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Random bonus stats and the retuning thing was one of the not so brilliants ideas from this people in NCSoft. 

They sometimes had those. Like when they made all the gear tradeable and breakable (failing enchants), or when they decided to remove the cap in enchanments. They do those things sometimes and then they have to "fix it" or remove it. 

The base idea wasn´t bad. But the lack of kinah in the last years and the change in the mechanics, forced most of the people to avoid that or just do few tries to get something. 

With the introduction of new gears with fixed stats, now we have a huge gap between pure DPS classes (where the fixed stats use to be), and support or strategic settings. With this buff, in some way that is 99% fixed and now we only require time and patience. But IMO, if we have the buff so we can retune 231654984213 times until we have the stats we want, then they could just add a thing where we can choose the stats and save some time. Why? Because we are going to retune anyway, but I don´t see the point in needing so many hours for that. It is just boring. 

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Anybody else remember when we had the issue with the Tiamaranta´s Eye in the past?

On that moment the enchanment and other items were really expensive, so they added that event to get them. The loot on the mobs wasn´t in the way they wanted and the prices resulted so cheap (cause we were able to loot in alliance mode), so Hime came with a brilliand idea and made the prices a lot more expensive. With the new prices wasn´t profitable anymore, and the community complained a lot. They lost so many prestige suscriptions on those days. Just like now, they found the price situation really fast and removedthe npc in few minutes. But they needed a lot of days to "fix it" and add it back. 

Also we had an aditional miniboss to kill, but same with the white faces now, the loot was complicated and after some days you have the elite players farming that one alone and the rest of the players complaining about that. Just like now... With that, some players obtained one of the best weapons ingame on that moment (Sunayaka´s Extendables). 

I remember that even on that moment, some people decided to pay to get more of the items. Some people invested a lot of money. 

But, even after that issue, they never tried to be nice with the community. But they are not smart, so not so long aftet that, they added a couple of events, including a team race, and we get a LOT of those enchanments stones. But really a lot. Even more than the amount obtainable with the previous event before the alteration. And really. wasn´t so much time between them. Finally we got Sunayaka´s extendables in another event in a large amount. We had maybe 5 or 6 for each toon. The price for them was incredible cheap and every toon had it. 

And, after some time they came and changed all the game and all that became useless....

Oh. just memories..... Somebody else remember Tiamaranta´s Eye event?  

 

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1 hour ago, buknoy-DN said:

so many cry babies, lol. too bad some people got the event item for free, at the end of the day when they put the npc back you can grind and buy it; the key is still free in BCM as far as i am aware. life is not fair, too bad  .  There's this saying " You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of it" i.e: expecting NCFAIL to fail every single event and take advantage of it. xD. there's always next time, :). toodles.

Don´t worry. you will get it. 

in some time you will be complaining too or you will be gone. happened to all of us. hahahahaha

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1 hour ago, Vasilios-KT said:

I hope they give us all a free contract, although idk if they will.

Also, they need to fix the event while theyre at it. The white emojis - or as i call them, the balls of satan - are incredibly frustrating and just so difficult in general. We had a group of SIX people, all of us had soverign gear, with a few advanced stigmas. And one cleric, and one vandal was enough to take like 3-4 mobs from us every round. Not to mention, we have to roll on them since were a group. So, if were lucky we get 1 mark every time. I dont know who at NCsoft though itd be a good idea to add a solo loot, random spawning mob for an iem that you need two of. I combined  more things today, and got 5 of the S stuff. So with that logic, itll take me  almost 8 days for the legendary transform. And thats only if I can make 16 marks a day. To get 16 it took me about a hour and 30 mins, near the end of the farming a lot more people came in and it got much rougher. 

In the past in similar situations with some events, the mind behind the mechanics was Hime. lol (or at least they said she was doing the mats and deciding the things). 

But yes. Sounds really bad and that kind of things create divition between the players and a lot of issues. The elite on one side and the rest of the players on the other. 

1 hour ago, Camalus-KT said:

In some way the event apart from all the bugs is not bad. how u mention about the stats that you get if u have the four contracts. another thing that plp are not seeing.. if u consumes 2 Legendary transformations via combination. u will get at the end of the event a box that might contain a ult contract or a select legendary apostole/pixel. For me thats the best part, I have 1 repeated legendary, in 2 weeks I hope to get another. When i get the box if i dont get the ult contract I can pick an apostole, I will go for Zikel, thats the best or one of the best legendary. 

another thing if u combine 12 ancient u will get a legendary at the end of the event, Apart from the collection effect if u have the 4 pixel legendary contracts..

