Aion 2.5

[Ashelia]

That's a fact. Would be nice to have a choice though.

[Syrie]

http://ggge.com.ne.kr/mado.swf

perfectly balanced class

[taranos]

lol tell me about it o_O

[Zeus]

What I totally fail to understand is the whole discussion about mages stacking both attack speed and cast speed. Why on earth would a Mage be doing any physical attacks?

Attack speed reduces the animation time of the spells and cast time speeds up the actual cast bar speed... a 100% attack speed/cast speed sorcerer would have no animations and instant spells, the bar just doesn't even pop up like when we are buffed in WoQ with our other self buffs.

http://ggge.com.ne.kr/mado.swf
perfectly balanced class

If it makes you feel better, I hit a bit harder than that Korean, I do however use the same outfit... sexy hot skirts FTW 

AND NOW... THE OFFICIAL PATCH NOTES FROM NCSOFT!
http://powerwiki.uk.aiononline.com/aion/Korean+PTS:+Initial+2.5+Patch+Notes

[WhiteHorse]

I am only half way trough that page, but DAMM! Looks nice! And its a hit in the face for anyone that says the NCSoft is not supporting and developing the game. Something i always argumented against.

I was enjoying very much reading everything, but the Legion upgrades as placed me literaly jumping in my chair and non stop grining Am quite, quite glad.

Ok, going back to read the rest of it.  

Thanks for the link!

Finished now reading, this feels almost like a version 3.0 I still think will happen somewhere in february, lastest at March.

[Syrie]

sorc even more imbalanced, i bet they will give them hide II in next patch...

at least they trying to fix SM and I can see some good changes for sins (buffing while in hide)



trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNp9m3VARMU&feature=player_embedded#!

very nice patch, I'd say it's better, than balaurea patch

[Ashelia]

Looks very promising, looking forward to it!
I just seriously hope that the new areas won't be only lvl 55+ ones...

The casting time of the Chanter's 'MP Recovery I ~ IV' skills have been reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second.

Since when do Chanters have a MP Recovery skill...?

[WhiteHorse]

"MP recovery" skill is not called that, but there is some advanced stigmas that allow it, however the CD of it, is pretty big (10m) which makes it not so useful.

Here they are:
[spell=small]Magic Recovery I[/spell] [spell=small]Magic Recovery II[/spell] [spell=small]Magic Recovery III[/spell] [spell=small]Magic Recovery IV[/spell]

I noticed that here the Database says 5m CD, need to confirm ingame still. But even so its too high. 5m cd to just recover that bit MP, to just 1 person is not worth spending a stigma slot. I mean, a pot recovers a similar amount of MP, and has only seconds of cooldown. And its not just 1 slot that gets wasted, but due to be a advanced stigma, one spends AP and more stigma slots to fill the pre-requesites of this stigma. This is the reason why i prefer to be a hybrid chanter.

For me to consider this stigma, they would have to make one of the following modifications.
- Recovery being at least 60% of the MP bar total value.
- Recovery being not just me but the full party in a area of 23-25m.
- Cooldown being 30s.
(just one of these, not all of them, because it would be overpowered)

[Ashelia]

Funny enough, the SM gets a skill to sacrifice HP to recover party's MP.

I don't know how SM's are doing right now at high lvl, but around lvl 30 I find them having most MP trouble of all classes. Sorcerers have more recovery skills & buffs, while SM uses up a lot on a single fight.

[WhiteHorse]

actually, that skill for solo is not so good. But for group play, that is quite usefull. But one needs to see the details of the skill.

[Syrie]

1830 mana from stigma spell is not very good

When I think about this, lots of classes have stigma skills that needs to be redesigned. For instance ranger got Nature Resolve skill, which let you avoid 1 magical attack during 10 seconds, or can remove 1 debuff. You could say, that it is a very good skill - but check this - it has 10 minutes cooldown, so it is pointless to waste stigma slot on this skill.

