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[Aion] Is Now Completely Free To Play. 3.0 Is Now Live.

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  • MarathonLurkMarathonLurk Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ouch. I just resubbed myself but started a fresh character. I should check and see if my other guys were robbed.

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
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  • DjiemDjiem Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ok, that's fucking hilarious. :lol:

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sounds like the male damage sounds were, for the most part, them puking violently. The females... am I a pervert for thinking what I'm thinking?:winky:

    Also, if the leveling curve gets easier (maybe not WoW easy) I may just have to pick this up again. How're spirit masters lately?

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  • StupidStupid Newcastle, NSWRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I've often wondered exactly what the characters are saying when they cast spells/do actions. I know many of the phrases by rote by now but have no idea what they mean. (Kajebin pek! Ninjon hieron! Wakanamdeeshee. )

    It's actually kind of funny when someone says something in real life that slightly resembles one of the Aion soundclip phrases and my mind automatically jumps to the soundclip.

    I have no idea what any of it means though.

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  • MarathonLurkMarathonLurk Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I am thankful that the developers included a way to diable the casting voices cause they were killing me.

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Stupid wrote: »
    I've often wondered exactly what the characters are saying when they cast spells/do actions. I know many of the phrases by rote by now but have no idea what they mean. (Kajebin pek! Ninjon hieron! Wakanamdeeshee. )

    It's actually kind of funny when someone says something in real life that slightly resembles one of the Aion soundclip phrases and my mind automatically jumps to the soundclip.

    I have no idea what any of it means though.

    Kaheergav! Agrero! Impahvis!

    ...after going back and forth so long, I don't know which one of those are Elyos and which are Asmodian. Same with gatherables :/ Caprauna? Or was it Ringa? Lumesia or Theonia? AHHHHHHHHHHH

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  • xzanthxzanth Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    This is just a FYI notice.

    Xzanth 43 cleric, due to lack of anyone in the legion of being anywhere near the same Level range, transfered leadering to Maleki 30th chanter (xzanths 2nd char). This will allow me to be less Overlording the Other members in the Legion and more of the same and Group capable level. (xzanth has Joined Soccoro and Shanghi, and a few others in The Void.)

    Unfortunatley, serveral members of the legion didnt see my Notice and when they logged in and and saw me gone. jumped to parts Unknown.

    And, several More Legion members have gone without word or reason silent. So at the 1 Month no login. were removed from the roster.

    Also, I have Removed all my Lesser level alts from the Legion, and several Others Alts from the legion, the Number current is more honest then its been(12 semi-active people).

    At this point, the Legion ceases to function other then as a club house. I will continue to Try to recruit new people to the legion. and attempt to find quality players and not just scrub grass. Im looking forward to many of you resubbing to aion.

    Moving on. to other news. daylight savings time this weekend the servers came down at 330 am for a little server maintence. allowing me time to post to this august forums.

    I have 8 Chars...43, 30, 26, 26, 24, 23, 11, 11,(working on a full set of deava gear) allowing me to Post 64 Items to the brokers at one time. also allowing me to make differnt listings for the same items on differnt chars, allowing me to in effect control the market for certain items. Needless to say, everything sells.

    Crafting is still rewarding an experiance, and enjoyable, so if you like crafting and as the patch says , evem more crafting is going to be comeing to be avaiable.

    Gathering is still in even with the patch some items will be cheeper to gather and sell then to buy from the vendors.

    Soon as one of you logs in for more then 1day a week, ill pass leadership to you, if you have ideas and want to experiance the headackes...er rewards of being the head guy, log in and take this cup of posin.

    Fyi, Most of the people that left Joined me in The Void. And with Voids Vent. no typeing. and just about at any time they have 20plus online.

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  • joshua1joshua1 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Woah, everybody disappeared! Nim and I were thinking about rejoining the aion goodness after her exams, but when I logged in, no one was there!

    Where did all of you guys go?

    Its now up in the air whether or not we want to continue practically solo, or just un-sub for a while.

