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Good afternoon beautiful people, we're quite happy to announce that the fabled 1.9 patch will be making its' move to all Korean servers early next week (March 24th) which of course means it's just on the horizon for NA/Eu realms!

On that note I've decided to assemble a series of teasers to wet your mouths for the upcoming patch, bearing in mind this is the final big step before 2.0

I did intend for this to be a small little news piece taking 10-20 minutes to assemble but one thing led to another and... uhhh... yeah.



Some videos surfaced today showing off Templar's ever-so-slightly insane tanking ability in the realms of 1.9, my apologies for the audio quality - you can blame duowan(source) for that!

Batter up, batter up! First to the plate is a brave young Gladiator rocking out a +14 Commander Bakarma/Guardian Tribunus's Spear with a beastly base-accuracy of 1850 (A combined weapon, one of 1.9's new features)

This beast comes standard with an attack speed boost of 19%, +30 base Atk, Phys Crit + 57, PvPDmg + 10%.

It's also slotted with 2 +5 Atks and four Accuracy 25s! Best not forget the 2% paralyze stone either.

A second challenger appears, this time a gladiator wielding a +3 Tahabata/Guardian Tribunus Spear combination item. Whilst not as feisty as the previous contender it's certainly a nice item.

This beastly hybrid comes standard with an attack speed boost of 19%, +30 base Atk, Phys Crit + 52, PvPDmg + 10%.

Lacking the high natural accuracy the former weapon its' user has decided to slot her up with five +25 accuracy stones & a +5 Attack. If there's a godstone, which there probably is, it wasn't shared!

Our third participant is not only rocking a beast of a weapon, he's also transformed into a guardian diety adding a punch to his PvP damage! The weapon itself is a +11 Commander Bakarma/Guardian Tribunus Spear hybrid (Combination item)

Coming with a base bonus of 19% attack speed, Atk + 30, Phys Crit + 57, PvP Atk + 10%.

The user has decided to slot four +5 attack stones and two +15 physical crits. He also has a silence (8 sec, 5% prob) godstone although that's irrelevant for this video.

A battle of epic proportions, a daring assassin engages the auto-attack battle with our Templar friend.

Unfortunately the source for this video didn't include a screencap of his weapons although we do know he's wielding a +10 and +9 Tahabata dagger.

Alas the autoattack Battle Royale doesn't quite settle the debate on how the pending changes to stun's effectiveness will effect the PvP scene on any scale but that's something we'll have to find out for ourselves! Experimentation is a great tool for overcoming seemingly endless obstacles

(Translating this as I go, any Korean speakers are welcome to correct me if I'm wrong about anything! Bearing in mind that I reworded everything with my own weird writing style. Source)

Amongst the other things added to the 1.9 test server was the introduction of new wings. 11 quests were also added which can be completed to receive varying quantities of Abyss Tokens(?), these tokens can be exchanged at the reward center and used to obtain new wings. Some of these wings even include HP/Mana bonuses ranging as high as +180

Available in both Elysium and Pande an NPC by the name of 이도메네우스 (We'll call him Steve) has a variety of lovely wings available for purchase. One could assume this will simply be the existing wing NPCs we have now in NA. (Whose names I couldn't possibly tell you, Steve is much better anyway.)

There's also some mention of obtaining special wings through the aforementioned 11 quests using quest tokens, details will be provided in the following section.

Rumor has it these wings may have time-limits before they expire, I haven't found anything to confirm or deny that yet.

If anyone knows feel free to share!

Please note that I have used all Korean wordings for the wings since most don't have NA ones yet and NCWest keeps changing things around -.- Also if you're particularly switched on you'll notice I haven't given separate names for the Asmo/Elyos wings, most of you can't read Korean so that would have been a total waste of space (much like this rant)

To figure out which images match which wings simply look at the Sty#'s, you'll notice the images below will have matching ones.












And so concludes my lovely translation.

Doing a quick dig for other interesting tidbits I came across an article from our lovely translator ThatsTooBad regarding the subject of crit resistance (something that's been heating a lot of fires lately)

It more or less boils down to Critical Attack Chance - Critical Resistance Chance = Actual Critical Chance

Having said that there's some interesting figures in the article along with the mechanics behind magic crit so be sure to check it out! - [Test Server] Critical Resistance



OK... getting tired... gotta keep... going o.o

Below you'll find yet another TL;DR in the form of the 1.9 patch notes, details mentioned there.

Sheesh... why on earth did I decide to write so much today!?

Later,
Cynic - Might be unconscious now.

Yes hello operator? I'd like to report an incident...

From the realms of NCSoft comes a rather... strange video today featuring Tamat & Liv amongst others on the subject of RMT trading. A slight improvement on the Valentines day one in my opinion so be sure to check it out!



Greetings Daevas

One of the guiding principles we have here at NCsoft is that our customers come first. A major challenge that we face in the gaming industry today is the use and abuse of an evil known as real money trading (RMT). We’re in the middle of a war, a war that we fight because of the adverse effects RMT can have on you, our loyal customers.

