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Casual palyer looks forward to playing AION
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Hi AION looks just great...I'd like to sub but I want to know If I'm going to get fun out of it, this would be my style of play:
SOLOING: a lot. I don't really mind grinding levels, I love to be alone and level with a leisurable pace. Is AION good for this? How far can I go alone? How much will I be missing by playing like this?
CRAFTING: I love crafting, farming materials and selling stuff to the auction house. Does AION have a deep crafting component, with powerful crafted items, without the need to join a guild?
SMALL GROUPING: yes, well I guess I can't help grouping some of the times... but is it always absolutely necessary? How far can I go in the game by playing alone or small grouping? Please don't ask why, I just want to play freely and alone. I wanted to know how much of the game would I be losing if I were to play almost always alone or maybe some times small grouping.
PVP: I don't really care much about PVP. Am I going to miss all of the fun if I play the part of the Switzerland?
RAIDS: I've had addiction problems in the past so I'd like to skip them completely. Will I miss the best part of the loot? Or can the crafting subside it?
ENDGAME: I was a wow player and what made me quit was the horrendous gearfarming-fest in the later levels, like repeating the same raid 3k times to try to get that stupid Satrina's Impending Scarab and such. Ideally I'd like a game in which I have access to items equal in power to the end-tier raid drops, by using money, or tokens gained by solo/small grouping playing, or any other currency in the game.
As you can see, I'd be mostly a casual gamer, not a super-mega-addicted one. AION looks so good so I'd really like to play this way... would it be possible? THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Hi there,
I havent played in abit so my knoledge may not be as up to date as others.
SOLOING
Aion isnt really that solo friendly, thats not to say you couldnt pick up a bunch of quests and do them on your own. for example;
The 16-20 main story "Mission" quests, can only be completed in a group but there are other general quests that you can do in that bracket to level. there may be holes in which u might find the need to grind especially around 35+, others have said they did all of the quests per zone and they didnt find to need to grind.
CRAFTING
Crafting is somewhat extensive and somewhat frustrating lol, but you can make some really good gear thats usually better than what drops in instances. you can pick up every trade skill, and level them up to 399, but you can only have 1 "epic" skill which makes things past 400.
SMALL GROUPING:
like i described earlier, Main story "Missions" generally need to be done in small groups.
PVP
Aions PvPvE is something your gona come up against eventually. if you dont like pvp, then i would advise you stay out of the the open pvp zone "The Abyss" unless you really need to go there. there are pve world zones that arnt exempt form pvp but they are much safer.
RAIDS
Raids are somewhat lacking (as far as i know) more open world pve raids then any instance ones.
ENDGAME;
Pre 2.0 you had to grind "points" for the best gear in the game, or fabricate them using crafting. im not sure what the stance is now.
I hope this helped, feel free to ask more questions
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Soloing is much easier than the previous poster is making out IMO. I have got to 35 so far solo as a chanter, doing all story missions as well. Sometimes you might have to watch your pulls but thats about it. If you went spirtmaster, assassin or chanter you stand a good chance. Templar would be good as well. but will be slooooow at killing.
All the grind I heard about before starting (I started at expansion launch) seems none existant. They have really fixed the game in that area. I'm a solo player mostly and I'm enjoying it. The crafting is your usual, with the exception that you gain moderately decent exp from harvesting (as in 'proper' exp, not crafting exp).
and if you might somehow get into PvP you'll find that Aion is one of the best PvP MMO's at the moment, the other being Age of Conan, in my opinion. I'm not a PvPer but I enjoy it from time to time in Aion.
Yeah, sorry. Not ment to be misleading, things may have changed since my time,(pre 2.0).
I think Aion is a great game, that sometimes requires you to put abit more effort into than other games. I would of keept playing myself but i had to quit because of technical issues with launcher program.
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I think solo friendly is a bit subjective. I got most of my levels before 2.0.
I had a lvl 32 Sorcerer by the 2nd or 3rd day of release.
Where Aion becmes more difficult to solo is in the areas that are essentially "group" areas. However, there are ways around certain quests that require groups.
For instance, there are these boots in the game that give you faster run speed. You get them by collecting these hairs from these particular mobs in this particular group area.
However, those hairs can also be sold on the AH.
So even though I had some of those hairs from some grouping, I was able to buy them from players and get the boots.
I've also attended a few sieges as a solo player.
