Aion Raids & Instances

Hi Guys,

Ok ok I know I keep saying I’ll be doing things but lately work has been really hectic and well there just isn’t enough time in a day to Aion & do behind the scenes admin work for the legion. But that being said, this week we have some Good News and some Not-So-Good News which I will get to after a recap on the week and how things are going so here we go.

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Weekly Recap

Well like I said, it’s been a really busy week for some of us, albeit, while not all of the members in the legion do attend or get invited to some of the raids please do understand that because the game mechanics only allows 6 people instances it’s quite hard to fit everyone in. However I do hope the members use this time to level and please don’t think we have forgotten about anyone, myself and the other higher ups are trying to organize some open-world raids but it’s a tad bit difficult to find a boss which is accessible and do-able to all members. So first up this week, Fort Raids.

Fort Raids:

What can I say, Eylos are back finally lolz. After capturing multiple lower forts in lower early this week, we ended up trading them for Asteria Fort in Upper Abyss. Myself and the others are quite impressed by the number of members coming along for some fun, it’s good to see more and more people get into it. Do remember that fort raids offer awesome rewards such as kinah and silver/gold medals (more kinah ^^). Here’s some highlights of the raids and some other screenies which I thought we’re pretty cool.

"Big Wings Little Wings" - Just me and the big guy defending one of the forts which unfortunately had no Asmo's around.

"Major Lag Scroll" - I would say I have a fairly good PC but turning characters on during fort raids like this is crazy (need a PC upgrade =.=")

"Our Asmo Friend" - Me and Yukiri met an Asmo after Asteria raid and managed to convince him to take photos with us kudo's to Eviltemplar for trusting us not to blast him into oblivion (btw does anyone notice Sally's new pretty blue costume ^^)

So as it stands, I believe Eylo’s only hold Asteria while Asmo’s hold two of the three Lower Abyss forts (forgot which ones =.=”). Hopefully next week we will have more luck and more people attending to grab more wooot!

Instances:

Before I go on with the instances, I do have to apologize for Aion’s game mechanics once more. I know some people have been feeling a bit left out of the raids but once again if you can find others around your level to go instances great, otherwise just nag someone to take you along and I’m sure most of us are willing to lend a hand. This week I believe was the first Theobomos Labs for some of our members (including me) and while it was awesome fun, it was such a disaster lolz. Aside from the 6-7 hours, 214821674 deaths and pings of up to 3000 ms (noOb spec =.=”) we managed to reach the final instance boss Unstable Triorian. I have to admit, reaching him was the easy part as downing him was a pain in the a**. Here’s a pic of the evil bas***d.

"Unstable Triorian" - guides and details on the boss can be found in our forums under guides, the boss drops pretty nice gold too.

After several painful attempts of getting his/her? hp down to a quarter left, the thing went all “I’m going to kick all yo asses because I can” on us. As it was early morning most of us actually left but some remained and managed to get other party members to help down (the thing didn’t drop loot because it was stingy). Never-the-less this is a boss which I think everyone should have a go at some time in future, hopefully with members increasing in level and numbers we can get multiple instances of this instance (uhh sounds wrong but mehz) going at the same time and maybe have a race see who finishes first lolz.

Along with Theobomos Labs, as more and more members are reaching the mid 40’s there has been increased traffic into Steel Rake for all Lower/Upper and Middle. Hopefully this keeps up and the goddess of luck blesses you all with awesome walnut gear (legion members who read legion chat know what I mean =.=”). As this week we also have the opportunity to do fort instances at Asteria, some of the higher level members are trying to run Asteria instance on a daily basis, here’s a screenshot I prepared earlier ^^

"The I-forgot-its-name-boss" - One of the three bosses in the Asteria Fort instance (mind you he is the harder one). Asteria Raid allows participants 15minutes to reach one of the bosses (impossible to do more than one due to time) and if lucky loot exchangable items which can be traded in for AP at Middle Abyss somewhere.

I highly recommend members to try and get a group of 40’s together to try this out as the items given from the bosses can be traded in for quite a bit of AP. Note that there is a 15minute time limit on this instance the AP items are stored in a treasure box which disappears after 15mins (and yes you do need to kill a boss to loot the key to open the box =.=”). Overall I think this week there were many new ventures and hopefully we will find more open world raid bosses soon for everyone to participate simultaneously.

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Good News & Not-So-Good News

Let’s start with the not-so-good stuff first before moving onto the good news. The not-so-good news is that this week was the last week of the Health Care Program as myself and Yukiri found it very hard to keep up with the amounts of potions we were sending out and the costs associated not to mention lack of commitment to it. Never-the-less I think it was good while it lasted and a majority of members really did appreciate our efforts. So say farewell to the Shugo-called-Ignis as we will be mailing out the potions one last time. The good news behind this is that we will now have more time to focus on other projects and also Sally will be able to start making a consistent income for herself (which she needs to if she wants to upgrade her armor =.=”). Do note that we will still give out random potions and consumables every now and then perhaps after a fort raid, instance or what not but it won’t be set as a regular weekly thing.

