If someone didnt watch this vid:
you better check it out. They simplified aion "experience" in 6.x to make it over complicated from scratch x patches later 
Odians, runes, enchanting your transfornation... X sets (black feather, battle and the new ingi/gelk), geeez.
I also wonder where we gonna farm kinah when they remove HT and normal pw/maka.
Re-shuffling of maps with only 2 main maps for all levels of players; the availability of enchantment stones and genesis crystals together with the cost of new legendary/ ULTIMATE GEAR will be the key to player enjoyment.
If players have enough crystals I guess we will buy ultimate and forget about buying ancient and legendary PVP gear with all their enchant costs so they will likely be much harder to get than now.
(maybe a good time to save our crystals?) but we are still going to get some patches before 7.5
Anyone guess when EU will get it, and what changes they might do for EU?
Display MoreRe-shuffling of maps with only 2 main maps for all levels of players; the availability of enchantment stones and genesis crystals together with the cost of new legendary/ ULTIMATE GEAR will be the key to player enjoyment.
If players have enough crystals I guess we will buy ultimate and forget about buying ancient and legendary PVP gear with all their enchant costs so they will likely be much harder to get than now.
(maybe a good time to save our crystals?) but we are still going to get some patches before 7.5
Anyone guess when EU will get it, and what changes they might do for EU?
You can see it on powerbook the cost of new gear. It was also linked on the previous page on iduk's post and showed the difference between abyss and new genesis gear. This is where most of the people make the confusion, even in the video above. The new ultimate gear is not ultimate silent black feather but something worse, just like the crafted one or the one from Red Katalam is a worse version of it. If you don't go for silent black, you can already gear up with Red Katalam insignia gear, you don't need to wait for 7.5 to buy the new ultimate gear. In fact, intense gear from Red katalam is better gear than the one you can buy with genesis crystals in 7.5. It was clearly stated that Lakrum map is an entry map for new players, therefore even the gear is an entry level gear.
But if what you say is true, aside katalam gear, one aiming at current T2 PvP gear can continu since it will remain the best gear for 7.5?
Aside from 7.5 infinite gear that is obtainable only from zerging bosses and having high reputation to be able to buy the stones, yes. Current T2 pvp gear is still the best. Everything they added after (intense, noble pros, new red with genesis in 7.5) is worse. Intense is the next best after silent black, if you don't have the time. Who knows if they add a new upgrade system for current T2 but it's not out of the window.
I feel sad about that, we cant change much as a player base. Kr is choosing strange ways for Aion imo. I feel like there is no progres if we speak about making new things etc. Im sure all of us have seen it. Remodeling old armor (just changing colors lol) for new patches. I feel like when 8.0 hits (God save us) they will remodel old gear from Katalamize xd.
They are Koreans, how they can do such things 
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I feel sad about that, we cant change much as a player base. Kr is choosing strange ways for Aion imo. I feel like there is no progres if we speak about making new things etc. Im sure all of us have seen it. Remodeling old armor (just changing colors lol) for new patches. I feel like when 8.0 hits (God save us) they will remodel old gear from Katalamize xd.
They are Koreans, how they can do such things
It's cheaper to re-color something rather than making new artwork/model/texture
I feel sad about that, we cant change much as a player base. Kr is choosing strange ways for Aion imo. I feel like there is no progres if we speak about making new things etc. Im sure all of us have seen it. Remodeling old armor (just changing colors lol) for new patches. I feel like when 8.0 hits (God save us) they will remodel old gear from Katalamize xd.
They are Koreans, how they can do such things
It's cheaper to re-color something rather than making new artwork/model/texture
Yea, im sure it makes ppl much more intrested in game seeing old armor in totaly new patch just with changed color.
Ik its all about money. Meh
I also forgot to add one more thing xd.
New forts are comming. New sieges. U can expect to see two mains legion (on stormwing ofc) to take them all the time. Over and over again.
Unless they dissolve because the only reason these legions formed in the first place was for these altars.
well this news regarding the ultimate gear in lakrum is not bad for me , cuse now u got like 3-4 months to farm your katalam gear if u dont want go for silent black, u got plenty of time to uptrade it also...
but yes its good to have different sets....
well this news regarding the ultimate gear in lakrum is not bad for me , cuse now u got like 3-4 months to farm your katalam gear if u dont want go for silent black, u got plenty of time to uptrade it also...
but yes its good to have different sets....
Glad you are enjoying Katalam, the only real problem with it is that it takes a chunk of time out of players daily/weekly time schedule and other important AP and reward content doesn't always get done.
This of course effects casual players the most but others might argue you need to quit your job and play Aion all day to get the real rewards! 
