Posts by Angel

Please put the NPC for the kill quests next to Left Wing Chamber, Right Wing Chamber and Sulphur Tree Nest inside the instances. The extra trip to the main base is silly and the extra kinah spent unnecessary.

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[Group] Whomping Whirlwinds

One has to complete the quest [Group] Bumpy Ride ten times to acquire this quest. This results in a total amount of 305'040 kinah for the whole chain.

It is pointless to discuss how retail was and how people remember it. We used to live in caves, shall we go back to that? We should discuss how this Aion Classic should be.

As I see it, the path is pretty much set by NcSoft korea which are some patches ahead of us and everything we complain about here is not going to influence the game for a long while. As I read the patchnotes of 2.7, the road is similar to the current retail. Like again removing existing content, totally removing open world (drops sell for 1 kinah) and implementing random loot boxes.

This is not the Aion we used to have in 2009 and it is never going to be that game again, like we are shown perfectly. So I recommend to enjoy the next two somewhat nostalgic patches as long as you can and see after what you get or keep the actual Aion from 2009 in good memory and not play Aion Classic at all.

I would appreciate assistance with two quests.

[Group] Tursin Assassination

Spatalos does not feel like offering me this quest.

Marfonda of Darkness

What is up with that?

Most of the things one is able to do in 1.x one is still able to do in 2.x. If someone wants to run Firetemple -> one can; if someone chooses to go rifting -> one can; if someone chooses to farm Triroan or Lannoks -> one can; and so on.

What makes 2.x less appealing to me is the change in the siege mechanism. Atleast on classic NA siege turned into a pure PvE rush, due to the removal of defense and keeping rewards. Even on divine fortress. which turns balic before each siege elyos and asmodians are kind of chilling transformed on top of each other damage racing the Dux. Furthermore I always enjoyed Baranth dredgion more than Chantra, because it can not be rushed as easily by possessing a key. Else PvP wise for me the patch does not matter at all. Whether I slay players in Balaurea makes no difference to slay them anywhere else.

Also for me starting with 1.2 stresses me out way less, because there is more or less no end game to catch up to. I can level in peace without missing a thing, can complete my quests, level up my crafting/professions, achieving titles and so on. However, I like the actual Aion as a grinding and endless farming game it started as, which is not a popular opinion it seems. While 2.x does not remove actual 1.x content, apart from grouped Nochsana and lovely grouped Steel Rake, it invalidates alot of it.

A modified 1.9 with all the later quality of life features, with actual bug fixes, hundreds of skins and dyes on the shop would easily keep me busy for two years. I like to farm and craft skins, level all my crafts and profession to the maximum, complete all quests and so forth. Again, not a wide spread play style arguably, but what I enjoy to do in Aion.

So, except from the siege, I am able to do most of 1.x stuff in 2.x, if I choose to. It just makes me left behind quicker gear wise than if we started with 1.x or I would have to skip content I want to do to keep up.

This is my opinion and not a rational statement.

Never mind.

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Its amazing the amount of nonsense you read in this forum and in what paralel world you live.

@miabuelasabiaq
That is a funny quote coming from you. This topic discusses classic, so you should atleast not spread misinformation about it. While sapphire medals are indeed new in classic, the silver and gold medals did not change. So your recollection of those, as mentioned before, is inaccurate.

And like I wrote already. Stormwing sales happen multiple times a day. I know it simply by playing on classic na. People tend to sell items for a certain amount of kinah and buy enchantment stones instead of gambling. Whereas there are surely both kind of players your statements that you can not sell items from Beshmundir Temple (or being untradable for that matter) as well that people are not selling those, are both inaccurate.

@robi1102:
Those are coins and not medals. Platinum before mithril.

@Barbabella:

Level 30 elite/fabled requires some silver medals. That is why I wrote mainly level 40.

@miabuelasabiaq

I just corrected your inaccurate statements. What conclusion you draw out of it, is up to you.

• Silver medals are mainly for level 40 gear and gold medals mainly for level 50 gear
• Sapphire medal boxes are tradable, level 55 gear
• People are selling Stormwing gear daily and did so since week one even without having it on their own (=more kinah)

I dont really care about your opinion nor the whole model discussion. So I am not going into your other remarks.

