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worth coming back to Aion after 1.9 ?
did play Aion at the lunch day for 3 months then i got bored and sick of all the grind after geting 38 and did FT like 100 times with no good loot for my class , and the unblanced PVP who has more Mages WIN and all
so i was hoping u tell me if it's any good after 1.9 ?
thank u for ur help 
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There isn't enough changes with 1.9 that makes it worth going back imo.
So I'd save myself the time and effort if I was you.
Edit: There's still a good amount of grind at higher lvls and though they increased the drop rates you still have to run a fair few times to see loot drop.
The people and the friends that we have lost, and the dreams that have faded, never forget them~
is ther any worth it end game raids yet ?
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
LOL. Grind in Aion? Aaha I guess your a QQ WoW child who would like their little hand held and walked through everything. Aion is NOT a Grind. A Grind is Lineage 2.
in a b4 1.9 point of View it is a Grindy game
prety much not only me says it almost evrey one who did try it
Note : i really don't like what wow is right now
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Assumption is the mother of all fúckups...
I'm quite the adult thank you very much. I used to play WoW but that is a long time ago, quite the long time. I don't like what WoW has become, it's boring as heck now, the content is a constant rehash of something you run through over and over again and the new dungeon system even points towards that even more. It's rather pathetic to be honest.
I don't even know why I'm replying to this, but oh well.
Aion might have some decent sides to it, I have personally yet to see it though, and there are currently way more issues with Aion then there are reasons to actually sit and spend your life playing it.
The people and the friends that we have lost, and the dreams that have faded, never forget them~
Why why do people do that? I can never understand the mentality of people who run stuff hundreds of times and then complain that the game is "boring" and "grindy". Do you at least realize that you brought it on yourself?
As sukiyaki said, with that perception nothing has changed. You need to tailor your way of playing to that of the game's and not the opposite. If you cannot, then the game isn't and will never be for you ever.
No patch will change the way the game is played, so either move on or change your mentality while playing.
It's not an instance grind to max level. You should never ever run instances till your eyes bleed. Do you hate yourself? lol. Max level shouldn't even be your main objective. Sadly that's all some people think about post-WoW's launch.
stop Puting wow in this, this is AION fourms .............
i didn't do FT for the XP it gave stupid XP all MMOs i played gives u loot when u kill a boos but AION that's the point
we wanted to know how do u triger a boss to drop somthing it seems u don't u just waste ur time playing for nothing to Improve ur char..........
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Doing FT 100times is not worth it at all and borders on obsession. You want to improve your char? craft your own gear or buy it at AH, go PvP and amass APs, go sieging and get medals. Grind kinah, and you can do almost anything in this game.
I've never had any problem improving my char without boring myself to tears. Diversity is key and there are many things to do, you want to run the same instance a hundred times that's your own fault for doing so.
As I said, if you can't realize that you're creating your own hell and that you still think it's the game's fault, then it simply isn't for you. Even though drop rates has improved considerably after 1.9 (multiplied by 4), you won't have a gold drop from every single boss.
WoW will always be brought up no matter what MMO you play not to mention mmo forums. No getting around it, since everybody and their mother play WoW. Kind of the reason why the game became what it is today. Vast majority of the community in WoW complained and blizzard catered to them. At least, that's my opinion. If you ever go to the forums for WoW(please god don't) all it is majority of the time is bitching about whatever they damn annoying or hard.
Aion has better drop rates now. Why the don't drop 100% is beyond me, but they do drop 90% of the time. If your lucky, you can get a few nice pieces of equipment in one FT run or SR. Not to mention dredg runs are fun as well. If your lvl 50 that is. 55 will be the new cap, but I'm not sure when.
Everyone has opinions, but does that make them the universal truth??? NO!
They improved drop rates a lot but if you are running a dungeon for a single piece of loot, just like any MMO you are likely going to have to do it many times.
I am a casual player and I enjoy Aion, with or without 1.9.
You seem intent on doing things very differently from how I like to play and enjoy a game. I am not going to call any playstyle 'right' or 'wrong' in a MMO - But seriously... At 36 I had done Fire Temple about 5 times. 4 of those 5 crawls were with all fun, openminded and relaxed players. All of these 4 experiences were good fun and resulted in a lot of additions to my friend list.
The 1 out of 5 was with a group where (as it turned out) we had 2 players with very different motives than the rest of us. 5 minutes in the assasin announced: "I am just here for a Kromede kill - I leave in 10 minutes if we are not already at Kromede". After that our cleric told us that if he felt that the tank could not hold aggro no matter how many mobs were on him he would leave as he was not playing with noobs. About 2 mins later the same cleric singlehandedly aggroed 2 patrols we were sneaking past and immediately disconnected. The assasin left 30 sec's later and the remaining 4 of us had a laugh and a rest, then went on and finished the quest one of us had and killed the boss in about 40 mins. A different but, none the less, enjoyable trip. (With 2 new additions to the ignore-list)
Did you even stop for a second to think about what sort of loot/gear you could have equipped your char with instead of doing 100 mindless FT farming runs?
