AION: Catch All

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-...

Giantbomb has done a quick look of Aion, keep an eye out for the guild tag

Thin_J wrote:

If someone avoided WoW for all these years (totally, completely, never touched it) and doesn't see the charm in that game's art style anymore, is AION a good choice? Will the game be around for very long or is it another Conan?

Other than a very short stint on Guild Wars (20 or so hours...) I've never been able to get into an MMO.

I'm sensing it will be a niche game, though very well polished one. The game has a vaguely GW feel as far as environments go. Actual gameplay is more similar to WoW.

If you are not that into MMOs generally, I'd probably wait for a free trial to check it out yourself.

So im getting into my 30s and my experience has changed since the betas.

First if you are not a fan of pvp / competition you will not be able to enjoy 65-70 % of the game . Expect to get ganked expect the frustration. classes arent balanced at the lower levels , i just started to be able to kill healers in the last level or 2 solo.

If you are not into guilds or group pvp this game is not ideal , flying solo in the abyss is a good way to get ganked.
The rest is similar to any other mmo you a little more grinding in the game but you can also instance grind 25-28 and again from 30-40 .

If you find other players that level at your pace and will aid you the game becomes exponentially more enjoyable.
3 man kill squads are fun in the abyss cause you will usally end up fighting similar number 2-4

Is the game a wow clone only in the sense that wow is an EQ clone and so on and so fourth. The rifts are cool but the unique comes from the abyss. . Jumping through rifts during prime time is like trying to storm the beach at Normandy.

I'd love to get those Krall quests knocked off tonight, anyone else need those?

Swat wrote:

I'd love to get those Krall quests knocked off tonight, anyone else need those?

I still need the Krall Marks, but I'd be more than happy to help with the rest of them you've not completed. I have not played much this week, but I'd like to for at least a few hours.

elewis17 wrote:
Swat wrote:

I'd love to get those Krall quests knocked off tonight, anyone else need those?

I still need the Krall Marks, but I'd be more than happy to help with the rest of them you've not completed. I have not played much this week, but I'd like to for at least a few hours.

Same here - I've been way too busy this week (Yay for getting throw into new projects with little warning!) so I'm jonesing for some Aion action. This weekend is Thanksgiving for us Canucks so Sat/Sun are out of the picture, but we have Monday off to catch up a bit as well too.

Tzig and I should be on tonight, I'm sure we could snag one or two more from the Guild at least and go lay waste to those Krall goofs.

So the game crashed tonight running from Ardus Shrine to Pilgrim's Respite. I tried logging back into my Cleric about 10 times and after a few reboots, but it always did the same thing - as soon as I logged into my toon, it said "Discovered Road to Verteron" then kicked me out immediately with a nasty memory error log that I could submit. When I log into my other toons, it loads fine. Lame!

Got this for X-mas. So far I'm loving it (on noob island still). It has all the clean niceness of the GW interface, and is damn pretty. Looking forward to sinking some time into it on my time off.

Same here... Noob island... Just wanted to come over and say hi. Any suggestions for a low level player?

-Save your Manastones for items Green & above.
-Check how many sockets for stones an item actually has, they can be hard to see at times.
-make sure that any Enchantment to be used is at least 2 levels above the level of the item. More if the item has already been enchanted.
-Stock up on potions, bandages and later powder. Don't be afraid to use them to keep downtime at a minimal.
-be aware of the directional bonuses/penaties during combat.
-have fun! Very pretty game but grindy as well & not very customable within a class to distinguish you from others of the same class.

Having grapical issues my specs are DV6775US(KC412UA) NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T5450(1.66GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS and idk im pretty sure i have the required specs and when i play there are major texture issues like the ground turns white? ty

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Aion will be performing server merges starting July 7.

http://www.massively.com/2010/06/23/...

http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/a...

I was playing this until 3 or 4 weeks ago. It's a bit better than when I played at launch, but still, the grinding is still present, a bit better because they increased quest XP and added a bunch of repeatable quests. It's just mind numbing though. There's not much you can do up until the 30s besides quest grinding and it takes quite a while to get there and it only gets worse.

