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Aion 6.0 in a nutshell

I just got to level 80 in KR about 1 hour ago. This is how it feels like. The good: + You get free pvp and pve set to start with, everyone starts as equal + Leveling takes 12 hours from 1 to 80 + Enchanting is simplified + Magical crafting is lot faster to level up The bad: - Kinah sources have been crippled, even buying potions is a struggle - Scrolls are replaced with potions and there are like 100 different kinds and they take lots of space from inventory - Quna system is basically new NCCoin. You can gain 5-30 Quna from some ridiculous PvP grind like 200 wins in DG or 50 wins in arena. Needless to say you can’t buy much with that you gain ingame without subcription. - Because of the statement above, transformation/stigma/minion are all locked behind a paywall unless there is some kind event or getting lucky in PvE grind. - There isn’t really anything new or interesting to do if you’ve played the game in 3.0, 4.0 or 5.0 patches. You get your zerg v.s zerg openworld pvp for sure in Lakrum, 1 fortress siege, DG, Runatorium. Instances are pretty much copypasted from previous patches.

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Here is all locations I know for Asmodian Daemon token quest dailies (peralith locations on blue, fossils on red).

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I’m reposting this for myself. You can still get APES from doing daemons.

If Aion was a new mmo and launched today, would I play it?

No. #1 Grindwall Slow and tedious leveling. After getting one character to 75 after 10+ months you don’t feel like making alt. Unless you got a proper legion you won’t do any PvE at L70 because people won’t take you to party even if you have gear. #2 Store It’s expensive and majority of the time you feel like gambling. Cosmetics are fine. #3 Enchanting Gear breaks when you fail and since 5.6 enchanting sucks even more without supplements and all-powerful-enchanting stones. Every penny you get will get sucked right away. #4 PvP Community It’s one of the most toxic mmorpg communities existing. Asmodian side has less poison than Elyos but you will get your share of it anyway.

Pokémon R/B/Y actually sucks

I bough Pokémon Yellow for virtual console to live again my childhood’s memories of this gen (I got my Pokémon Red back in 1998). You know, the good old times when there was only 151 pokémon and the game was hard etc...I still find shining nostalgia in Kanto region and I love the creatures itself.

But the gameplay hasn’t aged well. In fact it actually sucks. Let me explain why.

In Gen 1 moves like Bind and Wrap prevented you from using moves until they ended (but you still were able to switch out).

Trainer’s pokémon don’t have PP and therefore can’t run out of moves. You can get stuck in a battle against high level monster that has Rest or Recover.

Sleep status effect made you unable to to fight for 2-5 turns + 1 turn was for “waking up”. This made it possible for fast sweepers like Gengar to keep you slept forever.

Critical hit ratio was dependent on pokémon’s Speed stat. All fast pokémon were dealing critical hits all the **** time. Misty was painful gym leader because that Starmie kept landing on Critical Bubblebeam kept one-shotting your Pikachu over and over again.

Special Defense and Special Attack were one same stat Special. Best special attacker was also the best special tank (Mewtwo)

Sprites are bad. There was enough space in the cartridges for better artwork, just GameFreak ran out of time.

Random pokéball dodges. That was so unnecessary since there is no way to “aim”. It was just rng added to rng.

There is some other problems too which I can’t really criticize much like how you can’t complete pokédex anymore without glitches or hacking. That has been always with the franchise. Other thing I can’t really trash about is the lack of depth that came with 2nd and 3rd generation. It was still their first game.

Yeah it was simple times... but I don’t miss it that much. I’d rather play Fire Red or Leaf Green now.

Why, NCSoft?

I tried MXM. I downloaded the game and played tutorial. I see that you need to grind PVE to unlock heroes which is quite cool and unique for MOBA. Then I saw that you need to pay in order to grind the instance you want. Really? What’s the difference between I pay for entries v.s I buy the character from the store? It’s more RNG if you keep spamming the instances you want for the ingame currency. I’m starting to get Nokia vibes from this company’s business practice.

p.s. Just to prove that people have noticed this is the 10 min queue for random instances. The message is that if you want to play buy the character from store and head to PvP Arena.

Pokémon Omega Ruby v.s Ruby

Okay, so I recently bought used 3DS along with Pokémon Omega Ruby. Original Ruby is probably the most played game ever for me when I was a kid. I played it more than any other game ever (probably I’ve played it more than Aion). My longest savefile clocked over 400 hours... So I got fairly high expectations for this one... I just finished first game with 18 hours in. I could’ve cleared it faster but I got kinda hooked on hunting...

Pros: + More pokémon to capture pre and post game. Ruby only had ~150 and for rest you had to wait for Emerald/Fire Red/Leaf Green/Colosseum to be published 2+ years later. + Transfer pokémon from older games (in Ruby there was no way to transfer your team from Gen I and Gen II) + New Team Magma (Admins are cool) + Story is improved but it’s still silly like it’s always in this universe. + DexNav

Cons: - Some re-designs for the map don’t work. Mauville City is horrible to navigate at! Also they destroyed my favorite spot for farming berries (Route 123). - You get mega evolutions too early in the game. - Delta Episode is boring and “the main villain” fails to be edgy or interesting character - No Battle Frontier - They nerfed Ultra Ball... now it takes multiple tried to catch some worthless critters even at low HP. It’s not a bad remake but I’m not really happy. I’d prefer Emerald/Fire Red/Leaf Green over this one really. :L

Normal players: Oh shit...is this the end? Me:...DRAGONS DRAGONS AMG AMG AMG COME TO MAMA Dark Souls 3 is all about fan service and I’m not that into it but this one got me. I still prefer Dark Souls 1, it had this unique atmosphere...and I think it was harder game. But this isn’t bad it gets better towards the end.

p.s. They seems to be wyverns actually... ._.

