Arhangelos

Great news that you repositioned the npc for wintry coins. You are the best.

Great news, the NPC is back

Some people might have kept the wintry coins to use them this week but now they can't. Nobody is mad at this, it is just one more thing we need to keep in mind when we have a clearance week after the event, some events have selling npcs for the event currency.

The previous seasons I was done with the 45 levels quite easy and the last week I mostly had nothing to do. This time I didn't even lose a single daily/weekly and I still have 5 levels, the big seasonal quests no longer give 250 points. I can't do the ones that require a league for sure so I am marginally able to do this season. If I had lost a daily or two I would have had to buy a step. Why did they lower the points?

Yes, just add the wintry NPC back and it will be perfect. I personally used all of my coins but if anyone still has some it is a shame for them to have them deleted.

Unfortunatelly they removed the npcs so if you still have wintry coins you won't be able to use those . They might re-position it there though, a lot of people need this.

Fair enough, replying to different people takes the context away or confuses the conversation, I am not here to have a fight with anyone I am assume you are also not here to fight. Calling us "scared" it was like trying to shame us into trying because if we don't it is because we are scared of you. If Asmodians showed up the p2w elyos would show up too, so the reason they do not show up is that they do not need the boss (I guess) and there is no enemy either to have fun against. If they are willing to gather to enter Gelkmaros and kill afkers and call that fun, I am sure they would have fun coming to an event where many Asmodians would gather as well. When it comes to your drops, it doesn't matter the amount of things you get, the game is single faction at the moment. Everyone plays against their own side's resources, it is not like the elyos having 500 times more oaths than us makes any difference to us. You have your broker prices, we have ours. The amount of holy water or oaths or any drops on the elyos side are as relevant to us as a different game or server. The elyos and asmodian sides are two different games at two different servers. For me at least there in no collision at all. (Except as I mentioned the once-in-a-while altercation I might face when elyos appear in Apsaranta in which case I avoid pvp for all the reasons, and go back when the place is empty, which in its case it is also part of the fun)

They just removed it lol. Well today it is the last day and we will keep the snowballs for one more week until they get deleted.

The guy who made the post doesn't represent the faction, he made a question and only the asmodian side can reply to this. My personal reply is I wouldn't bother, it is not of my interest and I do not see any reason to participate in it. I am not scared, I just opt to spend my Aion time doing the things I do not find boring or rigged against me and then I shut aion off and play other games too that I also enjoy. If we already lose by not participating how can you claim we are "scared" of losing. You are trying to make ad hominem towards a faction by taking a fact that we do not participate and then you add some cherries of your choice as an explanation. He does have a sruggle because he wants and tried to participate in those things but he can't because no people in our side willing to bother. For the most of us there is indeed no struggle because we are doing the basic things left for us to do. Aion is a single player game for me now, I usually log at time that even Apsaranta is empty, I do the weeklies, do some dailies and some solo pve instances and I call it a day. With the slight exception of a p2w person or a 24/7 no lifer appearing out of nowhere and if I do not pay attention and don't have time to use the instant return so they kill me with 2 shots, there is no other struggle.

The game is on ER trying to survive. Every RPG element of the game was either wiped or rendered useless. You now have the same pve instances the last 2~3 years and potential gang pvp when you least expect it

