Before you vote please consider my honest opinion and concerns about the Aion Classic 1.2~1.9 so many voted for. I played Classic on NA and leveled up my Main to lvl 55, you should listen to my honest players experience first, before you vote!
L E V E L I N G
1. Siels Aura: If we get the same system then NA (which I higly believe) you will have to buy "Siels Aura" It´s a subscription similar to a gold packet which allows you to have no restrictions in the game. Restrictions are made in looting, gathering, AP and EP gain and also trading. If you don´t purchase Siels Aura you have -50% EP gain and 0 AP gain!! You also can´t gather or loot items.
2. The 1.2 -1.9 patch requires "hardcore grinding" in order to level up your char to lvl 50 (max). Me and my friends spent 5-6 month of hardcore grinding EVERY DAY in order to achieve this (5-6h gemplay every day). Do you really want this? I doubt it!
For people who like to play multiple classes like me, this will make it impossible for you, because it will take half a year to even level up your main!
3. In the 2.0 Patch the developers added more repeatable and side quests. You will also also obtain a lot more EP by the campaign quests. This will make leveling more efficient and you woun´t have as much level gabs than in the 1.2-1.9 patch, where the only way to level up is by grinding on elite mobs 24/7.
4. Overall the 2.0 Patch is more EU friendly and allows you to level up faster. Instead of spending 6 Month to level up to max you will only need 1 - 2 Month - which in my opinion is still long enough. You will also have the chance to experience the full content of 1.2 - 1.9. The only noticable difference is, you will feel more rewarded for what you are doing. I can´t imagine people enjoying doing the same quest 200x times in order to level up by 1 lvl.
K I N A H
1. Farming kinah in the 1.2 - 1.9 Patch will be more difficult than in the 2.0 Patch. In the early game this will be your worst enemy, because you can´t even afford skill-books most of the time! The only way to make kinah fast is by dropping valuable items like stigmas / Godstones / Gear in the open world or leveling up professions like Alchemy and sell scrolls/pots/foot via broker. The 2.0 Patch includes more Kinah rewards by completing quests which will help you in the early game to buy all your skills.
2. The 2.0 Patch contains more instances like "Udas Temple / Lower Udas Temple" in which you can farm kinah and good EP by killing elite mobs. Those mobs drop valuable items which you can sell to an NPC for a good amount of kinah. I made 6-15kk Kinah / day only by running solo instances and selling drops.
P V E - G E A R
1. The 2.0 Patch contains the "Arena Reward System". Therefore you can get decent ancient gear by taking part in the daylie Arena once you reached lvl 46. The gear allowes you to enjoy a more balanced gameplay and helps you to run high lvl instances with less trouble. The 1.2-1.9 doesn´t provide this feature, therefore you will run around with "trash gear" a long time! This will also make it super difficult for you to run instances.
A B Y S S - G E A R / S T I G M A S
1. In the 1.2-1.9 Patch there are no "DREDS" nor instances like "Tiak Research Lab" in which you can obtain tons of AP. The only way to obtain AP is by PVP / Rifting and killing mobs in the Abyss, also taking place in the fortress battle. In order to buy a full stigma build you can choose between 2 Stigma trees. Those Stigmas are pricy af! For example a golden stigma costs 230k AP. A fortress mobs will give you 50 AP. You will need to kill 4.600 fortress mobs in order to collect enough AP to buy 1 of 6 Stigmas. It´s insane, believe me!!!!!!
2. The 2.0 Patch provides more dungeons and better AP rewards. You can take place in more fortress battles and gather AP more easily. It´s still a long way to be maxed out, but you can enjoy playing with a full stigma build faster.
3. Before you even think about Abyss gear you need to buy stigmas first. Please consider that the population on every server will be very high at the beginning. This will make it impossible to grind efficently on fortress mobs (fastest way to get AP). You will get interrupted by the opponent or even same fraction all the time. That´s why I definitely don´t reccomend the 1.2 - 1.9 Patch - unless you want to quit your job and reallife completely in order to get ahead in the game.
O V E R A L L - O P I N I O N
I highly recommend voting for the 2.0 Patch. You will be able to enjoy all the previous content and also have the chance to gear and level up faster. Keep in mind that a lot of gear from the 1.2 - 1.9 Patch will be outdated in the 2.0 Patch because better gear was added. So your efforts will be for nothing, if you want to start with 1.2. In the 2.0 Patch you will feel more rewarded for the time you spent in the game, everything will be more efficient and you will be able to enjoy the endgame a lot faster. Also there is more content and instances, which makes the gameplay more versatile.
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