Aion really shines if you are in a group or a legion but I think a solo player should have no problem at all. Provided they are patient.
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I would like to try the game. Can anyone please send me a trial key?
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Thank you
Aion is VERY soloable. I have 3 50's and my playstyle is solo, I am not even guilded. If I want to group I can always find one or make one easily. PvP I prefer to do solo and outside of a few things that require grouping(IE stigmas) you can solo through nicely. You need to group to get your 3 stigma quests done but its easy instances and nothing you need to worry about ntil your 40's. The final stigma quest is more work but its nothing you need to worry about till level 55(max level)
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I'm trying to download but it doesn't seem to work... I'm a Eu player maybe USA invitation doesn't work? Has anybody got a Eu key? Thanks
If its a download problem then this ncsoft help page will help
http://help.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/ncsoft.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=7341
Pretty sure you key will work for the account side of things once it has downloaded.
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i'd also like to try the game you can send me an email at [email protected]
I really enjoy Aion, I always have. What other(s) say about it does not matter to me, at all. I have yet to experience the "grind" and I am a 33 cleric. I level the same was as say WoW. I quest and here and there do a, particular, dungeon/instance a few times as you would with other MMOs. I would love to play with some other people as I have some more free time in my personal life. Shoot me a message. I have a 33 Asmo cleric on one server and a level 20 Elyos Ranger on another. Both my toons have a one-shot on here if you look at the past history of pictures
anyway keep me posted. If you have any ?s, also, let me know 
I am a fun, friendly, player. Not a jerk.
I find this game to be solo-friendly. I mostly solo myself. But everyone has his or her opinion but I think it balances well when it comes to soloing and grouping. BC is the first part of the game where you definitely need grouping
Here's some advice from someone that had a 53 cleric before he gave up and walked away from the game. My comments are in red beside yours.
"Forums aren't for intelligent discussion; they're for blow-hards with unwavering opinions."
Can I have your cleric?
I will give you my level 1 Mage from WoW. Fair trade!!
If your not in the abyss your chances of getting ganked are quite small. rifts have level brackets to keep ppl of the same lvl engaged in pvp in "world zones" from memory there is only one rift open at a time per zone? so thats only one entry point to avoid.(this may of changed since xpac)
Ive engaged ppl coming into rifts with less than superior gear as a sorc and had favorable results, Ive also been squashed at that same rift.
Personally, what we got here is "how to make Aion work for a casual" Aion is definatly a game you have to work at and it doesnt offer instant thrills like say wow, but it has its rewards if your prepared to sacrifice some time.
If you have the trial key, only thing you can do is give it a shot, its gona cost you nothing to try it and if its not for you, im sure there is another game out there.
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Trust me when I say this, this game is not casual friendly.
Also its been what like a year now that this game has been out? You still see people under 40 saying that the grind doesn't bother them. Get to level 45 and say there isn't a grind, i'm not saying that the grind in this game is terrible since compared to a lot of mmo's its a joke.
But do not listen to anyone talking about this game who is lower than 45.
Play the game. Like any MMO play it for a month and figure it out after that. As I stated before at level 33 there still is not a "grind" like others say. It still plays like any other type of MMO. It has yet to be grind heavy. Now yes at 40+ it could be but every week I see improvements with each aspect of the game. I truly enjoy Aion as an MMO. I find it a lot of fun. It is casual friendly. It is easy to find groups in the game also. The population is just fine. If you have the money and can afford a month check it out. If it's not for you then,......like any other MMO, come back later in a few months and check it out. I'm not the only one that thinks this. I have encountered many other players in the game who have lvl 55 and alts that still enjoy the heck out of it. To each his own, just figure it out for yourself. I love it. I usually go back and forth between other MMOs just so I don't outplay it. I do WoW, then Aion (or both at the same time). Sometimes I will do EvE, a possible F2P, and then some WAR. Someone said it best that MMOs are more a marathon and not a spring. Just know you can never 'truly' beat an MMO. Just take your time, don't stress trying to get to the end level asap. Take it in game and just explore it. I would be more than happy to play with you in the game and help you out. Just let me know
To OP, also from a former wow-player:
Everything you do in Aion is about gear. The leveling isn't so hard compared to what getting gear involves.
The worst part: the game mechanics are totally based on RNG. For an ex-wow player you will have a very frustrating experience when you will run instances and see bosses not droping anything but just a few kinah (the in-game currency) - think of an instance boss in wow dropping 3 silver, that's the equivalent. And no, this does not happen once, you will run the instance 10 times and you might see 1, maximum 2 decent drops, and they might not be for your class.
