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Lineage 2 Castle Defense at Goddard on Elmorelab Bartz

L2Calendar Team02.10.20268 min watch

Elmorelab Bartz runs a retail-like x3 progression, and this session catches two castles in one sitting: a Lineage 2 castle defense at Goddard, then a Schuttgart siege. The recording is Korean, roughly eight minutes, and it is a useful look at how defence and attack play out on a low-rate server where gear is not handed to you. Below is what the footage covers, what Bartz is, and what a defence actually depends on.

What the session covers

The player stays on the Goddard defence first. On a x3 server, holding a castle is less about a single hero play and more about the boring parts done well: keeping the gate covered, keeping buffers alive, and rotating people back to the courtyard before the next wave. The clip then shifts to Schuttgart for the siege proper, which gives you both sides of a castle weekend in one watch.

There is no commentary and no translated overlay, so the value is in the movement and the fights rather than an explanation. Even without understanding the spoken parts, the flow of a defence is readable: the line shifts, the attackers probe, and the defenders answer each probe.

What Elmorelab Bartz is

Elmorelab is a long-running project with several servers, and Bartz is its retail-like x3 world that launched in March 2020. It uses progressive chronicles, meaning the server advances through the old era step by step rather than dumping everything on you at once, and it enforces a light box limit of one main plus one box. There is no pay-to-win shop in the usual sense, so the pace is deliberately slow compared with the x500 servers that dominate the vlog.

If you are used to high-rate Interlude, Bartz will feel like a different hobby. The rewards take longer, but the fights are decided more by coordination than by whoever swiped hardest.

What a castle defence really depends on

Covering the gate beats chasing kills. A defence that leaves the entrance to hunt stragglers gives the attacker a free breach.
Buffers are the backbone. On a low-rate server, losing your support line ends the defence faster than losing any damage dealer.
Reinforcements on time. The side that gets fresh parties to the courtyard between waves usually outlasts the side that does not.

How to start on Elmorelab

Registration and the client are on the official site, and Bartz is free to join. Because the server is progressive and x3, expect to earn your gear rather than buy it; if that is what you want, it is one of the steadier long-term projects around. If you would rather weigh it against other worlds first, start from our full server directory and compare chronicles and rates side by side.

Watch the session, then decide whether a retail-like pace is the right fit for you.

Frequently asked questions

What rates does Elmorelab Bartz use?

Bartz is a retail-like x3 server with progressive chronicles and a box limit of one main plus one box. It is much slower than high-rate Interlude servers, with no pay-to-win shop.

When did Elmorelab Bartz launch?

Bartz launched in March 2020 as part of the Elmorelab project. It has been running for years, so it is a stable, long-term world rather than a fresh opening.

What makes castle defense different on a low-rate server?

With slow gear progression, a defense depends on covering the gate, keeping buffers alive and rotating parties. Individual gear matters less than coordination between waves.