[Nobody]

Many thanks to our Korean translator Kalsteine for his work on the full 3.5 patch note translation. The original text for the translation appears on the Korean Aion official site as a posted announcement for the test server. People who are logged into the system also receive a video that covers the whole screen upon login that shows the 3.5 patch in around 25 seconds worth of moving text (don't ask me why, I don't know). The main feature of the patch is the 2v2v2 arena, shown in this video. Much thanks go out to Aksi for uploading the videos.



The second main point of interest are the new rifts in time in Brusthonin and Theobomos that are only open at very select times. In the Korean game these are called space disruptions and the text used to describe them is different from the way rifts are described. A universal instance system has also been added so that people no longer need to painfully search for groups from just their server. This has been needed for a long time.

Please note that when reading the patch notes below, the names of dungeons and mobs are the direct translations from Korean and may not match up to localization efforts for different territories.

3.5 Update: The one who faced Tiamat

Dungeons

Citadel of Tiamat Dungeon

This dungeon is inside the Eye of Tiamat and has entrances made for each faction. The required level to enter this dungeon is lv60 and the cooldown resets every morning of 9AM with no entrance quests. It also has a player limit of 6.

Dragon Lord’s Sanctuary

This dungeon is also inside the Eye of Tiamat and different entrances for each faction. The required level to enter this dungeon is 60 and the cooldown resets every 40 hours after the entry with a player limit of 12.

The third crucible: Arena of Cooperation.

This instance is a pvp arena that is designed for 2v2v2, which makes you battle it out with your foes within a set time. There are total of 3 rounds and each round ends if the time is up or one of the team reaches the set points.

• For entry you need an ‘Arena of Cooperation Entry Ticket’ to enter and the required level to enter is 46 and up with a different level range for matchmaking.
  
• You can’t enter with a high level friend who is not in your level range for matchmaking.
  
• Entry types: Personal Training, Quick Training and Group training.
  
• Level Brackets: 46 ~ 50, 51 ~ 55 and 56 ~ 60
  
• Rewards: Temper Medal of Bravery, Abyssal Points
  
• You can only enter the Arena of Cooperation during certain times and Arena of Chaos/Solitude’s entry time has also changed to the same. These times are weekdays: Noon ~ 2PM, 8PM ~ 2AM as well as on weekends: Noon ~ 2AM.

3rd Crucible: Arena of Glory

• The Arena of Glory’s game mechanic is for 4 people enter the same arena (can be different races) and battle out with each other. There are a total of 3 rounds and each round will end if the time runs out or someone reaches the goal point.
  
• The entry ticket is given to the 1st and 2nd place of Arena of Chaos and the 1st place of the Arena of Cooperation. The lowest level possible for entry is level 56.
  
• You need 3 ‘Arena of Glory Entry ticket’ to enter
  
• Entry Types: New Training, Quick training
  
• Level bracket: 56 ~ 60
  
• Rewards: Mythril Medal, White Gold Medal, Insignia of Glory, Abyssal Point
  
• Entry Time: 8PM ~ 10PM

Space Disruption

• Using the Space Disruption, Elyos players can go to Brusthonin and Asmodians to Theobomos.
  
• Space Disruptions only occur on Mon, Wed, Fri and Saturday from 10PM to 12AM (2 hours).
  
• When the Space Disruption is going around, any type of PvP protection around the area dissipates.
  
• Space disruptions end if the 2 hours are up or the faction destroys the opposite faction’s Space Disruption creator.
  
• Once the Space disruption ends, all infiltrating players will be teleported to the Temper Training Facility.

Rifts

Now up to level 60 players can use rifts. Race protection for Eltnen, Heiron, Morheim and Beluslan areas have disappeared and you will no longer will get a debuff if your level is high.

Mounts

• New mounts were added
  
• You will now be able to destroy mounts that you were not able to sell to vendors.
  
• Fixed graphical issues for some of the mounts.

