PvE content?

[fishstix]

My favorite sorc move is to Restraint someone who just jumped off a high cliff. Just got done doing 2hrs of pvp ganking. An assassin and I duo'd for about 2hrs on the Asmo side through a rift :D

sooo much fun, together we killed about 50 ppl just duoing. It was great taking my ffxi frustration out on innocent people doing quests.

[Chocoboy]

Thats definitely the best part of rifting. I have a friend thats in the high 30s on SM and RNG and we just pretty much 1 or 2 shot everyone for hours in most of the Eltnen Rifts. I don't care who says its cheap, fuck off, its fun as hell.

[Pooky]

My favorite sorc move is to Restraint someone who just jumped off a high cliff. Just got done doing 2hrs of pvp ganking. An assassin and I duo'd for about 2hrs on the Asmo side through a rift :D

sooo much fun, together we killed about 50 ppl just duoing. It was great taking my ffxi frustration out on innocent people doing quests.

I'd have to say my favorite is baiting people in the abyss to fly after me, then using water spirit to crash them once they're not over land. Or Fear + Crash, that one's hilarious too :D

Don't get AP for it, but damn its fun lol

[Priran]

Is PvP in Aion actually well balanced? In Lineage II they could never get it right, not for lack of trying.

[Vail]

Am I the only person here who liked Ballista?

I liked it enough to become a royale champion, but when you get people in ballista who aren't playing it for the game it is (you know, scoring petras and teamwork) too many people interested in 1v1 each other, or people only interested in killing other players, people crying about being enfeebled and how it's "cheap".

It was fun, but somewhere down the line the players ruined it.

[SilverBreeze]

I always wanted to do Royale, I felt like I was a good enough Ballista player to do it but I made the mistake of playing a Taru and I could never get on any serious team cause of it

[fishstix]

It's difficult to recover in pvp when someone gets the jump on you. I think only once out of 4 times when it was me vs an assassin, I was able to escape. I hit my SS button and then spammed sleep until it finally went through, he kept interrupting me. I got away with like 10% hp left. That particular assassin probably wasn't good at pvp though, because I know I wasn't lol, I should've been dead.

[Katlan]

Is PvP in Aion actually well balanced? In Lineage II they could never get it right, not for lack of trying.

I dont think PvP can ever be well balanced, it's just a dream everyone has. I wouldn't consider any class to be OP against the rest, but one thing i definitely notice is each class has a very strong counter (doesn't mean you can't kill your counter, but certain classes are stronger against others, vice-versa).

[Lebzile]

Cleric is probably the most Op class, especially come 1.5 when there is a rumored 40% pvp reduction coming with absolutely nothing done to the amount a heal heals for.

[SilverBreeze]

Got jumped by a ?? Sorcerer while grinding in Eltnen earlier. Luckily for me I was by the monkey village and managed to Line of Sight him forever while my Spirit with Strengthening Spirit of Armor: Light II up beat his fucking face in while I stacked dots on him. Was pretty awesome.

My first PvP experience, so fun :O

[Pooky]

Got jumped by a ?? Sorcerer while grinding in Eltnen earlier. Luckily for me I was by the monkey village and managed to Line of Sight him forever while my Spirit with Strengthening Spirit of Armor: Light II up beat his fucking face in while I stacked dots on him. Was pretty awesome.

My first PvP experience, so fun :O

Just wait till you get Fear :D

[Evokerz]

As for endgame other than instanced and fortresses, Aion also incorporated NM and HNM system similar like FFXI timer spawn, at your homeland, opposing faction homeland and at Abyss.

For example in Abyss Core there are HNM with the name Menitos which drop the best non-abyss lvl50 gear, you will need 30+ peoples to safely taking him down. Here is the twist, the hardest part is not about taking down the HNM it self, but it is the opposing faction that are trying to backstab your legions while you are fighting Menitos half way.

Personally, to me, its something which is very interesting as comparing to FFXI, because on FFXI the best your rival shell could do is either out claim the NM, MPK, steal or bitching around.
To overcome PvE NM/HNM you just need experience and tactics, once it is known, the same tactic applied over and over and the challange diminishing overtime, but with added PvP, you won't know what strategy the other factions going to use against you, there is challange what I call "uncertainty" over your opponent.

Your skill is determined not just solely who can dish big numbers or who can hold hate well, but it also need your group strategy, quick wit, timed use of skills for the right moment, movement to confuse your enemy PC, survival, knowing which enemy to focus first (not just randomly attack anyone), knowing to ignore which enemy, assisting your team mates (provoke is not working against PC), etc.

Read the link below for many Q&A about PvP Aion and also video from Korean player: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...or-server.html