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Idk's Elite grind leveling guide

Bly — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:11:20 GMT

This is a Forum for people that like to grind elites over normal mobs/ constant quests. I am posting places that are excellent places for grinding mobs. I usually try to keep to area that are not super crowded or have many pats or ranged mobs. I will be lvling at these places myself and will take screen shots for everyone to see and go to and lvl for yourself. Now from lvling up to 30 I have found that there will not always be places for you to grind elites.

Some ground rules please...
1. Please post places that you might find helpful for other people with a screen shot or video if you feel pro enough.
2. I am leveling as Asmos, so don't expect a Elyos spots. there are other Forums with a plethora of information.
3. I am no where near Lvl 50. I apologize in advance to you people that are above lvl 30 atm.
4. Please don't ask stupid questions. Like "How do you kite?" or "How do you kite ranged mobs?" or "Your an idiot and suck." That last one isn't really a question but what ever.
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(18-20)
The first area I have found is in the Black Claw Village. Northeast of the Impetusium. When there I advise to kill the to normal mobs on the hill and use that hill to your advantage. There are many quests for groups to do there so move channels if the area is being taken over be parties. If you wan to move, you can also kill mobs at the entrance of the huge tree and kite the mobs safely in the water.

Screen Shot:

Level 18-20 elites for Asmos. Grinding picture by mas91_2009 - Photobucket

(22/23-26)
This area is just South of Morheim. Just in side of Taran's Cavern there are crabs you can kill for a while. this palce is kinda tricky with all of its random pats everywhere.

Screen Shot:

http://s879.photobucket.com/albums/a...8.jpg&newest=1

(26-30/31)
This area is in the Ice Claw Village entrance. Just East of the northern flight path out of Morhiem . I like to go to the right and hug the wall when you first walk in until you get past the Stalker. There is a small hill there with 4 moderate spawning melee mobs.

Screen Shot:

Aion0007.jpg picture by mas91_2009 - Photobucket

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This is it for now. please leave info for higher levels or for any other spawn that you might have found.

Would you like to see pets use skills automatically?

Thomasmgp — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:03:35 GMT

Would anyone else like to have the pet bar be something like the one in WoW. Where pets use skills as they come off cooldowns but gives you the ability to turn certain ones off? I just think its kind of dumb to have to cast 3-4 spells just to make our pets use attacks. We arent DAoC Necros.

Spirit Wall of Protection vs Blessing of Fire

atomico — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:39:22 GMT

hello, at lvl 40+ what you chose for instance pve group?

Fire Spirit - Best group pet, no competition

Captain Yak — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:13:42 GMT

So I've come to the realization that the fire pet is easily the best group pet. There is just nothing left to compare with him. Lets look at what he has.

- Spirit Protection buff - this is his primary purpose, it gives the group a buff that can be up 50% of the time, raises physical damage and reflects damage

- Blessing of Fire - No this isn't exclusive to the fire pet, but when Spirit Erosion is used it also raises the damage done by Blessing of Fire

- Spirit Disturbance - lowers the defense of the target

- Decent hp - he may not have the range of the water spirit, but he has the health to survive most hits

- High aggro - he is the one and only pet with the threat to actually hold some targets off the healer while still being able to take a few hits.

Anyone got anything else? I gave up trying to make other pets useful, now I'm just trying to figure out how to make him even better:)

Need Suggestions on My End Game Stigma builds.

Everian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:31:36 GMT

Hello Fellow SpiritMasters

Im currently planning my End game Stigma Build and ive built 2 but i need suggestion from high lvls if these Skills are useful or not.

1/ De-buff Based
De-Buff Build

Uses De-buffs to lock down Other classes and make them easier to kill., with Subsitution so the pet can act as a second HP bar during PVP/PVe

2/ Pet Based
Pet Based Build

Gives the ability to buff the pet (more useful in 1.6 due to flying pet), Also gives me an Extra Attack Spell and a Instant Pet Heal.

which one would be better? whats the pros and cons of each build?

Thanks for the Advice

Spiritmaster is so fun

Droprate — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:28:35 GMT

PvP'ing today... idiot Elyos I swear... Me (Droprate) vs Glad (32), Sorc(29), Cleric (31)

It goes...!!!
Sorc dead, Cleric dead.. now i run with 300 hp left.. heart pounding..\
Chain of earth the glad, stun, fear dot etc what we do.. and he dies!

