Sunday, February 28, 2016

Special Greater Aether Treasure, Character Growth Pack, Equipment Enhancement Pack and more




Week on week you'll find new and useful items for your adventure or cool skins for your personal heroic outfit in the AION shop. Today, a new delivery has arrived which enriches the product range quite extensively:

The following items are now available:
[Motion Card] Boxing legend
[Motion Card] Boxing champion
Boxing Champion's Clothing
Boxing Champion's Gloves
Succubus Costume
Succubus Horns
Cube Expansion Key
Character Development Pack (30 days; tradable)
Equipment Enhancement Pack (30 days; tradable)




The following items are only available in the shop for a week:
Feather Set

The following items are only available in the shop for 2 weeks:
Boxer Bundle
Special Greater Aether Treasure

Don't miss out on these items.

Visit the AION shop now!
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Hatter Madness Store Update



Along with the newest update to AIon: Upheaval, we're bringing some new and permanent items to the Black Cloud Marketplace!
WONDERLAND AND HATTER'S MADNESS COSTUME

See just how deep the rabbit hole goes with these new costumes.




INSTANCE ENTRY SCROLLS

Gain additional entries to both Infernal Danuar Reliquary and Infernal Illuminary Obelisk with these entry scrolls.



WRAPPING SCROLLS

Wrap and send Eternal, Mythic, or Fabeled weapons, armor, and accessories, now permanently in the store at a new lower price!



MYTHIC TUNING SCROLLS

Another permanent additions to the store, use these scrolls to retune your Mythic armor or weapons.





Visit the Black Cloud Marketplace to take home all of these great items.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Aion EU: Forced Transfers and Patch 4.9


This week’s maintenance took place on February 17 for the European servers of Aion by Gameforge and the forced transfers arrived right on time. Gameforge also revealed some good news about 4.9 recently.

Hope you guys managed to survive the extended maintenance on Wednesday that ended in the evening, and Gameforge must have had plenty of tasks to get through. As promised earlier on, those who did not transfer their character’s from merged servers where they had both Elyos and Asmodian characters were now automatically transferred. The race restrictions, however, are not yet disabled in order to prevent players from being unable to access their characters.



The server merges seem to have concluded successfully and Aion’s community was compensated for the drastic drops in ranks. Hopefully, over time, the newly merged servers will manage to get along and the conflicts betweendifferent nationalities will fade away.

Gameforge has recently posted the 4.9 Patch Notes, indicating that the long-awaited update will soon take place. On Twitter, they have revealed that the 4.9 Patch titled Omen of Change will arrive on February 24 which is just a few days away. Here is how Patch 4.9 will reshape Aion.



Official 4.9 Notes by Gameforge


Changes within the Abyss
  • The Abyss core and the Divine Fortress can no longer be entered.
  • The Asteria Fortress and the Roah Fortress have been destroyed.
  • The Upper Abyss now has 12 new garrisons and 4 artefacts.
  • The garrison and artefact NPCs now offer weekly quests which are rewarded with Battle Medals and Insignia of Honour. You can only get Insignia of Honour in the Abyss.
  • Both factions receive an additional outpost in the Upper Abyss: the Tokanu Landing Site (Asmodian) and the Magos Landing Site (Elyos).
  • Treasure chamber instances in the Upper Abyss (inclusive Asteria and Roah) for players from level 45 will be moved to the Lower Abyss and will receive new names.
  • The treasure chamber instances for the Upper Abyss for players from level 65 can only be entered in the Upper Abyss.

Pangea Changes
  • A new portal has been added that enables players to participate who are not represented in the Upper Abyss rankings. However the Battle for Pangaea remains limited to a total of 100 slots.
  • The portal appears after the start of the Pangaea fortress battle and serves to fill the remaining open slots.

“To prevent a spread of the Ereshkigal Legion, both factions have increased their defences in the Upper Abyss,” says the official post. “At the same time, in the Lower Abyss, a mighty mass of land is appearing: the Stormy Isles. The Balaur are seizing their chance and have stationed their armies at this strategic location.”

All of the above will arrive with Patch 4.9 in just a few days and we really hope all your characters survived the server merges and the forced transfers. Tell us your experiences with the new servers and communities in AionEU and whether the merges improved the game in general.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

THE 4.75 UPDATE IS HERE!

Discover new features




Yesterday, 17th June 2015, update 4.75 has gone live on the European servers and in doing so, a new milestone has been reached in the history of AION Free-to-Play!

All this and much more awaits:

Refuge of Returnees:
This special place welcomes all Daevas who have not logged in for at least 30 days. Here, they not only receive helpful items for their continuing journey, but they also will be sent on missions by Dispatch Officers in the region, who require their assistance.

