Aion: The Tower of Eternity

[Purrrfect]

I went with Triniel on region 9. ;; The game is something like aion32 or something. Something. For the system specs I was more pointing towards how such a craptacular card (x300) could run the game. When you're standing in a city or anywhere, the ram makes no difference. It just helps when moving through areas.

[Squallx23]

I know nothing about computers so was looking for some input on if my machine will be ok to play this game. These are the specs.

Processor: Pentium(R) Dual Core
ES200 @2.5GHz
4.0 GB RAM
Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family Graphics Card
As for space I have 334 GB free so I think that will be ok. But what about the other stuff? SHould I be ok?

[Kisamoo]

Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family Graphics Card
Not even close. Go buy a graphics card and a proper power supply for it, assuming you bought a pre-built POS that probably has an even shittier power supply.

[Squallx23]

Ok thanks for the input. Yeah it is a pre-built HP

Also what would you recommend for graphics card and power supply and will they be compatible with my HP Pavilion A6620F

Thanks

[Chinch]

Chanter gogo@!

[MisterBob]

Blah, I'm stuck at 18 at the moment. No quests, and it's pretty boring to just farm crabs for 4 hours

[Kisamoo]

Ok thanks for the input. Yeah it is a pre-built HP

Also what would you recommend for graphics card and power supply and will they be compatible with my HP Pavilion A6620F

Thanks

Since you don't know much about PCs you should just take it into a computer shop and ask if they'd upgrade it for you. They come with 250W PS according to what I'm seeing online so that definitely needs to be upgraded to 350~400 I'd say. I don't know much about PS compatibility so you'll have to hit up the tech forums or something. For graphics card, the 9600GT is a great cheap card; along with the 9800GT. Both are a few generations behind, but that makes em cheap.

[Katlan]

Blah, I'm stuck at 18 at the moment. No quests, and it's pretty boring to just farm crabs for 4 hours

Dunno how you can be stuck at 18 w/o quests.. Game isnt like WoW where it tells u everywhere to go, so you may have to look around a little and explore. But quests don't even come close to running dry until around 24-25, where u may have to grind out part of a lv until you are abyss rdy. Then dies out a little bit 30+ and u will have to get a grp and go grind Elite mobs

[Rulke]

Anyone know what happened to Mark over at Aionsource? I only visit that site on and off, but apparenty some shit went down and he was booted from his own site? I'd post there if I thought I could stomach the place enough to actually do so.

[Lebzile]

Something about him stealing info from NCsoft about the early NA beta and got hit with his own Banhammer.

[MisterBob]

Dunno how you can be stuck at 18 w/o quests.. Game isnt like WoW where it tells u everywhere to go, so you may have to look around a little and explore. But quests don't even come close to running dry until around 24-25, where u may have to grind out part of a lv until you are abyss rdy. Then dies out a little bit 30+ and u will have to get a grp and go grind Elite mobs

I've explored all of Verteron, there definitely aren't any quests left aside from 2 Krall Group Missions and a few repeatables that I'm farming.

[Katlan]

ahh... you should find groups to do krall missions/quests. Dunno if there is a large NA pop on ur server, but those krall grind grps give a lot of XP and the mission's give like 100-200k xp each

[MisterBob]

ahh... you should find groups to do krall missions/quests. Dunno if there is a large NA pop on ur server, but those krall grind grps give a lot of XP and the mission's give like 100-200k xp each

Yeah, I'm trying to do that. Reminds me a lot of the old-school dunes...you spend 30min getting a group going, then some guy has to leave due to "family emergency", someone else has to go to bed, etc.

[SamanosukeShiva]

anyone got a chanter? how is it compared to other classes in terms of soloing/DPS in groups

[Pooky]

anyone got a chanter? how is it compared to other classes in terms of soloing/DPS in groups

I've got a 26 chanter atm, and its a really good class for PvE. You do decent damage, have good debuffs and your chants can be really handy. You get a Chain 2 stun and several Defense Down skills, along with things like enslow and enaspir. Chanter can wear Chain and has a high base parry rate (along with a skill that increases parry) so you're able to off tank in a pinch, though you will have trouble keeping your hp up and generating emnity. It solos very well PvE, and you'll level pretty fast without much downtime due to its heals/chants. I've been able to kill things 2-4 levels higher than me consistently, as long as they don't hit too hard you can heal through the damage.

PvP on the other hand, Chanter really falls short. Its plagued by the same issues that all melee classes have, as 90% of Chanter's functionality/usefulness relies on Melee Skills. Add that to a long casting, low return heal and you really start to run into problems. Their lack of a bind or snare exponentially compounds their shortcomings in PvP, as you have almost no hope of keeping someone in range long enough to kill them.