    Anyway, let us know where you guys ended up!

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  • MadpoetMadpoet Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Got tired of paying $15/mo for a free mmo.

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  • BaratusBaratus Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hey, so I still am in the boat of wanting to give Aion a try, if anyone wants to toss me a trial that'd be great, even if it is only 5 hours long...

    Thinking of either a spiritmaster or chanter, maybe both, looks pretty fun!

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    PSN: Baratus_JT
  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    when 1.9 comes out i will be back in this game instantly.

    Elimination on
    PSN: PA_Elimination 3DS: 4399-2012-1711 Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheElimination/
  • StupidStupid Newcastle, NSWRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Just as an FYI (and if anyone cares)

    1. Sorcelators is dead. Most (if not all) of the active players have migrated to "The Void" legion. Socorro is the Brigadier General and seems to online pretty much all the time. The Void has a ton of activity (probably a dozen people online at any given time) and are running PvE and Abyss raids at all hours. They seem to be a friendly bunch. The only downside is that it is a fairly high-level legion; at 33, we are some of the lowest leveled toons in the legion. New players or low-level players would not benefit much since there are few people running anything less than level 40 instances.

    2. This weekend will be another double XP bonus weekend, from 8PM Friday March 26 until 8AM Monday March 29 (local server time).

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  • DjiemDjiem Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Double XP. Hurray. Maybe if NCSoft decided to fucking fix my problem I could play this game I've spent $15 to resub to.

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  • BearrorristBearrorrist Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    So, I got this as a gift and decided to try it out. I am playing on the Siel server, Deiter (Asmo) is the name. Anyone else there?

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Something I don't get.

    The tower is the core of the planet. When the Cataclysm happened, it was when the Empyrean Lords were at the tower with the Balaur.

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    Did Atreia always look like this then, or is it hollow? Because how the hell could they have gotten to the tower?

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    they live on the inside of the planet....

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Lady Eri wrote: »
    they live on the inside of the planet....

    Yeah, I know that. But before the tower broke, was the planet a hollow sphere and they lived inside, or was it always broken like that?

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  • BearrorristBearrorrist Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    My understanding was that it was a hollow sphere.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwciMQ3xjbk

    at 1:12 you see from the interior where the sphere splits

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Today I was flying in Teminon when I got disconnected. My internet connection was down, but the client was still up, and I was still in flight and could move around just fine. So instead of reconnecting, I left it and just went for a fly around the Abyss with no flight timer.

    It was fun - I'll have to disconnect on purpose to do it again. After I got too close to Leibo, the game client finally closed on me.

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Yes it was an unbroken hollow sphere

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  • gunwarriorgunwarrior Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    So I've heard about Aion for a while, but today was the first time I saw any videos of it and godamn it looks gorgeous.
    I read something last page about a trial? I know its pretty short but that's all I need to tell if its for me or not. Would anyone mind sending me one?

    Edit: Thanks Psycho

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  • gunwarriorgunwarrior Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Aion is a pretty awesome game

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  • StupidStupid Newcastle, NSWRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Just as an FYI (and if anyone cares)

    2. Sorcelators is almost completely dead, despite some of the older players coming back. Most of the higher level players have migrated to "The Void" legion. Sadly, The Void has recently implemented a level limit and are no longer accepting transfers from Sorcelators. There is an alt legion called "Hello Kitty", but you might as well stay in Sorcelators.

    1. This weekend will be another Double-XP bonus weekend, from 8PM Friday April 9 until 8AM Monday April 12 (local server time).

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Stupid wrote: »
    There is an alt legion called "Hello Kitty", but you might as well stay in Sorcelators.

    That's pretty much what I'm doing. A bit disappointed, but it's not like I'm not used to being alone.

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Hrmm, does anyone else have a trial invite lying around? I'm sure this is at least worth a look for dicking around with the character creator.

