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I was squealing over minipets, playing Aion, and raging over epic fail Halloween events. Who knew it would be months without a new post? Let’s skip all the boring little details and fast forward to the good stuff.
1. I switched from a chanter to spiritmaster. Gear itemization in Aion sucks. There just isn’t enough easily attainable gear for chanters. Some of course might disagree with this and that’s fine but personally I had a hard time finding the gear I wanted and or needed to play my chanter to the best of my abilities. Now I’m not asking for gear to be handed to me on a silver platter but what I am asking for is more options for a certain play style so that you are able to play your class the way it was meant to be played. Most if not all gear is made for clerics and we value different stats. It made it difficult for me to enjoy playing the class.
2. I love my spiritmaster. Despite pets not scaling with gear and a few pet bugs I love the class. I’ve managed to get my spiritmaster to 42. A well played SM is one to be feared, pun very much intended.
3. They introduced the Aion “vision” trailer. With awesome visuals and the promise of the future. I was hyped. Then the lack of any kind of time frame on when said features would added to the game became a joke. “It’s coming soon but not that soon cause then it would be too soon.”
4. I haven’t played Aion in 2 weeks. Instead I’ve been playing Dragon Age. I am addicted. The idea of my actions affecting the outcome of the game fascinates me. As Bioware is the developer and also making the next Star Wars MMO I am intrigued by what the future holds for that game.
5. My subscription to Aion runs out tomorrow. I will not be renewing. I plan on finishing up Dragon Age and going back to WoW. Despite what some people like to call ezmode I still find some aspects of WoW challenging, especially raiding. My hope is to gear up as much as possible via the badge system and hopefully find a guild that is willing to take on someone who hasn’t played in awhile but willing to learn. I had high hopes for Aion but the closer I get to Aion’s endgame the more disappointed I become. A lot of people will complain about the grind. I am not going to sit here and say the grind didn’t get to me -however- I don’t believe that the grind is Aion’s biggest downfall. Lack of real end game content, poor gear itemization, the craptastic notion that RNG is the best way to reward players who’ve put in time and effort, and PvP that is neither fun nor challenging because people always believe “zerging is real PvP” are my reasons for Aion’s downfall. That and the above about the vague “coming soon” statements from community managers is frustrating. So rather than raging all over the forums I’m making my stand by just leaving. Not that my little subscription money not coming in anymore will change anything it damn sure makes me feel better.
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Next time on Girl vs MMO….will she actually go back to wow? Or will she start playing Mass Effect 2 instead and turn her back on MMOs forever? Or will she post her thoughts on Star Trek Online and why she didn’t buy the game? Tune in next time for these and other questions might actually be answered.
Heh, feel pretty much the same, minus the caring at all about Visions. I haven’t logged into Aion in about a month. I managed to hit 46 on my cleric, but lack of people willing to group together really turned me off. Can’t say that I blame them, no real incentive to do so, and in fact, penalties for pretty much all involved. My subscription ended a couple days ago, only reason I knew was because of email received stating so heh.
I did, however, sign up for Allods beta. Wondering if it’s just a lack in mmorpgs in general for me at this point.