Aion Online

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

waiting 50minutes to log on is outrageous

Did you play WoW @ launch by any chance? 50 minutes was a short queue.

Basically if you weren't on by 5:00pm you were going to be queued. That made raiding fun, "Yeah I'm still 1700 in the queue, 130 minutes. See you around 8:30." Or on the weekend, queues of like 3-4k, may as well go away for a few hours and come back.

Be happy the game is popular enough to force server queues. It sucks to be queued but its better then a ghost town MMO.


Anyway, I'm finding the game to be reasonably interesting (reminds me a lot of EQ and D&D a bit). But that's probably because I've got a few WoW guildies to play it with. Highly doubt I'd give WoW up for it, but I said the same for EQ when WoW came out.

I haven't seen a bot yet, but I've heard people complain of them. Apparently you can report them somehow.

[gonzo562]

Originally Posted by Xacual

I've been playing too, got my Templar to 17 and honestly I rolled it because I enjoy playing tanks but man at this level I can't tank to save my group at all. Even healers pull aggro so easily. It's really difficult to hold aggro on multiple mobs. Debating leveling a mage -> spiritmaster instead.

just have a sorcerer or caster cc the 2nd target either root or sleep.

Tanking is definitely tougher in this game.

My sleep spell generates so much threat when i use it. Takes a while for the tank to gain argo.

healing and tanking definitely little tough

[88ball]

What I love 'bout this game is the customization, it really rocks. I can almost create a toon of my favorite celeb, like Taylor Swift ;D I think this game has a chance of beating WoW.

[Xacual]

It doesn't have a chance of beating WoW, and any objective person can tell you that. WoW has gotten too huge for any one game to completely take it apart. It would require at least a couple good games coming out to do that. Will they lose players to Aion? Yes, they will. Will they lose even a million though? Probably not. Too many WoW players just have too much invested in the game to be willing to switch to a game which takes way more time involvement.

So I started just messing around with a Spiritmaster. It's pretty fun, though unlike my Templar, I'm not questing really at all. Just grinding in one area, keeping the Spiritmaster DP skill up so my pet fights like a monster.

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Yeah, pretty much what Xacual said. WoW will only be a victim of its own success. Or maybe Blizzards new MMO. Just think of WoW as the sun in the MMO solar system. If you think about it it's pretty apt.

I was tempted to try a spirit master myself, seemed pretty cool to me. But I havent cause pets can't fly and their dots don't stack with other SM's (or did they fix that).

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by 88ball

What I love 'bout this game is the customization, it really rocks. I can almost create a toon of my favorite celeb, like Taylor Swift ;D I think this game has a chance of beating WoW.

the only MMO that has a chance of beating WoW is a MMORPG thats on its own catagory, such as Fallen Earth.. its no where remotely near anything like WoW. Its basicly mad max online

I love aion too but it doesnt give me the excitement Fallen Earth does, thats why I'm maining FE and subbing AIONs.

atleast until FFXIV and SW:TOR comes out

[-Sho-]

No one can beat Wow now and an extension will be released soon .

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by -Sho-

No one can beat Wow now and an extension will be released soon .

only because of its community =\

[Jaden]

I'm a WoW player but I'm always looking out for the next game. Aion doesn't have much to offer besides better graphics and that doesn't make a game for me.

Of course Kyero Fox has a point too, any multiplayer game can only be as good as the people you're playing with. There's no guarantee I'll find a guild in Aion as awesome as the one I'm in now.

[Zarifus]

Originally Posted by Mr Hat and Clogs

Yeah, pretty much what Xacual said. WoW will only be a victim of its own success. Or maybe Blizzards new MMO. Just think of WoW as the sun in the MMO solar system. If you think about it it's pretty apt.

I was tempted to try a spirit master myself, seemed pretty cool to me. But I havent cause pets can't fly and their dots don't stack with other SM's (or did they fix that).

Flying pets is coming in patch 1.6. Not sure when that will be reaching the Western servers though...

[-Sho-]

Omg a friends got 4 hours for queue ...

Well Ncsoft news for EU . They'll add 2 servers . 1 - FR 1 - EN .
To encourage to migrate , they'll give 10 potions who give you a profits xp 20 % during 1 hour but for only one character per account and only during the weekend .
But you know what ? It'll be released in 2 months ! omg ... the time that you create many character etc .... you have friends etc .... you like the server etc .... no one will migrate after -_-" . And there'll be always queue during 2 months (and more i guess )
They screwed up .

[Xion Valkyrie]

So yeah, how's everyone doing on AION now?

Got to 40 last night. Almost to my 2nd piece of L30 gold abyss gear now. Hoping to get a complete set of L30 jewerly by the end of next week.

[Xacual]

I stopped at 21 more due to lack of time then anything else. Calculus exam this coming week + english paper + computer class work to do means no gaming time.

I figure after wednesday I'll be able to pick back up and start catching back up to my friend with the probably slim amount of rested xp I'll have.

[Kyero Fox]

i stopped at 19, got bored and bought Fallen earth, addicted ever since...

[Ryougi Shiki]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

i stopped at 19, got bored and bought Fallen earth, addicted ever since...

Good thing you did, because all of us over 25 are having shitloads of fun killing each other's races in the Abyss and murdering huge dinosaur Balaur and shit while flying in midair and shooting fireballs at each other with a gigantic magma ball hanging in the sky and floating islands with fortresses on them that you can capture with entire legions of people.

Sorry bro

[Gin]

I'm thinking of buying Aion, but I have heard a lot of mixed reviews. How does the pvp in Aoin match up against WoW? Does Aion have battlegrounds, or arenas?

[Xacual]

Aion is pretty much completely world pvp. So zergs left, right and center. You also have no way of knowing what level the other faction is, you just see ??.

[Gin]

Originally Posted by Xacual

Aion is pretty much completely world pvp. So zergs left, right and center. You also have no way of knowing what level the other faction is, you just see ??.

Oh, so its close to actual pvp, not the joke that WoW's world pvp is. Can you attack people in your own faction? That sounds weird never being able to tell your enemies level though.

[Xacual]

No you can't attack your own faction. After level 20 or so is when you will start to see lots of the other faction because of rifts opening between the two level 20 zones. After 25 you can enter the Abyss which is pretty much a huge zone with flying enabled and faction vs faction world pvp. Also fortresses and stuff to take control of.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Ryougi Shiki

Good thing you did, because all of us over 25 are having shitloads of fun killing each other's races in the Abyss and murdering huge dinosaur Balaur and shit while flying in midair and shooting fireballs at each other with a gigantic magma ball hanging in the sky and floating islands with fortresses on them that you can capture with entire legions of people.

Sorry bro

lol nice try, but that doesnt make me feel any sorry.

I like traveling around in my crafted Mustang and sniping mutants heads off and firing rockets at Giant Horror movie stuff.

and PVP? pfft thats to fun to discribe but hell I'll try, whats more fun than sniping someones head off a mile away through a broken window while they scavange some garbage.

I still play AION just not templar