulbow 15M, IC Gaites 6M etc.

As someone told me that on the Russian servers "if" you have all the extra xp boost items and the Premium account one get 9 times more xp then the NA/EU servers, So even if the serverI was on Desperion was only 3 weeks old I saw people in Destiny Set's.

They also had many if not all features that NA/EU dont have activated. The Russian servers seem solid and good from what I could tell, but It dont have KJ or my friends, and I don't fell like starting over so these servers is not an option for me atm.

I do wish that NCsoft implemented this on the NA/EU servers as I can really see Lineage2 having a re-birth on our servers then, here is some good and bad things listed.

Good things

• Lineage 2 is 100% free if you wish.
• There is a Premium account, that makes you get 100% more xp and more drops.
• the item mall seems to have alot of goodies in it.
• The servers are alot more populated.

Bad things

• With Free accounts comes ALOT of spammers in the towns.
• As I only understand English and Swedish, Events will be hard as I really dont understand a thing what the Event NPC said.

* cool Agathion

*Dwarf with Destiny set