Arhangelos

I kept hearing people say "I am waiting until Diablo III comes out to quit Aion", then Diablo III came and nobody quit. Then they said the same thing for other games like Astellia or Elyon etc but of course the same people kept coming back to Aion. Now Lost Ark was the game that Aion would die to. All online articles about it praise for no other reason other than praising it. I mean nothing explains why it is good other than it "has a good combat system" which is not enough to convince me to even try it and since it is faux-3D game like Diablo I and that it has gender locked classes I haven't even thought about trying it. So is it good? Do you know anyone who quit Aion to play Lost Ark?

Separation of Aion vs Classic sections: One thing I am still begging is the two forums of Classic and Retail to be separated or at least opt out of the forum we do not care about. When I hit "Unread Content" I would love to exclude anything that has to do with classic, it is utterly irrelevant to retail, they are both Aion but practically two totally different games, I know having two forums would be too much, but at least let us have a check box or something to avoid having to check the irrelevant forum. The worst part is that there is no indication where a post belongs to when you make a search or click the "unread content", not even a prefix "Aion" or "Classic Aion" before the title or any mention. Custom Avatars: We need custom avatars too at some point and please make sure they are not animated gif friendly and if they are, make an option for our accounts to have the animated Avatar not play automatically. Animated image posts: Now that I said animated gifs, it would be great if we could have an option in our account settings (forums again) to prevent animated images on comments to play automatically, I know this is possible. If someone wants to see the animated gifs they can either click on it or have the auto-play activated already in their account options. I am ok with all the other additions you posted and making it better organized. If I find any other changes I'd love to see I will come back to add them.

@Rin if you ever find time to give feedback for the state of game overall, take these notes and let them know what people who actually play the game feel about the changes they have done so far. If classic taught us anything is that any change the developers did to Aion at 6.0 and forward is heavily disliked by most players. In Korea their retail is also empty while their classic is full so they do know their changes are awful. 6.x was a test, it partially failed, it partially fixed some things. Then we got 7.x which was the worst combination of pre-6 and post-6. It was all the stupid items and impossible to get perks plus the inability to have an open market on top of that more class imbalances. They are so happy at bringing back the cancer of pre-6 godstone-like proc items like runes, passives on weapons and armor that they bring more and more of these. Archdaeva skills were exchanged with daevanions. Many skills were removed that were very important. Many classes practically have 0 good DP skills while other classes have toggles and with the new DP system they can have them on permanently! Many stigmas also could have still been in game for more diverse gaming. ~~~ They need to start reverting Aion back to what it was and what worked. Learn from their mistakes and stop trying to re-invent the genre. Trading items: If classic exists and people can have an open market with trading abilities, I do not see why they can't bring it back to retail Aion and make it great again. What are they scared of? If they have it on classic which is the only aion that actually brings them money and they are not afraid of bots abusing the free market, what is their excuse to insist on that model for retail? Any item that is brokerable should start being tradeable. --> The untrade-ability of items didn't help in combating bots, it only made them more powerful because they are now snatching items off broker from people who can't afford to broker-trade them at the full price. If they want, they can keep kinah soul bound, so if anyone wants to trade kinah they can use the broker and take the fee! Which is exactly what they do now, so private store ability can still be turned off to avoid direct kinah trading. Less RNG: For the love of anything, give us options, I would rather spend twice or triple the materials for anything and manage to get a selectable outcome. RNG can never be beneficial to any game, it is pure gambling and always against the favor of players. RNG is probably the longest continuous reason that people quit the game when weeks or months worth of playing are rendered useless because of a bad RNG outcome. MMORPG needs to come back Massively Multiplayer Online... nope, it is defo not massively played anymore! Role Playing Game... Aion is no longer one. So what genre is retail Aion now? Housing, crafting, skins, gathering... just make them relevant again. Whoever thought the removal of the fun part of aion would revive it needs to be banned from ever taking decisions for a game for the rest of their lives. PvP: Why is PvP on one point so hated by the devs and on the other point so much force down our throats? PvP instances were the gold part of 6.x, rendered useless in 7.x and continue to be useless in 8.x. Meanwhile open world pvp which was always the weakest part of aion is enforced on everyone. Having p2w + imbalanced classes and an open world pvp system is a recipe for failure. All the way from old aion with twinks terrorizing the levelers, to the implementation of a defensive buff half the days and finally the implementation of the FTS open world pvp was always an obnoxious thing. They did have a time where maps would turn pve only for a few hours of the day in Tiamaranta and everyone loved that. Everybody jumped on FTS to level and do quests. There needs to be a time where you can relax and simply do a fking quest without fearing an overheared-op-class will come and melt you in 0.5 seconds because they had nothing else to do! Forcing competition on those not ready or willing to participate isn't making the game better nor does it toughen the players and make them try harder, the game is not designed with merit, it is p2w and RNG infested and when people find it hard to do anything they quit. ~~ Just revert Aion back slowly, no need to make another hard reset like 6.0. Slow implementations of all the things players like.

