Aion - The Tower of Eternity

[Elidrin]

They need to hurry the fuck up and do a NA beta or something. Getting bored with WoW again already. :/

[phusnikn]

Originally Posted by Elidrin

They need to hurry the fuck up and do a NA beta or something. Getting bored with WoW again already. :/

Tell me about it the more I watch the video's for this game the more excited I get.

[phusnikn]

Read What They Read, See What I See << Screenshots and Full post here Excellent Read!

Today, we met with Asmodian 하야덴 of Devil Legion from 루미엘 server, the man with 700,000 abyss points. He talked with us briefly about the [Guardian Transformation] and its use in abyss.

Q. Could you give us a brief introduction of yourself and your legion?

I am a 26 yr old student living in 대구. I am currently in Devil legion. Our legion is a raid-oriented legion with some emphasis on socializing : )

Q. It’s quite impressive that you got that much points as a student. How did you do that?

Nothing special really, I basically ate, slept, and ‘abyssed.‘


charismatic even without the transformation

Q. How long did it take to get to [Rank 5 Lieutenant] from [Rank 9 Soldier]?

I already had [Rank 4 Soldier] during open beta. I got [Rank 1 Soldier] 2 weeks ago, [Rank 2 Lieutenant] last week, and got [Rank 5 Lieutenant] this week.

Q. How much abyss points do you get per day on average?

I really went out of my way this week to get past [Rank 4 Lieutenant]. Based on [Rank 2 Lieutenant] status, I got about 30,000~40,000 points per day. I had 1,993 kills last week.


Rank 5 Lieutenant, 722,184 points, and 4421 Total Kills!

Q. Was it hard getting that many points? Do you think you can get to Commander in Chief (Top rank)?

One death at [Rank 2 Lieutenant] meant loss of 1,600 points. I was dying about three times a day so I thought it was gonna be really hard at [Rank 5 Lieutenant], but when I got to it and got the [Guardian Transformation], I started to think that I can get there. Oh yeah, and meteorites.. I died to meteorites three times last week.

Q. Ever died as Guardian?

Well, I don’t die unless I get hit by a lot at the same time (focused burst). Oh and I don’t die even if I get hit by meteorites : D I was so happy.


Guardian Transformation looked similar to ones in fortresses

Q. Tell us more about the transformation; How is it?

One word; Overpowered. It lasts 20 minutes with 1 hr cooldown. As a cleric, I get to have about 86,000 HP and 150,000 MP. Also, everyone in the area gets notified when I use the transformation. Not only that, whenever I use a lieutenant skill, it broadcasts what I used where. Kind of annoying since I use it every 20 seconds. Then again, the transformation is only usable in abyss.

Q. Do you get increased flight time?

Nope

Q. How overpowered is the Guardian transformation?

I can capture an artifact in lower abyss by myself. I also get this [Abyssal Hurricane] skill. It does 1115~1175 physical damage to 6 targets in 20m radius around myself. It has 20 sec cooldown.

Q. Must be very powerful in Sieges, How is it?

You said it. Since I can spam it every 20 seconds, I get loads of kill and points : )



Q. Many are complaining about [Voice of Destruction], what are your thoughts?

It completely destroys PvP balance. I hope it gets nerfed on next patch. If not, at least make the DoT effect curable with potions.

Q. Exactly how powerful is [Voice of Destruction]?

I think I got around 30,000 points purely out of this skill. If the party doesn’t have a cleric in it, it’s pretty much dead. 18 people at a time. Yeah sure there will be a few that resists it.

Q. Are you satisfied with Aion?

Yes, somewhat, but PvP balance is seriously broken. Overall, everyone dies too easily except templars and clerics. Also, divine stones are way too overpowered.


Asmodian 햐이덴 used Abyssal Hurricane I in Southern 라데스란.

Q. Divine stones are overpowered? Why?

Every single divine stone is overpowered. Once the proc effect activates, there is no way to remove it. The rate of proc kicking in and the duration is way too high. I could say that my success was largely due to the divine stones. I used silence and blind stones.

Q. Any last comments?

I really wanted to say this. There’s no real incentive to abyss. Monsters here only range up to lvl 40. If lvl 41+ mobs spawned here and there were some other stuffs, maybe more people would come and there would be more pvp. As of now, its just few lvl 40+ players ganking each other. I really want NCsoft to take this into consideration.