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What gear are you gonna buy exactly?

PvP Gear require Abyss points that CANT be bought with kinah, aswell as medals that CANT be bought with kinah (except the low lvl medals). Instances gear like beshmundir temple dark poeta etc its untradeable, so its 99% farm the instances until you get it.

miabuelasabiaq

• Can I not pay people to pass relics for me? Like in Krotan/Kysis/Miren/Esoterrace/Splinter?
• Can I not purchase silver/gold/sapphire medals off the broker or pay players to pass for me?
• Can I not purchase other loot to make abyss points easier obtainable for me (except for Tahabata)? Why can I not buy Beshmundir Temple gear with kinah?

Those questions are all rhetorical by the way. It is common practice on classic NA.

The only kind of untradable instance drop in classic is Tahabatas due to the time limited portal. I do not really care which model you prefer, but kinah does help alot in classic Aion and your statement is simply inaccurate. Whether instantly or not, denying it seems silly to me.

Everyone has a favorite patch of this game and each of those comes with benefits and disadvantages. However, I want to point out that patches only go in an upward direction. If classic gets released at 1.x it is going to proceed to 2.x eventually. Yet the reverse is not possible. It feels weird to wait a decade for classic just to rush and skip content.

Well, those two hunter events sadly ruined it for me.

Atleast from yesterday on, the faction should be a bit more balanced on my server.

Good luck with extracting apostles to everyone during the last event week.

I want to see the promised video of opening close to 1'000 duamonds to satisfy my curiousity.

@Rym: Thank you for the update. I does not really help but.. you got more out of it than me and others.

TREASURE HUNT IN DUMAHA

Grab some Dumaha Distillate and earn valuable items.

The Quests

The quests are simple and mostly quick, yet would take alot longer if the factions actually fought each other. It is nice that some overlap the Lugbug dailies, so one can do both in the same time. The repeatable which provides a Daevalite does not make sense to me since, even apart from the bugged reward, it is not repeatable and can not be used for anything else. Sadly those quests are daily and I really dislike more stuff added to my daily ingame "chores". I would much prefer those quests to be weekly (14) instead of daily (2) to catch up on it on weekends. The quests can also be completed by other characters on the same account, which I do not mind in this case due to it requiring activity.

Daily login

It is not really a daily login, it is a stay logged in during a day. Daily login can be seen in the Atreia Pass.

While it certainly feels nice to receive goodies for just being online, I genuinely dislike the laziness of design. Furthermore, those can also be obtained by other characters on the same account. Just unlimit the amount of intervals the rewards are distributed so players who merely want to be busy with their main do not miss out to players who also idle on five other characters a day. Lastly, rewarding one of those bags which contains three Dumamond each hour would sound much better and even out on the "boss-bug" a bit more.

Lugbug’s Missions

A nice add-on and actually a nice idea. However, compared to the other rewards of the event this one is far behind and does not really motivate to run an instance if one does not have to do so for other reasons as well. It is not entirely clear whether one gets an extra reward for completing all the quests or not. I assume not for it being greyed out, even tho different "steps" are showing on the lower part of the window.

Elite Enemies

The two villains Snuwa Grand Chieftain and Rega Hospodar appear to be on vacation which make this part a huge mess.

As top first to top third painter I used to get rewards on my server until the end of saturday. Sunday I looted three bags at the start of the noon spawn wave which were the last ones I have seen. I did not participate anymore after sunday evening and left there after thirty minutes without gain. An event should not favour either factions nor players. Even if one runs the rest of the event on all characters possible on one account s/he falls behind a person receiving fifty bags a day in two hours from this boss. Asmodians on my server allegedly created Elyos to participate in this event, which was a smart move, but should not have been necessary. I agree that players with gear could and/or should have benefits, sadly excluding people entirely from parts of the event has always been the wrong way to go.

Three bosses should spawn once during the time frame and everyone hitting it and being in range while it dies should get a reward bag. Analog to some account wide Hero Trials we experienced lately.

Rewards bought with Dumamond

Items one may buy using Dumamond seem decent. One unfortunate point in the enchantment stones expiring after seven days remains.

