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(English): When will the drop rate be fixed? (French): Quand le taux de chute sera-t-il corrigé? (Spanish): ¿Cuándo se corregirá la tasa de caída? (German): Wann wird die Abwurfsrate korrigiert? (Italian): Quando verrà corretto il tasso di caduta? (Portuguese): Quando a taxa de queda será corrigida? (Dutch): Wanneer wordt het drop percentage gecorrigeerd? (Russian): Когда будет исправлен коэффициент выпадения? (Japanese): ドロップ率はいつ修正されますか？ (Korean): 드롭율은 언제 수정됩니까? (Greek): Πότε θα διορθωθεί η πιθανότητα πτώσης; (Turkish): Düşüş oranı ne zaman düzeltilecek? (Arabic): متى سيتم تصحيح معدل الإسقاط؟ (Urdu): ڈراپ کی شرح کب ٹھیک ہوگی؟ (Swedish): När kommer nedfallshastigheten att rättas till? (Finnish): Milloin pudotussuhde korjataan? (Danish): Hvornår vil drop rate blive rettet? (Polish): Kiedy zostanie naprawiony współczynnik upuszczenia? (Norwegian): Når blir nedfallsraten rettet? (Vietnamese): Tỷ lệ rơi khi nào sẽ được sửa chữa? (Thai): อัตราการตกจะได้รับการแก้ไขเมื่อไหร่? (Ukrainian): Коли буде виправлено коефіцієнт падіння? (Bulgarian): Кога ще бъде коригиран шансът за падане? (Romanian): Când va fi corectată rata de cădere? (Czech): Kdy bude opravena míra poklesu? (Hungarian): Mikor lesz javítva a zuhanási arány? (Slovak): Kedy bude opravená miera poklesu? (Croatian): Kada će se ispraviti stopa pada? (Slovenian): Kdaj bo popravljena stopnja padca? (Serbian): Када ће бити исправљена стопа падања? (Malay): Bila kadar jatuh akan diperbetulkan? (Indonesian): Kapan tingkat penurunan akan diperbaiki? (Filipino): Kailan maayos ang rate ng pag-drop? (Lithuanian): Kada bus ištaisytas kritimo rodiklis? (Latvian): Kad tiks labots krituma rādītājs? (Estonian): Millal parandatakse langemise määr? (Armenian): Երբ է ուղղվելու ընկալության տոկոսը? (Georgian): რადგან გასწორდება ჩამოსვლის მარტივი? (Basque): Noiz zuzenduko da jaitsiera-tasa? (Macedonian): Кога ќе се поправи стапката на паѓање? (Persian): میزان افت چه زمانی تصحیح می‌شود؟ (Bengali): ড্রপ হারটি কখন ঠিক করা হবে? (Kannada): ಡ್ರಾಪ್ ಹಾರು ಯಾವಾಗ ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತದೆ? (Gujarati): ડ્રોપ રેટ ક્યારે સુધારવામાં આવશે? (Telugu): డ్రాప్ రేట్ ఎప్పుడు సరిచేయబడుతుంది? (Maltese): Meta se titjib il-proporzjoni ta 'waqgħa? (Albanian): Kur do të ndreqet norma e rënies? (Icelandic): Hvenær verður fallhlutfall lagfært? (Sinhala): අවස්ථාවක් කල්කාලීන කරනු ලැබේ? (Nepali): ड्रप दर कहिले ठिक गरिनेछ?