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(thanks to zornhau for bringing this article to my attention)

Original Post

Written by elliot
December 23, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Posted in Translated Articles
New Cleric Uprising: Voice of Destruction
with 17 comments



Saw this shot today. It’s basically system log of this 마티니 guy killing 15 guys at the same time with the Cleric DP skill [Voice of Destruction]. Apparently 3 more died after this shot was taken after trying to stay alive with pots.

[Voice of Destruction I] Lvl 40 Cleric DP Skill

Does single 753 fire damage to one target in 25m and up to 18 targets within 20m then 655 fire damage every 3 seconds for 57 seconds. Also reduces healing effect by 50%

Instant cast, 4,000 DP cost, 1 hr cooldown

That’s total of 13198 damage in 1 minute up to 19 people at the same time. A lvl 45 Templar has 5.5k hp. This is an insanely overpowered skill. As more and more clerics are hitting 40, this is becoming more and more obvious.

Well.. NCsoft loves healers.

[phusnikn]

Currently the highest level KR character in guardian form (Cleric)

[Darph]

I have a friend working on the NA conversion, i'll see if i can get him to say something for us.

Note: I doubt he'll talk about balance, etc.

[Hatorade]

FLV your enchanter class right? How is the CC in this game?

[flv]

Im chanter yeah, probably one of the clasess with less CC skills, tho, our main weapon (staff) has a lot of knock down chance. Got a stigma stone with a 2 second cast slow skill (which lasts 8 seconds) only useful when Im grouping with someone else to PvP, since I slow them for him, it's useless in 1v1 cause by the time you cast and catch up the effect has already faded. At level 25 chanters were probably one of the most powerful classes in 1v1, but the lack of CCs and our speed aura being useless in air makes it very easy to escape from us, at level 30s im getting owned by almost everything, excepting templars and gladiators, and some clerics. Granted most of the Koreans are higher level, and we aren't being specially lucky in the ToF instance so my equipment kinda sucks. However, I've been grouping with a cleric and an assassin for a while in abyss runs, and we beat 6/7 people easily by playing our cards right, I like the pvp when 3 people can take down a party, team work matters a lot in here.

At higher levels there's a powerfull CC stigma, a 20 seconds AOE sleep, but all of the high level stigmas are hella hard to get and I'd dare to say they are under testing right now, cause many of them seem quite imba.

For the rest of the classes, It's ok I guess, a bit excesive on mages for my tastes, if they are lucky, there's no way to catch them, but their CCs were nerfed in the last patch only for PvP, we'll see. Rangers have also lots of CCs.

[Szlia]

Originally Posted by the_interview_above

I died to meteorites three times last week.

I could not help but laugh at that. Video game discussions really are the most surreal thing.

[Hatorade]

Rangers have lots of CC? Do they lack damage or something?

[Naj]

Is there a GCD of any sort in this game? From looking at youtube videos there doesn't seem to be any but everyone seems to be keyboard turning and clicking.

[Elidrin]

For those of you that don't troll the aionsource forums, someone by the name of Persepha has released 2 high quality videos. It's just some basic gameplay of a Sorceress and Chanter but the quality is really good.

Sorceress:

• YouTube - Aion KOR - Kyriah the sorceress (stream)
• Kyriah - FileFront.com (filefront download)

Chanter:

• YouTube - Aion KOR - Takk the chanter (stream)
• Takk the chanter - FileFront.com (filefront download)

The chanter video is still a work in progress according to Persepha.

edit: Forgot to mention it's from Korean Live, not beta, if that matters to anyone.

[darksensei]

Thanks for the links.

[Korioni]

I saw a blink spell work 3 times in a row in that sorceress video.





Shooped.

[flv]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Rangers have lots of CC? Do they lack damage or something?

Yeah, silence arrow, slow, root traps, knock backs, etc. They don't lack damage, but their main damage skills are a bit random, one of them does from 200 to 1400 damage, so, if they land it well, they are fucking troublesome, but sometimes they don't, and that pisses them off.

On another note, there are a few exploiters these days with speedhacks, hopefuly NCsoft can patch that soon. All of those problems will be solved by the time it releases here, Koreans are testing the game for us.

[Vepil]

I noticed in the Chanter video they had a lot of buffs, are all those self buffs, zone or someone that is getting buffed by others?