Aion - The Tower of Eternity

[Type0Negative]

Originally Posted by Pyros

As far as I'm aware, only the 50wings actually have stats on them and trade those stats for reduced flying time, but 30 is 30secs more, CE is 40secs more and 40 is 60secs more. Incidentally, the 50wings are quested, rest is vendor bought you can see them in town, but maybe they changed them in future patches?

In regard to 30ce vs 40 it is a 20 second difference for 10 million so that may or may not be worth it for you.

The 50 wings more or less comes down to how important pvp is to you. They are 5 seconds less flight time than 30ce and you get 150 hps. Flight time in the abyss is considered less 'limited' because of the aether rings and obviously hps are key for damage mitigation. (Also, and I don't know this to be gospel, but supposedly that 150 hps is like a hot that hits you every 10 seconds, not just a set 150 hps.)

As you know (probably better than I) speed & flight time can be tweaked in so many ways with gear, titles, buffs, pots, stones, scrolls that it just comes down to how prepared you are/want to be and the same thing for yer opponent(s).

[Horse]

I've sifted as much as I can - how is the UI customization? Will it have the same level of madness as WoW?

One of the major "fuuuuuuuck thissssssss"es I had with WAR and AOC are their inferior interfacing.

Talk whatever shit you'd like about WoW but even xibit gets a hard on over wow's interface control. yo dawg i herd u liek health bars so we fill up ur health bars wit more health bars so u can min max wile u min max

[Draegan]

Aion won't allow addons. Their interface is fine while playing. two difference ways of laying out with the placement of minimap and your target and your own health bars. Some windows are movable I believe.

Everything is scalable as well.

Some of the things that need work like the AH windows etc have been worked on for 1.1 through 1.5 and I have not been able to play it to see. I've heard they were good changes.

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by Draegan

Aion won't allow addons. Their interface is fine while playing. two difference ways of laying out with the placement of minimap and your target and your own health bars. Some windows are movable I believe.

Everything is scalable as well.

Some of the things that need work like the AH windows etc have been worked on for 1.1 through 1.5 and I have not been able to play it to see. I've heard they were good changes.

It won't? I read it uses the same language as WoW for the UI.

[Azrayne]

Honestly, I'm kind of glad they've decided to not allow addons. Keeping up with the 50 addons of the month and updating them on patches just to stay competative is a real hassle.

[Toxxulian]

Originally Posted by DJk_zero

You wouldn't know that from some of the people here who seem to think this is a 'brand new release', when it is just a localized port.

They are changing the game for the NA release. It is going to be different then the one that is currently out.

[khalid]

Originally Posted by Azrayne

Honestly, I'm kind of glad they've decided to not allow addons. Keeping up with the 50 addons of the month and updating them on patches just to stay competative is a real hassle.

So instead we get stuck with a bad interface all the time, instead of just an hour or two around patch time?

[Araxen]

Originally Posted by Draegan

Aion won't allow addons. Their interface is fine while playing. two difference ways of laying out with the placement of minimap and your target and your own health bars. Some windows are movable I believe.

Everything is scalable as well.

Some of the things that need work like the AH windows etc have been worked on for 1.1 through 1.5 and I have not been able to play it to see. I've heard they were good changes.

Oh noes..poor cursed. No revenues for them and trying to get people to install their shitty client.

[Horse]

Originally Posted by Draegan

Aion won't allow addons. Their interface is fine while playing. two difference ways of laying out with the placement of minimap and your target and your own health bars. Some windows are movable I believe.

Everything is scalable as well.

Some of the things that need work like the AH windows etc have been worked on for 1.1 through 1.5 and I have not been able to play it to see. I've heard they were good changes.

Hmmm. That's pretty ballsy. Especially regarding how some classes will whack-a-mole a raid/party interface a hell of a lot more than others.

The hivemind is a better interface developer than any assembled team can possibly hope to be. If there is any sort of solid Aion web presence it will be cluttered with people linking to some wow mod site asking for certain functionality to be included.

fuuuuuuutile

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Toxxulian

They are changing the game for the NA release. It is going to be different then the one that is currently out.

They are not changing anything. There are localization issues like cultural reference that are being changed. There may be experience curve changes (I doubt it though), but content, design, combat etc will be completely the same.

[Seig]

Originally Posted by Toxxulian

They are changing the game for the NA release. It is going to be different then the one that is currently out.

How many times can you be wrong in one thread? Just sit down of course the NA release will be different than the one that's currently out. It will be the version that Korea has.... it won't have any changes influenced by the N.A beta testing.

[Toxxulian]

Right, so changing the amount of xp you need to level, making mobs give more xp and all the changes they are making in 1.5 has nothing to do with the NA release?

Originally Posted by Seig

How many times can you be wrong in one thread? Just sit down of course the NA release will be different than the one that's currently out. It will be the version that Korea has.... it won't have any changes influenced by the N.A beta testing.

Where have i been wrong? Please elaborate.

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Toxxulian

Right, so changing the amount of xp you need to level, making mobs give more xp and all the changes they are making in 1.5 has nothing to do with the NA release?

No.

It's based on what's going on in Korea.

[Seig]

Originally Posted by Toxxulian

Where have i been wrong? Please elaborate.

Look at your posts from the last 3 pages you sound clueless.
I'm pretty sure you just learned that Aion is a localized port for us since you keep mentioning that "we don't know because it's not out yet". We do know what the patch cycle will be like because the Korean server will get the updates before we do.

The game came out 7 or 8 months ago in Korea and they've already had 3 major patches (1.1/1.2/1.5) By the time our servers are on the endgame content from 1.5 there should already be a new major patch on the way.

I think I've played 3 localized Korean MMo's now and it has always worked the same way. The company running the N.A server will have to request patches from the Korean dev's since any custom changes made for our servers would conflict with future changes in the next major patch. So it's likely to be the same with Aion where we will only get bug/exploit fixes not custom changes/nerfs.

[Toxxulian]

Yes i know the game has been out in Korea for a little bit. But like you said, 8 months. Can't judge a game that hasn't even been out for a year. They're just releasing stuff that was suppose to be in the game from the start. Just like every other mmo ever released. WoW/EQ2/War/AoC did the exact same thing. AoC was out for a three months and had content added during that time. Do you think they still add content every three months now? Nope.