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There are two gathering skills in Aion. Players begin the game with just the general gathering skill ranked 1 of 99. Upon completion of the ascension quest, the player receives the aerial gathering skill. This allows the player to gather any node with a required skill rank of 1, while the maximum achievable rank before obtaining further training is 99. When a skill reaches maximum rank players may purchase additional training in the skill. This system applies to both gathering and crafting. So then lets answer that nagging question, how does a player rank-up skills?

The simplest answer is to level a skill by using it, though there is a little more to it. The most basic aspect to understand, is how general gathering from resource nodes works. Whenever a node is activated the player receives a pop-up box that displays the current skill rank, the item received upon success, and two bars representing success or failure.

As the gathering process begins, a series of successes and failures are represented via progression of the two bars. The extent to which a success or failure progresses either bar is determined by your skill rank in relation to the required rank for that node. If the player’s skill rank is the same as that required to gather a given node, then there is about a 33% chance to fail the entire process.

The greater the player’s skill rank becomes in relation to the required rank, the lower the chance of an overall failure. Once the player’s skill rank surpasses the required rank by more then 20, it becomes impossible to fail. Success provides experience to the character and skill until the player’s rank surpasses the required rank by 40. At this point the skill can no longer gain rank.

What to gather – 1-100 skill points

Having discussed the basics of skill ranks, I’ll move on to the types of nodes and methods of gathering materials within the world of Atreia. There are what I categorize as four basic types of nodes; plants, minerals, gems, and woods. Plants are by far the most abundant type of resource. They appear everywhere on the planet’s surface but do not appear within the Abyss.

Minerals and Gems are found both on the planet’s surface as well as in the Abyss. Minerals come in two forms. The first is minable with each new training level, while the other has node specific rank requirements and a different appearance. Gems are the rarest of the nodes found on the ground throughout Atreia and generally appear where several can be found in relative proximity.

Lastly are the woods which contain the least variety and are found scattered throughout Atreia. At this point, its fair to mention, that for most nodes there are two types of material that can be found. The regular version received 95% of the time and a rare version, often of the same material. The exception to this, from what I’ve seen, is woods.

That takes us to the aerial gathering skill and gathering from odes. Yes its odes, not nodes, in order to represent the difference between aerial and ground gathering. Odes differ from regular ground gathering in that there is only one available every 25 skill ranks. Additionally, they can only be found in zones where free flight is available.

The last manner of obtaining materials for crafting is the traditional method of killing mobs throughout the game. Mobs throughout the world drop several materials, although there are a couple key ones that will be found continually across all levels. The two important enough to mention are the leathers and the crystal balls. Leathers drop off of most mobs that you would expect them to, so anything with a hide. Crystal balls drop off everything and appear in three colors; red, blue, and white.

In closing it should be noted that most of the general materials also have different rarities. Two simple examples are gems and crystal balls. For gems, the node may produce a regular version of the material that is any quality. The rare version, when one is available, will always be of a quality a step above the regular version produced. The exception being that there are no unigue quality materials at this time. In the case of crystal balls each ball occurs in different rarities and any color crystal ball may drop in any rarity.

I hope this provides everyone a little insight into the way gathering in Aion works and gets you excited for the upcoming article on what to do with those newly gathered materials!

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The guide covers the basics such as acquiring skills, how to put them on your action bars, the difference in (the number of) chain skills depending on your class etc.  Most of you who participated in the last few beta events might already be familiar with most of this, but if you still didn’t preorder your copy of Aion go ahead and read the full article.

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Table of Contents

1. [Craft] Continuous Usage, Making the Needed Consumables
2. [Craft, Gathering] Quest Required Materials Package
3. [Craft] Specially Good Stat Gear
4. [Sales] Make Characters to Expand Your Store
5. [Sales] Different Pricings for Different Packages
6. [Sales] Mass Materials Purchase on Low Tax
7. [Sales] Get The Cheap Ones
8. [Hunting] Get Expensive Drops By Killing Balaur
9. [Hunting] Killing Unpopular Named Monsters
10. [Gathering] Gather and Sell Popular Items
11. [Skin Change] Sell Gears Made to Look Like Top Abyss Gear
12. [Morph] Using DP and Od, Make High-Priced Materials
13. [Extraction] Break Up Gears to Make and Sell Enchantment Stones
14. [Manastone] Gather Useless Manastones and Turn Them into Expensive Ones

1. [Craft] Continuous Usage, Making the Needed Consumables

Since consumables from Alchemy and Cooking is used by all classes, it is always in demand. Therefore, if you get the prices right, you can make a steady profit. When the prices for the materials for these consumables go up, their product price also goes up. You must keep an eye on this.

Player tips

For cooking, it would be different for each server, but what you are going to make depends on the profit.
I for one make the following:

• Perer Aether Jelly
• Starturtle Steak
  
• Lunime nyerktail
• Moonflower Sushi Roll

The 2 new cooking consumables have a lot of competition, and when theres a lot of competition your profit suffers. Since the PaJ is a commonly used DP food, make that here and there. Then go to Brokers and put em up.

Cooking consumables sell slower than Alchemy consumables, but the profits are higher. Don’t hurry your sales.

2. [Craft, Gathering] Quest Required Materials Package

Some quests require you to go and get some materials for completion. However, many of these items are sold in 10-100 in quantity, so it annoys the people trying to get those materials only for quest completion.

In this case, if you put up a little pricier quantities of 1s, those trying to complete the quests will buy them. Since theres a lot of players looking for them, you can gather a lot of kinah from it.

Player tips

In case of the Asmodian Beluslan LvL 34 Mission Contaminated Beluslan, you need Mosbears Claws, Asmodian Party Kisk Summing Stone (changed to Party, Alliance, and Legion Sizes in Patch 1.1), and Salix Tree.

