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  1. 11 hours ago, Gallium-DN said:

    Yeah, it really sucks. I know the Wings were not the most coveted item, but at least they and the hanbok skin were something new. My favorite type of Event has always been the kind where you can get a skin, emote or mount after preforming a relatively simple task. However, nowadays we just can't enjoy that type of event because the goals are too far out of reach. If every mob had a 100% chance of dropping the quest item(s), and the goal number of the quest was realistically achievable, then players could have actually enjoyed the event. We could have focused one week doing the GOG and a second week collecting for the Silk. Instead, everyone was just disappointed. I mean, think about it: players needed to loot 110 quest items just to gain 1 Silk, and we needed 30 Silk pieces to turn in the quest. You put that together and you need 3,300 Silk pieces. That is a huge number in-of itself, and the mobs don't even drop the quest items every time. On top of that, you can only gain up to two pieces of Silk per day. Players were set up to fail.

    I just wish the Aion Team would take a little time before releasing the Events, to modify the goals so they are more realistic for our Server.

    Exactly 3300 cacao/rice for it and the chance was like 10% if not less so that was at least 33.000 mobs to kill.

  2. 20 hours ago, Gallium-DN said:

    Hey, thanks for taking the time to make a detailed reply. It sounds like even for those who have the ability to leave their computer idle and the game open for many, many hours per day, it still took a full week and countless hours of your time to accomplish the event goal. You also mentioned that you were completely unable to do anything else in the game in order to farm.

    For those of us who have responsibilities, work, etc. and can only play Aion for a couple hours per day (plus weekends) this is truly impossible.  I would really like to address the staff here @Primali @Roseae@EMpulse: Why are today’s Events designed so that players can’t play? We have to choose between participating in the event, or actually playing the game. The quests give us huge numbers to try and reach and on top of that, the drop rate is extremely poor. We don’t even have the option to group-up and mass-kill mobs and share the loot. Instead, our computers are held up for nearly 24 hours per day, 7 days a week while our characters behave as robots. During this period we can’t run instances. We can’t rebuild our renown.  We can’t do Apsar legion quests. We can’t work on the Daeva Pass. We can’t play. A response from the  Aion Team would be greatly appreciated.

    Even worse as I said we had another auto-hunt event the Garden of Knowledge which mandates that we live our chars another hour afk auto hunting. This is why I didn't manage to do the 30 silks, I did 25 and then the event went off. Such a badly designed event. I do not really care for those wings, I was going to horde its skin only and never use it probably, but I hate that I did the job and didn't have time to finish it.

  3. 13 hours ago, Zappies-DN said:

    They'd have to make it one-way until things were reasonably close. In 2011 they stopped allow Elyos character creation on our server and others where imbalance was a problem. If our 30 v 100 became 60 vs 70 or 55 vs 75 that is reasonable close that we could actually use tactics and skill to offset the difference. I'm very sure NC can tell balance, and not include bots. Half of us could do it with access to their server.

    I still do not see anyone transferring to the Asmodian side. When they blocked people from making elyos, they started making dummy accounts to make asmodians to increase the population so they can make elyos. Aion NA is so unpopulated that any measure to limit new players will simply shut the server closed.

  4. TL,DR: We are all waiting for Throne and Liberty to be out and try it hoping it won't suck. Aion will never recover, it is what it is, it has p2w beyond playability, it has open world mechanics that are prone to faction imbalances and the economy is not open like in classic yet still dominated by farmers.

    Also never take advice from:
    1) Rich people on how to get your life better
    2) The overpopulated/overgeared faction on how to win in open world

    This game was, is and will always be about RNG, numbers, stats and class (im)balance.

    Never let anyone shame you because you lost or didn't bother at all after losing 100 times. The game is supposed to be fun, do what is fun for you and avoid the things that the game is rigged against you, once you do the things you find fun close the game and play another game that you enjoy.

    Aion is not life.

  5. 7 hours ago, Lapis-DN said:

    @Primali please, review the event loot table

    it looks horrible and pretty lackluster
    consider adding Daevanion Skills, Refining Stones, ultimate manastones, Io, Holy Waters

    none of the items I listed are considered top tier and game breaking to be given in events

    Exactly, the whole vent looks like Void Trials with just one more step, the FS armor box is nothing, I extract like 10 of them every week by apsaranta quests.

    They also need to always put a skin in every event, doesn't matter how ugly it is, just put a skin in the table.

  6. 3 hours ago, Gallium-DN said:

    I'm curious: about how much powder and cacao were you able to loot Auto-hunting? I simply do not have the opportunity to leave my computer idle to auto-hunt 12+ hours per day, and playing the game normally (completing daily, weekly, and seasonal quests throughout the maps) I was only able to loot enough food for the Anti-couple to give me 1 Rice Cake.

    Very low chance to get it indeed, this is why I haven't been able to do 30 of them yet, but it seems the pet is not deleted nor the event items. I also do not have prestige, I once put a drop amulet and saw no difference.

    The other awful thing is that it needs 2 hours to be re-fed and we had this event along with GoG which required another 1 hour of afk farming!

  7. Wtf the pet says it still has 7 more days! I haven't been able to do the 30 silk. What a garbage event. I have been auto hunting the sh!t out of my char and that thing takes for ages! I wanted to get the fluttering wings the rest of the rewards sucked big time.