Hi Rownen (and also Tarzaned / the other GM that showed up in game the other day), Really, really confused as to how you guys have started to reach out to the community more, but we still are having the exact same issues week to week that make people quit. Surely, somebody in that community discord is telling you guys the truth? If it hadn't been turned into a brand new PvP discord due to a lack of moderation, it would probably have more people like me in there that actually know what the hell is going on with your game. How are we still having weeks in this game where all of our previous week's events end and we gain no new ones. You realize that we are LOOKING for reasons to play the game, to log-in, but having zero drop rate padmas (have personally killed 6 padmas since event ended, 4 golds 0 eternals), zero drop rate BTHM (3 runs, 2 eternals throughout), and no pve buff (making all the tiamat groups that formed for the 2 weeks we did have it all break up because its much tougher without it) ensures that we have a consistently low population game. WHY should anybody choose to put their time into Aion when it has been proven over and over that your time is not valued? I've had easily 30-40 players over the last 2 months come in and out of my legion (2nd most active on asmo side) and the complaints are always the same: why should I play a game where I'm not being rewarded for my time? Why are NCSoft so poor at communicating to us? And my personal favorite: did they really take all the drops out of the game? (YES, THEY STILL HAVEN'T FIXED THAT, @forum lurkers LOL) It just shows an absolute disconnection to the status / population of your game when for the 7-8th time in the past few months, we have a week to week cycle where there is zero incentive for players to log in to the game besides to do their dailies. Give us SOMETHING. Flip a switch and turn the warg flight time buff on. What happens to all of this code / content that we are provided in the past, does it just *poof* and is unusable ever again? Or is it an issue of competency amongst those running the operation over here, as is the common conclusion of outsiders looking in. Much love, hugs, and kisses, #1 BG of Bunny Mafia, F-Tier Glad, Wolffist

( Oh BTW congratz on finally letting us log into the forums after a full week+ of not letting anyone login) So, because of your company's failures we didn't get loot from the Agent Battles from the launch of 2.7 on May 9th until September 15th. So 18 weeks, 18 less possible belts/extendables because you messed up. And when this was pointed out in painstakingly simple terms it still took you morons nearly 2 months to fix. Your "compensation" to 18 straight weeks of no loot from Agent Battle.... is to offer double loots for................ 4 weeks? Last I checked, 18 is FAR greater than 4...... @Roseae it's time to try again on that "compensation"

Hello Aion players, I'm here to ask you for help to get unbanned my account due to an unfair situation, my account has been banned allegedly for the use of third programs to modify my gameplay which is false, I've been an active player in aion from so many years ago, I've played different servers like Aion Classic, Retail and EU Retail and this is the first time I have this incovenient, this is the first time someone allegedly claims I'm a hacker and reports me which leads to an unfair ban for mechanics that are available inside game without help of any third programs, this is ridiculous considering that there are plenty of known hackers inside game that have been there for years and they haven't been banned yet, many players know me and know that I never used any type of this programs, I'm an active player inside Aion Classic community and never received any warning or I have had any type of sanction. I'm a ranger player, ranger is a class which is very squishy and agaisnt melee classes can be super easy to kill, that's why I learned to make this mechanic called "Slideshot" and others like "Jump shot" or "Jump cast", these mechanics can be done with the resources that the game offers, any third program is used to replicate these mechanics, as example you have a guide from a very known player in EU community and even partnered with gameforge. This videos shows how to make these mechanics which are important for a ranger: https://youtu.be/cOhiah-Foxc Besides that, you can find many videos of players replicating this type of gameplay like this: https://youtu.be/An4G05IKtaE Also I must add, that the POV from the player who makes these mechanics to the players who is fighting agaisnt is different, this is why here is a video about a gladiator POV agaisnt a ranger displaying these mechanics mentioned before: https://youtu.be/k5-vzB36ZAg And lastly, a video mine about my ranger in Aion Classic displaying these mechanics agaisnt an opponent and as you can see, this is a normal gameplay, not third party programs involved: https://youtu.be/81TMogY29kU (Credits to the authors of videos) As you can see, all of this is legal, is done with resources that the game offers you therefore the ban and the claims about me as a hacker is false, other ranger players who knows about this can corroborate about this, this is why I'm here to ask you help to solve this unfair situation. Regards.

You can use a level 1 to level 4 S-rank minion ass sacrifice, the fact it is grayed means nothing, it is there only to let you know you are using an upgraded minion in case you accidentally selected one instead of a level 1. ~~~ If you combine s-rank minions you get back a random s-rank minion and the amount you combine affects the chances to get a leveled one as well. In the below images I tried to see the chances of combining 2x s-rank mkinion and 4x s-rank minions, as you see the chance to get a level 4 s-rank minion is 10 times higher when combining 4x instead of 2x Combine 2x only: Combine 4x ~~~ The same thing happens when you combine a-rank minion 2x, 3x, 4x ~~~ In Minium Vault if you select the center npc which transfers you to a ranom path, at the end of the instance you are given +1 extra chest (total 4) the 3 first boxes give miniums and the 4th extra gives you a minion chest, 99% of the time it will give you C-rank minions which are useless, but ther eis a chance to give you a level 1 a-rank minion. ~~~ Most of my a-minions were acquired from apsaranta when I could get a level 1 a-rank minion. I upgraded them myself from minium I had from Minium Vault (I had a lot from the days that Minium Vault was a daily), but also crucible Spire upper gives a lot of a-minium and if you finish it on time like I do you get the extra chest that gives s-rank minium as well. ~~ If you want to revert back a minion combination you have to do it within 7 days of the moment you combined, you use 1 token of restoration (you have 3 tokens per 6 months that expire within the 6 months if not used).

