History VideoGame / Lineage2

** Augmented items cannot be dropped, ever. This can include weapons, non-epic jewelry and breastplate. If you REALLY need to PK a bunch of people(typically defending valuable spot, like epic boss dungeon entrance or Seed), it is possible to do with relative impunity, assuming you are using the armor you are willing to lose. This, however, gives your opponent a huge handicap[[note]]Epic jewelry is really good, losing armor set better than A grade will really hurt you and its not a very good armor and you cannot use non-damaging debuffs and AoE spells on white opponents.[[/note]] and you will lose a lot of XP clearing your name (clearing PK meter is often considered far too bothersome at this point).

%%* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Male Human warriors and [[EvilIsSexy male Dark Elves]].

* BladeOnAStick: The domain of the Warlord is whacking clumps of mobs with a spear.
%%* {{Bishonen}}: Elves, dark elves, and human mystics are these.%%How?

%%* {{Gainaxing}}: Part and parcel of playing a female Dark Elf.

* KillItWithFire, KillItWithWater and BlowYouAway: As part of a theme, [[SquishyWizard Nukers]] and Buffers get fire, water and air themed abilities; that is, the human classes Sorcerer and Prophet get fire, the elven classes Spellsinger and Elder get water and the dark elven classes Spellhowler and Shilen Elder get air. Naturally, the SquishyWizard's abilities are these. Taken UpToEleven once the offensive casters Awaken into Feoh mages... and gain the ability to attach any of those elements to any of their spells, plus DishingOutDirt.

* PrestigeClass, called second class transfer, then there's [[UpToEleven third class transfer]]

** Overall heal has a quite high aggro effect. Mass heal takes this UpToEleven, ensuing that monster will go for healer. It can be used to your advantage.

** Jewel, a Dark Elf NPC, recalls once dancing with the Elves under the starlight [[spoiler: before the war that resulted in the curse of her tribe, creating the Dark Elves]]: which can be anywhere from hundreds to ''thousands'' of years ago. And then there's the elf, Lilith, on Talking Island, [[IWillWaitForYou waiting for her lover Teon]]. After a thousand years of waiting, she [[spoiler: [[TheMourningAfter learns]] that he died only a few years ago, living in the human town just a short [[spoiler: and fast [[IdiotBall boat ride]] [[PlotInducedStupidity away]], and either thought her dead or lost in the war against Beleth. Players frequently recount wanting to smack Lilith for never trying to search for her beloved.]]

* LighterAndSofter: For every race in the game, your first quest is a plunge into the undead-infested ruins of Ye Sagira before facing off against the evil Nemertess... unless you rolled an Ertheia. The Ertheia newbie quest involves [[TastesLikeDiabetes bopping poplar fluff and honeybees and playing with a cute fox.]]

%%* BlindingBangs: One of the Dwarf females hairstyle options.%%Is?

->''"Gran Kain shouted with great pride to all the world and instilled spirit into the creatures of his own image. However, the result was terrible. His creatures were weak, stupid, sly, and cowardly. All the other gods despised Gran Kain's creatures. Overcome by the shame of his failure, Gran Kain abandoned his creatures and went into hiding for a time. [[HumansAreBastards These creatures are called humans.]]"''

* BadassAdorable: The Ertheia practically run on this trope.

* {{BFS}}: Two-handed swords
* BladeBrake: Seen in one of the minimovies / trailers for the game. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm19W1PKMFQ&fmt=35 here]]

* {{Bishonen}}: Elves, dark elves, and human mystics are these.
* BlindingBangs: One of the Dwarf females hairstyle options.

* EnsignNewbie: You, in the Path to Awakening storyline.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Male Human warriors and [[EvilIsSexy male Dark Elves]].
* EvilLaugh: Male Dark Elves, Male Kamael, [[ThatOneBoss Frintezza]] and [[BigBad Beleth]].

* {{Gainaxing}}: Part and parcel of playing a female Dark Elf.
* GiantFlyer: Valakas, the fire dragon.
* GlassCannon: The Kamael, and the Dark Elves as well. Also healers, though to a lesser degree.

* HPToOne: Lethal blows do this. You'd think they'd be [[OneHitKill One Hit Kills]] instead.

* KillItWithFire, KillItWithWater and BlowYouAway: As part of a theme, [[SquishyWizard Nukers]] and Buffers get fire, water and air themed abilities; that is, the human classes Sorcerer and Prophet get fire, the elven classes Spellsinger and Elder get water and the dark elven classes Spellhowler and Shilen Elder get air. Naturally, the SquishyWizard's abilities are these.
** Taken UpToEleven once the offensive casters Awaken into Feoh mages... and gain the ability to attach any of those elements to any of their spells, plus DishingOutDirt.
* LeftJustifiedFantasyMap

* {{Magitek}} / MagicFromTechnology: The lost technology and skills of the Giant race, its' remnants, and the Dwarvish attempts to rediscover Absolute Geometry.