  8. 21 hours ago, Yetah said:

    Not really maximum, more like a minimum of 6 months and thats with the condition that you max the deava pass to level 45 every season, because only at last level you get the 50 ultimate shards, and for that you need to finish all dailies, weeklies and most of the seasonal. And yeah for you it might be easy to do a lot of the seasonal stuff, but for a new player with kerub gear it might be a tall order. And if you dont max the pass every seasons you get 30 shards, which makes your maximum of 6 months into more like a year. Not really picking a fight just giving a perspective, there could have been much easier ways to obtain Kaisinel at the least for a startup, like renown shards, EU has it in prestige shop for like 15000 prestige coins, which can be obtained a lot faster than 6 months, or even as a gift to new and returning players much like the lugbug boxes, seeing new players in ancient xforms 5 years into the update is really not a nice way to retain anyone. And thats not even the main problem, current patch made obtaining FS weapon from relic close to impossible for new players, either the farming takes too long with just 2 from dispatch a week and thats after leveling it to level 3, or its just too expensive to buy holy waters, and because the population is low and almost noone running HOA, there are barely any weapons being sold on broker, so hitting another wall for months/years. And if you tried doing apsa quests with kerub gear you know how that feels like, you cant even solo some of the mobs most of the time.

    Yes, a new player has a lot of struggle. I never even got an FS weapon from an instance, I got it from the holy water the first time I did it to 300 which is very expensive.

    But doing the daeva pass should be a priority for any player especially the new ones, I also skip some steps that are impossible for asmodians. With the same way you get 1 free legendary transform every 2 months, there is no excuse for anyone playing with an ancient transform for 5 years.

  9. 1 hour ago, Sheyrena-DN said:

    I've a friend who just got her FIRST Ultimate Transform LAST NIGHT.
    Now, it didn't take her 5 years to do this as she did take some time away from game, however...

    Kick down, NC. As Lad said, its been 5 years. It shouldn't be this hard to earn the older ultimates.

    ~Shey~

    It takes maximum 6 months to get a random ultimate transform (Zikel or Nezekan) completely free from daeva pass + BCM ultimate breath of transformation.

  10. They should have had the wardrobe expansion ticket and make sure it is brokerable. This would have saved the wardrobe thing.

    Luna on the other hand needs to be re-utilized. We have given them so many suggestions so players can enjoy it while bots will have a difficult time.

  11. It should have been like the prestige in retail that is a brokerable consumable. More money to the company if people could buy it from others with kinah. It would be no different than buying things from BCM and sell them to broker.

  12. Yes, I just saw the Apsaranta one, it is the quest I have never been able to do in my life because the guards 1-shot me and anyone else who tried to go there. Crucible Upper also give a/s minium, I have plenty of minium and 3x minium vault (1 entry + 2 reset scrolls with enown point level 9 in Gelkmaros)

    I do not have prestige anymore, no reason to waste money on that. And I do not do the pvp instances either to get those coins.

    Thanks for the information.

  13. 20 hours ago, Eriol-KT said:

    What do you plan to do with the faction imbalance so big that there are 30 elyos for every 1 Asmodian?

    When they first acknowledged faction imbalance they implemented the siege buff because this is where the problem shined the most. The only way to make sure there is no faction imbalance is to never have open world competitions, like world bosses and that legion invasion thing. But that would take away from the game, they could placed the special things these bosses give in other areas and instances too and then there would be no imbalance, or at least people would still be able to get those apostles or paragons or whatever else you get from another game feature.

    Anything open world will always be prone to imbalance in faction numbers and they can't keep giving special buffs to combat each one. They already don't care enough for the game to bother with this too.

  14. 31 minutes ago, Lapis-DN said:

    i did this quest yesterday. I don't think it was removed

    Also the chances of getting an A-rank minion from vault are pretty decent. just pop a drop rate rune before openning the 4th crate

    They removed it from the reward of the quest though. I used to get 1 a-rank minion per week before the change, now I get 0.

    As for minium vault, I guess I am just unlucky, I haven't gotten anything from there for months.

  15. I have a "Spy Orb" thing in my special cube and there is no campaign for it anymore (at least none that I have from Demaha) and there is nothing I can do to get rid of it. There are a few items from past events that are also useless and no way to delete them or sell them or use them in any way.

    Does anyone else have the same problem? And should I open a ticket to have a GM delete those for me? I am kinda scared they will accidentally delete useful things or my whole char or something :D
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    This campaign no longer exists in my list (either in the process or finished tabs):

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    These below were from an event I never got to finish because it required getting level 7 renown in maps that was nearly impossible back then, but I got stuck with them.

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    This specific one was dropping from Lakrum mobs and even if you finished the quest you still kept getting them. This event was when we first got the event coins and the Bugarota NPC in Gelkmaros (I forget the elyos name of that fat chick).

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  16. 18 minutes ago, Gina-DN said:

    Well I've been playing almost since day 1 Last NA Server open (1.9) and I still aint able to get an ultimate xform, I have quit 2 or 3 times since I get stuck and I am unable to upgrade weapons/xforms/gems, also I know new patch coming soon so why not make loyal players able to get top xform at least?

    You can get an ultimate transform every 6 months 100% free by doing the daeva pass and getting the free breaths of transformation from BCM. This has been the case the last 2 years since lugbug was implemented and then exchanged with the daeva pass.

  17. A friend asked me to make this question here (I do not have this issue). So he can log into the game with no issues, when he tries to log into the site he is met with an error message and there is nothing he can do to enter the site. I tried to log my account from his machine and it worked.

    I repeat: his account is not banned, he plays without an issue. I logged my account from his pc and it logged correctly!

    He contacted support directly from the mail but they didn't help much, does anyone else have the same issue?

    This is the message he gets:

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  18. 17 hours ago, Zappies-DN said:

    Aside from Siege and Demaha, we can buy a 1m ap item from Baron Shugo with ~250 event coins. Is a bit of a steep price, but one way to get a bit aside from HM and the others.

    No other ideas - I don't think any mobs anywhere give AP, but Arena gives a tiny bit.

    The elite mobs in Demaha give like 500AP each (or close) without an AP rune, but that is literally nothing compared to the AP you might need to use it as currency.

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