There used to be a quest but they removed it. So there is no more way to get any a-rank minions anymore. And since it is nearly impossible to get b-rank as well to try to combine and get them I am not sure how anyone can get a ranks now and eventually an s-rank. To awaken one S-minion yes you need to sacrifice another s-rank minion and it will be lost and there will be a slot on the awakened minion to be able to add another minion of any rank/type (SS though is always better). To do 4 S-minions awakened you need to sacrifice 4 S-rank minions. When you put a second minion on the slot of an awakened minion that one is not lost, it sits there and it can be removed (much like a runestone) and be placed back into your minion window. The awakened minion will have the slot empty again and you will be able to put another minion of your choice. I am playing since 2010 or something. I had soft quit since 7.0 but I was always around for events. Now you can get a lot of miniums from Crucible Upper, there was also a a time that Minium Vault had 1 entry every day or something and we had plenty of luna back in the days so we could reset the instance with just 40 luna so I did make quite a few runs. ~ They have removed 90% of the game at 6.0 and they keep removing at every patch. If I had to start today I am not sure I would be able to ever have half of the things I already own on my char.

@Wissp really appreciate your response to the many comments on last weeks thread, and the fact that you totally didn't ignore all of us @Wissp so this week's update adds literally nothing and instead just removes stuff from the game...nice oh wait, actually, they made Dragon Lord's Throne HARDER! yes, that boss that only 1 asmo group has cleared twice in months, that definitely needs to be made more difficult for the NA population. while you're at it, would you mind following up on the support tickets sent in showing photo proof of several elyos hacking into locations they are not supposed to be, and continuing to play the game? @Wissp thanks @Wissp, it is so good to have active communication again on these forums, and not just a zombie that logs in once a week to copy paste what their boss sent them in a drunken stupor through most likely Skype, given how backwards in time your company is. on behalf of F-tier players, keep up the great work @Wissp

DROPS FIX WHEN?

GOOD LUCK WAITING FOR AN ANSWER FROM BOT @Whisp. NOT EVEN A REAL PERSON. DROPS FIX, WHEN? HELLO? ANYONE HOME @Whisp ?

"Untradeable, can be brokered" are majority of things now. It's generally stupid and complicates normal game. I don't know how it may help fighting any hackers or botters? A bot became built-in in the game client, we can legally farm with it now, but as for hackers, they probably still exist and are still more dangerous than they were on 5.x patches and earlier. I mean broker hackers, I'm not sure whether they exist now, but I read 2-3 years ago they existed and would immediately buy any expensive thing on the broker that was sold for a cheap price. I would say they were not always on, there were times I could more or less safely transfer average and expensive things like runestones through broker between my accounts. Recently there appeared prime runestones, very expensive on the broker. It's obvious that one account can never collect 3 prime, or even greater, runestones of same transformation and 3 different effects , without trading between accounts. Kinah are untradeable, NCsoft is fighting kinah traders, I understand. But then, it becomes impossible to have enough kinah to trade between accounts through the broker paying the full price these expensive things cost. A couple of days ago I lost a good greater runestone Drop Rate Kaisinel-Zikel apostles +5 while transferring it through the broker between my accounts, it was so frustrating! We don't have any selection boxes for runestones and only get them at random, so trading is inevitable! This type of runestone is still in insufficiency to my accounts in general. I don't have ultimate transformations other than in bottles that Kerub gave us as quest rewards (Zikel and Nezekan). I was lucky enough to sell a prime runestone gotten from the recent event and buy that same runestone of mine on the broker for 500,000,000 k. But it is rather expensive, you see! I'm sure it was that same runestone I had lost because I've been watching runestones on the broker every day and I know this type is extremely rare. Please make runestones (and other valuable things) tradeable without the broker!!!

