The Aion Experience

Raising my Tailoring today while I loitered around the house too tired to do anything productive, I had a very strange reward from handing in a Work Order: A Silk Robe. At first I thought it was a piece of armor, until I moused over it and realised it was a quest-giving item.

A Robe Gone Astray
14,000 XP and 10,000 Kinah. Nice!

Apparently I can’t hand it in until level 25 as it requires going into the Abyss? Fantastic given I got the item on my level 17 Ranger lol – that said, she’s almost 18 due to work orders haha. 4 Bubbles to go!

Did you know there is an easier way to search the brokers than typing everything out in full?

Most of you would have figured out by now that you need to type in your search term with correct capital letters when making use of the Broker system in Aion: I Want To Search For This Item Please. Frustrating, but once you get used to it, easy enough. If you are a raising a profession of any sort and purchase materials off the brokers, this can become extremely annoying to have to type everything out in full any time you realise you’re a flux or piece of leather short.

Alternatively, if you are trying to search for a design, or even a manastone it gets even harder as sometimes a shorter term such as “Physical Crit” brings up everything with those words in it. Well guess what? No longer do you have to key in the full description!

Going with the manastone example, one of the current searches I am doing a lot at the moment is for Manastone: Physical Critical Hit +4 (I’m wanting to make my +6’s via Alchemy), but that’s a whole lot of words to type in multiple times a day. Well, check out the image below (click to enlarge) and take note of the new search term I am using:

M P C +4 returns results the same as typing out Manastone Physical Crit +4, but takes half the time to type! How cool is that?! And you can do this for any item, you just have to type in the FIRST LETTER of each word. Thin Rawhide would be T R for example.

Of course, sometimes you have multiple items with the same letters such as the Thin Rawhide (T R) example above – that search would also return Thick Rawhide among other items. All you need to do for this is expand on some of the words, such as the image below:

M A F returned multiple items such as Minor/Major Accessory/Amor Fluxe, so expanding to Minor Acc F narrows the list down to just the items I need.E

Enjoy future spending at the Brokers…. or E F S A T B! =p

Did you know you can split items stacks?

If you have multiples of any item, you can split them off into smaller stacks, or individually. And to do this is very easy – simply hold down your shift button, and then right click on the stack you want to split. A window will pop asking you how many you would like to move. Simply enter the numeric value of your choice and hit the ok button. Click in your inventory where you would like the newly created stack to be and voila – done!

Not only can you split stacks of your own items, you can split stacks found in personal stores. Say if someone is selling 50 of an item, all in one stack, yet you only need 10 of them. Well guess what? You can purchase only 10 off him! You don’t have to buy all 50!! And it’s just as easy as splitting your own stacks.

In the shop window, shift + right click the stack of what ever it is you want to buy, a window similar to the previous one will pop up, only this one asks you how many you want to buy.

Enter your desired amount and then click ok. And that’s it. Now you buy your 10, leaving the 40 or how ever many was originally there left over for someone else to buy!

Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to work when buying from the Brokers… or perhaps I just haven’t figured that step out yet.

Did you know you can link items in both chat and your private store message?

That’s right! Just like linking in WoW, you can link armor, weapons, manastones and more in both chat and your private store message. By linking an item, it allows other players to click on it to see the stats and information, which is very handy for armor and weapons as everyone can see the stats of the item without having to ask you.

Linking in chat is very easy – simply hold your CTRL key down and hit your right mouse button. Done!

Linking in your store message is a little tricker – unfortunately you can’t link directly into the message section. Insead, you need to link your items into your chat bar but don’t press enter just yet. Once you have linked all the items you want, select the text and then copy and paste it into your store message.

Obviously the above image doesn’t really show much use for it, however when you have green items, it’s a good way to get people’s attention as they run past all the shop message spam in the cities and major gathering areas.

I’m too sure if you can call two people a group, but I was in one today. And I’m happy to report that it’s absolutely no different to any other MMO where you randomly group with who ever walks by – makes you want to practice typing with your face.

I was doing one of the “find Rae” quest lines, which really, should just be renamed to “where’s Rae” along the where’s Waldo lines as she’s never in the same spot twice and is usually buried amongst rabbits or mobs trying to kill her. I mean really, how can one girl get into so much trouble and still be alive?

Anyway, I was doing the step where you find her in the cave and you have to destroy the power generators and make the big orange portal explode. Which of course all happens without so much as a eyelid bat from the mobs not 10 feet away. Running past another player in there, I had the message pop up on my screen if I’d like to join a group.

I figured why not right? I’m in an enclosed area, with lots of mobs that I have slaughter through to get to the generators I need, and I had the funny feeling the ‘big bad guy’ with a different name to all the rest was going to also be a tad harder. Wouldn’t help to have some assistance…

Assistance. Let’s just pause and ponder that word for a moment. What does it mean to you? For me, it would generally mean help right? Attacking the same mob that I am? Waiting for your partner to be ready, and at least over half health before going and attacking another mob? Allowing you to finish destroying the generator before running off, agroing 3 mobs and then running around like you have a firecracker up your ass yelling for help?

I mean really. I join a group to help things progress quicker – not to babysit a player who can’t help but poke every mob he passes… going the wrong way!

I did learn however that there is the ‘dice roll’ system when it comes to loot in a group. Sadly I didn’t get a screenshot of it as the nincompoop I was grouped with couldn’t sit still and I wasn’t able to properly pay attention. Which brings me to my other annoyance with him. We had two changes to roll for loot – the first one was a spell book which I passed to him (oh yeah, you have roll or pass) as he was a caster. The second was a pair of leather boots, ie the kind of leather I like against my cold dark skin, and not only does he roll, but he wins and says “oh, did you need those” then RUNS AWAY!! That bastard picked up the boots, dangled them in my face and then took off.

For more information on group looting, I found this helpful page: Group Looting. Basically looks the same as WoW…