damn yeah

was so 'iya-iya' about wanting to dl the client to prep for the open beta date?

Just curious? Is it me or there's less than 0.1% of the 1000 closed beta testers that haven't posted any updates here? Is it that good until no one have the time to post or otherwise?

Here's 2 dl links posted by Tordana (credits to him / her) at LC Realm forums;

http://www.lastchaosnet.com/LC_OpenBeta_Version_1.1.zip

http://www.lastchaosnet.com/LC_OpenBeta_Ve...1.1.zip.torrent

Don't know about the rest of you, but I got a pretty decent 80kb/s consistency from LC's FileFront link for mine before. Well at the very least, TMNut didn't cut me off from that. FF's servers aren't dl manager / accelerators friendly at all.

This post has been edited by eq8all: Jul 10 2006, 09:16 AM

@u_n
Pots are available from 'merchant' NPCs. In Randol town, that would be Merchant Geres on the left to the Scrolls Trader.

@XIN0N
Unless you're more of a soloist (or more interested in hunting items), char 'roles' are well defined in LC which means that mages needs tanks for faster levelling and that means partying?

Are you sure you've killed ALL the zombies + corpse minions and went to the last room? Balrog is the one looking like that Balrog from LOTR Fellowship of the Ring movie?

Here's roughly how it can go right..;
1. 1st when you open the 1st door there should be that little FMV sequence that 'flies' through the 1st 'L' turn to the right.

2. Kill EVERYTHING that pops up there. Look at the minimap for grey dots (mobs) even when you think you've done.

3. Then in the 1st chamber (the door you open when you finish that 1st 'L' turn), again finish ALL mobs there. If you don't, you can't open the next door anyway...

4. Next door should lead to another and final 'L' turn that goes left this time. Repeat step 2. The catch is this time you WON'T get to open that door ahead you'll fall down by a floor trap into a pit.

5. In the pit, repeat step 3 until 2 sides of the walls (the last door is between those walls) cave in. Again finish ALL mobs that drops out from those holes.

6. You should be able to get into Balrog's chamber when you've done and that thing isn't hard at all...When you win the quest, DON'T click the 'Accept' button yet just to make sure you pick up any loots that Balrog may drop.

That's pretty much it and although it seems like nothing, it's a very good quest to repeat for better xp and sp xp. 1 free moon stone is also good btws...

*Notes*
OK >.<: My bad... it seems that this 'bug' had only just occurred from what I've read at LCdotorg fan forums. Anyways I've done the above before this maybe.

This post has been edited by eq8all: Jul 15 2006, 09:26 AM

@XIN0N
Gz on that moon stones you've gained

Umm...(>.<)" I think it's like this. Smelting stones 'IN' the inventory. Items to be upgraded 'UP' at that 'equipped' section. So you drag the stone from 'IN' to drop it 'UP' there on the item to use it. It works for me?

@u_n
Yeah the risks suck I know But next time the hint is to have a good (if not the same stat also is OK) bkup to the same item you want to upgrade. So more worth it to gamble upgrading that way. Besides you can wait to find or buy bkups since +6 is already good what?

It'd be nice if we all can bump into each other in a same chan. Problem is I don't really favour '1st' chans like k1 as I don't like any 'most popular' chans not because of players' numbers but more to 'social' reasons. It's more fun to be able to help fellow newbies out and party together in a less cluttered channel and I'm based in k6 instead.

And not to start a controversy or anything but I'd ran into some fellow Malaysians at k6 (nope none of us here LYN regulars don't worry but I'll exclude their nicks atm..) and unfortunately their attitude is "You low level and slow. Don't hang out with us =.=" and of course typical items' whores.

*sigh*
In every new release of any MMO, p2p or f2p, I'm just sad to see this type of kids. Want to grind so fast then whine and then drops certain lousy stuff then whine again. Pretty much the same idiots that keeps repeating their own mistakes over and over again.

Class: Level 17 Knight
Play time: Available from 10am-6pm or 10pm-6am (I'm a freelancer )

The rest of the deets are available on my sig.

@sniperwolf
Yeah damn right ~.~:::. Even getting all basic jobs at level 1 already crapped out my sp total.

I think I need to get the basics to at least level 3. Extracting (for elements), harvesting and mining SLOWLY in AFK is just too damn annoying.

This post has been edited by eq8all: Jul 20 2006, 11:59 AM

@sniperwolf
Yeah I agree with your stance on levelling. Same as me as I'm trying to soak up as much possibilities in-game as possible w/o having to resort to the usual grind-rut. And now the critical question would be the PvP + guild wars' issues...

@jenniferjen
Jen... I thought of the same thing by going shortcut with just focusing on normal + passive skills. But we're clearly different at views when it comes to levelling and that's why I took all crafting skills into account. Don't get me wrong but getting high enough before doing anything else could limit the fun factor too fast. Been there and done that to know myself the hard way. JMO though...