Here I thought: "Oh look, Stormwing Event. I've only missed three days. I should still be able to make the deadline, after all, we usually have a few extra days of wiggle-room. After leaving Aion for two months, maybe I'll log in for a couple minutes and try to get a new Apostal. For the fun of it. See who is still alive....." Then I realize that, once again, I'm being asked to have my game open and idle for literally 24 hours a day. BREAKING NEWS: WE ARE NO LONGER LOCKED UP FOR COVID19! Players have lives. This game is literally designed for robots now. I am reminded of why I quit. *disappears off the face of the Earth/Atreia again*.

Well I am an old player so I have made like 20. 16 are on the list, 2 of them are already awakened so that means I "consumed" 2 golden minion to do that and I also placed 2x golden ones make the SS to the awakened ones. I have a ton of A-rank all maxed level, the problem is you cannot get a-rank minion contracts anymore to be able to combine and hope to get s-rank. If you combine 4x a-ranks you have a very big chance to get an s-rank now. We also had events in the past. There was a time that you wouldget on a-rank minion contract every week on Apsaranta, but they removed this quest. The below is an older image, I could have made more in the meantime, I am not that active in the game.

Hi Roseae Can we expect any additional communication from NCSoft with the 2.8 update hitting? Its been several months since Wisp appeared, and he appears to have dissipated again as well with his promises of *increased communication* going with him. Alot of people love this game but hate the way you guys run it, based on how pretty much none of our concerns / problems are ever actually considered in your decisions. 2.8 is probably your guys' last chance to have any form of population above 500 players (at peak agent battle), which i assume is about how much is needed to sustain a server. I think it would be a really great idea for you guys to actually pay attention to your paying customers for once and maybe start at least responding to our support tickets with less then an automated response. Half the events you describe as *ending* never even start, such as the kinah event that you never gave us back (remember when you messed up a week and didn't give it to us, promised us it next week, then forgot it again?) , and we don't even know if the Agent Battle Drop Boost worked because we have no other conditions for the agent corpse being lootable to compare it to. I say this as someone who has said *nyerk it i'm quitting* more times then i can count and then continued to play this terrible game, I really think 2.8 is the final chance for many of us here. If you guys make the game even more P2W, even more based on a version of the game with a higher population, and continue to ignore the incredibly passionate, downright insane player base that continues to support you, we will not see 3.0 or 2.9 on this server. Or I sure as hell won't, along with my massive contribution of 10$ each month. Thanks, F-TIer Glad, Wolffist

Any good mmorpg offers drops from mobs and bosses. You guys removed this experience from us and that's why your server keeps dying. You guys have really bad managers. We not even asking for too much, just give us what we used to have before. You don't have graphics to compare numbers from when you released Aion Classic and now? I been playing since day 1 and I'm here telling you the main problem of this game, just listen to me and all players that been also playing since day 1 and fix it, why it can't be that simple? I assure you, you guys would have much more money than now. Most players that left just wanted to be able to farm stuff from mobs and bosses. How many times we need to say it? You don't want your game to be successful like in Korea? What's your problem?

DROPS FIX WHEN?

DROPS FIX WHEN? Again I ask. When? The sword drop "event' in Silentera Canyon should be an standard drop rate for an MMO pvp zone.

DROP FIX WHEN?

DROPS FIXED WHEN?

FIX THE DROP RATES!

DROPS FIX WHEN? And maybe make manastones 100% success rate since there are none to be had! Breaking manastones has made people quit and therefore taken revenue out of your pocket.

Yea. This EXTREMELY poor drop rate really breaks our gameplay. By far this is the MAIN change that game needs. I dont care about bots. They never messed up my gameplay in old Aion from 2012 to 2020.

DROPS FIXED WHEN?

DROPS FIXED WHEN?

Please. Fix the drop rate. We need more green manastones. Quna has caused more unbalance to the economy. We need more in-game avenues to make Kinah. These events are a band-aid on broken limbs. And please stop adding event items that just cause more inventory bloat. We don't need any more bloat items...