Of that, Salix Tree is a gatherable. People may be lazy or not have the required gathering level for it. And also, the quest requires only one of them. If the cheapest Salix Trees come in quantities of 100 to 500, then they cannot buy them for quest completion. So since it is an important mission, you put these up in quantities of 1s for 4000 kinah each.

Like that, even if you put up 10 of those, since theres a lot of players doing the mission each day, they’ll be sold in no time. But an important thing to remember is how much your competition is selling for. Even if there is a competition, you would still get 2000-ish profit. Its important to keep on selling these for profit.

3. [Craft] Specially Good Stat Gear

Of the Crafting professions, to make money from Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, Handicrafting, and Tailoring, you need to do a little research first. You don’t go and just make a high lvl gear. You need to find a specific gear sought by many, with little competition on them.

One of the special items is a lvl 23 equippable belt Craftman’s Shining Jute Waist Band. Since the production level is 130, it is a low production lvl item that most crafters bypass without looking. But its stats are good, so many players look for it. Finding out such items is the way to go.

4. [Sales] Make Characters to Expand Your Store

Leveling some characters to lvl 10 and making them able to use the Broker merchants is important.

Each Daeva can put up 10 auctions at time. If you have 5, then you will get 50. Having more auction space will be crucial. This everyone knows.

Also, the more items you have up, the more buyers you will get from customers on your name.

5. [Sales] Different Pricings for Different Packages

When you are putting items up on the Broker merchants, putting same price for same quantity is not a good idea (ie, 1 for 300 kinah, 10 for 3000 kinah – not good).

Lower amounts should have a higher price per merchandise, and higher amounts should have lower. Higher price applies to people only wanting to purchase low amounts, and lower price applies to those who wish to make a mass purchase, for example Crafters.

Player tips

If a Major Scrolls material cost is 4000 and the current lowest price for those are 5000 in 100 quantity, then sell your 100 quantity in 4990 in 1 to 3 packages, 50 quantity in 5200-ish in 2 to 4 packages, 20 quantity in 5600-ish in 3 to 6 packages, and 10 quantity in 6000-ish in 5 to 8 packages.

This way, you will earn more money than just selling them in 100 quantities, and they well sell faster as well. Making your name go up before your competition by looking at the prices is important, and that is why having 50 Broker merchant space is important.

6. [Sales] Mass Materials Purchase on Low Tax

Depending on the occupied Castles, the Tax rate becomes different. When its high, the materials cost more, and when its low, materials cost less.

So when you make purchases from the Material Salesman (for example, paper and glass bottle for Alchemy) when the Tax is low, you will be that much more competitive.

Tax also affects Inventory Space expansion and travel fees, so you must always pay attention to the Tax.

7. Get The Cheap Ones

Obviously, there are some cheap items that comes up on Brokers once in a while. If it’s a material then gather them for cheap, turn them into a product then sell them at their price.

Also, on the weekdays there are cheaper items than ones on Weekends. But note the rises/falls in the prices, and judge if the price of the item in you are getting is cheap or not.

8. [Hunting] Get Expensive Drops By Killing Balaur

The Balaur shows up in lvl 25-32 zone Sulfur Tree Islands in the Lower Layer. For LvL 39+, they also show up in the La Mien Islands in the Upper Layer (there’s other lvls tho, I’m pretty sure)

They often drop the Draconic Gear materials, and these sell well. Also, hunting in the abyss gives you abyss points as well as experience. Since you might get attacked by opposing faction (and you certainly do at the lvl 29 Draconutes spot) its best to setup a kisk nearby. High level players kill Balaur in Draubniru or Kraltumagna dungeons, and these too drop high priced materials.

9. [Hunting] Killing Unpopular Named Monsters

If you kill a Named monster, you may get Green, Legendary, or Unique drops. Putting these up on the Brokers or extracting Enchantment Stones makes you a hefty sum of money. Obviously, the stronger the Named Monster is, the pricier the drops.

Important thing is finding unpopular solo-able Named Monsters that are just overlooked by people. Out of these, some drop not-so-bad drops, and even if it’s not a frigging loleazymode gear drop, you can extract Enchantment stones from them and sell those.

10. [Gathering] Gather and Sell Popular Items

Meanwhile, the Aether-type of items are still very popular. Not only is it required upon production, its harder to extract, therefore it is very highly priced. Aether is a very fast selling material.

Other than that, the often used materials for consumables (herbs, jewel sorts of items) also sell often. You just have to look at how much competition there is and pick your prices.

11. [Skin Change] Sell Gears Made to Look Like Top Abyss Gear

Using AP, you can get parts of the Green HolySpirit series (Elyos) or EvilSpirit series (Asmodian). These of course, you use to change the skins of other gears.

Reason being, that these skins look exactly like the lvl 50 Orange gear, and also has a light-emitting effect. Thats right, these items skins are as same as the strongest Abyss Gear (this is advantageous in PvP, as there is less motivation to attack characters with PvP sets on).

Once you make a skin change with this item, that skin changed gear becomes tradable. These are sold to players at a high price (probably on third-party trading forums, as you cannot immediately know the skin just by looking at the name).

12. [Morph] Using DP and Od, Make High-Priced Materials

If you hunt around a bit you’ll gain DP, and with it you can make Aether-type of materials into other materials. All morphing requires 200 DP, and the only thing different is what grade of the Aether it requires. Therefore, if you morph it into the expensive materials, you will gain profit. If you gather the Aethers yourself, you will gain that much more profit.

