The vast world of Aden is about to expand! Gracia™ Epilogue, the latest expansion to Lineage II, will be hitting the live servers on Tuesday, November 17th. New and updated hunting grounds, vitality changes, a new mail system, and much, much more are in store for you with this exciting new update!
Patch notes for the update are available on the Gracia Epilogue Preview Site. The estimated maintenance period for this launch is 7am CST to 2pm CST so please plan accordingly.
Gracia Epilogue™ will be arriving on the Official Lineage II Public Test Server on Thursday, October 29th, 2009. New quests, hunting grounds, improved vitality and more await you in this final installment of Gracia. Check out the Gracia Epilogue Preview Site for a sneak peak of what is in store for this update.
You will need to download the official Lineage II Public Test Server client in order to join us on the 29th. The client will be available for download very soon so keep an eye out for announcements on how to get set up to access PTS.
Head on over to the forums to discuss this update!
Several changes to Eva's Inferno have been made and there are new rewards for players to receive during the event. Please check out this announcement on the forums to discuss the changes below.
The first thing that you will notice is that the event periods will now begin at 3 am CDT for US servers and 2am BST for EU servers. This is when the event will reset every day instead of at the same time for each server every day. For the US servers, this means that 1am PDT / 3am CDT / 4am EDT / 8am GMT / 9am BST is your reset time. For EU servers it is 6pm PDT / 8pm CDT / 9pm EDT / 1am GMT / 2am BST.
In addition to the time zone changes, we have extended the period for which you can collect the rewards on day 10 and 14 to 24 hours. Once your server has reached the blessing period, you will now have 24 hours to visit Jack Sage and retrieve your reward so that players who might not be awake or able to collect the reward right away will all be able to receive rewards on these days.
Lastly, the rewards for Day 10 and 14 have been changed due to player feedback on the event. We have introduced a new reward to the event and removed several scroll rewards from the chests for day 10 and 14. On Day 10, all chests will contain Vitality Replenishing Potions (Yes, that was plural!) and our new reward, a 5 hour duration Rune of SP 30%. When you open the chest for Day 10, the rune will activate and the timer will start counting down so you will not want to open the chest until you are absolutely ready to begin using the Rune of SP. The Rune of SP 30% is not tradable.
Day 14 chests will now contain a 5 hour Rune of Experience Points 50% and a 5 hour Rune of SP 50%. Similar to the Day 10 rune, the timer for these runes will begin as soon as you open the chest. It will not be possible to stop the timer once the chest has been opened so make sure you are ready to begin using the runes when you open the chest. Every chest will contain the same rewards so you will know exactly what is inside. These runes are not tradable.
The following rewards that were initially mentioned on the Event page are no longer available: Experience Rune 30% (This has been replaced with the 50% variety), transformation scrolls, several buff scrolls. All of these rewards have been replaced with extra vitality potions, more potent experience runes, and the new SP increasing rune.
We hope that all of these changes will make the event much more enjoyable for all of our players and we are grateful for all of your feedback that you have provided. Thank you!
Dust off your creative writing hat, warm up your video editing skills, and jump into your favorite Gracia Final area to show everyone what Gracia Final is all about! We are now accepting submissions for the Lineage® II: Gracia Final Guide and Tutorial Contest. For more information on the contest, click here!