With Valentine’s Day ahead Lineage 2 gets its next event: The Valentine Event. I think, in the history of Lineage 2 NA/EU that is going tobe the 1st event ever wich will be in sync with the korean Lineage 2. Anyway … farm on.
Full Valentine Event Description can be found here

Ever wondered what happened to the previous Lineage 2 development core team? In 2007 they founded Bluehole Studio, theyr own MMORPG development studio. Since then they are working on TERA: The Exiled Realm of Arborea, wich was also known as Project S1.
Read on for Gameplay Trailer and Screenshots

First of i thought the ‘Love your Gatekeeper’ event might be something good, that also the non-boting player might enjoy. Having the chance to rise your Vitality Level when you find the time for and benefit from the increased XP/SP-rates.
The event items can only be purchased during that 1 week the event NPCs are up. But why do they have to remove the items from the game the day the event ends? To actualy benfit from the ‘Love your Gatekeeper’ event you are ‘forced’ to play and use the event items this week. Bad luck if your real life shedule curently does not allow you to spend as much time needed to event use your vitality, so you could rise it again with the help of the event items.

Long story short … the boting majority of the Lineage 2 players, might actualy make the most use of this event. A characters vitality will also rise as long as you get XP while being transformed into a gatekeeper. So leeching away in a group will do the trick. If you haven’t starting boting yet, its obviouse a waste of time waiting any longer. The event items are shadow items, bound to 1 char, not tradeable. Would it cause any harm allowing players to use it any time later this year? I think not.

Lets have a look to Korea, where they are running a 4 weeks ‘Welcome New Year’ Event. Besides other things you can enjoy 4 weeks of 1 hour per day, not loosing but gaining vitality. Also the ‘Love your Gatekeeper’ Event has been run there already several times in the past. Obviously even NCsoft seams to admit that Lineage 2 is actualy the hardest grind-fest under the mmopg’s currently on the market. So to make it at least somewhat better they introduced the Vitality System. But even then the majority of non-boting players will ever level past lvl 80.

So why not using some common sence and set every characters Vitality Level to 4 during every weeks regular sheduled maintenance?

It’s been a while …
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NCSoft Korea has launched the Open Beta for Aion: The Tower of Eternity. Being restricted to korean Players only, some non-korean people sneaked in it as well. If you want you can follow Awantos live while he is exploring the world of Atreia:
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Lineage 2 – Gracia, Final will go live in Korea on November, 26th. NCSoft Korea published a detailed Launch Shedule and also a new Gameplay Movie.
To celebrate the launch of Gracia, Final NCSoft Korea will hold ceveral pre- and post-launch Events:
Read on for Event Details and a new Gameplay Movie

The korean PTS for Lineage 2 – Gracia, Part 3 is still under way. Unlike any of the other PTSs this one actualy deserves the name Public Testing Server – changes getting tested and adjusted if needed. It seams also much easier to test certain aspects of the game, wich are next to impossible to test-run on a live server.

There has been a small test run on the korean PTS to figure out how the increased element values for weapons and armor influence inflicting and receiving damage.
Read on for the Element Attribute Breakpoints

Some might have noticed PirateNinjas.net is also hosting the Clan Board and Forum for small but active Lineage 2 Clan.

We are looking for european players whose primary focus is progressing their Level 70+ character. The ability to join Ventrilo and communicate in English or German is also mandatory.

If you are interested then sign up on the Board and write a pm to Zeona with the usual info or just leave a posting in the Public Space.

In a few hours Lineage 2: The 2nd Throne – Gracia, Part 2 gonna be live on the european and north american servers. There aint much changes nore new content.
Just when we thought it cant get any worst, there is NCSoft adding a new chapter to the infamous PTS-failure-saga. Most of the time the PTS was down and if that wasn’t the case it was lagging badly. NCSoft and theyr representative ‘Community Manager’ Omega, err i mean Siren (or whoever is imposing that role over there), keeped theyr hush-silent-policy not loosing any word at all about the state of the PTS nore any pre-informations about the launch on the live servers.
Read on for the Pailaka Quest Guide and PTS roundup

The korean PTS for the latest Lineage 2 extension is finaly up and running. The korean PTS patch notes have been posted as well. The complete Patch Notes wont be here for some time, real life + work > L2. Also keep in mind not everything in the korean PTS patch notes is written in stone. Details usualy get changed or wont make it at all to the live servers.
Read on for the Lineage 2 Gracia Final korean PTS patch notes