It sounds like you handle PvP with the same mindset: I doubt 1.9 will change anything for you!
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!!
(repeat ad infinitum)
hehe
funy tho even with ( my minde set ) no other boss FT or not did drop anything like (Black clow vilage... was it ? ) wich was very hard needed very good group wich i like in a game but when u do it and reach the boss after almost 2h it drops nothing when u kill it that must be my mind set wrong i Expect loot from hard reached boss :P ( Green loot ) am not greedy
well what about the Very Very long q to get the +5% run speed boots if i rem right geting Feathers like a 100 of them was it ?
and u can only loot a feather after killing 6 elite mobs coz of group round loot and alot of times ur round is none elite mob ther's alot of them ther and they give no Feather :P , when having 3 elites can wipe a good group
that's not Grind time waste no point grind it's my minde set :P
am not saying AION sux i loved the game still do
Note : my mind set is worng or is it the Loot drop of the game
humm 1.9 did increse loot drop not my mind set XD
Any way thank u for the Replay am was just clearing a point
sorry for my bad english
best of luck to u all
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
I want to begin playing Aion, just because. At this point in my life (26 years old, currently in BOLC-B a 2nd Lieutenant Army Quartermaster school), I am also a laid back casual gamer, and I would like to play with you Halandil. See if you can give me your info so we can hook up in the game and you can help me out yea?
As for the forum, we have had Generation-MINE come into play. No more are the days where we could all get together, enjoy the questing, and if nothing came up just have had a good laugh. That was Generation-Fun. The kids (yes KIDS) that come into play now are simply into INSTANT GRATIFICATION. Is that their fault? Partly yes and no. The world that they live in now has also changed as well. Everything is so easily accessible that they take that with them into MMO's as well.
Just remember, you can always remove/mute those who you simply do not want in your group or around you. We still have that small niche of players in every MMO that plays to have a good time and simply shrug their shoulders if what they want just didn't come through that day.
Even in MMO's "SHIT HAPPENS"
Totaly Agreed
Best of luck hope u enjoy the game
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Just because you experienced more grind in a different game does not mean there is no grind in Aion. There is. Perhaps I'm a QQ Wow child because I like the inherent grind in MMO's to be somewhat disguised by content and mechanics. For me, I define grind as whether or not content feels like a chore. There's times in Aion that I feel like that. It's always amusing to watch a hardcore gamer call someone a QQ WoW child because grind seemingly makes them awesome gamers.
The difference between Aion and WoW is that WoW's grind is covered up by a lot of different quests and a lot of different raids. I enjoy meaningful and varied content. Killing 3000 mobs in one area then killing another 3000 in a different area is not my idea of varied and meaningful content.
OP, if you played the game during 1.5 and didn't enjoy yourself you still won't, so save yourself $15.
I also played the game at launch and was contemplating a return. There was a noticable amount of grinding in the game, but the combat system for me made it less noticable; it probably also didn't help that I was trying to farm for rare spawns. I just wanted to know if they did anything also to reduce spamming and phishing in the game.
Current MMO: Aion
MMO Watch: Warhammer 40k Online, SWToR, GW2.
Played: Planetside, SWG, EQ, EQ2, L2, WoW, RFO, KAL, MxO, Voyage, RO,Vanguard,Tabula Rasa, Horizons, CoH/CoV,, Lotro, FFXI
First MMO: Everquest (Tunare Server, Ronin/Tide Guild)
I recently started playing it again a few days ago. I'v spent several hours online between several characters and I think I have gotten 1 or maybe 2 gold selling tells and I have seen spam maybe once in the LFG channel. All and all I dont think spamming and phishing in-game is a proublem any more, at least no worst then it is in WoW.
I started to play againa a few weeks back and I am enjoyong the game.
While the lvling was alot slowwer before they have helped with more quests so i have not had any trouble getting lvls. Only lvl 30 ranger now but i have still managed to get some PvP and spent last night trying to get my FT key for 3 hours (didnt get it) and still having alot of fun.
To be honest I came back to the game and started a new character for 1.9. The game is still the same as ever except that unlike release there is no longer a good influx of same-level players to PvP against in the Abyss. 95% of the time you're going to be going up against guys who have a good number of levels and gear up on you and in Aion that matters a lot.
I didn't care that I was getting ganked (its just a little annoying is all) but I did care that there was honestly nothing of interest going on anymore in the mid levels. I ended up getting to the mid 30's before quitting again. (I was a level 50 back near release).
So yeah if you had issues with the Grind and such not much has made it better. There are some repeatable quests which are cool but ultimately not that interesting.