• * Roads aren’t always the fastest way between two points. Go offroad! You won’t have to worry about aggro (kill on sight mobs) until you get into your level 6 or level 7 quests.
• * Remember that you can gather multiple times on each Angelica node, but Angelica grows throughout the intro areas, so don’t worry about getting your ten on the first trip. It’s good to get in the habit of gathering whenever you stumble across a node, since you’ll have at least one quest later on that requires 15 points in gathering.
• * Don’t replace your chest or foot armor – you’ll be getting upgrades to the chest piece soon enough, and foot pieces seem to drop with higher frequency than other pieces.
• * Titles give stats in Aion, so be sure to have a title equipped. At level 10, the Raider Hero title is great for melee classes, and the Fluent in Mau title is excellent for magic users (though you’ll need quite a bit of kinah to buy the language skill in Pandaemonium).
• * Remember that you can switch titles whenever you wish to! If you pick up the Bottled Lightening title, you can use it during long stretches of foot travel then switch back to a combat title when you need to.
• * Don’t neglect your harvesting skills! You’ll run into several quests in Verteron that will require you gather from harvesting nodes around the zone and skill levels will become obsolete quickly if you neglect them.
• * Repeatable quests are there for a reason! Grab these quests every time you pick up other local quests for extra experience and coin as a habit. You’ll find that they take little effort to complete but offer worthwhile reward.
• * Get the ascension done ASAP! The quest reward, wings, and level 10 skills are all worth earning as early as possible. If you need to go back to the newbie area, do so as a pimped out Daeva.
• * Most class skills update at level 10, 13, 16, and level 19. Save time by planning your trips back to the city at these levels or if you have the kina, buy as many upgrades as you can all at once!
• * Gliding is helpful in quick travel but is definitely an art form! For the best results, travel using your Num Lock or auto-run key then jump from hill peaks or ledges then hit your jump key again, while in mid-air, to glide. You may use your mouse to control your direction and elevation. Glide is also helpful to avoid falling damage. Hit your jump key before you hit the ground to float safely down.
• * Getting a little too crowded in your adventuring area? Change channels! Aion utilizes instances to keep zones from overcrowding and all you have to do to switch is click on your menu button at the bottom of your UI, hover over “Support” and choose “Change Channel”. A box will pop up at the top of your screen showing you which channel you are
  in and allowing you to drop it down and choose a different channel.

Original Link: http://www.elitepvpers.de/forum/aion-guides-strategies/343889-aion-tips-not-sure-where-post.html
Author: reustrady

A fun and rather detailed guide on flying in aion. This was written by zaizul from offgamers.com before the launch of the game. Pretty detailed guide none the less. Talks about the ascension quest, flight mechanics and stats….go on ..read it

Improving Flight

Overview

You may find that the initial 60 seconds of flight time isn’t
enough when you are trying to extract Aether from the sky or engage in flight combat.
However, like any being learning to fly, it will take some time to hone your skills and
it’s almost inevitable that you will fall at some point.

This section will cover the different ways to increase your flight time and
speed.

Flight Skills and Rewards – Abyss Preparation

You will acquire your first Quest with flight rewards at level 10. The reward will
be a passive flight skill, dependent on your race/class, which will
boost your flight attributes.

At level 25 you will automatically receive the ’Abyss Entry
Quest’ series. Finishing all of the series will allow you access to
the Abyss and two of the four Quests offer flight related rewards.

These Quests will be rather challenging and will test your skills. The last of the
four in the series is a rather difficult flying test that will also get you famililar
with Flight Rings. Upon success, you will receive a flight skill that, amongst other
things, will boost your flight speed by 33%.

Flight Armor and Accessories

The best way to increase your flight time is through armor and accessories that
possess flight attributes. Not all armor pieces can have flight attributes, such as
boots, but if you obtain every armor piece that can contain flight attributes, you can
easily boost your base flight time (before potions, scrolls, food) to several
minutes.

Flight Speed Armor

Flight Time Armor

Flight Accessories

Wing Tuners

At Level 29 you will automatically receive a Quest that will lead you to a Wing
Tuner where you can purchase different Wing Feathers that will boost your flight
time.

