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Aion: v2.7, a PvPer's Dream, Goes Live

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129

Aion players will want to check into the game as the v2.7 patch has gone live on all servers. This particular update is packed with new PvP content in the form of the Crucible.

Players can get into PvP battles either in the 1v1 matches or in the 6-10 player free for all matches. Practice matches are unlimited though ranked battles can only happen once per day.

Be sure to read Suzie Ford's write up of v2.7.

Head to the Aion site for more information.

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  • heimdall22heimdall22 Member UncommonPosts: 76

    Well, i wouldn't call something that is available (rated one I'm talking about) once a day only a PvP'er dream myself...

    I'm quite aware that it's possible to play all day long, but since only 1 arena a day is rewarded, most players will do some other things anyways. It doesn't make much sense to me, although it might be just my opinion. 

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  • CelusiosCelusios Member UncommonPosts: 337

    You mean to tell me 2.7 has just deployed in the US??? and EU?? but yet... the Chinamen get 3.0? Aion gets worse and worse by the year...

  • RavingRabbidRavingRabbid Member UncommonPosts: 1,168

    PVP in Aion? LOL! There is no PVP in this game. It's ppl 1-2 shotting toons left and right. Godstones and overdoing it with items modification have ruined this game, which is sadly why I dont play anymore.

    ***Ncsoft will not allow plunger into the game as they will be overpowered!***

     

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  • MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196

    Good to see that this game gets content updates often.

  • NijrawNijraw Member Posts: 37

    2 years to late

  • arctarusarctarus Member UncommonPosts: 2,581
    china gets 3.0!!!??? source?

    once a day is like dailies in other game, just dat this is pvp, but I think clearic will ownz again

    RIP Orc Choppa

  • ZenIrishChaiZenIrishChai Member UncommonPosts: 527

    Originally posted by RavingRabbid

    PVP in Aion? LOL! There is no PVP in this game. It's ppl 1-2 shotting toons left and right. Godstones and overdoing it with items modification have ruined this game, which is sadly why I dont play anymore.

    ***Ncsoft will not allow plunger into the game as they will be overpowered!***

     

     

    I love Raving Rabbids.

     

    Anyhow, sounds like a cool update :D Still can't decide if I'm going back or going to continue catching up on single-player games before SWTOR hits. Starting to miss an MMO again among my options.

  • NailzzzNailzzz Member UncommonPosts: 515

         PvP paradise would be to bring back rifting, or at the very least give something available like this to the low lvl pvpers. As it stands now, pvp doesnt exist till lvl 46.

  • KanoRainKanoRain Member Posts: 94

    "6-10 player free for all"

    What sadist would enjoy this?

    Originally posted by Deleted User

    So much of the game is centered around forced grouping that soloing is not an option, major design flaw in my opinion.

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  • YamotaYamota Member UncommonPosts: 6,593

    PvP arenas, yep that is all PvPers wet dream.... not.

  • askdabossaskdaboss Member UncommonPosts: 631

    Originally posted by Yamota

    PvP arenas, yep that is all PvPers wet dream.... not.

    And once a day as well...

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751

    Ranked arena once a day.. "a PvPer's Dream".

     

     

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  • Zeus.CMZeus.CM Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 1,788

    Originally posted by Mannish

    Good to see that this game gets content updates often.


     

    Aion is still very active, and popular, specially in korea, where aion is 3.0 soon, if i'm not mistaken... Can't wait for 3.0 to arrive in europe.

  • LurvLurv Member UncommonPosts: 409

    Fruity? Because we all want our toons to be running around looking like over-buffed neanderthals with a retarded look on their faces with armor resembling hubcaps and leather meshed together. That old D&D American art style is played out and boring to the eyes. I'm sorry that some people don't shave and shower and would want something that resembles their lifestyle. And nothing wrong with being metro. It just means that you care about your appearence and don't like to go around smelling like @#$ and jerky like some douchebag jock. Asian are is beautiful and expressive.

    Getting too old for this $&17!

  • BeowulfsamBeowulfsam Member UncommonPosts: 145



     Koreans got 3.0 already, but West is not as much behind since there was no 2.8 or 2.9 so "only" the usual 3-4 months.And PvP is a joke in this game. They put damn mobs everywhere. Even in new 3.0 stuff...arena has mobs, everything has damn PvE in it. 1 shotting still exists. Uber gear grind, imba RNG, and gear>skill still exists. So yeah, PvP bad. Too bad, still one of best looking MMOs out there (imo), if they'd only fix the PvP.




     

  • YamotaYamota Member UncommonPosts: 6,593

    Originally posted by thedarkess



    Originally posted by Mannish



    Good to see that this game gets content updates often.






     

    Aion is still very active, and popular, specially in korea, where aion is 3.0 soon, if i'm not mistaken... Can't wait for 3.0 to arrive in europe.

    I can agree with that but a PvP centered MMORPG it is NOT. It is mostly a PvE grind game with some endgame PvP and now PvP arenas. WAR is more of a PvP centered MMORPG and that is not because WAR is a particularly PvP heavy MMORPG. It is also mostly battleground and arena (PvP lakes) type of PvP but I played them both, extensively, and I can tell you that the PvP in WAR is alot more readily available, and enjoyable, than Aion. In WAR I spent maybe 75% of my online time PvPing and in Aion it was 0% from level 1-25ish and then 25ish-50 maybe 10%.

