Tips and tricks thread

[Maguspk]

Everytime I get 2k DP I log out and forget to use it before I log, never on long enough to accumulate it, now I'm curious because everyone is saying it looks awesome.

[Falisa]

Using the DP move on a giant boss looks wicked though x.x

Ok now I'm curious what it would look like on one of those massive bosses rofl

Everytime I get 2k DP I log out and forget to use it before I log, never on long enough to accumulate it, now I'm curious because everyone is saying it looks awesome.

For gladiator, you pretty much stab the enemy with your weapon, lift them in the air and slam them on the ground.

[Veyron]

Ok now I'm curious what it would look like on one of those massive bosses rofl


For gladiator, you pretty much stab the enemy with your weapon, lift them in the air and slam them on the ground.

Looks awesome combined with other skills used before/after

[fishstix]

I only got to level 21 Glad, so the biggest boss I fought was the end of Anti-Krall measures :/

[Lebzile]

Could have fought that big ass crab that wanders around Verteron every now and then.

[Syntex]

Could have fought that big ass crab that wanders around Verteron every now and then.

I soloed him at 10, good XP like 4 bubbles..

Tried 3 times after that and every time he was sub ~25% he uses fury when I am 20+ meters away and 1shots me or knockdown until he is able to melee me and kill me...

:/

[Veyron]

Could have fought that big ass crab that wanders around Verteron every now and then.

I went back to kill him on my Glad right before servers went back down, shoulda taken pics

[Lebzile]

I tried killing him at 17 on my Siel gladi and got raped. I figured "hey, he's just 13, I'll kick it's ass".

[fishstix]

Once, I saw Verteron npcs fighting the big crab, I guess someone dragged it into town? I tried the same, dragging it there, but the npcs did nothing. I noticed the same thing at the observatory, sometimes the npcs attack mobs, sometimes they dont.

What exactly triggers npcs attacking? Is it random, or does the mob have to do an aoe or some other trigger?

[Alderaan]

Oh man, first time i aggro'd that thing i ran back into town thinking i was safe.

It went on to rape me, and then the npc's killed it.

[Maguspk]

Sounds like NPCs don't get involved if there's an aggro table. Seems good, I wouldn't want NPCs attacking my stuff.

[Syntex]

Sounds like NPCs don't get involved if there's an aggro table. Seems good, I wouldn't want NPCs attacking my stuff.

Wrong.

For whatever reason it didn't get attacked by the guards is beyond me but every time I kited it to town guards zerged it...

[Priran]

In that forest in the Asmodian newbie area, as soon as I attacked a mob in the vicinity of one of the NPCs they would run over and bitchslap it.

[Lebzile]

Same as Priran, but I also noticed that while doing the fungus campaign quest, if there was a fungus close and I used a range skill to kill it next to the npc, Borender, he would try to engage it but would just stand there with his weapon out. Lol

[Evokerz]

Here comes the shocker:

If you on dangerous mission/quest/NM at elite camps, find any brazier, campfire, lava, what ever can burn you for 3-5 dmg. Stand on top of it and burn your self once, for the next 10 mins, whenever you die from npc, you will not lose xp.

If you cant find any brazer, duel with your own faction, does not matter you win or lose becase for the next 10 mins whenever you die from NPC or falling to death, you will not lose xp.

[Purrrfect]

Here comes the shocker:

If you on dangerous mission/quest/NM at elite camps, find any brazier, campfire, lava, what ever can burn you for 3-5 dmg. Stand on top of it and burn your self once, for the next 10 mins, whenever you die from npc, you will not lose xp.

If you cant find any brazer, duel with your own faction, does not matter you win or lose becase for the next 10 mins whenever you die from NPC or falling to death, you will not lose xp.

Isn't this fixed in the upcoming 1.2 for china? If not, is it fixed in 1.5?

[Pooky]

Isn't this fixed in the upcoming 1.2 for china? If not, is it fixed in 1.5?

I hope not, bad enough 1.2/1.5 remove the glitch exp spots. Removing the fire bug will be depressing as hell in Kadian HQ when idiots don't know how to pull or CC.