Housing

• Town growth system: There will be notice boards in Elian / Fernon areas that give quests. Once you complete that quest your town will grow just a little bit.
  
• New appearances for the houses: You can now change the appearance of your house through the sign outside your house or through your butler. Each rank has its own unique look.
  
  
  From top left going clockwise: Regular Leaf House, High Quality Leaf House, Luxurious Leaf House and Grand Leaf Mansion
  
  
• Once you use ‘Teleport to House’, there will be an added function where you will be able to return to the same place where you used the ‘Teleport to House’ item at.
  
• Added a furniture dye item
  
• Increased the amount of furniture you can add for the Luxurious House to 60 from 50 and Grand Mansion to 90 from 70.

Legions

• Increased the level cap of Legions to 8 from 5.
  
  • Level 6 Legion from level 5 will require 50,000,000 Kinah(Amount varies by tax rates) with a minimum of 6 members and 2,500,000 contribution points.
    
  • Level 7 Legion from level 6 will require 75,000,000 Kinah(Amount varies by tax rates) with a minimum of 6 members and 12,500,000 contribution points.
    
  • Level 8 Legion from level 7 will require 100,000,000 Kinah(Amount varies by tax rates) with a minimum of 6 members and 62,500,000 contribution points.
    
  • New Legion member / storage cap for all levels: Level 6, 180 members and 64 storage slots. Level 7, 210 members and 72 storage slots. Level 8, 240 members and 80 storage slots.
  
  
  
• Legion Side quests were added
  
  • You attain legion side quests once your Legion goes over level 5.
    
  • There are multiple branching quests that are below the side quests and depending on how many times the members of the legion complete the quests it will decide if the quest is complete or not.
    
  • Once the side quest is completed you will receive rewards depending on your contribution points.
    
  • You can also receive Legion Currency through doing the side quests.
    
  • However, you will not be able to do any Legion Side quests in the United Rookie server.
  
  
  
• Once your Legion goes over level 6 you will be able to spend your Legion Currency to buy items from the Legion Item Vendor.

United Rookie Server

[Editors note: only the Korean region has this server. It does not exist for the other regions.]

Increased the areas the united rookie server will offer:

• You can now roam the areas of Theobomos for Elyos and Brusthonin for Asmodians.
  
• You can now access the Secret Research Base and Adma’s Citadel.

United Instance Server System

Added the united instance server system

• You can now find party members from all servers and now the queue will be much quicker than before.
  
• There are some added buffs for using this system: EXP and item drop rates will increase and the buff ‘Promise of Victory’ will be even stronger, but it will vary depending on the dungeon. PvP instances won’t see these benefits.
  
• Here are some of the dungeons that are affected by this: (You will need to correct me on many of the dungeon names.) Nochsana Training Facility, Fire Temple, Dark Poeta, Theobomos Secret Research Facility, Adma’s Citadel, Draupnir’s Cave, Iron Rake, Abandoned Udas Temple, Udas Temple Basement, Dredgion, Chantra Dredgion, Sadha Dredgion, 1st Crucible, Arena of Solitude, Training Ground of Solitude, Arena of Glory, Arena of Chaos, Training Facility of Chaos, Arena of Cooperation, Training Facility of Cooperation.

User Interface

• You can now add people to your friends list even if they are offline.
  
• You can now add/ignore people on your friends list in the united rookie server, even if they are in a different server.
  
• You can now share the friends and ignore lists from different characters as long as they are on the same account.
  
• Normal servers won’t allow players to add players from different servers, however the United Rookie server players won’t be able add offline players to their friends list.
  
• New Emoticon window has been added.
  
  
  
  
• Now you will be able to bring up an individual member’s status bar through the Alliance Menu.
  
  
  
  
• We’ve added the option to add either the normal server or the Rookie server to make experience more enjoyable.
  
  
  
  
• You will now be able to view people’s AP in the united rookie server.
  
• Cooldowns will show properly with the skill icons.
  