I mean nice event, but the real issue is 0 ways to make luna and with the new pass costing 2250 luna people really are not gonna pay for that....you already ask for the prestige pass which is 15$ luna is 50$+ a month ....your asking 75$ a month BASE to play and support your game.....you need to readd the way to make luna in this or you will soon have no players left....every version but ours has luna pouch enabled in the contaminated underpass instance, you REALLY need to do something to fix this NOW before its a ghost land.... you have to use luna for , selective retuning, resetting instances, luna res, luna buff, Daeva pass, you new EVENT pass, opening wardrobe.......so many uses for this and literally 0 ways to farm luna in game..... FIX IT NOW or lose your players. Not to mention people who paid for the daeva pass last month wasnt even able to use the season 7 jewel box because you all NEVER fixed that..... please listen to your players this is the worst its ever been. I hope that you read this and implement a fix NOW this is an EMERGENCY issue xTrinityStarx

This need to be a Joke how you will add this Transformations again? lol you added this the last week, not even knowing this from your part says everything from this company and the layoffs... But most important when we going to have the Ultimate Promotion, minion promotion or the daily luna currency added back in the game? let me guess, when the game close the doors forever rigth? everyday less and less players. You ncwest are doing the best.

Observing the status of recent transformations, it is notable that Ereshkigal and Tiamat's ultimate transformations are inferior to all other ultimates. It was acceptable while we had in these transformations a loss and compensation of pvp/pve status referring to Kaisinel and Marchutan transformations. But new transformations like Vaizel, Triniel, Lumiel and Yustiel have significant superior stats and don't completely lose one of their pvp or pve defense stats like Ereshkigal and Tiamat. In my opinion to be fair, as each ultimate transformation needs to be good for the players who get it (as they aren't easy to get), given that we have returning players, and many who don't even have ultimates yet. Ereshkigal and Tiamat need to receive at least 180 pvp and pve defense respectively. ps: I used google translator hope it is understandable

+1 with Wolfy. Some people do in fact have limited time to play. Also the reason I asked if they even run any statistics as to how many groups/people are actually clearing some of these instances? What happened to instances that were a little longer, but actually creative, and actually dropped items after all the effort? People are tired of wasting their time and effort to end up with nothing. People are tired of socketing gear to end up with nothing, and broke. I'm sure a good bunch also spend money for quna only to end up with... nothing. Come on, NC. The buffs and 100% drop rates are good. Make at least 75% drop rate as a norm? Give use something to be proud about after all the TIME and EFFORT. We care. Please and thanks!

Please put the drops back, if nothing else do that.

"Feel free to post any suggestions" HAHA RIGHT... We've been doing that for MONTHS ON END with zero response from you @Wissp. F-outta here bro. Drop rate fix WHEN?

DROPS FIX WHEN? (shame on you all who complain but still give them money)

@Wissp

@Wissp do you just log into forums to post maintenance and log out for the rest of the week? Wish i could get paid to do nothing at my job too

@Whisp Do you hate the community, hate your job, or do you hate both? I cannot imagine having a job like yours and absolutely ignoring customers PERMANENTLY and still being paid. You are completely incompetent until proven otherwise. FIX THE DROP RATE FIX THE DROP RATE FIX THE DROP RATE FIX THE DROP RATE FIX THE DROP RATE FIX THE DROP RATE

DROPS FIX WHEN?

DROPS FIX WHEN? I can do it for you if you want. You know how to reach me.

Where the nyerk are the drop rate fixes. Where the nyerk are the events. Where the nyerk is the active moderation on any part of this game. I've firsthand seen dozens of players leave my legion, leave the game, leave Aion entirely as a result of your mismanagement of this game. Its pathetic to see @Whisp make a forum post acting as if he will do anything to change the current status quo, and then completely ghost all of us and make ONE (1) post on the AION RETAIL FORUMS (LOL EVEN MORE DEAD THEN NA). I expect nothing from the company that let blatant glide hackers like Uhoh, Aeroplane, and many others camp asmo kisk spots for months. Or that allow blatant hackers like Sooki to play for months with no punishment, so that they can say "lol guys i no longer hack i no longer pop red on dpsmeter :)" The moderation on this game is a joke and when this server inevitably closes before the third anniversary, i hope all you salaried employees at NCSoft can lay your head on your pillow and go "wow, i really did a nyerking horrible job on that game" @Whisp @Whisp can you acknowledge that you are actually a real human, attempting to communicate on our behalf? Or are you just another bot like Rin sent to placate the masses so more sub money comes in. God knows nobody is actually buying quna or kinah anymore, there are no bots. Where is the money coming from to support the server? Also, shoutout my fellow F-Tier players!

