Aion players help me

[InkSix]

Ok, I need someone who has played (or IS playing) Aion to tell me about it. Every time I see it in the store it mocks me and makes me want to try it out.

I really love MMO, despite the little amount of time I can put into games. But, I have read a lot of how NCSOFT apparently didn't deliver with Aion and how it's a lot of bad mixed with the good. SOMEONE HELP ME. I keep picking up the damn case in stores and looking at it over and over like I've never seen it before!

Here's what I play and the problems I have with them for reference of play styes that I like:

EVE: I love it, I'm in our eGO corporation, but after a while I just want to run around with a character instead of traveling thru space. (That'll be helped by an expansion in Eve tho.)

Grand Fantasia : I like anime art styles, I like that I have a little pet that crafts AND gathers the materials I need in order to craft, weapons and armor for me. BUT, I can't take the cutesy forever, and it bothers me after a while and I need a serious looking world.

Everquest II : My favorite. But it bothers me how disconnected the fighting is. I don't understand swinging my sword at an enemy while there's a considerable gap between us, and that them taking damage and my attack animations don't sync.

Aika Online : Beta is really good. Can't complain.

Perfect World International : No matter how much I try, I can't get rid of it, and I always go back and move my characters a little.

Dragonica Online : Just like Perfect World.

And I just installed Dungeons and Dragons Online.

 

[SingularPoint]

I personally head the Grind is a bit harder compared to WoW. Don't know if that'll help much.

 

[Rogue Sniper]

Played it since CBT 5 then cancelled my sub this month.

Characters:

Elyos:
40 Cleric
29 Sorcerer
13 Templar

Asmo:
14 Ranger

PVE: Not bad, a few levels are grind fests but instances and quests help with levels that arent.

PVP: Ahahahaha thats a joke... level 31 assassin with blue PVP gear @ +10 (so ~15 level inc) basically a level 46 in comparison kicked my 40 cleric's ass.... then said it was fair... scouts(their sub-types too) have sleep arrow/stuns/silence stigma and attacks which make caster classes like mages and priests (their sub-types too) get screwed over insanely bad...

The PVP is outrageously unbalanced... people gank like no other... makes it almost impossible to PVE...

Basically save your money until Aion 2.0 or Aion 3.0, right now 1.5.1.6 or something is not worth it. Unless you have 3 - 4 friends to constantly play with you and its the only game you are planning to play...

Google Aion Vision for Aion 2.0/3.0 possible additions...

 

[InkSix]

Thanks for the info! I'll hold out 'till there's some updatin'.

 

[Orange_Kun!!!]

I was also a beta tester and played for the first two months of live. Made it to lvl 30 and for the most part I'm going to agree and give a +1 to Rogue Sniper's explanation.

The game is great until about the mid 20s where you start to really notice the drop off in quests. By the time I hit 30, I had about two options to level: Instance grind or exhaust the last bit of quests I had and even those wouldn't put a dent in my xp bar so I would have to spend the majority of my time just finding a grind spot and for hours just keep an eye out for any gank squads looking to run a train on meh. All in all it got completely repetitive and imo forced you to try and deal with running around in the Abyss for better xp grind yields while at the same time running a high risk of being gank farmed.

This was all when I was playing it as I don't know what the larger patches that have come since have done to the game.

Based on my experience tho, I wouldn't give it anymore of my money and I bought the Collector's Edition after following it since early 2007 =[. I would wait for either Blade and Soul or SW:TOR or even Guild Wars 2, though I fear B&S is just gonna be another completely repetitive grindfest in a prettier unreal 3 constructed world.

 

[InkSix]

Blade and Soul has my interest, but I'm not estatic.

I am really really looking forward to Tera.

 

[soLitary]

Played AION and liked it untill you had to get groups for everything even at around 12-13 so i quit, huge waste of money looking to get back into WoW most likely