[Purrrfect]

Ripped this from a post on AS:

http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/aion/Chat+Commands

InvitetoGroup [character name] (/Invite)
Invites a character to a group. (/InvitetoGroup Shungshung)

/LeaveGroup (/Leave)
Leaves the group you belong to. (/LeaveGroup)

/BanGroup [character name] (/Kick)
The group leader kicks a group member out. (/BanGroup Shungshung)

/InvitetoForce [character name]
Invites a character to an Alliance. (/InvitetoForce Mew)

/LeaveForce (/Leave)
Leaves the Alliance you belong to. (/LeaveForce)

/BanfromForce [character name] (/Kick)
Kicks a member from an Alliance. (/BanfromForce Mew)

/AppointViceCaptain [character name] (/Appoint)
Appoints the character as the Alliance Vice Captain. (/AppointViceCaptain Mew)

/BattleReady (/Ready)
Requests the Alliance members to confirm battle readiness. (/BattleReady)

/InvitetoLegion [character name]
Invites a character to a Legion. (/InvitetoLegion Mew)

/LeaveLegion
Leaves the Legion you belong to. (/LeaveLegion)

/KickfromLegiion [character name]
Kicks a character from the Legion. (/KickfromLegion Mew)

/DelegateBrigadeGeneralAuthority [character name]
Entrusts a character with the Brigade General Authority. (/DelegateBrigadeGeneralAuthority Mew)

/LegionNotice (/gnotice)
Displays the Legion announcement. (/LegionNotice)

/AppointCenturion [character name] (/Centurion)
Appoints a Legion Legionnaire as Centurion. (/AppointCenturion Mew)

/DemotetoLegionnaire [character name] (/Legionnaire)
Demotes a Legion Centurion to a Legionnaire. (/DemotetoLegionnaire Mew)

/who [character name]
Checks the character information in the Search window. (/who Daeva)

/Friend [character name]

/DeleteFriend [character name]

/Block [character name]
Blocks the target. (/Block Daeva)

/Unblock [character name] (/Undo)

/Petition
Displays the Petition window. (/Petition)

/CancelPetition
Cancels the submitted petition. (/CancelPetition)

/Trade
Begins a trade with the target. (/Trade)

/Location
Shows the coordinate information of the current location. (/Location)

/PathFinding [NPC/Location]Displays the path to a specific NPC/location. (/PathFinding Elpis)
Cancels the path finding. (/PathFinding)

/Duel
Requests a duel of the target. (/Duel)

/Time

/Flight
Enters the flight mode. (/Flight)

Solo Skill Chain :

/Automatic Selection <---Key in this ONLY if you are even too lazy to click on the mob manually
/skill [name of skills]
/delay 2 (set your delay accordingly not more than 4-5)
/skill [name of skills]
/delay 2
/Attack (Resume auto attack)

Group Party Assist Attack Macro :
/select [Nick of the tank] (exclude "[" "]")
/skill Assist Target (will switch target to the one the tank is targetting)
/Group Assisting to attack [%target] now. (Group chat - [%target] will auto change into the name of your target. Must key in "[" & "]")
/Attack

I do not recommend you guys to use skill chain in the Group Party Assist Attack Macro. Dedicate your skill chain using another macro icon. It will save you a lot of headache trust me.

Useful Macro Command

/Select = Target
/Skill Assist Target = If you target your tank and he is in turn targeting a mob, your target will switch to the mob
/Select [%target'starget] = same as /skill Assist Target (thx to Xareny at Official beta forums)
/Group = Group Chat
/Shout = Shout
/General = General chat (actually if you want to chat in normal channel, just type what you want to say in the line will do. You do not need this command unless your chat is in eg Alliance chat mode)
/Legion = Chat will only display among legion members
/Attack = Attack
/Automatic Selection = it will choose nearest mob
/Skill [skill name] = Use the skill as reflected in the skill name (You do not need to key in the "[" & "]")
[%Target] = Will display Target name. You will need to key in "[" & "]"
[%group1] = Will display the player occupying the first slot of the party
/delay 1 = delay set to 1 sec (I recommend you set your delay according to the casting time of your previous skill command)

Macro?s

What is a Macro?
A macro is a function that allows one to link a series of commands to an icon and execute the commands simply by clicking the icon. Run Macro
To run a macro, drag the macro icon you created in the list window to the quickbar. You can use macro commands directly in chat windows.

Manage Macro
Add Macro
Click the ?New Macro? button in the macro window to open the Edit Macro window. Delete Macro
Select the macro icon to edit and click the ?Delete? button. Modify Macro
Select the macro icon to edit and click the ?Modify? button to display the Edit Macro window. In that window, edit the macro and click the ?Save? button.

Edit Macro
Configure Edit Window
There are Macro Name, Macro Description, Select Icon, and Macro Command Input boxes from top to bottom in the Edit Macro window. Enter an appropriate name in the Macro Name box. You can enter up to 10 characters, including spaces.
Enter an appropriate description in the Macro Description box. You can enter up to 40 characters, including spaces.
Choose an appropriate icon.

