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Hello, As of this afternoon, we have suspended and permanently closed accounts who were found to have participated in abusing the Evergale Canyon exploit. We have extensively reviewed each account and their actions; the accounts that were suspended or closed knowingly participated in the exploit. As such, our decisions here are final and we will make no exceptions. Evergale Canyon remains unavailable as we work with the dev team to address its issues and will bring it back as soon as we can. Thank you!

Agreed. The fact that the administration still hasn't punished those that abused the EC bug is outrageous and just another example of the poor administration of this game. Oh.. wait.. (The irony of a serial abuser complaining about the pay2winners is precious.)

From this post alone it looks to me like you are not much happy yourself, so you could as well follow your own advice.

Funny you should talk about terms of service.

It's pretty amazing how far some people will go to avoid taking responsibility for their shitty behavior. The kick mechanic was always there. Exploiting it for etium was not. Neither were the mass auto kicks you mouthbreathers did to try to cover your tracks. Your sad entitlement essays made me laugh. It's mildly amusing watching you fumble around with ideas. Still, you dipshits wrecked progression is an already lopsided and dying game, bragged about it, got caught, and somehow still have a c*ntache after getting only a slap on the wrist. Y'all may get your characters back, but you sound pathetic. ...because you are pathetic. gfy

There is a nice thread here on the forums about farming skins in 6.0, but much of the info is outdated since it’s from 6.0. I’ve been doing a lot of skin farming lately, so here is a bunch of info about current old skins available. I am only listing the skins that are farmable for level 80 toons. There are other skins inside some of these instances, but they cannot be passed to a level 80 toon because they are inside of ancient/legendary gear boxes. For example, the final boss in Esoterrace drops a box of legendary gear which is the Abyssal skin; it can only be looted by the toon which killed the boss. If you bring in a level 80 toon, it can loot everything else on the boss, just not the equipment box. Rentus Base also drops the old Vasharti gear and weapon skins, but again, they are in a box and are not passable to level 80 toons. How to create a proper group that will allow a level 80 toon to loot the skins: Your “skin farming” toon will be within 10 levels of whichever instance you are farming. For example, if you are farming in an instance where the mobs are level 27, your toon will need to be no higher than level 36. You will need two toons in the group: a level 1 on a separate account and a level 37/45/whatever on your main account. Your level 1 toon should be in the group the entire time, regardless of how much switching you do for other toons to loot. Your level 1 toon can just sit at Ishalgen or wherever. Bring your level 37 (or whatever) toon inside the instance by itself (while in group with the level 1) and kill mobs/beat the instance. Note: If white skins drop on the regular mobs, go to character screen with your level 37 toon -- DO NOT LEAVE GROUP -- and switch to your level 80 toon. The *regular* mob loot despawns within 5 minutes, so you must be very fast on those. Loot it on your level 80 toon and then go back to character screen and switch back to your level 37 toon. Continue the instance. After you kill the final boss in the instance, you will probably have a 15-minute wait period (see notes for each instance below for exceptions) before you can loot on another toon. So kill the boss and then go to character screen -- again, DO NOT LEAVE GROUP -- and switch to your level 80 toon. Bring it inside the instance (the level 1 should still be chilling in group with you) and wait by the boss until it becomes lootable. As a general rule, your level 1 toon should always be in the group from start to finish. Do not ever make it leave or you risk the group falling apart and you being kicked from the instance before you're done looting. ** When you enter lower level instances, such as Haramel or Lower Udas Temple, select “Enter with my squad” or some such phrasing; don’t enter the instance in the solo mode. ** Frostforged Gear Skins Name of the skins in 7.0: Wind or Earth Where to get: Haramel, Alquimia Research Center, Kromede’s Trial Level your farming toon needs to be: 6-32 Type of loot: White gear pieces How to get: They are found on both regular mobs and Hamerun, the final boss; see notes at the top of this post on how to loot. Special notes: The mini-boss mob that prowls around outside of the Haramel entrance also drops one piece of this gear, and it is also passable to level 80 toons in the same way, so make sure to kill him before you actually enter the instance. The drop rate is much lower in Alquimia, so I recommend just keeping your toon at level 9 until you’ve collected all the pieces you need from Haramel before ascending to level 10. Malefic Gear and Weapon Skins Name of the skins in 7.0: Starspark Where to get: Fire Temple, Bakarma Fortress, Taloc’s Hollow, Esoterrace Level your farming toon needs to be: 31-51 Type of loot: White gear