patch notes for 2.0 version

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the first notes (from a total of 36-37 pages) about patch 2.0 have been released in europe and america website.
new skils, armors, weapons, instances, maps, pets, and much more can be readed on the first release.
http://powerwiki.uk.aiononline.com/aion/Korean+PTS:+Initial+2.0+Patch+Notes

[WhiteHorse]

video of aion version 2.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFPLbghB4BA&NR=1#ws

[Teaser]

all new things really look promissing, but there is one i am completely mad about.....
they say spiritmasters cant summon pets in certain areas now. we allready cant do it while flying, with even more reduced ways to summon, our class will be weaker. just imagine us loosing the pet and cant summon it again due an non-summoning place, and we are still in a fight.... sucks :/

mentioned right after the windstreams and geysers/updrafts images.

9. Changes have been made so that players cannot stay for extended periods of time in certain regions of Elysea, Asmodae, and the Abyss.
Kisks can no longer be installed in certain areas.
Spiritmasters cannot summon their spirits in certain areas.
Players who log out or are disconnected in certain areas will now reappear at an Obelisk when they next log in.

[WhiteHorse]

Kisks can no longer be installed in certain areas.
Players who log out or are disconnected in certain areas will now reappear at an Obelisk when they next log in.

These 2 things i am crossing fingers it will be to avoid rifters glitching into certain areas and put their kisks there, as well as to stop using the tactic to disconnect when they see they will finally be caught. This way, if they would do such, they would go back to their planet side. Which i find fair.

Spiritmasters cannot summon their spirits in certain areas.

As i can agree that it sucks to be a spirit master and not being able to do the thing that defines you as a spirit master.
I also must say that my experience is that spirit master fears and silences are already enough to defeat someone. It will be good for developing new play styles. But maybe it will be the same as the kisks. To avoid "cheating"? Spirit master being in a hard to reach place and sending a pet to attack.

Just wondering, don't really have any extra info.

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pet without our skill casting isnt very usefull. its normal attack isnt powerfull. and to cast the skills we must be in range of the pet, therefor we cant be in an hard to reach place if then we cant be in range of the summon. also, fear and silence arent offensive skills. they can help in attack but not theyr intention. spiritmaster attack power reside in the pet skills, without the pet all other offensive skills only do tickles on enemy.

[WhiteHorse]

I must say i disagree. SM without pet is not powerless. I bet that Xioza can still win me even without using a pet.

Silence, slows and Fear might not be damaging, but it will render the person into a frustrating sittuation.
Fear can even push someone into mobs which helps to reach their doom. And while at it, they can be with dot's and without being able to heal/attack.
SM has many DOT skills, that overtime will kill the opponent that is not able to heal himself. Also SM also has the stone skin shield that can be re-applied while the opononent is feared in case he did manage to get to you for about 3 seconds and hit your shield.

The pets in my perspective are just a DOT skill that "never ends" unless one actually looses the time to kill it, which will only be re-summoned again immediately anyway and thus being a waste of time and attacks to kill the pet, so in practical terms the pet is a never ending strong dot on a guy.

So you loose one DOT, but you still have the other skills and dots and can still summon quite damaging elements. Even so, there must be a good reason for them to limit the use of spirits and kisks in certain areas. So let's just see which areas are those.

[Teaser]

yes we have alot of dots. but also notice that some skils block others. for example casting one of the water/stone/fire/wind enetgy will put the others in cd, one of the slow skils also.puts another slow in cd, and of course the fact that without pet i cant use about 5 or 6 skils destinated to use with pet only, once again i say sm skils without pet only will make tickles on enemy.

[WhiteHorse]

I will challenge Xioza for a duel and ask her not to summon pet, and then i will let you know if i won or not and if it was hard or not.

[Xioza]

yes. i agree with Utherverse. Spirit is very essential for a spiritmaster. Spirit can help us to give more damage to the enemy. If a ranger or other sm or sorc so silence or sleep skill to us, we can do nothing but our spirit still can give damage to the enemy. Using some skill, our spirit can give around 400 damage to the enemy.  So, i disagree if sm is not powerless without spirit. One more thing. we have skill to  absorb spirit's HP to recover our MP. I really need my spirit because of it ^^

[andkro]

first patch notes for version 2.0 are avaiable andkro, take a look and tell us your opinion bro

Better to reply here. Well I took a look and didn't really see anything I'd have an actual opinion on. Nice enough I suppose.

As for the SM, I recall a video where a SM soloed several elites at lepharist at the same time, without a pet. Of course not having a pet will make you weaker but I doubt as far as to be called powerless.

[Teaser]

againt mobs its not much to worry, but in pvp we need to kill enemy as fast as possible. we cant waste time to let him call others. that video is basically using a aoe slow, a aoe dot and one or two more focused skils on the main mob. there is no rush to kill them, there is not much danger of other mobs coming, its controled. in pvp we cant make it controled, we never know what enemy will do next, we need to eliminate him fast.
and due that i say that we get weaker compared to now and to other classes later. we surelly get owned in pvp if we dont have our pet avaiable. lets see wich areas will be blocked to summons then.

[Ashelia]

Looks pretty nice...
I might come back and take a peak when 2.0 has released!

[Teaser]

for those curious about version 2.o, here are 2 videos, one a trailer and otehr showing the pets on asmodean side (dont know if we have the sames or others)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GrPAwYqtsw#ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNFcFmkKl4#ws

on this video, also about pets, notice the Chihuahua kinda dog (big ears and tail) that sounds an alert... thats the one that warns us when asmos get closer..... just hope theyr range is bigger than our radar range lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz-zZIt0wds#

by the way, some of you probably noticed the new instance entrances for version 2.0 aplyed in 1.9, the temple of kaisiniel and that new portal in the outter dock. the temple we have a small quest allready there that kind of ''introduces us'' to the temple. the portal is visible and so far i didnt got any kind of quest for it. but other details sometimes get unnoticed, and i found one that maybe most havent noticed yet.
if you open the map now, the same way we could choose asmodea, elysea or abyss, we can allready select balaurea maps, and major citys are allready marked there also. just hover your mouse at the outter area of the globe (top-left side of the map) and you will see that the outter areas are now clickable, cliking them will show balaur maps of the 2 new worlds for 2.0 patch.

[Ashelia]

Cool, we can have Rotan as a pet
I'd probably go for a kitty, I love cats

[Teaser]

ill try to get that chiuahua kinda pet for asmo alerts hehe