Elyos
Quest: Idomeneus’s
Letter

Asmodian Quest:
Huron’s Letter

Wing Feathers are relatively expensive and the lowest level feather is 30. Wing
Feathers change the appearance of your wings and improve your flight time. These items
can be equipped and removed like any other armor or accessory and add +30 or more to
your flight time.

NPC	Location	Wing Feathers for Sale
Elyos: Idomeneus	Sanctum	Darrinerk’s Wing Feather Tashunerk’s Wing Feather
Asmodian: Huron	Pandaemonium	Midnight Wing Feather Abyssal Wing Feather

Items with Flight Attributes

There are numerous items in-game that can be acquired through Vendors, looting
items, and crafting.

Icon	Type	Items	Description
	Food and Drink	Pluma Candy | Sparkie Candy	Increases flight time by 10 seconds. Can be made through the Cooking crafting skill.
	Potions	Flight Potions	Increases flight time by 12-60 seconds.
	Scrolls	Flight Speed Scrolls	Increases flight speed by 10%-30% for 5 minutes.
	Manastones	Flight Time Manastones	Increases flight time

Titles earned in-game may also include flight time and speed attributes:

Elyos Titles – Flight Attributes

Name	Description	Bonus Attribute
Gullible You exchanged something valuable for something utterly worthless.	You exchanged something valuable for something utterly worthless.	Flight Speed Evasion 4 Flight Time 3 2%
Aerialist You passed the high-level flight skill test.	You passed the high-level flight skill test.	Flight Speed Flight Time 4 2%
Lonely Bounty HunterYou arrested Kelaino.	You arrested Kelaino.	Magic Boost Flight Speed Flight Time 2 8 1%
InvincibleYou defeated a veteran Asmodian warrior in the Abyss.	You defeated a veteran Asmodian warrior in the Abyss.	Maximum HP Flight Time 5 Flight Speed 50 3%
Battle-HardenedYou defeated an experienced Asmodian warrior in the Abyss.	You defeated an experienced Asmodian warrior in the Abyss.	Maximum HP Flight Time 5 50
Heroic You defeated Asmodians in the Abyss and enhanced the reputation of the Elyos.	You defeated Asmodians in the Abyss and enhanced the reputation of the Elyos.	Maximum HP Flight Time 5 Flight Speed Atk Speed 60 2% 2%
Krall HunterYou defeated many Krall.	You defeated many Krall.	Physical Crit 2 Flight Time 1
Defeater of the Indratu LegionYou defeated Brigadier Indratu.	You defeated Brigadier Indratu.	Physical Crit 8 Magic Boost Flight Time 2 11
Owner of the Dragon SwordYou obtained the legendary Dragon Sword.	You obtained the legendary Dragon Sword.	Speed 4% Flight Speed 3%

Asmodian Titles – Flight Attributes

Name	Description	Bonus Attribute
Shugo ChefYou can cook Shugo-style food.	You can cook Shugo-style food.	Evasion 6 Flight Time 2
Born Merchant You exchanged a lemon for a valuable.	You exchanged a lemon for a valuable.	Flight Speed Evasion 4 Flight Time 3 2%
Fast, Exact, and ReliableYou found the young Tayga Asgeirr had lost.	You found the young Tayga Asgeirr had lost.	Magic Boost Flight Speed 6 1%
InvincibleYou defeated a veteran Elyos warrior in the Abyss.	You defeated a veteran Elyos warrior in the Abyss.	Maximum HP Flight Time 5 Flight Speed 50 3%
Battle-Hardened You defeated an experienced Elyos warrior in the Abyss.	You defeated an experienced Elyos warrior in the Abyss.	Maximum HP Flight Time 5 50
Heroic You defeated Elyos in the Abyss and enhanced the reputation of the Asmodians.	You defeated Elyos in the Abyss and enhanced the reputation of the Asmodians.	Maximum HP Flight Time 5 Flight Speed Atk Speed 60 2% 2%
KindYou helped Gerger to fulfill his dream.	You helped Gerger to fulfill his dream.	Maximum MP Flight Time 1 20
Pirate of the CarobianYou became a honorary sailor of the ship Black Opal.	You became a honorary sailor of the ship Black Opal.	Physical Attack 2 Physical Crit 6 Flight Time 4
Beluslan’s Hero You saved Beluslan from the threat of the Balaur.	You saved Beluslan from the threat of the Balaur.	Physical Crit 8 Magic Boost Flight Time 3 11

Original Link: http://space.offgamers.com/en/aion-the-tower-of-eternity/general-guide/2407-aion-improving-flight-guide
Author: zaizul

A really aion guide on how to farm snaggletooth for a Basalmon’s Shield..The main pain is locating the monster spawn, we spent about 6 hours waiting for him and he didnt show up Oh well, once we do, we will add a video here

This was written by Merovingian from Aion source.