And now we will have poss about people losing their items, not getting the name they had which was like xXAwesomePlayerXx or something and a ton of "how to make classic revive again". Classic barely lasted 2 months.

What if a Spiritmaster self identifies as a disabled cleric that cannot heal but can fear? In a serious note, I remember back in old aion people constantly made posts like this to limit things based on class and it never happened and it will never happen. Aion is having a lot of freedom in a lot of things and they cannot start limiting basic stuff for instances. This is why people kept rerolling whatever class was the new cancer at every patch that made class changes.

5.) people can match their game to always win vs their alts!

Did you open a ticket?

If I could make another suggestion to make it less clustered, the first image you could put is a gathering of the important numbers only per server/side/upper or lower abyss. Something like this: After that you can put the whole image with individual classes etc (because people might still be interested to see how many clerics, tanks, dps classes there were) ## You already do a good job but that tiny addition will simply make it easier for everyone to look at the numbers that matter more to understand balance, attendance and max levels vs population.

That "20 min in" is always empty. You can save space and effort by not putting it up at all.

Kibbelz said it in the merge FAQ post that collections will be transferred and if you have both factions the collections will merge. So if you lost your collections the ticket was the right move.

He is only putting the numbers, the difference in level/gear/overall participation is another story.

@Tyd The mere existence of this thread is because of people like you. The guy had to go to the extra step to provide proof because the last 2 weeks every elyos came here to make fun of Asmodians and still give their opinion on why they lose calling them bad etc. While the Asmodians kept saying it from day 1 that they are outnumbered. @Forthyn - Asmodaes Pea-k already said he wishes he had done this from day 1 to simply have the solid proof. The IS Asmodians already proved they are better than you because at least they provided proof for their argument while you still write your claims. They are those logging in a dead server-faction and still took the time to give you a goodbye letter for the reasons they will have to leave. Enjoy your free ride to success and keep telling yourself how awesome you are. It is still OK and not too late to admit you don't know it all and the other side was right.

I have been writing peacefully so far you have been writing aggressively trying desperatelly to go against the whole IS Asmo server calling them impotent at leadership and pretending you know the reason why they don't. You are the only one hurt here. They are those playing on their side not you, so stop trying to pretend you know anythign about their side. I have an Asmodian on IS, do you? You never had the numbers on week one, yet you keep making claims of "same numbers". You are just trying helplessly to provide your own proof to your faulty arguments. If it wasn't for this thread you would still be going on with "they lost because of leadership". Thank goodness this thread exists. --> The whole asmodian side kept saying IS Asmo is dead from day 1, except you. The absolute messiah! I defo hit a nerve there, I do not care about your explanations, I know Asmo-IS is dead and everyone knows that, I know a lot will follow my suggestion and reroll on Siel, and whatever you write is just your saying against the actual facts and the whole Asmo side on IS saying, the facts and the outcomes will always prove you wrong. ~~ P.S. I have a hint of who you really are with a different name here. Same mannerisms and same stubbornness, you probably were ashamed to come with your real name in classic and you decided to be back on another name. Different name, same path.