pieces How to get: They are found on both regular mobs and bosses; see notes at the top of this post on how to loot. Special notes: FT drops a different, non-Malefic shield, which is called Starspark like the other Malefic gear, but it’s not the Malefic shield. I’m not sure what it is, so I included a picture of it. FT also has a chance to spawn Vile Judge Kromede as the final boss and she drops the old Kromede weapon skins, but several of them are the extendable versions, so they cannot be skinned onto level 80 weapons. FT is the best/fastest/easiest way to farm these Malefic skin pieces. Infinity Shard/Hyperion Gear Skins Name of the skins in 7.0: Heartwave or Aegis Where to get: Lower Udas Temple, Rentus Base, Beshmundir Temple, Dragon Lord’s Refuge, Tiamat Stronghold Level your farming toon needs to be: 49-80 (recommend waiting until 52 for Udas Temple because Besh at level 49 is almost impossible) Type of loot: White gear pieces How to get: They are found on both regular mobs and bosses; see notes at the top of this post on how to loot. Special notes: The cloth version is the special songweaver version; does not have the sorc/sm version of cloth. There are both leather versions – regular and special gunner. All pieces are available, including the hats. The mace and shield can also be found. It’s possible the other weapons are around, but I haven’t seen them in about a dozen runs. In Dragon Lord’s Refuge, the skin is on Calindi, not the final chest. (There is technically also one in the chest, but it's not passable to other toons.) Calindi’s loot timer is 15 minutes, so you can finish the instance before you bring in your level 80 toon. Lower Udas Temple is the best/easiest/fastest way to farm these skins. Tiamat Stronghold Weapon Skins Name of the skins in 7.0: Ancient Drakanfire Where to get: Tiamat Stronghold Level your farming toon needs to be: 71-80 Type of loot: Ancient weapon box How to get: It is found on the boss, Tahabata. They are not passable between characters as they are inside boxes, but you can just run the instances on your level 80 toons since Tahabata is a level 71 mob! Special notes: These DO have the red glow on them! You must actually bring a 2nd toon inside the instance with you. Just holding the group is not enough. For some reason, the weapon box only drops from Tahabata when at least two toons are inside the boss room. Unfortunately, since they are inside weapon boxes, you will get the "best" one for your class. For example, as a chanter, I am given a box with a staff; I don't get to choose a mace or shield instead. Fallen Poeta/Kroban Gear and Weapon Skins Name of the skins in 7.0: Helio’s Where to get: Open world Lakrum/Demaha, Bastion of Souls, Primeth’s Forge, Stellin Laboratories Level your farming toon needs to be: No level restriction as long as you are strong enough to kill the mobs Type of loot: White gear pieces How to get: They are found on regular mobs; see notes at the top of this post on how to loot. Special notes: They were called Volcanic in 6.x patches. No image of all the weapons together; google "Aion Kroban weapons" for images of them individually from Aion Powerbook. Blood Mark Gear and Weapon Skins Name of the skins in 7.0: Lakrum Protector Where to get: Yellow/dark blue quests when you first enter the Lakrum map Level your farming toon needs to be: 76-80 Type of loot: Ancient gear How to get: Quest rewards Special notes: The white version shown above is the Lakrum Protector pve gear; the gray version (not pictured here) is the pvp gear. Harvester Gear and Weapon Skins Name of the skins in 7.0: Ancient Nighthaze Where to get: Bastion of Souls, Frozen Monolith Level your farming toon needs to be: 76-80 Type of loot: Ancient gear How to get: They are found on the bosses. They are not passable between characters as they are inside boxes, but you can just run the instances on your level 80 toons. Special notes: None OTHER SKINS YOU GET WHILE LEVELING, BUT NOT PASSABLE TO LEVEL 80 TOONS: - Level 1 starter gear – “Old” – original starter skin - Level 1-9 gear – “Apprentice” – Fabled Kahrun skin – Looks like: https://66.media.tumblr.com/148477c525121e325526c504aa2dfdf3/tumblr_pevjsom1Dg1rjzgqyo2_250.png - Level 10 gear – “Traveler” – Siel’s Forgotten skin – Looks like: https://www.daevasreport.com/images/multimedia/screenshots/3-0_screenshots_armors03.jpg - Level 10 wings (yellow quest) – “Verdict” – Norsvold starter wings (assume Elyos get their Iluma version, but not sure) – Looks like: https://aionpowerbook.com/preview/wings/wing_q04a_1.jpg - Level 10-20 gear – “Verdict” – Ceramium coin skin (white) – Looks different for Elyos and Asmos - Level 20 purple weapons – “Dundis” – same as Verdict - Level 20-40 Gear – “Adjudication” – Ceramium coin skin (purple) – Looks different for Elyos and Asmos - Level 40-55 gear – “Indomitable” – Eternal Kahrun skin – Looks like: http://cmsstatic.aionfreetoplay.com/armor3.jpg - Level 50 purple weapons – “Lakeanimum” – unknown blue/black (similar to Beritra skin, but not quite the same) - Level 50-74 Gear and weapons – “Sunburst” – Danuar Sanctuary skin – Looks like: https://www.daevasreport.com/2013/05/07/aion-4-0-danuar-shalter-gear/ - Level 60 purple weapons – “Roaring Kirrin” – Hyperion skin – Looks like: https://live.staticflickr.com/8690/16989487461_a678e15206_b.jpg

