Aion - The Tower of Eternity

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Kaige

Using WoW-style terms to describe stuff in the patch notes kind of made me cringe. I don't have ill will for either game, but using one as a reference to something in another makes me a little uneasy sometimes.

I'm assuming it's the translator interpreting the notes for us rather than NCSoft likening things to WOW.

That battleground sounds interesting. It's like you're competing against another group in a dungeon. Can you out PVE them to the end or do you go right in for the kill and ignore the PVE?

I kinda dig it.

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Eonan

A successful PVP game can exist with both. You just need to give players an incentive to participate in both rather than just sticking to instances or sticking to open world.

Yes.

In WAR all the incentives was to do scenarios because that offered the best xp/hr. Which took everyone out of the world. But if this is just an alternative and they manage to incentives the Abyss enough for people to do that it should work.

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by Kaige

Using WoW-style terms to describe stuff in the patch notes kind of made me cringe. I don't have ill will for either game, but using one as a reference to something in another makes me a little uneasy sometimes.

Those are usually fan translated patch notes(at least 1.1 and 1.2 are, I believe this sneakpeek was also fan translated) so they use the most common reference to explain things they might have trouble to put into words. If you were to make a new type of touch screen phone, and someone wanted to explain how it worked after testing it, he'd most likely compare it to an iPhone simply because in terms of touch screen phones, most people can relate to the iPhone more than to abstract concepts. Random example.

[Ashes Emberblade]

Abyss pvp video from a cleric's viewpoint: YouTube - Aion Cleric Abyss RvR Video #3 Air Wave

[Golbez]

Game needs to hurry up and either

A) Get released in NA so I can find people to group with.

or

B) Allow the beta to be on at all times of the week

[Ashes Emberblade]

I don't really understand the delay. I think they're trying to build media buzz and it's actually releasable now.

[khalid]

Originally Posted by Ashes Emberblade

Abyss pvp video from a cleric's viewpoint: YouTube - Aion Cleric Abyss RvR Video #3 Air Wave

I think that video just sold me on this Aion.

[Slowstang]

Not sure how accurate this will end up being, but here's the class spell lists. Main Page - Aion: the Tower of Eternity Wiki - AionSource.com

[Seig]

Originally Posted by Ashes Emberblade

I don't really understand the delay. I think they're trying to build media buzz and it's actually releasable now.

Well the beta client is on patch 1.0 which is the same as the Chinese server. I think they plan to release the N.A servers on v. 1.1 or 1.2 so maybe they're just stalling with sneak peak events on an old build.

[Pyros]

The names might or might not be the right ones, but the list should be accurate, they're taken from the korean game I believe. There's nothing too original to be honest, especially when you've played wow, but it seems rather nice.

I wish NCsoft weren't such a bunch of idiots though, like Golbez said, it'd be nice if they could only just have a permanent beta. I don't get wtf the point of testing 1-10 is, it's not like you can even test the classes because they only start splitting so you're basically playing 4classes with very little flavor. And they don't need 2 weeks between each of these weekend phases too, sounds so stupid. I'd take a normal beta, even with focused testing(server locks + premades server for focused leveling testing for example), but this shitty preview events are so pointless. Creating hype through very limited outdated versions of the game and probably no actual changes based on the reports from these beta events is so retarded, if anything it's gonna cause bad first impressions.

[Kaige]

Ahhh, missed the "translated" aspect of it, serves me right for skimming and not reading.

Interesting patch notes though.

[Slowstang]

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Armor sets, the site is in Chinese, but the list shows sets by level and what they look like on each race.

[Ashes Emberblade]

YouTube - Aion Gameplay Compilation: North American Beta

14 Sorc video from the Elyos 1-20 NA beta weekend: Flight, Sorc PVE (combos, CC), gathering from nodes in the sky, Coliseum, sky whale.

YouTube - Aion Beta Sanctum Shenanigans

Same sorc flying in Sanctum, funny ending.

YouTube - Aion - Team Devil: Way of the Gladiator

Gladiator pvp video from the Korean version.

[bonanno]

Dumb question, but did they remove the tails for the N. American version? Or was it a matter of the trench coat hiding it really well?

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by bonanno

Dumb question, but did they remove the tails for the N. American version? Or was it a matter of the trench coat hiding it really well?

They never had tails as far as I remember. Asmodian do have manes all along their backspine and actually somewhat looking slightly like a tail, but the video you're referring to I guess was the US beta ones, and those are Elyos. So no don't think they removed anything.