You must pick out which materials are best to morph into by comparing prices. You can gain Morph Designs at an NPC in Abyss Castles (after your faction has captured it).

13. [Extraction] Break Up Gears to Make and Sell Enchantment Stones

If you’ve got the spare money, its possible. If you gathered enough money to buy a Unique-Grade gear, search for a good priced one at the Broker merchant. After that, once you use extraction kit on it you will get enchantment stones, and sell these back to get some cash. If you are lucky, you will get a high lvl enchantment stone, and can net you a big profit.

Or, you can make gear just so you can break them into Enchantment stones, and this may net you profit as well (the production material cost < enchantment stones made from extraction).

Player tips

Once you’ve gathered some money, immediately go to the Brokers. Then you start searching. Pick the cheapest lvl 45-50 Legendary/Unique grade gear. Then extract.

But before that you must know something. Legendary can give you upto 20 higher / Unique can give you upto 40 higher enchantment stones. But heres the thing! Say you’ve extracted a lvl 45 legendary and got a lvl 43 stone. Then next you must go buy the most expensive Unique gear (he means in market priced ones, not the overly priced ones) and extract from it.

The reason being, there’s a specific chance to each character for Crafting/Upgrading/Extraction. Therefore, if you’ve got a lower lvl enchantment stone from a gear, there is a chance that you’ll get a higher lvl enchantment stone from your next extraction (80% and higher).

14. [Manastone] Gather Useless Manastones and Turn Them into Expensive Ones

Using Alchemy, you can make lower grade manastones into higher. The most sought stones, Critical Hit and Attack, are sold at high prices. However, the other manastones come at a very low price.

Buy these cheap stones, and turn them randomly into attack and critical hit types of manastones using the Manastone Exchange Quests. Even tho these come out to be low grade, you should turn them into higher grade stones and make profit from that.

Buy masses of these, then you have to exchange these by traveling to various zones which can get annoying. But if you overcome this, you will see good profit.

Player tips

This method uses the Manastone NPC in Interdiktah. She turns your trash manastones into useful ones with 2 Manastone Quests at lvl 29. The first quest requires: +50 HP, +18 Accuracy, and +18 Shield Defense, and the second quest requires: +50MP, +10 Parry, and +18 Parry.

Many users don’t even bother with manastones other than +2 attack and +10 Crit, so they are lying on the private stores or on the Brokers for 300-ish.

I bought 100 of each type. Then after 200 of the repeat quest, I gained

• +5 Flight Time: 3 in quantity (worth about 80-120k ea): about 240k
• +2 Attack: 34 in quantity (about 7-8k ea): about 240k
• +10 Crit: 28 in quantity (about 7-9k ea): about 200k

Other than that, I got some +75 HP and other scrub ones. While the manastone purchase cost was about 160k, the reward manastones themselves are worth about 680k. Within 1 hour to 1h30m of repeat questing, I gained about 540k!

Through Alchemy and using 31 highest grade Catalysts (about 5k ea, 150k total), 4 of +15 Crit, 6 of +5 Attack manastone crit, even though it depends on when you sell them, at the time I sold my manastones I got about 1,680,000 kinah.

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There’s plenty of info on various subjects, and while it may not be extremely useful for those who have been participating in the beta for months, those who are rather new to the game will surely find something for their taste. It might be especially useful if you preordered Aion and want to participate in the upcoming beta weekends. Here’s a short list of just some of the content:

• class and factions info
• divine power
• equipment (weapons & armor)
• leveling
• professions
• stigmas (stones, quests, shards, skills)
• quests and quest types
• selling items
• kinah strategies
• legions
• titles
• leveling guide 10-20 for both factions (will be updated soon!)
• Abyss
• user interface
• macros
• enhancements

This unofficial Aion guide is constantly updated, usually after each beta weekend. A few parts are still work in progress, but I’m sure it will be finished by the time Aion is released. It’s great to see such info gathered in one nicely written guide, but there is one downside: it comes at a price. If you ask me it’s worth it, but it’s your call.

The price of the guide is $29,99, which in my opinion is more than fair. Once you order here you’re also eligible for free updates so whether you get it now or in few months makes no difference. However, the guide has a discount price right now and you can get it for $19,99 — the offer lasts only for the next two days though so hurry up if you want your copy.

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Flight basics

The quest for becoming a Daeva (taken at level 9) earns you your wings at level 10, this is for both Elyos and Asmodian characters. When you first obtain this ability you will only be able to use flight for a maximum one minute period with a two minute “recharge”. I’ll elaborate. Flight is powered by aether, and a players aether has to be replenished. As long as you have even just a little aether you can fly, but how long you fly depends on how much aether you have. As stated already it takes two minutes to fully “recharge”.

Aether is recharged by not using your wings to move around in any way, or if you’re in the Abyss you can fly through the numerous aether rings. There is also a cooldown on how often you can take flight/glide and it’s a mere 10 seconds. Your aether level is indicated by a segmented green bar over your head(when flying) and it is always in your hud’s lower right.

Limitations

Flight in Aion is limited to certain zones/areas, so to help with this there are also flight paths (which appear to be the same concept used in WoW, albeit far more stylish), depending on the area. Using a flight path to get to an area will not exhaust your aether as you are using some form of spiritual bird rather than your own wings. It is a much faster means of travel than standard flight.

Flight in the Abyss is virtually unlimited. You can go the abyss at level 25 and there’s stuff to do there until end game and beyond. Your aether still runs low in the Abyss, but there are aether rings you can fly through or hover in to recharge your aether as you go. It’s rumored that wings can be be personalized or upgraded through PvP, specifics are yet to be announced. It is true that some player skills act differently or are available only when you are flying which makes the flight system more of a strategic element than a transportation mechanic.

