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[bsofferl]

i have a question (again^^)
i know that there are different types of elements ( olso for summoner) ive seen fire, water and earth... but what about a wind elemental???
is there one or don´t they know jet or will there never be one?
thxxxxx^^

[Thoradin]

Originally Posted by bsofferl

i have a question (again^^)
i know that there are different types of elements ( olso for summoner) ive seen fire, water and earth... but what about a wind elemental???
is there one or don´t they know jet or will there never be one?
thxxxxx^^

There is one, I've seen it in one of the gameplay movies. It looks like a little white dog type thing. (Unless there is another pet class that I missed.)

Originally Posted by Ayase

Yes indeed! Aion is being designed and developed with plenty of quests that are clearly marked, although currently not with !'s.

What will they be marked with?

[arkhaal]

from news :
Spiritmasters will find themselves an integral part of any adventuring party due to their ability to summon and control fierce creatures based on the four cardinal elements of Earth, Fire, Wind and Water.

And I don't think there is a video about wind element...

[Ayase]

Originally Posted by Thoradin

What will they be marked with?

While it might change at any given moment, the current indicator is a blue arrow for regular quests. It can be seen in this screenshot:

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...Tscreen134.jpg
(Thread: http://www.aionsource.com/forum/scre...html#post44490 )

[Thoradin]

Originally Posted by Ayase

While it might change at any given moment, the current indicator is a blue arrow for regular quests. It can be seen in this screenshot:

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...Tscreen134.jpg
(Thread: http://www.aionsource.com/forum/scre...html#post44490 )

Thanks! I would recommend that questgivers show up on the mini-map. This was a huge help when they added it to WoW. I found quests that I never even knew existed because the questgiver was hidden in some corner or alcove.

[arkhaal]

And the NPC summoning the mob's quest at your feet ?

mmorpg is about exploration, if everything is shown, given without a little bit of searching, that's not fun !

[Cynthe]

Gah I like it when you have to talk to every NPC just to see if there's any quests, when there's markers and knowing where to go makes the scenery go by so fast. ; ;

[Thoradin]

Originally Posted by arkhaal

And the NPC summoning the mob's quest at your feet ?

mmorpg is about exploration, if everything is shown, given without a little bit of searching, that's not fun !

Let's just remove quest icon's all together. And quest logs too. You should have to write down everything that you kill, and remember from a quest dialog that you have to kill 10, and no quest announcement that you have killed 10 mobs, so you have to go back to the quest giver to find out you haven't killed 10 mobs yet.


Seriously. There are games like this, and they die fast. I played CoX for a while, RFO for longer, and WoW for about a year. CoX and WoW both have quest giver and turn in icons and they make things alot easier and more fun, because you aren't wasting time running around the city looking for a quest giver that's hidden behind 3 walls in a pit.


I have 4 70's in WoW, and on my last one, when they turned on this feature, I STILL found quests that I had never seen before. It made the game much more fun.

[Cynthe]

Oopsie, let's not stray too far this is for questions/answers, you can start a topic about quest markers and the benefits of them if you want

[Gwelenguchenkus]

I have a question: does anyone know the sort of variety you will have within your own class that you pick? I have heard about the stigma system for wearing different types of armor, but I was thinking specifically skills. Will there be ways to customize your character to make them unique from other people in the same class, or is that pretty much exclusive to the Stigma system?

Sort of early to be asking this, but any information known about it is helpful.

[Szaman]

AFAIK it's a no-variety of skills/stats (as they are all the same for each class). Stigma is somewhat a mystery to me yet, but it seems yuo can add some "special" enhancements but to the items only, so eg. you can stigma-change your weapon to be giving fire dmg, or (as some people here posted) can add the abilities of your favourite items to a new one (to improve the looks).
But that might not be fully correct (as I need to go into the whole "stigma" thingie a little deeper).

EDIT: Bugger. Here's the topic about stigma (totaly different from what I thought it was):
http://www.aionsource.com/forum/gene...on-stigma.html

[Fayeth]

Originally Posted by Gwelenguchenkus

I have a question: does anyone know the sort of variety you will have within your own class that you pick? I have heard about the stigma system for wearing different types of armor, but I was thinking specifically skills. Will there be ways to customize your character to make them unique from other people in the same class, or is that pretty much exclusive to the Stigma system?

Sort of early to be asking this, but any information known about it is helpful.

The Sigma system will help you customize yourself. There is also an skill tre you can use at higher levels... there have been several screenshots of it. On top of that. Asmodians and Elyos have race specific skills unavailable to each other.

Here are some links that might be helpful to you:
"SKill Tree" Screeshots:
http://www.aionsource.com/forum/gene...lls-combo.html
Skill Discussion:
http://www.aionsource.com/forum/gene...8-classes.html
Sigma:
http://www.aionsource.com/forum/gene...on-stigma.html
From a Traslation regaurding race abiluties:
Q> 마족과 천족의 차이가 너무 적다는 불만이 있는데?
Q> There are complaints that there are hardly any differences between the Elyos and Asmodians.

A> 두 종족 자체가 같은 뿌리에서 나온 것인 만큼 큰 차이는 없다. 단, 이후 레벨이 올라갈 수록 고유한 능력이나 스킬들을 얻으면서 조금씩 차이점을 드러내게 될 것이다.
A> There aren’t huge differences as the both descend from the same race. But, as players progress through the game and become higher levels, the differences will unveil themselves as players gain skills and abilities unique to that faction

[Thoradin]

Question:

Will there be some sort of raid frames? In the raid movies I've seen, it looks like you can only see your own party. Will there be any way to see other parties in the same raid, or are the raids just a couple separate parties, since there are no instances?

Thanks in advance.

[Rekuja]

Originally Posted by Thoradin

Question:

Will there be some sort of raid frames? In the raid movies I've seen, it looks like you can only see your own party. Will there be any way to see other parties in the same raid, or are the raids just a couple separate parties, since there are no instances?

Thanks in advance.

i believe cut scenes and raiding will be instanced? or could someone correct me on that.. pretty sure i heard it on the Ken Choi interview

[DeftAce]

I know that the big raid bosses will be instanced, but as for the mini raid bosses (like the little ones running around normal areas) will be normal.

I'm taking this knowledge from L2, so they may decide to either change that or not go with it at all, but at the least, big raid bosses will be instanced, and probably quest locked (can't get to them unless you do a certain quest)