Ontwo
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@Locke para godstone just dropped off enraged meno
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29 minutes ago, Yoyo said:
It is on You Tube, they tweeted it and it is literally on the main page https://www.aiononline.com/en-us/news/2-4-update-wrath-of-the-storm-preview. Could they of made a post sure but it really isn't that hard to find.
It wasn't on the main page at time of post, they only had the youtube video with nothing else so it's extremely hard to find something that didn't exist
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12 hours ago, Conman said:
2.4 is an actual patch, not mid patch.
2.2 > 2.4 > 2.5.They went from 2.2 to 2.4 in Korea? I thought they went 2.2 to 2.5 so my bad if they did. I know we got a different patch than Korea did before 2.0 and we are skipping 2.2 so that's why I called it a "mid patch" or whatever. Still skipping 2.2 which I'm glad we are.
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8 hours ago, Edict said:
That might be the plan, who knows.
They're releasing 2.4 which will be a mid patch like 1.8 was. Of course they don't tell us anything about it in advance or even make a public post here.
It would be nice if the game had more moderation and effort from NC
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May as well just skip 2.2 and release 2.5
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2 hours ago, Edict said:
Blocking doesn't prevent unwanted attention and it doesn't stop people from continuing to speak in such ways that make the game's reputation look bad.
Oh you don't have to worry about LFG making the game's reputation look bad, that's already been handled.
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23 hours ago, Stormwing said:
@Locke:
I saw two drop from mobs.I've seen one drop from a mob in dredge, seen them in the upper/lower fort reps and mobs as well.
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Somebody had a good point in another thread regarding the lack of paralyze godstones since the release of 2.0. I personally haven't seen one for sale and come to think of it haven't heard of a para in a while, has anybody else?
Are these back in the loot tables now that they supposedly fixed them @Loki or @EMPulse? They should still be obtainable in this patch, but with the modifications NC has made I would see how they could have inadvertently made them unavailable.
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13 hours ago, Locke said:
You realize that we all used our officer/general quests before 2.0 right? You realize paralyze doesn't drop from tokens right? You realize some people dual wield right? You realize godstones used to drop from mobs in OG Aion right?
You do have a fair point about the Para stones not dropping anymore, but are we sure they aren't in the loot tables since they "fixed" them? I would imagine it's hard to tell since the game isn't really as active but it never hurts to ask.
So this thread was about only the rich being able to afford godstones which is completely untrue. It's nobody's fault but your own for using the officer and/or general godstone before 2.0, I saved mine because I knew better. Radiant and Fortuneers packs are viable ways to obtain "free" godstones whereas free means put in a bit of work to do daily/weeklies. The OP obviously has these quests still, just can't get officer/general kills or figure a way out to. Godstones are so much more available than 2.0 that I've even seen Bolvig's down to 40m which it never went below 100-150k pre-2.0.
10 hours ago, marikazan-KT said:People dont want gear handed to them they want to able to actually compete.Goodluck trying to kill officers most are super geared.
There's no way that since the start of 2.0 you haven't had the opportunity to at least trade in enough fortuneers tokens to get either radiant tokens for a pack or the fortuneers pack itself. If you're not saving those tokens for godstones that you want to attempt for or selling those godstones you don't want to buy the ones you want then the godstone situation is of your own fault. There are people that farm those packs on alts that are so ungeared I'd probably say coin gear might be an upgrade in some cases.
Having a godstone is not going to carry you in pvp, if you seriously cannot get 10 open world officer kills and are an Elyos pm me your IGN and I will see if we can't make it happen
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19 minutes ago, Conman said:
Couldn't remove Crush's mention on mobile edit lol. They certainly need to improve the mobile version of the forums.
Now back on topic. By PVP gear progression you mean grind lvl 40 fort guards until your fingers hurt? Because rifting is dead. Even if you kill bots you wont make enough AP to buy the 40e gear since they nerfed the AP you get when killing players on their home maps.