DROPS FIXED WHEN?

That's right, for better or for worse, after ncsoft detonated the old forums, I decided I am going to remake my old 4.7 guide. In immortalized Video format, so even if THESE forums detonate, it's there forever. Since I've done it this way however, I will not be doing a text based version of the guide to save your eyes from the TL:DR Now.. I'm not saying I'm the end all be all, but.. At the very least I hope this can start as a stable starting point for anyone who is looking at the class in terms of how to play or fight it. At least.. From how I've learned to do so. The video is also in a visual format that can for the most part be watched without sound and has sections that take advantage of youtube's 5 second scrolling allowing for easy pausing and switching between certain slides. (Some sections not all) Chapter legend 0. 0:00 introduction 1. 1:28 Items 2. 2:38 Gear 3. 6:38 Basic information and skill build 4. 8:26 templar skills and builds 5. 10:21 core templar skill usage 6. 12:20 Combo showcase 7. Ending This video is going to cover the fundamentals with an Open Q&A. In the comments on the video and on this topic. And if it's wanted I'll do class Vs class breakdowns as I felt they were each worthy of their own videos in and of themselves

DROPS FIX WHEN?

Make already every monster get a chance to drop manastone. Many people have gears almost void of manastones, and this is making the PvE get a lot harder unnecesarily.

Deleting my post about how incompetent yall are doesn't change the fact that yall are incompetent. You have told us week after week the 40e quest will be fixed, each week pushing it back. Not to mention the completely unplayable game atm. The only way people are playing still is from all the kinah/manastones saved up prior to your nyerk up. How about you morons fix your game before all kinah/manastones evaporate?

Well said Trinity... @Wissp you guys need to come up with some sort of solution or just close the damn door and refund what we have spent/invested so far. You are truly milking a few supporters that are no longer willing to spend money on a dead game. Add back the damn Luna or shut the damn server if you cannot afford to maintain. Or sell it to Gameforge or Amazon just make it easier for the players. This game has suffered long enough and the management has died with it...

Would be nice to actually see a fix for the REAL issue aion population is dying off....Luna.....Luna.....Luna people are not going to pay 50$ a month + cost of prestige pass to play a game....like you need a solution to the problem if you want people to return.....lack of good events also a major issue....really had hoped we would be seeing fix's or replys to issues by now.....but radio silence as always.....how do u expect ur players to support you and funnel money into your game if we the players are unhappy with the game and its flaws? I stopped playing over a month ago because of luna i refuse to pay even more money for something that was intended to be farmed in game as it is in EVERY other version, Have no issues spending money on things that make sense but i refuse to give you money at such a low value of return. I think i speak for most players when i say luna should be your #1 priority to fix Still waiting xTrinityStarx

@Wissp Nobody use those in their gear , why not give us the green one.. This is crap , nobody uses this ( maybe except the greater normal wich need to be proccd in alchemy to get what you truly need for gear ) : This is what everyone need :

This can not be spoken enough. To elaborate on this for wissp even bad news is good communication, In the past if we asked about something the CM would often say we will get back to you on that topic and then just ghost us for all eternity. Even bad news IMO is good news. Like lets say the manastone situation can not change because KR does not want it changed that is fine to tell us that we have to deal with the current rate of manastones but it is not ok to tell us that wissp will ask someone and then just ghost us.

Welcome, but are you really gonna take on the CM role or just post the google-translated "patch notes" every week and stop there as has been the situation since.. forever? Here's your first task: tell us when drops (items and kinah) will be fixed. Manastone drops don't exist since the February 2.5 patch. Also, a few bags of (useless rubbish) stones here and there is meaningless, when you need 50-200 stones to socket a single piece of armor.