I was unable to find any information on farming this creature “Snaggletooth” for the blue shield “Basalmon’s Shield”.

So after Farming him I decided to make a guide so that others who are after the shield could find the information here on Aion Source.

Attached you will find a screenshot with the necessary information.

Legend:

Mark “A” is where Snaggletooth spawns, he is much larger than the normal lizards and does a very small and slow pathing. He is very large and Greenish Red, you can’t really miss him.

Mark “B” is where you should stand when waiting for his spawn, you will catch VERY little agro from other mobs if you stand in this spot.

On the map the GREEN X on the left is the map location you are looking for, ignore the purple one.

His respawn timer is currently unknown, on the Kaisinel Server both Pasiv and I from Bene Elohim have farmed him and it took about 2 hours for both of us, but as that is a small sampling it could be much longer.

Snaggletooth is not a push over, he is Level 27… I personally went into the fight solo at level 24 with half health (from an add) blew everything I had on me including potions and I only got him to about 40% health before falling. A Cleric Res’d me and I paid him 10k to heal me while I killed Snaggletooth… At level 25+ with food buffs and a few potions a better templar than me should be able to solo him fairly easily if needed.

You can not use the shield till level 30, so farming it at level 24 prob wasn’t a terribly great idea.

Good Luck and Enjoy Your Shield!

Source : Aionsource.com

1)Click on the item to be gathered
2)As soon as it pops up in your inventory, hit any movement key, in any direction and instantly click on the next item to gather.
You shave off the 1-2 seconds waiting time before you have to try again. It becomes especially useful against people trying to ninja the next attempt from you. I am guessing this should work against ze bots as well.
This works while flying and picking up Aether as well, every second up there counts, right?.

This tip was contributed by hokuto78 from taultunleashed.

Rift System Aion Rift is the port between Elyos and Asmodians, the Rift randomly appears in the maps(>Level 20). Through the Rift, Elyos or Asmodians can enter in the land of oppoisite faction, its the only way to pvp except Abyss, of course you can only use it to collect materials, do quests or go to common instances. Some rules about the Rift: - 1. Appear randomly, but in a certain area - 2. The number of Rifts that appear in the same time is 2~6 - 3. Time Limit, Number of Players Limit and Level Limit - 4. The Rift has entrance and exit, but its a unidirectional path - 5. There is a system announcement for all players in the map when a Rift appears - 6. There are 14 Rift Points in a map, 7 for aggression (changeless) and 7 for defence (kinda variable) Elyos Faction Rift Points Distribution: Rift Entrance – Eltnen (Lv20~40) Rift Exit – Morheim (Lv20~40) Point Number Limit Level Limit Time Limit A 12 < 28 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) B 20 < 32 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) C 35 < 36 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) D 35 < 37 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) E 45 < 40 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) F 50 < 40 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) G 50 < 45 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) Rift Entrance – Interdiktah (Lv30~50) Rift Exit – Beluslan (Lv30~50) Point Number Limit Level Limit Time Limit A 24 < 35 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) B 36 < 35 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) C 48 < 46 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) D 48 < 40 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) E 60 < 50 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) F 72 < 50 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) G 72 < 50 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) Asmodians Faction Rift Points Distribution: Rift Entrance – Morheim (Lv20~40) Rift Exit – Eltnen (Lv20~40) Point Number Limit Level Limit Time Limit A 12 < 28 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) B 20 < 32 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) C 35 < 36 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) D 35 < 37 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) E 45 < 40 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) F 50 < 40 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) G 50 < 45 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) Rift Entrance – Beluslan (Lv30~50) Rift Exit – Interdiktah (Lv30~50) Point Number Limit Level Limit Time Limit A 24 < 35 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) B 36 < 35 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) C 48 < 46 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) D 48 < 40 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) E 60 < 50 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) F 72 < 50 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time) G 72 < 50 2h (26 mins of Real Life Time)

