To try and understand to the full extent some of the announced aspects of SWTOR, we have decided to play Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age and Mass Effect series and try and draw conclusions on what we can expect in SW: The Old Republic.
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Aion free reactivation weekend with Double XP, July 30, 2010 !
Today Aion team has announced that from Friday, July 30th at 11:00 a.m. EDT, all inactive Aion accounts will be reactivated until Monday, August 2nd at 6:00 p.m. EDT. During this period you will be able to level up much faster than usual – double XP is additional bonus.
Greetings Daevas,
Tell your friends, family, and former Legion mates about the upcoming “Double Your Fun” reactivation weekend! All inactive Aion accounts will be reactivated to coincide with this weekend’s incoming Double XP goodness. During this weekend of double fun, you can enjoy playing with friends you haven’t seen for aeons and level up twice as fast as usual!
The Reactivation and Double XP Weekends start and end at the same time, as found below:
* Starts: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 8 a.m. PDT ,11 a.m. EDT, and Saturday July 31, 2010 at 1 a.m. AEST.
* Ends: Monday, August 2, 2010 at 3 p.m. PDT ,6 p.m. EDT, and Tuesday August 3, 2010 at 8 a.m. AEST.
Aion 2.0 Pets
Aion’s free expansion Assault on Balaurea is announced for September 7th. Among the huge list of new features in this enormous update (about 3 or 4 gigs of new content) was the mention of Aion Pet System.
We’ve also introduced our pet system, and just from reading all the comments from the players on the forums, that’s something that they’re really looking forward to. Pets won’t just be cute and cuddly — they will be — but they’ll also have functionality. We have an inventory pet, so basically it’s your pack mule that carries around all your items for you. We have a production pet, so when you go around the world and find junk loot that you don’t want, you can feed it to your pet and it’ll produce a better item for you to use. I usually say you feed it and it poops out a prize — it’s a whole new meaning to “world drops.”
There are also alert pets, that actually alert a player when something is sneaking up behind you. We have multifunction pets that are a combination of the ones that I just mentioned, and that’s our pet system.
Before you can buy a pet, you have to finish Pet-related quest – That you will take the pet. You can obtain a pet praise skill book after completing the corresponding quest. You can purchase, sell, or abandon pet eggs through the Pet Manager Uranos and Armis (Elyos Sanctum) or Katin and Erudil (Asmo Pandaemonium).
Each pet has a unique function. There are 5 types of pets in the new Aion Pet System:
- Decorative pets: unique appearances but no game play value.
- Alertive pets: Warns its master when an opposing race character approaches within certain range
- Productive pets: When you feed it you may receive an enchantment stone, manastone, aether, balaur material, ore, jewel, dye, hairpin.
- Warehouse pets: Owners can use a warehouse type storage space while it is the active pet. The storage they can hold is 6, 12, 18 and 24 slots.
- Multi Type: A pet with more than one function.
Functional pets can be purchased with Kinah, or be obtained as quest rewards. You can select 3 accessories when you purchase a pet but you cannot choose the pet’s color. You can check pet abilities through the pet information screen. Double-click on the summoned pet from the pet list screen or by using the shortcut key ‘[‘. You can feed the pet by registering the item that it can eat or by dragging and dropping the desired item onto the pet. Through emotion study, your pets can learn to bow, flirt and even fly with you!
News: Loro Beta Key Giveaway
During the last few weeks, Lotro fans have a chance to win free Beta keys. Just a small reminder where you can get Lotro beta key:
Beta event on Fileplanet : ALL FilePlanet users are invited to play! FilePlanet subscribers will receive a…
Massively’s interview with Aion producer Lani Blazier – Comic-Con 2010
Massively had an interview with Aion’s web producer Lani Blazier about Aion’s free expansion Assault on Balaurea announced for September 7th. We made an interview summary and you can find out more on massively.com:
- Two new areas one Asmodian and one Elyos. When you get into it, there are fortresses and artifacts on ground level that players have to capture, and they’re contested areas.
- When you capture it, a passage to a canyon will open up, which is the only way you can cross over to the opposing faction’s area. When you cross over, and you successfully capture fortresses and artifacts on that side, it unlocks an amazing boss that’s going to take hundreds of players to take down.
- We can expect eight new instances, two of which are soloable.
- When Aion was launched team focused a lot on the player factions, the Asmodian and the Elyos. Now they are focusing on the Balaureans
- The level curves have been analyzed – are there levels where players are getting stuck: levels 18-23 were kind of sticky, levels 38-41 were sticky
- They fleshed out the endgame, added more content
- A free expansion is about 3 or 4 gigs of new content
- With 2.0 the level cap has been raised from 50 to 55
- A pet system will be introduced. There are alert pets, that actually alert a player when something is sneaking up behind you.