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it is actually 20x not even 10x, so the 1st cube fail is pretty much the best reward until cube +5. Damn!

...lol the worst part is that the level 1 fail ice cube gives you 10x big XP crystals which is a total of 539.299.530 XP while the 2nd fail gives you THREE... yes THREE xp extractors, worth 1,5m kinah! The level 3 gives you two big stars which is marginally better than the 1st reward. The level 4 is almost useless as well. The actual reward starts at level 5 and forth! And that is if you are lucky to get the rune/gemstone and not the refining stones again. ~~ At this point I wish I could trade all my ice cubes +1 for 10x crystals and save me the hustle because it never fails at +1 and it will most likely fail at +2~+4 range. Or just make it an alliance kill and call it a day!

So far the only acceptable afk event is Garden of Growth. It has a normal and an easy mode so people could decide depending on their gear. The difference is in the HP and XP of mobs but the event coins are identical on both versions. Nobody asked for an afk event. They could make it an alliance kill, I bet you the game would revive for the duration of the event because people would form alliances to kill 1000 mobs and it was going to be fun!

There are two problems with this event: First problems is that this is an auto-hunt event so the amount of mob kills it requires is based on that (aka too many), you either auto-hunt it or you do not participate! Apsaranta is not an auto-hunt friendly map, nor does it give us any gaming experience to have yet another afk event on a pvp map with the potential for the char to either die from guards, get stuck, fall from a height or get killed by enemies. ~> It would have been much better if the event required to kill (lets say) 200 mobs instead of 1000 and not have auto-hunt so we do it manually. ~> Even better, keep the mobs 1000 but make it an alliance kill, so engage the players to do activities with other players and revive the game a bit. Second problem is that RNG is probably the worst thing NCSoft ever implemented on the game. It is pure gambling and it sucks. ~> It would have been better to make it so you can get a higher cube by doing a harder quest or something. Like get 6 simple cubes or get 1 cube that is already enchanted to a specific level, you want to gamble with 6 smaller cubes and have the potential to get more enchanted ones, or get 1 cube but ti is already to a good level, and you should be able to make a choice on that! Events are supposed to be player engaging and rewarding, this event has none. It mandates you to do it afk, because 1000 mob there are insane to do manually, and it doesn't reward you anything other than RNG-frustration.

...all this gear and you choose to kill an afk bot?!

So there is not much going on, Aion seems idle, some events exist, the worst are those that are sieved through the RNG diarrhea. There was one jolly thing, the little icon on the updater. Of course I didn't make this image myself so this is not a "community creation" but there is no fan art dedicated section so this goes here: (this image had text so I run a one-touch thing that tried to remove it, some artifacts exist like in the star section but who cares, the image is cute)

Ops sorry, I misclicked the forums.

I I was hoping the event would be over and we would get a new one. It is not so much that I hate the event as much as I dislike the rewards and how time consuming it seems for the rewards. We need stormwing event, once a year we get to choose which apostle we want via a select-able box and this year we didn't get it. ~~ You need to be renown level 3~4 and more to do the missions 2 times, and level 5 to do them 3 times. As for renown drop that is a 8.2 thing, just leave you char to auto hunt for less than 1 hour and he will get it back (and if you see me grinding I am afk grinding renown, so do not kill me)

This is the retail section.

Windows 11 has its own demons irrelevant to Aion, but the aion issues are not a windows 11 problem. Maybe they get worse with windows 11 but they sure do exist in windows 10 as well. I play on win10 and I have issues. My printscreen button no longer works while aion runs, and if I alt-tab to another program and try to write anything the keyboard lags a lot and I am obviously not the only one with this issue, it is a 8.2 aion feature to bug the whole system and affect the keyboard. How can a program mess with the whole input system of windows and nobody bats an eye!

I would ask them for a north Africa server too, this way they can bypass the EU rights on GF and we the Europeans can finally start playing the game as intended.

I get all the issues you mention myself too with the launcher. It acts like malware sometimes. I personally play retail but all the pathogens you mention also happen there. The worst part is that sometimes if the Aion client crashes I cannot open a new one because it says that the "game is still running", but as the title mentions the aion client is now hidden from task manager so you cannot force close it, thus you have to restart your pc for this malware called Aion to close and thus try again to open it. They keep implementing errors to the game by design.

