Coming back after three years

[Coming back after three years]

On 12/21/2019 at 3:01 PM, 1s33CF92-KT said:

1. Should I keep playing with my main character? It's there anything that I can't get anymore if I play with a new char? Like my old mounts for example

2. In which server should we play?

3. How much time it would require for us to catch up top players starting from 0? It's mandatory to invest money/do p2w?

4. How many people does the end game instances require to be completed succesfully, 3/5/10? 

5. Any additional advice?

1. Yes, there are things your old toon will have that you can no longer get. So I would keep it. That said, any gear it has is absolutely useless. Keep it for skins if you want, but you will need new gear.

2. I'd say KT is slightly more populated than DN now, but probably not by much. KT is Elyos dominated; DN is about even, but maybe slightly Asmo dominated.

3. To catch up to top players? Several months -- and that's if you're really dedicated. If you haven't played since 5.x, you are very far behind as we are currently in 7.0. P2w does help, but you will still need to grind out instances (both pve and pvp).

4. Endgame instances are all 6-man except one which is 18-man. Not many people do the 18-man one though as its rewards are a bit outdated. Those who do it only do so for the Prestige weekly quest which gives 2 ultimate enchantment stones. Two of the endgame instances can be soloed/duoed/trioed, depending on group gear/set-up. Another can be trioed or 4/5-manned. It just depends on how geared everyone is.

5. Aion is not very well-supported by NCsoft anymore. Those of us who still play do so because we like the game, have friends we want to hang out with, etc. We can tolerate its problems because of the joy we still find in it. You will have to make that decision for yourself. Give it 1-2 weeks of playing, and by then, you should be able to tell if it's still worth playing for you. Good luck.

[Weekly Server Maintenance - December 18, 2019]

5 hours ago, Arhangelos-KT said:

you are going to hell.

yes good

[Weekly Server Maintenance - December 18, 2019]

2 hours ago, OneeChanDesu-KT said:

It dont make sense. Why we have only 50% of drop rate. If its a base rate its 100%

Its like an event to get a normal drop rate. 

 

2 hours ago, Arhangelos-KT said:

OK this kinda make sense in a weird way but why do we have 50% drops as base?

 

Oh, I have no idea. I also think it's really dumb/weird lol. I was just recalling what Cyan had told us previously. But maybe I'm misunderstanding it, idk.

 

When you achieve a perfectly even number and you can never retune that particular gear set ever again lmao.

[Weekly Server Maintenance - December 18, 2019]

1 hour ago, Brutallus-DN said:

Cyan its not 100% drop..

This has been a common source of confusion for the past several years. The way it's worded in the maintenance posts is confusing because we already have a basic EXP and drop rate percentage. So the buffs are doubling up what we already have in place to equal what is posted in the maintenance wording.

100% regular EXP + 100% event EXP = 200% total EXP

50% regular drop + 50% event drop = 100% total drop

At least, that's the way I remember Cyan explaining it in the past. If anyone remembers differently, feel free to correct me!

Here's one semi-relevant post where he kind of explained:

 

[Dorinerk's Wardrobe: How It Works]

55 minutes ago, Azeriah-KT said:

Yes, this is exactly what I was asking about. I have one of those hair appearance-changing "hats" (for example: Two-toned Bob) that I wanted to register in the wardrobe as is, rather than skinning it on a piece of gear. However, if I register that hat, will I be unable to see the appearance of any other hat I equip normally through the character profile window?

I have a feeling I would be better off not registering the hat at all and skinning it as you suggested, or simply wearing it as is.

Ahh I see. The Two-Toned Bob and other similar hair pieces are actually hats. Like, you can't have the Two-Toned Bob AND a crown at the same time, if that makes sense. The piece of gear will only show one or the other. As I understand it, you like the Two-Toned Bob (or whatever), but you don't ALWAYS want to see it on your toon. Maybe some other times you want to see a crown or a different kind of hat. Unfortunately, once the Two-Toned Bob is skinned onto the piece of gear, that is all you will see *while wearing that piece of gear*. If you want to see a different hat, you would have to remove that piece of gear and then just wear the other hat. Hopefully I'm understanding you correctly now lol.