Damn im good... but they were terrible lolol glad must've been keyboard turning!

Disspell question

zugins — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:57:02 GMT

I heard that one of the pets can clear debuffs of the SM or other people in SM grp? Is this correct? if it is, which pet and skill is it? have not seen it used, kinda curious

Alch and SM - crafting your own weapons?

velrahnkoon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:33:40 GMT

Hi all,

Is it worth it to craft your own weapons using Alchemy? My plan, so that I didn't have to have too much money to get started, was to do about 100 levels of crafting every 10 levels or so. So I hit 100 Alch when I was about 15, then I bumped it to about 160 or so recently, planning on hitting 199 and then staying there until 30 or so, then to 299 until 40, etc. I can't use almost anything 200+ until I'm 30 anyway, so I figure I might as well do them simultaneously and then I don't have to worry about kinah shortages. Has anyone else thought of scaling their crafting with their level this way? What do you think of the method as a way to save kinah?

I just hit 25 and leveled up my Alch to 160 so that I could make my own Wisdom Tome and Orb. To make the Worthy version you have to proc to get a Noble Wisdom Tome/Orb and use that as a component. That's getting expensive REALLY quickly, considering all the raw materials you need to make one Wisdom Tome, and the proc chance is only 1 in 5 on average.

So should I bother making my own weapons? Should I just live off the ones that are rewards in-game and use Alch for pots? How often should I realistically have to change out my weapon for a better one? Lastly, should I have one of each Tome/Orb, one for PvE (Orb, better MBoost) and one for PvP (Tome, better MAcc)?

Thanks in advance everyone.

HQ elite grinding

kaintxu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:47:15 GMT

So i was going to grind some elites at HQ, but its not like the back entrance in Kaidan Mine, where you got plenty of space to kite them.

Can you guys tell me which is the best spot to kill the elites with out having another 20 guys on top of you as soon as you walk 2 spaces.

Fear Shriek Dropping?

Tatekei — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:55:04 GMT

Just wanted to see if anyone has had any experience on Kromede (or the new version) dropping Fear Shriek I yet, ran it twice yesterday, but nothing.... so i just did some keep raids and ground out MM a bit, 9 mil left to 38.

Overall PvP Capabilities

Doravan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:41:19 GMT

Hello guys, I'm new here as you all can see it's my first post.

So I'm a 25lv SM under a cruel doubt: Is SM a really good PvP class?
- I've beaten 1 Glad, 1 Templar and 2 Assassins so far, but I found it hard to go against rangers.

Most of them outpot Chain of Earth, so I can't kite them very well.

I know I can't handdle a good PvP cuz of my low level, but anyone that reached Endgame could tell me, is a SM good enough for PvP solo? Or just running in groups?

Fear isn't the problem. Its Ignite Aether

Aldycia — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:17:17 GMT

I dont understand why everyone thinks that fear is sooo OP, when its actually Ignite Aether. Spiritmasters dont need fear to kill you but fighting one with Ignite Aether Stigma and you have no chance at all. Some may say dont buff yourself when your fighting a SM but at some point you have to heal yourself, its pretty much a hopeless fight because you cant use a HoT pot cause thats a buff so more damage applied to you, cant use any food buffs/run speed scrolls an any other type of scroll buff screws you over too and on top of that even if you do blow your CC pot to get out of snare, they can just root you or better yet have wind pet stun you. You'll never get close and be shut down either way even if your a sorc... so dont think its only melee who have it bad aganist them :cry: . Since we do not get any stun immunity we'll die everytime. SM's are utility and they may not have the burst damage to burn you down fast but they have strong debuffs to destroy you.

I don't understand KHQ Elite Soling

NdranC — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:57:00 GMT

Hi, I'm gonna be direct because right now I'm on my nerves due to the fact i paid 350k in Soul Healing bills. Why, you ask? I'll tell you why. I don't know how where the f*** in KHQ everybody kites elites (and with what elites), but if i try in places near the north entrance, i don't have ANY space at all to kite with all those ads (which are ranged FYI) and hit me for 1800 each time the shoot 3 arrows, each time one of those "none-elites" barely sees me i die, plain and simple. Some in my legion said that area is usually clear of mobs thanks to the bots.... well not anymore since the new patch apparently.

