Hello people, it's been a while since I posted here. I've been playing WoW lately since Aion decided breaking my heart with its release dates. Anyway, I've been browsing through Aion forums again and wanted to share some of the stuff thats going on in there. (Because most of you seem to be clueless on whats really happening)
This is a snapshot of General forum in aion official site today.
No, I didn't play closed beta. No, I didn't play open beta, No, I am not playing retail KR Aion right now, but it doesn't take too much to see the problems here.
This screenshot is a great outline of what is going on Aion right now.
1. Pathetic Class balancing
- Mages are OP, OP, OP right now. Their "Hellfire" hits for 2k+ damage. They can basically one shot you if you are a ranger, or assassin (or a mage : P), 2 shot you if you are anything else except priests (who have one instant heal). NCsoft responded to this problem by making mages super weak physically. Apparently you die in 3 hits from elite mobs. Making PvE difficult for a class is not the right way to balance PvP.
- Chanters' buffs are non factors. In fact, priests have better buffs than chanters right now. Their role in parties are very unclear right now. They have lost their place in wanted-in-parties status. More and more people are saying they'd rather take another assassin or another healer. Their role in PvP is a deteriorated version of a priest that also has heals/rez.
- Depressing Abyss PvP for melees. An equal lvl/gear/skill melee cannot win against another mage/ranger in abyss. It is simply not possible.
- Summons cannot fly
, rendering summoners absolutely useless in abyss. They are also the least wanted in PvE parties anywhere.
2. Oh NCsoft, you haven't changed!
- Bots, Bots, Bots, Bots, Bots, Bots. No comment.
http://aion.plaync.co.kr/board/serve...ootCategory=18
- Hacked? QQ QQQQQQQ
3. Other Issues
- Stiff Character movement. This issue was mentioned in not only open beta but also way back in closed beta stage. If you've been playing WoW, everything in Aion will feel unnatural and stiff, including flying.
- Ineffective Abyss balancing that NCsoft supposedly promised. I've seen an abyss status map from one of the servers and it showed 99% of the areas shown as Elyo controlled. If your server has overwhelminly large one race population, oh wells, better wish you are not on the minority side, because it means Abyss quests/loots/rewards will be sooo accessible to you. Hey, whatever happened to that dragon race?
- Questing is not the way to go past 20(Like you can't pull of that LEVEL TO 80 ONLY QUESTS! thing from WoW). Unless you want to be immensely frustrated and broke, you have to figure out which quests offer good rewards(and just do those) and play your character the classic grind style.
- Skill motion cancel got patched 12/3
But then again, there's still 3(?) months to go until we get to play the actual game. Let us dare to hope.