Original Link: http://aion.mmosite.com/guide/system_rift.shtml
Author: Aion.mmosite.com

Another gem of an aion guide from Jasdemi.  A quick look at reducing Pings while you play Aion. But please do take necessary backups before you play around with your registry. We have had a lot of experiences in being overly excited and screwing along the way. Take care..play safe Please add any more comments if you have any…

So many people were QQ’ing about their super-high pings lately, so I decided to share some tweaks with you! My average ping in Aion is 25ms btw.
(to check your ping ingame, type /ping in the chat)

Let’s start with my two favourite tweaks

TPCAckFrequency and TCP NoDelay are disabled by default. Enabling them may lower your ping by up to 50%(or even more).

WARNING: Edit your registry step by step like in the following guides. Do not touch there anything else if you
don’t know what you’re doing, you may mess it up. Better do it slow, but carefully.

TcpAckFrequency (alternate, easy way: Leatrix Latency Fix script. Thanks to @Remaxer for sharing this.)

1. Click on your Windows icon on the left corner, type regedit and
   confirm with ENTER. (XP users must enter it in
   Run). A new window will open. Here you can edit your registry.
2. Go to the following directory:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\
3. Multiple interfaces should be there now. (e.g.
   {385D50B4-99B9-4290-ABAA-2B3CCDDECBD1})
4. Now check every single of them and find out what is the right one. The one
   we’re looking for has usually the most entries and contains your computer IP,
   DHCP informations, etc. (Note: If you’re too dumb to can’t find the right one,
   just do all the following changes for all of them.
5. Now right-click in the right hand panel and choose: New > DWORD
   (32bit) Rename the newly created file to
   TcpAckFrequency
6. Right click it and select Modify. A new window will open, enter
   1 into the Value data box and confirm with OK
7. We’re done with this one. Check out if this reduced your ping.

TCP NoDelay

1. Click on your Windows icon on the left corner, type regedit and
   confirm with ENTER. (XP users must enter it in
   Run). A new window will open. Here you can edit your registry.
2. Go to the following directory:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Parameters (if it
   doesn’t exist, create one. Registry folder is called is called a
   key)
3. Now right-click in the right hand panel and choose: New > DWORD
   (32bit) Rename the newly created file to TCPNoDelay
4. Right click it and select Modify. A new window will open, enter
   1 into the Value data box
   and confirm with OK
5. Check if it has reduced your pings

SmoothPING

SmoothPING is a proxy
server. I haven’t tested it myself, but many Aion users confirm ping drops up to
50%. It’s not free, there is a 20 minutes trial available though. It’s more
than enough time to see if it reduced your ping or not. Give it a shot!

Want more?

The 3 above are the ultimate lag killers, if they didn’t reduce your ping, you
might troubleshoot this:

• Is your internet connection fast enough to handle Aion? A broadband connection is
  required.
• Are programs running in the background, like torrents or something else that may
  consume your bandwidth too much?
• Pointless internet securtiy
  bullshit running? Turn it off
  temporally and see if it helped.
• Ports forwarded? 2106, 7777,
  10241 should be open
• Last but not least, stop downloading prons ffs!

Original Link: http://jasdemi.com/aion/waysto-reduce-your-aion-ping/
Author: Jasdemi

Discussions about attack and crit manastones seem to be quite popular. People want to find the way to maximize damage with the slots they can allocate to those two types of manastones. From what I understood the following distinction can be made:

• Attack stones add a fixed amount of damage/DPS to a weapon
• Crit stones add a percentage-based amount of damage/DPS to a weapon

The correctness of these 2 facts is important. If they aren’t true this whole post
is a fail. If they are actually true, the method here can be useful and adapted to
better knowledge, that will be coming steadily.

Now what we do is build a simple model of how DPS could be affected by the manastones. This model is inaccurate with a 100% probability, but it doesn’t matter for the purpose of this post… read on.

First we say that a weapon has a certain amount of DPS and attack/crit stones add boni on top of it. Attack stones are additive, crit stones multiplicative. Some abbreviations are used.

weapon_base_dps : w_dps
dps_increase_per_attack_stone : ba
dps_factor_per_crit_stone : bc

Then a player has a certain amount of manastone slots he can socket. The number of stones of each type he should optimally socket is what he tries to find out. Here are the variables:

number_of_manastone_slots : N
num_socketed_attack_stones : na
num_socketed_crit_stones : nc

The number of manastones that can be socketed will be a constant for each individual case we look at. Once we know that we should socket a certain amount of attack stones, the number of crit stones is simply the number of remaining free slots.