I tried, but it's not for me anymore.

Steam has it on sale for $19.99. I was tempted knowing that I would never get to 25-30 or even dream of getting past 30+. Still with all the classes that is a lot of gameplay. But I think I pretty much got everything out of this game within my grasp during beta.

I really don't think they know what to do with this game which is a shame since its really pretty. They tweak minor bits and buff xp and quest xp in tiny increments, thinking that is going to make the actual gameplay better. They even have this pretty astounding "vision" trailer but its clear no one is holding the rains. The trailer looks like its for an impressive expansion but they say its not and expansion, which is ridiculous. If its an expansion, then you get all sorts of buzz surrounding your game. More awareness of your game earns a resurgence of box sales and players resubbing. If you merge it in gradually over time (the current plan) you get none of this and the game continues to die.

Look, you sold the game by hyping to all hell that you had wings and pvpve. Well guess what? You allowed ffa ganking so that pvpve hardly gets off the ground because most players are too skittish to fill out the ranks of the factions armies.

And those wings you promised? Well, you can't use them in major sections of your world. I really could give two sh*ts less about the wings but you majorly dropped the ball on your both of your limited selling points.

I was tempted to pick this up due to the Steam sale, but resisted thanks to this thread. If they're merging servers, there'll probably be a free demo or some such soon enough, or a more drastic price drop. The game is damned pretty, but my laptop might not handle it so well. Also, I haven't been able to play a new MMO for more than two weeks in about 3 years.

I bought and played through a month of Vanguard when I found it for 4.99. I'll probably wait for something similar to try Aion.

It will be F2P in a few days, but they are extending their Free Trial until the F2P launch, starting monday : http://na.aiononline.com/rally-the-t...

Seems all content will be free.

Wonder what they will be charging (Content wise).

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02...

So I wanted to load this up and give it another shot since I haven't played in forever. I like the idea of the veteran account I can get because I was a previous subscriber (plus I had the CE so there was the extra bag space, etc ...)

For one, I have NO idea what NCSoft account I had Aion registered to. I found one of the accounts I created, it had CoH on it and nothing else. Not sure why I created more than one account *Shrug* .. Also, turns out there's no way to reset your Aion username/password without having access to your main NCSoft account. Not sure how easy it will be to deal with customer service and explain that it's on one of my accounts. Tried password resets but the secret question/answers weren't working. It's possible I've been hacked but not sure.

Kind of a shame, I really wanted to give the game another go but not sure if I want to go through the hassle of the veteran account. I guess I could try the game and pay for a month to bump me up to the veteran status.

DeThroned wrote:

So I wanted to load this up and give it another shot since I haven't played in forever. I like the idea of the veteran account I can get because I was a previous subscriber (plus I had the CE so there was the extra bag space, etc ...)

For one, I have NO idea what NCSoft account I had Aion registered to. I found one of the accounts I created, it had CoH on it and nothing else. Not sure why I created more than one account *Shrug* .. Also, turns out there's no way to reset your Aion username/password without having access to your main NCSoft account. Not sure how easy it will be to deal with customer service and explain that it's on one of my accounts. Tried password resets but the secret question/answers weren't working. It's possible I've been hacked but not sure.

Kind of a shame, I really wanted to give the game another go but not sure if I want to go through the hassle of the veteran account. I guess I could try the game and pay for a month to bump me up to the veteran status.

I contacted NCSoft for a Guild Wars issue a while back and have to say they are some of the best customer support I've dealt with. I say give them an email/call and they'll likely get you sorted out.

I was in the closed and open betas, subbed and bought the CE. But then got totally bummed at level 24-ish discovering the grind. Left the game shortly thereafter.

Is there anything different about Aion now? Is there any reason to take a fresh look with F2P?

DeThroned wrote:

Kind of a shame, I really wanted to give the game another go but not sure if I want to go through the hassle of the veteran account. I guess I could try the game and pay for a month to bump me up to the veteran status.