You seem more furious and annoyed than anyone else here. There are problems and bugs and issues and this is the forums that has sections for reporting bugs, discussing things, giving your opinion etc. This is what forums are for. The only complaining posts are usually those directed at RNG and enchanting items, losing xx amount of enchant stones, or stigma stones etc where people are furious. The majority of post are not "complains", players most of the time simply address the issues, the only one blatantly complaining here is you. You almost imply everyone should be happy because the company decided to go apeshit on dealing with the game so you have to eat the shit they serve you and act happily or leave. There is a 3rd option, to address the issue and make them become better which happened many times, just recently after one year of telling them how unfair it is to have so short transformation times for example (which is their personal regional nerf), they just added +2 minutes on every transform which makes a ton of difference on us transparent users. It might have sounded like a complain but in reality it was addressing the issue and it was somehow became better because we kept asking for it, not because they played the game and realized it was bad. You can continue to enter the forums and you can continue to complain about the community, or you can also go and never come back just like you said, but I am not dictating you how to enter the forums since it is your right to do so. The same thing is for everyone though, people can continue to enter the forums and continue to write what they want, and the fact you dislike it has absolutely no effect on whether others will follow your plea, same way you don't have to follow any rules the others follow.

Alright gang it's fan theory time: Gideon must have been playing Aion under a secret toon name and been a big abuser of the Evergale bug and has now spent the last 2 months trying to cover it up and erase it from the NC logs, resulting in an unprecedented downtime and elongating his resource and gear lead over the rest of the playerbase. Other fan theories include "Gideon is Dead and Hime is trying to use his body like a puppet so no one notices" and "Evergale was accidentally added to Blade and Soul" Keep me posted if you find any other plausible reason why this is happening

stop losing lol

Either ban them permanently, or don't ban them at all, you guys just banning the exploiters temporally is not smart, because 3 days of ban won't do anything, when they come back they will still have the gear they got by exploiting. Just compensate the guys who didn't do EC, these 2 months all these players haven't gotten to progress in an instance... and all these exploiters will be back in 3 days, WELL PLAYED

Seems they're trying to define the game by its maps and attempting to cash out on those. They're bringing back gear breaking once again, some Plume and Bracelet things. If you remove the title of the game, you have something different in its entirety. Kinda miss the days when the game was story driven. Kinda laughable, 7.5 makes the game look like a private server in itself.

@Cyan can you give us back prestige box from killing last boss of instance who use to give candies !?!?!?!?

