Chronicle 5 Overview

[Hellrose]

Chronicle 5 Overview

Source: Playforum (http://www.playforum.net/lineage2/column.comm?action=read&iid=10031004&kid=7754)
Some of the Images are from L2Day (http://l2day.gamecul.com/)

The day before Chronicle 5 was launched, NCSoft held a press conference to communicate the the content being updated for the new chronicle.


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Chronicle 5 Concepts

Chronicle 5 was planned with five main concepts in mind.


Support for Soloers
Solo hunting areas will drop Instant Items. These work much like power-ups in arcade games: they will immediately recharge the player's HP and MP as soon as they are acquired, reducing downtime.
9 new hunting areas have also been added for players at levels 20 to 60.
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Clan Activity Encouraged
To develop the strength of human communication in the game, the clan system is getting a large makeover.
Clan Academy
Clans can found academies that help new users level to 40 to increase their clan's reputation.
Clan Ranks
Initially clans simply had a clan leader and its members. This will be further segmented to allow clans to organize themselves into ranks. The ranks go up to Marquis in C5. In the future they will also add Lord/Lady and King/Queen.
Clan Items
Clans can purchase clan items using Clan Reputation points.
In order to equip them, the player must have contributed a certain number of points and at a certain rank within the clan.
Clan Skills
Clan skills are implemented in a tree system. When the clan leader learns it, it gets applied to all members of the clan depending on their rank.
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Class Balance
PVP Balance
The so-called RPS system will eliminate a dominating PVP class. Any strong class will be able to be countered with its enemy class.
Hero Skills
In response to concerns that Hero rewards weren't reflecting the difficulty in achieving the status, new hero skills have been added.
The Grand Olympiad has also been reworked to provide fairer competition.
Skills Revamped
New skills have been added for players around level 60 to give them greater motivation to continue in the game.
These new skills will also play a main part in balancing pvp.
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Completion of the Continent
The Dwarven and Orc lands will be connected to the rest of the territories through the addition of Schuttgart. It is now possible to walk pretty much anywhere in this game.
Schuttgart will present monsters of different difficulties that get gradually harder further away from the newbie areas.
Schuttgart added
Schuttgart Castle and Schuttgart Village, as well as 9 new hunting areas added.
High Level Dungeons
Monastery of Silence and Shrine of the Heretics are added in the Rune region and will feature lvl80-ish mobs.
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New Technologies Implemented
Support for Dual-core processors
The clients now support dual-core CPUs. Those that take advantage of this feature will see a 30% increase in speed.
Vertex Shader
Vertex Shader applied to graphic engine
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Other New Developments
New weapons, armor and accessories. Of these, armor are clan items.
Additions to Fishing
Fishing Competition will be held as ingame events. 'Night Fishing' is a higher level fishing concept.
Raid Boss
Frintessa added. Frintessa is designed to be fought using sound as a strategy.
Interface Tweaks
Party matching system has been reworked so that leaders of parties can actively search out party members.
Also, raid parties can be formed to prevent ninja looting. Items dropped from raids can only be picked up by members within the raid party for a period of time.
Cursed Weapon
The demonic sword Zariche is a one-handed sword that equips automatically when acquired. More cursed weapons will be added in the future.
Player using the Zariche will not be able to join parties, and gets put in an abnormal chaotic state, where s/he will not drop items or lose XP upon death.

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Chronicle 5 Graphics

Items
Clan Armor
The clan armor set Apella Set is specialized for PvP.
Various other armors will be added in the Clan Items category.

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Apella set (Human) - Heavy, Light, Robes

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Apella set (DE) - Heavy

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Apella set (Elf) - Robe
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Weapons
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Cursed Weapon - Zariche

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From left to right:
1H Sword: Mystery Sword, 2H Sword: Inferno Master, Blunt: Doom Crusher, Mage Sword: Tears of Wizard, Sword of Paagrio (type unknown)
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Accessories

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Left column top to bottom: Raid Master's Circlet, Raid Explorer's Circlet, Raid Challenger's Circlet
Right column top to bottom: Circlet of Schuttgart, Circlet of Ice Fairy Shir

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Fashion Accessory - Chapeau

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Fashion Accessory - Goggles

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Fashion Accessory - Small Angel Wings
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Monsters

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Spike Stakato: Higher tier monster at Stakato's Nest in Rune

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Anais, Ruler of Glory: Raid monster

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Priest of Triol: Raid monster

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Prince Frintessa, Son of Baium: Raid Boss

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Breath of Halisha: Cohort of Scarlet Von Halisha

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Scarlet Von Halisha: the Raid Boss that is actually fought (Frintessa is not fought directly)
Halisha is able to transform into different forms.

