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Re: Is Aion worth it?

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Yeah you're right and I cant argue that, but based on what I see in beta vs WHO I have confidence that Aion will likely stand up much better in a large PvP environment. Not to mention that these are the same developers of Lineage 2 and they likely have their coding worked out for larger scale RvR, they have had years to get it right. True cant confirm it but Im confident it will run well under high stress conditions

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I've been playing the beta. I can't really speak of the lag issue because I haven't been in any areas of a concentrated heavy population.

However there is one issue that concerns me regarding the leveling of characters. So far it seems that each side has one starting area. So if you level one character, you'll have to repeat the same quests over again for every other character on the same side. That's always been boring to me and it's one thing that WHO and even DAoC addressed. In those two games I can level up different characters on the same side and there are many options to keep it from getting too boring.

The Aion quests aren't any better than any other MMO I've played, so repeating them over and over doesn't sound like any fun at all. I still plan on playing for at least a month because it does seem interesting.
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I believe it was announced today that dmg in PvP is reduced in patch 1.5 by 15%, no change to healing. Also that you can master 2 professions now as well. OB will be patch 1.5 and they will announce next week the details

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I played in the CB5 and CB6. I got two toons to lvl 22 each. I spent quite a bit of time Friday night, all Saturday, and all Sunday for both CBs (sleep, eat, bathroom breaks spattered here and there).

I actually started PVPing at lvl 20 because of the rifts. I got to PVP in 1v1, 3v?, and ?v? (basically large numbers of players that I failed to count). The aspect I like about the PVP in this game is that you grind/PVE in the same area you PVP. If someone from another faction sees you, they can attack you while you're beating on a mob and vice versa. This is the kind of MMO PVP I like - no flagging systems, no waiting for someone to turn red, no waiting for instance PVP matches, if they are from the other faction, kill them and defend your XP area or be killed. I'm sure this is more pronounced as we get higher in levels and grind in the higher level zones.

I also tried out the same faction PVP by issuing a Duel Challenge. That's quite fun in it's own way.
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PvP in a normal camera setting looks fun...especially playing as an Assassin.

That assassin in that video is really bad, IMO, and in general that group of asmos are pretty bad as well, with the lack of coordination shown there. Only reason they came out on top is because they had about twice as many people.
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This one kills more

hahahahahhahahaha

this is almost as bad as the time in L2 we ally-warred with almost 1/2 my server and we'd forget and click their stores and attack them and then get pwned by the guards

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Anyone plan to play SM and is not thinking of upgrading their PC?

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How much grinding is there?

I have been playing EVE Online for 4 years almost now, SWG 2 years before that. The only MMO I tried since EVE was AoC and I thought it utterly sucked.... I thought it was terrible.

I don't mind grinding a bit, I did enjoy it in SWG... Aion looks pretty great, I could use a change of scenery.

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I'm installing the game now. Anyone want to hang? Post or PM me your character name, server, faction, whatever and I'll give you a shout in game.

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Just a note to those trying to play the OB this week...good luck. NCSoft really screwed up on their upgrade from 1.0 to 1.5. Yeah yeah, I know. It's a beta. However, this close to release and the massive issues they're experiencing now is not a good indicator for launch.

Was fine for all of the closed betas. They upgrade to 1.5 for open beta and I've yet to be able to get in on 2 clients / 2 OSes and from reading the beta boards it appears quite a number of others are also having problems. Mainly GameGuard related.
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I logged in just fine around 2pm CST. Played for 3 hours straight. had a blast. No lag and the game is beautiful so far. Wish I thought to take some screenshots.

Well, I'm disabling GameGuard now to play. Hate to do it because dunno if I'll get banned for it (doesn't matter though as it's only the preorder code being used for the betas. Once I get my box from GameStop I can just create a new account and put in the code from the CD. Maybe they'll have the issues fixed by then and I won't have to do this). Besides, if it comes down to it, I can always play the China version. Lag isn't much of an issue with it so far and I've got about 450 hours of paid time left there.
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I got the game and played 3 hours so far

Pros
-Beautiful graphics
-Good FPS
-Superb character customization

Cons
-Terrible lag... 1000ms+ ping, I'm East coast, and apparently all the US servers are on the east cost too. Terrible
-Gameguard had my game crash every 30 minutes
-Did I mention the horrible lag

The lag made it almost unbearable to play, but because it's so beautiful, I sticked to it. Having only played EVE in the past 4 years, and since it's quite a complex game, it has less morons than I assume WOW has... I am flabbergasted at the amount of shit being said in the chat room.

They really should make servers for adults only where proof of age is required or something... I can't stand the kiddies.