Toril

Everything needs a nice set of cans.

Playing Aion OB this week. Back in when heroes start up. Probably Spines/Something.

Don't forget the successful MoSTF run within the past week as well.

Awwwww...

No Granpa-trannies for Vivvy?

5 different people have said they have seen him in Bryan and College Station, TX, but no one knows what his deal is. Some have said that he typically is seen in women's clothing though...

Thanks MMP! Glad to see you got caught up with the group.

I am half a bar from 50 with no ITF run. We made an attempt to get the team to run an ITF last week during session, but alas our team lead wouldn't fall for our bribes of candy and xp.

Hopefully there will be a group of people wanting to run an ITF or LGTF or LRSF tonight. It gives people an opportunity to all get merits instead of just the team lead getting merits plus those lucky enough to be on the same arc. None of those TF's take longer than the ISO time allotment. It does lock up X number of people, but if you get good leaders to run those TFs it doesn't lock those people up for any longer than a 4-5 standard mission arc.

Here's the thing. Some people show up late. Some people leave early. Some people miss sessions. How does everyone stay together?

Basically those that are further along than everyone else are those that come on time and stay the entire allotment of time. No reason for those people to turn off xp because others are leaving early/showing up later.

Schlitz!

I am amazing. Masque said so. That's all you need to know.

Actually to be honest, playing a Kheld requires at least some general idea about what you want to do with the character. It doesn't fall into one category and the powers don't all synergize together, but they don't have to. You get so many power picks to choose from that you can pick a theme and go with it. Most players don't seem to do this though, they are either overwhelmed with all the power picks or they just choose all sorts of shinies and slot randomly. Maybe I also have the benefit that I ran my WS up during I3, so all the changes between its release and its current form have just made it easier and easier for me. Playing my WS like a dark scrapper with pets works out great for me.

Most amusing run I have had with my WS post AE was on a LGTF with a PB. He got hit by a Rikti Quantum that nearly killed him and he wanted to know what the hell just hit him... When I pointed out the Quantum, he asked, what those were. He was L50.

Aion installs Gameguard on your system. If its not removed before release I'll be disabling it/working around it as its a pain in the as$ and causes my system to freak out on occasion. Gameguard does nothing essentially.

All I can say is I did not ninja the /kin on purpose. Hell, his team lead was on vent with me for f**k sake. I didn't know he was on that team originally until fits started being pitched. Then I scroll up and see him saying something about losing power, and then he leaves team and goes back to Team Des.

When you say, "next team to leave a mission, break up", and then shortly after you see someone who you knew was on all night say LFT you assume a team has broken. I didn't even see that he had power problems til I scrolled back up after he had left team to go back to Team Des. I don't keep SGchat in a seperate window, its mixed in with all my other chats. This is why last week the team I was running never got beyond 5 until way late. I never saw the LFT people until it was too late.

Based on quotes from the development team, PVP is not required to advance in the game. It is very PVP oriented, but in the patch that will be played in live release there should be plenty of PVE to do. According to the devs you will be able to PVE from 1-50. Whether this is accurate or not, no one really knows at this point unless they are playing the asian beta version of the game, which is already in 1.5.

Also, being that the game has a very strong PVP backbone, the PVP seems to be fairly balanced. The biggest problem I have with the PVP aspect is there is no way to tell what level an opposing person is until you engage them. If you see big damage numbers, they are lower level than you, if you see small ones, you're pretty much dead. That part of the system worries me abit. I'm not a big PVP player in City because I felt the introduction of it caused too many problems in the game. However in games that are built with it in mind, it could be fun.

It has been fun to play thus far for me. I didn't feel like I was wasting my time as I felt in EQ1 or EQ2. The graphics are very well done. The game play feels polished. All in all my experience has been fairly good with the exception of the L20 guy camping the arena quest contact inside the arena that was just killing people 10 levels lower than him just to be an as$.

Go Going Rouge is this issue, you don't have to wait long to change all your power colors to Rouge.

Closed Beta is over, open beta starts soon I think.