Everything you need to get started in Aion
Players have less than a week before Early Start and official launch of Aion. Are you ready? To get fans prepared, Ten Ton Hammer has put together your one essential resource for your time as a new player. Keep game vital info, do a little pre-launch research, and save newbie guides all in one easy location. Just bookmark and visit as needed!
Aion, the stunning fantasy MMORPG that has already swept through Korea, China, and Japan, will soon be making its way to an official launch in North American, Europe, and Australia. Boasting rich graphics, compelling storylines, and fun player versus player gameplay, the game will no doubt find as much success here as it did in Asia.
As we all await our early access or release, I wanted to put together a comprehensive resource for players tying together in one, easy to access, guide. Browse through the available information or bookmark for future reference to have valuable game information right at your fingertips!
Important Dates:
Character Pre-Selection - September 18, 2009 12PM PST
Early Start for all Pre-orders - September 20, 2009
North American Launch - September 22, 2009
Australia and New Zealand Launch - September 23, 2009
Europe Launch - September 25, 2009
Getting Started - The Details
Getting in on pre-selection and early start is still possible if you haven't done it yet! The pre-order is still available at various brick and mortar stores. If you cannot find it locally, digital purchase is a great option and can be done through NCsoft or sites such as Steam and Direct2Drive. If you have already pre-ordered but have yet to download the game client, you can find it here.
The machine that you intend to run Aion on will need to adhere to these minimum system requirements and hopefully be within recommended. The better your system is, the smoother your gaming experience will be, particularly if you hope to run on exceptional graphic settings.
Minimum Requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP SP2
2.8GHz CPU or equivalent
1GB RAM
NVIDIA 5900 Ultra with 128MB RAM / ATI x700 with 128MB RAM or higher
15GB Hard Disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Direct X 9.0c (6/2008 update)
Sound Device
Broadband Internet Connection
Recommended Specs:
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 / Vista
Dual Core CPU 2.0GHz or equivalent
2GB RAM
NVIDIA 6800 with 256MB RAM / ATI x800 with 256MB or higher
15GB Hard Disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Direct X 9.0c (6/2008 update)
Sound Device
Broadband Internet Connection
The minimum specs are fairly reasonable allowing for even the modest of systems to handle the tax of the graphically intensive MMORPG.
Research, Research, Research...
Once launch happens, none of us are going to want to waste time trying to decide on our race and class, right? We want to know what we want and we want to get in there and play as soon as possible! Ten Ton Hammer has done hands on previews of every class in game not to mention our interview series that gives an official look at the classes and preliminary skill lists from our tireless site writers.
Sorcerer - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Spiritmaster - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Chanter - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Cleric - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Assassin - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Ranger - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Gladiator - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Templar - Dev Interview | Class Preview | Skill List
Now if you happen to be a fan of crafting and/or lore, you certainly are not left out! We have both beginner and advanced crafting guides and a well written history on the lore of Aion. These guides will introduce you to the storyline and secondary game before you log in.
Getting In Game - Help For the New Player
While this game doesn't have a terribly steep learning curve, the first 20 levels of any game can be a struggle. These 13 tips will help get you started and the following features and guides will get you through your young years by offering assistance when you need it. Each race experiences unique
For Elyos players, you'll start out in Poeta, ascend and travel to your home city of Sanctum and then make your way to Verteron.
Poeta Newbie Guide
Ascension Guide
Verteron Zone Guide
For Asmodae players, you'll start out in Ishalgen, ascend and travel to your home city of Pandaemonium then make your way to Altgard.
Ishalgen Newbie Guide
Ascension Guide
Altgard Zone Guide
These resources should get you through the initial levels in game. If there is something you need to know that we haven't covered, you can always check out our dedicated Aion Community Site for more guides. We also have staff and plenty of players that keep an eye on our forums that are always willing to help should you need it, so don't be shy about asking!
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
13 Things to Know Before Playing Aion
Kick start your journey to the Tower of Eternity!
If you're jumping into Aion for the first time this weekend, you'll find it's different than other MMORPGs you might have played in more ways than one. Ten Ton Hammer has compiled a quick list of 13 hints and tips to get you off to a great start in your first 10 levels. Have a look!
13 things to know before playing Aion
If you're jumping into Aion for the first time this weekend, you'll find it's different than other MMORPGs you might have played in more ways than one. Ten Ton Hammer has compiled a quick list of 13 hints and tips to get you off to a great start in your first 10 levels.
Collect early, and look forward to aether harvesting when you get flight at or about level 10.
Start collecting early. Aion has two gathering skill progressions: collecting and aether harvesting. Collecting can be done at level on, e but aether gathering doesn't start until you start flying at level 10 (look for the floating green nodes at that point). You can avoid backtracking to earlier areas if you start early. Crafting and even some quests hinge on your ability to collect and gather aether..
Titles not only look cool, they add stats as well. Look for titles as you complete longer quest lines under your character profile and equip them early.
Manastones are a cheap and easy way to add a little extra umph to your equipment, but keep in mind that while you can remove a manastone to free up a slot, you won't get that manastone back. +4s are fairly plentiful early, but save your +12s for green and blue items you'll be hanging onto for a while. You'll start seeing two-socket items around level 10.
Unlike other MMORPGs, you won't find yourself fully kitted out early in the game as the result of completing class quests. Spend some of that hard earned cash on clothing upgrades as you can and enjoy dying less often.
Thankfully, Aion offers a nice amount of inventory space (i.e. your "cube") but should you find yourself running out of space, a cube vendor in the starting village will be glad to expand your cube. The first upgrade is now pretty cheap.
