Why do all the high-rate servers have 2 hours songs/dances & cov?

seems I'm never going to find a server with retail buff durations.

If you know of one, please post it ... I searched for weeks and all I see is crap pvp servers with 2h buffs that make you farm more than retail to get decent equipment.

tyvm.

U could try Abyss x300
Buffs arent retail-like, but somewhat balanced cos there is NO NPC BUFFER. Buffs 1h, S/D 20min, profecies Im not sure but I think they are 20min as well, also seraphim/queen buffs

at abyss x300

buffs 1h
cov,pof,pow 1h
dance/song 20min (the 3rd class song/dances is 2min)
summon buff 2 min

What you look for is hard to find. I wanted to have dances/songs 2min on Sieghardt @ Astral World, but see, maybe you are the only person that likes that. No one will hold a server just for one person. So I set all buffs/songs/dances to 1 hour. At least I have only CH buffs on the NPC Buffer and not Songs/Dances too.

let me guess , another retail-like srv like raidarise ?

Sieghardt is x50 and its personal project. I just take advantage of the Hardware which is strong and for now can hold 2 gameservers on it. Later may split to another server.
Bartz is x10 and its retail-like, but its not mine, I just work as Admin/Dev there.

I know only 1 high rates server with retail like d/s buff time: http://bfdr.eu/
1h d/s are disbalanced shit, so wtf they have ruin server and make archers, mages, daggers owerpowered. Chars like bd/sws, glad, tyrant, tanks and else are piece of shit then. Admins care only about lazy 1 click char fanboys, who could easily get pwned by bd/sws without d/s hahahaha
Also you can try 1k rates server with gm shop and only prp/se/ee buffer, retail like d/s: http://www.avalonas.com/. Too bad it will be wiped soon.

too bad? every damn player that plays there are waitring for it, btw after wipe it will be 5x...

if ur looking for a real high rate experience, try l2ownage, it has increased buff time duration, but what ur looking for is rly imposibile on a pvp server
-www.l2ownage.com was one of the best pvp servers, with a huge community, one of the most stable servers and most important BALANCED, i saw bishops kicking ass there
-retail-like enchant rates/auguments
-no lag, no donation (at all)

one of the few pvp servers where ppl from retail came there with their clans, it was closed a few months ago for the same reason extreme was closed, and now its back, 1 month old database


i have a rly big experience in high rate servers, and this is the only pvp server i would recomend, others are just epic fail like l2inc