How are you liking Aion so far? Anyone willing to share their first impressions?

[Tallen]

I don't play it, but i have been reading about it for a while and was wondering what the FH players thought of the game so far?

A lot of people on the lesser-skilled forums seem to think it's a bit grindy, some seem to think the graphics are poor, some say it's the best mmo ever released.

So, what do you think so far?

 

[BloodOmen]

Good Graphics - no other mmo currently out that equals it with everything up full.

Grind Game - Grinding monsters is easily faster than doing quests to level up.

Good PvP - Enjoying the pvp alot so far, its easily the next best thing to DAOC, puts World of Warcraft's broken pvp to shame.

PvE - Reletively decent, not seen any full raid bosses yet so I can't comment to much on that although I have done the first proper instance and can honestly say its more fun than World of Warcraft's instances.

Overall - Great game, after DAOC I didn't think i'd find another game I could get into so much and now i've found one its better than Warhammer, World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, Eve.

 

[~Latency~]

i personally think the graphics are amazing.. the draw distance literally goes on forever and it's really crisp and lush.. at first i thought it was gonna be totally poo cuz it's really asian looking, but it seems to take a lot of good from other mmos (UI, campaign/cut scene driven story quests, wings for flight very early on, coloured soulbound items, personal shop to name a few)

worst part as you say is definatly how grindy it feels, it's gone fairly quick so far but considering ive played a billion mmo's you would expect so, for people new to mmo's it's gonna be sloooow


very much enjoying it myself though, quite a lot better than daoc was at release in terms of leveling fun

 

[Silverblast]

Good Graphics - no other mmo currently out that equals it with everything up full.

Grind Game - Grinding monsters is easily faster than doing quests to level up.

Good PvP - Enjoying the pvp alot so far, its easily the next best thing to DAOC, puts World of Warcraft's broken pvp to shame.

PvE - Reletively decent, not seen any full raid bosses yet so I can't comment to much on that although I have done the first proper instance and can honestly say its more fun than World of Warcraft's instances.

Overall - Great game, after DAOC I didn't think i'd find another game I could get into so much and now i've found one its better than Warhammer, World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, Eve.

Agree 100%, just one addition: if the community grows to be similar to how daoc was its going to be one hell of an amazing game.

 

[ECA]

One thing I like is the aggressive server balancing to make sure it doesn't go down the warhammer/wow path where one side is much bigger than the other ( although not so much a problem in wow as it turned from an interesting pvpve game into a pve fest. fuck you blizzard fuck you - rant over ).

 

[mooSe_]

The game looks good and is fun in most areas, but the grinding is starting to wear on me already. Having said that though I find solo questing pretty boring too, luckily Aion has plenty of group quests.

 

[Mabs]

Good Graphics - no other mmo currently out that equals it with everything up full.

Grind Game - Grinding monsters is easily faster than doing quests to level up.

Good PvP - Enjoying the pvp alot so far, its easily the next best thing to DAOC, puts World of Warcraft's broken pvp to shame.

PvE - Reletively decent, not seen any full raid bosses yet so I can't comment to much on that although I have done the first proper instance and can honestly say its more fun than World of Warcraft's instances.

Overall - Great game, after DAOC I didn't think i'd find another game I could get into so much and now i've found one its better than Warhammer, World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, Eve.

thats pretty much spot on

to xp you can:
do quests
stand in a field stabbing things
or do repeatable "go stab me 5 of these and 3 of them" up to 100 times, which is cash + xp on top of kills

its not really "grindy", but does allow grinding if you so wish.

unlike wow, its worth going to quest zones and helping people cos u will get xp just from killing stuff thats worth doing

overall, thoroughly enjoyable. just dont join a packed server, and u wont have to queue that much

 

[civy]

love the game, h8 the ques. Its affecting some of us that work alot more than others. A few of us are talking about changing servers which will break up our guild which we have had since early days of DAoC, so kinda sad panda atm

 

[ileks]

I have been really enjoying the game so far but the PvP will make or break it for me. I'm still not level 25 yet so can't really comment but from what i hear it's good fun and the classes are well balanced.

I really can't see the game flopping like WAR/AoC. The biggest problem is by far the queues. Pick a server that doesn't have any while you have the chance.

 

[Garaen]

Level 22 - 25 is SLOW. Try and grind your way through it, Elten is a mess as there are no channels so would advise head to Theo. I've been told once you hit 25 and are able to enter the Abyss the exp increases massively (ie an instance run in an hour will give 1/3 of your level).