This is a letter to NCWest management, even though it will never reach them, I felt the need to write this. Your Aion Classic is a shamble and bound to fail. I don't know how much of your staff knows anything about the game at all, my guess is.. close to 0. This is obvious by various replies from your support team, like they didn't even know about Inggi/Gelk "safe" areas and their replies on the subject in a ticket further suggest they know the bare minimum, about anything at all (their reply was that it was necessary for the opposite faction to enter the main cities in order to conquer them, and they replied this after "further checking"). I assume your support team has a few guidelines to follow and standard/common issues they are using as generic solutions. Citing NCSoft's (KOREA) team/executives, they are "tired" of supporting western publishers and the amount of work it gives them in billable hours necessary to help them in any little area. As a veteran player who has played pretty much consistently since the 2009 betas up to 7.3, and having been in NA classic for a while, these are my thoughts on some key areas. 0. Classic with all the bad, none of the good from years of retail fixes Over the years retail did many modifications to core systems that were extremally flawed and caused people to give up and abandon the game. You relaunched classic without any of all these necessary changes, why? - Manastones: changed so that you don't lose socketed stones upon failure to socket - +1/2/3 chance upon enchanting - Chance to receive a few stones when disenchanting your enchanted gear, not just 1 - Batch socketing of stones, instead of 1 by 1 - Automatic skill acquisition - Stigma NPC/shards modification - Low level abyss gear stored in account wh to be enjoyed by alts - Flarestorm key, at some point in 2.x they made it so that you don't lose it after being used - Different levels of AP stigmas that you can't even resell to recover some AP - Arena tickets not going into special cube 1. Low level stigmas Back in the beginning we needed a ~long time to level up to 50, it gave us time to run instances and eventually drop stigmas that are -mandatory- in order to access our advanced skill trees which, without them, you can pretty much just sit idle in Sanctum cause there is very little else you can do in any meaningful way. Sorcerers can't either DPS nor PVP, Clerics can't either heal nor DPS, Templars can't even pull mobs, you get it. These stigmas are not a premium/plus, they are NECESSARY to actually play the game at all. No cleric will be invited to BT without it. No clerics = no groups. Your changes in 2.5 did nothing, these are still almost impossible to get unless you create another 10 low level chars and -try- your luck farming them for weeks or months, I don't think that's how you are supposed to play the game. Cleric healing stigma: without this they can't heal high-end instances. Cleric dps stigma: without this they can't DPS Sorc DPS stigma: without this sorcerers can't dps Sorc PVP stigma: without this, sorc can't effectively pvp etc. 2. Drop rates Even before the 2.5 mess this was a problem. Now it's just completely out of proportion. How can you still not fix this a month later? The server was already bleeding players, now it's just completely ridiculous. New players can barely even make it out of Poeta because nothing drops, and buying skillbooks is just out of the question, 10+ players just beg around for some kinah to even be able to teleport or get some skills. Instance drops are also horrible, I've run 60 debil rushes (low udas) with 0 eternal drops, how is this 2x drop? it wasn't like this back in retail. I really don't get the point of making drops so scarce, it's not like you get some gear upgrades and be done with it for the rest or your Aion life, this gear most often provides a very little bonus over lesser ones, and after a while new gear arrives that makes them obsolete, but in the current state of the game we reach that point without even 1/4th the gear we should have been using to properly participate in anything, almost everything is a struggle for most of the playerbase unless they play various characters and 10-15 hours a day to somewhat scale up a bit. Let me show you a comparison of the broker between back in retail 2011-2013. These are real screenshots I took directly in the game in a retail NA server in those years. Old retail (left) vs Classic (right): Doing level 1-9 in Poeta, in retail I had full bags even before reaching the end. Classic? Those few armor items are just the default you get, not even drops. Broker: even MB 25s are impossible Even MB 23 don't exist anymore or magic acc. Godstones back in retail: (now 200M, the one on sale sometimes) 3. Manastones and enchants This further expands on point 2. These are NECESSARY to play, they are not a super premium. Without properly socketing and enchanting your gear you are just a much lesser version of your character. Again, giving players better, or much better/cheaper access to these, does not break the game or cancel progression. New gear comes after a short period which makes your previous set(s) obsolete. What people are forced to do instead is hold onto old gear because it's just impossible to work on the new one (what's even the point to struggle or work for something better when you know it's just gonna be worse). 