BDO therapy <3

I’ll try FFXIV too at some point since Aleutia recommended it but I’ll start with this interesting KR grind first.

This game is bit hard to get into at start since it doesn’t teach you anything or hold your hand but when you read few guides and mess around, it will slowly open more to you.

What I really love about this game how alt friendly this is. Let me explain why: + Map is shared with your Family (Account). This means you don’t need to explore whole world again to remove Fog of War. + Contribution and Knowledge is shared. This means that your alt will benefit from all Nodes (more exp/loot/faster transportation/resources) your main has found and invested in. This works also other way around. + Every character has their separated Energy bar for crafting/gathering (and the amount of energy depends on Knowledge). + Pets are shared (they are only available from store but you don’t need to buy them for 2nd time unless you want to breed them) + Mounts can be shared through stables. + Storage in cities is shared. + All gear is tradeable through Storage and gear doesn’t have level restrictions.

But yeah, of course you won’t have time to have all of your characters 56+ and with best possible gear as it gets quite expensive but still this is quite nice if you’re altoholic like me. :P

I’m slipping away...

I’m extremely unhappy with Aion currently. RNG is destroying my hopes over and over again and no matter how much effort I put in it still get shot down.

This current system is extremely stressful and if you don’t have time or interest to grind all your free time and remove your will to sleep after stressful and physically draining work days you won’t get anywhere in this game. Unless you start spending your own money and the store is expensive.

The current game isn’t even fun. If you want to be competitive in PvP, you need the best gear and a really good premade. If you don’t have that, have fun with LFG. PvE is also quite painful with randoms and if you can’t play on late hours or during evening because of your work, you can’t be in a premade.

I’m so tired. Just let me go Aion... it’s my turn to vanish into aether.

Two sides of cleric.

I prolly need some white hairpin to cover my clerics black hair. D:

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No words needed just watch it.

Aion 5.x sucks

There, I said it.

Aion has always been a game where the progress is slow. But never before it has been all about who got the biggest wallet.

You can grind 24/7 but rich people will walk over you. If you can play only 2hr/day I hope you don’t want to be competitive, because you can’t.

And I hate that gear breaks when you fail enchanting. You’re already grinding for weeks or months to get that one piece and then it breaks at +3.

Really, NCSoft?

Win 10 and Aion 32/64 bit crashes

I contacted support because I had my game crashing a lot lately, around 10 times per hour. As usually, when these thing start to occur it’s not so easy to fix.

For me, the reason for the crashes is 95% of the time nvd3dum.dll

Sometimes I got CryEngine error message instead popping to my screen which I found quite hilarious.

This .dll is related to Nvidia, I don’t really know what it does but it’s not working properly with Aion. I rerolled back to the default drivers for my GTX970M that came with this computer but it didn’t solve the issue. I tried lots of different builds but nothing really helped. All other games and programs are running just fine with little to no crashes.

So, did I solve it?

Yes and no.

What did help a lot was to run Aion in Windows 7 compatibility mode. Now I crash only sometimes, the normal amount of crashes you usually get when playing Aion. :P This works with .bat file too (just Google: how to run .bat file in compatibility mode).

I don’t know why it works. All I know is that it has been stated that Aion doesn’t have Windows 10 support.

p.s.

There is no guarantee that this will work for you. It might work if you got Win 10 and this certain file is causing the crash.

For mr clerics in 1v1 arena

Just uninstall please.

2nd disk is installation not soundtrack :( at least i think so, i didnt actually try to install it lol. Look, 30-day-gametime-card for EU!

Revelation CBT1 Extended thoughts This game is starting to grow on me. CBT1 launch was a disaster and it’s not even close to be a complete game but if you can look past of those things, you’ll find a quite charming Chinese game. There are lots of good elements in here. Crafting and gathering are interesting, upgrading your gear feels rewarding, soul grid/skill talent system make it possible to build an unique class that specializes on certain things. For PvPers you’ll have arenas and guild wars. For PvErs instances come in various difficulties. Leveling up a guild is actually a thing in this game, you need to go to forest to chop down trees to build a shrine for your guild base. After that you need to make sure that the visitors to your guild base are greeted with a tea ceremony and you need to have a chat with them.

There are lots of mounts, wings and decorations/companions to craft and costumes to collect. This is a dream come true for roleplayers with all of the social things you can do in this game (emotes/popularity/evolving your characters characteristics/marriage system/mentoring system). Questing isn’t anything special, you might feel that leveling is maybe bit too fast with the campaign until level 39. Also the amount of different colors of quests is confusing before you actually read a guide online. Here is how quests work in RO: Yellow: Main story Orange: Critical character development quest or raid quest Purple: Introduces a new feature or event Blue: Reputation quest Green: Dailies I’m still not totally satisfied with the graphics but it does look gorgeous in some places. If you’re fine with BnS you’ll be happy with this.

However, wait for next CBT unless you’ve managed to get a free beta key. If you buy founders pack now and expect for a full game you’ll be disappointed. It’s way too early to tell how this game will turn out. I’m getting casual vibes from it but it’s not a bad thing necessary. Sometimes we need that relaxing mmo.

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