...this is literally a thread that shows the number difference and you still go on about it. Everyone knows Asmodians on Israphel are far less and they have been like this since day 1, even your grandma knows it. I already have a character in IS and all towns are empty of players. You are being proven wrong at every post you make and keep on pretending you know something we don't. Elyos have enough people to have the artifacts, dps 2 fortresses and still enough time to go wipe Asmodians that went to one fortress from start and failed to dps enough to capture it, all while you got 2 already! This is literally week 3 and you talk about what happened in the past, what past? Asmodians on IS have been losing forts since day one for the exact same reasons. Stop commenting on server number imbalances, you are obviously wrong and with your antics you make yourself look like a keyboard warrior. In short: You didn't win the fortresses because you are awesome, you just outnumber your enemies, accept it. BUT: if you insist you guys are so good at sieging, why don't you come to Siel to teach elyos how to siege? Elyos here have nothing, I guess they have no leaders too or something. Don't waste your time on IS, you could be No1 on Siel (really!)

Thank goodness you were there and you saw the numbers. The rest of us should shut up because you know and we don't!

I feel the reason they never gave out the location and how easy it is to add filters because they want to do it on their side officially for everyone via the maintenance updates. I'll add that WTB and WTS too, I am not interested in seeing anyone advertising his sales on broker.

I also added "$" in the file and it removed them all for now, until the GMs also put it in the official file too and the kinah sellers see that it is being blocked so they won't use it anymore and use something else. I assume the official file is being made according to the reports the players send. But it doesn't get an effect instantly. So it is good we can edit the file and make changes faster on ourselves. I think you also need to reopen the client for the changes to take effect. Not sure if going to char screen is enough. I'll give it a check now. Edit: seems going to char screen is reloading the file.

It seems the file is located in ...\NCSOFT\AION_CLASSIC\l10n\ENU\Data\Strings\aionfilterline.dat They could give more info about this, most people have no clue where it was supposed to be. Anyway, you right click on it and you click edit, then it opens with notepad and you simply add a new word to be blocked in every line. One of the things it blocks for example is the "www" because it is used in linking a site. Kinah sellers might get past this by writing something like "w.w.w" but you can block that phrase too you can add it manually. Every time you see an lfg spam and the way they went around the filters, just go and add this word they use and it will be filtered out.

So Sorcs have refracting shard in classic? That is gorgeous news. We used to run out of MP so fast.

SB is usually preferred because as far as I remember m.boost in manastones is a bigger amount than m.acc manastones. So the 40 m.boost/m.acc difference is easier to fill with m.boost manastones on a SB plus if for any reason you needed to attack manually you can do it in ranged mode with a SB. A yellow m.boost manastone would give +27 m.boost, a same quality m.acc manastone would give +14 m.acc. So to fill the difference SB overall has a far more difficult stat to surpass than the orb. You would need 3x m.acc manastones in the orb to surpass the SB's m.acc. While SB would only need 2x m.boost manastoens to surpass the Orb's m.boost.

I got it too, once you get it once it seems to become more frequent. It looks like a feature to make us want to rage quit retail sooner. I preordered for 1 month, enough to see if I will bother running slow like a turtle, cast my skills slower than snails and try to survive in twinks/zergs or other obnoxious things of the past.

...blaming your loss to ping, tsk tsk tsk, that is so "classic Aion". You better join.

Yes Asmodian, I was in EU since I am European but then NCWest sold the rights to GF an they ruined it, so I played about 6 months into GF Aion, and then came here, not sure the exact date, but I started playing in Siel because it had a lot of Europeans too.

Usually the most populated server is the least roleplaying friendly as it usually revolves around people trying to compete in the actual game. and ruin the fun of those trying to roleplay. In a parallel universe we would have a ton of Aion players and we would have like 100 servers, many of which would have been pve exclusive (like WoW) where people could focus only on the role playing.

I am pretty sure Siel will be the most populated server like it always was.