[L2J] L2Sparkle

[An4rchy]

 

 

Hello everyone. I'd like to present you Lineage II Sparkle.

L2Sparkle is a private Interlude server, based on aCis latest free revision (330). However, you will find that tons of stuff have been reworked/changed in order to fit with a PvP server(more information can be found below). This server is developed by me (An4rchy) and Panda for over 7 months and we can promise you a stable, unique and balanced gameplay. Each future has been re-coded, we do not use shared modifications, which means we are more aware of what's inside each mod and we can fix instantly any bugs that might occur.

 

OPEN BETA will take place at 16/6/2015. The time will be announced soon.

Check the advertising event we have posted in our forums.

Stay tuned!

 

Rates 

 

- General

Xp: 3000

Sp: 3000

Adena: 3000

 

However, players will not really bother with XP or SP, as new characters begin LvL 80, such as new subclasses. Adena is easy/medium farmable and it will be used as the currency to buy basic gear/enchants.

 

- Enchant

Safe: +5

Max (Normal Scrolls): +20

Max (Crystal Scrolls): +25

Chance (Normal Scrolls): 83%

Chance (Crystal Scrolls): 100%

 

You can only use Crystal Scrolls on items that are +20 or above. Information on how to obtain Crystal Scrolls can be found below.

Note: On enchant failure with Normal Scrolls, item is returned back to +5.

 

- Augmentation

Augmentation system is modified from retail in L2Sparkle. Chance skills, as well as attacks and useless actives/passives have been completely removed. So, in order to maintain balance between the progress of taking a skill and the few useful skills that exist, we decided to keep the chances low.

 

Mid-Lifestone: 6%

High-Lifestone: 9%

Top-Lifestone: 13%

 

However, we have developed a Fast Augmentation engine, that will allow you to augment your items really fast (around 100 Lifestones per 3-4 minutes). Information about this can be found below.

 

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 Currency & Farming 

 

As the server is heavily based on PvP and teamplay, we decided to simplify farming and currency system as much as possible.

 

Here is a brief explanation of L2Sparkle coins and their use:

 

- Sparkle Coin

This is the main farming coin dropped by monsters in our farming zones. It can be used to buy several items, such as Clan Reputation, Lifestones, Book of Giants, Olympiad weapons and more.

 

- Event Coin

The main prize from the Events of L2Sparkle. There is a custom system to get of Event Coins, which is explained below. Event Coins can be used to buy more rare/expensive things, such as Clan Skills, higher-grade Lifestones and more.

 

- Vote Coin

Vote coin can be obtained from our vote reward systems (check below for information). It is considered as an expensive coin, which can be used to buy several items, including Crystal Scrolls, Top-Lifestones etc.

 

- Adena

Adena has a great use in L2Sparkle, mainly for enchants. Since there aren't 100% scrolls up to +20, you have to farm Adena in order to enchant your items.

 

L2Sparkle has 3 farming zones: Crypts of Disgrace, Monastery of Silence, Hunter's Village (peace zone).

 

Note: Mid-Lifestones are dropped from monsters in farming zones with a low chance.

 

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 Lucky Monsters 

Every farming monster in L2Sparkle has a small chance of 3-8% to become a Lucky Monster. Lucky Monsters can be recognized by the blue circle around them and they drop a Lucky Box when they die. If you double-click on the Lucky Box, there is a 40% chance that it will give you valuable items.

 

This is how Lucky Monsters look like:

 

 

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Individual & Global Vote Reward

 

In L2Sparkle, don't expect Vote Coins to have the greater prize of all items in the game. That's because we have 2 possible ways of getting Vote Coins, both Global and Individual vote reward systems.

 

- Individual

Use our Vote Manager in-game in order to vote for L2Sparkle in L2Topzone and L2Network top sites. When you choose a site, you have 30 seconds to vote. If you vote successfully, you are rewarded with 5 Vote Coins per site, else you can try again.

 

- Global

Every 5 minutes, the server auto-checks L2Network, L2Topzone and L2Hopzone for the current vote count. Every 5 votes, all online players are rewarded with 5 Vote Coins per site.

 

Note: Only 1 client per computer will be rewarded from Global vote reward system.