The Luna wardrobe is still useful if you want to be able to skin the Two-Toned Bob multiple times, BUT I would not recommend doing this because it will cost you Luna every time you do it (except the very first time). So if you wanted to change back and forth between the Two-Toned Bob and a crown hat every other day, it would cost a lot of real money.

[Weekly Server Maintenance - December 11, 2019]

2 hours ago, Arhangelos-KT said:

What Ele does here is like that person who kept complaining about daeva dash, that because he afked, the enemies should not get winning rewards because they also afked and didn't finish but had more points.

The funniest part about your post is "that person" you're talking about is ALSO Ele lmaooooo.

On 6/20/2019 at 11:17 PM, Ele-DN said:

And thats the problem with these games. If they want the reward, stay till the end. bags should be given out when the game is finished.

 

And for you to hate afkers getting rewards, why do afkers in daeva dash get anything then? Getting to the first gate and afking is perfectly fine to get stuff right?

 

[Dorinerk's Wardrobe: How It Works]

5 minutes ago, Azeriah-KT said:

Is there a way to "hide" the appearance of a registered item in the wardrobe? For instance, what if I register a hat but have another hat in my inventory that I would like to equip from time to time? Am I unable to toggle the appearance?

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but I'm seeing a few possible scenarios of what you're trying to ask about. Can you clarify?

Scenario 1: You have Hat A registered in your Luna wardrobe currently. However, you would actually prefer to have Hat B in its place instead because you don't care about Hat A anymore (or whatever). You would like to replace Hat A with Hat B in the Luna wardrobe. If this is the case, you can remove Hat A from the Luna wardrobe. See this explanation:

On 7/26/2019 at 7:22 AM, Liiny-DN said:

You can click the little arrow to replace current skin/armor with another one, but you will not get the previous one back in your inventory, it's gone forever.

Scenario 2: You have skinned Hat A onto a piece of gear. However, you don't always like to see it on your toon and would like to hide it from your character's body and let Hat B show instead. If this is the case, you can't have two skins on one piece of gear.

Scenario 3: You have Hat A registered in your Luna wardrobe, but you don't actually want to skin it onto a piece of gear because you don't always want to see it on your character. If this is the case, I would recommend just skinning it onto the piece of gear and then just use the "hide hat" checkbox in your profile window whenever you don't want to see Hat A.

[Skin Farming in 7.0]

9 hours ago, Harrdone-KT said:

Sorry not Beritra, I mean't Malefic, i've been farming Malefic from KT, I know have the full armor, but I am missing the head and the weapon (Sin Leather) i'm not sure where I can obtain the helm and weapons to complete Malefic skin, i'm currently stiill level 43 farming the instances for skin purposes

I replied to your PM, but I'll answer here as well for anyone else reading this.

Unfortunately, the Malefic set is no longer available in game. They recently changed the drops you get in those lower level instances that used to have Malefic pieces. Now they only drop the Frostforged pieces -- which is very similar to the Malefic set, but it's blue instead of black and doesn't dye quite the same way. Sorry, it sucks!  (I can't edit the original post in this thread, which is why it still has info about the Malefic set.)

You can see in the later posts of this thread where we talked about it:

On 11/20/2019 at 5:41 AM, Amiteahx-KT said:

The white equip drops 'Squall' from Fire Temple and Bakarma are Frostforged, same goes for the 'Tempest' from Taloc's Halow. The actual Maleficient gear is from the equipment chests which level 80's cannot access to.

On 11/20/2019 at 8:16 AM, Vantheria-DN said:

Yeah, as I mentioned yesterday, it seems they've removed the white Malefic gear drops. Unfortunately!

 

[Skin Farming in 7.0]

Danuar Sanctuary Eternal Weapons (4.0)

You can obtain this weapon while on your level 80 toon by completing a very easy quest (just kill 5 mobs). Note, it will give you the "best" weapon for your class. For example, as a chanter, you will receive a staff; you cannot select a mace or shield.