    This latest 1 day arena stuff wont change that by much, the game will still be a PvE centered MMORPG.

  • khartokhar3khartokhar3 Member UncommonPosts: 486

    seems like only ppl who have no clue about the game are postin here. at the beginnin when rifting wasnt nerfed alot of ppl were complainin about beein ganked (ofc they didnt expect that in a pvp game..) so ncsoft put rift buffs in the game..then pvpers started to complain about killin the riftin so ncsoft decied to change it every week..so 1 week no buffs and 1 week with buffs. for me a good agreement for both sides.

    and now we have ppl talkin about low lvl pvp...sry but just lol...u can reach lvl 50 in just a few days..when and with who do u wanna do pvp? most of the ppl let their high lvl m8s powerlvl them..u wont see much ppl to pvp with in low lvls. and with lvl 46 (imagine thats just reached in few days) the pvp starts everywhere u go.

    also when i read here ppl complainin that the 2 new pvp instances are not enough for pvp i have to laugh again...u guys rly have no clue about the endgame in aion do u? im a pvper mysel so what am i gonna do when im done with those 2 inis? yeah i will go to inggi/gelk/silentera  and start doin my daily and weekly pvp quests. and when im done with that i go to gelk (im playin an elyos) and beat the shit out of the asmos (just for fun and to farm some abyss points). and in between i also go sometimes for dredgions when there is time.

    so yeah there is more then enough pvp and i hope ncsoft wont bring more pvp instances to the game since imo the open world pvp is much more fun then fightin a few ppl in an instanced world.

    moreover with the new instances the gear grind is almost gone..just take a look on the pvp gear u can get there..u can get the whole gear in just few weeks. even faster then the pve gear. so there is no point anymore to complain about that.

    btw yeah the 3.0 is on the korean (not chinese) pts but thats bc the game was released in korea months before the west. it takes time to localize the game for the whole west since there are more then only one language to translate.



     

  • ThaneThane Member EpicPosts: 3,534

    sorry, but i thought they unnerfed rift-pvp again... which would have been pvpers dream. 

    surely no battleground system ^^

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  • OzmodanOzmodan Member EpicPosts: 9,726

    The game still has one of the worst support staffs I have ever encountered in a game.  Good luck if you have problems, they most probably won't help you.

  • Fallen5Fallen5 Member UncommonPosts: 99

    the arenas are awesome! 2.7 is an arena test people. its laying the grounds for 3.0 arenas and class balance. if you get one shot, something is wrong. an arena isnt getting ganked, i hope the people going in are a little ready? they shouldnt be gettin one shoted. anyway, the updates are gettin better and gettin here faster. o, and china doesnt have 3.0, lol.

    it does seem like most people who post about aion havent played for a long time. the game isnt the same. its a good mmo now.

  • Scripture1Scripture1 Member UncommonPosts: 421

    I cant stand Aion... I cancelled my sub after lvl 45. The godstone idea is a complete waste of time, you work, work work, then when you try to enjoy the fruits of your labor by enhancing your armor the darn stones break. The moron who came up with that idea deserves a very hard slap accross the jaw.

    It's way too repetitve for me and the abyss is not really pvp, its a gank fest where lower lvls get rolled over by much higher lvls for abyss points (though not much).

    This patch does not impress me one bit, this game is extremely BORING and I've not even played for a full year... lame.

    I'll stick to playing around on Order & Chaos until GW2 comes out, thats how boring Aion is lol.

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  • NailzzzNailzzz Member UncommonPosts: 515

    Originally posted by khartokhar3

    seems like only ppl who have no clue about the game are postin here. at the beginnin when rifting wasnt nerfed alot of ppl were complainin about beein ganked (ofc they didnt expect that in a pvp game..) so ncsoft put rift buffs in the game..then pvpers started to complain about killin the riftin so ncsoft decied to change it every week..so 1 week no buffs and 1 week with buffs. for me a good agreement for both sides.





    and now we have ppl talkin about low lvl pvp...sry but just lol...u can reach lvl 50 in just a few days..when and with who do u wanna do pvp? most of the ppl let their high lvl m8s powerlvl them..u wont see much ppl to pvp with in low lvls. and with lvl 46 (imagine thats just reached in few days) the pvp starts everywhere u go. 

         The rift buff is constantly applied to the lvl 20-40 area's. Trying to rift in the 30-50 areas of the game is only feasable if your a lvl near 50. So even with the temporary back and forth with the rift buff, you still dont get to experience any actual pvp(unless you count getting 1 shot by purple players) until around 46 either way. As for your statement about hitting level 50 in a few days, Sure you COULD hit 50 in a few days. But if your a normal human being with a job or school and perhaps a life its going to be closer to a few weeks. Personally i would find having to wait a few weeks to experience any pvp in the game to be a pretty fail desighn choice for a supposed pvp mmo. Kind of like how they have gold lvl 30 pvp armour sets which most people are never able to obtain realistically till around lvl 50.

  • OzmodanOzmodan Member EpicPosts: 9,726

    Average player in this game takes about 2 months to get to 50 and that is not counting all the grinding you need to do for gear.  

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