Thus we can eliminate one variable by substitution:

nc = N – na

This leads us to a function of one variable on the number of attack stones (na) that we want to maximize for DPS. The value of na must be inside the interval 0 <= na <= N ; the domain of the function.

Total DPS = f(na)
= (w_dps + na * ba) * (1 + nc * bc)
= (w_dps + na * ba) * (1 + (N – na) * bc)

To find the optimal combination of stones to put in the available sockets we must find the maximum of the function f(na). In the old days we would take the first derivative of f(na) and find where it is zero. Now we can use WolframAlpha. So let’s imagine an example, build a query string for WolframAlpha and then let it do the work
for us.

We take a hypothetical weapon with w_dps=150 and set the other variables arbitrarily to ba=4, bc=0.02 and N=20. This is our template string to make the queries, where we put in the concrete values for all the examples we want:

Template for WolframAlpha query:
maximum (w_dps + (x * ba)) * (1 + ((N - x) * bc)) for 0 <= x <= N

Filling in the values from above gives the string…

maximum (150 + (x*4)) * (1 + ((20 – x) * 0.02)) for 0 <= x <= 20

…that we feed into the “beast”: Wolfram|Alpha query

It tells us that the maximum is at x=16.25, so this means we should get the best DPS by socketing 16 attack stones and only socket 4 slots with crit stones. At least for the chosen example with fictional numbers.

We could continue to play with the numbers and certainly come to some interesting conclusions. Let’s just make one last example where we keep the old numbers and only replace dps with the value 225. Here is the second query and link:

maximum (225 + (x*4)) * (1 + ((20 – x) * 0.02)) for 0 <=
x <= 20

The result is now x~=6.875 which means only 7 attack stones, but 13 crit stones. It’s not surprising that the optimal number of attack stones has decreased, since they only add a fixed amount of DPS, whereas the crit stones benefit from the larger factor (w_dps=225 instead of 150). If we further increase the weapon dps value, then x will go to 0, meaning all crit stones is optimal.

Once the right formulas for the added DPS of attack and crit manastones are known, we can use basic math and tools such as WolframAlpha to find the optimal numbers in terms of expected damage. Coming to an end and to summarize:

Conclusion: In some cases the maximum damage/DPS of a weapon will be achieved with a combination of both attack and crit stones. This post shows a method to calculate the optimal proportion, using a hypothetical model that will be obsolete once the exact mechanics are known.

Original Link: http://www.aionsource.com/forum/mechanic-analysis/39452-combination-attack-crit-stones-max-dps.html
Author: SeismoGraf

Below you will find commentary, opinions, observations, thoughts, and detailed analysis

of the Cleric class based off of things that I found while playing a Cleric in the

Chinese Aion Open Beta. I will also attach some screenshots and will add more later.

Things I will cover will be:

I. Introduction

II. Playstyle

III. Skills and Equipment

IV. Other interesting facts

V. Testimony of other clerics

I may, if I have time and enough content to fill out this review, add more chapters –   and actually plan to. And also, a note on the screenshots, they were all taken on the lowest settings possible so people can determine accordingly how their graphics will   look.

Chapter 1: Introduction

To begin, I will first say that leveling a priest (and later on, Cleric) is probably

one of the more easier classes to level. Not because we have supreme spellpower

and uber powerful melee skills — but rather because we are the most self

sufficient class currently in the game. All classes receive the skill bandage

heal that costs the reagent of a bandage that heals the player for about 200 health

at level one – and then it continues to scale as you level. Even though this skill can

be used in combat, it is EASILY interrupted so the chances of you getting it off are

slim to none. Fortunately – us priests receive a large heal early on that heals for the

same amount, can be used in combat, and is RARELY interrupted. Our access to this makes

it so we can cut through mob after mob with VERY little downtime. Our skills have

practically obsolete MP costs, to the point where I could solo for three hours straight

with 2 (seriously) downtimes. With that said, we spend considerably less time and money

running back and forth to questing areas due to deaths like many of the other classes

do.