I feel sad about that, we cant change much as a player base. Kr is choosing strange ways for Aion imo. I feel like there is no progres if we speak about making new things etc. Im sure all of us have seen it. Remodeling old armor (just changing colors lol) for new patches. I feel like when 8.0 hits (God save us) they will remodel old gear from Katalamize xd.
They are Koreans, how they can do such things
There hasn't been any innovation in a while from Korea. You know? Things that make sense, per example in 3.*+ when AP still mattered, you could attain high rank with it and get access to locked gear that required you to be from Rank 1 to 2 Star to 4 Star to General gear to Governor. That was an incentive for people to be high rank.
Being high ranked also allowed you to use transformation. And in my opinion that should have been the only system, not the current "Pokemon collect em all" transformations that make new players run away.
That same "currency" AP, was used to buy gear, thus it was an incentive to farm that, as you constantly spent it on either gear, potions etc.
What was end game during that patch? Eye of Tiamaranta, an area with chests that gave AP, which spawned at a certain times. The key being dropped from elite mobs, 3 versions green/blue/yellow.
So the whole end game was consistently focused on that map, not on 10 maps like it is now, oh yea, let's revisit Beluslan, raise all mobs to 80, add 32532 camps and enjoy.
No. One map, made sense, you farmed AP which was used for so many things, it was the thing you needed for gear, rank, potions. Medals from Sieges. The system was so simple.
The end game MADE sense, it was well designed.
But now there's simply too many system that were obviously made to cash in from events or cash shop, I wouldn't be surprised if Aion 8.0 is; "Oh yea, we decided that since humans have 10 fingers, you now can have 10 rings, happy enchanting! Oh we also added nose ring and leg bracelet as enchantable items. Wait that's not all! Now we have added the ability to enchant your transformation, every enchant gives 0.5% increased in stats! But that's not it, now you can have 5 more stigmas!"
The direction Aion is headed in makes no sense. This direction started going bad after 4.* in my opinion.
Not saying the game isn't enjoyable, if you like Aion you'll still play but without HEAVY intervention from Gameforge to make changes even those that love Aion will have a hard time accepting all these changes that Korea forces upon us.
IMHO, since we have dumaha, lakrum should have been abandonned, so you keep the player base on the same map.
Remove garrison in lakrum. Add 2 garrisons (1 ely, 1 asmo, 1 snuwa, according to who have the altar) for each altar.
And add killing quest
Example:
if altar is ely, so snuwa and asmo garrisson around it (like the snuwa garrison)
Quest :
-ely (they have the altar): kill 15 asmo npc (non elite, quick respawn), 5 snuwa npc (elite)
-asmo (thet dont have the altar) : kill 5 ely npc (elite), 5 snuwa npc (elite)
Lakrum should now remain a lvling map only. You shall get pve leg gear quite quickly so you can go and enjoy dumaha.
at this point im just sticking around to see how it all is going to end
so sad what they done to this game
I want Verteron and abyss back.
I want Verteron and abyss back.
Probably not a priority for now. One of the big reason for making Inggison/Gelkmaros/Silentera end game maps was that many KR players were stopping leveling past 55 and enjoyed pvp in those maps without p2w. You could see streams with alliances of them fighting and having fun. You don't get daevanion skills, you don't get pvp gear, the free legendary transform was enough, everything is much easier and more balanced at 55. So what NC did here? Made the characters to be able to pass level 55 when you gain xp, so no more possibility to stop at 55 (unless you die a lot), and make these maps level 80 for end game. They are hoping some of them will still play and spend in their shop. They could have used any older map like Esterra, Kaldor, Akaron, Underground Katalam or Tiamaranta, or any new developed map since Inggison/Gelkmaros/Silentera bought the first big decline of Aion years ago , but no, the target was to piss off players having fun at level 55.
I want Verteron and abyss back.
KR players were stopping leveling past 55 and enjoyed pvp in those maps without p2w
Hm yeah I see. I used to have 2 lvl50 twinks for dredgion and arenas, in my server there were enough players for this and we were doing ddgs together etc, some were playing only twinks. It was fun, I still bought skins from shop and the wings which were best for 50, and played my mains to also support my 2 lil chars. Then they removed 50 arenas, and then everything else.
I want Verteron and abyss back.
8.0, just wait and U will get them as pvp map. xd
(Maybe even faster lol)
was happy to see that infinite gear idea was deleted even on KR Live servers, so nothing lost yet, they didn't made it
https://aionpowerbook.com/powerbook/Item/100650261
here is this item now, +15 max and almost unreachable 
literally nothing changed. they were limited to +20 even before and as unreachable was anything beyond +10 it still is.