And just to remember, Im not trying to justify the abuse. Everyone know we have 2 runs and even if u got kicked from the run, u could just do ur 2 runs and quit. Thats the true and no one can doubt. But its So F**** up from NC to ban people, even temporaly, when 15~20% of the population abuse of HACKS and EVERYONE know that. And NC dont do ANYTHING with people who use that. This post isnt to justify about the EC ban, its just to remember everyone how NC is negligent with the game https://www.myaion.eu/Ranking/NA

Have fun playing with 10 ppl

Should've thought of that before abusing, right?

Bringing the maps back wont matter if they bring together with it everything that makes people quit game...

Another note about Tiamat Stronghold, compliments of @Mytek-DN: The boss after you take the elevator in the east wing, Kumbanda, has a chance to drop the Tiamat Spectral wings.

@Cyan can we please have a normal entry count for IDD like every other region? 4 runs with no prestige and 5 with it. thank you

I have seen a fix for this coming down the line. Don't have an exact date. Transfers are also coming, just need to finish up some website testing. We're going to be bringing the servers down today briefly to make this adjustment. It was intended to be per character. I'll add it but here's the list. Sorry! Infernal Drakenspire Depths Primeth's Forge Frozen Monolith Bastion of Souls The Veilenthrone Herelym Mine Stellin Development Lab (Easy) Stellin Development Lab Tiamat Stronghold

My favorite part about the storyline with Cheska is when Princess Tutu blocks a dagger with her face, gets vanished on the spot because she clearly hasn't bound to an obelisk once in her life, and everyone gets Dramatically Sorrowful about this despite cheering by a fresh pile of corpses not 2 minutes ago. What?

Is it a feature?

There will be a scheduled maintenance Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from 6:00 a.m. CST / 13:00 CET. The game servers will be unavailable for approximately 2 hours. Changes Routine website and server maintenance Enchant-O-Rama will end. The Demaha Express Event will begin. You can find full details here. An issue where some instance bosses would not drop items for Prestige players will be fixed. Some minor text and localization issues will be fixed. Be sure to follow @AionOps for server updates. Maintenance Images of the Week

And you know whats funny absolute retards from the community were pushing for this change. They actually believed ncsoft would give 16 legendary pvp stones instead of 2 and have Governor receive 512 legendary stones instead of 10 ultimates. In their dreams I say. And now because of how deluded they all the community has lost out, and NCsoft for changing it 3/4 of the way in is a dishonourable gesture.

How so? No one was obligated to kick, however if they really felt stressed- all they had to do was to pass lead or vice. Done. Enough of their being asked to kick. Really, enough with the excuses for exploiting and abuse.

From what I see, people are asking compensation for the EC down time, especially prestige users who are paying for the extra EC runs we're not getting. I would have used pretty much each and every run on at least 2 and sometimes more characters like I've barely ever missed an EC run ever since i started to run it, not afking unless hopelessly losing, earning every single etium. Not asking compensation for staying clean during bug abuse fest (to abuse or not abuse is everyone's own choice with corresponding consequences). But yeah, don't compensate the abusers - partly because they already helped themselves to extra rewards from their future runs, and partly because they are the reason we can't have nice things. Or any things at all in EC case.

It's actually pretty funny reading the same people comment over and over again. To correct myself, it's rather sad. What's sad is the amount of casuals that are desperate to get some sort of compensation because they've never been able to earn it on their own to taste a little bit of what it feels like to be at the top of the food chain. Realistically, I am actually in favor of all the casuals getting their T2 sets given out by NCsoft only to prove my point that in a few months when the next patch comes out, they'll be the exact same people whining "Oh upgrading is too hard... oh items don't drop enough... oh we need more stones". It's rather pathetic honestly. No wonder you guys are so far behind in progression. You blame it on people abusing this bug. But the way I see it, you're behind because you PvP more on the forums than you do in game. And then you wonder why you're behind...

In my opinion, they should not have banned them but just deleted all the items they got for abusing it.

The inconsistency is due to the players lying about specific details to make it sound like they are hard done by. The players i know who got a perma were those who spammed it(These players would of happily paid for it anyways). I abused it 2 days got 3 day. A friend did it 2 extra runs and got banned for 24 hours so all our bans line up for the amount of exploitation that was going on. Some people who got perma are playing it off as i got a 3 day ban but nyerk Aion for banning me i am never playing the game again to make it look like they are quitting instead of being perma banned.