With that said, I will cover the basic most apparent functions of our class that are

the most evident. CLEARLY we are the number one healers. With pretty short

casting times and large healing amounts we are most definitely called upon the most.

Secondly, we are also generally a good spell casting class but don’t have nearly as

much power to rival that of the sorcerer. And finally, we have melee potential but from

what I have seen so far, no cleric is going to fun forward relying solely on sparse

melee skills with tedious cool downs. We also have some buffing potential but our buffs

provide very minimal importance where I’ve never died and said to myself “Dang, if

only I had my stamina buff up – I would have outlasted him so much longer.”

Chapter 2: Playstyle

Playing as a Cleric is quite different in my opinion compared to priest experiences you

might have in World of Warcraft, Lineage 2, or Guild Wars (to name a few). MP (mana) is

not as large as an issue in Aion as it is in other games, but rather health is. To set

the stage:

The above was simply just a quote from a scout I was playing with, and I found

myself agreeing with him. I even remember thinking to myself “How do other classes

manage to not die without having the trusty heals that I have?” It almost becomes

the norm to expect to be very low on health at the end of a fight compared to games

where (like WoW) priests have a shield that have them only loose about 180 health a

fight, or like in Guild Wars where you have trusty enchantments that can help you grind

off of twenty mobs at once for gold. It is also a new concept that many mobs will

interrupt your skills if they have the chance.

With that being said, for the average cleric they begin with one or two nukes until the

mob closes into melee range. Once within melee range you use the two or three melee

skills that the cleric is given at lower levels. From then on it varies by player – if

they would rather use a few more spells, a few more melee skills, or just auto-attack

until the target is dead. But remember, it will not be rare that you must heal yourself

during a fight.

When in a group – I’ve seen Cleric’s “work” and “maneuver” many ways depending on their

playstyle. Some cleric’s will stand at the back fulfilling the typical generic healer’s

role, while I’ve seen others help attack the target and and actually get close to it

and melee (and then stop to heal when others need it.) As far as heal range goes,

almost all of the heals I’ve encountered allow the Cleric to be a moderate distance

away from their target.

One thing you will however notice (and be grateful for) is that you rarely have to rest

as the MP costs for skills is very low – and your MP bar will be going down much like

your HP bar would in other games & your health bar will be going down like your MP

bar did in other games. But – no worries – Cleric’s do get several MP recharge skills

for quick recharges in case you find yourself needing it.

Chapter 3: Skills and Equipment

To start with skills, I will begin by saying your most used skill is probably Smite

(and its concurrent ranks) as well the chain skills that follow it. You will be using

those so much – you may eventually get sick of them (: You will also use Hallow Swing

followed by it’s chain skill Sonic Eruption (there are other translations for these

skills) a ton when things close in on you and are within melee range.

To mention your healing skills, you will receive two moderately large skills for the

levels they are given at as well as two heal over time skills that are moderately weak

but do help balance a fight if things are getting rough. All of the cleric skills

mentioned have fairly short cast times and all get better seeing new ranks and names at

higher levels – and many cleric skills are linked to skill chains that create pretty

devastating effects.

One thing that I found very unique about Aion was the fact that immediately in-game

within the first few levels your are already experiencing the ability to update your

armor through nifty little things called Manastones. This devices give the

players boosts such as:

And many other things. These stones drop off of even the most minimal mobs and

increase in power greatly at upper levels. Each item provides 1-2 sockets for these

items lower levels so you can be upgrading your armor constantly (and only have a

chance at failing this upgrade process when there is already one manastone on the

item).

However, to deal more specifically with Cleric armor pieces, the pieces I found myself

looking for most were things like + Spellpower boosts, +HP boosts, as well as +MP

boosts (and for the no brainer, you should definitely use chain armor seeing as the

cloth makes you noticeably more squishy even though the cloth may have greater caster

stats.

About the gear, I believe it will be possible once more people reach the end-game to

create strong spell DPS clerics. Through the manastones I mentioned, a cleric can have

a huge amount of bonus damage (but at the cost of HP and MP). As far a melee DPS cleric

goes — I don’t see it happening right now… but in the future, possibly.

And to finish off this section, a Cleric will also have to face the dilemma of choosing

either a Staff or Mace+Shield combo. The Staff will provide you with

greater magic bonuses for caster and a slightly higher DPS while the Mace and Shield

will provide you with a greater defense, greater health, as well as a slightly safer

solo-ing experience. I myself use a shield and mace combo but many other Cleric’s favor

the staff. Either way, it is very important to carry both so you can pull out a mace

and shield when you are under heavy fire, or a staff if you need that helpful magic

boost.

