Aion: Ascension (Part 2)

Hello, again! Here cometh part two of thine previous revieweth of Aion.

:D

Right! So you're at the point where you've found yourself in Aion and everything is manificent... Mostly everything. There still remains one problem.

Aww shit, son!

How in God's blazes do you fly?!

YOU CAN’T FLY BECAUSE YOU’RE A HUMAN!!1! Once you get to level 9 you’ll get a quest called “Ascension”, which once you’ve finished you’ll become a Daeva. Then you can glide and fly and flap your wings in front of all the lower levels who haven’t got their wings yet while falling off cliffs because you thought you could get to the other side to your heart’s content. Just press space in the middle of a jump.

Downfall? You can only fly in designated areas where the flow of Aether is strong. What is Aether, you may ask? Damn, well, it’s like the energy that flows around the whole of Atreia, basically it keeps everything in order. Very important stuff.



If you fix yourself up with a group like this-
you'll pretty much be set for the whole entire game.

So you’ll get out of Lowbie-Land and into Pandemonium (Asmodians) or Sanctum (Elyos). From there you’ll go to Lowbie-Land-part-2 and level there for a while. Protip: eat your greens do your campaign quests, they’ll make you strong and they give you buckets of EXP. Make some friends! Friends are expendable useful and very helpful when you need to do Group quests. You’ll have a lot of fun.



When you get to level 25 you’ll be able to get into the Abyss, which is basically the place where a war is raging between the Asmodians, Elyos and the Balaur (lizard people). Be warned, you can be killed by enemy players at any time once you leave your faction’s landing. It’s very fun to be in the Abyss, but frustrating as well. You’ll want to gear up if you're planning to go into PVP.

As well as the Abyss, there is rifting. Rifting is basically going through portals that appear on the map at any given time. They’ll take you to the other faction’s world, from Elysea to Asmodae and vice versa. Be prepared to run into the other race – and bring friends! Lots and lots of friends...

I really don’t want to waffle on too much, so I’ll just quickly skim over the rest of this post.

Behold! The Alchemy table.

The crafting system is massive, you can choose from Armour smithing, Weapon smithing, Potion making, Cooking, Alchemy and Wood crafting. All pretty self-explanatory, I only do Armour smithing and even then I don’t do it often. If you do take any (or all) of these up, you’ll pretty much be a step ahead of everyone else and you’ll be able to make most of what you need.

There’s a lot of stuff I’ve missed out but we’ll talk about that later.

Also Polar bears.

Magnificent Microwavable Mustard

Damnit, Ambler, this is a walkthrough!

(Edit: Yeah, oops. Here's the link to the site. http://na.aiononline.com/ )

Oh craaaaaaaap!

Cheers, 

Faggot

Ambler

Aion: Ascension

Hello, dudes! (and dudettes) Ambler here, breaking their promise for a Minecraft review in return for a review on the MMORPG Aion: Ascension! Great game, it has a huge range of in game things you can do (although personally I prefer the combat system) and there’s no end to the amount of stuff you can make. Honestly? I think the best way to experience Aion is to play it. If you like it; you’ll love it. If it’s your type of game; you’ll never stop playing.

Your wings won't actually look this cool.

Also you can fly.

You have wings and you can fly.

:D

So let me just go from the start. You’ll need to create an account (obviously) to begin playing. Best part about it? It’s free. Even better? It used to be a pay to play game with monthly subscription payments. I don’t know why they made it free to play but I’m glad they did. Maybe they made so much money their bank account overflowed and they couldn’t take any more?

So from there you’ll need to download the game, which is a great big whopping thirty gigs of data. Start making room, guys (I freed up ninety-four gigs instead of thirty, huu huu). Depending on how fast your computer is it might take a while to start up, (so sit down, relax and twiddle your thumbs impatiently while you wait for it to load past the NCsoft logo. Get up, make a coffee and call your friends, plan a holiday and play with your dog) or it’ll take twenty seconds and you’ll be at the log in splash screen. I think you know what you have to do from here.

So after you’ve got those log in details in you’ll be asked to read the terms and conditions. It’ll pop up every time you log in so you have plenty of time to read it, so just skip past. Choose a server and a faction, Asmodian, or Elyos. There’s no real good or bad, but if you want to pretend you’re a super villain or hero, choose the corresponding race. I’m on the Siel server as an Elyos Cleric. Add me, dudes, my username is Deque.

Shit, this is turning out to be a walkthrough!

The class selection screen doesn't actually look like this anymore....

Okay, whatever. You can choose between 4 classes. Warrior (Gladiator, Templar), Scout (Assassin, Ranger), Priest (Cleric, Chanter) and Mage (Sorcerer, Spirit master). You’ll make your character and depending on what race you chose you’ll be in either Poeta for Elyos or… the other place. I forgot what it was called but it’s a lot darker and less pretty than Poeta. Woohoo! So you’ll be on Lowbie-land for a while until you manage to get to level 10.

Well, would you look at the word count! Looks like I'll be saving the rest of this post for another time! Stay tuned for part 2.

Until later, folks!
Faggot
Ambler