I think Aion needs more things to enchant. Here are my suggestions: 1. Mounts: We should be able to enchant our mounts to +15. If you fail, the mount and maybe your crotch is destroyed. 2. Kinah: We can enchant Kinah one by one to +15. That would make 1 kinah worth 15 kinah. If you fail, your kinah is destroyed and your warehouse is destroyed. Each attempt should cost at least 100k kinah. 3. Confirmation Windows: One things this game really needs is more confirmation windows. So you should be able to enchant your confirmation window to +15 and create the same number of identical confirmation windows as you have enchantment levels. Wheeee! 4. Your Server: We should be able to infinitely enchant our servers. The server with the highest enchantment level after 6 months would get a reward (10 manastone fasteners, 1x per account). This should have a level 1 safe spot to make players feel nice. 5. Estimated Server Downtime Bonus Downtime. It's already a bonus, why not enchant it further? Successful enchantments will lower bonus server downtime by .1 second. 6. Perma Bans: What's better than a perma ban? A FREAKING +15 PERMA BAN, that's what. If you fail on this enchant, your ban only lasts a week. Wait, what the...

The forum is full of butthurt 1~3 post users that simply use alt account to come here and whine and wish us good luck "now that the game will die". You guys forget that abusers are what actually killed the game. Leaving the abusers to continue will actually finish off the game. There are people who are paying for that extra EC entry via prestige which is denied to them. Banning abusers has nothing to do with compensating legit players, because my game is still affected by the fact they removed a very important pvp instance. Even if they give us the losing rewards for every EC we couldn't do, it would still worth it. I am not asking for abusers to compensate me anything, they got what they deserved, I am telling the company to do something about the EC we are denied. The correct thing is to handle every legit player an EC reset scroll for every EC we were denied. Lets us at least play EC, don't compensate us anything, just let us play it.

I don't think we'd notice. The whole thing is kind of a mess, but hey at least it gave us something to talk about other than the enchantment rates, right?

I believe you have some of your answers in your word salad. I highlighted an issue that I see in your essay. Like was said before, EC was meant to complete one or two (with prestige) times before having to use luna to reset the counter before daily reset. Knowing you are completing the instance more than those afforded times without luna is a exploitable bug. Same with the luna instance in a fort prior to siege to pop out for easy gp farm, animation hacks or some third party add ons. That being said, ALL exploitable bugs should be dealt with properly and accordingly by NC Soft. We all can go back and forth dissecting words to lean in our favor or NC Soft's favor, it means nothing. Any video game is not a democracy. We own nothing in it.

"I would like to sue NCWest for having an outdated prestige pass that I have willingly paid for."

They should give people who didn't abuse it full winning rewards for every free EC we lost and give nothing to those that abused it.

Almost as if the person knew what price to put it so it wouldn’t get thiefed by another person.. W/E, you do you I guess

Just in case you guys wonder what i'm talking about. @Cyan @Hime

No. Don't give frags for losing. Even though I don't always win, still, no. Even when I quick queue IB, most of the time my random group members at least try and win. That won't be the case if AFKing is encouraged. Maybe some people queue against their alts. I don't and many, many more people dont. Most of us form/join premades and try our best or if it takes too long to form, we quick queue hoping that we will still be able to fight and win our fragments.

Ultimately for me to recommend Aion to anyone it would take some big changes from NCwest/NCsoft communication. To me Aion the is not so much the problem as the company behind it and the publisher for our region is. They leave us the community in the dark for way to long. Some games you can put up with the BS that the developers/publishers dish out but for me while i do still log in to mess around with friends i just can not commit to playing Aion as a main game which hinders the enjoyment+progression severely.

@Matsukamy-KT The fighting spirit frags suddenly made mostly dead content useful again. Ofc there were players who always did ID and IB, but there were a lot more that had stopped doing them because there were easier and quicker ways to get what those instances gave. Now everyone is doing them because they want the frags. Giving frags to the losing team isn't going to discourage afkers or rage quitters or the clueless. In fact it's going to reward them and create more of them. There have been discussions here about removing -all- rewards from losing teams to insure that the only people entering the instances are those that are willing to play. I don't agree with that, but I am fine with restricting the best rewards (in this case frags) to only the team that wins.