I'd rather get shit on at lvl 55 tbh. Grinding guards endlessly is as much fun as getting rekt by full geared players.
Now if there is another way to get some good gear going at low levels, please let us know.
I grinded out a few pieces of 40e in a weekend and it wasn't fun at all so I get the point trust me. However, that was in 1.5 without double AP so if somebody wants that 40e it's easily obtainable, but as they Edict said it's the medals issue which NC created by removing playability from 1-50.
As I mentioned above, you can't skip to the end game and get carried into pvp gear. It's a fault of the system yes but also as a first set going for 50e or 55e well that's a grind and there are better options to get gear in the interim such as non elite gear if you have absolutely nothing and cannot gear your own character. He just wants one of the best two sets to currently get 50e which everybody still wears, I'm still in it.
I'd offer to sell him some of the golds I have stacked but I think he's opposite faction (I hope) and well as previously mentioned there's a reason I hope he's opposite faction so I wouldn't offload them anyways, I'll hang on to them for an alt. I like the idea of converting sapphires down to golds/silvers though.
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On 9/6/2022 at 9:28 AM, Edict said:
I figured I'd reiterate somethings. The level cap is level 55 now and you would expect that someone would be able to get something decent with some effort from the last patch, but gold medals are barely attainable, less attainable than sapphire medals. I'd like to actually play the game on some of my new characters and not afk all day on them. 40e and 30e also have the same problem, but those sets don't provide anything useful in level 55 combat, therefore the set to start at is 50e.
One thing that may help is attempting to do Tiak 3 gold medal quest on all of your toons and feed. One downfall to power leveling to 55 is you (among others) skipped the entry level gear of 30e/40e. I have 40e on an alt and he does rather well, I even use 40e on my main as a separate set from 50e. Downside to leveling too fast is you miss that gear progression which is fine in PvE because you can buy loot rights or have teams carry you through gearing, can't do that in pvp.
50e is also not the starter set, it's just the set you want to start with. There's many variations of 50 non elite gear, you just have to work through getting it at this rate but the gold/silver medal circulation is definitely down. Maybe try going to lower fort siege and see what medals drop there too.
Also @Crush50e what a noob set
you should have 10 sets of 55e by now, shame.
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You realize that you get free godstones through the officer quest and general quest right? You can also save up radiant/fortuneers tokens to get them too. I've never paid for a godstone, quit being lazy. Everybody on this forum wants all the PvP stuff handed out to them and cries non stop blaming everything under the sun except their own inability to play the game.
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Rather than having an event that generates coins based on login time why don't we have an event that generates coins based on open world monster kills or pvp kills. Not only would this stimulate actual gameplay, but it could also have a positive effect on population and economy.
Take the event we are doing now for instance, 200 monster kills a day +/- 5 level difference would help the economy because players would be going out to kill mobs. Even if you incorporated 50 pvp kills a day into the mix you would get players to actually get out and play the game rather than sitting around on a dead server. Obviously the numbers picked are random and you could stagger rewards/objectives or do combinations of each. It should not be hard to implement since the pass system is generated off a similar concept per level/reward.
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Daevas, this week, we’re bringing rewards just for doing what you do best—AFK for five hours!
Somebody needs to update https://www.aiononline.com/en-us/news/daily-login-rewards-double-xp-and-weekend-ap-boosts
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2 hours ago, Conman said:
I wonder what makes you think that Aion EU will be any different? Sure there will be a lot of people at the start, but it will be the same thing from start to end. They will have candies (every server had), they will have OP pass at the start (every server had) and that will fk up the economy from the get go. Even KR servers are empty now lol. They only play on the new server they opened with the release of Padmarashka, all others have less than 12% of capacity used (from the stats of MyAion).
I never said it would be any different, I just think it would be a better time/place to pick the game up rather than at the tail end of a dead server that is already a train wreck.