The players running "good instances" will ask you to have good gear. To get parts of that gear you will need half a year or maybe even more as a casual. It is a frustrating experience, they disguised the lack of content in the form of the horrible gear grind. It's almost completely un-moddable. You cannot see yourself (your HP+MP bars) in the party interface, which is horrible for any healer.
Most instance groups are awful, people do not know their role, everybody runs aggroing around. The community which i met on 3 different EU servers is nasty and rough, full of frustrated people who did not win in life and want to get the warm feeling from pvp. High levels farm lowbies in the lower abyss. They get nothing from that, only 1 Abyss ("honour") point, they do it "for fun". The fortress sieges are extremely laggy, even with a super computer you have to turn your details down and still you wont be able to see much there because of the server lag. The support is non-existant, they have to contact the asian "real" devs for the most important stuff. With the launch of the expansion (1 month ago) there are exploits for players to reach the opposite faction's zone, which was not planned. Only one faction can do this, the other cannot
. This was not fixed till now. When asked on forums if it's working as intended, the Western officials replied that "it is for your own good not to go there". I know people being stuck and having to wait days to get unstuck. A ticket usually takes 24 hours at least.
On the other hand, the game has a lot of potential. It might become good in 2-3 years. There are tons of nice ideas and things ingame. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on the bugs and the annoying-frustrating stuff that everybody complains, they launch things like Aion for mobile phones, check the broker (Auction House) on the phone and stuff like that, which indeed is good, but after you have a strong, solid, balanced game.
Edit: Stupid buggy browser.
What I wanted to say is that yes, it might take that long for the game to be where the devs want it to be...in the West! But it'd be too late then. So many more toys coming out soon and they all have eye candy! Aion has to really step it up a notch.
Vry similar situation for me: I'm a casual player thinking about starting Aion. I can play max 1-2 hours per day sometimes more during the weeekend. Is it not the game for me? I'm into PvP and I am a little fearful that to discover the true PvP (not getting ganked by higher lvs in Abyss) it will take me ages.
What do you reckon? Do I pass on Aion? Great to hear from other players in similar situations.
Aion was great until around level 35, then the grind hits you, If you play a trial, you won't feel it, and frankly, the fact that botting is so rampant, means that gold buying is extremely prevelant, which makes me really upset when I see it. I remember the number 1 pvp guild, who purposely came from the asian version of the game, to the launch of the NA version, knew all the bugs and where to grinded to the top, dominated the abyss, a month late half their players were banned for gold buying/botting, and its happned to ALOT of top legions in that game, so the pvp doesn't feel credible at all, If your happy to buy gold, and bot your way out of the grind, by all means go for it. but you've been warned.
i say give Aion a shot but that is only because I like it
They added more content and quests. At level 37 you can do another solo instance until I believe 41 or 42. More quests were added for that level range as well.
My main gripe with Aion is RNG. I had 5 Asmodian characters, ranging from 38-53, and 2 Elyos lowbies 28 and 37.
The problems with Aion don't become apparent until the latter stages of the game. Everything is heavily based on the Random Number Generator. I know some people that tried to craft Fenris Pants and failed their Hot Heart of Magic crit over 20 times whereas others do it first time. Fair system? Hell no!
I never bothered with that time-and-money-sink personally and grinded AP for PvP gear on my main (Ranger - another example of extreme RNG dependance). However trying to socket the best manastones in my 40 elite armour was an enfuriating process due to fails. Socket 5, go for 6... FAIL !!! All stones gone! Not to mention enchanting the damn weapons and armour too. RNG boots you in the face in this game constantly. Grind for Kinah, try to socket/enchant - fail. Grind more Kinah, do the same.... On and on it goes.
Aion is a fairly decent game, right up until you are gearing for endgame, then it becomes nothing more than a complete lottery.
MMORPG History:
Playing - EVE Online.
Played (Retired) - AO, SWG, MxO, WoW, RFO, SoR, CoX, EQ2, GW, L2, Vanguard, LotRO, AoC, TCoS, Aion.
Favourite MMO - Pre-CU SWG, 3 Years, 4 Accounts, 2 Pre-CU Jedi (1 Pre-9).
Awaiting - Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Secret World, Earthrise.
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