 

[Coldbeard]

I really enjoy the graphics and the class I am playing (gladiator) seems fairly interesting. However the leveling is really slow and tedious, quest xp rewards are really poor and grinding is not that fast either :x

 

[BloodOmen]

Level 22 - 25 is SLOW. Try and grind your way through it, Elten is a mess as there are no channels so would advise head to Theo. I've been told once you hit 25 and are able to enter the Abyss the exp increases massively (ie an instance run in an hour will give 1/3 of your level).

Grinded from 22-28 doing 0 quests Brusthonin is a v good grind place as theres still 2 channels available there + not many go, I did 22-26 or so in brust.

 

[Gotmagi]

I have a 27 templar on Perento

The game it self looks really good and no bugs etc..

I liked it a lot untill I tried the pvp.. I just dont understand what the fuck is going on with that..

Playing a melee class for example, I run upto a mage or some and start wacking away, I use one style.. and the animation for the style is so shiny and fancy that by the time it's done my target is 20 feet away laughing at me, so I use my fancy pull stigma ability.. about 50% chance that it'll work and if it does.. I'll just repeat the one style thing over again. All of this is taking into consideration that I'm not rooted/mezzed/snared.. which is about never.

And not to mention the fucking wings.. makes things so messy and out of control it's unreal, also really easy for people to run away/fly away.

The pve zone, Abyss, is packed with mobs and shit so pvping there is really anoying with all the constant aggro mobs

Finally I agree with the grinding, I'm 27 and I'm already fed up with grinding like a mad man.

All in all: The pvp ruins the game for me, so far atleast

 

[BloodOmen]

I have a 27 templar on Perento

The game it self looks really good and no bugs etc..

I liked it a lot untill I tried the pvp.. I just dont understand what the fuck is going on with that..

Playing a melee class for example, I run upto a mage or some and start wacking away, I use one style.. and the animation for the style is so shiny and fancy that by the time it's done my target is 20 feet away laughing at me, so I use my fancy pull stigma ability.. about 50% chance that it'll work and if it does.. I'll just repeat the one style thing over again. All of this is taking into consideration that I'm not rooted/mezzed/snared.. which is about never.

And not to mention the fucking wings.. makes things so messy and out of control it's unreal, also really easy for people to run away/fly away.

The pve zone, Abyss, is packed with mobs and shit so pvping there is really anoying with all the constant aggro mobs

Finally I agree with the grinding, I'm 27 and I'm already fed up with grinding like a mad man.

All in all: The pvp ruins the game for me, so far atleast

stop using armor debuffs on mages then 1 you dont need to and 2 it takes time for that to fire where as the other styles are almost instantly I generally have no problems with casters... its healers I have problems with as a templar because they just heal themselves until you either get bored or until another elyos zerg comes along.

 

[rynnor]

Impressions from someone who didnt play the beta:

Client - great - very pretty graphics, very smooth, no memory leaks - on the con side I dont like the ui and theres a slight bug where you cant see the stats of anything that could be slotted as it brings up the worn item to compare but sites that over the top of the other items stats destroying the ability to quick compare lol - nothing major just a bug.

Game Complexity - theres not a ton of stats - similar complexity to wow/war rather than old skool games.

Gameplay - fast paced (except mana regen ) - will be interesting to see how this translates accross to pvp. Levelling is a little more grindy than most recent MMO's but not excessively so (quicker than daoc for example).

Overall I quite like it but cant say for sure if it will be a big hit - will update when I see more of it.

 

[ECA]

theres a slight bug where you cant see the stats of anything that could be slotted as it brings up the worn item to compare but sites that over the top of the other items stats destroying the ability to quick compare lol - nothing major just a bug.

Drag the inventory to the far left of the screen and it'll display the stats ok

 

[rynnor]

Drag the inventory to the far left of the screen and it'll display the stats ok

Ooo - good tip - thanks

On that note is there any way to save the position of my ui components?

 

[Vintersorg]

Aion's a great game for the small amount I played (level 13 Gladiator at the moment).
As said before the aggressive server balance will be a big plus in the long run.

And the relative lack of lag is great too. Ran around in Pandaemonium yesterday, which was cluttered with players ( a few hundreds at the very least...). Not a single slowdown due to lag.

We'll see what it'll become in the long run, but it's off for a great start (and I'm not complaining about the queues. those will be sorted out...)