As your character progresses there will be items/abilities/situations that will result in higher flight times/speeds etc. I have heard from multiple sources, but not confirmed that endgame you can get up to 3-4 maybe up to 5-10 minutes of flight time.

Do note, if you fly too high and your aether runs out, you will suffer fall damage. When the arrow on your minimap is blue you can survive the fall, but when it turns purple your character will die!

Gliding

As stated previously, flight in Aion is limited to certain areas and zones to avoid players getting ahead of the game or making it too easy. Remember flight is supposed to be a strategic element, not a mount. If you find yourself in a zone in which you can not fly, you can still “glide”. This is true in all zones! To glide simply jump in the air and then jump again in mid-air and you will unfold your wings and ride the air currents. Holding W will help you push forward and holding S will help you catch air currents for longer air time.

The effectiveness of this is based on your environment, if you’re going down hill you can expect to ride longer, but once you hit ground your wings go away. Gliding does eat up your aether, but only half as fast as flying (so if you can find a big enough hill you get 2 minutes to glide). You do move faster while gliding then you do whilst running, so gliding is typically used to escape aggro.

You can also toggle in and out of gliding from flight by tapping your jump button. This might seem trivial, but remember gliding costs less aether and thus gives you more air time. If you hit the ground while gliding, but you had a flying start you will automatically go back into flight as opposed to landing.

If you want to see gliding in action, check out the following video:

Controls

Initially PageUp and PageDown will be used to fold/unfold your wings, you can also click the flight button on your hud or the macro that comes in your skill book. Once you are flying you can move any direction with the mouse buttons simultaneously pressed, WADS works for the horizontal plane, R makes you ascend and F makes you descend. Of course any of these keys can be remapped. If you want to show off your wings stand still and type /wings. This has no aether cost and no cooldown, but if you move at all your wings will fold in again.

There is a move called “dive”, it’s not a real skill per say, but it causes your character to travel faster, though only at a downward angle. While you’re flying, just point your character down either with the mouse buttons or both the W and F keys and you’re diving. Remember this when you’re high up and your aether is almost depleted.

Where to get your wings

Note: I have not confirmed the cost on the level 30 or 40 wings for the NA version of Aion. The image linked is from the NA beta.

• Your first set of wings come at level 9 through a campaign quest called: Ascension.
• Your level 30 wings are typically purchased from a vendor for roughly 775k kinah(game currency). The vendor can be found in Sanctum for the Elyos and Pandaemonium for the Asmodians.
• If you have bought the CE of Aion you get a better set of level 30 wings for free! It has not been stated whether you will get the wings for every character you’ve created or not. It has also not been stated where you get the CE wings from, be it mail or they come on your character in your cube.
• The level 40 wings are purchased from the SAME vendor as the level 30 ones for about 9.6M kinah.

The level 50 wings are a quest reward, see the following:

• Asmodian quest at level 50: Secret of the Pollution: grants access to dungeon in Brusthonin: Ardma fort. Also rewards level 50 wings.
• Elyos quest at level 50: Secret Experiment of Theobomos: grants access to dungeon in Theobomos: Secret Laboratory. Also rewards level 50 wings.

Both quests are campaign quests which leads me to believe they will be in your logbook already at level 50, but I can not confirm that.

This is an image of the level 30 and 40 wings at the vendor bought in Pandaemonium:

Wing stats

Note: I have not confirmed this information.

Please note these stats come with the wings and are the same for both Elyos and Asmodian.

• Level 10 – One minute of flight(60 seconds).
• Level 30 – +30 Seconds of flight time(90 seconds total).
• Level 30CE – +40 Seconds of flight time(100 seconds total).
• Level 40 – +60 Seconds of flight time(120 seconds total).
• Level 50 – +35Seconds +120HP(95 seconds total). – This tickles me as a PVP thing honestly, since flight time is much less limited in the Abyss due to the aether rings and HP is key for mitigation.

Other things modify your flight time and speed such a high level gear, potions, manastones, scrolls, titles, Abyss buffs, etc. Examples:

• http://www.aionarmory.com/item.aspx?id=110600759 – Flight Speed
• http://www.aionarmory.com/item.aspx?id=110600739 – Flight Time
• http://www.aionarmory.com/item.aspx?id=167000497 – Time
• http://www.aionarmory.com/recipe.aspx?id=155006244 – Speed

Titles

The following titles modify some of your flying skills, namely flight time and flight speed.

Elyos:

Krall Hunter
You defeated many Krall.
Physical Critical Hit +2 / Flight Time +1

Aerialist
You passed the high-level flight skill test
Flight Speed +1% / Flight Time +2

Lonely Bounty Hunter
You arrested the wanted Kelaino.
Magic Boosting Power +8 / Flight Speed +2% / Flight Time +2

Defeater of the Indratu Legion
You defeated Brigade General Indratu.
Physical Critical Hit +4 / Magic Boosting Power +11 / Flight Time +2

Handicrafting Expert
You reached the highest level in Handicrafting.
Flight Time +2

Sewing Expert
You reached the highest level in Sewing.
Maximum HP +52 / Flight Time +3 / Flight Speed +3% / Speed +6%

Krall Slaughterer
You annihilated Krall in Eltnen.
Maximum HP +44 / Maximum MP +44 / Flight Time +2

Gatekeeper Hunter
You defeated the gatekeeper of the Ereshuranta Upper Layer Fortress.
Flight Speed +3%

Gullible
You exchanged a valuable for a lemon.
Flight Speed +2% / Evasion +4 / Water Defense +4

Asmodians:

Kind
You helped Gerger to fulfill his lifetime dream.
Maximum MP +20 / Flight Time +1