Antriksha's Ascension Site:
In Pangaea the gates to Antriksha's Ascension Site will in future regularly open for up to 400 players at once. Stop Antriksha's transformation into a dragon and defeat him, together with your allies, before it is too late!

Adjustments to manastones/enchantment stones:
In future when a socketing fails, only the manastone being used on the item will be destroyed. All of the already socketed stones will remain intact.
In addition, the levels of the enchantment stones have been adjusted. Now there are only stones from levels 1 to 5.

Equipment Evolution:
This system allows for the improvement of items past their maximum enchantment level. To find out how it works and what other changes the update is bringing, take a look in the patch notes.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Aion EU Improved by Third-Party DPS Meter?



Aion is an MMORPG that has been struggling from plenty of so-called hackers, who used various free and premium programs to gain an advantage over others.

The NCSoft-built Korean game sadly lacks proper anti-cheat measures and many of the European players decided to play on the NA servers because of this. It was not uncommon to see players altering attacking speed values or simply playing without animations (NoAnim). This gave most of the playable classes a huge advantage in PvP fights and also noticeably increased the overall DPS in PvE




The recent arrival of a new third-party DPS meter called aiDPSMeter was so good at spotting cheaters, that Gameforge began to accept it as proof when dealing with player reports. The Animation Speed mode of aiDPSMeter basically detects impossible animation speed values of nearby players and marks them with an orange color.

According to the developers, “Client calculates motion time for each skill use and sends it to server. Server sends motion time to all nearby players. There are few issues to calculate base motion time. Client calculates time for ranged skills assum of skill animation time and shot animation time.” They also added that there are some rare cases where the aiDPSMeter falsely highlights values.

Sadly, the current version only works for the following classes:
  • · Assassin
  • · Ranger
  • · Gunner
  • · Gladiator
  • · Templar

This leaves a few more classes that are still undetected, and yet gain a huge advantage from lower animation times like the Aethertech and the Bard (Songweaver). Nevertheless, the number of cheaters has clearly declined and many of them have been detected thanks to aiDPSMeter. This third-party program could be the key to the survival of Aion EU as the game would surely be more popular if there were fewer cheaters around to create an imbalance.


It is not unlikely that Gameforge will work together in the future with the developers of aiDPSMeter in order to figure out how to detect the other classes of Aion. If you would like to try out this third-party DPS meter and use it to spot the cheaters, head over to the official page where it can be downloaded for free.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Aion is one of those few games that shows your jewelery on your character, and i love it!

As far as i know aion is the only game that provides this. but i'm guessing there might be more.






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Monday, February 15, 2016

Broken Hearts








Love is in the air in Atreia! Hunt for broken heart pieces and use them to create Mended Hearts, which can surprise you with sweet gifts. Collect heart pieces to spell LOVE and combine them to make a Mended Heart that you can open for a random reward.


- HOW TO PARTICIPATE -

Instance monsters will have a chance to drop Broken Heart Boxes. These boxes will give you a random heart piece, with the Broken Heart: E being slightly rarer. Combine the four required pieces to spell LOVE and create the Mended Heart. Open the Heart for a random reward.


Broken Heart Boxes and the Broken Heart: E are available on the store. You can also purchase one Broken Heart Box every day during the event for 1 NCoin.


- LOCATIONS -

Mobs from the following instance will have a chance to drop Broken Heart Boxes.


*Hamate Isle Storeroom

*Carpus Isle Storeroom


*Isle of Roots Storeroom

*Grave of Steel Storeroom


*Twilight Battlefield Storeroom

*Dark Poeta


*Esoterrace

*The Eternal Bastion


*Taloc's Hollow

*Beshmundir Temple


*Aturam Sky Fortress

*Padmarashka's Cave


*Rentus Base

*Tiamat Stronghold


*Raksang Ruins

*Infinity Shard


*Dragon Lord's Refuge

*Kysis Barracks


*Miren Barracks

*Krotan Barracks


*Danuar Sanctuary

*Ophidan Bridge


*Linkgate Foundry

*Sealed Danuar Mysticarium


*Danuar Reliquary

*Illuminary Obelisk


*Seized Danuar Reliquary

*Sauro Supply Base


*Infernal Danuar Reliquary

*Infernal Illuminary Obelisk


*Occupied Rentus Base

*Drakenspire Depths


*Anguished DLR






- REWARDS -

Collect and combine the four heart pieces from the Broken Heart Boxes to make a Mended Heart. Open the Mended Heart for one of the the following prizes:


*Tiamat's Glimmering WIngs

*Major Ancient Crown


*Tempering Solution

*Ceramium Medal


*Omega Enchantment Stone

*Conqueror's Mark


*All Business Outfit

*Blood Mark


*Assured Greater Felicitous Socketing Box (Mythic)

*Blood Medal


*Assured Greater Felicitous Socketing Box (Eternal)

*Large Greater Supplements Bag (Mythic)


*[Event] Brilliant Composite Manastone Bundle

*Large Greater Supplements Bag (Eternal)


*Elite Composite Manastone Chest

*Love Potion


*Shining Ancient Manastone Bundle

*Enamored TIger Transformation Candy Box


*Stigma Sack

*[Event] Manastone Bundle




Repair these broken hearts today and take home some prizes. Event ends February 17, 2016.

