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It's not going to be a massive population, it's targeted at people who don't like the gear inequality on Siel. I like the gesture, even if most people are going to roll the new class on Siel. One thing I did notice, is Nezekan has a mixture of classes since the word go, I expected it to be 99% the new class, so it was a surprise.

If you just want to explore the other faction, open a 2nd. account, then you can keep both if there is a future merge.

No other cities appear on the teleport NPC's map in Sanctum, not a one.

THere are a 50e weapon survey, don't open it with a new class character, there is no suitable 50e weapon in the box for the new class, only for the old classes

Servers are up. New server is called Nezekan like the old Oceania server back in 2009

Meh, I cashed in my Event coins yesterday, I pays to play it safe.

8hrs and counting.....

They keep the Auth server offline until the game servers are up and ready to go.

Often Aion patches can take many hours over eta, if it comes up in an hour it won't be breaking any upgrade outage records.

2hrs more .... sigh .,...

It is the 10th. of May where I live.

The maintenance almost alwasy removes the event NPCs. I can't see why this would be an exception to that.

Read the announcement post

I hope they don't have sell-able items on the new server like candies. A clean start economy like they did in the EU works great. People have to work for their kinah in game.

NA had higher drop rates too at the start. They are unsustainable because of the high merchant value of the drops. Eventually EU will have to either reduce the drop rates, or reduce the merchant value of the drops, else out of control inflation from the 24/7 bot farmers.

That would explain why they only currently allow 6 of the 8 character slots to be used, they must have been planning new classes for a while.

Two things a new server does It gets rid of inequality so everyone is on the same level as the new class rollers. It allows people who have used up their 6 slots to roll the new class without having to pay for a 2nd. Siel's aura.

Yes NA did, when Classic was launched there was quite a period where you couldn't make new characters on Siel, you had to go to IS. For months after that, Siel had too many Asmos and IS had too many Elyos, overall combined there were more Elyos in NA Classic. I don't know what the proportions are nowadays.

Classic is a fork in the Aion timeline. They are trying to correct some shortfalls in the original game. However, the new content doesn't address obvious game flaws, like the manastone"loose all on socketing fail" design fault which retail did address. So it's a hodgepodge.

Very interesting. I wonder what they have in mind?

EU hasn't launched, it's another 4-5hrs off. Also, they are not running 2.5.

Are the EU running Classic 2.5? Drop rates were higher in NA prior to 2.5 as well.

The bots are not the problem, the kinah from merchanting the world drops are the problem, it's caused massive inflation of the kinah supply. That's why KR have made the merchant reward for world drops only 1 kinah.

You seem confused between the concepts of kinah being made and kinah being exchanged, they are not the same thing, and have totally different impact on the economy.

The thing to remember, is only a very tiny portion of players read or post to this forum, most here are "squeaky wheels", so don't use the forum as a reference for game play. Try it for 2hrs a day, which is free, and work it out yourself.