Aion: Assault on Balaurea (2.0) going LIVE

[Syrie]

We will be bringing the Aion servers and the website down at 07/09/2010 13:00 CEST for an extended maintenance.

During this downtime we will be applying Aion: Assault on Balaurea (2.0) to the game and servers; you can find the expansion notes listed in the PowerWiki.

We estimate it to take no longer than 8 hours.


Thank you for your patience!

Full patch notes:

http://powerwiki.uk.aiononline.com/aion/Patch+Notes+2.0



Additional info:

Since a few days ago you can pre-download full patch - just leave your NCSoft Launcher open and the process will start. It is advised to pre-dpwnload the whole patch before 07.09, as game servers on tuesday might be heavily-loaded.

[Teaser]

mine is ready to install. while the servers are down, ill just play in pts or some soloplayer game lol. :p

[Syrie]

latest patch ready to download

http://uk.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=883&page=

[WhiteHorse]

update from 1.9 to 2.0 = 1.5 GB download

Full version 2.0 = 13.2 GB download


Going to leave my download of the update running for now.

[WhiteHorse]

this is interesting!

1. Some dropped items that were previously marked as untradeable upon pickup can now be traded among group members for a short period.
This doesn't apply to quest items and Abyss items.
Only members of the group at the time of the drop can receive these items.
The item's tooltip shows the remaining time. Once the countdown ends, its status changes to "untradeable."

2. Added a League system to allow Alliances to collaborate with each other.
Select Menu - Community - League, or open the League screen using 'SHIFT + L'.
The Alliance leader can use the command "/LeagueInvite charactername" on another Alliance or by clicking on the "League invite" button in the League screen.
Enter /League, /U, /u for League chat. This function can only be used by the League leader and the other Alliance leaders.
The League leader can use /LeagueAlert in the chat screen to send a message to all League members.
An Alliance leader who participates in a League still maintains the same Alliance configuration.
Upon conquering a fortress or an artifact, the League leader's Legion receives an occupation pass.
The League leader can set the entire League's looting method—either 'free-for-all' or 'leader only'. For rarer items, the options are the same as before–either 'normal', 'roll dice', or 'settle instantly'.

3. Increased the number of items that can be listed at the Broker.
Up to 15 items can now be listed.
A slightly higher stage 2 fee is required to list items 11 through 15. (For up to 10 items, a stage 1 fee is required as before.)

4. Players may now set up a map that shows the quests that can be acquired.
Options - Game Options- User Interface - Display Quest NPCs on Map.
It shows all quests that can be acquired at your level and up to seven levels below.
It only shows quests that can be acquired in your current zone.
If many of these NPCs are in the same location, one marker will indicate all NPCs. Mouse over to see their names.
The priority order is Pathfinding - Complete (ready to turn in) Quest - Unstarted Quest.
The marker that appears over an NPC's head now appears for quests that are up to seven levels below yours.
NPCs that are spawned for specific requirements are marked as [NPC *].

There are many more new things on the user interface if you read it
http://powerwiki.uk.aiononline.com/aion/Patch+Notes+2.0

[Teaser]

there is a discussion on oficial forum about the rifting sistem update in 2.0. many people (as you should be aware) is upset with it, others are happy to get rid of twinks in theyr homelands (eltnen, heiron, morheim and beluslan). the idea is, as far i have heard about the change, twinked people will have a decrease in damage or something simmilar when rifting, making them use theyr twinked gear into abyss where it keeps full stats. im not totally sure how this works, but posted my opinion there and want to leave it here also so we can discuss it more personnaly and maybe get other ideas to share with the aion community in the official thread. quoting myself in the official forum:

problem about higher lvl's ganking lower lvl, why not solving it with something to block an attack from them when the lvl is too lower? name colors have been made, so maybe it could be used a sistem that would prevent a high lvl to attack a lower lvl and vice-versa, using the same lvl for the name color changes.
this wouldnt totally take off the fun of pvp, since a higher or lower lvl cleric could still heal your ''in lvl range'' target and make things still interesting. they could still get damage from aoe's for example, but direct attack to someone with 10 lvl difference should be impossible.

about the nerf in rifting, im not totally sure what changes it made, but i agree that if someone is well geared they should have something that decrease a bit of theyr damage in enemy territory. let the gold armor and weapons have full statistics in abyss, but make a 1%-2% damage decrease for piece as an example, something to make rifting still enjoyable and make the real full pvp take action in abyss.
i have a cleric with 3 gold pieces and i wouldnt mind to have that damage decrease when rifting, i sure feel much better with the ap i win after a good fight than go for 2-3 hits kills, makes me feel i really earned it, that my playing skills were put on a test, and not in full groups as many good geared people do..... shouldnt they alones with good gear kill fast enough? do they really need bodyguards?

fights would last longuer with this sistem, its true, but to complement that time spent, why not a raise in ap givven to winner? even now its hard to get a good ammount of ap, even being twinks killing not-so-well geared people, a AP raise when killing in enemy territory would be good if a sistem like i said was implemented, to compensate the lowering of damage of good-geared people.

just a though, dunno what u think about it, but imo its a solution to think about.

thats my ideas, dont know if they would make the game better but i think they would. if you want to share any opinion in the oficial thread, just check it on http://forums.eu.aiononline.com/eu/showthread.php?t=13450 mine is post 19 in the second page.

[andkro]

I went rifting in elten this morning and not going back there again. Fought against a level 40 sorc who had kromedes weapon but otherwise poor gear The fight lasted almost 3 minutes and my dmg was piss poor... I had lvl 37 gladiator with green acc, blue armor and kromedes spear.

Hopefully this will focus pvp to certain places

[Teaser]

that was ncsoft original idea andkro, make the well geared people go to abyss instead of rifting.

[andkro]

Really hope that works out, however problem there is, not all classes are equal in air.

[Teaser]

not only that. as far as ppl is saying, the rifting "debuff" takes off about 80% of the damage that we made before. people saying for example that before was able of crits about 2000 damage, now they cant do more than 500 or even less. i honestly think they should have thought on a better thing to take away twinks into abyss, the way it is now purely destroys the essence of rifting.

[andkro]

There's really no point in rifting anymore and 80% felt about right against that sorcerer i fought.

They should've spent more time thinking about it instead of some pointless pets...

[Viittu]

well theres always PvePve 

[Teaser]

well theres always PvePve 

says the famous powagrinda hehe