Quote Originally Posted by TheRogueX View Post
Lineage II: My D-grade Tarbar required me to hunt down 128 pieces of Steel, 128 Cokes, 64 pieces of High Grade Suede, 430 Crystal: D Grade (obtained only by destroying other D grade items), and 139 Gemstone D (expensive vendor goods). Oh, and did I mention that I also had to have 7 Tarbar heads (wtf was the rest of the crap for???)?

The drop rates on these items, btw, were like 1/120, 1/240, 1/350 or worse. Only one race could craft.
That's just time consuming. I have played L2 and it was difficult the way Facebook games are difficult if you don't pay for coins. What I remember from the game was sitting in one spot and killing the same mobs all day over and over again. The process itself wasn't challenging, just time consuming. If you lost your weapon by enchanting it be ready to go back and kill those same mobs for one more month. It challenged my sanity that's for sure.