I absolutely agree in every complain about Apsaranta. It is made so when you reach level 5 in every faction you then earn a fighting spirit armor box in every mission which would be great! But good luck getting to level 5 and most importantly will they keep the factions like this or are we going to get another reset on them and change of name? Once we manage to get a high level on the factions... there they go renaming the factions and making the previous ones obsolete. There are more quests in number than before and they give less FEXP, so overall it shouldn't be that big of a problem. But mobs are so much tougher from middle and below (the top layer mobs remained as easy as they were). I could train a ton of mobs and aoe them and now in lower part of Apsaranta I could die if I took more than 8~9 mobs! The absolute worst part is that you can't flip a camp like we did with 2~3 people before. Camps are so tough now that you need a good group or a mini alliance! And this makes questing impossible. You have to spend all day in Apsaranta hoping someone flips the camp you need to make the quest. If we didn't need the camp to make a quest (like 11 and 12 camps), then I personally wouldn't have a problem at all, but the way it is, I won't even hit level 3 in any faction anytime soon. ~~ 8.2 Apsaranta is absolutely not solo friendly even worse if you are not very geared. If you ever find yourself without anyone to do something, you might as well leave the map.

Thanks for this info, I stand corrected in my above post about missions, it seems it is like this: 1lvl = 1 mission 2lvl = 1 mission 3lvl = 2 missions 4lvl = 2 missions 5lvl = 3 missions What about level 6 or more?

The truth is that the XP buff we got was only because we didn't have the autohunt in every map. Now that we have it we are supposed to be 24/7 online, either playing it actively or having it auto hunt. And of course 8.2 FEXP boost made us all level 9 in every map which gives us the feeling we have to buy everything possible. No active XP will ever be enough for the amount of marks we need weekly. Even if you auto-hunt 24/7 the XP will not be enough even for half of it. ~ They also made Apsaranta much tougher, the lower mobs are so hard you can't train them and aoe them like before. Getting higher renown levels is hard because now we have more quests but with less FEXP each and it seems like a hustle trying to finish all of them daily. In the long run it is better this way though because once you are high enough, filling 4x quests for every mission will be super easy.

I was told to get more than 1 missions per group, you need renown level 3 or more. So it would be like this in theory: Renown level 1 = 1/1 missions Renown level 2 = 1/1 missions Renown level 3 =2/2 missions Renown level 4 = 3/3 missions ...etc.

If you go in the middle it is full of elite mobs that give quite some FEXP, with prestige and the renown fruit buff you will be getting like 96k per mob or something. I do not know your class of course, if you can train and do aoe it will take you less than half an hour to retake the level. There are time you will see people there but mostly it is empty because you get the FEXP so fast there you just spend half an hour and go. Bosses in Silentera are the worst, they have way too much HP for their FEXP.

I know that, I did it to my main too, but that alt really struggled on the cubic part. That is good advice, it would take 800k kinah per try but it is sure faster than having to grind tenths of mobs slowly hoping to get one.

I tried to make kerub on a new alt and boy this new kerub series is designed to make you want to quit. Not only the stages are locked and you have to do them in a specific order to unlock the next step, but also that cubicle thing is not obtained by entering cubic lab with the scroll anymore, you have to go out in main city and keep farming and farming until you get one! The drop rate in Gelk must be near 0, not only I looted almost nothing sellable but it took me like close to 100 mobs to get one cubicle all while the char didn't even have the whole kerub set!

I will not really participate in this event because it is boring and this is the main reason as well. All rewards are useless to me and the only reward I would gladly take is limited!

The Steel Rake rewards are kinda meh. I really wish we would get events that give XP. Now that we won't even get the weekend buff we will need an XP event. I'd rather get the garden once again than SR.

Ops, I forgot one 0 in the end of the number. But mobs are still better than bosses for FEXP.

The Silentera Bosses are totally worthless for FEXP, they have 90m HP and give a base of 1.837.580 FEXP. Meanwhile an elite mob there has 241kHP and give a base of 73.600 FEXP. 1 Boss has the same HP to 373x elite mobs, which could easily give you 373x73.600 = 27.452.800 FEXP (vs 1.837.580 from boss), not to mention the boss has more defenses and offenses and thus is harder while the mobs you can aoe them to kill them even faster.

The lag is transfered to the pc, you can't even alt-tab to write something on discord, the keyboard lags beyond usability.

Seems like the server is up before the daily reset. I was so happy, but it turns out the client simply crashes for no reason. I opened it 4 times so far and all 4 it shut down with a crash.