Slayer of Mabangtah
You threw Elysea into chaos by defeating Mabangtah, a pro-Elyos Krall.
Physical Critical Hit +4 / Magical Critical Hit +4 / Flight Time +2

Tough
You defeated a novice Elyos warrior in the Abyss.
Flight Time +2

Heroic
You defeated Elyos in the Abyss and enhanced the reputation of the Asmodians.
Maximum HP +52 / Flight Time +3 / Flight Speed +3% / Speed +6%

Sewing Expert
You reached the highest level in Sewing.
Magic Boosting Power +8 / Flight Speed +2% / Flight Time +2

Gatekeeper Stabber
You defeated the gatekeeper of the Ereshuranta Upper Layer Fortress.
Flight Speed +3%

True Friend of Silver Mane
I defeated the enemy of the Silver Mane Tribe.
Maximum HP +44 / Maximum MP +44 / Flight Time +2

Born Merchant
You exchanged a lemon for a valuable.
Flight Speed +2% / Evasion +4 / Water Defense +4

Title stats are subject to change of course in future patches.

Picture time!

I will not be posting pictures of the normal Elyos or Asmodian wings except for in the first image portraying wing progression. I am doing this to save space and time, and because level 10 wings are typical in design. Also I am short on the CE wings for Elyos and the CE wings for Asmodian, if you have any to submit, please feel free to do so.

More pics in the gallery below:

 

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• Closed Beta Event 5 Info

Two members of the AionSource.com forums stepped in and wrote these leveling guides. One of them is for the Elyos, and the other for Asmodian. Both guides are nicely written and you should have no trouble following it. These guides might not be for you if you prefer exploring Atreia yourself and enjoy finding new stuff, but if you only wish to level up a character faster to try out some skills or whatever, give these guides a try.

Also,  I’ll be reviewing this leveling guide in a day or two as well and since that one includes several interesting bonuses you might want to check that one too. It comes at a price however, but so far it seems worth it. Don’t forget to stay tuned for this exclusive review!

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Free 1-10 Leveling Guide – Asmodian & Elyos

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• Beginner’s Guide to Skills and Chains
• Aion Tutorial Vids
• Flying FAQ
• How to Earn Kinah Guide

Grinding in groups is a great way to get away from the usual routine of solo playing and does offer a few advantages over soloing the content, primarily higher experience gains. I’m guessing you actually want to contribute while grouped with others so this guide will surely be a useful introduction.

1. Introduction
2. Know Your Role
3. Group Basics
4. What I Should Bring to the Party?
5. The Prey
6. Conclusion

1. Introduction

For those that don’t know me my poster name is Keeg and in game char is Saphira. I have lved chanter, cleric, temp, sm, and ranger. Please note none of them are what I would consider endgame, but I have been in several groups with each for exp grinding. If you’re tired of lving off of quest and missions, or just enjoy the company of others, I would recommend giving exp grinding a go.

2. Know Your Role

Groups in Aion consist of 6 members. The basic roles of Aion are tank, dps, cc, and heal. The warrior archetype of Aion consists of Templar (main tank) and Gladiator (off tank). Depending on the lv of difficulty of content you are about to attempt will determine which you will choose for a tank. For grinding purposes for exp however, both will work.

The dps classes of Aion consist of the Scout and the Mage archetype of Aion: Assassin, Ranger, Sorcerer, and Spiritmaster. All of them are different and provide different dps options to the group, which is to vast to cover in this guide, so you will have to research that on your own. For grinding exp purposes though all 4 will work.

The Classes that excel in cc (crowd control) in Aion are Sorcerer, Ranger, and Spiritmaster. Sorc have a root, tree, and sleep spell for links which will come in handy. Rangers have traps and status arrows to keep links under control. SM have there pets, snare, poly, and fear (caution should be used however, this can lead to more links).

Finally the priest archetype consists of Cleric (main healer) and Chanter (back up healer). Clerics have the most healing abilities: self resurrect, instant heal, group heal, just to name a few; making them the ideal main healer. While the chanter focuses more on a support role with stronger hots, auras, debuffs, and more efficient dps in terms in mana consumption.

3. Group Basics

Now that you know your role, its time to make a group. You ideally want to get at least one class from each role then focus on extra members. To restate again basic party roles are tank, dps, cc and heal. Ideally you want one tank, one cc, two dps, and two healers. The tanks in Aion are very strong and can usally handle themselves fine w/o the aid of another tank, in terms of exp grinding. The cc will help you with any links you get due to elite/groupmob areas have a tendency to have group of mobs near each other, so fighting one more mob at a time is not uncommon.

The two dps will help you kill things faster and increase your exp, while aiding all other roles relief in the form that fights will not be as long drawn out. The two healers will usually assign one as main healer while the other contributes support in the form of buffs/debuffs/dps or all of the above. In addition it is always nice to have another healer if the group gets in trouble and extra healing becomes necessary.

4. What Should I Bring To The Party?

Food, drinks, and silly hats of course! (Bad joke) But in all seriousness it is a good question that gets asked very often. For exp grinding parties you want to gain exp as fast as possible, but having fun at the same time. So I would suggest you bring a few basic things and don’t worry about oh no my gear isn’t +1. For starters mages should bring a few mana pots and Odella powders with them. Odella powders can be bought at the general merchant and can stack up to 1k, you can hold multiple stacks if you really plan to lv all day (looks innocent, what I’m not a lvacholic, are you accusing me of that!?). The Odella powders are used in the skill mana treatment, which each class has access to.

Mana pots are usually cheap in the auction house, but if you’re cheap like me or you like crafting you can make your own threw crafting. Mana pots are nice to off set what ever the Odella Powders fail to recover, or if you end up in a long fight (multiple links for example) and end up needing more mana, as mana pots are instant unlike mana treatment.

