CBT2 is over. Got questions? We've answers.

[Fleiva]

It was cool indeed, and it was dropped entirely, no idea why, you still can see runes in the bar tho, but its not as awesome :<

[Mark]

Originally Posted by lyankyj

I have a question:

Is the runic casting bar still in the game? (casting bar with those runic writings during spells)

Yes it is, Lyana. Just look REAL close at Zyuu's screenshots. It's now INSIDE the bar.

[Cherche]

Locked mobs, no trains.....may as well play eq2, etc. No thank you. i want to play a game with an element of surprise, good or bad. Not a single player with chat room type.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Cherche

Locked mobs, no trains.....may as well play eq2, etc. No thank you. i want to play a game with an element of surprise, good or bad. Not a single player with chat room type.

What are you talking about?

[omokiron]

The poster is referring to claimed mobs, clearly he had trouble expressing what he meant though. I believe he/she doesn't like that people can't kill steal or gank people left and right. He/she wants a game with more 'surprise' rather but explained it very badly and took it to an extreme suggesting that a fair playing environment is as boring as sitting in a single player chat room game. If I'm wrong I'm sure the above poster will explain further but that's what it looks like so far. I'm curious as to the reasoning though, aside from no 'surprise' where there's tons of surprise in even the biggest 'carebear' games, but I really rather prefer this not get into a debate thread since this is supposed to be an answer thread for CBT2.

[Nukie]

Some of the helmet I've seen in this game doesn't really match the rest of the player's armor. So my question is, do they have hide helmet option?

And yea...ss and sps is a turn off for me as well. I really hate such mechanic. If there's ever a petition to remove them I'll be one of the first to sign it.

[Irisviel]

Helm is considered as "accessary" in this game... which I am not too fond of. Basically, anybody can wear plate helm if they want to but then again, wearing plate helm as a caster would be stupid idea since plate helm only offers armor and little magic defence, while caster hats got bonus mana, concentration, etc. whatever the casters need.

[New_Satan]

Huh, same time as I'm felling about SS. Indeed, SS in Aion is a very very expensive items. 50 EA = 250 gina and it just give you only +10 damage (the cheap blue). I don't know about can crafting it or not. Someone will love to use it, if you are the rich enough :P. I understand why you fell don't like this system. However, when you are seeing many options in Aion, mana stone also can give you 10 more damages, enchant also give you more damages. As I said, monsters in Aion is very strong, you will lost a lot of money if you are spamming SS like crazy. Runic bars ?? I don't know about it sorry .

Remember this picture ? it is the effect when you are starting used SS.

[Mark]

So it's optional, not really required if you want to get anything done. There are many other ways to make more DPS other than SSs. That's good.

[AznKenshin]

I was worried about the confirmation of SS's reappearance for a moment. It's good to see that it's completely optional and considered luxury. As long as it stays this way, I'm happy.

[Dekar]

Nothing is considered a luxury when you find semi-serious people with a goal(i.e. raiding).

But with end-game more pvp oriented it should not be an issue and should not require of you 5 to 10 hours a week of grinding for raid enhencements.

[DeiViaRa]

*BIG sigh* uf, so releived to read the SS are optional ufffffff...

But now thinking of it, if they're very expensive its a great item, i mean, if you want to deal more damage, farm for your SS, but you're not obligated to use it to survive like in L2. That's great. Man, every time i see an asimodian i want to have my asimodian char, the red-eye effect when casting a spell is Friggin COOL

BTW, anyone can answer my other question? The one i asked about wich of the SM spirit is for, because in each place its said a different function for each spirit, so im confused.

[Nukie]

Hmm, I don't know about SS being optional thing. You may not see people use it at first..but say a year after release when people do have money...I bet you'll see the majority use them all the time in both PvE and PvP. So to stay competitive you're going to have to start using them as well.

[DeiViaRa]

Originally Posted by Nukie

Hmm, I don't know about SS being optional thing. You may not see people use it at first..but say a year after release when people do have money...I bet you'll see the majority use them all the time in both PvE and PvP. So to stay competitive you're going to have to start using them as well.

You're right. So Irisviel New_Satan or someone can post in the feedback thread in the oficial web a post against the Ss or something? XD

[Charlie]

yey SS 4tw!