A Summary of ThisIsGame.com Q&A on 2007-10-24
By Sebastian Streiffert, European community coordinator


Player vs. Player

• PvP in Aion will have a focus on control-oriented and reactive skills. Skills have clear relationships with each other where some are used in combinations and others to counter combinations.
• PvP-specific skills will be available for usage around level 40. The player can, however, still choose not to participate in PvP unless he/she wants to.
• The time required to reach maximum level has been reduced since the last Friends and Family Test. The level progression will be similar and comparable to that of many western-developed games in the genre. After reaching the level cap (currently 50), players will be able to improve their characters on a more horizontal plane by using something called ”Stigma”. More on this later.
• For players who don?t enjoy PvP, there will be various PvE activities to take part in such as raids, instanced dungeons and so on – All connected to the great war. An example would be PvE players collecting items for big siege weapons to support their faction.
• The main conflict within Aion: The Tower of Eternity is a great conflict raging between the Elyos, Asmodians and the Balaur. This is also where the content focus will be.

The Abyss

• The Abyss will consist of two distinct parts. The first part is aimed at beginners and is meant to introduce players to the Abyss concept. The second part is connected to the real war and meant for more experienced characters. More information about the Abyss will be available during the G-Star exhibition, taking place in South Korea between November 8th and 11th.

The Asmodians

• The basic class tree of the Asmodians is the same as the Elyos. There will however be some important differences in skills. This means that fighting a class of the same faction and one of the opposing faction will be quite different experiences.
• There will be some zones outside the Abyss where the Elyos and Asmodians will be able to interact.

Characters & Stigma

• The developers do not want players to have to worry about character attributes (such as Strength, Dexterity, Constitution…), which is why attributes are automated and controlled by the game.
• One of the things differentiating characters is the ”Stigma” system. Stigma is a sort of stone containing the memories of a Daeva. A Stigma stone will, in a nutshell, allow players to, by the use of different slots, create unique characters with skills or equipment from other classes. Examples of the combinations that can be acquired by utilizing this system are Wizards wearing heavy armour or maybe Assassins knowing how to teleport.
• Stigma is available from around level 20. There are limitations which will be revealed at a later point.
Raids
• There will be two types of raids in Aion. The first type is similar to that of Lineage, with huge amounts of players participating. The second type requires more strategy and class-specific skills (perhaps more comparable to that of ”Everquest”).
• A Raid NPC/Monster for the Elyos might be an important NPC for the Asmodians which leads to the possibility of raids influencing the faction war.

Closed Beta

• How long will the Closed Beta be? As long as it is required to be. The Closed Beta will go on until the developers agree that it has reached a finalized stage.
• Most of the above mentioned game systems have already been developed and implemented. There are, however, level requirements on some of them which means that the beta testers will not be able to try them quite yet.

Items

• The types of items in Aion are divided in to three categories: Normal items, Abyssal items and ”Drakonic items” (names are still to be determined).
• Abyssal items are received via PvP and ”Drakonic items” will be available through crafting of items acquired from hunting the Balaur.
• There will be some ”Soulbound” items, meaning that once equipped, they can not be traded anymore (as made famous by ”Everquest”).

Various

• The character class names have recently been changed in Korean.

• Each faction will have one, large capital city but also numerous other, smaller towns.

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Cheers
-ORZ

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