By the way, is it me or everyone else is able to see 2x items in NPCs because I don't? I still see most are at max level 17 all the way till Maz town in Dratan map?

This post has been edited by eq8all: Jul 20 2006, 03:47 PM

Speaking of char stats, I for one are pretty peeved that dex shows almost no real diffs for knights? At the fan forum where I hang out (LCdotorg), there's more rumours that serves dex helps for stuff like char running speed, evasion and so forth but then no real evidence towards that. And then have you guys / girls noticed that some 'bloodseal' abilities aren't really there on the char stats window?

Not that I want to micro-manage every abilities, but it's weird as well to not have the 'visual' context of those too?

@sayming
Yeah just so long you stick to pnd's suggestion. For a f2p, better not to expect it to beat Lineage 2, WoW or Guild Wars anytime soon.

1. Depends on how you see it. To me it's only hard when you get easily bored grinding alone. It's totally different to me when in a party.

2. No known answer for current max level yet for LC. Even if there is, there's still a BIG room for improvements so really it scores half a point to have a max lvl cap currently.

Btws Sk8ter lol Try not to get stuck too much on iSRO. 2 races more to come and it's still a LONG way from being equal to kSRO. Best not to go all out. Who knows you might leave your char anyway when that big update comes? Just a thought though...

This post has been edited by eq8all: Jul 22 2006, 04:37 PM

That would be me. Got a 4x, hybrid str:int, glav char in Troy.

Roles for classes (Tanks, Fast killers, Healers, Mages etc...) are better in LC. In what way you ask? Partying for one. In LC it makes sense to have different builds whereas iSRO would be close to pointless in training time (when no teamwork is required OR shared experience just don't work there) since everybody would go solo in a xp distro'ed party.

Both LC and iSRO are even in PvP. In sense of there's no real depth (yet..) for both in terms of guilds' territorial control rewards (a'la Lineage 2) or even individual gains for better fame points and for what rewards for that.

LC got crafting. Nothing of that in iSRO.

LC's items enhancements sucks more in success rates compared to iSRO BUT with less headache for upgrading materials' requirements. I mean look at iSRO's new alchemy now? LC's default 'bloodseal abilities' enhancements for items has NO failure rates and adds 'free' attributes.

End note would be that LC is better than iSRO for team-players than for soloists or those gunning for items' hunting.

So far I've only seen momoshiro on k6 for today? Maybe the majority of the LYN.Alliance members are based on other channels?

Most probably those in the know wouldn't need this but I'll add it anyways;



Nice thing is that they upped the level cap for both weaps and armors availability at NPCs.

But I'm not too sure on the mobs part. I mean even if it was an unintended (not for OB) mistake, a lot of higher levelled players are yelling already for this particular 'fix' at LCdotorg's forums.

Yeah what's funny is, I see most rogues can lure several mobs and tank those as long as they make the total kill. Which isn't that long since rogues have really good dmgs. What I don't get is that if rogues is equal to assassins (or rather...'are'), sins aren't supposed to tank that well but it's normal for sins to have the most dmg'ing 'finishing' moves. Sins are built to be deadly for 1 hits which is why there's no sense for them to be able to tank. I don't know but maybe LC has a different definition to what a sin is supposed to be?

Which is why before this I had pointed out that rogues are supposed to be fast 'finishers' in 1 hit moves (skills) instead of having a high 'default damage'. Titans are similar to fighters or any other typical pure brute and might-based chars in MMORPGs so yeah it's a weird thing if titans are to be outdamaged in normal circumstances.

I don't know really... But I highly suspect that the imbalances are due to the arguably faulty char stats. Example like dex don't really work for knights. I disagree on having stats' effects differentiated on ALL classes when it's really skills that matter.

And asura_86 has a VERY critical point there... The last thing I want in LC is a channel full of rogues . Beginning to see a real build-up of them in k6.

Chked bk at 12.43pm just now and guess what?

ROLLBACK FTW!!! [~.~]"""""

Levelled to 21 just 8 hours ago and got back to 20 COMPLETE with 52% xp bar... *sigh* the amazing wonders of Open Beta no doubt.

I've read the official announcements about some banned IDs. Allegedly it's related to pw sharing and / or 'deliberate' obstuction by those affected players towards GMs' duties. Now how the hell does that make sense is beyond me as well.

Not to be paranoid, but it looks like some LC players' accs may have been 'compromised'. Perhaps CubeTech might want to be more transparent.

And they could've at least included the rollback as well in the announcement?

EDIT: Yeah an update now
* SS of their representative's post at LCdotorg forums.



HD error >.<: Someone should tell them to upgrade all db hd to Western Digital brand =p

This post has been edited by eq8all: Aug 1 2006, 02:30 PM

Wow they still haven't got around to settle the issue yet? Just got back and yeah I got stuck at server selection, only to cancel to come out and time out several times at login too.