I did get a really good chuckle out of that post. Like, there's a certain rereleased MMO that I bitterly hate (for a litany of justifiable reasons), but I don't go to their forums/reddit/whatever to go "THIS GAME [still] SUCKS. I'M GLAD I'M NOT PLAYING, AND I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT, TOO."

You shouldn't read too much into dislikes...esp for an aion video. You have people who dont play this game for year and still log on to social media and other outlets just to talk shit about the game. Its also impossible to please everyone and that will always be someone hating because how dare u try to show me how to do something to help me?? Also u can look on you youtube for a video of a baby laughing and thousands of people will dislike it...why?

There is a metric shit ton of reasons as to why you got dislikes. However the more likely reason is one of the following Someone who hates Aion is downvoting every Aion video(Yes people who hate stuff do this sad i know but it is what it is) Other Youtube content creators want to make you feel bad so you stop making your video's and their guides get more views. I know a few Ark content creators that were going to quit because of a few hater comments. You have haters in game that noticed you are making content and are down voting simply because they hate you(or the class you are playing in the video). The content is not to the liking of the viewer watching. I read every comment in your Aion video's and you focused to much on the negative aspect if you go back and read the comments(i know you read them since you replied to them...And yes i read every comment on your Aion videos) Aside from the AT DPS guide video people were asking for more video guides and even ones for the Asmo side as well. The reason i made the 3rd choice in bold is because of the information you gave us. If you are uploading and you are obtaining a few dislikes soon after uploading people who are following your channel are doing so, So that they can down vote you to demoralize you. When people dislike your video and then leave a comment saying YOUR rubbish AND YOUR VIDEOS ARE rubbish <----Ignore these. On the other hand if people dislike your video and say you know i think your sound is to loud for the intro so i gave this one a dislike <--- Information worth taking in to consideration.

Congratulations @Cyan tomorrow our Baby Bug will be 1 year old ! such happiness

Evergone Canyon. We're working with the dev team on some logistical stuff, but, I don't have any further information right now.

Yikes. By anyone's definition, Aquartist isn't geared. Would suggest adding "PvP" to the "geared" message or maybe "legendary PvP gear min" just to be clearer.

I tried to be as positive as I could with 6.x but I dreaded update day, I knew it was going to be horrible, and it has delivered on that on every regard. And I have to say that as far as some people's luck have gone, I haven't done horribly by this patch, but I just absolutely hate the state of the game. One thing I considered is the fact 6.x is the first KR update to be F2P, which is why 5.x and previous 'pay walls' have been half-arsed at best and circumventable. But seriously, deleting 70% of your game and its mechanics was a good idea? What???? I just don't get the 5.x hate, I had a great time for the most part. Yes, the initial grind to 75 was overdone, but by the time 5.6-5.8 came around, the leveling was much smoother and there was still TONS to do before you got to 75. The PVP open world could be a bit lackluster; that could've been fixed with better objectives in Norsvold and Iluma, perhaps a fort in each, I dunno, but throwing the whole thing in the fire seemed a bit extreme, especially since either of those maps were larger than Lakrum and far more detailed. The PVE was excellent, instances were actually challenging because they had mechanics, and weren't gear gated. Everything in 6.0 is easy if you have gear to tank and spank everything. 5.x was actually an expensive patch, beautiful to look at and take in, with tons of content, whereas. . .where's the content in 6.x? Where is the money? Everything is recycled. Every texture in Lakrum is reused from somewhere else. 6-7x gears are all mostly chop ups of old armors and skins repasted and frankensteined together. I mean, FFS, I'd rather have to do Fissure of Oblivion every day again if it meant getting back a semblance of actual Aion versus whatever the heck this game is supposed to be now.

That's an absolute lie. It was never an issue finding parties for PVP instances in 5.x, even before merge. As someone who was used to going single or duo, yeah, it was easy then, now there's maybe 1-3 lfg group per time hour if even. People QQ about 5.x, but it was miles beyond the steaming crap that is 6.x. At least there was stuff to do, there were nice places to go to, you could see what the hell your toon looked like, and you could get around every pay wall in the game if you had 2 or 3 braincells to rub together.