 

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 Smart Start 

This is a feature we created in order to help you set up easily your new character. You will be able to choose your classes, buy your armor, jewels and weapon, but also add your dyes too.

 

Check the video(it also shows Dwarf Mages, a feature which is explained below):

 

 

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 Clans, Castles & Sieges 

Clans and Sieges are main features for a PvP server. That's the reason why we have edited both systems to fit with a PvP server.

 

- Clans

In L2Sparkle, when you create a Clan it is automatically set to LvL 5. Then, you can farm/buy/win Clan Reputations. Clan Reputation is an item that when you double-click it, your clan obtains 1000 clan reputation. In order to LvL up your clan to 8, you only need clan reputation and NOT member count.

 

- Sieges

Castle Siege is an amazing Lineage II feature which fits perfectly with the gameplay of a PvP server. However the were some disadvantages with the retail system that were eliminated in L2Sparkle. The main thing that changed is the number of siegeable castles. There were too many castles which could cause inactivity at the sieges or very low competition in order to get a castle for your clan. That's why we have only left 6 siegeable castles(information below). In addition to that, we changes the date of each siege. Now, there are daily sieges, from Monday to Saturday.

 

More briefly:

Gludio Castle - Monday 18:00 (GMT +2)

Dion Castle - Tuesday 18:00 (GMT +2)

Giran Castle - Wednesday 18:00 (GMT +2)

Oren Castle - Thursday 18:00 (GMT +2)

Rune Castle - Friday 18:00 (GMT +2)

Aden Castle - Saturday 18:00 (GMT +2)

 

- Castles

A custom system is installed, which auto-spawns npcs when the castle is not under siege and deletes them when the siege begins. When it is finished, they are spawned back.

 

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 Fast Augmenter 

Putting 100 Lifestones 1 by 1 with this annoying drag and drop is boring, so that's why we have created a custom Fast Augmenter where you will be able to put 100 Lifestones in less than 3-4 minutes. Check the video:

 

 

However, the original augmentation system exists too for those that prefer it.

 

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 Auction Shop 

In order to avoid bots standing all day in towns, selling at private stores we have created an Auction Shop. What is this? It is a custom npc where you can put any item from your inventory for sale, choosing by yourself the currency and the amount.

 

This shop works with both online/offline transactions, which means players can buy the items you have put for sale even if you are offline(the currency you requested for them will be added to your inventory).

 

Pictures:

 

 

 Achievements 

There is an Achievements Manager where you can view your progress on Achievements. There 18 Achievements installed, which consist of item enchanting, skills enchanting, farming, PvPs and more. When you complete an Achievement, you get a screen notification:

 

 

When you complete all Achievements, you can get the Elder Mask. It's an accessory that increases HP by 1000 and CP by 500.

 

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 Drugs 

This is a pretty funny feature. In Giran, you will find a npc named Strange Man. If you speak to him, he will give you some valuable information... Every night at 11:30 (GMT +2) he becomes a Drug Dealer, selling... guess what:

 

 

There drugs cannot be used in Olympiad.

 

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Events & Event Points

We have installed 4 events, 3 of which require registration and 1 is global. The events run every hour.

 

- TvT Event

The classic TvT Event. There are 2 teams and each team's goal is to get the most kills. There is a nice notification under the minimap telling your and enemy's team kills.

 

- Dominion Event

There are 2 teams and 1 flag in the middle. The more players of each team are around the flag, the more points each team gets per second. The team with the most points wins. Again, there is a notification saying when you are near the flag and teams' scores.

 

- Town Siege Event

There is a Magic Crystal in the middle of Talking Island Village. Mobs spawn every 5 seconds (the amount of mobs is increasing with the amount of participants) and try to take the crystal down. If the players manage to defend it, they win. If not, they lose.

 

- Event Points

From the above events, the prize, except items, is Event Points. Every day at 24:00, each player's points become Event Coins. You can view your Event Points in our Event Manager:

 

 

- Player of the Hour Event

Every hour, the player that took the most PvP kills within the hour is rewarded. This event runs 24/7.