Another not-so-great news is that by now you would have noticed a lot of our members have begun disappearing. We felt it was only appropriate to explain to those who don’t already know that this is mainly due to our members having some study commitments or just started a new job (like myself) and as such will be on less regularly. The good news is that they will be more active once things settle down a bit more.

While the Picture of The Month competition was slow to begin with, we recieved a number of screenshots by people. It was quite disheartening to have not that many people participate as I did have a really good prize up my sleeve but nevermind, we will try harder next time to win you non-forum goer’s over. To those non-participants this is what you missed out on, as there were very good screen shots from the people who participated, we decided to just distribute 100k to each person who submitted a photo. So congratulations to those people, you will be receiving a mail in game shortly with your prize money.

The final good news is that this blog post is finally finished, yes I know it was a very very very very very long post but you made it to the end so congratulations. I will try to come up with another competition of some sort and also the higher ups will try to organise an event soon so keep your eye out on the legion announcement  🙂

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RANDOM PIC - "Eylos on Cloud Nine" - I felt like I'm cheating on someone when I took this photo =.="

Cheers,

Callisto (aka Ignis)

Upcoming Changes…

Hi Guys and Girls,

Yes it’s another week gone by since the last update and here’s another long winded blog for all those who are actually reading. With the recent double exp weekend event again, it was decided by Glorion that a lot of our events were postponed. While the events were postponed a lot of members used the time productively (albeit there was a lot of connection issues for the server) and managed to gain quite a few levels. Just to update our readers on the legion affairs, we are starting to see a lot more active lv 40’s in our legion, new members are joining on a weekly basis, groups are starting to form more and more as level gaps close, members are helping each other out especially with the lower levels and their quests and more people are forming groups to do instances and raids together which is awesome.  Things are starting to, well…. look up!

Anyone wanna guess where I am? =.="

Health Care Program Update:

As our fortress raid was canceled and there was double exp, our Health Care Program is running a bit late but we’ll try to get the packages out to people as soon as we can. That being said, this week will probably be the last week which we will deliver to people as it is very time consuming to go to people and trade them (once again stupid Aion Mailbox system =.=”). Instead we will be having some new rules up about this which will be finalized within a few days and posted up in our forums (once again if you’re not register please go register ^^).

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Picture of the Month Competition:

One of the first changes you will notice is that we now have a Promotions & Competitions (P&C) link up top which lists… well our promotions and competitions. In case you were wondering, promotion are generally “you win this if you meet this criteria” whereas competitions are more “you do this the best and you win this prize”. This first Competition in WrathOfGod Aion is the Picture Of The Month competition which pits members against one another in a screen shot frenzy. Post your creative, wacky, funny, or “whatever you can think” of screen shot on the forum page (just click the link in the P&C tab up top) and at the beginning of the next month we will announce a winner. The prize? well that’s a secret for now so you just have to have faith that it’ll be something worth your while. Anyhow here’s a sample photo I prepared earlier ^^

Title: Baby Tree! Description: Isn't this the cutest baby tree you've ever seen... awww so cute!

NOTE: The screen shots submitted needs a title and needs at least a one
sentence or more describing it.

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Blog Cosmetic Surgery:

I’ve been getting the feeling a lot of members are a bit lost as to what is happening, when its happenings, what’s been happening etc and information does seem to be a little bit scattered at the moment. As such I’ve been trying to do a little ‘face-lift’ on the blog (I know I keep saying this =.=”) but the logic is this site will be the one-stop-shop with all your Legion information such as:

–Media Center: A place which gathers funny pics, cool pics and our group photos (please send them to me if you took them during Christmas).

-Leadership and Hierarchy: Outlining our vision, goals, member list and legion hierarchy. Also in discussion at the moment is the possibility of new roles and promotions for members to allow members to contribute more directly.

-List of Events: Provides up-to-date event outlines so you will never miss that uber raid or awesome PvP session.

–Competitions & Promotions: This page will list the weekly/monthly competitions that are up along with the prizes and past winners so do keep an eye on this page as you could be winning really cool prizes (there will be really really cool prizes seriously, but you’ll have to look on this page to find out ^^).

–Guides: A more centralized database of guides some of which are yet to be written =.=”

–Craft Services: List of expert crafters who will craft goods for a small fee if the materials are provided.

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Final Comments:

Anyway, that’s it from me for now, see you all in game. [EDIT] Oops really wanted to ask do you guys think this looks more like a WALNUT or APPLE? post your comments let me know cause this is causing a great debate within legion chat over the past week [/EDIT]

– Callisto (Ignis)

Apple or Walnut? Please comment below