Zarbi

The EU server has nothing to do with this forum. It is not an NCwest server. You will have to read the Gameforge forum for EU information.

Well, the 2.5 patch eternal gear needs a lot of manastones, so I guess everyone wanting to socket that gear is in the same boat, as it came out the same time the drop rate tanked.

On rare occasion.

That's good to know that you don't need to rename the file, one less step.

The only way to report you are stuck and have it fixed is to open a support ticket and not post it here. Normally support will free you within an hour or two from opening the ticket.

I just got an Attack+5 in Dredge, so they are still dropping there.

Is there going to be another maintenance in 8hrs time which is the normal time each week?

Twitter updates on maintenance can be found here:

It's not a "fix", the game developers in Korea decided to reduce the open world drop rate, it effects Classic globally, not just NA, so they have to be convinced to change that.

Well I am asleep when the EU would be playing Aion so it's very likely I am not going to notice a thing. Even things like Siege time, it's 1am in London so the EU would already be logging off.

How are you supposed to level Alchemy above level 500? The only design I could find was for those Red Heliotrope Crystals, of which you can only craft one per day which is near useless.

The instructions were slightly confusing. What I did was 1) Grab the Chat Filter .pak file from https://github.com/Yoress/Aion-Classic-Chat-Filter-NA/tree/main/AION_CLASSIC/l10n/ENU/Data/Strings 2) Rename Chat Filter.pak to aionfilterline.pak 3) Put aionfilterline.pak into the folder called C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSOFT\AION_CLASSIC\l10n\enu\data\Strings 4) Restart Aion 5) Enjoy much less kinah spam. The chat filter is just a normal text file which has been compresses with zip, so if you want to edit it and add your own words to filter out of chat, then rename the aionfilterline.pak file to aionfilterline.zip, unzip it, and edit it with Notepad, when finished zip it back up and rename it back to aionfilterline.pak

Seem that people who started playing Classic early got there manastones done, those that joined, or rolled new characters after 2.5 release have to go without manastones. It's like there were trying to lock in some level of gear inequality. Gear inequality is one of the main reaches why Aion retail failed to increase it's player base, and most players moved to Classic which started off more equal. In my opinion, the to largest design faults in Aion Classic are: 1) The absurdly high manastone failure rate. 2) The high duration of Sin stealth, which should be halved and the CD increased to give solo players a chance of a fair fight. Both these things have made players I know leave the game, and both things can be fixed by simple parameter adjustments on the server.

Once upon a time, NCwest use to put up a test server for interested players, called PTS to sort out bugs a couple of weeks before a new patch was released. I use to love playing on the PTS server.

I have noticed manastone numbers declining on the brokers since the 2.5 launch. You still need way to many of them top fill a piece of AP gear, the failure rate is too high for the available supply.

It's interesting to observe the drop off in bots since the drop rate nerf. Quite noticeable.

It's is free if you collect your own shards instead of buying them.

I just checked on the brokers and shards were 999 kinah each which seems pretty normal to me. A quick search of these forums shows the price has gone down from 1,000 kinah each back in May 2022

On IS siege participation is a joke. Dredge is a problem because not enough Asmos enter, only high geared same people each session and they get AP for even more gear, it's totally screwed up. Siel is way better, I Dredge on both each day, and there is no comparison, to the point where I suggest Elyos on IS roll a Siel toon and forget about Dredge on IS until after the servers merge, then you can pick up where you left off.

Same thing, perceived value for money is poor. Even WoW is cheaper sub than Classic, and has bucket loads of R&D and support. NCwest priced the product incorrectly.

The server merge is necessary, the damage to IS has gone too far to recover it. Yes the price of the subscription is too high, that's the main reason people have left both servers.

Not sure of the cause, it just says" waiting for opponent group formation", usually for over an hour on IS Elyos side. On Siel Elyos side it's really fast to get into Dredge even if you are late in the session. I usually try on IS first, and if I don't get in before the last half hour, I jump over to Siel and almost always get in. I presume when the servers merge it should be roughly similar.

Currently on IS there are a handful of highly geared Asmo groups that do Dredge and almost nothing else. If the Elyos don't get in during the first 20min, then the chances are they wont get a game at all. I welcome an Asmo dominant server, it's better than standing around for 90min in a Dredge queue and not getting in.

That's not what the players voted, both servers want consolidation a.s.a.p to boost the active player numbers.

Who are you asking, the NCwest people that are away on annual leave as they announced last maintenance?