* TheMedic: Bishops, Elders and Shilen Elders.
* {{Ninja Run}}: Dark Elves running animation.
* NoobCave: Ye Sagira. Subverted: [[spoiler:You go back there to Awaken.]]

* OneGenderRace: Ertheia are always female.
* OneWingedAngel: Subverted at least in name: The Kamael race are one-winged all the time, until they obtain their Final Form and grow the other wing.
** All transformation abilities qualify as well. TooAwesomeToUse: check, appearance change to a monster or into faceless armored giant form: check, serious power boost: check.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Male dwarves, anyway. [[CutenessOverload The females, on the other hand....]]

* {{Shoot The Medic First}}: The mobs have a aggro engine that determines if a player character is the active healing support of an party, and sometimes go for them, ignoring the damage dealers.

** Players usually kill the enemy healing members first in a PVP. Seeing that healers can resurrect anyone else with 20 seconds cooldown, it is indeed a very high priority target.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Various parts of Class Change quests are this.
* SoulJar: a literal item for use by the Kamaels (who use it to power their skills and magic), the subject of a few quests otherwise.
* TheSpartanWay: Implied to be the way orcs are raised.
* StarterVillain: Nemertess and Sakum.

* SummonMagic: Elves summon [[NatureSpirit Unicorns]], Dark Elves summon [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] and human summoners can summon... cats.
** Human Necromancers summon undead.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Chronicle 2 introduced these for Elves (blue and ''pink'', actually), human mages (green) and female Dwarves.

* CityOfCanals: [[UnfortunateNames Heine]], of course. Being a water-themed city, you can expect a lot of elves.

* PunyEarthlings: [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]] were created by Shilen, from water; [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Orcs]] were created by Pa'agrio, from fire; [[SpaceJews Dwarves]] were created by Maphr, from earth... and so on. Humans, on the other side, were created by [[GodIsEvil Gran Kain]], God of [[HumansAreBastards Darkness and Destruction]] from the ''leftovers of other races'': stagnated water, unfertile soil, ashes and violent winds. Really.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Only in their GloryDays. Nowadays, They have no problem marrying humans and having children with them. Actually, Heine is supposed to be populated mostly by [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Elves]].

*** Augmented items cannot be dropped, ever. This can include weapons, non-epic jewelry and breastplate. If you REALLY need to PK a bunch of people(typically defending valuable spot, like epic boss dungeon entrance or Seed), it is possible to do with relative impunity, assuming you are using the armor you are willing to lose. This, however, gives your opponent a huge handicap[[note]]Epic jewelry is really good, losing armor set better than A grade will really hurt you and its not a very good armor and you cannot use non-damaging debuffs and AoE spells on white opponents.[[/note]] and you will lose a lot of XP clearing your name (clearing PK meter is often considered far too bothersome at this point).

The game was released in 2003-2004 as a P2P MMORPG, though it dropped its subscription fee in 2011.

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[[caption-width-right:340:[[FanonDiscontinuity They didn't add a sixth race. Or a seventh.]]]]

** Everyone relies on critical hits to be viable. Physical abilities have fixed x2 damage rate and chance defined only by STR stat, magical critical (including healing spells) have x3 or x3.6 damage rate and chance can easily be buffed to 20% (hard limit), general attack crit rate is limited by 50% and critical damage rate is usually x5-x15 in PvP, but can be as high as x100 in PvE.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[FanonDiscontinuity They didn't add a sixth race. Or a seventh.]]]]

The setting is quite [[StandardFantasySetting ''original'']], yet the game is better than it sounds, having started in 2003-2004 and dropped its subscription fee in 2011.

* PettingZooPeople: As if the seven playable races weren't diverse enough, there are several species of Lizardmen, Ratmen, Mahums (lion and tiger people), Silenos (goat people) and Crokians (alligator people), among others.
** Apparently, the cute cats that the human Warlocks summon are also a race, and their capital city is called [[http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11&p=500&hilit=arcan#p500 Arcan]]

A {{MMORPG}} by Creator/NCSoft and sequel to ''Lineage'' . Not as well known as ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' but enough to get someone to list its tropes. This game is the template that started the infamous [[UsefulNotes/SouthKorea Korean]] MMO bandwagon rolling rather than WoW and the majority of [=MMOs=] from that country have mechanics similar to those still used by [=LII=] rather than picking up the changes Blizzard made to its own game.

* {{Alitis}}: Encouraged by the addition of Vitality Points. Unless you've got cash for pots to top up your vitality a lot, you're either leveling your main with no XP bonuses or you're switching to an alt until your Vitality replenishes.