Chanter is really in need of some tweaking, for besides what I've already mentioned, even its base mechanic "Chants" have some serious issues. The run speed and crit+ chants are both extremely useful, however the others are somewhat lacking. The Regen/Refresh chants take way too long to tick for the amounts they restore (the first tier of chants tick for 31/17 respectively, every ~7 seconds) and the Attack/Defense chants are static increases, where a percentage increase would be far more useful have more effect at later levels.

I really like my chanter, its a good class and its fun to play; however as it stands I've almost completely retired it in favor of a class that can actually offer something in a PvP setting, seeing that this is a PvP game, and I like killing people >.>;

[Cyr]

I'm sure its in here somewhere, but the thread is 21 pages long.

So, do the beta accounts carry over to full release?

[Katlan]

I'm sure its in here somewhere, but the thread is 21 pages long.

So, do the beta accounts carry over to full release?

never will a beta account ever ever ever carry over to a full release. I can say "never" more if you would like, but that would create the biggest unfair advantage any mmo has ever faced and would never happen. What they did for China release is let Open Beta carry over characters. But Open beta was only a week before release and would be equal to NA/EU head start program

Chanter is really in need of some tweaking, for besides what I've already mentioned, even its base mechanic "Chants" have some serious issues. The run speed and crit+ chants are both extremely useful, however the others are somewhat lacking. The Regen/Refresh chants take way too long to tick for the amounts they restore (the first tier of chants tick for 31/17 respectively, every ~7 seconds) and the Attack/Defense chants are static increases, where a percentage increase would be far more useful have more effect at later levels.

Dont forget, we are on patch 1.0. Korea is on patch 1.3 that has fixed a SLEW of problems, added new areas, increased max lv to 50, ect...

[SaviorSelf]

These quests really do give a lot of EXP for little to no work. Just dinged 16 Gladiator yesterday. Some quests are really annoying since I can't even begin to imagine where the hell most is. Will post my quest log when I get on and remember, but some I just cannot find.

All and all, very impressed with this game and finally starting to get a hang of it. That mission with Deadly Poison Slacey or whatever, doing that at level 15 was hell lol

[Pooky]

never will a beta account ever ever ever carry over to a full release. I can say "never" more if you would like, but that would create the biggest unfair advantage any mmo has ever faced and would never happen. What they did for China release is let Open Beta carry over characters. But Open beta was only a week before release and would be equal to NA/EU head start program


Dont forget, we are on patch 1.0. Korea is on patch 1.3 that has fixed a SLEW of problems, added new areas, increased max lv to 50, ect...

Yeah, I know we're running 1.0; but from everything I've read there wasn't anything done to chanter (or any class for that matter). I've heard of class adjustments being talked about, but I can't find any solid patch notes relating that.

[socoxak]

I've got a 26 chanter atm, and its a really good class for PvE. You do decent damage, have good debuffs and your chants can be really handy. You get a Chain 2 stun and several Defense Down skills, along with things like enslow and enaspir. Chanter can wear Chain and has a high base parry rate (along with a skill that increases parry) so you're able to off tank in a pinch, though you will have trouble keeping your hp up and generating emnity. It solos very well PvE, and you'll level pretty fast without much downtime due to its heals/chants. I've been able to kill things 2-4 levels higher than me consistently, as long as they don't hit too hard you can heal through the damage.

PvP on the other hand, Chanter really falls short. Its plagued by the same issues that all melee classes have, as 90% of Chanter's functionality/usefulness relies on Melee Skills. Add that to a long casting, low return heal and you really start to run into problems. Their lack of a bind or snare exponentially compounds their shortcomings in PvP, as you have almost no hope of keeping someone in range long enough to kill them.

Chanter is really in need of some tweaking, for besides what I've already mentioned, even its base mechanic "Chants" have some serious issues. The run speed and crit+ chants are both extremely useful, however the others are somewhat lacking. The Regen/Refresh chants take way too long to tick for the amounts they restore (the first tier of chants tick for 31/17 respectively, every ~7 seconds) and the Attack/Defense chants are static increases, where a percentage increase would be far more useful have more effect at later levels.

I really like my chanter, its a good class and its fun to play; however as it stands I've almost completely retired it in favor of a class that can actually offer something in a PvP setting, seeing that this is a PvP game, and I like killing people >.>;

This. I have 37 chanter and i really struggle finishing people off. Playing on Chinese servers also doesn't help since we have no real root/snare spell (the crappy snare stigma doesn't even count).

I dueled my friend sorcerer, and being 1-5m away the whole time spamming the skill button getting too far away messages is quite annoying. After the fight he said I was never even within 10m unless he stopped to cast. Not fun. At 42 there is what looks like a very nice stun skill... 4sec stun, 10sec recast, 25m, instant cast. I wonder if that, along with less lag when on NA servers, would be enough to actually be able to finish people off.

I played my friend's ranger... Wow, what a difference. It was fun to mess around with but he is only level 25 atm