Chapter 4: Interesting Facts

Some fairly interesting things I found when playing as a Cleric are as follows:

I will add more interesting facts as I come across them…

Chapter 5: Testimony of other clerics

I have decided to add the testimony of other Clerics into this thread so players can

just accordingly and get other appropriate view points. The first one contributed is by

gerrykeen19:

Original Link: http://www.aionsource.com/forum/cleric/13052-cleric-user-review-analysis.html

Author: Kaey

A quick aion guide into the the world of The abyss. The abyss is a preview of sorts into the end game content and it is really imperitive that you learn all that is there to the abyss. You also lose points for dying in the abyss, so you need to be doubly careful when you are there, which makes it all the more important that you equpi yourself with proper knowledge before you venture out into the wild. This is a good starter guide, not comprehensive, but definitely a good starter guide to the abyss. Written by Savanja of tentonhammer, a pretty decent read. The guide follows…

Get the Abyss basics that you will want to know before you hop through that gate.
Aion’s Abyss is the hub for PvP gameplay, legion fortress raids, and much of the engaging end game content.  Nearly everything you’ve been work for in game, is working towards your eventual success in the Abyss battlefield.  Oh sure, you can hop in a rift for some quick PvP or maybe duel it out with your friends, but the fact is that the Abyss is where you want to be for true faction warfare, top notch rewards, and all the fame and glory that you could ever want.

Going into the Abyss

Located in the middle of the crumbled remains to the tower, the Abyss is the raging hell that is dominated by the Balaur.  For the Asmodian and Elyos who dare to travel there to fight an eternal war, they will also face the dangers of Balaur warriors and their battleships that bring a whole new meaning to “war” for the people of Atreia.

Players may enter the Abyss upon completing a series of campaign quests that begin once the player reaches level 25.  Upon the successful completion of these quests, you may make your way into the Abyss via portals; Elyos will find these gates located in Verteron Citadel, Eltnen Fortress, and New Heiron Gate while the Asmodae will find gates in Altgard Fortress, Morheim Fortress, Beluslan Fortress.  Going through
the gate will drop you into the landing area which is pretty much the only safe haven in the zone.  Each faction has their own landing spot and this is where you will want to bind, stock up on essentials, or unload unneeded loot.

Within the Abyss you’ll notice that it isn’t quite like any other zone you’ve played in.  The land is broken up immensely and flight becomes more than just a random amusement, it is a serious  necessity.  Once you leave the landing area, it is game on and you are a walking and flying target so be prepared with flight potions and other flight augmentations.  Nothing sucks more than to be battling it out in the air only to be owned fiercely by gravity.

The Abyss offers faction versus faction PvP and fortress struggles, but there is also various other kinds of content.  The Balaur are nasty creatures and you’ll find great reward in killing these guys.  There is also access to various instances via the Abyss.  One you’ll want to do right away is The Nochsana Training Camp.  This small and quick group instance is perfect for players new to the Abyss.  Once you’ve gotten your bearings here, there are plenty of other instances to choose from, some easier to find than others but most are very rewarding with coin and loot drops so they are worth getting a group together to run.  They generally have level requirements and many have access quests that will need to be completed in order to gain access to them so be sure to keep an eye out for available quests.

Abyss Points and Ranks

Part of the reward of playing in the Abyss is the points that you will accumulate.  These points determine your rank in PvP.  Simply put, your rank goes up when you gain points and down if you lose them.  To gain Abyss Points, you just need to kill other players in PvP, kill NPCs in the Abyss, or complete quests that specifically award points.  Losing points is just as easy and will happen if you are killed by another player, killed by Balaur, or if you choose to
spend your points.  It’s completely possible to lose enough points to lower your rank.

Ranks start you out as a Soldier and gain in varying degrees from Soldier Rank 9 to Soldier Rank 1.  From there you will become an Army Officer, starting as a 1 Star Officer and progressing to a 5 Star Officer before moving on to General, Great General, Commander, and Governor of the Army.  Your rank bar will indicate how many more points you will need to progress to the next rank and do keep in mind that some of
the higher ranking titles can only be held by a certain amount of players at any one  time so you may not get the rank even if you have the points to have it.  Some ranks have nice ability perks so they are worth striving for, but it might be difficult to decide if you want to keep
your fabulous rank or trade in some of those points for beautiful point purchased items.

