AION : Initial Impressions

[leliel]

So I started playing Aion, dhc10 plans to join once he gets back from the field, and several of the folks from his old Soldiers of Legend guild are joining us for aerial Gnostic pixel-killing goodness. As has started to become my habit, a brief review

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[gldisater]

I fought with the game for a couple nights. Launcher sucks horribly at downloading and isn't using anything so fancy as bittorrent to ensure that it can resume or that the downloaded content is valid. But after some work (and 20GB of downloading, my 60GB monthly cap is gonna suck this month) I have forced Aion to bend to my will. I eventually found a link to download the ncpatch file that the launcher was trying to get and downloaded it with wget at 1.2MB/s unlike the 150KB/s that he launcher was doing.

http://aion.patcher.ncsoft.com/Aion/Main/Patches/
.ncpatch

[gldisater]

the link is supposed to be Patches/(patch filename here).ncpatch

[gldisater]

took 20mins and made a priest on lumiel, Khade already lvl3

[leliel]

Yay! I've gone back to my priest too, planning to make her a cleric even though they seem to be really common at this point. The survivability is incredible. She's partway through Ascension, and I'm really tempted to try to finish that up over lunch break today... :P

Not being able to add people offline is really annoying. At this point I'm about to have to make an offline list to just keep trying when I'm on >.<

[gldisater]

I think most people that make a priest are planning on making a cleric instead of a chanter. As I understand it chanter's are poor healers but heavy on buffs. I did perfer the 4 lvls of the priest more than the 7 of the mage. The surviability was night and day and the mana efficiency for smite seemed to be better than the mage's spells. The scouts are very squishy. The few lvls I tried they were just getting molested by even the lowly lvl 1 mobs we get to butcher at the start.