Aion - The Tower of Eternity

[Pyros]

The 1.5 notes look pretty good, lots of new "abilities" with the stigmas, tons of pve content and basic lfg tool from the sound of it, with more items to buy and stuff, their patching look pretty solid at least. And from looking at the original, it seems it's missing quite a few stuff in the translated notes, the minimap seems to be showing new stuff too and quite a few notes missing in the class changes.

[Teljair]

Originally Posted by Pyros

You get free wings with the collector, and 1million isn't all that much(it's still a big amount, but you should have it by 30/not long after assuming you're not an idiot and vendor crit mana stones). You can easily have 100k by 20 to give you an idea, and obviously money gains increase a lot as you level up. That said, it's a pretty decent advantage from 10 to 30 to have longer duration wings, especially if you plan to pvp/craft.

Yea, but still if anyone plans on playing Aion seriously the investment for the CE seems to be well worth it.

[NativityInBlack]

Thanks for the 1.5 notes.

CE is 10 bucks cheaper 59.90 in the ncsoft.com store btw (just digital tho).

[Vekruul Shuth]

Got to lvl 14 as a Templar in about 8 hours of play. HAD about 75k in gold at one point. Bought bag space and full plate set, etc... Down to like 30k now.

(BTW Lvl 13 is where a Templar really gets a couple nice "tanking" skills. Passive and active.)

If I pass 10 people...4 will be a Gladiator...rest are pretty evenly spread out it seems.

Game is pretty fun. I have yet to CTD. One bug that irks me, is the "You stop attacking for no reason bug."

Also I wish they would soften up on the Divine Power a tad. I may get one attack off in an hour tops. As a Templar at lvl 14 I see everyone and their "Oh shit look at this spell!" and I get a damn shield bash...It's kinda like looking at the rich kids play with their new toys on Christmas, and I am looking for the Globe Santa truck to pull up.

Still ZERO idea how trade skills work. I just have been gathering to gather. Anyone help?

Overall...I would say this puppy is as polished as one can hope in an MMO. Lets just hope the newly added endgame satisfies. I will play launch no doubt.

Going to make me a Ranger tonite...See how that goes.

Pic below is at some mining camp. That giant fish is flying in the background...way off in the distance. Was pretty nice.

[Sharmai]

I just haven't decided yet if I am going to play this game. I got burned with Hellgate london CE (Admittedly my own fault) and Warhammer CE and really glad I never bought the Vanguard, or AoC CE. So will this game last? Are the CE bonus worth it long term?

Item's in red you get with a regular non-CE pre-order

CE bonuses:

* Black Cloud Wings (gives 40 seconds of additional flight time)
* Black Cloud Earring (gives an HP and an MP boost)
* Special character title with stat boost
* Color dye to tint one in-game item
* Two character emotes


EBGames: Pre-order bonus (non-ce)
* Access to all Aion pre-launch events, and early head-start access to Aion live game.
* Access to Aion server and character pre-selection.
* Exclusive in-game items including the Dark Cloud Helmet (stat boost), Talisman of Lodas (XP boost), and the GameStop Exclusive Ancient Ring of Fire.

[NativityInBlack]

Well you will have 2 unique emotes (fluff) an earing and an hat that won't last (akin to warhammer ones) wings that will save you one million kinnah (the best part) and a unique title (showoff).



For 9 bucks? I went for it (buyed online as I posted above).

The CE box comes with more stuff like the figurine, and something else..

As Draegan mentioned, if you dig the beta and will play on later on, you may want to have the extras if you can afford it np.

[Twobit Whore]

Wonder how useful the XP talisman will be. If the upper level grind is severe it could be rather nifty.

[Sharmai]

Originally Posted by NativityInBlack

If your laptop could run Farcry 1 it has a shot on running Aion it's lightweight. My desktop is 2 years old, was a mid-budget at the time, and everything is maxed with AA on at 1650x1050.

Will be depending on the mvga.

I'm running on a radeon x1900 in 1024x x with 2x antialisaing with all effects set to one below the maximum. My FPS standing still is 80 and moving hovers around 50-60. Inside caves and small areas it hits 150-200

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Wonder how useful the XP talisman will be. If the upper level grind is severe it could be rather nifty.

They gave info about it, forgot the exact numbers but if I'm right it's 10%more xp for 1hour, 9hours cooldown, so it's pretty good especially combined with rest xp(added in 1.2). Nothing super fancy. What I wonder about the wing is if they'll be account based(good for alts) or char based(bad if you roll the wrong class and reroll early).

[NativityInBlack]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Wonder how useful the XP talisman will be. If the upper level grind is severe it could be rather nifty.

Last XP preorder Item (not sure if it was aoc or warhammer) had a few 30 mins charges if so, I left in the bank waiting to use later on, and never did.

Not counting with that one, if it's any good, it will be a good surprise.

Originally Posted by Pyros

They gave info about it, forgot the exact numbers but if I'm right it's 10%more xp for 1hour, 9hours cooldown, so it's pretty good especially combined with rest xp(added in 1.2). Nothing super fancy. What I wonder about the wing is if they'll be account based(good for alts) or char based(bad if you roll the wrong class and reroll early).

Woa, infinite charges? That's sweet.

[Auren]

I've been messing around with a ranger and caster a bit. The ranger is 11 so far and the caster is 7. So far the caster seems way more powerful. I kill mobs even and 1 level above me in 3 casts. The ranger takes alot more work so far. Anyone know if this gets better or are rangers kind of weak damagewise? From what I hear the casters all die really fast in pvp later on but I might still play one just for something different. I haven't played a caster as my main in a long time.

[Sharmai]

It sucks alot when my fire pet gets unsummoned when I fly and when I resummon it, it doesn't still have its DP ability. DP taekes forever to gain.. grrr.

[Draegan]

DP gets recharged quick when you're in a group killing non stop.

Rangers really suck early on, but apparently get better as they go.

[Palum]

So being that its still Korean aka grindtastic, is it worth picking this up just to play or is it a mediocre rail RPG until end-game?

[Sharmai]

I just sold a white sword non-magical of the forest on the on the trade broker for 10k. So apparently sell absolutely everything on the trade broker that is not grey. As far as the pricing I still don't know yet.