Aion: Random Question Thread

[Pooke]

Is there any particular way to obtain courage insignias? I'm doing the 1v1, solo, and EC instances and it feels like that I'm more heavily skewed to crucible insignias. What's the point of having a massive stock of those if I'm short on the courage insignias.

Are you able to sell greater stigmas back for the AP? Looking to upgrade a version of one of mine, and I'm not sure if I wasted some AP. Also I think I remember that people use to stock up on AP items to keep their rank down and then sell them back, does that still work?

[Trichocyst]

You cannot sell back AP items. Courage Insignias come faster in the group PVP arena (and doing well). You can stockpile AP items to keep your rank down, a lot of people do it, and in the toolbar there's even an AP calculator in game that will tally up how much AP you'll have from all of your stockpile.

[Pooke]

Ok, I think you mean I can't sell the stigmas back, but the items themselves are ok, correct?

[Katlan]

you can't sell sitgma's back for AP. and once you use an AP item its gone and you can't a return... at least I think that's what your asking

[Trichocyst]

You will not get refunded any AP for any AP items. You can still vendor or drop them.

[Pooke]

Sorry for my confusion, what are the AP items that you can get to bring your rank down? The whole point of that I thought was so you don't get raped as hard in PvP and lose a lot of AP, and then when you wanted the item that cost AP you'd turn them back in. I know there are crowns, etc. but you can't just buy them can you? Speaking of which, where do you turn those in?

[Katlan]

... you buy stuff using AP to lower your rank so when you die you don't lose as much AP..... but then you need AP to buy better stuff, so it works both ways. Are you just starting out? If so, i wouldn't worry about any of that crap and just level up and play the game as is. you will learn about all that stuff as you level and do forts, eso, ect...

If your not starting out and have been playing for a while >.> I dunno how you haven't figured this stuff out lol

AP is its own system. you get AP from killing ppl of other faction and doing certain PvE instances. you spend AP to buy PvP gear (THAT IS NOT REFUNDABLE). when you buy stuff using AP you lose AP.

...... lets do some math here:

you have 700k AP.... you buy a weapon that costs 300k AP.... you now have 400k AP leftover and your rank drops accordingly based on how much AP you currently have at that very moment. anything AP related is 100% non refundable. all these same rules apply to stigma's.

[Pooke]

I came back recently after a long break so it is all quite foggy to me still. I was leaning towards that you couldn't sell it back, but it seemed so counter intuitive to buy smaller items, while still needing large amounts of AP for the desired weapons and armor lol. I suppose buying stigmas or whatever in advance makes sense, but I was under the impression people were buying stock loads of potions and then turning them back in later. xD

[Katlan]

no... the main source of AP is through getting "AP Items" such as crowns, goblets, ect... ppl stock pile these items and then turn them all in at once when they have enough to buy what they want. this saves them from running around w/a high rank during the accumulation process

[Pooke]

Ok, all makes sense now, thanks!

[Pooke]

I bought the auto-looting pink nyanco and I'm having issues with it looting anything. It is set to auto-loot so it isn't that I forgot to do that. I'm in a group at the moment waiting for dredgion, but I'm killing simple monsters, and it won't pick up basic things like fluxes, fins, etc. Any ideas?

[Trichocyst]

Usually if you're in a group those pets don't work right, if at all.

[Pooke]

It's completely hit and miss as far as I can tell at the moment. It rarely is picking items up, and when it does choose to I don't know why it does lol.

[Trichocyst]

I'd have to ask my NC Soft friends and right now I don't feel like switching to their channel, lol. I'll ask them later for you. Almost all of them have gone back to the game now.

[Pooke]

It is working perfectly solo at least!

[Artemicon]

Is leveling in this game still extremely grindy? I haven't played since shortly after release.

[Trichocyst]

All exp rewards have been increases significantly and they hand out exp amulets hand over fist. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, 3.0 (tomorrow) will make low level exp even easier to get.

[Eanae]

40+ has still been a massive bitch. Currently 44 and it's back to a grind fest.

[Trichocyst]

I think 45-50 is the worst stretch of the game. 51-55 is a breeze. I already know the exp requirements for 59-60 and it's a doozy, lol.

[Imitarate]

I'm really hoping this new SR instance is gonna help with 45-50, but I can't find out a damned thing about it other than that it probably exists. Hopefully 56-60 will be tolerable with the floating fortress instance.