Kamolka

One of the recent additions to Lineage 2 is an instanced dungeon called Kamolka. There are different versions of the dungeon for different levels. You are limited to one run through the instance per day. I have found that the dungeon is a nice way to meet new people in Lineage 2, you can almost always find someone your level looking to do the instance.

The other day, I did the level 54 Kamolka with my clan SilverMoon. Here’s a few screenshots from the event!

Our tank, Bestregards, takes on the enemy.

Take him out!

Death comes to the enemy! And the rewards to the victorious.

Bot Killing, A Lineage 2 Past Time

One of my favorite activities in Lineage 2 is bot killing. This sport involves the finding and slaying of bots. They are pretty easy to find, just head to the nearest Catacomb or Necropolis and they will be there, grinding away and doing what automatons do.

Once found there are a number of ways to kill the bots. You could try to “train” them. This involves attacking a roomful of monsters, then running to the room with the bots in it. The monsters pursue you but then see their friends being killed by the bots, who they then attack. If the botter team is not too strong, then the monsters will kill them. This is a good tactic because it keeps your hands clean of any actual killing.

Another way to kill a team of botters is to just PK the healers. If the team isn’t smart, and they don’t resurrect their healers (and they often don’t), then the rest will die without their support! This is often the quickest way to kill a bot team, though it does come with Karma. Karma is an entirely different aspect of Lineage 2’s gameplay that I won’t get into here.

Alright, so with that said the following is a few screenshots of my Bot Killing exploits in the underworld of Lineage 2.







See, sometimes people see what you are doing and they either don’t kill you when you turn red from killing bots, or they jump in and help out! And in these screens you see the real fun of bot killing, when they fight back! When bots fight back it means you have a pissed off farmer (likely from China, or wherever else they have gold farming businesses) on the other end of the computer. And for me, that makes it all the more fun when I kill them.

PS: Speaking of killing bots, and therefore pissing off farmers in China, that brings up an interesting moral debate that has been kicking around in my head for the past week. Is it worse to kill a farmer, someone just trying to do their job and make ends meet, or to kill a real player (who is botting themselves)? OK I probably lost you there, let me set this up a bit: In Lineage 2, there are two different types of botters. There are the farmer-botters, people from very poor parts of the world just trying to feed themselves by farming gold and selling it to westerners. They are just doing their job day-in-day-out. Killing them is a frustration to them and may even be taking food out of their mouths. But the other type of botter is the player-botters. These are people who feel they must bot to succeed in Lineage 2. These people bot so that they can get to the high levels, and they bot for money. To kill these people is to take away their money their time, their fun essentially.

The killing of either botter, pisses off the person behind the screen. But which is the worse, or the better, to kill? I don’t know, but it’s something to think about.

Another Ding!

Ding! Level 51! This is a big level. B grade equipment is only two steps away from the best stuff in the game, S grade. Ahh, I love to bask in the sweet glow of that new level. OK check out some of the new equipment I can wear:



This is an almost full (I’m missing the gloves as you can see) set of Doom Light armor. It has good bonuses to your physical attack attribute as well as a bonus to your attack speed! I think it looks pretty good too. I get a little tired of the “panty”-ness of the armor, but it’s OK. Still, I would prefer some shorts.



Oh, and this is my new weapon, a Kris. This is a top B grade dagger, meaning it’s the best there is! Some people even use a heavily enchanted Kris ‘till S grade, so that gives you an idea just how close I am (or at least, feel) to end-game Lineage 2. Oh yeah, I know, I’m sure level 75 and higher is still a long ways off for me. But, this weapon is one step closer to that eventual goal.

Shartak update! Completed circut of Shartak

So as you can see I have successfully swum around the entire island of Shartak. Just, not in one trip.

CowNoseTheElf Turns Level 40!

You haven’t seen many pictures of CowNoseTheElf lately because I have been focusing my efforts on CowNoseTheKitty, my human character. However, I decided to level my elf up to level 40 so that my clan, SilverMoon, could get Clan Reputation points from my leveling. See, in Lineage 2 clans have an incentive to recruit new players in the game, and that’s in the form of Clan Reputation points. You get the points when a new recruit hits level 40.

And here I am, ding! Level 40! *Does the happy level dance!*

Some Fun in Catacombs

It all started out as a normal dungeon crawl. Well more like normal dungeon camp, because that is what you do in the Catacombs sprinkled throughout the Lineage 2 landscape. Find a room, and camp it!


Looking down into the bloody water... I know the entrance to the catacomb is down at the bottom somewhere, but dare I dive in? Of course!


Once inside, I start killing things like usual!


Except... this team of bots decided to attack me! Well, actually, I attacked them. But they decided to fight back. It's always fun fighting these guys, especially when I win and kill them all.


Only later, a high level Tyrant came for me! He wanted revenge for my killing of his bot team. Thankfully a high level player helped me out and killed the guy for me.


So, I resurrect our fallen comrade Captain Beefheart and continue the adventure.

Just Playing Around With Settings

I was just playing around with settings and having fun taking screenshots like I always do, and I got this cool picture. Nothing much more to this post then the screen! But.. I think it's good enough to post. :D

The Tower of Insolence

The Tower of Infinity is one of my favourite areas in Lineage 2. Not to hunt in, but I love the architecture and the design of the place. Everything about ToI reminds me of the architecture described by H.P. Lovecraft in his stories, and indeed I strongly suspect the place was heavily influenced by his work!


The walls just feel... wrong.


The whole place feels, like it doesn't belong here!


And the tower rises far into the heavens...

Swimming around the Isle of Shartak

I'm making progress in my goal of swimming around the entire island of Shartak. I so far have made it past the farthest point I got my last attempt, and I have managed to avoid cannibalistic natives, angry outsiders, and ferocious sharks. Not much further to go and I'll have made it around the entire Island!

Rockin' Out The Forest of Mirrors

The adventure I'm going to take you on has some amazing screenshots. Really, they are some of the best I've taken. That's really credit to the designers of Lineage 2 who have created a truly beautiful game.


This right here is probably one of the best I've ever taken. Really, amazing. I had no idea Lineage could make a forest like this. I have taken a lot of great screens over the years, but this one is really special!


Continuing our adventure deeper into the forest...


This shot is more to point out the light coming from the ceiling of the forest. Another great effect that I had never noticed before, and you can only see it at night.


The Captain and I came across this interesting statue... a lizardmen relic? Or something left over from an age past?


All lizardmen must die!