On Asmo side, the quest is called Scaling Prayers and is obtained from the NPC Muratun in Enshar. He is near the Tehji mobs. Not sure which NPC on Elyos side, but the mobs you kill are level 63, so check your NPCs in areas with mobs around that level.

[Skin Farming in 7.0]

3 hours ago, Harrdone-KT said:

Wondering how to achieve the Beritra hat/weapons, at least for an assassin been getting boxes and have 3/5 of the armor already mostly just wondering where the weapons are held.

Are you saying you've been getting the Beritra skins (below) in the current 7.x patch? From what I've seen, they're no longer obtainable. Where have you been getting drops for them?

Or do you mean the original DD set below? Afaik, that's also no longer obtainable. The ancient pieces in PF used to be that skin, but now they're just the old PF (icy-like) skins.

[Weekly Server Maintenance - December 11, 2019]

Please don't make Ele quit, guys. I love their psychotic rants.

[Return wings and wing skins!!]

On 12/13/2019 at 11:58 PM, BlackTantra-KT said:

1. On morphing Ultimate enchantment stones. I understood 1 material and bought it (farmed thing) but how to get the rest 2? 

1. Bobonerk's Gems -- These are obtained by double-clicking something called Bobonerk's Coins. The coins are bought with (a small amount of) kinah from the Gold Sand Traders. They look like:  What occurs is when your bar has XP on it, you open one of these coins and it removes 20mil XP from your bar. In exchange, you get 1 Bobonerk's Gem. So make a habit of having some of these coins in your inventory and every time your bar fills up with XP, double-click a bunch of these coins. If you see people saying, "Just a minute, need to open some coins," this is to what they are referring.

2. Ultimate Alcemium -- You don't want to craft these. Why? Because they are freaking EVERYWHERE. The ones that look like  drop from the 5 world bosses. They spawn everyday. Seriously, I have 10k of these Ultimate Alcemium, and I stopped looting them from world bosses a few months ago. They're very common on the broker and cheap. Here's a screencap of them from DN-A's broker this morning:

Now, once you have these red Ultimate Alcemium mats, you have to turn them into the blue-ish Ultimate Alcemium (red = 7.x, blue = 6.x). They are converted on a 1:1 ratio, and you don't need any other materials to convert them. So it's very easy. Once you have the red Ultimate Alcemium, open up aetherforging and find this recipe below and voila.

 

On 12/13/2019 at 11:58 PM, BlackTantra-KT said:

2. Regarding Aetherforging, I understood how the skill would grow from 60 by mats for feather accessory and made 33 times the operation, the skill grew very quickly to 78. Feather accessory would be useful for any old toons who got to level 80 quickly and are not given any campaigns in Enshar that give bracelets and plumes, and I did all Lakrum campaigns and quests on patch 6 and patch 7 (on diff toons)  - none got any plume or bracelet! Also, the campaigns on patch 7 don't give Lakrum Scout Wings that were quickly gotten on patch 6 near Ancient Temple of Wisdom (Asmo). Did they disappear?   

It's intended that you start doing FM at level 78 which gives pve plumes/bracelets/wings/armor. The Lakrum Scout (pvp) wings are obsolete because you can do like two camps in Lakrum and then go buy the ancient pvp wings with Genesis Crystals from the NPCs in Lakrum. Those wings are much better than the Lakrum Scout.

[Weekly Server Maintenance - December 11, 2019]

48 minutes ago, Aly-DN said:

Instead we have people, like yourself, bitter that they hoarded all these horns

[best end possible jajaja]

47 minutes ago, Zombiex-DN said:

lol metal last time u tried to kill me 1 vs 6, if its 1 vs 1 u can't kill me even in 100 years LUL and im a dps cleric im not using magic resist gear
if my dps is low ur DPS as AT is nonexistent anyways 

I'm really disappointed with momo lose agaisnt worst at in dn asmo  

[Return wings and wing skins!!]

56 minutes ago, BlackTantra-KT said:

Where do I buy Ancient (or other) weapon codex?