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    PSN: Ubeltanzer Blizzard: Ubel#1258
  • gunwarriorgunwarrior Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Gah, I spent about 40 minutes in the character editor trying to perfect a dark-skinned female scout that fits the tough voice. As I'm typing in the name I run out of trial time. I swear I'm gonna kill someone

    I'm gonna try and pick this up soon, it seems pretty good

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  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I'm probly going to resub this week i think. Been itching to play again lately.

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    PSN: PA_Elimination 3DS: 4399-2012-1711 Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheElimination/
  • FingerSlutFingerSlut __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2010
    I resubbed and joined my pals who never left. We all rolled sin's and had a blast in the noob zone. Everything looks like it got a few more coats of polish.

    Prolly won't be leaving it this go around.:lol:

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  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    FingerSlut wrote: »
    I resubbed and joined my pals who never left. We all rolled sin's and had a blast in the noob zone. Everything looks like it got a few more coats of polish.

    Prolly won't be leaving it this go around.:lol:

    What is it you noticed that they added? I know theres been a few patches since i played last. A fix for the quest rewards so they give a more useful amount of XP maybe?

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  • StupidStupid Newcastle, NSWRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    What is it you noticed that they added? I know theres been a few patches since i played last. A fix for the quest rewards so they give a more useful amount of XP maybe?

    DISCLAIMER: I actually like Aion as a game and have had a subscription since they released.

    The XP awards from quests was adjusted ever-so-slightly, but I certainly wouldn't call it "useful". Generally, an average quest will give you 3-4 kills worth of XP. If you are looking at pure XP/time, the vast majority of quests are not worthwhile. You would gain more XP just sitting in one spot and mindlessly grinding on MOBs. The equipment rewards are even more useless. If you have access to a crafter (or take up crafting yourself) or simply save your kinah, the stuff that you can make (or buy from the Trade Broker) will make the quest rewards look like complete and utter crap. I think I've only actually equipped a total of six quest reward items EVER (in seven months of continual playtime across five different characters).

    The double XP weekends make leveling a breeze however. The last time we had a 2xXP weekend I started a new toon and took it from brand new to level 19 in about ten hours of play. The following 2xXP weekend, I played about the same amount of time (ten hours over three evenings) and ended up just a hair shy of level 25. I'm told that a hardcore player can go from 1 to 35 in a single 2xXP weekend if they work at it. (The operative word there is "work" and I already have a job!)

    Having said that, the game is definitely more polished than it was at release. Part of that is that the playerbase has "settled in". A lot of the initial wave of people were coming from WoW, and expecting the game to play like WoW. After all, Aion looks a lot like WoW, right? So logically it follows that WoW-friendly strategies should work in Aion. But they don't really. Depending on your viewpoint, this is either a good thing or a bad thing. So now that the players have adjusted their playstyles to fit Aion, rather than trying to force Aion into a WoW-shaped mold, the game runs a lot smoother.

    Most of the people in the newbie and mid-level areas are working on their fourth or fifth toon and they know where to go and how to get it done. Prices for items on the trade Broker are (mostly) stable and (fairly) reasonable. The Abyss is no longer a ganker's paradise; there are five times more gankers in the mid-level PvE zones than in the Abyss. Goldseller spam is pretty much on par with WoW.

    Overall it's still the same game. If you didn't like Aion because it was too grindy... or because there were too many gankers... or because the UI didn't allow LUA mods/plugins... none of that has changed. You probably still wont like Aion. If you have multiple 80s in WoW and are looking for nightly raid groups, Aion isn't the right game for you.

    If you were annoyed by goldseller spam... or by the PUGs that had a 2H Templar, a "tanking" Glad, a pewpewpew Cleric, and a "healing" Chanter... or by Spiritmaster pets that died every time you jumped off a ledge... it might be worth giving Aion a second look. Aion really shines for the "casual" player who only logs in for a dozen or so hours a week.

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  • FingerSlutFingerSlut __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2010
    FingerSlut wrote: »
    I resubbed and joined my pals who never left. We all rolled sin's and had a blast in the noob zone. Everything looks like it got a few more coats of polish.