Resting (keystroke [comma] by default) helps you regain health and mana much more quickly. Try it and save bandages / potions for when you really need to reduce downtime.
Upgrade early and often at the starting village's market area.
Both starting areas have an end dungeon where players tend to converge. You're all after the same thing, so why not try a group on for size? It's as simple as a right click on another player and then clicking "invite," and you'll get through the dungeon content with far less risk.
Power shards are sort of like ammo for all weapon types (mage spellbooks included) and proc occasionally for increased stats. Like manastones, they're fairly common drops and cheap to buy, so keep a fresh stack attached to your weapon.
Using the /pathfinding [name] feature can save you some time and cut down on the wandering aimlessly portion of quest or NPC hunting. /pathfinding can be used to locate areas and NPCs, so have fun with it.
For those of you dual-booting the Windows 7 RC1 preview, Aion's anti-hack program has some pretty nasty qualms with the new OS. Install in Vista or XP if you're dual-booting to save some potential installation headaches (Disabling UAC doesn't work, in my experience).
If the default UI isn't to your taste, experiment with more standard layouts via the settings menu.
Have green items that you don't want or can't use? If you're long on cash and short on manastones, buy "extraction tools" from a General Goods vendor for 1,000 kinah (thanks for the clarification, Deluxion - also note that this is not a skill-based crafting item) to break down green weapons into special "enhancement" stones.
Despite the ominous warning you get when you seek to complete your ascension quest at level 9 or 10, you can speak to a teleporter to return to the starting area if you have quests to complete there. It's worth completing the ascension quest asap because of the new abilities you'll get.
As a bonus, most quest locations are easy to find, but three proved to be a headache for me as I leveled to 10 on the Elyos side. If you run into trouble, here's some locations:
The Ancient Cube (x=231, y=2007)
Cauldron (x=297, y=2077)
Tutty (x=228, y=1903)
Special thanks to Martuk and Sardu for their help in putting together this list, but this is just the start. Jump into the forums to share and read more helpful Aion tips and hints!
If you're jumping into Aion for the first time this weekend, you'll find it's different than other MMORPGs you might have played in more ways than one. Ten Ton Hammer has compiled a quick list of 13 hints and tips to get you off to a great start in your first 10 levels. Have a look!
13 things to know before playing Aion
If you're jumping into Aion for the first time this weekend, you'll find it's different than other MMORPGs you might have played in more ways than one. Ten Ton Hammer has compiled a quick list of 13 hints and tips to get you off to a great start in your first 10 levels.
Collect early, and look forward to aether harvesting when you get flight at or about level 10.
Start collecting early. Aion has two gathering skill progressions: collecting and aether harvesting. Collecting can be done at level on, e but aether gathering doesn't start until you start flying at level 10 (look for the floating green nodes at that point). You can avoid backtracking to earlier areas if you start early. Crafting and even some quests hinge on your ability to collect and gather aether..
Titles not only look cool, they add stats as well. Look for titles as you complete longer quest lines under your character profile and equip them early.
Manastones are a cheap and easy way to add a little extra umph to your equipment, but keep in mind that while you can remove a manastone to free up a slot, you won't get that manastone back. +4s are fairly plentiful early, but save your +12s for green and blue items you'll be hanging onto for a while. You'll start seeing two-socket items around level 10.
Unlike other MMORPGs, you won't find yourself fully kitted out early in the game as the result of completing class quests. Spend some of that hard earned cash on clothing upgrades as you can and enjoy dying less often.
Thankfully, Aion offers a nice amount of inventory space (i.e. your "cube") but should you find yourself running out of space, a cube vendor in the starting village will be glad to expand your cube. The first upgrade is now pretty cheap.
Resting (keystroke [comma] by default) helps you regain health and mana much more quickly. Try it and save bandages / potions for when you really need to reduce downtime.
Upgrade early and often at the starting village's market area.
Both starting areas have an end dungeon where players tend to converge. You're all after the same thing, so why not try a group on for size? It's as simple as a right click on another player and then clicking "invite," and you'll get through the dungeon content with far less risk.
Power shards are sort of like ammo for all weapon types (mage spellbooks included) and proc occasionally for increased stats. Like manastones, they're fairly common drops and cheap to buy, so keep a fresh stack attached to your weapon.
Using the /pathfinding [name] feature can save you some time and cut down on the wandering aimlessly portion of quest or NPC hunting. /pathfinding can be used to locate areas and NPCs, so have fun with it.
For those of you dual-booting the Windows 7 RC1 preview, Aion's anti-hack program has some pretty nasty qualms with the new OS. Install in Vista or XP if you're dual-booting to save some potential installation headaches (Disabling UAC doesn't work, in my experience).
If the default UI isn't to your taste, experiment with more standard layouts via the settings menu.
Have green items that you don't want or can't use? If you're long on cash and short on manastones, buy "extraction tools" from a General Goods vendor for 1,000 kinah (thanks for the clarification, Deluxion - also note that this is not a skill-based crafting item) to break down green weapons into special "enhancement" stones.
Despite the ominous warning you get when you seek to complete your ascension quest at level 9 or 10, you can speak to a teleporter to return to the starting area if you have quests to complete there. It's worth completing the ascension quest asap because of the new abilities you'll get.
As a bonus, most quest locations are easy to find, but three proved to be a headache for me as I leveled to 10 on the Elyos side. If you run into trouble, here's some locations:
The Ancient Cube (x=231, y=2007)
Cauldron (x=297, y=2077)
Tutty (x=228, y=1903)
Special thanks to Martuk and Sardu for their help in putting together this list, but this is just the start. Jump into the forums to share and read more helpful Aion tips and hints!
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