You can craft them yourself via aetherforging or you can buy them on the broker sometimes. They're rarer on the broker these days because most people aren't crafting anymore. (Too costly.)

And no, the Veilbreakers wings are not worse than the Lakrum Protector. It's just not worth grinding out all those daily quests for them unless you really like the skin.

And yes, absolutely you need your cubics. The extra stats are very useful. Always always open those cubic bags until you finish your cubics.

[Post your Snow Bawlz rewards.]

14 hours ago, DMob-DN said:

So i just got a wise dragon king's weapon box.. and idk if its because i didnt tune any weapon yet , but it seem like  it dosent have any skill on it. Can anyone confirm if theres a skill on it or not.

 

Ye, same thing happened to OnionKnight and someone in my legion. lel NCsoft ultimate troll

[Return wings and wing skins!!]

28 minutes ago, BlackTantra-KT said:

I'm currently doing quests of Vellbreakers for wings. They are not retunable?

No, they are not.

28 minutes ago, BlackTantra-KT said:

Very hard to enchant above 10 with purple stones or possible?

They have the same success rates as other purple gear. It is reasonable to go from +10 to +12 with gold stones. After that, I recommend purple stones until +13 or +14 (depending on how lucky you are). Then I recommend an ultimate stone to go from +14 to +15.

28 minutes ago, BlackTantra-KT said:

I guess Ancient wings are best because they can be enchanted by Ancient stones to 10 and then (through lots of fails) by Legendary stones to 15. Fllight time and flight speed grow to the same values on any kinds of wings from enchantment, right?

These purple Veilbreakers wings are no longer worth the grinding -- tbh, they never were, even back in 6.x. Only do it if you really like the skin. The ancient wings you get from FM are just as good AND they can be retuned.

28 minutes ago, BlackTantra-KT said:

Is it possible to craft red enchantment stones any way? 

Yes. You will need purple stones to do so. It is a morph recipe (shift + K) that we all have. You do not need to do anything special to get the morph recipe. You will need a few other crafting materials in addition to 5 purple enchantment stones; you can either grind out those mats yourself or buy them on the broker. Additionally, if you are in a legion which often conquers altars, you have chances for special NPCs to spawn at those altars. You can use stellium to buy ultimate enchantment stone tickets (70 stellium) which only use 5 purple enchant stones (and no other materials) to morph into ultimate stones.

28 minutes ago, BlackTantra-KT said:

I also found in Aetherforging, skill level 80, quite good (enhanceble) wings of all grades from Ancient to Ultimate. Some main toons have the skill level 69 or 70 from Norsvold patch. How can I grow  their skill from that to 80? 

Here is some commentary about current leveling of aetherforging:

On 6/2/2019 at 4:44 AM, Capa-KT said:

Ancient weapon codex -> proficiency 1 until 20, then switch to 20 until 40, then switch to 40 until 80, then switch again at 100 to legendary weapon codex until 120, 140, 180, then to ultimate at 200 until 220, 240 and 280 until 300. Obviously you can make accessory and armor codices instead, just make sure to stick to one type so you can use them for crafting/proc'ing later, instead of having to resell for lower than it cost to make them. Additionally, keep in mind that if you have the proper kibriums under hand, you can use the ancient codices right away at 100 (and the legendaries at 200 etc) so that you might have to buy a tiny bit less guiding stones for 100+/200+ (they tend to get a little more expensive during these crafting boost events).

With the current event, you'll need (very roughly) 1k ancient guiding stones, 2k legendary stones and 3k ultimate stones. Events that boost crafting or give out crafting charms are really nice to level up, particularly from 200 to 300, as you'll always craft way more ultimate codices than you'll need in the immediate future.

 

28 minutes ago, BlackTantra-KT said:

The wings you mentioned from Frozen Monolyth, which grade are they?  Retunable for kinah, how much kinah, how many times to try, is it occasional or you know which stat you are going to increase?

