Any AION players..

[Siben]

Is it Sept. yet?

[Dreamer]

*checks calendar* Almost.

[Ellion Goto]

Let's see....Aion memories...Aion memories....Oh ya!

Lvl 35......grab quest.....get ganked on the way.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked....rez.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......rez.......try to go back........get ganked.......cancel subscription and quit. Never return.

True story!

 

...You hit level 35?

 

 

 

 

Also, I played Aion. I thoroughly enjoyed the game up until level 30. Granted it was at the launch of the game so there were absolutely no level 50s, I was in the higher end of the higher leveled players at the time so it was pretty fair for the most part, but then it hit me. "You need 3,600,000 Experience to reach level 31" or something -very- similar to that amount. You achieved roughly 10,000 xp per kill around that level and it just felt excrutiating. At level 40 it was going to take me about 40,000,000+ with about 25,000 xp per kill. That's about 1600 mobs. If it took you 15 seconds to kill a mob, that's 4 mobs a minute without a single second of delay. That's about 400 minutes (or 6.6 hours) of Non-Stop Action-Packed Souless Genocide of a single mob. I say mobs because there were no quests in Aion. There was torture and then randomly some guy there that looked like he was going to give a quest, but instead just wanted you to kill 30 mobs for the XP reward amount that you'd get if you just stayed in that one spot and kept fighting that mob instead of running back and forth. Also, he might've wanted you to kill some elites of the opposite faction, in their fortress, that may or may not be owned by you at that time. If you owned it, "quest" was garbage. There was also the amazing ability of high level ranged classes to hit one button and blow you up, regardless of level. The PvP rewards were decent but only if you were willing to sink down to the depths of total asshattery and literally gank lowbies all day to slowly gain enough points (by enough I mean get your coat, it will take awhile) to get a single piece of epically glistening armor that glows in the dark. Which really didn't matter because casters had the ability to blow you up with the single push of a button. They'll use this button on you as soon as you're level 25, so you'll get to handle this problem, along with their flock of friends that they're babysitting as well as trying to gain that 6.6 hours of no-delayed mob grinding. Which isn't happening because you're now being camped WoW style. You can return back to your Obelisk (that you paid like 15,000 Kinnah to set) and then run all the way back, or you can purchase a group-designed kisk (portable HomePoint) for yourself at about 36,000 Kinnah and take with you, however if they find it and destroy it, you're SoL.

 

The customer service was pathetic, Long story short on this, I won a roll for an Elyos polearm (dropped off Elyos only raid boss) from an event the GMs setup on Asmo side for St. Patricks day. It was a raid polearm and would've done me for the rest of my career, but it was publically ninja'd with the GM standing right there. The entire alliance shouted at the GM, posted on the forums. Took pics and posted those. not a single thing was done. It took the community to basically rep-grind the Ninja looter into the ground because that was probably going to be the only Elyos polearm on Asmo side. Sad enough, the looter was a ranger and couldn't use a Gladiator's Polearm. He also couldn't sell it because nobody wanted that kind of server rep.

 

Did I also mention that you can fly? Yea, that's pretty cool.

 

I'm not bitter....

 

P.S. - 250,000,000ish for upper Aion levels.

[Merri]

Eh. I played Aion for quite a bit. Started on the head start, ended up hitting 50 around January, and.. it all just went downhill from there.

 

The game looks pretty, i'll give it that. The roleplay community on Lumiel was nice (At least the Elyos community. I heard some nasty stories Asmo-side, NOT THAT I'M SAYING ALL THE ASMODIANS WERE LIKE THAT.)

 

But, the game has withered, and NCSofts customer service was pathetic. (At least what I experienced when I had issues every so often.) Then again, I have a bitterness towards NCsoft and their "Let's push out as many MMORPGs as possible in the shortest time-frame, give them half a development team who doesn't do their jobs, milk them for all we possibly can, and then shut them down." mentality.

 

That, doubled up with a highly unbalanced PvP system that more or less forced grouping unless you were extremely geared, a community full of griefers and gankers, and almost no end-game content?

 

... 1/10 from me. I really, really wouldn't suggest it. I'de save your money, and try something else.