Aion Version 1.9 "Leaked" Notes

[Veyron]

Greetings folks,

As some of our more observant followers noticed, a top secret, critical meeting just took place between our European and North American offices. This meeting was held in parallel with a press conference with over 60 invited journalists that took place at the same time in NCsoft’s Korean headquarters.

Unfortunately, we don’t have a transcript of the meeting to share. Security precautions for the meeting were aggressive—including the use of lava pits and muscular bulls—which made leaking the information during the meeting an uninviting option. The objective of the meeting was to nail down the patch notes of the upcoming version 1.9 patch for Aion.

We don’t know whether it was because of our tactful dialogue with the parties involved, our supreme abilities of persuasion, or perhaps Kinslon’s affinity for chocolate, but we were able to procure permission to publish some highlights about what was discussed in spite of the meeting’s confidential nature.

• New skills for every class (including new skills specifically for countering stun attacks)

• Dozens of daily quests with different objectives and rewards

• New quests, increased quest rewards, and increased instance drop rates

• Dredgion enhancements

• Max item enchantment increased to +15

• An increase in experience gain (including a new experience bonus system: Energy of Salvation)

• Soul Healing, Soul Binding, and Flight Transportation cost decreases

• A mechanic that allows two two-handed weapons to be combined to create one more powerful two-handed weapon

• Looking for group (LFG) functionality improvements

• Numerous user interface improvements



Stay tuned, and make sure to grab the tentative patch notes (far exceeding 20 pages in length) when they’re published later this week.

Fly safe, Daevas,

—The Aion Community Team

Looks interesting, debating if it was a good idea to disenchant my +10 Heaven Shattering Blade and use the Enchantment stones on Zapiel's Spear now, lol.

[niwaar]

Looks interesting, debating if it was a good idea to disenchant my +10 Heaven Shattering Blade and use the Enchantment stones on Zapiel's Spear now, lol.

Not exactly "Leaked" as its on the front page.

New items, better quests and lower soul heal and flight costs? Really? I think its too little too late here.

+15'ing weapons just gonna keep Enchantment stone prices high and make more and more people /wrist.

[Pyree]

Not exactly "Leaked" as its on the front page.

whooooooosh

And I'm looking forward to daily quests if they're worthwhile (ie. rewarding enchantment stones or manastones would be splendid), of course the increased drop rates, wanna know more about what they're doing to dredgion, increased exp for my alts, two-handed weapon buff since I'm a gladiator, and hopefully a usable LFG system.

Sounding pretty good to me.

[Veyron]

Not exactly "Leaked" as its on the front page.

whooooooosh

thx~

[Gryffes]

+15'ing weapons just gonna keep Enchantment stone prices high and make more and more people /wrist.

I'm not sure, it's going to make those lvl 40-45 crafted golds/blues w/ atk speed better for longer as not many people can get the enchantment stones to +10 their current lvl 50 weapons.



They need to make double exp permanent though, need more people at 50, not people stuck in the grind.

[Hitoshura]

Permanent as in daily? Or every single weekend?

[Fallyn]

Permanent as in daily? Or every single weekend?

Even if it was just every weekend, that would be sweet.

These notes also sound pretty good overall, maybe a little bit too late but meh, I'm still only 37 (trying to push for 50 asap instead of levelling every class under the sun now)

[Gryffes]

Permanent as in daily? Or every single weekend?

Yes permanent, check my character page I'm not some emo qq whiner.

[Hitoshura]

I'm not some emo qq whiner.

I wasn't questioning that, was just wondering what you meant exactly.

[Kerberoz]

Honestly, how are people still not 50, and what's the obsession with solo grinding when it's only a slight bit faster than playing the fun way?

[Naiya]

Really? I think its too little too late here.

So what are you still doing here?

Looking forward to "Increased instance drop rates" and "An increase in experience gain" let's hope they don't mean increased to 0.5 drop rate from 0.3 though :X

Also ^ sorry i can't grind for hours on end like you can.

[Fallyn]

Honestly, how are people still not 50, and what's the obsession with solo grinding when it's only a slight bit faster than playing the fun way?

Because I play socially with my girlfriend, so don't play it all day every day.

[LurkaKitty]

Anyone can translate korean? :/

http://tinyurl.com/yhwlb83

Also: video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffp_NcPfKvs

[Fayttt]

Kinda scared about the whole +15 thing now. Great, more attack. Great, get to spend more money and break more stones and waste more tens of millions of kinah!
raaagggeeee
But really. sounds good overall. Might keep me playing a little bit longer.

[Gryffes]

The +15 makes the 40 pvp weapons a much stronger early option now.

[Fayttt]

That's a good point but then again you might as well still just do the 50 weapons and +15 them seeing as how they'll still do way more damage. Unless the +attack from enchantments changes post +10 which I doubt.

[Gryffes]

That's a good point but then again you might as well still just do the 50 weapons and +15 them seeing as how they'll still do way more damage. Unless the +attack from enchantments changes post +10 which I doubt.

Getting the enchant stones for a 50 weapon is tough though, and getting enough to +15 is even tougher.

A 40 +10 = a 50 atm, a 40+11 is > a 50.

A 40 on the other hand is super cheap to enchant to +15 by comparison.

[Franzer]

Anyone can translate korean? :/

http://tinyurl.com/yhwlb83

Also: video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffp_NcPfKvs

wow video looks cool, not reading korean but just from guessing on that link, it looks like 1.9 is march, and 2.0 is may if i'm not mistaken.

[tonyg]

Best shit here is the resist stun skills. No more 35 rangers stunlocking 45s to death I hope.

[Katlan]

forget rangers, its lv 35-40 sin (twinks) who pop hide2 and just solo 1-2 ppl regardless of class. Twinks are fun, but acc should be balanced aongside Macc. So if you want to be a low lv twink you need to stack Acc