The other night I went into Fire Temple with a few of my legion mates. I was lucky enough to face Vile Judge Kormede at the end, not once but TWICE! Eeeeeeeee!!!! Yes I am a lore geek and I squealed with delight on vent when I saw her. I’ve been holding off posting this only because I wanted to put up some info on her as well. Unfortunately I lost my link to the Aion Lore Wiki I found a while back that had her full story and I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I love it when we get to go up against iconic in game characters. What I can tell you is she didn’t drop a damn thing the two times we killed her that night.
My orginal goal was to hit level 25 within the first week but as they say the best laid plans. Not really sure what the rest of the saying is but whatever. Last night after grueling repeatable quests I finally hit level 25. A few of my friends and I had run out of quests around level 24. I’ve found that soloing by far nets you the best xp but let’s face it this is an MMO and soloing gets boring after awhile. In theory if you are gathering, crafting, and questing it should be ok but one doesn’t always have the option to do first too which was what happened to me. Due to ques I had to make the best of my time as possible.
After hitting level 25 I ran over to Sanctum and did my “quiz” where you run back and forth from person to person in the library answering questions. Thankfully I did all of this in open beta plus I’m a bit of a lore nut so I knew all the answers. After that is the quest to prove yourself, by far the fight in the dugeon under the arena is the easiest of the three but honestly I’ve only done the other one that sends you to Veteron to hunt for that little short midget general. Speaking of why the hell is he so little. I feel like I should put him on my knee and bounce him up and down. Well after you do the fighting portion the next part of the test is to take the flying quest. Which in and of itself is easy but they hide that last damn ring and I totally forgot about it and failed the test…twice. >.< Well after that was all said and done and midget general gave me the a-o-k off to the abyss I went. The place still amazes me. The idea of free flight, although limited at times, is so much fun. Being the explorer that I am I just want to fly all around but that’s not possible because the abyss is open PvP.
And this is where our joyous omg I’m 25 and I can go to the abyss with the big kids comes to an end. I might have a different mindset than others. I am of course by no means an expert when it comes to PvP and all that. One thing I do know is that you come after me regardless of the numbers I’m going to go down fighting. I’m not going to run away and be all “oh noes you haz PvPs and my PvEs.” That’s not why I’m playing Aion. If I wanted purely PvE there are plenty of games out there for that. Last night when my friends and I picked up some quests we flew out to this one area to see a huge hunting party of Asmodians. They were gunning right for us. I died. I came back. I noticed that the other Elyos in the area were running away. I died again, mainly my fault as I got seperated from our main healer and my own personal heals aren’t strong enough to outstand getting jumped on by 5 people. I came back again and finally we worked together with a group of other people and pushed the Asmodians back. I’m just hoping that running away is just an isolated incident. I’d hate to be part of the carebear camp in a PvPcentric game.
In about 3 hours the servers should be live for Aion’s head start. This is it folks. There will probably be a mad dash to the login screen, the servers are more than likely explode, and as I type this it seems as if the Aion site is down due to high amounts of traffic. Personally I think they took it down to put up all those new goodies they spoke about last week. I can’t wait to play and the excitement is building within the Aion community. My tweetdeck is going crazy right now as I have #Aion saved as a search. It’s been fun watching all the different people talk about Aion and the community of players have been very helpful towards one another. I’m still surprised by the amount of Asmodians, where the heck is the Elyos love. Either way if you are a gamer this is one to watch to be sure. With 400k in pre-orders and it being extremely popular over in Korea since the release back in November I’m sure this game will be around for awhile.
*Update* And I was right the did update the website with all the goodies. Make sure you check it out. Loads of stuff to see while we wait.
Well the day started with excitement. I pre-ordered Aion months ago so I knew all about the pre-selection that would happen today. My friends and I planned during open beta which server we would be on. It was a well planned and thought out process. Okay not really we just pinned a tail on a donkey and called it a day. LOL. Kidding. Either way the server was picked and today when I got home I was ready. However that was what awaited me when I tried to make my character. While I understand the reasoning behind trying to balance the servers its still really frustrating. Liv, associate producer for Aion, has assured us that the servers that are locked will be open again once head start begins. So at least I have that to hold me over. Balancing will still take place during that time, I’m sure, so its just a question of will I be able to make an Elyos on Triniel.
And speaking of balancing I’m surprised at the amount of Asmodians. In my experience I’ve noticed people like to play the race they believe to be the “pretty” and/or “good” race. I’m only rolling an Elyos because I lost the vote when we decided what race we wanted to be. The majority of my friends didn’t want back hair and claws. I wanted Asmodian because I’m a semi lore nut and just admired their side of the story when it came to the destruction of the Tower of Eternity. Plus they seemed like the underdogs to me so I liked that aspect as well. I had gotten that impression that most people felt Asmodians are evil from looking around at various forums. As pre-selection drew near I noticed a change towards people declaring they would be Asmodian. I just never knew how big the Asmodian population would be.
Despite the frustration overall I’m happy with the decision of NCSoft to maintain balance with the races. It will help to create servers that aren’t totally dominated with one faction. Which is a good thing cause we know how people love to complain if they are given an unfair advantage in an MMO. Cause gaming is serious business.
Make sure you check the link to keep up to date on pre-selection server status.