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Return to the days when experience was gained by sweat and blood, every death had consequences, and every new level was an event

A long time ago, when the elves were not yet divided into light and dark, in the southern part of the kingdom of Elmore, a ruthless pirate crew of a bloodthirsty captain rampaged. Not many survived after meeting with a fast pirate schooner, even less fortunate were those who met her bloodthirsty captain. No one still knows how many merchants were robbed, how many sailors were killed or sold into slavery, and no one could catch and defeat Zaken, because he was not only an experienced sailor, but also an excellent saber and sword master. Over the years of atrocities, the captain and his crew have accumulated great wealth on the island of the Devil, where they had a secret hideout. And no one dared to set foot on that Island, for there were rumors about terrible demons who had submitted to Zaken.

One day, the king's patience ran out, and he ordered a huge reward to be given to the one who would stop the atrocities of the ruthless pirate. No one could catch Zaken in the sea, and then a group of necromancers decided to destroy him in his lair on Devil's Island. After finding the captain's schooner, the necromancers used terrible dark spells, killing Zaken and his crew. And peace and tranquility reigned in the southern seas of Elmore.

But those spells did not kill the pirate, but made him an immortal undead, unable to leave his ship. He was doomed to forever guard his island from treasure hunters.

Zaken is one of the epic bosses in the Lineage II universe. Now this is an instance zone, players can choose a night Zaken or a day one, as a reward for killing him, you can get a Zaken earring.

To enter Night Zaken, players must have a Command channel of 8-50 groups (72-450 players). To enter, the CC leader must speak to the NPC Pathfinder Worker. Usually the composition of each group for the night farm is the same, these are 7 dark mages (Spell Howler), a healer (Bishop) and a dark dancer (Blade Dancer). - level 60 boss.

Get to daytime Zaken and from one to three groups (9-27 people) can try to kill him, in the case of one group, it must necessarily consist of 9 people. To enter, the command channel leader or party leader must speak to the NPC Pathfinder Worker. Daytime Zaken is a level 83 boss.

The method of passing the day and night Zaken is identical. First of all, the pirate must be found. This can be done in two ways, either by gradually lighting candles (here you need to remember that the more candles you light, the stronger Zaken and his minions will become), or use mass skills to detect a pirate. In total, the ship has 3 floors, 5 rooms on each. If the lit candle lights up blue, then there is a pirate in one of the adjacent rooms.

Night Zaken among the differences has the ability to teleport to any of the 15 rooms on any floor, as well as randomly teleport players throughout the ship. Day Zaken farming usually starts with the fact that when all the characters get the desired buff, they go to the first room on the second floor. The group in which there is a tank finds and brings Zaken there, where ready-made parties meet him and kill him very quickly.

At the Daily Zaken farm, even when you enter, you will find a timer that will appear in the very center of the screen, it shows you the time spent in the instance. Depending on the time in which you kill the pirate, you can get different bonuses.

Being sufficiently prepared, killing Zaken in any of the presented options is not at all difficult.

Zaken cooldown and raid time

Time to kill a Day Zaken is limited to 60 minutes, the cooldown occurs every three days (Wednesday, Saturday 6.30 am)
Time to kill a night Zaken is limited to 360 minutes, the cooldown occurs every 7 days (Wednesday 6.30 am)

"a you need to assemble a group of the following characters: two Destroyers" a level 61-65 equipped with, preferably a two-handed sword +15, you must also have a weapon with SA Risk Haste & Health, Spectral Dancer, (or for convenience, you can take Sword Singer "a level 61-65), Doomcryer at least level 78. A group of these five characters is necessary condition, the sufficient composition of the group will already have to be determined by you. I’ll upset you right away that with a group of five characters you can kill Zaken "a and get an earring only if you play alone on the server, because usually every 48 hours a battle breaks out for him at the level. Therefore, you need to strengthen your group with more characters 78-80 level.

I will describe a few useful classes in this matter:

Cardinal - Salvation buff, can remove debuffs, also has a useful Mass Resurrection skill.
- can, using the ability to move silently, move freely inside the ship, if necessary, bring or take Zaken "a
Titan - as you can see from the name of this profession, this is a character of level 76 or more. It will be very useful if your competitors come to kill you in PK.
Warlock - The Blessing of Queen buff is very useful, increasing critical hits.
Sagittarius is needed just like Titan to protect your buffers and farming characters.

Now let's go directly to the process of killing Zaken "a.
He is a very interesting epic, because to kill him you need to have sufficient skill and dexterity - you won’t be able to shower him with hats. This was the main reason when, after installing Lineage2 - Interlude on the x10-1 L2SERVER.RU server, the three of us killed Zaken "a, and large alliances could not come up with their own system.
The main difficulty is the Zaken "a guard, which imposes Raid Curse on all characters above level 65 inside the ship. Accordingly, in order to keep support characters above level 65 inside, you need to regularly kill this guard and constantly hold Dance of Shadows so that when they appear did not impose their debuffs.

The next unpleasant moment is Zaken's use of his ability to teleport to any point of the ship or teleport one of the characters he has aggroed there. Usually destroyers become his victims, so I advise you to study the ship in advance before trying yourself in this role. As for teleports Zaken "a, then he usually does them when he is dealt respectively 30%, 50-60% of the damage of the total amount of his life. In order to start hitting Zaken again after one teleport, you must first find him using the /target command and check three floors.
After that, you can either bring him Threasure Hunter "ohm, or run to him by the destroyers themselves.

The key to the success of the whole event lies in a good location. To do this, you need to choose a place where there is a minimum of protection: spans between floors are just right here. In addition, you can place supports outside and thus they will not receive Raid Curse, however, the disadvantages are that they can only give you a buff in a certain area, and besides, you need to place guards near them, because they like to kill in PK .

Now let's look at the most pressing problem: the enemy alliance that is trying to kill Zaken "a and get an epic earring. We have already considered the problem with annoying PKs killing buffers standing outside, now let's turn to the main obstacle - several full parties of the enemy alliance located inside the ship. Usually in this case they make a PK-character with augmented weapons and no armor, who should kill you. This problem is solved by having a high-level archer in the group, who will have to kill the PK-character with a few shots. In addition, try to lead to buffers Zaken "a guard your enemies, because they, using skills near mobs, get Slinece on all skills.

Let's move on to the key moment - killing the epic boss and picking up the earring.
As already mentioned, approximately when Zaken "a has about 30% of the total number of lives left, he makes a teleport. The main thing here is to act quickly. It is necessary to determine on which floor he appeared and, having received all the buffs from his support, run to finish off Zaken " a and pick up the earring while the group of enemies that has priority on pickup runs after the next songs and dances. Here it is already necessary to run all the group of characters that are inside so that they cannot kill you in PK, and also, if they start doing this, try to "wash" them.

I must say right away that in order to quickly finish off Zaken and select his earring, you need to have proper agility and speed, otherwise your enemies will spot you. Your group should have about five people in order to check several floors at the same time and manage all the characters. And of course, make a discount on the Korean random, since Zaken may appear near your competitors, so there is already a full roulette here :)
I can only advise you to come next time and you will definitely be lucky.