I saw a youtube video with an SM that soloed the lvl 40 elites in the bottom of KHQ (where the stairs with the raid are). I find that i could kill them, takes me about 9 minutes, but still i can, But then i find out that the "melee" elites there (and in ALL kaidan) have range attacks from time to time, like a f****** PULL!!! or some smash that for some reason is ranged and hit twice.

I'm really sorry if i sound angry, is not with you, but im so pist that in the last couple hours instead of leveling i just ended up with a 350k bill and 2 molars (which i need because i need those boots).

WHAT!! am i doing wrong?

Plz, any quick answers would be very, very, very appreciated.

Thoughts about the patch

1Ska — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:44:56 GMT

Does this patch have you brimming with excitement because of flying pets finally?:jealous: Or are you one of the people quitting ?:pow: I'm also curious to know everyone's thought on the Water Spirit & Tempest Pet changes, which can no longer "Crash", but just do increased damage And Wing Root got lowered to 10%. Anyone (like me) find that it's a fair trade off?

For anyone that missed the notes
Part 1
Part 2

Regarding Commands of Pet (high lvl 40+)

Zankou — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:03:59 GMT

When u are past level 40, do you still use the Spirit thunderbolt claw in between? or do you move over to disturbance and detonation? and perhaps with the right stigma even Ruinous offense? Just curious, cause im level 34 atm and i still use Disturbance and THunderbolt claw..

Umm, cheating?

Bly — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:38:54 GMT

For a while now i had been killing elites and quests here and there for exp to lvl. I have been trying to post place for people to grind great exp from elite on other forums and ways to grind effectively. But i was out in the abyss today and i came upon a repeatable quest, for Asmos, where you kill hoverstone things and you get those lumps for the quest. The quest it self is pretty bad, you only get about 18k exp from completing it . But back to what i wanted to tell you guys. The mobs you kill for the quest have like 400 health. They are always in groups of three and 90% of the time they are within 10-20 meters of a another group of three. At lvl 27 i am getting about 2500 to 3000 per hoverstone. I am suggesting that you grind on those guys for a while. It takes 1 Sandblaster to kill them....and when you kill groups of 6 and getting 17-18k exp it is very very fast. And your getting it as fast as the CD on sandblaster because the area is so populated with them. Idk though you guys try it out and tell me how it goes...

Servants

Saisem — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:23:23 GMT

hey ppl,

well straight to the point are there any diferences between the diferent servants? except the diference of the type of dmg that is...

Full Evasion Set

BlueBrolly — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:09:00 GMT

Hi everyone, Was wondering if an SM should go full Evasion. That would be nice a dodge Caster. We would never get hit. Of course we wouldnt get as much as rangers would, but full evasion set + Food, Is it worth it than HP where we know we will get hit everytime?

Chat Windows, Filters, and Colors

sosowie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:41:25 GMT

I've been fiddling around with my chat windows and filters, but I haven't found anything that works to my liking yet... Any SM out there with some recommendations? I'd like to know which effects you check and what colors you use. And do you guys customize depending on PvE or PvP? How many chat windows do you have open simultaneously, and what purpose do they serve?

Thanks. :study:

Theorycrafting

Vixzen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:53:33 GMT

Heya,

I was wondering if any level 50 SMs have done any theorycrafting? I'd love it if someone has and can show us some numbers in regards to things such as pet DPS (and extended DPS), possible PvE rotations, summons differences, how much MBoost effects our DPS, Magic resistance vs magic accuracy in end game?

I started doing a bit, but I am only level 42 and if someone already has the info it could be useful to all of us.

Thanks!

is there lvl 4 wind/earth/water spirit?

D3v — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:23:50 GMT

hi.

Just curious, is there any lvl 4 wind,earth n water spirits? ive searched the web and haven't come across any sorts? if not, Have the meat heads of ncsoft going to introduce em?

