[Veles]

Here are some rumors for February:

http://news.mmosite...._february.shtml

It looks similar to to 1.8 leaked patch notes.

Increasing level cap to 55!?

/Discuss

[Stof]

No problem for me as long as they rebalance the time for level 1-50 now to be similar to the time for 1-55 after.

This post has been edited by Stof: 02 February 2010 - 09:20 AM

[Theory]

Awesome, finally all the lodas amulets I didn't get to use (I seriously have at least 20 in my bank) will be put to good use!

[Kukimuki]

BLABLABLA DEAD GAME FAIL KOREANS STUPID ASIA GRIND CONTENT BROKEN BUGS CS BLABLA....


...wait what?

Anyways, pretty expected imo. Should have just releaced more info about that, not how its been done so far and is prolly done in future.

IF its true.


But atleast ill be first to speculate, what if 1.8 is a standalone patch7expansion coming BEFORE 2.0. Prolly not but :hmm:

[heartofetaine]

Details for the lazy:

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Are you expecting the new expansion of Aion? Recently in Taiwan, someone just revealed some latest update contents about Aion2.0 (Now we are playing Aion 1.5)

The following are the details(they seems reasonable and possible to come in the next expansion)

Level Cap will be lvl 55;
Talent System (New): From lvl50, players can get one point per level;
New weapons and corresponding skills, each class will have about 3 new skills;
New Guild Skill for Guild Leader only;
New Maps for Elyos and Asmodians;
New Abyss map on the ground;
New lvl 60 Manastone;
New Instance: Alatr in the Water(Translated from Chinese)
New 24 people Guild Raid

Full size I can't wait to see the new expansion. I will try to check this and find the exact info.

Seems like the rumored 1.8 was pretty close to being right.

[Resin]

Exciting stuff. Hopefully we can get some official word on this soon.
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[Pluxus]

Raised levelcap is a lazy fix adding just more grinding while trying to pass it off as content. Unless 2.0 actually addresses the issues people are quitting over, Aion will just continue to sink here in the west. Hell, most people who bought the game at launch quitted way before they got close to 50, just imagine trying to convince any of them to come back with "hey they raised lvlcap to 55 now!"...

[Knite]

News is up here with the articles.

[teiranis]

Wow, sounds good. I too hope this is mostly legit. Id also like to point out it only took 6 whole posts before the content patch information, which isn't official, got bashed. GOGO!!!

[Resin]

New Instance: Alatr in the Water(Translated from Chinese)

Hopefully means we will be getting underwater areas and swimming.
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[MooMooCow]

I hope they add a skill similar to Kiss of Eva from L2 into this game. Man I loved that buff.

[Zebedee]

Nice find Veles baby =)

[Gedrina]

Agree about level cap raises, stupid practice and I don't know why so many MMOs do this

Consumer: I'm at level cap theres nothing to do!

Company: we're working on it!

Company adds in a little more content, some fixes, adds a few grinds

Consumer: I want more! I'm finished with all this now!

Company raises the level cap and puts in one new instance at cap because their rushing it out

a month goes by...

Consumer: I'm at level cap theres nothing to do!

Laver rinse and repeat until the new gamer coming to the MMO is completely overwhelmed with the grind ahead. No new subs, long timers slowly drift away, as the money and therefore development of the game dries up

It's not a good model, I know no MMO is forever, but one of my favourites (another NCsoft game) city of heroes/villains has raised the level cap once and that was only a few months into the games life. It's now 6 years old just about, still going strong and releasing a new expansion in a few months (which won't raise the level cap)

But I'll put up with it, I'm really enjoying Aion at the moment and think it's got great potential :)

Other stuff looks good, looking forward to this hitting overall!

[Resin]

How much you want to bet that new content NCWest was going to announce to us this month is this. Hmm...
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[Veles]

One of guild mates found this, so I wanted to share it and maybe get CM`s to throw us a bone :)

[Kerte]

Level 60 manastones
I hope us experts in Alchemy will have the relevant recipes to transform 2x50 manastones into 60 ones.

[MooMooCow]

What's wrong with a new level cap? It'll be at least another half a year before we actually see this patch. Having nearly a full year to grind up to level 50 is pretty fucking easy.

[Kerte]

MooMooCow said:

What's wrong with a new level cap? It'll be at least another half a year before we actually see this patch. Having nearly a full year to grind up to level 50 is pretty fucking easy.

I don't like a new level cap either. I haven't even finished my Fenris set, I'm still working on it, and been at it since November!

Is the new content going to be luck based too?

[MooMooCow]

Kerte said:

I don't like a new level cap either. I haven't even finished my Fenris set, I'm still working on it, and been at it since November!

Is the new content going to be luck based too?

RNG worked so far right? Why fix something that isn't broken.


Hmm..... does that mean level 60 manastones will be produced by Expert Alchemy?

This post has been edited by MooMooCow: 02 February 2010 - 11:28 AM

[Kerte]

MooMooCow said:

Hmm..... does that mean level 60 manastones will be produced by Expert Alchemy?

I hope so, atm Expert Alchemist are worthless, I had to do it to get Fenris going (since I learned too late you can't cancel out from it), but other than that, there isn't really anything worthwhile for us in the Expert levels.

So I would assume level 60 stones would be, say, 440 expert recipes, since the level 50 ones are 390.

And ofc I'm assuming they drop from level 51+ mobs as well.