Aion: Goes F2P and Revamped

[Imitarate]

HAHAHA oh ok well nevermind then.

[Eanae]

Yeah pretty much. I'd love an eternal weapon to grind to 60 but I'm not paying 45 for one.

[Imitarate]

Also, I'm loving Nyx' twittertrolling.

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/a...ks-for-bug.jpg

[Lebzile]

Keep getting some odd error, "No patches were found from version 2.7.0.2 to version 2.7.0.2. Please select "Repair" to bring Aion up to date." Doing so will cause another error that says something about a URL that isn't found. Assuming it is because of their site maintenance?

[Imitarate]

Yeah, all connections to the outside are getting shut down. Ignore it til things start to come up.

[Eanae]

I'd almost be tempted to get the large cube if I wouldn't have to buy two of them. And gw2 prepurchases this week.

[Katlan]

if the cube was giving away SW weapons then ppl could bitch since those weapons will prolly still be close to BiS if +15'd even at 60. but lol at bitching about DP weapons. Only funny thing about Tabaha weapons is I don't think you can farm him at 60... right? or do drops stop when the level difference is 11 or more

[Imitarate]

10, you can't anymore at 60 (though you can mentor a level 50 in DP @_@ )

[Eanae]

Gf wants to buy a cube with her own money so maybe I'll get one after all. Depends on what the store has that's good.

[Imitarate]

Store is up, and it is pretty hilarious! Highlights:

Tahabata weapon skins: 160 tokens
Dyes: 40 tokens; black and white dyes, 160 tokens
Scrolls: 1 hour Greater Running, Courage, Awakening, CritStrike, Critspell, Instance resets, 40 tokens each
LOLalchemy: Free

Ridiculously Cute Baby Tahabata Egg (30 days): who cares, I'm not gonna buy a temporary pet, BUT OH MY GOD ITS SO CUTE

[Katlan]

store doesn't have enough worthwhile stuff to really support them making lots of money. can easily ignore it. But, on the other hand, i want to buy the wings and it wont let me login saying its always invalid... when its not lol

[Imitarate]

Apparently you need to log into the game before the auth server will let you do stuff in the store; not sure how that works.

[Eanae]

Not enough to justify me getting a large cube. I guess I should be thankful. Saves me money.

[Imitarate]

I have 1000ncoins from leftover subscription days, but all I really care for is a Taha jewel model for my sorc, so I guess I'll sit on the rest. If I ever pick my sin back up, maybe I'll get a couple of taha swords -- I do really like that model.

[Katlan]

I mean the scrolls are really nice and super cheap to spam regularly if you give em like 5$ a month. Since they last 1hr and persist through death its super OP compared to how traditional scrolls work

oh yeah, but if they don't stack like veteran rewards then its garbage

[Eanae]

I really wanted the actual weapon because it'd make it easy to steam roll 50 to 60 though.

Currently 25% through 42...

[Katlan]

weapon doesn't really help you steamroll that much lol. its just a shit ton of grinding either way

[Imitarate]

When you get to 51, Taloc's really does help. There will be a new solo instance at 56, too. They don't really get you good gear (Taloc offers accessories at best, and even the gold earrings from Celestius kinda blow), but solo instances should generally be supplemented with group instances anyways.

There's apparently also a new solo SR starting at 40 with 3.0, though I don't know much beyond that. It's a lot shorter than group SR, and you fight a giant ape.

[Trichocyst]

Depending on what class you play Upper Udas is the way to go 51-55 in a small party (1-3). Clearing the whole place out will net you a shitload of exp and cash.

[Corwen]

I must say, I find the new shop rather underwhelming. Anything I would want from it, aside from the 30 slot pet, is tradeable. I guess I could fill up the large cube with a year's worth of 30 slot pet eggs lol.

And yes, clearing out both levels of udas is by far the best exp in the game currently at 51-55, especially when double exp is in effect.