USe fear for good ;)

psila — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:57:04 GMT

keep our servers clean

YouTube- Aion: HOWTO Kill a Bot ;)

Observations on Ultimate Stigmas (They suck) and the Command Mechanic

Babe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:31:36 GMT

Having tested them enough, these stigmas came out to be awfully bad in terms of the return they give for the restrictions they place.

Let's get on to the worse one, Ruinous Offensive.

1) It's a 1 minute cooldown spell that doesn't even do the damage of an inferno. On the Theobomos goats, with Erosion debuff up and Wrath Position buff on fire pet, it does a total of 4607 damage. Wind pet does 6602 total damage. However, the initial tick for the wind is 2202 damage. You get a tick every 3 secs for 880. So at a comparable 4 second time span that it takes to cast a 6600 Inferno, you've done 3082 damage. Flamestrike deals 8600 in 3.5 seconds. And what isn't taken into account is how fast dots get knocked off in PvE, and how fast they get cleansed in PvP, so you'll never get a full duration dot on a target.

Sure, Inferno's theoretically a 4 second cast, except when you have chanter's cooldown cast speed buff and the sorc's personal cast speed to reduce a 6600 inferno to below 2 seconds of cast time.

But the direct comparison should be against the Sorcerer's Flamestrike. Flamestrike has a 3.5 sec cast time, a 30 second cooldown, and does ~8600 damage.

Our ultimate stigma does less than half the damage of the average Flamsetrike, and we're talking whenever you have a 2 min cooldown erosion debuff up. The Erosion debuff, unlike Flame Fusion (10 sec cooldown, -150 fire resist debuff+damage), is on a 2 minute cooldown, as is Wrath Position (whereas their equivalent buff, either cast speed/mboost, is on a 30 sec cooldown and 20 sec duration, or a total of 10 sec downtime, not counting their flame robe boost and passives).

EDIT: It also appears that RO has less range than all the other commands. It's a 15m range ability, WTF.

2) Infernal Pain is bad as well . It does ~6kish total damage, OVER 15 SECONDS. Less total damage than Flamestrike, takes nearly 4 times as much to deal lower damage than Flamestrike, and it is vulnerable to dispels.

Not to mention the burst in the Infernal Pain route and damage as a whole is pretty damn bad. The only good thing about that path is the CC, which makes the Infernal Pain-- a sole damage spell-- so confusing in its placement in that tree.

3) Animations. Ruinous Offensive's animation, like with all pet commands, is TERRIBLE. It's bland, it's unimpressive. It's just a different little icon on top after the pet insipidly does the staple animation.

Infernal Pain, however, looks incredibly good. It shall be from now on deemed as Tentacle R@PE.

4) Commands are poorly implemented. They are not stand alone nukes, as they should. They're supposed to be our nukes. But how they function, they're powered up atuattacks since the commands clip autoattacks. That means that even if you pull off a 3.5k Detonation Claw, the nuke really only does ~2.5- 2.9k since it's eating up an autoattack (600-700 noncrit on a fully buffed pet, 1k-1.1k crits, while commands can't crit).

They should fix it so commands won't cut off autoattacks with their animation.

SM LVL 1 Fire Pet

Asomatous — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:19:02 GMT

Is it just me or does it look like a gay Ice Cream Cone on Wheels, ain't that the truth!

No flying pets in 1.5.1

NdranC — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:05:56 GMT

I don't know if someone already posted this, but i haven't see anything like it so far. This is from the last "Eye of the Community" from aiononline website.

Quote:

“There has been a rumor going around that SM [Spiritmaster] pets will soon be able to fly with us so we do not lose and have to resummon them every time we fly. Is this true, and if so, how soon?”

Spiritmasters should be delighted to know that the rumor is true! Contrary to some rumors, though, this enhancement will not be part of the 1.5.1 update that will be coming to the NA and EU servers in November. Spiritmaster pets will soon be able to fly and fight along your side while in the air, a feature that will obviously be quite beneficial within the Abyss. As before, you will still only be able to summon a pet while on the ground.

The development team in Korea has implemented the flying pet enhancement, and it’s working to bring the update to the NA and EU servers soon. We don’t have an estimate at this time as to when this update will be implemented in the West. However, we will be releasing more information in the coming weeks.

Do you want to be the one asking the Question of the Week next time? Drop us an e-mail with your question at aion_community@ncsoft.com.

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