[Wipe sServer]

Games like Path of Exile have shown that seasonal leagues are successful. I could totally see Shrine pulling something like that off.

PoE moves all characters from seasonal leagues to the standard league when the season is over, then the next league starts. Each league has a unique twist to it, but it's the same base game. Standard league benefits and grows with content from the unique leagues, leagues remain competitive and a scarcity of items makes items desirable.

I think you should be careful creating additional servers if they're identical to the base server, since they come with an end date. Leagues in PoE usually decrease in popularity significantly in the latter half of the duration. The same would most likely happen here. Unless there's still goals reachable by end of server?

If you're serious about going down this route, I suggest looking at that game and all the things they got right. I think you're on to something here.

[Brand new player to L2]

The reason caster are good to start with, is because the buffs provided by the in-game helper increases their damage AND cast speed. It helps a lot. The fighters don't get a damage increase.

aVx's suggestion is good too, it's actually quite a unique class, but you'll be using your wolf a lot. If you're into using a pet, go for it.

Archers are another option, but they're not that great without extra buffs. They're also expensive.

Buffs are immensely good in this game, but that doesn't mean you can't play without them. You're new, just make whichever class you think sounds fun, and go play. You can figure out the rest along the way.

[Brand new player to L2]

14 hours ago, Emca said:

Heh  The game is so fu*king bad we all love it... I must admit I'm bit tempted to start playing somewhere (not here because everyone would go frenzy you know "Hey she's supporting that clan")

Yes, it's really bad. It's worse than all drugs I've tried in my life. LSD and MDMA is nothing compared to this game (because L2 is really addictive; the easiest way of getting rid of it is making your own server). Maybe quality wine can compete with it. Really.  DON'T PLAY IT

...

On the other way, it's much much better than LOTRO, STO and lot of other modern MMORPGs because many of them are carebear games.

It's a great old competitive game. Just treat it that way.

Come play with me, I'm not in a clan. You can favor me all you want, I won't tell anyone!

[Brand new player to L2]

If you create a wizard to start off, you'll be fine. They don't need more buffs than those supplied by the newbie buffers you can find in every city.

Give it a try, just go kill some stuff. It's pretty neat.

[Files]

1 hour ago, Emca said:

If it's only interface, feel free to use the one that suits you

Cool!

If anyone have some neat interface mods, I'd really like to see them. Thanks

[DC every 10 minutes]

Ah, I see.. Thanks. I hope the DC's are fixed, I'll give it a try now.

 

EDIT: It seems a lot better now. Thanks for the help.

[DC every 10 minutes]

It's worse now than it was before. Clean install of epilogue (downloaded from l2shrine.com), downloaded l2shrine launcher and placed it in the root install folder.

I'm able to login, but I can't party with my own characters, and every time I move or send an action to the server (invite, trade etc), I get a system error message ingame. Some of the text is also completely gone. I took a screenshot of the "exit game" prompt. What should I do when a clean install doesn't help?

Thanks

[DC every 10 minutes]

I did not, I just reinstalled everything. I'll give it a go again.

[DC every 10 minutes]

I see, it just never happened before this update. I wonder what it could be then.

[DC every 10 minutes]

Sometimes more often, some times less. But I get kicked out on both characters twice per buff duration.

Not sure why, this started happening after Epilogue update. Am I the only one?

Cheers!

[Epilogue is coming!]

2 hours ago, kDas said:

Hey @Emca, quick question: I started my main character a few days ago (before that — was getting familiar with a server, wanted to decide if I'll play here). But that means my character won't have newbie gear, right? Can I get this shadow gear somehow or I will have to create a new character so I'll lose my nickname?

I'm curious about this also. I started recently, am I worse off for not waiting for the new update?