Elliot in aion, A BLog

I hope you were all overloaded with presents :P Sadly, it’s been a very dark week for Aion this Christmas. Several more issues arose.

• - Emergence of speed / melee damage increase hacks.
• - Lack of game content
• - Boring Abyss

The hacks were around for little more than a week. They just started becoming more obvious now. NCsoft hasn’t responded to these hacks yet. As for game content, there’s very little you can do once you reach 45. Basically, you grind to lvl 45, grind Temple of Flames about 100 times until you get your Unique weapon(disgusting drop rate they say) then you just gank people in Abyss all day. There’s several problems with abyss as well. As 하야덴 guy made front page on every single Aion fansites with his fancy transformation, people became more desperate to rank up their abyss rank, and in a game with broken class balance, its kind of hard to do for a lot of people, so they are turning to other methods; such as Fortress guard farming – which refers to people hanging around fortresses just to kill the guards around it. Fortress guards are regarded as special mobs and drop extra abyss points. Another thing with this is that it discourages people from participating in fortress seiges, as you’d need the other side to be in control of the fortress in order to farm the guards. Also, several people were seen farming points from each other. Oh and speaking of 하야덴, this is where this guy is right now.

Link to his armory

almost 1 million abyss points.  He now has 115k hp when he’s transformed. Combined with Cleric’s 2k DP skill that instantly heals 50% hp/mp, he’s basically invincible. He raked around 500 kills just today alone.

Link to a vid of him

Also, the damage of your aoe spells and reflection spells that you can use during transformation increases with your rank.

Aion is a funny game where top PvPer is a healer.

I really  have a problem with this ranking system. In order to get this transformation skill, you need to get to rank 5 lietanent, but as more and more people get to end game, there’s gonna be a lot of people with lot of points. The number limit to these ranks will lead to these top ranks being very competitive and hard to get. This means about 99% of you will never get to use that transformation. Note that there ’s gonna be around 100 people on each side with these transformations. Judging by how 하야덴 is single handedly wiping the floor with Elyos, you can see how abyss is going to be like when there’s even 100 of them around. It’s going to be like one epic playground for the top 1% of the players, where those guardians AOE everyone else to death.

That’s only if both sides get to get enough high ranks, but what if one faction completely dominates the other? Say a group of hardcore PvP people move in to your server. They play/bot 24/7 their way up to 45 before anybody else. Then they start limiting access to the good abyss regions. What can you do if you’re on the losing team? Can you beat players with 115k hp? or even 200k+ if they’re commander in chief? (Note that a lvl 45 templar has 5.5k max hp other classes have even less) This rank system is a breeding ground for assholes to ruin the game for everyone. I don’t know if NCsoft prefers this type of game style like L2 where assholes rule or they’re a group of idiots.

If Aion grinding involved around Instanced dungeons, botting and assholes would matter less, but because NCsoft decided to take field PvE for Aion, they become HUGE issues. Bots are farming away at field raid spawns and wherever place drops decent loots. When players turn to abyss for botfree PvE, they are faced with 115k hp 햐야덴 monsters. Do you guys see what I’m trying to say?

Oh yes, and bots are still there, and they now grind in parties. I think its suffice to say, Aion dev team ruined Christmas for a lot of people.

Hey don’t lose  hope, at least we are not the ones paying for this game at this pitiful state.