Lineage II

Battles are an inevitable part of Lineage II gameplay. How well your character does in battles is the main objective of your in-game progress. In some battles your character fights different monsters. Monsters can be found outside of Towns on the hunting fields or deep inside the underground dungeons. When you move your mouse over a monster, the mouse cursor changes from an Index Finger to a Sword. To attack the monster, you have to choose it with your mouse and press the left mouse button on the monster. That way the monster is now your target and you can attack it.

When you choose a monster with your mouse there is a target window opening, which shows the name of the monster in a certain colour depending on the monster's strength and Hit Points. Some of the monsters are not aggressive and they will not attack you unless you attack them, and other monsters are aggressive and will attack you as soon as you approach them.

The colour of the monster's name in your target window tells you how strong the monster is and how tough the battle between your character and this monster will be. The colours and their levels of difficulty are:

- Blue (Very Weak)

- Light Blue

- Green

- White (-+2 levels between the Monster and Characters)

- Yellow

- Pink

- Red (Very Strong)

When your character is attacked, its hit points lower. The Defense (DEF) of your Character influences the way your Character acts when attacked. The more DEF you have the less damage you will receive.

To replenish your hit points you can consume health potions and if you play with a wizard you can use a healing spell. HP can also be restored on its own, mostly when you sit your character down.

To win in battle you will have to use your Skills. Using skills spends your Mana (MP) so you always have to check if you have enough Mana before attacking.

When your character defeats a monster, the character gets XP and SP which help you level up and learn your skills.

Along with monster battles you can also fight other players. That's called a PvP (Player Versus Player). Lineage II is strongly oriented towards this kind of battles and is encouraging them in many ways but does not enforce anyone to attend them if they don't want to. The PvP system protects you from ill minded players who kill you continuously without you even hitting them. To attack another player you have to press and hold Left CTRL and your mouse Right Click on them in the game.

If your Character dies in battle, you will be given the option to resurrect in the nearest town or village.

Your other alternative is to wait for another Player to resurrect you with a Resurrection Scroll or a Spell. Resurrecting in the nearest town will cost you a small piece of the XP gained, which grows exponentially to your level. Resurrection spells and elite scrolls generally restore some of the Experience you lost.

To achieve good results in battles and farm Experience easier you have to use your Character's Skills. In the beginning when you start playing, your character has a very small amount of skills, but the amount and power of the Skills increase exponentially with your Character's level.

You can check what skills you have with the Skill Window by pressing ALT+K. Skills can be Active or Passive.

The Passive skills affect your Character the whole time while your active Skills can be activated on your command. In the "Learn Skills" window you can check the list of all skills which you can learn now and in the future on bigger levels. When you get to a level on which you can use a new Skill a Scroll icon will appear on your screen. Clicking the Icon will take you to the "Learn Skills" window from where you can learn new skills. Every new Skill learned or upgraded is paid with SP (Skill Points) . Some Skills along with SP require Special books.

There are different kinds of skills. The type of your character depends on its class and level. Some skills are:

- Toggle skills - Self skills which can be toggled on and off, often consuming MP but sometimes they consume HP as well

- Weaken skills - they can be used on your target. The effect of this type of skills can lower the Defense, drain the HP of your target and mushc more.

- Item Skills - These are skills received from your equipment. For an instance if you have a hat with a Teleport spell, you will only get the Teleport spell when you equip the Hat.

In later stages of the game on higher levels you can enhance your skill with the "Enchant" mechanic.

Characters act as a player's avatar within the game. Players are afforded up to 7 characters per account. There are currently seven races in the world of Lineage II: the Humans, who are similar to modern-day humans and who have all-around balanced characteristics; the Elves, who have superior dexterity, movement, and casting speed, but weaker offense; Dark Elves, who have higher magic and melee attack capabilities; Orcs, who have higher HP and MP but slower movement; Dwarves, who are powerful melee attackers and master craftsmen; Kamael, who are humanoids with single wings and gender-specific job classes; and Ertheia, female warriors with two completely unique classes, and different quest lines.[4]