 

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Rebirth

We have created a Rebirth system, where players are able to follow 2 routes: Rebirth Haste & Rebirth Acumen. Each player can perform a maximum of 3 rebirths. To perform a rebirth you need to be with your main class and have a Rebirth Book (you can find it from bosses or buy it with various items). Rebirth Haste increases Atk Spd and Rebirth Acumen increases Cast Spd. These 2 skills are only available with your main class.

 

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Olympiad

There are Heroes every Sunday at 24:00. The Olympiad Manager has been modified in order to show current points of each player (the match count is not shown). After each match, the ranking is updated and your skills are refreshed.

 

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Dynamic PvP Zone

We have created a new PvP zone system. There are 4 available PvP zones: Primeval Island, Hot Springs, Ketra Orc Outpost, The Forbidden Gateway. Every hour, the players get to vote which PvP zone they would like to have in the next hour. The most voted zone of the 4 becomes the next PvP zone for 1 hour. When the PvP zone changes, players inside the current one are teleported to the new one. When you enter the PvP zone you get auto-flag. Pressing To Village inside the PvP zone will teleport you in a random spot inside the zone. Teleportation while being flagged is only enabled when the player is inside the PvP zone, so you can leave normally.

 

You cannot teleport to the PvP zone while voting is open. However don't worry, voting only takes 2-3 minutes.

 

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Classes & Balance

The most common issue of Interlude PvP servers is the balance. That's why we have worked for over 3 months on the balance of the server, changing numerous things(remember that we also use aCis is a pack base, which means that formulas are kinda messed-up with postIL chronicles):

 

- Dagger Formulas

Now dagger blow skills are calculated in a different way to fit with the other classes and avoid constant 3k criticals every half second.

 

- Mage Criticals & Damage

Magic critical hits is a nice feature, but it was not designed for fully-buffed PvPs. That's what we found out when we tested mages. So, we decided to reduce magic critical damage from x4 to x2.5. This way, if for example your normal magic hit were to be 1000, the magic critical would be 2500. In addition to these changes, we have modified a bit the magic damage formula, in order to avoid static damage. For example, you may hit the same player once for 900, then for 865, then for 989. Just like fighters.

 

- Debuffs

In L2Sparkle you will find that most of the debuffs work properly(except those that don't fit a PvP server). And by properly we mean that there is a correct chance rate, but no 2 minutes debuffs. Maximum debuff time is around 15 seconds. We believe that this fits more a PvP server. Also, when you cast a debuff you are sent a message that tells you the chance that it had to succeed.

 

- Cancellation

Cancellation has been modified in order to return the buffs lost back after 5 seconds.

 

Besides the changes mentioned above, we would like to say that we have installed an in-game skill balancer, where we can make real-time changes to skill power, reuse time or chance:

 

 

On the closed beta tests, we will try to find and eliminate any remaining balance issues, so everything will be ready for the Grand Opening.

 

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Dwarfs

This could be added in the previous subject too, but since nothing is sure yet we put it separately. In L2Sparkle, we have changed the Dwarf race completely. Now, there is only 1 class route you can follow, which leads to an Earth Bender. Dwarfs have been changed to mages, using the earth element(like Mystic Muse uses water, for example). 4 new skills have been created and combined with existing ones, we have managed to balance this class to fit in the PvP aspect of the server.

 

Check the video(it also shows the Smart Start feature):

 

 

However, this is a subject to change. A poll exists in Poll Section of the forum, where players will decide whether to keep this feature or not: http://l2sparkle.eu/forum/index.php?topic=5.0

 

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Room of Pain

This is a feature we have designed for party farming. There is a Room of Pain Teleporter located in Giran. A party leader can speak to him and register his party in the Room of Pain. When players are teleported there, there are 3 rounds. In each round, stronger enemies appear which you have to defeat. These enemies consist of 'fake players'. What this means is that they will look like players and act like players too. For example, the healer will heal the most injured, whereas the tank will try to use Aggression on the attackers.

 

Each player can join the Room of Pain every 6 hours.

 

Video:

 

 

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Epic & Custom Bosses

We currently have 8 bosses in L2Sparkle. 5 of them are the classic Epic Bosses: Antharas, Valakas, Baium, Queen Ant, Zaken. However, their stats/drops have been modified to fit with the server. Also, these bosses drop +20 boss jewels. Their respawn time is 4 hours.

