My Aspect of AION

[Reaper X]

An MMORPG that was just recently released to the United States a few weeks ago was the game, AION. It is a really great game that will make you say "WoW has got nothing on this."

Starting off with the classes, you can begin as a warrior, mage, priest or scout. When speaking of the character customization, you can make your character to your likeness and have the hairstyles of those of Wolverine and Barack Obama (oh yes, ive checked). When you reach the level of 10, you can choose your main class or job. If you are a Warrior, you are either a Templar (pure tank) or Gladiator (melee/DPS). If you are a mage you are either a sorcerer (pure DPS) or spiritmaster (Pet class/DPS). If you are a priest, you are either a cleric (pure healer) or Chanter (melee/buff/heal, pretty much the only hybrid class out there, like the shaman from WoW). And lastly, if you are a scout, you are either a ranger (long-ranged DPS) or Assassin (somewhat of a tank).

When it comes to the gameplay, I will say, it is absolutely amazing. The quests are very unique (just like in every MMORPG), they also have campaign quests that give you double or triple the amount of Exp, but are definitely quite the challenge. The fighting in this game is also great. I am a chanter, so i mostly use a bo-staff, all of the fighting styles is great and is just too much for words. Now as for the graphics, at first, they are jaw-dropping and intense. They give you a real-world experience when in the game, whether your crafting, fighting, or just simply screwing around.

This is my aspect of the Korea's MMORPG, AION. I hoped you enjoy reading my review. :glare:

 

[XeroX]

Cool, but that font - Its giving me a headache.

 

[Spitfire'd]

should probably put this in the Role playing section, there's a couple AION threads in there.

 

[Tidus]

Cool, but that font - Its giving me a headache.

I know. I keep reading it to myself like he's yelling at me. :lol:

 

[Spartan Warrior | M]

Yea the role playing thread would be best but i have played it and to me if you have played wow for a while and are sick of it, AION is way to much like wow in gameplay except better graphics and you can fly at level 10 and yes i know there are other differences but it just feels to much like WoW

 

[Reaper X]

sry bout that font/ i forgot to put it in rpg

 

[InkSix]

Hard for me to get in an MMORPG. After a while, unless really interesting stuff is happening, I stop playing any game. I'm like, halfway down with Infamous and RedFaction:G because I got a little tired of them.

 

[Orange_Kun!!!]

Glad to hear you like it bro.

The game is good and the classes are pretty balanced thus far in its first month aside from Ranger traps being completely garbage.

Two glaring problem that stands out with Aion (and the devs have already said that this is getting tweaked next patch) are that the XP giveout for normal Quests are absolutely random and unbalanced in comparison to how much XP you need in order to level. I found this out in the 20-30 grind and atm I am really not looking forward to 30-40.
Second, the devs or GMs or whoever need to open more channels in zones and cities like Morheim and Pandemonium (yes, I'm Asmo). Morheim is ridiculous as a zone with zero channels...or its single channel however you want to describe it; especially when you are needing to farm Aether. Absolute frustration fighting over the vortexes w/ like 15-20 people and no channels to switch to in order to alleviate the traffic.

Sure you grind, quest, PvP, fortress raid in the abyss and it does give great xp but you better be sure to bring friends because there are major gank squads rolling around in force ready to disrupt your flow n eat your face.

The game is good, the crafting system is good, the battle mechanics are good and are being tweaked w/ every patch/mini-patch w/o breaking the system. Its pretty engaging to say the least, but it does have a grind element to it (but at least its not like the Lineage grind *shudder*).

The whole WoW conflict/comparison is as old and pointless as the whole WoW did it first, no EQ/EQ2 did it first, no Zork did it blah blah blah.
Have a nice day.

 

[Adalo]

In the short time I've been playing Aion, I've actually had a more enjoyable experience then I have had in the 4 years of playing WoW. Don't get me wrong, I had fun on WoW, back when the game was actually a good challenge to raid on. Black Temple had 13 nice and challenging bosses in it. To days content is a waste of time for the most part.

The combat system in Aion is down right amazing. It's a system that doesn't have you sitting there spamming 3-4 buttons to do your rotation, you end up doing combo's and your combo chains grow the higher the level you are. which means a more complex and deepaning rotation to go threw. Not to mention, some of the skills are only usable when one type of event happens.

The graphics are only top that of Oblivion. Oblivion it's self has had the best graphics I've seen for years for the computer. I know for the console there have been games with better graphics, but really a console game only goes so far.

The leveling is this game as Orange mention is and can be a little tedious with the constant threat of social mobs dragging more to the fight. Or the opposite faction come to roll you. But all in all, if you quest and grind you level quite fast. I just about hit 29 last night before I had to go to bed and most of my level I had spent doing quests well grinding out mobs and what not. Leveling is quick but you do see a good incress in the exp needed per level.

Right now the only down side to playing Aion is the overwhelming bot problem. Which is something that will hopefully be dealt with soon.