Aion - General Discussion

i'm curious as to how you guys to play aion:

1) fast furious to get highest level with bestest items
2) slow and casual, hey wait whats that thing(s) over there

or maybe mix of 1 and 2 :)

when i first arrive at new place i usually go 2, sometimes with the next char stopping by and so on, but there is the days where i like to just take out a char and go beat s*** up without stopping to smell the daisies :D
 
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I _LOVE_ exploring.

I've even found the Morrheim portal in the Impetusium by flying off the back of an outpost around the bottom of the map.

I've ascended 3 characters already just to get a feel for them, but my lvl 20 sorcerer will be my pioneer. Some guys in my guild are already lvl 26. I don't see the rush.
 
Slow and casual for me ... but - exams and all ... I won't be on regularly for a while. Maybe on weekends, but that's it for me for now :(
 
I always take slow and casual...read quest text, books my characters receive etc. Love to explore and being OCD I have to re-cast buffs every few seconds xD Quite annoying actually.
 
Definitely number 2 for me.

Still have not spent that much time in the game, but so far I am finding it enjoyable. Well, as enjoyable as any MMO is early game.

I sorted out the performance issues.

Question; does anyone run this game with AA on? I find that with everything set to max without AA it runs at around 130fps. Put just 2xAA on and it drops to 25fps. The weird thing is that when i increase the AA all the way to 8x, it doesnt affect performance much.

It looks fricken AMAZING at full settings with AA enabled.

In terms of gameplay, I am hearing a lot about it being a constant grind fest :| but from what I can gather in this thread, there is a lot more to it once you ascend. Will try and ascend tonight with some power-leveling.
 
Tinman said:
Put just 2xAA on and it drops to 25fps. The weird thing is that when i increase the AA all the way to 8x, it doesnt affect performance much.

It looks fricken AMAZING at full settings with AA enabled.
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I'm currently running it with 2x AA and Vertical Sync enabled at 1680x1050 at a constant 55fps... I'll break my poor computer this evening and see how pretty it really looks :p

Tinman said:
In terms of gameplay, I am hearing a lot about it being a constant grind fest :|
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It is a korean game at heart :rolleyes: they love their grinds. I'm hearing rumors of a 500% xp reward increase from quests on the Korean test servers

EDIT found it:
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The folks over at AionSource were kind enough to translate the latest Aion patch notes being tested in Korea. There's no word yet on when western players will see these changes, but the notes are still worth reading because there are some big improvements. Three items stood out to us especially.

Based on the table shown in the notes, quest experience is being increased; to the tune of almost 500% on average (if our calculations are correct). The craziest example is a level 44 quest going from 13,300 to 703,820 experience (53 times as much).

Extracting aether now has a chance to debuff you with "Aether Venom." This debuff reduces your chance to successfully extract a gatherable down to 0. Players can remove this effect with a "Word of Purification" ability. Each character has this ability but to successfully use it, one must properly type in a captcha. This seems like an obvious attempt to prevent bots from gathering up all the game's resources.

Finally, Spiritmaster pets can now fly. We're not quite sure how this issue ever made it into the game at launch (design oversight or complication?), but 1.5.1 aims to finally remedy it so Spiritmasters aren't totally gimped in aerial PvP. Be sure to check out the full notes here.

[Update: These notes are for the Korean test server, so they're not final notes for the Western version.
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Oculate said:
I'm currently running it with 2x AA and Vertical Sync enabled at 1680x1050 at a constant 55fps... I'll break my poor computer this evening and see how pretty it really looks :p



It is a korean game at heart :rolleyes: they love their grinds. I'm hearing rumors of a 500% xp reward increase from quests on the Korean test servers

EDIT found it:
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Its like the AA controller is broken. 2xAA looks and runs like what I would expect from 8xAA, and when I increase it to 4 and 8, there is no discernible difference in image quality or frame rate.

What graphics card are you running Oc?
 
There was a nice 48 mb update last night ... I hope they don't pop one of these on me near the end of the month - since I tend to run pretty light on bandwidth by that time - and I pay per meg if I go over :/
 
Tinman said:
What graphics card are you running Oc?
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XFX Geforce 9600GT 512mb

I wish my sig would update already...it should say level 10 Gladiator :cool:

A question regarding Legions... If I join a legion with 1 character...is it like WoW where each character can be in a different guild, or is it like GW where all characters are in 1 guild?
 
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All this AA talk is making me sad :o I run it with everything on minimum/set to off, except with view distance for objects and terrain set to one notch above minimum and I get...............8FPS.

xD!
 
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