 

There are 3 custom bosses: Ishka, Mardil, Skylancer. They are easier to kill compared to the epic bosses, but they have lower drops and smaller respawn time(around 1:30 hour).

 

Our gatekeeper contains detailed information about the drops and also it shows how much time is left for respawn:

 

 

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Other

- Dark Crystal has been changed to S Grade and Arcana Major is removed from the Shop.

- Several items are not consumed when used, like Soulshots, Mana-Potions, Greater Healing Potions, Spiritshots.

- When a player dies, his buffs are not removed.

- There is a heavy armor restriction for dagger classes.

- The server is hosted on OVH, a company witch provides a very stable and good DDoS protection.

- We are planning to buy Szaka's or Smart Crypt anti bot protection to block third party softwares, such as L2Tower, Adrenaline, L2Net etc.

 

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Beta & Opening Information

We have not yet set an opening date. However, what we can say is this: There will be a closed beta for at least 5 days. By 'closed' beta, we mean that we will take beta applications of 10 players. Only these 10 players and us will have access to the server during the beta period in order to locate and fix any issues of the server/gameplay.

 

We are planning on opening around the 10th of June, which means that beta will probably take place around the 5th of June. However, do NOT take this information as final, as everything is subject to change.

 

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Check our website: www.l2sparkle.eu

Please register in our forums: www.l2sparkle.eu/forum

Remember to vote on the currently running polls.

 

Thanks in advance, An4rchy - Panda.

Edited June 10, 2015 by An4rchy

[Sawadee]

Finally Something New on this 2015 good luck man i gona give a try on this server since i liked the features

Edited April 30, 2015 by Sawadee

[Kelrzher]

What about dwarves that have skills like Siege golem etc, they will have them or they are removed too

 

Count me in btw

[An4rchy]

What about dwarves that have skills like Siege golem etc, they will have them or they are removed too

 

Count me in btw

I don't see why we should keep these skills since they are not really used on PvP servers. However, i think we'll make a poll after the current one ends about these.

 

Thanks guys.

[Sawadee]

Count me too :)

[iPwner]

finally i found a good interlude server good luck dude, count me too !

Edited April 29, 2015 by iPwner

[An4rchy]

Thanks for your support guys :)

[Kelrzher]

I don't see why we should keep these skills since they are not really used on PvP servers. However, i think we'll make a poll after the current one ends about these.

 

Thanks guys.

well its usefull on siege sometimes :P

[DONALD TRUMP 2016]

those dwarf mages B-A-S-I-C

the misfit in your server

since you copied some of  those icons from 2012-2013 l2 perseus you might as well take the skills too

[xXxInvaderxXx]

Simply amazing! I love the features! I will join for sure! DWARF POWAH!!!!

[An4rchy]

those dwarf mages B-A-S-I-C

the misfit in your server

since you copied some of  those icons from 2012-2013 l2 perseus you might as well take the skills too

To be honest, I copied 2 icons from a video I found on youtube.

But I think I will wait for the poll to end before I decide something.

 

Thanks.

[FakeSmile]

Finally something unique.

[Benihime]

As I can see in da pt farm area video, ur dagger skills rarely land in de front. And if they do land,dmg is kinda small. Have u done smth about it?

[Katherine]

I remember these xD

 

Drugs

This is a pretty funny feature. In Giran, you will find a npc named Strange Man. If you speak to him, he will give you some valuable information... Every night at 11:30 (GMT +2) he becomes a Drug Dealer, selling... guess what:

 

[Kelrzher]

 

I remember these xD

 

Drugs

This is a pretty funny feature. In Giran, you will find a npc named Strange Man. If you speak to him, he will give you some valuable information... Every night at 11:30 (GMT +2) he becomes a Drug Dealer, selling... guess what:

 

 

Basicly weed must make your INT -1 Speed -10 and increase patk +20% since its weed :D

If you mix them you take mixed stats but you got 50% to die, it will be more fun 

Edited April 30, 2015 by Kelrzher