Gold Spammers, Customer Service And Bots….

I am much enjoying my time in Atreia thus far.  Ahira is almost 21 and yes I am taking it slow but mostly because I have been helping a few friends get caught up to me a bit.  All in all, I am having a great time.  I really, really enjoyed Black Claw Village and [...]

The Queue

I am going to start off my impressions of the first day of Aion with a look at the biggest controversy of the day…the server queue.  For many people the queue was insanely long, upwards of 3-4 hours for some.  Many people were frustrated for a lot of the day because of this reason.
One of [...]

The Aion Version Of The Armory Destroys WoW Armory

The new Aion website is up and it is something special.  Not only does the “Armory” do everything that the WoW and WAR armory does but it also has a 3D character viewer and the ability to check in-game mail and the broker (auction house)!
It’s a pretty amazing little website and looks really nice.  It [...]

A Simple Fix To Reduce Latency In Aion

Browsing around tonight, I found a fix that claimed to reduce latency in WoW, Aion and any other online game.  Skeptical but curious, I downloaded it and gave it a shot.  Whaddaya know…it worked!  Marvelously in fact.  My latency dropped by nearly half.  It is completely virus free and it is legal to use in [...]

Second Night of Open Beta Observations.

Tonight I logged back into the Open Beta after work to find just as many people playing as I saw last night…maybe more.  My future chanter was around level 4 but I had a friend who had just started and had rolled on another server, so I jumped over to help him out.
He was playing [...]

Aion Open Beta: “We Are a GO For Launch…..Sorta’”

Well, for those of you living on the moon, Aion Open Beta started today.  I got in late due to work (FTL!) but was able to log in some time this evening.  Problem was the lag was horrible for quite a few people, though I was not affected.  What I was affected by was the [...]

1.5 Open Beta Patch Notes!

Patch notes for Open Beta have been posted!  You can read the full (very long notes!) here. In the meantime, here are some highlights!

7 new instances.  Including Dark Poeta and a PvPvE instance, the Dreadgion.

Repose.  The Aion equivalent to WoW’s Rested XP.  Only available after level 20 but gives 20%-30% more XP from mob and [...]

Impressive, Most Impressive….But I Am Not Impressed?

I have read a lot of impressions about Aion, both from fellow bloggers and on forums all over the ‘net.   Impressions are just that, impressions.  They are full of opinions and what one person deems a strength, another might deem  a weakness.  This I am fine with.  I understand that impressions are opinions and thus, [...]

Rangers and the Archetype system.

I have played nearly every class in Aion to 20 or more.  I enjoy all of them for various reasons and all are fun to play while leveling up.  I find that the Priest Archetype is the easiest to level initially, the Mage archetype puts out a lot of damage and the Warrior archetype is [...]

New Aion Developer Podcast! Classes and Customization!

The new Aion Developer Podcast is up!  This one covers classes and customization.

A few thoughts on this Podcast:

The Ranger armor looked absolutely fantastic.  It was some of the coolest armor I have yet seen in Aion.  Or in any MMO for that matter!
The Assassin ganked that Asmodean while he was fighting [...]