To be honest I am growing bored of the situation as well. The server has become all but unpredictable. One could easily look at the website statistics to see how the server is;
https://forumen.rpg-club.net/?p=top100exp
https://forumen.rpg-club.net/?p=top100pvp
https://forumen.rpg-club.net/?p=clans
https://forumen.rpg-club.net/?p=clan_pvp
All of the decent clans are finding the whole thing pointless to even continue on and are leaving for something more enjoyable and I'm not sure if I can blame them. L2 was a fair game when it capped off at S or S80 which was too difficult to get, but with the introduction of S80 being easy and S84 the whole thing is spun into a ridiculous imbalance that ETC will happily deny as they sport bows that are nearly 200 base PATK more powerful than Draconic Bow's.
The server is placed into a state of backwards footing, a place where gear ] skill hands down means that ETC, regardless of how idiotic most of it's members are in PVP situations, will still triumph very easily. Combine that with enough Giant's Codexes to overenchant half the server's third class skills and a mountain of raid boss jewelry and you have a very boring, very one-sided server on your hands. It's absolutely not new player friendly by any means and though I hate to admit it, there really isn't any way to catch up to ETC now.
Gracia Final is more zerg friendly than past chronicles. Server isn't growing, it's dying, and that population drop has nothing to do with bots being banned because trust me when I say this, there hasn't been much of that being done here lately.
There is talk of merging clans to try and compete with ETC, however language barriers easily prevent this from happening. The server being split into 50/50 russian or english does not help the clan situation any and allows for dominance in much easier straits. As much as I like rolling ETC's not-yet S80'd scrubs and randoms, it's not fun to be ganked by 2-3 heroes at a time in response and be told that it was a fair fight (thanks for the compliment, but bullshit).
With S80 and S84 weaponry being introduced, soon every single class available for Hero status will be owned by ETC. Like I said. A very boring, one-sided server.
Can't say I'm interested anymore, personally. New server sounds good but with the lack of concern with the 30x, I don't see a new server being much better. It'll just be botters, botters, botters.