Class Overview: Spiritmaster

[Zinrae]

Well, it seems it's time for NCSoft to start revealing the official names for our Aion classes. And the first one on the list is the Spiritmaster, previously known as the Elementalist. More classes to come sometime soon.

MEDIT: Videos you've already seen before, but here they are anyhow...

YouTube - AION Elemental - Fire
YouTube - AION Elemental - Earth
YouTube - AION Elemental - Water

Originally Posted by NCsoft

Of all the character classes available to play as in Aion: The Tower of Eternity, NCsoft’s amazing new online RPG, the mysterious Spiritmaster is one of the most intriguing. Using powerful magics derived from the forces of nature, 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.

The Spiritmaster’s chief responsibility is to summon and control elemental spirits, powerful forms of nature incarnate. This is done through a series of specific commands, such as attack and defend, that can be given via a simple onscreen control system. Other, more specialised and yet to be revealed commands exist beyond these basic controls, with each form of elemental spirit having its own unique skills and abilities.

The challenge for the Spiritmaster comes from recognising which element to call on at any given time. Earth spirits are strong in defence abilities, Fire spirits specialise in ranged attacks, Water spirits concentrate on healing powers while Wind spirits are best utilised in melee attacks. While it’s not possible to control different types of elemental spirits at the same time – Spiritmaster’s cannot control both an Earth and Water spirit simultaneously, for instance – by summoning the correct spirit for the situation in hand, Spiritmasters have the power to turn even the most desperate battles into a complete rout of the enemy. A situation that could prove immensely useful when adventurers come up against some of the more powerful rogue elemental spirits that wander Aion’s immense and incredibly detailed game world.

Aion: The Tower of Eternity is set to begin closed Beta-testing early 2008 and will release later in the year.

Thanks as usual for the news scoop Ayase .

Edit: As some of you may remember, we had a thread a while back about localized class names, and whether they should be the same in all regions or not. Along with the English press release, Ayase also attached the German, Spanish, Italian and Polish versions. Of the four, Spanish, Italian, and Polish appear to all use the Spiritmaster name. Only German was different, with Beschwörer (which Google tells me means Summoner).

[knite16]

Horray for info. Thats like.. 3 news items in 2 days. I'm pleased =)


Thanks Mark and Ayase!

EDIT: Thanks Zin!

[Fayeth]

Thanks Zinrae and Ayase

Good news all around

[Diablo]

Silly Knite.

[Marchosias]

YES! I was hoping the elementals would work like this (it's true! go back and look, I swear). I was wrong about fire and wind, unfortunately (I figured fire would be AoE damage and wind single, rather than ranged/melee attacks, but I did know they'd both be damage), but I'm still very pleased. Basically this means that the summoner is going to be a sort of jack of all trades, master of none class. He'll be able to fill whatever role the party needs in a given situation (if a boss fight needs more healing, whip out the water elemental, need an offtank? whip out the earth). Definitely opens up a lot of possibilities in a group setting.

Oh yah, and I like the name, too. Really looking forward to hearing more official names so we can stop correcting people with the generic ones

[Blitzace]

Spiritmaster sounds fine with me At least it's basic and not corny lol.. and the versitility of SM (Spiritmaster.. SM- Good Abrev..?) anyways lol , seems SM will be a good overall job, who wants to be involved on all battle aspects of the game.:P

although Im sure the other Aion jobs will have some sort of healing abil.. to keep soloing concept alive... Thank you Zin for the good info

[Diablo]

Originally Posted by Blitzace

SM- Good Abrev

Only if you are a sado-masochist.

[osric]

awesome info. it's nice to have official word on a class, but even the generic descriptions we've had so far make all of them sound really interesting.

[srinknorei]

where was this originally posted or released?

i can't wait to hear what they have to say about the other classes. the spiritmaster sounds like fun, but 'm more of a melee girl =)

[Blitzace]

lol Diablo, Sadomasochism , no Thanks.. SM Is basic and easy to remember, short easy abreviations FTW!! and ya I dont know how I could deprive of you sexual gratification by posting that , but hey it's your body ><

[tracer]

nice sounding name and like how the SM's are gonna work
hope we get the others soon ^^ ( and some asmodian info too )

[lyankyj]

The other names will be disclosed soon. (few days)

Well, i thought they will use fictive language, that would have been more elegant IMO, but im glad with Spiritmaster too!

[Zinrae]

Originally Posted by srinknorei

where was this originally posted or released?

It was in an email Ayase sent out, I'm not sure if it's actually been posted anywhere.

[Haubix]

Thanks alot! Now I'm again undecided between Spiritmaster and Assassin

[lyankyj]

Question: The original article starts with:
"Brand new video footage shows off the power of the elementals
in NCsoft’s stunning new MMORPG, Aion: The Tower of Eternity"

Where's that vid?! )