Leonidar's Game blog

So it was time for us to try the new Zaken raid in Freya, we created 3 party's with 80+ people just to test his strength as we wasn't sure how strong Zaken would be in Freya.

The funny thing was that when we first entered "someone"   will not mention names haha entered the wrong instance and went to daytime Zaken 58+ instead of the new one. It ended up with all the party Petrified when we got to Zaken and he spawned.

After my laughter had stopped and we had waited for the instance to reset we entered the correct one. One thing here that I didn't know is a tactic to see were Zaken is with out running around lighting candles and checking all the rooms, is to let one person run around in all the rooms and let the him do a AoE attack, if it says "Zaken has resisted the attack" he have entered the correct room and the raid party can move to that room.

This cuts a lot of time with rebuffing and fighting silly minions spawning in the wrong rooms. Just let the party's wait at the start and when the person that does the AoE attacks found the room he just tell were he is and all can move there and buff up.

After we killed Zaken he dropped pretty good items. But sadly no Zaken earring. Was some Moirai items , Vesper items and 6 people got Vorpal rings placed in the inventory.

So this is one more thing that is great about Freya, no more rolling alts to make a Zaken party just take your main.

gf Zaken and I see you soon again.

Hello Everyone,

I thought I just share my experience with the rewamped area, Plains of Lizardmen.

As we all archers know Mithril Mines was a real turn down and just not worth the time down there, crappy xp and crappy drops. So my expectations for the rewamping of Plains of Lizardmen was not very high.

But I got to say I am gladly suprised, I spent roughly 3 hours there today testing out the different monsters and what to do and what not to do.

First of the XP is ok, it's roughly 25 - 35k per monster on vit 0 so solo with a boxed PP the XP was somewhere around 90 - 100k per monster.

With all the Area archer buffs one get there one crits really hard, and can one and two shoot many of the monsters. Some monsters are a lot tougher for me atleast as I am only level 80 and it's a level 83 area.

But what is great is that the Moirai ( think it's called? ) drop a lot there, under the 3 hours I think I got roughly 10 - 15 pieces of different armor's and 1 Recipe: Moirai Necklace 60%.

Sadly for me the quests one get in the area are 82+ so I got to wait a bit to take them, but over all the new rewamp is a success for me.

A good Guide for hunting there in English is over at Ellibelly.net

http://v3.elliebelly.net/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=55&func=view&catid=15&id=18706

Or if you want it directly from the developers mouth you can always check out the Korean powerwiki, Either if you know Korean or just go with Google translate.

http://power.plaync.co.kr/lineage2/도마뱀+초원

If you are curios I got no Earth resist ( the monsters have earth attacks ) currently on the Dynasty Armor I used, and the Bow I am using is as a Icarus bow +0 150 Elemental.

Ok great news all Lineage 2 fans, today Sace on the Lineage 2 offical forums confirmed that one will be able to re-take the Epic quest when Freya launches tomorrow.

This means that one will get an extra 30% xp and that is alot I tell you.

Good news as this will take me abit clooser to level 81.

For more information please visit:

http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?p=3010114&posted=1#post3010114

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

This has taken me long enough but I finally dinged 80 last night, the last 2% was just horrible looking at the xp bar all the time just to realise it hadent moved much. So I am now in sell mode on the laptop, so I can get myself S80 gear.