4. Worthless season and event stuff Most of the rewards from default pass and events are just worthless, are you aware of that? All these [Event] manastones, shards, pots, they are so few and consumed so quickly that they are actually a burden on your already extremely limited inventory, people just delete them. [Event] (untradeable) manastones, same issue. You get many stones that are worthless for your class -> delete. EVEN if you would get 10-20 of them, still pointless, do you realize you need like 50-200 stones just to socket -1 piece- of gear? What's the point of these? And these 2-3 potions or scrolls from default pass? same issue, maybe if they were normal tradeable ones they could be a -little- addition, but back to the limited inventory issue: they are just a burden and we delete them. 5. Quna prices/wardrobe Your prices for skins are ridiculous. $15-20 for a skin, and then you need another $10 for a slot to register it.. ??!! How does this make any sense to your financial department, the people who decide on these prices? It's like you are paying $300 for a pizza irl, there is absolutely no value. Unlock all the wardrobe slots for free, add more skins, sell them for $1-2, then maybe people will buy a lot. But $30-40 for 1 skin? there is no value in this, so people don't buy. If you have $50 a month to spend in the game but get almost nothing from it, you don't spend them. Your greed ends up with making $0 revenue from the majority of your customers due to these poor decisions. 6. Useless instances What's the point of all these new useless instance? nobody is doing them, they are pointless. - 3-ppl instance in Inggi: you get maybe 1-2K AP and a few useless level 30 instance balaur mats, so they remain in the mobs. - Empyrean crucible: no usable rewards - Solo crucible: no usable reward, just a little kinah from selling the supplements - Unyielding BT: nobody can do it due to the issues mentioned previously (nobody can gear up to even try this) - Padma: only few groups can manage this, and the reward? nothing. 1/30 times = 1 useless balaur mat. What's the point? You know how many people are doing most of these instances? I will tell you: 0 7. AP trading/AP instances Why do we have only 1 dredgion per day? it used to be 3 in retail. Why 1 ESO per week? 1 upper fort per week? You know who is doing these instances? the old veteran players who either purchased kinah online or sold a lot of drops over the run of classic (to players who bought the kinah). They are paying other players to join them and give up their share of AP relics so that it may be even slightly worth it to go. Upper fort: average of 60K AP for a full group = 10K AP per week and player if not sold. ESO: 5K-30K AP per player/week, depends if you duo or go full group. You know in how long new players can ever obtain a full set of abyss gear, stigmas, etc etc etc like this? I will tell you: never in a million years, they save up for the next set instead. The only players who will manage to stay high up in the ranks to transform etc are those old veterans who are either buying the AP or AP-traded it in the beginning. Top asmo player in the ranks has 28 million AP, you think this is obtainable through legit means over the course of classic? No, it's not, never. 8. Inventory space/special cube Further expanding on and related to the previous issues, inventory space is a major burden. Why are arena tickets not stored in the special cube as it was changed in retail? Why can't we unlock more slots? We had a lot more in retail over the years. People play with various sets of gear, specially clerics, armors, weapons, accessories .. another struggle to even make room for drops when you run some instance. Even the instance drops are mostly useless, those HP/MP potions, grey items and many others, people don't loot them. You check the corpse first to loot only the few pennies of kinah, this is just stupid. 9. Bots The hoards of bots running around unbanned.. this is just so ridiculous, it baffles my mind that this is happening in an official server, people are speechless about this. Is it worth it making this extra quick money from their Siel sub over being able instead to keep the game running for years in a healthy server? Bots have in big part destroyed the server economy even before the 2.5 disaster, people quit over this, your customers quit over this, and your revenue as a business in the long run will suffer over this. People know you are not taking any action, they even run bots on their main chars, they even threaten you and tell you to go kill other bots, people even tell you they will farm X drop for you on their bot, there is no fear at all to get banned. There is no way you can't have 1 staff member go through the game on a daily basis banning these offenders, there is absolutely no excuse or technical hurdle to fix this situation, other than your wrong view over the financials of the company. Making a quick $ ends up losing you a lot of extra $ over the long run, this is basic business. ~

Zakovss was part of my legion. I do not play ranger nor have I fought one that jump shot/jump cast that well in the video. Richmond came to me pretty late at night and show me the video of Zakovs. At first it was a little sus even for me, I did not watch the whole thing until the morning. I decided to ask Jiren to review the video. Many of you know Jiren is probably best ranger on server and he has more knowledge about the class than anybody else, probably even more than the dev who banned Zakovs. You can read Jiren's review here ( https://imgur.com/a/0cqteuO ) Zakovs I apologize for jumping the gun.