Aion - The Tower of Eternity

[Brikker]

Question:

I got a standard pre-order from Steam and made an account, so on the NCSoft account page my game account type is Standard.

I then canceled that pre-order, and a bit later got the collector's edition pre-order. Now, my account type still says standard, but the serial codes attributed to the account are Standard and Collector's.

Am I going to have issues claiming my Collector's edition shit or starting in the CE head start?

[LikeWow!]

I played this last CB for a few hours. Pretty fun times, I haven't played a MMO since PoP EQ other than Vanguard for a month.

What are the rules for determining who gets loot rights to a mob? The first person to engage, or the group with the most damage?

Did anyone else notice retardedly short leashes on some spawns? Situations like nuking a mob from 25m, it taking a few steps then turning ass back home, reset with full HP.

[Burning_Samurai]

If you haven't preordered yet and don't mind using Gamestop, promo code AION offers free overnight delivery. Not a big deal, but I didn't spot it on Google and kinda stumbled on it when I typed it in for shits and giggles.

[Gilgamel]

I'm just pumped up for a game where you don't do a mindless questing treadmill. It makes all quests irrelevant lorewise when you just clickclickclickclick in order to pick all the quests up and don't even care about the story. Pulling the whole live side in lower guk, or chain pulling in Sebelis are far more interesting to me. Plus it builds the social aspect and you learn who the good players are. A good grind group can be quite entertaining.

[Draegan]

Campaign quests are worth the time though. Good exp, decent story.

[Zerai]

Yeah, I was thoroughly impressed with the campaign story.

[matmanx2]

Originally Posted by Brikker

Question:

I got a standard pre-order from Steam and made an account, so on the NCSoft account page my game account type is Standard.

I then canceled that pre-order, and a bit later got the collector's edition pre-order. Now, my account type still says standard, but the serial codes attributed to the account are Standard and Collector's.

Am I going to have issues claiming my Collector's edition shit or starting in the CE head start?

I originally pre-ordered from Gamestop but then this weekend decided I wanted the CE so I just bought it off of the NCSoft website. When I go to my account management page it also says "standard" but if I click on the actual game account details tab it says "Serial Codes Applied" and it lists both the regular and collectors. I think as long as you have that listed you are fine.

Game question for anyone who knows: Do Chanters ever get another ranged ability? I know they are based around buffs and group support but it would definitely be nice for PVP. I know the get the starting Smites from the Priest line but those dont get upgraded do they?

[Aamina]

I did enjoy the campain story, I liked how it showed you there was kind of a chapter feel that you could follow if you wanted. I enjoyed the attack animations, also...WoW's same animation for nearly every mage/druid/paladin spell was getting tired.

[Inconsiderable]

Originally Posted by Horse

This was similar to how monks were godly in guildwars, sure you could attack the priest directly but doing so gave them buffs while healing the group, etc.

No, this was not the case in Guildwars.

[Calroon]

Do yourself a favour and don't roll anything melee (except maybe Assassin due stuns).

There's really a lot of kiting/ flying, which isn't a problem by itself at first. However, in Aion everytime you do a special attack/ ability your character stops and does it's animation. Now this isn't a problem from the dmg point of view (dmg is already done and in the combat log when you hit the ability) BUT your char stands still, and while you already have a hard time catching up running/ flying on people, you have to catch up even more/ harder and after every damn ability - it's retarded to say at best.

Now this isn't so much of an issue in group pvp, which Aion is all about.

@Sharmai
That's not the templers job. They soak up the dmg, do "pull-ins" and stun here and there. They got decent dmg for a tank, too. The AE taunt (which pulls people close) skill costs a good bunch of DP and has a 1hr cooldown. You wont see this happening on a regular basis.

Anyway, I was about to go for Gladiator (they really look awesome with the armor/ weapons),
but seems a ranged is the way to go unless you group day in and out.

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by Brikker

Am I going to have issues claiming my Collector's edition shit or starting in the CE head start?

I believe there was a post by Ayase about something like that, but anyway unless they do it like retards, the code you entered atm(pre order code) isn't linked to CE or normal box at all, it's just that, a preorder account(thus standard). Once this "sub" is over, you enter a new code that will define the type of account(normal or CE), they don't even have to be linked to the preorder code: say you preorder from shop A, canceled, then buy the game from shop B at release, you'll still be able to enter your key in your preorder account and play from there.

Originally Posted by matmanx2

Game question for anyone who knows: Do Chanters ever get another ranged ability? I know they are based around buffs and group support but it would definitely be nice for PVP. I know the get the starting Smites from the Priest line but those dont get upgraded do they?

Chanters get a ranged attack later on, it's some kind of shockwave staff attack(much like Glad's Wing Blade) and it has a high chance to stun your target. That's your tool to catch people up with a Chanter, also useful to interupt and stuff like that. That's all there is, the rest is only melee, and smite never gets updated on the chanter side(it does on the cleric side only).

Originally Posted by LikeWow!

What are the rules for determining who gets loot rights to a mob? The first person to engage, or the group with the most damage?

Did anyone else notice retardedly short leashes on some spawns? Situations like nuking a mob from 25m, it taking a few steps then turning ass back home, reset with full HP.

Rules for mob tagging is first person(or group) who does 51% dmg of a mob gets it. It might cause issues with raid mobs and stealing I guess, and it can also be annoying on quests and kill stealing.

As for short leashes, never noticed them no, mobs only leash if you don't attack them for ~4secs, or if they can't hit you for ~4secs. As long as you keep hitting them, they'll never leash so you can kite where you want. The only fast leash I've seen is when you pull from an unreachable spot, mobs will stop for a few secs then just leash anyway.

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by matmanx2

Game question for anyone who knows: Do Chanters ever get another ranged ability? I know they are based around buffs and group support but it would definitely be nice for PVP. I know the get the starting Smites from the Priest line but those dont get upgraded do they?

The have a ranged stun but it's off a melee chain. Basically for runners.

edit:
Oops Pyros beat me.

As for melee, I wouldn't worry to much about the kiting etc. Maybe in 1v1 stuff, but in group PVP you'll do just fine.

[dechire]

Originally Posted by Calroon

Do yourself a favour and don't roll anything melee (except maybe Assassin due stuns).

Extendable weapons guide - AionSource.com

[Spawn]

Didn't know they had those, that's pretty awesome.

[matmanx2]

Originally Posted by dechire

Extendable weapons guide - AionSource.com

Oh wow. That's just awesome! Probably very rare as it seems they are boss drops.