Aion: The Tower of Eternity

[Lordwafik]

FFXI is "asian" too, and you liked it. I'd suggest just going into it with an open mind. Since you are able to test it for free, you dont have to worry about the pressure of "I paid for this?!" whether its a good or bad feeling.

I liked it too while I was playing and paying , when I got banned I could look back and see the flaws of it as an unpaid customer vs other mmos and holy shit grindfest XI + shitty drop rates on everything + world spawns on anything worth a crap and long respawn timers = no thanks ever again. I'm not being a bitter HURRRRRRRRR SE HURRRRRR, but I can see the style between an east vs a west mmo and the difference is significant in my eyes.

Asian MMOs make you grind mobs for exp and never try to hide it in quests or such (until now with Aion really). I think the shitty drop rate thing is just a SE flavour since all the other ones I tried out after FF had high drop rates for a lot of things, but whatever I'm very skeptical of them.

[Krandor]

Just got my Aion family and friends test code / install file (I got a buddy working in NCsoft).

Still highly skeptical about it considering it's an asian MMO, but I will install and dick around.

I'll see you there Waffles!

[Purrrfect]

There is going to be some kind of free Aion on the chinese servers April 30-May 15 I think. There is a thread about it in the news section on aionsource.

And JP beta later July or something.

[Falisa]

If anyone is interested in playing on the Chinese retail version and being an asmodian, a friend and I are playing together on the northern China servers, Ciel server.

[Gokulo]

I was playing on the Berita server in the 4th region, but atm it seems dumb admins on the campus decided to put some stupid firewall or something blocking ton of things, and I can't connect.... ; ; Damn and just as I was having so much fun with my Fire Spirit.

One of few SS I saved(not much of a photo-snapper):
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/295/aion0000zjh.jpg
Was really surprised to see the mobs fighting themselves :D

[Aro]

If anyone is interested in playing on the Chinese retail version and being an asmodian, a friend and I are playing together on the northern China servers, Ciel server.

Should move to Region 4 Bertia server ;3 !

[Rulke]

Ive noticed in numerous screen shots, like the one Gokulo posted, that there seem to be plenty of monsters for people to level up on. Is this usually true? I heard early rumors that it was hard to find any due to swarms of people running all over and killing mobs, which lead to mob stealing et.

[Fayttt]

It really wasn't too bad. The respawn rates were really quick; the mobs were somewhat abundant. It was more fast-ass respawn rates that helped out.

[Aro]

Ive noticed in numerous screen shots, like the one Gokulo posted, that there seem to be plenty of monsters for people to level up on. Is this usually true? I heard early rumors that it was hard to find any due to swarms of people running all over and killing mobs, which lead to mob stealing et.

It's alright, some popular grind spots have less mobs, but that can be compared to two camps partying together in FFXI. Although it can usually support around 3-5 people depending on the camp. Ksing is actually sort of a problem right now, since drops on monsters are decided on who did the most % dmg.

Imagine, Faf spawning and all the alliances fighting to see who gets the highest damage to get drops.

[Falisa]

There are several things about the claim system and mob mechanics that really bother me. Certain things make it so easy to MPK or steal another person's monster. There are so many times my friend and I were killing some elite monsters for a quest drop and some person thats about 5 levels higher than us walks up and decimates the monster, getting the drops.

Its also extremely easy to MPK anyone you wish, as there is no..i guess you could say wait period between deaggro and aggroing you. As soon as a monster pops, if you're next to it, it will aggro you. Or if someone brings about 5 monsters and dies next to you, they immediatly aggro you when the person dies. If you know from FFXI, the mosnters kind of wander around a bit on pop before they are aggroable, gives you time to run out of aggro range. Hope they fix these issues sometime in the future, and I just hope theres no world spawns, I havent exactly looked into the endgame of Aion that deeply.

[Purrrfect]

There are several things about the claim system and mob mechanics that really bother me. Certain things make it so easy to MPK or steal another person's monster. There are so many times my friend and I were killing some elite monsters for a quest drop and some person thats about 5 levels higher than us walks up and decimates the monster, getting the drops.

Its also extremely easy to MPK anyone you wish, as there is no..i guess you could say wait period between deaggro and aggroing you. As soon as a monster pops, if you're next to it, it will aggro you. Or if someone brings about 5 monsters and dies next to you, they immediatly aggro you when the person dies. If you know from FFXI, the mosnters kind of wander around a bit on pop before they are aggroable, gives you time to run out of aggro range. Hope they fix these issues sometime in the future, and I just hope theres no world spawns, I havent exactly looked into the endgame of Aion that deeply.

I hate that about monster spawnings being active off the bat. And the people dropping a train on you sucks too, particularly because unlike FFXI where mobs would walk back at a slow pace, these run back at full speed so you don't have much chance to avoid them or get out of the way. Fortunately it hasn't happened much, and as this game doesn't seem to be much on the whole "find a campsite and kill shit" it might not really be much of an issue.

[richardd]

despite that, ill still pick it up as my next main MMO.

im upgrading my PC for the pure reason of playing it at full specs <_>;

i agree with wafic. after looking at FFXI at a non-paying customer POV, i never realized how much other MMO's had to offer as far as versatility in comparison to grindfesting so much. I cant wait till Aion hits the shelves. My old crew is gonna gather on there as well.

[Kitha]

despite that, ill still pick it up as my next main MMO.

im upgrading my PC for the pure reason of playing it at full specs <_>;

i agree with wafic. after looking at FFXI at a non-paying customer POV, i never realized how much other MMO's had to offer as far as versatility in comparison to grindfesting so much. I cant wait till Aion hits the shelves. My old crew is gonna gather on there as well.

word :>

[Falisa]

Time to make a legion on Aion NA called BlueGartr!

I really do like the game though. :D

Spoiler: show

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2866/aion0027p.jpg

[Ragnus]

Is there a Beta out or something? Wikipedia says the game isn't coming out until fall. I'd gladly join Bluegartr Aion though.

[Halion]

Yeah if you google the Chinese OB there's a bunch of threads with instructions how to do it and common errors you encounter.
Can anyone here that reads Chinese help me change the game resolution from the launcher please? It defaults in one that my monitor doesn't support, I'm so emo ;;
I clicked the only button that looked like it could be options in the top right corner and I played with like every check box there to no avail.

[Eanae]

I'll most likely be sticking with my guild since I've put a lot of work into it already, but if a guild under the BG name does get started, I would definitely roll on the same server as BG people.

[Koul]

for the people playing the beta-

if I played and really enjoyed WoW, would this be a good one to hop into as soon as it comes out?

or should I hold out and see if people hate the game. ala AoC and Warhammer(somewhat)

[Falisa]

I don't know anything about WoW, but just so you know, the beta ended about two weeks ago now. The chinese version went into retail, so you have to pay to play now. Its very cheap though.

[Halion]

Certain regions still have free play until May 16th.