For melees you are going to want hp pots and odella powders as well, however this is not as important as mages bringing them. Although if you’re the main tank… you can save your healer a heart attack if your hp falls to low, or give an extra nudge your party needs to over come a link if it begins to go down hill. Also note odella powders are still used, just consumed in the ability hp treatment instead of mana treatment.

On a closing note if your exp camp is far away from town, you may want to consider a bringing a kisk along or a rez stone. Both of these lovely items can be bought at your merchant. The kisk is like an obelisk on the go. You place it on the ground and then bind your self to it. Keep in mind it only works on your group members and in addition if they want to gain the benefit of the kisk they must bind to it as well. Keep in mind the kisk has a limited duration and respawn on it. You can read the kisk and it will tell you how much time and respawn on the kisk is remaining.

The rez stone works in the same fashion as the healer rez. It will bring a member back to life in the soul sickness state. This is handy if all your healers die as it can stop a full wipe or save your healer(s) a trip back.

5. The Prey

Now I know what you’re thinking wth is elite, is this wow 2? The answer is no, no it’s not. It’s a common term used for a stronger version of the mob then your use to fighting.

Credit goes to Lyankyj and Korean PowerBook for the follow images and info:

Rankings:

Normal mob (solo):

Elite mob (party, 2-4players):

Hero mob (1-2 parties, 12 players):

Legendary mob (1 force, 24 players):

Passive creatures are shown as yellow:

Aggressive ones are red:

“The dots in their names representing their strength, variety of skills they’re using, how strong they are in their own rank.
More dots = stronger.

Average mobs have 3dots, above that you should reconsider engaging in battle with them.” – Lyankyj

Groups of 3-6 when grinding exp will normally go with elite camps for grinding. These areas are very easy to find as your group missions and quests while lving up will lead you to them. However, you should take caution as these monsters are harder then what you are use to. Elite mobs hit much harder than normal mobs with a greater hp pool. In addition they like to be in groups (as in hang out close together, I haven’t seen a mob use a benefical spell on another mob to suggest they are actually in the same group, yet) and patrol threw out the area.

However if your willing to risk the grind, you shall be rewarded. Elites are known for there better drop table, higher exp given upon defeat, in addition to knocking out some of your group quests and missions at the same time!

Now I know some of you are thinking. Can I still grind with a smaller group, with out being in a nearly full party? The short answer is yes you can grind elites with a smaller party, but it will take longer to do so. Due to this I would advise a group of 1-3 (3 is pushing it some times) to grind normal mobs. Now I know what your thinking, why why would I want to grind normal mobs when some one soloing quests can grind faster. This is true and not true to a certain extent. At the lower lvs yes solo questing will get you more exp per hr if you are familiar with the quests and don’t read the quest logs. However, at the higher lvs this rate becomes harder and harder to maintain as more factors come into play (enemy fraction ganking, less quests, more running around, etc) to a point where it becomes more likely that a small group will lv faster then a solo player.

That being said at the low lvs you gain a very huge advantage grouping b/c of this, why? Just to name a few: experience with how a group acts and practicing your role, green equip (most quest equip is not very good at the low lvs, with a few exceptions), and most importantly CRAFTING MATS. If you are seriously considering taking up a craft you would be well to take my advice and save your self a fortune. Starting at the low lv and grinding mobs out rather the questing will give you a ton of crafting mats if you’re in the right spot. This will save you the headache of buying them off the broker.

6. Conclusion

This is the end of the guide; I hope you have found it useful. Now go out and exp grind with friends, guildies, or meet someone new.

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Enchantments

The most frustrating parts of learning how to enhance is learning that THEY CAN FAIL! Not only can they fail, but failing can have negative side-effects for your gear! This is why you must read the guide below so that you do not lose your time, your character’s money, or your cool!

Before you can use Enchantment stones, you must create them. In order to create them, visit a nearby General Goods Merchant and purchase Extraction Tools. One set of tools is used per extraction. In order to extract, you must Right-Click on the Extraction Tools and then Left-Click on the item you wish to extract from.

There are some important guidelines! First, you can only extract from items that can be enhanced. These are your chest slot, legs slot, shoulders slot, hands slot, feet slot, primary slot, and secondary slot. Second, when you extract from an item, that item is destroyed. Do not extract from items you wish to keep or use, obviously.

Once you have extracted an item, you will receive Enchantment stones. They come in the form: Level # Enchantment. The level corresponds to an item’s level, not your level.

Now that you know how to extract and create Enchantment stones, I will tell you how you apply them to an item. The first important part is figuring out the level of the item you wish to enhance. Quite simply, the item’s level is the required level to use that item (but there is more!). This can typically be found just by looking at the item’s statistics, as it will say what level is required. For some items, such as quest rewards, there is no given level on the item. In order to figure out the level of these items, you must know what level the quest was that resulted in that item. For instance, if a quest said “Level 10″ in front of it and completing it resulted in an item, that item’s level would be 10.

Once you know your item’s level, the next step is figuring out what level Enchantment stone to use. In order to do this, you must know whether the item is of White rarity, Green rarity, Blue rarity, or Orange rarity. You can simply do this by looking at the item and seeing what color the item’s name is written in. Once you know the item’s level and its color use the following to figure out what Enchantment stone to use:

White Item = Item’s Level +1-10 Levels
Green Item = Item’s Level +5-20 Levels
Blue Item = Item’s Level +15-40 Levels
Orange Item = Item’s Level +30-50 Levels

When using an Enchantment stone from the above guide, take note that using the lower extremity will cause you to have a lower chance of success. If you have a Level 10 White item, you will have a higher percent of success if you use a Level 13 Enchantment stone than if you used a Level 11 Enchantment stone. Also, if you use too high of an Enchantment stone, your chance of success will be diminished as well.