I used NCSoft's online support chat thing 3 days ago, because I could not remember which of my 3 accounts I had Guild Wars set up to and I could not figure out the password of any of my 3 accounts. They were very helpful, asked me a couple questions and located where my Guild Wars main account was. All through the online support.

Thanks guys! I'll have to do this tomorrow. I realized I should have started chatting 20 minutes after they closed (whoops!)

Its been a while but I had forgotten how plodding Aion is. The mmo genre really has moved on from this in as little as the past 3 years.

If SWTOR didn't exist, Aion might not show its age and its eastern grind as much. But SWTOR does exist and while the feel of the spell/skill casting in Aion is good, it feels almost boring even as low as level 4 or 5.

Here is a breakdown of the 2 games:

SWTOR:
near chain fighting against groups while soloing
group fights can be 2-3 peons or 1 elite and 1 peon
1 second cooldowns with many more instant cast spells and only a few 2 second casting times
lots of variety of aoe spells/skills and support skills that help you manage groups
adds increase tension but rarely are an "I lose" button
at most 15 seconds of downtime that is channeled and can be interrupted once the desired recouperation has been achieved

Aion:
fight 1 at a time; chain fight 3 fights before having to rest
a single add will kill you unless you are a healer and even then it is probable
a few melee ranged skills are instant cast; a lot more skills are 2 second casts
1 second global cooldown and many skills have 8-24 second cooldowns
minimal aoe and you don't use what you have because adds are "I lose" button
downtime is almost always 15 seconds; rest is pulsed every 3 seconds rather than channeled

Wow Aion is going Free to play? Why does Lineage 2 still have subs XD. I have Aion characters I may log in just to see what has changed. I haven't played since launch because of the botting issues.

GoldenDog wrote:

Wow Aion is going Free to play? Why does Lineage 2 still have subs XD. I have Aion characters I may log in just to see what has changed. I haven't played since launch because of the botting issues.

I think Lineage2 is also F2P now..

EDIT : Yup, it is : http://truly-free.lineage2.com/

I've honestly never seen a game botted as badly as Aion was.My wife and I tried it out briefly and between the grindy gameplay and the outrageously obvious and omnipresent botting we dropped it like it's hot.

I went in to check it out, after not playing for maybe three years. I still love the character creation and design, and the costumes (what can I say, I like dressing up like a pretty pretty angel princess, apparently), but the game itself is pretty damn boring. I was disappointed that it's still just about as grindy and monotonous, and that they didn't fix minor but potentially useful things, like moving the damn storage box near to crafting in town.

Rift is my current fav fantasy MMO (although I'll always be true to Guild Wars), and compared to the newer, more dynamic games, AION reminds me why I hated MMOs for the first decade they were really around.

Pretty much everything that NCSoft has is going F2P, except Guild Wars 2. I'm intrigued by Aion, but it's hard to find time to play it with Guild Wars, City of Heroes, and Lineage 2 available.

Thread arise.

They released the Steel Cavalry content update. So you can now play a mech summoner/rider that punches and blasts its way through enemies.

The new classes are interesting (gunslinger, songweaver, aethertech) it is just that the combat flow is so soulless. I can't really figure out why unless it really is the timing. Or perhaps it is that ordinary fights at level 12 feel like fights at 60,70 or 80 in other games.

The combat animations are fine and the skills have oomph in them. Auto-attack is slower than in other games and it does much less damage than other games. (other games typically have 2:1 special vs. auto-attack damage ratio; Aion is like 4:1 or 5:1) And quite often the fights are balanced such that you hit a combo or 2 and the monster still has a sliver of hp left. So it becomes practically comical when you essentially flick them with your pinky and they fall over.

It could also be that monsters are not animated well or threatening enough. Well actually, that is a pretty big thing. You do fight a lot of wolves and boars in WoW but a lot of what you fight in Aion feels like fighting rabbits in WoW. Except they take multiple combos with big cooldowns to kill instead of one shot and they can eat half your health out of nowhere.

And this is on a fast track server where the lower leveling speed has been cut in half. But I still can barely stomach it at level 10 and this is the level I get to try on the advanced class so it should be a big boost but it falls flat after tooling around for 15 minutes.