Macro Command - automatic input
The Macro Command Input box is at the lower part of the Edit Macro window. You can enter up to 255 letters including spaces. There is no limit in the number of lines. To enter a command, drag and drop the skill, emotion, quickbar, and item icon to the Macro Command Input box.

Macro Command - usage skill manual input
Enter the skill name, including spaces, after the /Skill command. (Example: /Skill Severe Strike II)

Macro Command - function manual input
Enter the function name, including spaces, after the /Skill command. (Example: /Skill Pick up Item)

Macro Command - show emotion manual input
Enter the emotion name after the slash (/) character. (Example: /Laugh)

Macro Command - quickbar manual input
Enter the numbers corresponding to the type of quickbar, page, and slot sequentially after the /Quickbar command. The numbers for quickbar types are: Basic Quickbar (1), Ctrl Quickbar (2), Alt Quickbar (3), Right Quickbar (4). (Example: /Quickbar 1 1 1) Executes the icon registered in the first slot of the first page of Basic Quickbar.

Macro Command - item manual input
Enter the item name, including spaces, after the /Use command. (Example: /Use Mercenary Canteen)

Macro Command - select target
Enter the name of the character within a selectable distance after the /Select command. You can enter [%Yourself], [%Pet], [%Group1]~[%Group5], [%Pet1]~[%Pet5], [%Target], and [%Previous Target] instead of character name. (Example: /Select [%Pet1]) Select the pet of the first group member
If you enter [%Previous Target] instead of character name, macro selects the previous target automatically. (Example: /Select [%Previous Target])
Macro Command - chat
You can enter the same way as you enter in the chat window. You can change the Chat Mode by entering /Normal, /Group, /Alliance, /Legion, /Shout, and /Whisper. (Example: /Whisper Hi, how are you?)
During the chat, you can enter [%Yourself], [%Pet], [%Group1]~[%Group5], [%Pet1]~[%Pet5], [%Target], and [%Previous Target]. (Example: [%Group1] is the best.)

Macro Command - variable
You can assign a frequently used name to a variable by entering ?0~9′ after the /Variable command. (Example: /Variable 0 Brax Milk)
You can simplify macros by entering designated variables for frequently used names. (Example: /Use [%Variable0]) Use Brax Milk
You can see the designated variables in the Variable tab of the Macro window.

Macro Command - Misc.
You can delay the execution of a command by entering the delay time (second) after the /Delay command. (Example: /Delay 3.5) Delays the execution for 3.5 seconds. You can carry out a normal attack by entering the /Attack command. (Example: /Attack)
You can control your Golem by using the /Golem command with ?Activate? and ?Deactivate?. (Example: /Golem Activate)
You can change your weapon set by entering the /changeweaponset command. (Example: /changeweaponset)
You can assist a target by entering the /AssistTarget command. (Example: /AssistTarget)
You can automatically select hostile targets by entering the /AutomaticSelection command. (Example: /AutomaticSelection)

Caution
Limit Macro
You cannot call a macro using a macro. On some occasions, you need sufficient delay time between commands.
A macro can be stopped due to insufficient MP, abnormal target selection, etc.
You can use the Example tab to see how to use various commands.
You cannot use the following macro commands in the chat window. (/Delay, [%Yourself], [%Pet], [%Group1]~[%Group5], [%Pet1]~[%Pet5], [%Target], [%Previous Target], [%Variable0]~[%Variable9])

[Purrrfect]

More:

Use /alert if you are a Party Leader or Alliance/Force/Raid Leader to broadcast important instructions to the entire Alliance/Force/Raid. This message will appear in large orange text in the center of everyone's screen.

Switch chat modes handily by prefixing your text with the following character, depending on your desired chat mode (you must be in chat mode and this must be the first character):
~ for Normal chat
! for Shout chat
@ for Legion chat
# for Group chat
% for Alliance/Force/Raid chat

Those look particularly useful once you get those prefixes in automatic memory for typing.

[fishstix]

More:

Use /alert if you are a Party Leader or Alliance/Force/Raid Leader to broadcast important instructions to the entire Alliance/Force/Raid. This message will appear in large orange text in the center of everyone's screen.

Switch chat modes handily by prefixing your text with the following character, depending on your desired chat mode (you must be in chat mode and this must be the first character):
~ for Normal chat
! for Shout chat
@ for Legion chat
# for Group chat
% for Alliance/Force/Raid chat

Those look particularly useful once you get those prefixes in automatic memory for typing.

wow awesome