They are gold/ancient wings. They are retunable with kinah. I'm not logged in right now to check, but it's not a lot. Like maybe 50k-100k kinah per retune. You can try as many times as you want. Note, if you wait until next week (Dec 18th), we will have a special event NPC which gives you a buff that makes it only cost 1 single kinah to retune gear, no matter how many times you try! On ancient gear, you get two optional stats, and they are random. So when you retune, you will come up with 2 random stats. If you try again, it will be 2 stats again. Could be the same, could be different. You just have to keep retuning until you get the 2 you want. (Fyi, purple gear has 3 stats; ultimate gear has 4 stats.)

[Post your Snow Bawlz rewards.]

6 minutes ago, Arhangelos-KT said:

What skill does the wise dragon weapon give?

1 of 3, randomized skill:

1. Increases Physical Defence and Magical Defence by 800 for 20s. Increases Atk Speed by 12%. Increases Casting Speed by 12%. Increases Speed by 12%. (http://db.lfstrat.com/aion/en/skill/?id=13358)

2. Deals 5,000 physical damage to up to 12 enemies within a 7 m radius and stuns them. (http://db.lfstrat.com/aion/en/skill/?id=13357)

3. Restores 30000 HP if the HP falls below 40%. (http://db.lfstrat.com/aion/en/skill/?id=13359)

However, it is very possible that NCsoft is giving us a nerfed, troll version with no skill like what happened with OnionKnight: 

 

[Dorinerk's Wardrobe: How It Works]

6 hours ago, Amarah-KT said:

The shield thing kinda upsets me a bit.  Shields have gone from weapons to armor and apparently back to weapons?  Shields seem to be the hardest thing to find a decent skin for.  I just used a skin that Ive wanted to show off for soooo long.  Would really rather have it in luna to use more than once, but I can keep hoping they introduce them into BCM and I can buy another someday...

Yeah, I agree! One of my favorite shields is the Sophisticated Frigida skin which is, of course, not something obtainable in game anymore since we don't have the Sunday night Panda/Sanctum siege anymore. I had finally just used the shield because obviously I'm not going to just never use things lol. However, when I got a new shield, I was very sad to know I'll never have that shield skin again.  Ah well.

[Event Disappointment]

14 minutes ago, Doll-DN said:

Oh, I was gonna say it was awesome that she could now avoid pvp in style now that she had Kaisinel.

[Event Disappointment]

The only transform I still need is Frigida. (I have Kromede, Mastarius, Bollvig, and Sheba.) So with a 1 in 11 chance... yeah, I stopped worrying about it. But I recognize that I speak from a place of privilege because I already have pure attack and cast speed transforms. I really feel like this event should have been a choose-able legendary. The thing is, we've had the transformation system for 14 months now, and there are still people who don't have a class-usable transform. That shouldn't be the case on something that is SO CRITICAL for good gameplay. 

[Aion 2.0 or 2.5 or 1.0 legacy servers]

Damn, @Cheesecake-DN out here with the hard truth. feelsbadman

But all very accurate. Siiiigh.

[Aion 7.5 will bring a major class rebalance: things I would like on CHANTERS]

Lots of non-chanter-mains in this thread haha. Here's my opinion as another chanter main. 

On 12/7/2019 at 3:29 AM, Lapis-DN said:

1. Make Word of Life a Greater Stigma,  increases its healing by 25% and lower the cooldown to 40s.
Except if you are a fully stigma-enchanted chanter, you're not running WoL in a solo/dps build. Word of Life became a very good skill if you take in consideration how it used to be underwhelming in earlier patches (A minor group healing skill in a 3 minute cooldown). But it can be better for the ones who like a truly healing role and still provide cool support.

Hmm, I don't HATE this idea, but I don't love it either. I always have WoL socketed, but I also have +11 stigmas, sooo... To me, I love having that one extra heal that I can throw out while running. Plus, the CD (for me) is only 50 seconds. So I guess my opinion is based on privilege, but I rather like having it as a green stigma. I don't like how songweaver's HoT got changed to a blue stigma, so I naturally don't want that to happen to Word of Life. However, I can see your points as well.

On 12/7/2019 at 3:29 AM, Lapis-DN said:

2. Bring back Magical Attack buffs to chanter. That its, just make Mantras and Word of Instigation a source of Magical Attack again.

