Hello folks,

Ever since the beginning of Dust, people have been asking me to return with Vendetta, they kept telling me how they loved the good times they had back in the day and how they loved the server features.

Now, 6 months later, after appeals from a huge number of players and after a long discussion in our staff, we've decided to give Vendetta another chance. What does that mean? Well, it means we'll shutdown L2Dust and replace it with the good, old, epic, L2Vendetta.

The reason why we're doing this is not only because of the great majority of players that wanted Vendetta to return (hell, some people even tried (and failed) to make copies of Vendetta), but also because Dust is slowly dying. Unfortunately this is our reality, anyone with a few bucks can make a server, so what they do is open some crappy random server, copy features from other servers (*cough* L2Dismay copying our Legendary Armors *cough*) because they fail so hard, get some donations and close 2-3 months later... wait some months, open another server and do it all over again, so it's expectable that people will get pissed off about this situation and just stop playing L2 completely or just get used to it and to the habit of hopping through servers every month. And what's the result of that? Well, the result of that is barely anyone online, boring sieges, boring olympiad, no fun.

We don't want to be just another server, we want to bring up one of the most succesful servers in the history of Private L2OFF servers, one that has lived for over 2 years and a half with a massive legion of followers: Lineage 2 Vendetta. And so we shall. Many have been waiting for this for a long time. The time has come.

That being said, beginning today or tomorrow, we will seize all activities in L2Dust and start working on Lineage 2 Vendetta. The website is already up and running (for now it's just forums). The link is: http://www.l2-vendetta.com or http://forum.l2-vendetta.com. Feel free to access it and tell us your opinions/suggestions. In the end of this post I'm gonna post the features, so if you feel like you want to change anything, just post it in the forums. Vendetta will be made, as always, for the players, by the players.

DONATORS: Don't think I've forgotten about you, who have always helped us with this project. You will have all your rewards back in Vendetta, so if you've donated in Dust for the past 3 months and you'd like to have your rewards returned in Vendetta, don't worry, you WILL have all your items returned. All you have to do is show me the PayPal transaction ID(s) and/or Western Union or emails/conversations, and I'll retrieve your items.

Note: Donations will only start being given out after the first 2 weeks, which is when we'll open donations. Also, the donation list is going to be very limited, given the fact enchants will be way harder to acquire and weapons will be way harder to enchant, since we focus a balanced server, not crazy unreal criticals and that kind of stuff, that ruins the whole fun. Also, only AIOs will be given out at first, then we'll slowly open donations for other things, but if you've donated in the past, you'll have what I'd like to call "credit", which you'll be able to spend in max. 2 months (60 days) after the server opening.

FEATURES: (we might have missed some)


* L2OFF Lineage II Chaotic throne: Interlude (C6)
* No custom items. (in the first weeks at least, then we'll slowly add new things according to what the players's desire)
* Rates are x35 with boosted rates in the custom zones. One custom zone only at the beginning, then we'll add another one.
* Full Clan System with the possibility to change clan leadership and ability to assign unit captains.
* Enchant rate is 45% for fighters, 33% for mages.(We are aiming for a skill based pvp not gear based one) This way we won't have high enchanted weapons.
* You will lose enchants while adding SA to a weapon.
* All buffs last 3 hours except Chant of Victory and Victories of Paagrio which last 20min. (Summon buffs last 2min)
* All server files are made based on retail servers (or too close to it except for the custom NPCs). You won't see anything edited (skills landing rate, skill effects and such) and everything will be customized AFTER we get your feedbacks. YOU will play the server the way YOU want it, we won't make any changes unless we get YOUR agreement.
* Fully working fusion skills.
* Auto learn skills.
* No party level gap.
* Custom shops in the shopping area.
* Increased Barakiel level.
* Spawn time of Barakiel has been set to 4 hours.
* The server is hosted in Germany to get a minimum ping for east Europians and American players.
* Global Gatekeepers and NPC buffers which got all basic buffs except 3rd class ones.
* A Class Changer is available to change your class without doing quests.
* Clan Halls weekly fees increased to 300,000,000 Adena to prevent inactive clans from keeping a Clan Hall.
* Baium, Queen Ant, Antharas, Valakas, Zaken, Orfen, Core will not be available in the first 10 days.


STAFF:

PyroMaker (Project Leader, Admin, Developer, Webcoder)
PainShooter (Admin and Head Developer)
Nettle (Head GM, Developer)
Freki (Head GM)
BanHammer (Forum Moderator)


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Now, as always, I'm sure some people might not enjoy this decision, but I'm also sure on the other side, that this is going to be a MAJOR change in the Lineage 2 Private Server scene, and I also know for a fact, MANY people have been waiting for this, so as they say: Sometimes a minor evil is necessary for a greater good.

Give us your feedback.

Thank you for your attention.

Regards,
Bruno Pina.

Unfortunately this is our reality, anyone with a few bucks can make a server, so what they do is open some crappy random server, copy features from other servers (*cough* L2Dismay copying our Legendary Armors *cough*) because they fail so hard, get some donations and close 2-3 months later... wait some months, open another server and do it all over again, so it's expectable that people will get pissed off about this situation and just stop playing L2 completely or just get used to it and to the habit of hopping through servers every month.

just lol, isn't that what he is doing? its going to be full of corruption once again -_-

Go ahead and find me any high rate server that hasn't wiped once in a period of 2 years. Sure, there was a wipe in old Vendetta, but don't remember it was a HIGH RATE server that lasted almost 3 years, that's *completely* different than a server that opens today and shuts down 2 months later. Not to mention me and the people who worked with me have done a huge deal of contribution to the Lineage 2 developing community, both L2OFF and L2J. We've done and shared tons of our work, instead of people who just sit and wait to steal other people's ideas and say its their own like those people from Dismay did, so believe me, I am in the position to criticise those people, and you are definetely not in the position to judge me, I don't even know who the -beep- you are.

Before you sit and try to flame me over stupid arguments, get your facts straight. Now, if you have nothing positive to add and don't like me or the work I do, keep it to yourself.