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Scarlet Von Halisha: First Transformation

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Scarlet Von Halisha: Second Transformation

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Scarlet Von Halisha: Ingame screenshot of Halisha in Second Transformation
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Territories

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Pabel Ruins

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Monastery of Silence

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Rune Castle

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Shrine of the Heretics

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Burial of Disgrace

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Beast Farm Clan hall

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Town of Schuttgart

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Winter's Labyrinth

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Tomb of the Empire: Frintessa's lair

[bats]

Also, raid parties can be formed to prevent ninja looting. Items dropped from raids can only be picked up by members within the raid party for a period of time.

Bah no more ninja looting raiding farmer clans

[RaZieL]

nice :om_luv2:

[Anbu]

Nice. So if the RPS system isn't soley skill dependent i wonder what else they'll include to balance things out?

[jesush]

hellrose,
thanks so much for the translation!!! i'm sure it took some effort.

[doom]

wow thanks awesome!

are there some infos about the sa for that weapons or set bonus on that armors or infos how to get the clanhalls?
or how to get the Circlet of Ice Fairy Shir, kill the raid mob in that dungeon maybe?
or do we have to wait for the patchnotes?

[Chrysandra]

More love than you could possibly imagine! <3

[Serinda Arnimane]

Nice. So if the RPS system isn't soley skill dependent i wonder what else they'll include to balance things out?

I think they call them nerfs. ;)

[kholdstare]

Ooooooooh, the Mystery Sword :def_luv: :def_luv: :def_luv:

so beautiful, so elegant. it looks as if it were made to be wealed by a DE female.....

those duals, when they are made, will be the sexiest weapon in the game.

and the new mage sword looks friggen awesome as well. big ups to the design team. it looks like their actually trying to make some origional stuff at last

[Lem3nt]

lol "they call them nerfs"

[The_One]

c5 looks trippy as fuck

[Anbu]

I think they call them nerfs. ;)

:p

I havn't had a lot of sleep lately lol . . .

[Raynefear]

Support for Soloers
Solo hunting areas will drop Instant Items. These work much like power-ups in arcade games: they will immediately recharge the player's HP and MP as soon as they are acquired, reducing downtime.
9 new hunting areas have also been added for players at levels 20 to 60.

Unlimited MP for mages. Practically no help at all to melee. Another poor solution to the endless problem of melee vs range. This does not increase the speed of the melee XP'ing at all, and therefore does not help. Just triple melee damage vs mobs already... how long is it going to take them to figure out why melee is so pathetic?

[Hellrose]

Unlimited MP for mages. Practically no help at all to melee. Another poor solution to the endless problem of melee vs range. This does not increase the speed of the melee XP'ing at all, and therefore does not help. Just triple melee damage vs mobs already... how long is it going to take them to figure out why melee is so pathetic?
Playforum only mentions MP and HP but other sites have said that the instant items will have buffing effects as well.
Too early to tell : /

[FlyZ]

The clients now support dual-core CPUs. Those that take advantage of this feature will see a 30% increase in speed.

Adding SMP support is very nice imo.

[Yoshmeister]

WHOOOOO... ...

I LOVE BEAST FARM CLAN HALL o.O

That and rune castle.. and Hellrose.. and.. and..

/head-asplode

[Xanchra]

Bah no more ninja looting raiding farmer clans


GRRRR i was making a Killing doing that

[Infamous]

Hellrose, I offer you not only any sexual fantasy you have, but ill cook and clean in the morning to
<3.

[Hetzle]

I love you, Hellrose.

[Glav]

Clan armor, specialized for PVP. Ooh, I want to know more about that.

edit: Also, YAY FOR DUAL CORE SUPPORT!!!

[Ciph]

sweeet

[Obsidian]

I especially like that ice circlet. I'm wondering if it's Raid-based like the other new circlets (except the Schuttgart castle circlet) seem to be. Maybe from that Snow Queen lady or whatever creature it's named after.

[Whispred]

dubble post -.-

[Whispred]

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Why is this DarkElf in heavy using a dagger? (Dragon`s Tooth)

[MooMooCow]

It actually looks like a Heaven's Divider.