Rangers got only 1 defensive abillity, what makes them the most squishy class in game. For exemple sorc got 5k dmg shield, Boon of Iron, Wintry Armor aaand if it's not enough, they will get self heal in 2.5...

[taranos]

Dont worry we get an arrow of Fear in 3.0 and maybe Barrage attack of heal lol ^^

[andkro]

Sorc and glad getting buffed is just ridicilous. But nice to see the other class buffs, especially like the chanter ones.

[Zeus]

Dont worry we get an arrow of Fear in 3.0 and maybe Barrage attack of heal lol ^^

I'd like to know more on this...  

Can't wait to have full Udas set and a proper weapon so I can switch over to the PvP stigma set... gonna be sooo much funz!
Hooray for raising the magic boost cap, I mean I barely hit the mob now, need mooooooore magic boost! (send me your MB27 stones, ty)
Hooray for better shield, a 100k damage increase would be nice.
Hooray for HP recovery spell, pots cost alot in the new server economy, hope its 1s cast 1s CD so I can just solo instances like Clerics.
Hummm... wuts this, a level 55 summon Typhoon stigma with stun, looks like the Tree stigma is going byebye, moar pew pew, need!
I didn't see anything relating to combining Atk+Cast speed weapon in patch notes.

Temps getting another free taunt, good, maintain full pvp build.
New temp damage stigma, hope it has nice damage... might have to sacrifice Aether Armor for it, or rethink whole build so I don't get owned by mages in one hit. Probably shares CD with some other skill, like all the Templar stigmas, dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb... but now looking it over, shield burst has been enhanced, added knockdown and range to 5m, perhaps that is the new stigma to have! Drop me a shield you stupid spider! Glads get 50% healing every 1m stigma... nice, LOL... while Elyos temps have a 3k DP 100% with 30m CD, who's the real tank here?

Pet interactions... wtf... there's pets in this game? I thought they were just extra storage space... if you need a pet to tell you there's an asmo around, perhaps you should just go grind in Theo. Buy some dresses, suit with real $? You gotta be kidding me, greedy NCSOFT.

Any additional stigma slots? People on specific builds can't really add these new stigmas, the build tree should be loosened up a bit to allow better customization.

Didn't see a 64 bit client option, perhaps that's a build for 3.0...
Didn't see a level cap increase, no XP for me... for those of you that didn't know, DON'T let your bar get to 100%, keep killing yourself for recoverable XP BEFORE you hit 100%, after it will not add to recoverable! I let it hit 100% in an instance by mistake on sorcerer  
New character builds, do we get a free plastic surgery ticket? Doubt it, greedy NCSOFT! I personally like the toon looking manga look, why look so serious, its a game.
"Increased" drops from energy of repose, please enough of this "increase" BS!
6 Udas Temple yesterday 4 Up, 2 Lower..... total 3 gold drops, 0 Fabled..... 1 Dagger 1 Ring 1 Belt
Xioza was telling me 3 hours in BT... NO TY! I'll +15 my Udas set and be happy with that, 40m Udas is a stretch already for my concentration.

We won't see this until at least March anyway, and NCWest gets to pick and choose what they want, so ours will be different in many ways.

They better give us a set of level 55 fabled or even purple wings for our 18 month reward... I mean an EMOTE for 15 month?!?

Like the horse mount in 3.0 preview... the flying carpet reminds me of another game, wonder which one...




Rant over, nice wall of text, I'm bored at work... White will just end up summarizing this and making it expandable anyways... LOL

[Ashelia]

Rangers got only 1 defensive abillity, what makes them the most squishy class in game. For exemple sorc got 5k dmg shield, Boon of Iron, Wintry Armor aaand if it's not enough, they will get self heal in 2.5...

AND they're increasing their shield duration...

Assuming you mean Focused Evasion (dodge 1 physical attack within 5 secs, 30 sec cd) as their 1 defensive skill, they should give Natural Resolve about the same properties imho... Since it's about the same skill but against magical attacks.