Aion: The Tower of Eternity

[niwaar]

Kind of amazing that so many people are pre-ordering this game when it seems to be so flawed. I guess there is just that many people that play MMO's that are ready for something new.

Just reading through all the comments from people who played the beta pretty thoroughly is enough to make me want to wait to make this game prove itself before buying it.

Looks great though and I am very intrigued i just dont think its going to be ready from the start. Although I guess no MMO is really complete at launch.

The basic reality is that if anyone remember's the state that a game like FFXI was in prelaunch and even early launch compared to now, you'd see that the game still needs a lot of work. The biggest unfortunate issue that came out of beta weekend was that they chose to give you a look at the way the game's first itteration was and not what it is currently. The game is a Korean game, the asian MMO market is much more comfortable with the more "hardcore" aspects of MMOs. They are much more comfortable with putting content out there and having it fixed while they play.

As it is 1.0 Aion is a much more stable game than AoC or Warhammer were at release. It has its glaring flaws, however a good number of those flaws have been addressed through the 1.1 and 1.2 patches to the Korean release. If you are basing your opinions of the game on comparing it to WoW, Warhammer, or even FFXI vs the shown version, I would encourage you to wait til we see further beta weekends to see whats going to be the final release.

As of now C-Aion is fun, its hugely flawed, more so because of the responsiveness and lag felt by having to have the server in north china. Yet it is a completely fun and well worth it alternative to the stagnant and increasingly easier and easier World of Warcraft and the 7 year old FFXI. If anything this game will give you a deeper sense of story than WoW or any other MMO since FFXI.

[Arelian]

u know... that is why forums have spoiler tags..... should be ban worthy for somebody w/ 18 posts posting like 20 pics w/o tagging em

Lolwut?

Why would it be ban worthy for a person with 18 posts to post that many pictures?

And you do realize if it's spoilered they still load, right?

[Noobta]

Lolwut?

Why would it be ban worthy for a person with 18 posts to post that many pictures?

And you do realize if it's spoilered they still load, right?

Yes, but you don't have to scroll past them each time.

[Katlan]

Lolwut?

Why would it be ban worthy for a person with 18 posts to post that many pictures?

And you do realize if it's spoilered they still load, right?

Because you don't have to scroll past 30 large screenshots every fuckin time you check a thread

[Gekii]

sweet pics, i enjoyed

[Indalecia]

Enjoy it while you can, I intend on raiding the shit out of those fairy's.

[Eanae]

Enjoy it while you can, I intend on raiding the shit out of those fairy's.

^ The Elyos shall burn!

[Akiyama]

u know... that is why forums have spoiler tags..... should be ban worthy for somebody w/ 18 posts posting like 20 pics w/o tagging em

Uh.. yeah, no. Post counts mean jack shit with how many pictures they post. If I were to come in here and post fifty something pictures, would that make it okay due to my post count? Probably not. That'd probably piss a lot of people off with shitty systems. I for one have a shitty system and I didn't have a huge problem with those pictures, but I guess I can see how some can.

Secondly, fantastic pictures Talila. I love how beautiful that game is. I'd love to try it if this computer could run it. Thank god I should be upgrading here within a couple weeks.

I'm gonna toss a spoiler tag over the images though so some people won't complain. I know it doesn't stop the page from actually loading the images, but I guess it'll help with those who don't want to scroll past all of them unless they choose to click the tag open. =p

[Falisa]

Akiyama can .dat mod the eat animation for cake instead of bread/meat

[Tomk]

Does anyone know more about the server channels? We had someone ganking our quest mobs so we just switched channels and they were all ours. I maybe slow on learning this but I think that it's really cool.

[Dantrag]

lower levels have server channels so that you can switch between them. i believe you can consider them separate instances.

[Tomk]

So it's only certain areas?

[Purrrfect]

Finally got around to trying out a gladiator this weekend. It's been so long since I played DRK I had forgotten what a 2hand delay is like... On the plus side they are pretty beefy, but definitely gonna need to keep potions handy as I've been used to being able to heal myself.

On a healing note, I noticed you can get the starter bandages for 50 kinah, and the odella powder for the herb treatment is 170, but the herb treatment only gets you 20hp more. >.>

[Aevis]

for c-aion players using english patch: http://www.sendspace.com/file/syc405. no more %durationtimenosec and a couple of other stuff fixed.

[Tomk]

for c-aion players using english patch: http://www.sendspace.com/file/syc405. no more %durationtimenosec and a couple of other stuff fixed.

I love you

[MisterBob]

Finally got around to trying out a gladiator this weekend. It's been so long since I played DRK I had forgotten what a 2hand delay is like... On the plus side they are pretty beefy, but definitely gonna need to keep potions handy as I've been used to being able to heal myself.

On a healing note, I noticed you can get the starter bandages for 50 kinah, and the odella powder for the herb treatment is 170, but the herb treatment only gets you 20hp more. >.>

That's because it's also used for Mana Treatment.

[Katlan]

So it's only certain areas?

Yeah, its only for Peota and Verteron region. I think Theobomeos (sp) also, though not sure since never bothered to check that region. It's really just for the starter areas, in order to help w/ the massive influx of ppl.

for c-aion players using english patch: http://www.sendspace.com/file/syc405. no more %durationtimenosec and a couple of other stuff fixed.

<3

[Hixxy]

Hey anyone got a good guide for the english patch? i dowloaded various ones and moved it into the L10N folder but none of them seem to work. any help would be greatly appreciated. thx

[Katlan]

Hey anyone got a good guide for the english patch? i dowloaded various ones and moved it into the L10N folder but none of them seem to work. any help would be greatly appreciated. thx

Move the ENU.pack (forgot its file extension) to the LN10 folder. If you haven't already done so, make a copy of the CNU (forgot name) folder in the LN10 folder and rename the CNU (forgot name) part to "ENU"

[Pooky]

lower levels have server channels so that you can switch between them. i believe you can consider them separate instances.

absolutely love this feature, abused the hell out of it on all my characters needing krall missions. Sneak to a watchtower, kill the Tursin on the tower (significantly easier than other mobs in the area) change channel, repeat. Doing that for the three towers will get you done with <Mark of Revenge> in about 20 mins or so, solo.

Also is really handy for gather quests in Vertnen (sp?) run to gather point, change channel, repeat.

I'm glad they limited it to the first two zones only though, would defeat the purpose of a pvp game where you can just change channels to avoid fights. (Not to mention how easily abused it can be for named mobs)