 

[Zoia]

I have a 27 templar on Perento

The game it self looks really good and no bugs etc..

I liked it a lot untill I tried the pvp.. I just dont understand what the fuck is going on with that..

Playing a melee class for example, I run upto a mage or some and start wacking away, I use one style.. and the animation for the style is so shiny and fancy that by the time it's done my target is 20 feet away laughing at me, so I use my fancy pull stigma ability.. about 50% chance that it'll work and if it does.. I'll just repeat the one style thing over again. All of this is taking into consideration that I'm not rooted/mezzed/snared.. which is about never.

And not to mention the fucking wings.. makes things so messy and out of control it's unreal, also really easy for people to run away/fly away.

The pve zone, Abyss, is packed with mobs and shit so pvping there is really anoying with all the constant aggro mobs

Finally I agree with the grinding, I'm 27 and I'm already fed up with grinding like a mad man.

All in all: The pvp ruins the game for me, so far atleast

Same server as me then! \o/ But i bet you're Asmodian.

So far i'm only lv 15(chanter), so a bit too early to say. The game runs smooth and looks nice, but the quests are boring as hell. Like in most MMOs i guess.

 

[Garaen]

Got my Glad up to level 25, spent a few hours in Abyss and promptly re-rolled - melee is too annoying and I felt like rage quiting Playing an SM now, got it from 1 - 17 in about 6 hours due to it being insanely easy (and fun) to level.

 

[rynnor]

Just reached the first flight area's - Weee - much fun and verrry pretty.

Can also play chicken by harvesting aether crystals in the sky but if your flight time runs out you crash to your doom

 

[BloodOmen]

Close to 31 now, the xp jumps per level are increasing insanely now. There are people 42+ now aswell and I just don't know how they've managed to do it, must be sharing accounts with multiple people because the amount of sleep I get atm and i'm only 31 is really low.

 

[rynnor]

the xp jumps per level are increasing insanely now.

Is it me or does it ramp up after each ten levels?

 

[BloodOmen]

Is it me or does it ramp up after each ten levels?

it goes through the roof after 30+ and after 40+ I have it on good authority its 2X hours per level and after 45 its upto 2 days per lvl depending class

 

[ECA]

The xp/mob goes up as well though so it's not that bad.

Eg I'm 32, and to 33 its 8 million.
I can grind around 1.2mill/hr so its a 7 hour level.
That said I'm taking it slow right now to grind abyss points for the level 30 pvp boots for the +movement speed. ( got 20k pts need 5

I'm really really not looking forward to the 40-50 grind, but then the grind is so dissuading that abyss points and crafting for pvp are way more appealing than levelling,

 

[ileks]

Anyone noticed AFK macro bots killing mobs? I have seen a few in the desert area killing the non aggro mobs and it's very annoying.

Also how the hell are you guys (and many others) level 30+? Do you just grind and ignore quests/crafting/Aether/Vitality extraction?
I like the game but my god levelling is slow as a cleric. I really hope the pvp is decent at level 25.

 

[Silverblast]

I have seen a few bots around, very easy to notice as they move / react / cast in the same exact way for every mob.

As for leveling, best way is to find weak mobs in an uncrowded place and grind on them; its very fast and profitable.

 

[~Latency~]

lvl 17 here cuz i don't get much time to play but enjoying it muchly

 

[Coldbeard]

Feels like it's going slow on my gladiator. Level 24 now, there is really alot of grindage after 20 imo. Quests are silly exp wise and hopeless trying to do when it involves killing mobs that are max 5 in a small camp constantly camped by 15 players, slow respawn and not even 100% droprate.

Still im enjoying the game atm, performing well dps wise and getting new gear as I progress. Thankfully I found some other zone than the one outside Eltnen.

Highlight of the game so far: Flying around as a parrot infiltrating some rebel pirates in a shipwreck, an instant classic

 

[BloodOmen]

Anyone noticed AFK macro bots killing mobs? I have seen a few in the desert area killing the non aggro mobs and it's very annoying.

Also how the hell are you guys (and many others) level 30+? Do you just grind and ignore quests/crafting/Aether/Vitality extraction?
I like the game but my god levelling is slow as a cleric. I really hope the pvp is decent at level 25.

I did quests upto 26 then I did literally nothing but grind from 26-32, 49-50 is going to be hell tho you need 126mil for 49-50 :<