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Originally Posted by Aionfuse.com
Q. What are dungeons like in AION? Are there instanced dungeons for raiding, for example?
A. There are 3 kinds of dungeons. The first kind is the regular one. This was previewed at E3 – we call these ‘themed dungeon’s. The second are instanced dungeons made for single and multiple parties, which feature instance bosses. The third kind are unique to AION, called ‘The Abyss’. It’s where PvP, PvE and RvR types of gameplay come together.
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I am really interested in the PvE in games as I'm personally not a real PvP'er.
This has gotten me really interested into the instance system of Aion, I know this is from quite an old interview but I was just reading it through again.
The first 2 dungeons seem simple enough, as they are merely the standard party-instances and raid-instances for bigger groups of people(Guilds most likely). I'm just guessing to see a 5-20player limit there I think, but that's just a feeling so don't hold me on that.
But the truely interesting part is the 3rd instance called "The Abyss".
Being a WoW-player myself I could compare these to the "outdoor raid bosses" as they require a big group of people to kill and are AI-controlled monsters. But at the same time there can be other groups of players that want to kill that boss aswell and there you have the PvP part.
The thing that really brings up a question to me is the Instance part in it, if you take into consideration that doing stuff in the world (The first thing I'd think of is killing a big boss) would influence the whole server. So I would find it weird to have such things in an instance rather than the actual outside and I don't think it would really help the feeling of being free in the game and it would give a weird feeling when you're travelling to a dungeon of the likes.
I'm really hoping that I'm not right in this but I'd really like to hear what you guys have to say on this subject.