Now that you know how to create Enchantment stones and use them to enhance your gear, you must be wondering what the point of it all is! Each item can be enhanced up to 10 times. Although this seems fairly easy to obtain, you can take either two paths to reaching it. One involves spending lots of your character’s money on purchasing the best-to-use Enchantment stones; the other involves spending lots of risk on using lower level Enchantment stones that will sometimes fail. What happens when you fail? Your item loses one level of enhancement! This is why it is important to use the correct level Enchantment stones. The good news is that items cannot reach negative enhancement levels; it will stop at 0. The bad news, obviously, is that it can take quite a bit of time and money to reach 10.

The following shows what bonuses come with each enhancement level. Remember, each item can reach a maximum of 10, so multiple each bonus by 10 to figure out the maximum.

Plate
Chest = +6 Physical Defense per level
Legs = +5 Physical Defense per level
Pauldron = +4 Physical Defense per level
Gloves = +4 Physical Defense per level
Boots = +4 Physical Defense per level

Chain
Chest = +5 Physical Defense per level
Legs = +4 Physical Defense per level
Pauldron = +3 Physical Defense per level
Gloves = +3 Physical Defense per level
Boots = +3 Physical Defense per level

Leather
Chest = +4 Physical Defense per level
Legs = +3 Physical Defense per level
Pauldron = +2 Physical Defense per level
Gloves = +2 Physical Defense per level
Boots = +2 Physical Defense per level

Cloth
Chest = +3 Physical Defense per level
Legs = +2 Physical Defense per level
Pauldron = +1 Physical Defense per level
Gloves = +1 Physical Defense per level
Boots = +1 Physical Defense per level

Primary
Polearm = +4 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level
Greatsword = +4 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level
Bows = +4 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level
Staff = +3 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level, +10 Magic Boost per level
Sword = +2 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level
Dagger = +2 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level
Mace = +3 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level, +10 Magic Boost per level
Orb = +4 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level, +10 Magic Boost per level
Spellbook = +3 Minimum and Maximum Weapon Damage per level, +10 Magic Boost per level

Secondary
Shield = +2% Damage Reduction per level

After reading this, you should now be a pro when it comes to enhancing your items, extraction, and Enchantment stones. The next part of the guide will discuss the use of Manastones.

Manastones

Manastones contain a certain statistic and a certain value. For example, Manastone: Accuracy +12. In this case, this Manastone would add 12 to your Accuracy value if you placed it into a socket of one of your equipped items. Similar to the enhancing, only the following slots contain sockets: chest slot, legs slot, shoulders slot, hands slot, feet slot, primary slot, and secondary slot. Also, the higher the rarity of the item, the more sockets it contains:

White Item = 1-2 Socket
Green Item = 2-3 Sockets
Blue Item = 3-4 Sockets
Orange Item = 4-5 Sockets

Similar to enhancing, placing Manastones into sockets can fail. The penalty for this is that all Manastones already in sockets and the Manastone you just used for that item are destroyed, returning the item to all empty sockets. The positive is that this is quite rare, and usually only occurs when placing a high level Manastone into a low level item. However, at this time, there is no way to tell the exact level of a Manastone; just know that the higher the value, the higher the level. Also, green Manastones are harder to socket than white Manastones.

When the game is released, there will be level requirements on Manastones which will make it easier to tell the level of the Manastone.

A good strategy for placing Manastones into sockets (when an item has more than 1 socket) is to socket your least valued Manastone first and your most valued Manastone last. This way, the chance for failing and wasting your most valued Manastone is reduced to a minimum.

You can also remove Manastones from items by visiting a <Remove Manastone> NPC. These are usually found around major cities and towns. You pay a small fee and the NPC will remove your desired Manastone from your item. However, the Manastone will be destroyed in the process.

The following list shows all Manastones and their possible values:

Manastone: Attack (Adds to your Attack value)
Value Range: +1-5
White Manastones: (+1, +2, +4)
Green Manastones: (+3, +5)

Manastone: Accuracy (Adds to your Accuracy value)
Value Range: +12-25
White Manastones: Even #s (+12, +14, etc.)
Green Manastones: Odd #s (+21, +23, etc.)

Manastone: Parry (Adds to your Parry value)
Value Range: +12-25
White Manastones: Even #s (+12, +14, etc.)
Green Manastones: Odd #s (+21, +23, etc.)

Manastone: Magic Boosting Power (Adds to your Magic Boosting Power value)
Value Range: +12-25
White Manastones: Even #s (+12, +14, etc.)
Green Manastones: Odd #s (+21, +23, etc.)

Manastone: Shield Defense (Adds to your Block value)
Value Range: +12-25
White Manastones: Even #s (+12, +14, etc.)
Green Manastones: Odd #s (+21, +23, etc.)

Manastone: Evasion (Adds to your Evasion value)
Value Range: +4-15
White Manastones: Even #s (+4, +6, etc.)
Green Manastones: Odd #s (+11, +13, etc.)

Manastone: Physical Critical Hit (Adds to your Crit Rate value)
Value Range: +4-15
White Manastones: Even #s (+4, +6, etc.)
Green Manastones: Odd #s (+11, +13, etc.)

Manastone: HP (Adds to your HP value)
Value Range: +20-85
White Manastones: By Tens (+20, +30, etc.)
Green Manastones: In-between Tens (+65, +75, etc.)