When all this started, even the ancient were hard to get. So many of us just tried for that. In the events we had them easier. Legendaries were like ultimate today. And Ultimate... well, there was just a legend about people who paid brutal amounts of real money. If you pay attention, every time they give us something, they create another thing to get. So if you pay some money to be updated today, in a coulpe of months, you will require to pay again for the new things, and then the same. But one day, that feature will be so big, broken and unbalanced that will be impossible to create new aditions to it. So finally it will be deleted or replaced. The message will say that they saw the issues created by that feature so they had to fix it to help the community. Something like what happened with unlimited enchantments, the old plumes and purified ones, the old stigmas... 

20 minutes ago, Slevia-KT said:

I have a question: if a gm from support replied to me saying I need to log out to enter my acount and I replied with ok, then clicked "solved",  should i have left it open? 

help!,

thanks.

 

Sometimes to fix things related with your inventory or similar things, it is required to you log out. They need a static account to check what is there and what happened. Also remember that Aion has no "save" so the progress is updated and as long as you play. So I guess with the player online would be like 2 simultaneous accounts trying to save at once. 

What they don´t need and they won´t ask from you are your account information, passwords, etc. The people who can help you, already have the power to get in. And if they can´t log in and need your information, it means they can not help you  

so, it is a good idea to close your account if they ask for it. About the end of it, you are supposed to mark it as solved if the issue is not longer there. But if you made a mistake and marked as solved and closed the ticket (but is not solved), then you can send another one and explain that. 

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8 hours ago, Vasilios-KT said:

Thats my point... the stats are temp. Meaning that they wont be as valuable after the event ends due to the fact that the stats are worse. And youre not spending 15$ to farm for it. You can either spend 3 weeks to farm for it, or 15$ to get it without doing any work. 

in some way you are right. 

but on the other hand, those 4 contracts provide some bonus stats combined between them and with the others. Maybe is not so much, but if you add all thebenefits you can get by buying things, then you have a real difference between a free to play player and somebody who pays. A lot of people compleined a lot about P2W in Aion in the past, but IMO now that is real. 

Also, they are going to give us 1 for free. But in some way that will make some people to have more interest in buying the other 3. 

And, once again they found so fast the feature that made them lose something. But they need a lot of time to find other issues without a monetary impact for them.  Some people will be looking for days the white emojis in Demaha to get the pine things.... But that is not their problem

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1 hour ago, Wondrous-KT said:

This event is a little confusing, especially with the Moon Rabbit NPC still removed from game, but if you're ONLY interested in getting the [Event] Locked Hanbok Pixel Transformation Contract Selection Box (4 Types) for your account, do not upgrade your [Event] Honey Songpyeon at the Arnev NPC. (The 700k and 7m upgrade options)  

Once the little Moon Rabbit NPC comes back, you will see you need 50 [Event] Honey Songpyeon to spend as currency for the Pixel Xform contract.

The upgraded baskets you have a chance to get from paying kinah [Event] Small Honey Songpyeon Basket (700k) and [Event] Ornate Honey Songpyeon Box (7m) give their own set of prizes (should you choose to open these, i wouldn't though) and are also used for the quest "Moon Rabbit's Happy Autumn Harvest Gift Box" which requires 10 [Event] Honey Songpyeon, 5 [Event] Small Honey Songpyeon Basket and 2 [Event] Ornate Honey Songpyeon Box. Once you have the those items, the quest turn in gives [Event] Moon Rabbit's Happy Gift Box.  The Moon Rabbit's Happy gift box gives you ALL of the following : 

[Event] Gourmet Star Outfit

Legendary Blood Mark 25

Ultimate Blood Mark 10

[Event] Ultimate Katalam Reward Box

Hope this helps and saves people some kinah/frustration.

I was thinking about this. 

ty for confirmation


I hope all the people is working towards the other rewards. Cause if they are making all those upgrades to get the transformation contract, then the issue will be impresive. The lack of the NPC to have the references and the weird explanation in the page (mostly focused in the things that cost real money so they can sell something else), will probably end in the need to compensate a lot of players.