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3 hours ago, Conman said:
Roughly 600~~ active players total maybe?! We don't have the data, obviously, but it's tough. On the bright side you don't really need a lot of people to do most of the content. If you happen to find 5 other players to play on a daily basis, you are set. My legion is very, very small and we can do pretty much everything that we want, and we don't even have an active cleric in the legion!
There's definitely less than 600 total active players but I agree it's hard to capture the metrics. From what I've seen at siege is there's less than 100 active players attending those and even then you have a lot of alts going as well. The population is in a steady decline and it is not improving. Aion will have a bump in pop with 2.2 release but seeing as how that's already late, it took them months to fix drop rates, months to fix upper abyss fort sieges and months to do the first round of AP trading bans after botching SR bans there's a lot of people that are done and fed up with the game.
Aion classic can still be enjoyable to play, but I personally wouldn't pick the game up here and now. If it's a possibility at all I'd wait until Aion Classic releases on EU (whenever that is) and go over there.
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20 hours ago, Edict said:
I'll repeat again. FTP is monetarily unsustainable and is therefore unprofitable. FTP undermines terms of service enforcement and is therefore risks the game's integrity.
Apex is FTP and it's profited over 2 billion as of May this year. There are several games that are FTP and generate an absolute ton of revenue, even Aion retail is FTP and it's still going.
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3 hours ago, Edict said:
This lacks so much information it means nothing. I'm pretty sure I could kill any transform if they were afk long enough. This also speaks nothing to when one is alone against a transform.
People only use transforms to gain unfair advantage in small group situations; it's supposed to be used in leagues. It isn't the majority opinion that people want fights to be almost always against something unkillable with the common amount of players in group.
Afk lol, wow that's some special assumptions right there.
You're not supposed to be able to kill an xform in a 1v1, you can kill them in a group of players doing dailies. The issue is most players take off running instead of standing there and fighting. From these posts I can tell which category you fall into.
Asmo or ely by chance?
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9 minutes ago, Yoloranger said:
I've noticed quite a large difference in drop rate. I've grinded for 2 or 3 hours in the course of doing the Fenris Fang deathmark mobs in Brusthonin and gotten a Healing Conduit IV Chanter stigma, 4 skillbooks, a Resist Magic +12 manastone, lots of white Blizzard weapons and armor to breakdown and 2 Void pieces to breakdown.
I haven't run UT yet, but friends that have been doing XP runs in Upper and Lower Udas are reporting a massive increase in the amount of loot you can breakdown.
The broker when I logged off this evening a couple of hours ago had 12-16 pieces of Demolition 45 gear, a page of Celestial gold gear, a Zapiel's Jewell and several Elder pieces.
The negative elements playing the game will complain that the drop rates are horrible when there are no mats and no gear on the broker and the economy is broken, and then complain because there's too much gear on the broker and more bots. Complaining after a day or two about RNG is akin to a state lottery decreasing the odds of winning the lottery and your are incensed and pissed off because you bought some lotto tickets and still didn't win.
To each his/her own, but if you aren't having fun playing a video game, then just go find another one that can bring you more joy.
Either way, the drop rates have indeed increased.
I went out and grinded on my ranger again today so coming from a new leveling character perspective it's pretty sparse, nowhere near sustainable. I wasn't exactly expecting Aion Classic to magically start attracting population back, but I'm glad I'm not dependent on grinding new gear. I guess the best way to start a new toon as a new player is just candy it to higher levels to Brushonin and Theobomos. I haven't went to grind my max level toons for loot.
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On 8/16/2022 at 1:16 AM, Edict said:
People only xform to pvp now otherwise they just hide in their cities until they get their xform back. What is worse is that there are people logging off to extend the duration of an xform either by limiting time waiting online for an opponent or to double xform which is unintended by the developers.
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They need to make xforming only available to cast during special periods.
- The hour before siege and the hour of siege.
- During agents.
- They need to show where xforms are on the map like they are cursed.
- They need a popup message banner on screen when a person xforms.
- They need a message in chat and on screen when an xform moves from map to map or logs in.