There are two "bugs" and/or curiosities here, which I noticed:

Noble Water Shield

The version I purchase for Dumamond is stackable, whereas the one bought of the Gold-Sand-Shop is not.

Instant Return Scroll

By having one in invetory a message, which tells that merely one can be in the invetory at a time, occurs. Funnily, by breaking Dumallond one gets two at once in the inventory. It can also be seen here.

Luck

Luck is basically required in two parts of the event. First to transform Dumaha Distillate into Dumallond and second to get a decent reward from Dumallond. The 25 free daily Dumaha Distillate sometimes result in five Dumallond, sometimes one, sometimes eight..

I did open 298 Dumallond yesterday evening with the result being, that I need not to worry about consumable and stars nomore. And yes, it makes me jealous as well as frustrated to see the same players getting contracts after each boss while I put not less effort into it.

Summary

Overall the event is, like most of them lately, luck based and favours a fraction of the playerbase. I would have loved the event with weekly (14) quests together with the loggedin-reward change I mentioned above and no boss(es). However, like this, I rate it 1/5 and hope for it to end the sooner the better.

I hope to not have mixed up Dumallond and Dumamond.

I agree that some things should be made more available. Nonetheless, events are the wrong tool to provide ingame required resources (in large amounts).

Those items should be permanently added to the shugo vending machine, the gold-sand-shop as well as weekly hero trials (like Lugbug). Events can easily be missed for various reasons yet missing an event should never be a disadvantage in regard of gear progression. The best and latest example for that is the first week of the event "THE GRANKERS ARE ON THE LOOSE!". Gameforge actually has enough tools to fix the gear progression issue or atleast to make it less severe. However, like mentioned in another topic, they are and/or do not want to use those.

Mostly I am disappointed by Gameforge..

first for insisting it to be working as intended and insulting many players (sadly not everyones) common sense. There still was time to react and prevent most of the damage the first time someone voiced concerns on the board. Now we have the ruins I mentioned in my post in that topic.

second for still not communicating properly what is going on or going to happen next. Could atleast have paused the event to cause further harm, unless it was intended afterall. There still was no real clarification on that.

I do not really care what happens with the kinah or gear, altough I would benefit alot from it. Getting kinah and gear from this event, even if I were in need of it, just does not feel right and is not the way I want to play this game.

Intended or not, I am just very disappointed that it even came this far and continues further.

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Galeas  Sparx can someone please tell us the content of [Event] Granker Equipment Chest?

[Event] Granker Equipment Chest

Not writing that the drops are great, that is a different topic. However, I can confirm that the stones together with other items from the special loot table still drop in 7.2 in both Lakrum and Dumaha.

@Xeon: Like I wrote, if those drops are great is another topic. Yet those always were announcet as "rare" drops. As you can even see in the quote you provided. Certainly, I agree that farming Open World is unrewarding and not worth the time in its current state.

Choice

Players were able to choose what goal they wish to achieve and the path leading to that goal. Crafting, gathering, farming, dungeoning, dueling, rifting, sieging, and so on. Players were able to choose their timeframe to play in (except for dredgion & siege) and besides a few exceptions players were able to farm or trade any item at any hour of the day.. manastones, enchantment stones, relics, godstones, coins, skins, materials, stigmata, recipes.. it usually, not always, felt like time enjoyed and time well spent.

Whereas now there is no real benefit in login in anytime else between 6pm and 10pm server time. It is all based on dailies, weeklies, altars, sieges day after day.. and one night to rush those instances for kinah.

Diversity

The snow covered fields in Beluslan as an Elyos rifter; the peaceful atmosphere in Poeta gathering Aria; the frosty mountain peaks of the Sillus mountains; deciding which profession to pick up first; the beautiful and wide range of soundtracks and skins.. there were many maps and atleast at the start a more or less structured lore to follow. One was able to battle for hours at the Western Shard of Latesran; earn golden coins in Theobomos; farm elite balaurs for rare recipes as well as crafting materials; or just a relaxed aether gathering evening in Heiron; dueling was not just a damage race; and much more.

These are the two things I wish to be back in the future.

T-Ricked