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When they said maint would be at 3pm pacific, i thought they meant ON WEDNESDAY when siege is at 8pm, not on tuesday when it's at 6pm.

95% correct. The only thing I will say is that if we had manastone drops like we used to in retail, we wouldn't need the manastone protection quality of life change. The reason why they eventually made manastones not break on fail was because manastones started getting so expensive that people refused to socket without using a felicitous socketing stone (effect: guarantees 1 manastone socket success.). Also part of the reason why our manastones cost so much more is because of both bots and candy sellers injecting kinah into the economy. When you've got whales that bought 2billion kinah looking to socket gear, they buy everything and raise the standard for what things should cost. Though those prices are perpetuated by there being NO SUPPLY COUPLED WITH OUTRAGEOUS DEMAND. Just make instance non-boss monsters drop a lot and it will encourage players to full clear dungeons for drops, while greatly limiting kinah injection from bots .

that's per person, right? everyone got 7x level 60 manastones?

I've been saying it since before classic patch 1.5 dropped. The plan was always to keep us playing aion as long as possible. NCSoft delayed licensing Aion Classic EU specifically so they could stockholm people on Classic NA as long as possible, then get us to all play Classic EU instead when that comes out, thus getting everyone to play aion classic for 3 years instead of 1-2, increasing the money they get from licensing the game to NCWest and Gameforge in the process. They don't care about a catastrophic gamebreaking patch because they were already expecting a mass exodus from NA anyway.

Y'all really think primali is even allowed to do anything from that account other than post the update message supplied to him by his boss then log into the next fake mod account to do it again for the next ncwest game? He'd probably get fired for talking to any of you.

Honestly this 1 change would get the whole server doing their arenas every day. There's basically no way to gain wealth from doing arenas so most people just ignore it. it'd also get people to do empyrean crucible, since at the original reward rate that'd be 3 extracts per run.

NCSoft had lofty ambitions in 2.0. Originally, forts didn't have a maximum capture counter on them. NC expected one faction would gain momentum and push into the enemy's map, take their forts, kill their bosses, then get forced back out after the enemy's frustration built, like waves washing up and down the coast. That didn't happen. One aspect of this was making padmarashka and sematariux be world bosses. They thought it was in any way possible that 1 player could get 1 of each weapon. They planned on having a means of combining them through a quest to make a mega weapon, but after many months of that clearly not happening, they decided to take padma in another direction, and even then as a 48 man raid, still nobody really killed padma outside of some glitch manipulation kills in late 2.X early 3.X. It was all just wishful thinking.

??? Nuglark Ruins bots literally all left. IDK if because of bad drop rates or the owner quitting for EU but there's definitely less bots now than there were last week.

like khan says, the safest positioning is against the pillar. When you're on the pillar, for some reason all of stormwing's tornadoes from [Threshing Wind] skill go away from you. In addition to being near the pillar, you need to be 2 meters away from stormwing. If you are closer than 2 meters, you will be in the tornado's trigger range and they will all attack you at the same time when they spawn under stormwing. when stormwing runs away to your team, you CAN follow to hit it a few times to keep aggro up, but always wait a few seconds to double check that she didn't just spawn a stack of tornados ready to 1shot you. Around 33% hp left, stormwing calls out, [YES! MY POWER GROWS STRONGER!] and gets a buff. After this point, sometimes glitch tornados will spawn on top of you and get stuck in the pillar. As long as you do not move, these glitch tornados should not hurt you. If you notice them hurting you, you should reposition. It is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to run through stormwing during enrage phase, so you should go around the back of the pillar. This will break line of sight to your cleric for half a second, so be careful and call out that you are moving if you use voice comms. If another aggressive glitch tornado spawns on you in this new location, you need to step towards the center of the arena to pull stormwing back, then run around stormwing to the south wall. This is your final safe spot. if that spot gets glitch tornados, you're doomed lol. I included a basic drawing for you Finally, After 33%, Stormwing can hit you with THE WOMBO COMBO. About 4 seconds after [Dragon's Quake], SW will drop a delayed blast lightning strike on everyone's location. The combination of tornado aggro, this delayed lightning, and a special instant cast tankbuster nuke SW sometimes does, can easily deal 20k damage to a tank. THIS is what you are trying your hardest to survive. If you survive this, your party will probably be fine. It usually happens after the 2nd [Dragon's Quake]. There's only a few things you can do to prevent death here. Cry of ridicule to block dragon's quake and keep your hp as high as possible before it comes. save empyrean armor and prayer of victory and use them starting at 33% hp when stormwing enrage buffs so your max hp is as high as possible use iron skin or Emp providence or ask your chanter for word of spellstopping immediately after dragon's quake stun ends. Most groups, if you keep yourself safe from glitch tornados, and stagger iron skin, empyrean providence, chanter WoS, and templar 4kDP Nezekan's Shield, you should have no problems surviving the enrage phase. High end groups have templars in full DPS spec surviving enrage phase with just iron skin, so you should only need all 4 of those big shields if your group is really ungeared.

the average player earns <100k ap, <10 worthwhile green manastones, 0-1 usable enchant stones, and <10 plat medals from siege a week. You're high out your ass if you think the tryhards of the server having to hold relics for 3 weeks is worth 3 months of progress for each of your 5 alt accounts. cope harder.

I know you're trolling but that doesn't make this any less of an annoying post.

Could you please clarify? Does this mean: A) We have identified that relic exchange is not benefiting from the 150% siel's aura bonus even though it is supposed to and will restore it at a later date. or B) We have determined that relic exchange is not supposed to benefit from the 150% siel's aura bonus, and it was a mistake that it previously did benefit from that bonus.

I know it was a glitch / improperly implimented server patch, but I have to say today's drop mania was probably some of the most fun I had in Aion in a while. Why? Because it was new. We've always had everything in a database or korean wikis and thoroughly researched ahead of time. We never have to figure stuff out, just look it up and do it. Today was open season with everyone asking questions about what to kill. Everyone saw the mapwide anouncements and pieced it together. Figuring out which mobs were mirroring what bosses was cool. When I saw Sematariux armor dropping, I was so excited, not because it was money or extracts or skins, but just because it was an item nobody in NA had ever possessed before. That was retail 2.0 content that nobody ever did. I remember a video that one time, one single time, Naruto got his server together to kill Padmarashka one time before it got made into an instance, but I don't know if anyone ever killed Sematariux. Today I ran into players grinding in the open world in places i've never seen players before. I saw officers running around not xformed. There was a reason to be out in the overworld grinding random mobs. I got new experiences in Aion for the first time in a long time. It was pretty great. It'll all be reverted and all the cool stuff will go away, but it was fun to be part of it. Please don't roll back the two tahabata weapon boxes I procced tho Plz share a time in aion that you had (more) fun (than usual).

Edit: I should really finish reading the thread before replying to check if the thing i was gonna say wa already said by several people already

Thanks for putting me in the screenshot! I can't wait to get banned