Manastone: MP (Adds to your MP value)
Value Range: +20-85
White Manastones: By Tens (20, 30, etc.)
Green Manastones: In-between Tens (65, 75, etc.)

Manastone: Magical Accuracy (Adds to your Magic Accuracy value)
Value Range: +10, +12
Green Manastones: (+10, +12)

Manastone: Maximum Flight Time (Adds to your Flight Time value)
Value Range: +4
Green Manastones: (+4)

Manastone: Magical Resistance (Adds to your Magical Resistance value)
Value Range: +12
Green Manastones: +12

Godstones

The last part of this guide will discuss Godstones. These are used on all weapon items. The basic premise of a Godstone is to apply some sort of ability, which triggers at a certain percent, to inflict your target with.

Godstones can be found throughout the higher level content of the game. They can be found in similar ways that Manastones can be found, only with a significant less frequency. They can also be obtained as quest rewards. Once you obtain a Godstone, you can visit a Godstone Enchanter NPC, which are usually found in large cities only, and have them enable the Godstone to your weapon for a fee. You may also remove Godstones in a similar fashion as Manastones.

When a weapon becomes enabled by a Godstone, it will receive a partical effect. This means that your weapon will now have a specific type of glow depending on which Godstone you used. Each type of Godstone (Bleed, Blind, etc) has its own color and effect.

The following is a list of some of Aion’s Godstones and their benefit:
(A) = Asmodian Quest Reward
(E) = Elyos Quest Reward

Blue
Bleed
Bleeding Abnormal Condition Smash
65 damage every 2 seconds for 10 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
Bleeding Abnormal Condition Smash
40 damage every 2 seconds for 20 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
Mahisha’s Wrath
71 damage every 2 seconds for 10 seconds at 8% trigger rate.

Blind
(A)Aegir’s Eye Beam
Blinds for 8 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
Rasberg’s Love
Blinds for 10 seconds at 10% trigger rate.
Rasberg’s Tragedy
Blinds for 8 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
(E)Telemachus’s Luster
Blinds for 8 seconds at 5% trigger rate.

Paralyze
(E)Spatalos’s Chastisement
Paralyzes for 5 seconds at 2% trigger rate.
(A)Sueron’s Threat
Paralyzes for 5 seconds at 2% trigger rate.
Vidar’s Dignity
Paralyzes for 5 seconds at 2% trigger rate.

Poison
Orissa’s Blood
38 damage every 2 seconds for 20 seconds at 10% trigger rate.

Root
(E)Hectate’s Root
Binds for 10 seconds at 2% trigger rate.
Helkes’s Revenge
Binds for 10 seconds at 2% trigger rate.
(A)Sif’s Root
Binds for 10 seconds at 2% trigger rate.

Silence
(E)Jumentis’s Pacification
Silences for 8 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
(A)Sigyn’s Calmness
Silences for 8 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
Srudgelmir’s Silence
Silences for 10 seconds at 10% trigger rate.
Srudgelmir’s Tacitness
Silences for 8 seconds at 5% trigger rate.

Slow
Eio’s Tears
Reduces attack speed by 50% for 10 seconds at 10% trigger rate.
(A)Freyr’s Rest
Reduces attack speed by 50% for 10 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
Ieo’s Sadness
Reduces attack speed by 50% for 10 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
(E)Thrasymedes’s Peace
Reduces attack speed by 50% for 10 seconds at 5% trigger rate.

Snare
Deltras’s Loyalty
Reduces movement speed by 50% for 10 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
(A)Nerthus’s Suppression
Reduces movement speed by 50% for 10 seconds at 5% trigger rate.
(E)Perento’s Standpoint
Reduces movement speed by 50% for 10 seconds at 5% trigger rate.

Stun
(E)Boreas’s Fury
Stuns for 1 second at 6% trigger rate.
Fasimedes’s Majesty
Stuns for 1 second at 6% trigger rate.
(A)Traufnir’s Roar
Stuns for 1 second at 6% trigger rate.

Damage
Earth
Freyr’s Wisdom
1880 earth damage at 1% trigger rate.
Thrasymedes’s Wit
188 earth damage at 10% trigger rate.
Fire
Boreas’s Encouragement
188 fire damage at 10% trigger rate.
Traufnir’s Bravery
1880 fire damage at 1% trigger rate.
Water
Hectate’s Cleverness
94 water damage at 20% trigger rate.
Sif’s Knowledge
940 water damage at 2% trigger rate.
Wind
Jumentis’s Agility
94 wind damage at 20% trigger rate.
Sigyn’s Intelligence
940 wind damage at 2% trigger rate.
Magical Fire
Magical Earth Smash
247 magical fire damage at 3% trigger rate.
Magical Earth Strike
124 magical fire damage at 6% trigger rate.
Magical Fire Smash
370 magical fire damage at 2% trigger rate.
Magical Fire Strike
185 magical fire damage at 4% trigger rate.

Orange
Damage
Earth
(A)Marchutan’s Balance
376 earth damage at 10% trigger rate.
(E)Yustiel’s Heart
376 earth damage at 10% trigger rate.
Fire
(E)Nezakan’s Valiance
3760 fire damage at 1% trigger rate.
(A)Zikel’s Pride
3760 fire damage at 1% trigger rate.
Water
(E)Kaisinel’s Terror
1880 water damage at 2% trigger rate.
(A)Lumiel’s Magical Power
1880 water damage at 2% trigger rate.
Wind
(E)Baizel’s Will
188 wind damage at 20% trigger rate.
(A)Triniel’s Coolness
188 wind damage at 20% trigger rate.

After reading this guide, I hope that you are now very knowledgeable with Enchantments, Manastones, Godstones, extracting, socket’ing, and enabling.

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