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Friday, February 12, 2016

Aion Excel Crafting Database



For years, several friends and I have made major leaps in the organization and profiteering off the system of morphing Aether into other materials and crafting them into sellable products. We have long thought about making some fancy post detailing our strategy as we rarely play the game anymore. At this point, I may log in once a week or so and the rest of my friends are long gone so I have decided to share a link and possibly outline more of what we did in future posts as my time/effort allows.

The basic concept is this (*Updates have changed how this works): Make a new account Level up all characters to level 10 and buy morphing designs Make a legion for all these characters to join and share TONS of aether (mostly Pure Magical Aether) and DP Jellies Log In/Out of each character and morph 15+ times per hour

Example math below: Let's take "Fine Mana Potions" for example. It costs 6,371 kinah each time to craft, and makes 3 potions, which are worth 9,000 each so that means you get 27,000 worth of potions or you profit 6,876 each potion you sell.

Each time you have 4k DP and morph 20x you make enough Fresh Hintera (has to be right clicked into normal) to craft 180 Fine Mana Potions

So if you profit 6,876 x 180 potions you make 1,208,653 kinah per 4k DP.

Now is where multiplication really helps out. Take the 8 characters all level 10 and load them with aether jellies on a 30 minute cooldown, which means you can morph 16 times every hour.

So 1,208,653 x 16 = 19,338,449 kinah profit per hour of morphing.

There are 24 hours in each day (before your account is timed out and has to be relogged) so: 24 hours x 19,338,449 per hour = 464,122,794 each day!

This means just from making mana potions, you can make just over 450 million kinah a day PER account.

I actually used two different accounts each with 8 characters level 10 so I was making twice that every single day, from sitting in town buying aether on the trade broker, morphing, crafting, and selling the potions/scrolls!

The excel sheet is available so you can take the numbers and use them for whatever purpose you wish and can multiple by whatever resources you have and it can give you a better estimate of how much kinah you can make with whatever strategy you want to use.

Disclaimer The prices are not updated on the sheet I linked and may not be the same on whatever server you play on. The details on how to morph every hour on the hour for 24 hours are intentionally left out (Sorry!)

Being able to morph in such massive amounts allowed us to use other separate accounts to literally craft 24 hours a day 7 days a week due to the supply of materials. We actually leveled up over 10 characters from level 10 - 65 from the small XP from each craft.

With such massive amounts of materials and crafting, we always thought it would be a great idea to keep track (accurately) of what we were making, how many we had in stock, and how much profit we were making for each morph. To do this, we made a very extremely detailed excel sheet (which remains private) but I have made a copy of one section of the excel sheet in which I am finally wanting to share.

Details on how the excel sheet works:

1) Shows materials/designs for most all (profitable in bulk) cooking and alchemy recipes.

2) Everything is color coded and the colors mean something.

3) Details the cost of certain items from the NPC

4) Only two categories of boxes should be updated in prices: aether (detailed below) and the purple box under each recipe. The purple box is based on in-game Trade Broker pricing and should be updated to current day server based pricing.

5) On the far right there is a legend, this legend is very important. Whenever the prices of aether are updated/changed the ENTIRE excel sheet will update pricing. Aether prices must be changed manually and are based on the in-game Trade Broker prices.

6) The sheet outlines how many products can be made from each single morph (1 morph = 20 morphs = 4k DP). This means when it says 1 jelly = X it is saying how many of that item you'll make each time you morph 20 times. Furthermore, the "Total Profit" which is highlighted in green details the profit of these mentioned 20 morphs if you craft the items and sell at the purple box price on the broker. (This includes broker fees and every detail)

7) The "If you sell x stacks on broker" just multiples this profit to common stack amounts that at one time were posted on the broker. This is somewhat outdated by the now splitable stacks method of posting on the broker but can be changed to see your profit over larger item sells.

There are many more details and reasons for different things/categories on this sheet and if you do ever try to use it for any reason and have questions/suggestions/ideas on both how to use it and/or update it for the better, please feel free to comment below. Maybe in the future I can copy some of the other tabs on my private excel and include them in the public link. Any comments and feedback are greatly appreciated. I apologize for not putting forth more effort/details and outlining these methods years ago.

The link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18j8wd0PEEklQ0VvN9qORXHel0YwdQdi8EDYsmKWYDjA/edit?usp=sharing
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