Spending your points could be the best part of having them.  Because of the nature of Abyss gameplay, the reward for succeeding against your opponents is great and the items you can purchase with your points are quite impressive.  Contribution Vendors, found in the cities of Sanctum, Pandaemonium, and at the Abyss landing spots will take your points and medals in exchange for amazing armor, weapons, potions, and other fun goodies that can’t be found
elsewhere!  These items are designed to give you the edge that you have earned in your hairy battles to continue the good fight against the opposing faction and the Balaur.

Original Link: http://www.tentonhammer.com/aion/guides/world/abyssguide
Author: Savanja

On comparing this with the other leveling guides out there, this one right up on the top. This one gets five stars! As far as leveling goes we would rate it just a tad below KFguides Aion Leveling gudie but with the amount of goodies you get with this, we feel it is worth the price and is definitely the better offer compared to KFGuides Aion leveling guide.

As far as comparison with the current top leveling guide(KFgudies) goes , It is almost equal to them as far as leveling guide goes but where it really excels is the whole bunch of other goodies that you get with it. Since I’ve already own a copy of KFGuides and KillerGuides,I will focus more on the features in this guide that you wont find in any other Aion guide and if it is good or not.

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Content:

To begin, with the very first and important point about this guide is – ‘It’s complete’, meaning it has both Asmodian Leveling Guide (1-50) and Elyos Leveling Guide (1-50)  in one book itself and complete.

Detailed step by step guide to quests along with maps and related screenshots. This makes it so easy when it comes to power leveling. As all the locations and routes are already available in this guide, we don’t need waste time wandering here and there.

The color coding in this guide really helps you as you use the guide extensively. As is the case with KFguides, the color coding really comes into its own as you use the guide. Soon, you will just be looking at the color and accepting or turning in quests, saving you a hell a lot of time (things like these really help you level up faster, and it is attention to such details that is lacking in the leveling guide of Fantoms and killerguides)

Apart from this, the guide also has a lot of hidden information which really helps you along the way! These tips can only be obtained by someone who has actually played the game extensively and Kozen has done a really good job of it. The attention to detail is really great, for example , he gives you specific routes to avoid violent mobs when you dash around for quests. These kind of tips really makes us appreciate the writer for the time he has put in, in this guide.

Step-By-Step Instruction – Yes! It is. Unlike some of the competitors, Step by step actually means step by step. It doesnt say go to X do quest Y. It is clear, concise, easy to read and is a treasure trove of information. The thing is, Aion is a game where the quests get repeated everytime you make a character. So, what you need is a really awesome guide that will actually help you in the long run as well. And we are proud to say, this guide will certainly do that.

So far Kozen’s Aion Leveling guide has been almost as good , if not as good as KFguides Leveling guide. But here is where everything changes, why Kozen’s Guide is worth your money!

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Bonus Items:

The amount of goodies that is given along with this guide is reason enough to buy this guide.When we finished reading the leveling guide, we were torn between Kozen’s and KFguides but the goodies list completely tilted the balance.

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Abyss Guide – Every asmodian/elyosean eventually goes here to prove his merit. It is absolutely necessary that you have a good guide to help you here. The bonus guide teaches you about the basics like fortresses, artifacts, Abyss Ranking and point system, etc and then goes on to list secret hangouts in the Abyss and how to survive attacks and gain the ranking you want.

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They also offer both Asmodian and Elyos Leveling guides. The guides are quest intensive saving you a lot of time that would have been unnecessarily spent on grinding.

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To sum it up, our verdict for this guide is a BIG YES! 5 STARS! Go get it now.The leveling guide in itself is pretty awesome and can hold its own against the other competitiors in the market. But the scales completely tipped in Kozen’s favor once we saw the bonus items.The bonus guides ,few unmatched power leveling tips  and a active forum of motivated Aion Pros to answer your questions, makes this deal totally worth the money.

This is a relatively new guide compared to the ones already out there in the market and has already sold several copies. A lot of people have already started taking advantage of this guide and I’m sure you don’t want to be left behind in the leveling race.

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