- They also need to strip xform buffs off of people if they log off for more than 10 minutes or more than 1 time.
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They should be able to xform whenever, no reason to not be able to use that ability. It's not a siege dependent ability and never was.
- It's nice to get that AP off killing xform ranks.
- Without them having more comfort of roaming around open world you'd just have more people AFK and even more of a dead game.
- They shouldn't have to show anything on the map, your visibility shows if there's a red dot on the radar and honestly even that shouldn't be shown imo.
- It pops up in chat "so and so has xformed in location" so there's no reason to stamp it on your forehead, read.
- Map awareness
- They did this in later patches did they not? I think they refrained from bringing a lot of later quality of life and balances forward because of a more "classic experience" even though it's not classic.
The issue non xforms are facing is at siege you have more xforms than you have regular players. This is a population problem and not an xform problem. Not going to name drop but we burned an xform SM to the ground in a 1v3 in SC so it's really not terrible.
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They need to make xforming only available to cast during special periods.
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11 minutes ago, Edict said:
I wouldn't pay attention to anything these people are saying. They must want fabled drops every common mob they kill. The drop rates are fine and NCsoft did a good job at fixing the drop rates.
I intentionally leveled a character to see if normal gameplay would yield good enough loot rates to sustain progression without speed leveling through campaigns and P2W and it doesn't. So hopefully mods don't listen to (•́⍜•̀) and tweak the drop rates more.
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45 minutes ago, Ssorc said:
Is this your so called drop rate fix? I farmed in earthfang for 40 minutes with drop rate buff and it drops literally nothing apart from bunch of trashes. This is what you have been working on for 3 months? You guys are ridiculous.
I started to level a character for the pve aspect of the game. From 10-15 I didn't do a single campaign quest. I did blue quests and farmed mobs a little bit. That entire time I didn't really get anything. What's really sad is I didn't even make enough kinah to go buy my lvl 13-16 skillbooks. They need to restore the loot rates to what they were at the release of classic.
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11 minutes ago, Cyfur said:
The requirement for groups to complete campaign quests should be removed.
The purpose of campaign should be to tell a story line, and get a new player up to max level.
The group instances should be about working for good gear, group PvP, and general teamwork.
It's always been a design flaw in Aion, it assumes everyone is starting off at level one on a fresh server, and moving though the game at roughly the same time.
eg. Aethergenetics Lab, Azoturan Fortress, Theo Labs etc. should all be solo instances.
At this point in the game/population I tend to agree. While the experience was really good at the start of classic of running these instances, it's fallen off by the decline in new players. I helped a temp do the Eltnen prisoner quest yesterday just because it's easy for an SM to summon them back there and took 5 minutes of my time vs them trying to fight their way in solo and do it.
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7 hours ago, Easycrow said:
I think they do read the forums. People certainly get banned for being too spicy lol. I suspect that the issue is they are powerless to do much. A public post released in July promised change is coming with negotiations between the producers here and 'HQ' to be finalised soon.
Post here: https://www.aiononline.com/en-us/news/aion-classic-producers-letter-july2022
This is probably their last and final shot to fix things.
I think that some people are just tired of it already and bailed. I can't tell you how many people (even in NA) are waiting for Aion Classic EU or just going to AA and if that fails they've proclaimed to be done done with Aion.
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you should have 10 sets of 55e by now, shame.
Godstones events,more drops stop rich only
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Posted · Edited by Ontwo
I know it's not directed to me but I never wanted to convey that it did resolve any issue, just saw one drop there. At least (on a good note) it should get more people to do divine and ED did unlock meno right there on the spot for everybody so whoever showed up, was in league and put in the effort got a shot at that godstone.
They should just put the para in the radiant pack. Still yet this entire thread is garbo since you can get radiant packs from fortuneers and radiant tokens for free. The only good point out of this is the inaccessibility to the Para godstone which I even opened a thread on asking about seeing one in 2.0+ but I just posted here to let Locke know I finally saw one.