Knulp, Zenais, Ubba and Chryssa

Pretty slow moving month.. No major updates, no new events, so things have been pretty quite recently.

But it has been a very interesting period for the clan! Recent news include:

1. Zenais has joined the army (dont worry, it's temporary, he will be back soon), so Sarafi has to dualbox both characters in order to make sure that the two kamaels will keep on leveling as fast as before. Zenais is a very lucky guy to have Sarafi helping him ;-)

2. Knulp is back! Do you remember the young sorcerer who usually partied with tiaan? He is back, now wearing B grade and ready to continue his adventures in Aden.

3. Ubba and Chryssa, known to all of us for helping multiple times the clan and even more times a specific clan member (..), have joined Blue some days ago. Maybe they will move to a stronger clan/ally soon, but they will always be considered clan members!

News News News

Various game and clan related news:

• NCsoft Corp. and Vivox today announced a partnership to bring full featured voice to the NCsoft player community. Players will have the ability to communicate within and across (across??) NCsoft games via an NCsoft branded game communication portal. I guess this will take some time..
  

• New community manager at lineage2.com. Siren, the former Senior Lineage II QA Tester, has taken up the role of Associate Community Manager for the NCsoft North American and European departments (ie she will help Alyra). There was a hilarious comment from the Vault staff on the announcement: "Now she'll have plenty of extra free time so that the Vault can steal her for dates, bwuahahah! :) :) Go go Vault :) :)

• The clan has a new member! Angelcry is an Elven Elder lvl 40 from Norway. It's his main and first char, so please everyone provide all the support you can. Especially those two of you (Tiaan, Archmage) who know about EEs!
  

• There is a new site for (in-game items) auctions, called http://www.l2.mog.tc/. Supposedly it collaborates with instant messaging systems like gtalk. I am trying to test it, but so far there are very few users to have an interesting result.

Dont buy this box!

The brand-new, silky black, huge and sooooo desirable box has finally arrived.

Although NC Soft has announced the circulation of the Limited Collector’s Edition box a week (or more?) ago, it is only today that it finally appeared in the greek e-shops (not that I was looking, ofc).




Found at papasotiriou.gr.

I see no reason to buy this product. We already have our serial numbers (accounts), and we have already updated our clients to the latest version. The box contains:

• Full version of Lineage® II: The Chaotic Throne
  
• 45 days game time
• A detailed, hand painted Kamael Ranger figurine
• The Art of Lineage® II full-colour book
• Official soundtrack
• Two full colour posters
• Vintage map
  
• Exclusive in-game items! (half black mask, magic pig lollipop)
  

Who needs the Kamael figurine? Just to add it on his/her desk? And the book.. just another pretty book.. nah. The soundtrack could be cool, but Perseys has already sent us the mp3 files. And I could never bring one of those posters to my office.

It's just that..

You know..

The Magic Lollipop. I could use one of those. I am a sucker for lollipops.

I want the box, mainly the art-work book, the lollipop, the mask, the figurine! Everything!

Addition after buying the box: The figurine is tiny and not very stable if you add the wing. It might be hand-painted or not, i wont be sure unless I examine a second one to compare them. The art book is interesting indeed, although small. Imagine a very thin A4 paperback. It has some excellent sketches and some full colour artwork (nice!). It also has images of the new weapons (not very interesting). The posters are indifferent. I need to find out if I can use the in-game items without activating the serial code / new account. I would like to get the in-game items myself and give the serial code and time cards to a friend to start the game. I wonder if this is possible..

Korean Random IRL

Some things in life are bad

They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

Korean random chance

This has been discussed before, but my recent experience was overwhelming. Tried to OE the striped linen shirt. Up to +4 it works as stated... 66% chance of success. Indeed I tried about 14 times and had 9 successes. Then I tried 8 times to OE from +4 to +5 and failed 8 times. The chance is not the expected average of 43%... it is zero 0%
It makes one wonder how those +6 shirts do exist on Teon server. Is there a logical explanation ? I think 8 failures in a row would qualify as negative luck of 1 in millions. I am quite confident now that even if I try 88 times I would get 88 failures.