You see, RMT doesn’t start and stop with a simple transaction. That’s just the beginning. After that first transaction, the same companies that offer Kinah, power-leveling, and preleveled characters continue to do anything and everything they can to use the information that you have given to them to steal, spam, bot, and ultimately destroy your gaming experience and the experience of others.

Because of that, we have a firm stance against the use of RMT, a policy enforced by our good friend, the Banhamminator!



It doesn’t matter what game you play. If you or someone you know is using the services of RMT companies, you run the risk of losing everything you’ve worked so hard for. Worse still, you could be banhamminated.

The more you know, the more you’ll MMO.

Stay safe, Daevas,

—The Aion Community Team



Lets try to keep this thread relatively non-heated alright kiddies? Don't make me bust out one of those hammers...

I wonder if NCSoft has one for sale... -checks ebay-

Later,
-Cynic.

All NA Servers will be restarted in 50 minutes for emergency maintenance. The restart shouldn't take longer than 30 minutes. Thanks in advance for your patience and our apologies for this inconvenience.

From: AionOnline

We are bringing the Aion servers down at 3:30 a.m. PDT, March 17, 2010 (more) for maintenance.

During this downtime we will be applying a number of fixes to the game which you may find listed in the PowerWiki.

We estimate it to take no longer than 3 hours.

Thank you for your patience!

-The Aion Community Team



Patch Notes [Client] 1.5.1.14 [Language] 1.0.0.14

Quest

• Ceremony of the Wise – Fixed load fail error received when talking to one of the NPC’s (Wasn’t blocking to quest completion)
  
• Bring Me Down – Fixed creature name duplication which was confusing to quest progression
  
• [Coin]Obstacle to Cultivation – Can now be completed by Scout classes (Ranger and Assassin)
  
• Deformed Malek – Quest item now drops and can be completed
  
• [Manastone]: Manastone Recycling – Fixed load fail error received after completing once; can now attempt multiple times
  
• Several grammatical issues corrected

Items

• Expert Major Accessory Flux – Level 33 and 43 no longer share the same name, the level 43 item was renamed to “Superb”

UI

• Server Selection now displays Language and Time Zone

Misc

• Tashunerk’s Wing Feather has been renamed to Tashunerk’s Bright Wing Feather
  
• Abyss Wing Feather has been renamed to Dark Abyssal Wing Feather
  
• Black Cloud Wing Feather has been renamed to Glorious Black Cloud Wing Feather
  
• Tashunerk’s Wing Feather has been renamed to Tashunerk’s Glowing Wing Feather
  
• Abyssal Wing Feather has been renamed to Shaded Abyssal Wing Feather
  
• Wing of Soaring has been renamed to Soaring Wing Feather
  
• Divine Weapon has been renamed to Daevanion Weapon
  
• Divine Armor has been renamed to Daevanion Armor
  
• Other item name changes include:
  
  • Craft: Daevanion Mist Detector
    
  • Design: Daevanion Mist Detector

Nothing too major as to be expected for a low-tier patch although it's great to see the flux market will be slightly less confusing for crafters now

Thoughts?

-Cynic.

Hey everyone-

Looks like something special is in store for tomorrow (which for those who aren't inebriated yet or just aren't Irish is St. Patrick's Day) on Aion servers. Our friendly CM, Tamat gives us the low down:



From www.AionOnline.com


Fergus McGreedy has lived an interesting life. His eye for gold and wealth has taken him both near and far. His treasure chests are filled with riches from Elysea and Asmodae... even the Abyss itself. Over the years, Fergus has become a well-known character in Atreia; after all, how could anyone possibly miss a leprechaun dressed in green suit and top hat, lounging around a chest larger than himself?

Unfortunately, Fergus' fame has also resulted in him attracting attention from less pleasant members of Atreian society. Shugo bankers have long sought to get their hands on his riches, but were only recently able to uncover a relevant loophole in the Elyos and Asmodian tax systems. Following this recent revelation, a horde of Shugo tax collectors have started chasing after Fergus, looking to take the wee man's hard-earned Kinah.

Now, Leprechauns have never been particularly fond of people, and under normal circumstances would never give their gold away, but in this rather delicate situation Fergus decided to make an exception: He will give some of his gold away to his fellow leprechauns... but only so he can keep the rest!

Here's where you come in, loyal Daevas. Fergus recently lost his glasses while hiding from a particularly scary Krall tax collector in Poeta, and now spends his days spinning his tales to lampposts, mannequins and empty chairs. He's still desperate to pass on his taxable income though, and rumours abound that Fergus, blind as he is, has been handing out some of his wealth to anyone dressed in green.

If you want to see him and hear of his past adventures, Fergus will be in the Apellbine and Dionysia taverns of Pandaemonium and Sanctum on Wednesday (March 17, 2010), sometime between 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m CDT. Be on your guard, though, and bring your sword; rumours say he has a mysterious ability to bring past memories to life!

You will get some dye to help disguise yourself when you log in to meet with Fergus McGreedy. You will however be able to get the dye through Thursday March 18, 2010, even if you miss him.



So go get your green on and be sure to screenshot it and post it here along with any fun stories that happen along the way!