  
  
  
• Changed a little of how the Flight Master displays the flight points.
  
  

[Aurion]

Well it's always nice to know some people can actually experience 3.X content.

[No,you.]

Nobody, on 11 June 2012 - 10:39 AM, said:

[*] Here are some of the dungeons that are affected by this: Dredgion, Chantra Dredgion, Sadha Dredgion, 1st Crucible, Arena of Solitude, Training Ground of Solitude, Arena of Glory, Arena of Chaos, Training Facility of Chaos, Arena of Cooperation, Training Facility of Cooperation.
[/list]

OH MY nyerkING GOD



















Oh wait, Gameforge / NCSoft, we don't even have the rookie servers and the 2.0 weekly titles

[lleuwelyn]

no changes in skills?

[Nobody]

lleuwelyn, on 11 June 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

no changes in skills?

Nothing mentioned in the patch notes. In the past occasionally they have changed something and it was never noted in their patch notes, so no promises.

[MechWarriorBK]

5 years for EU until we get this xD

[Mihomine]

Quote

(don't ask me why, I don't know)

I do know why :

Low content, trying to make it look cool with a video full of effect.


Aion.

[psimate]

At first I got excited, later I realized that I live in EU... :silly:

[MissJupiter]

the united instance server is really nice, but it will take ages till we have it :s

around how much time there was between 3.0 and 3.5 for KR aion ?

[Shinju]

The new manastones are missing in the patch notes.

[cristal0]

because they dont exist in-game

[Shinju]

Manastones lvl 70 are also added in 3.5.

[Nobody]

Shinju, on 12 June 2012 - 05:50 AM, said:

Manastones lvl 70 are also added in 3.5.

No, no they weren't. The images going around are most likely from a private server. While I will double check other channels just to be triple sure, when Aksi says there are no new manastones, she means that there are no new manastones. After all, she plays on a Korean server.

Edit: I had another source check the Korean test server. There are no level 70 manastones on the AH at all. Only level 60 and lower. It's possible that the level 70 stones are a possibility for the future, but it's not this patch.

[cristal0]

Shinju, on 12 June 2012 - 05:50 AM, said:

Manastones lvl 70 are also added in 3.5.

how i love when people that know nyerk about stuff like that are correcting me
it makes me laugh

[Nobody]

cristal0, on 12 June 2012 - 10:17 AM, said:

how i love when people that know nyerk about stuff like that are correcting me
it makes me laugh

It's actually a reasonable mistake - I went back and looked and the image that was posted comes from the original Aion KR site. I have no idea if it's a joke or an "in the future" sort of thing. It's just not a part of this patch.

[cristal0]

i know those manastones are linkable just like "Fabled Sword07" [item: 100000907] but that doesnt mean you can get it

[Nobody]

cristal0, on 12 June 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

i know those manastones are linkable just like "Fabled Sword07" [item: 100000907] but that doesnt mean you can get it

True, it could be for testing purposes. Wasn't thinking about that.

[Shinju]

cristal0, on 12 June 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

i know those manastones are linkable just like "Fabled Sword07" [item: 100000907] but that doesnt mean you can get it

Might be that then.

[Phoenix Pinion]

Just want to make sure I am reading these right, so they are getting rid of all rift buffs even in the non-pvp zones? Really I thought we were getting passed this. Looks like they want to lose a ton of subs again.

[Nobody]

Phoenix Pinion, on 13 June 2012 - 06:21 AM, said:

Just want to make sure I am reading these right, so they are getting rid of all rift buffs even in the non-pvp zones? Really I thought we were getting passed this. Looks like they want to lose a ton of subs again.

Remember that they have the rookie leveling server, which we don't have. People can go and level in safety on the rookie server, so it makes sense to set the regular realms back to pvp zones again to encourage re-use of the lower level zones and spread out the population a little bit.

I don't know how any of this will work when it gets to NA/EU because we don't have the rookie server.