Duh... we have already established the fact our faction doesn't try. Of course we don't, the other time one group (without transforms) of like 4 elyos were inside gelkmaros city, they had 100 guards + 20 asmodians or something hitting them and they weren't dying, most of the skills towards them were resisted and whatever they touched melted instantly. It has nothign to do with ability, it is pure gear dependent content. It is what it is, I personally acknowledge the situation, our faction predominantly accept and it refrain from doing things that what we don't find fun in anymore. Here and there someone that just entered the situation comes and makes a post like this and we revive the oldest story ever told in aion "you don't try hard enough", "we are better than you", "it is not about number but about knowing what to do" etc. ...I am playing in this game long enough to remember Asmodians dominating one of the servers at some point, the whole abyss was blue, the whole maps were blue and it was the elyos that complained and the asmodians trying to explain to them that "they don't try hard enough". Siel sued to be Asmodian dominated until they decided to merge the last 2 server and elyos became the overpopulated side and the whole tide was turned. It was, is and will always be predominantly about faction imbalance, but after 7.0+ they also injected aggressive p2w in BCM to the point the game is p2w exclusive only which multiplied the power difference. ~~ Edit: And I am not complaining about this because I remember when we were the dominating faction how some people treated elyos. I never told elyos "gitgud". I understand and acknowledge the game's mechanics and since there is nothing can be done, I accept it for what it is..

Whatever exists in open field, it is prone to abuse with faction balance difference, it has been like this for ages. Sieges at some point suffered a lot from this and they implemented the buff to the losing team so eventually it kinda balanced itself.

Maybe they wanted to change the meal date until December 28th and keep snowballs until January 4th and they miss-wrote it. Lets all be happy and lets stop rubbing it. The last thing we need is for them to take notice of something and make another change.

I know the time that it starts is 6am server time, but the amount of time it lasts is not always the same. Today there is little to nothing to change so I assume it might take about 2 hours or so in total.

We need about 2~3 more hours or something

Yes they did something to the routing of the server and this is caused. Everyone gets it randomly. I say remove the freaking launcher and lets go back to when we simply opened the client and enjoyed the game.

Bring back the last week for a total of 4 weeks and we won't be mad, if you want to please us bring 2 more weeks, my body is ready for 2 more weeks of snowbawls.

So I remember wrongly, maybe because in the previous events we were getting far more snowballs than now so I was more satisfied with the amount of prisms I would get. The chance is indeed close to 1~1,5% in the end.

~~Every time NCWest tried to combat bots, they ended up hurting actual players more. That is the case with luna pouch, broker fees, untradeability of everything etc. So lets kill every good event that can highly benefit actual players because botters can take more advantage of it, right? The game outside events is impossible to play or gain necessary items. When the game becomes too hard it becomes much harder for actual players, botters benefit from a hard game because they become the sole providers of items and kinah, if there is a limit they can bypass the limit by having multiple accounts. If you can get 1 drop from an instance, a botter can get 100x that, so lets remove instances too. Renown NPCs sell limited items with XP marks... someone with multiple characters can get multiples of that limited item, so lets remove the renown system too. What.... you can get items by doing instances and then sell them for kinah... what about a botter with 100 characters, he can get 100 items and sell them for 100x the profit, lets remove the instances too. There is a weekly limit of 450m sales per week per account, a person with 2x accounts can sell double that, lets not allow anyone to sell anything anymore, so a botter can't take advantage of it. ~~In the end having an additional account is not against the rules, you should invest in leveling a second account and take advantage of such events yourself in the future. You do not need to hack for this event, just log a char, get the 2x snowballs and log the next one! This event would even help you level alts because you can get giant berdin stars with wintry coins and use them to help the leveling process.

Man I swear my stats so far is like 1~1,5% to get a +10 snowball from a +1. I opened like 600 snowballs on my main (the ones that are brokerable) and I got 8x +10 only! The other days I also got very poor results. I do not remember the chances being so low in the previous years. Top this with the fact we get less snowballs per day and we have less weeks of event.

Just put the last week back, seriously it is holidays. Let the people have fun playing the game.

Everyone gets those constantly, some times they disappear for a week, other times they happen repeatedly every time I try to login.

I am tired myself as well. I will keep doing the daeva pass but then I might get a 4th Zikel. This game is just luck or lack of luck.

Even worse during the next Wednesday there will be no changes or announcements. So if they end the event this week we will be left without a good event during the first week of the year. Snow and snowbalsl and snowmen are directly attached to eh Christmas and New Year celebration, the event cannot end before the New Year.

They had those on sale and they costed 400$ to gamble on which one you would get.