3. Increase the base damage of some skills.

Well, chanters never were a good reference to dps in this game. Except for the few who are tryhard and can make impressive ammounts of dps, this class still underperforms if you take a look of what other classes can do without trying so hard. Most of chanters can't finish Tower of Challenge due to the lack of bursting damage.

- Increase the damage of Overwhelming Jugdment / Chaos Smash / Mountain Crash / Numbring Blow and Ressonating Strike by about 25%

Agree completely. Word of Instigation is SO powerful for physical classes, but 100% useless to magical classes. I would prefer a compromise. Instead of 500 crit/acc/atk to phys classes and 0 to magic, why not 350 to all classes? Idk. Also would like to see our "nukes" have their damage increased a bit as you mentioned in point 3.

On 12/7/2019 at 3:29 AM, Lapis-DN said:

4. Make Mantras great again. Over the years the mantras were watered down to a number of 3. They're pretty weak nowadays for a thing that should be this class main signature.
Thats all, mantras could provide more status or maybe new functions.

I don't mind only having 3 mantras. However, one of them is pretty dang weak -- the purple "shield" one. I even toggle it off completely in some cases so that my group members don't accidentally push off more important buffs due to that fairly useless mantra. It's okay in pvp, I guess, but absolutely dumb in pve.

On 12/7/2019 at 3:29 AM, Lapis-DN said:

5. A ranged snare. Binding Word used to be a good way to catch up kiters but this skill is long gone. (I know it will come back as a Odian Skill in 7.5, but i'm not sure if it's enough, because they're hard to get.)

6. Acceleration Cheer is crap and completely obsolete. This skill could have potential in a support role if it affected the entire group, providing Speed and slow/immobilization resistance while its up.

7. Remove the parry condition on Splash Swing.   Thats it. Splash Swing have a good damage output but having to parry to pop it makes the skill harder to be used in a lot of scenarios and situations.

Agree on most of these. I do miss Binding Word. That said, however, Overwhelming Judgment is a good way to "snare" someone as I feel like the stun rate is pretty high. Acceleration Cheer is useless now especially now that most people have a legendary transform. To be honest though, I don't think anyone would trade a more important skill for Acceleration Cheer even if they DO make it more useful. There are just too many better skills out there. I never use Splash Swing because of the parry thing. Too much of an annoyance.

On 12/7/2019 at 3:29 AM, Lapis-DN said:

8. Energy Discharge should be a timed dispel.

Since Cleansing Recovery Spell were nerfed due to be broken (a mental/physical dispel that auto-dispels every 3s in a 10s cooldown) would be nice if another Chanter skill could get this feature in a more balanced way.

Energy Discharge have a 1m cooldown and it dispels 1 ailment.  It could dispel 1 Ailment every 3s in a 8s duration. (2s delay and then 1 dispel every 3s)

I don't necessarily think we need (another) timed dispel, but I do think it should be buffed a bit. It's almost useless because there are SO many things it won't dispel. A greater healing pot is more useful than this skill.

 

One other thing I would add...

 Emergency Teleport

The cooldown on this is 3 minutes, and it's the only "blink" skill we have. It would be nice to see the cooldown reduced a bit, maybe to 2 minutes.

[A solution that would benefit everyone]

I'm going on vacation tomorrow so I'll miss most of the last week of this event.

I don't even care.

That makes me sad lol. :<

[Thanks for the instance reset event.]

1 hour ago, Basia-DN said:

Were we supposed to get Instance Reset yesterday?  Per your post on the 25th @Cyan ???

It wasn't yesterday (Sunday). It was Saturday at 11pm server time. Unfortunately, the date/time wasn't given in Cyan's post. You just had to know when it was based on other regions when they had this event. (Yeah, crappy, I know.)

On 11/24/2019 at 0:35 AM, MechEagle-DN said:

EU

KR

NA 

Cyan: Sorry guys we dont care about you enough to tell you we will be reseting ur instance entry at 11pm Saturday, Just give us your money and shut up*