    Prolly won't be leaving it this go around.:lol:

    What is it you noticed that they added? I know theres been a few patches since i played last. A fix for the quest rewards so they give a more useful amount of XP maybe?

    I've noticed mobs in the starting area have more "polish" like extra details model wise for example.

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  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    So Aion has become more casual friendly? I actually really enjoyed Aion when i played it, and i thought the community was really nice. Penric you actually made me a bunch of items when i played on my Gladiator.

    The only thing i am worried about is that i enjoy the social parts of MMO's a lot more than any other part and i hope that i can get back into a new guild thing when i eventually resub. The only reason i didn't renew was the quest reward system was pretty bad and i'd rather quest than grind. I didn't find the grind horrible, but i wanted more quests.

    Elimination on
    PSN: PA_Elimination 3DS: 4399-2012-1711 Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheElimination/
  • gunwarriorgunwarrior Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Looks like this weekend is gonna be double XP. Whooo

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Not actually subscribing atm but this is in fact the double XP weekend. 23-26. Get your xpees if you play Aion.

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  • ScrubletScrublet Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I haven't resubscribed yet but was checking to see how many people were still in here. School's about to wind down (dropped to 1 a semester instead of 2 since launch, full-time work sucked). last I played barely anyone was active. How many of you are still in this? I built a new computer that I really want to put through this now, 8 months later :D

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    I hear PC gaming is huge off the coast of Somalia right now.

    PSN: TheScrublet
  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    So i tried to resub today only to find out my password no longer works for my account, and when i go to retrieve it it asks security questions i can't answer, like which college i went to, when i never went to a college.

    Elimination on
    PSN: PA_Elimination 3DS: 4399-2012-1711 Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheElimination/
  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Yeah, NCSoft has the worst account security ever.

    That same thing happened to me and I had to contact them directly (you can do it via their support site) and you can get them your account info and your game keys and they will give you your account back.

    When it happened to me I ended up with half a month of time on my Aion account, a level 38 templar and about 25mil Kinah.

    So...considering I wasn't even subscribing at the time that was hard to beat. :P

    EDIT: I just checked my account and I still have control of it.

    I'm kind of sad about that to be honest :lol:

    I wanted another high level character and a ton of money!

    The Dude With Herpes on
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  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    With my luck i will log on and i'll have my 2 characters with no kinah an no items.

    Elimination on
    PSN: PA_Elimination 3DS: 4399-2012-1711 Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheElimination/
  • StupidStupid Newcastle, NSWRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Lots of exciting things incoming!

    First, the official announcements:
    + Aion 1.9 will be released to NA servers in May, 2010 SOURCE
    + Aion 2.0 patch notes will be translated shortly SOURCE

    And here is some of the actual content that will be available in these patches:
    + the 1.9 "patch" is mostly gameplay improvements and fixes
    + 15 new skills (2 to 3 per class)
    + reduced travel, soul binding and soul healing costs
    + increased XP and "rare item" drop rates
    + improved mission rewards
    + daily quests system
    + improvements to Dredgion (YAY!)
    + new LFG system (goodbye barrens chat in /3 !)
    + a two handed weapon combination system (more ways to gimp your toon!)
    + a weapon rental shop (for the pitifully stupid or RMT players)
    + new stats including: Heal amount increase, Magic Crit, Magic and Physical Crit Defense, and Magic and Physical Crit Resistance.
    + tons of class balance changes
    1.9 PATCH NOTES
    OFFICIAL SOURCE #1
    OFFICIAL SOURCE #2
    OFFICIAL SOURCE #3

    + The 2.0 "patch" is 3.6 Gigs of NEW CONTENT
    + level cap raised to 55
    + two new outdoor zones
    + one new high level instance
    + new PvP dungeon zone
    + sexy new level 50 and 55 wings
    + "Airflow" travel system
    + additional class balance adjustments
    SOURCE
    HELLBOUND
    MASSIVELY
    VIDEO
    (scroll forward to 2:00)

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