Aion Snaggletooth and Basalmon’s Shield

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Genius

A few days ago we wrote about great blue Kratia drops, and now it’s time for another blue-drop mob. Are you looking for a way to get great blue shield level 30 for free? Get ready for farming Snaggletooth and Basalmon’s Shield.

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Double Valentine’s day … ummmm, wait!

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Mikro

NCSoft decided to share the love with its Aion player base by enabling double XP weekend this Valentine’s day. On Friday, February 12 at 8 p.m. (server time), double experience will be enabled and run through the weekend, ending on Monday at 8 a.m. (server time). Here are some awesome quotes from the comment section of this news post on the official site:

Kenya [Nezekan]

So many people are going to be breaking up that weekend…I can see it now. “You rather be in a virtual environment talking to avatars then spending time in real life talking to your girlfriend?”
Blank Look “Uh…yeah.”

Kyrolen [Triniel]

So lucky you single school kids…

Marvelous [Lumiel]

Oh good, now this Valentines day can be just like the Valentine’s Day Massacre cuz if I log on while she’s home or awake I’m gonna get massacred. Oh and no, I’m not leaving my Kinah to any of you.

Read the full news and timetable on the official site.

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Aion Bosses Kratia & Harpback

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Genius
Kratia
Level:33
HP:35846
Type:Named Mob
Race:Demi-Humanoid
Reaction:Elyos | Asmo
Rating: 2 dot Elite
Aggressivity range: 7m
 Harpback
Level:33
HP:42807
Type:Named Mob
Race:Beast
Reaction:Elyos | Asmo
Rating: 5 dot Elite
Aggressivity range: 7m

Kratia spawn time: 5 to 5.5 hours from the moment you kill Harpback
Location: Eracus Temple

Kratia spawn place
When you enter Eracus Temple fly down. On your left side is a large platform with mugolems. She spawns near the base of the platform.

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Aion Source email database hacked

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Mikro

The AionSource.com hacking saga continues. All Aion Source forum members just received an email with the following contents:

It has come to our attention that during a recent attempt to hack our website, hackers may have gained access to email addresses used to register accounts here at AionSource.com. We always value your safety, and strive to maintain your trust. We’ve comprised a list of ways to protect yourself and what to be on the look out for. DO NOT TRUST ANY EMAIL LINK that is related to your password for Aion Online or AionSource.com, always open your browser and type in the website address manually…

We value your time, and assure you we are doing everything in our power to prevent problems like this from affecting our network in the future. Your safety and ability to use our website worry-free is our top priority

If you have been a member of that forum please make sure that you do not click on any links whatsoever if you receive Aion related emails. The hack might produce phishing attempts of other nature as well so be extra careful about links in emails from sources you are not familiar with.

Aion Source forum was the largest gathering place for the Aion community and people at Aion Source did a huge service for the Aion community. Please make sure you support these guys, they did their best and the opponent is much more powerful than anybody thought. Also, I hope that official forums will get much more attention now and be brought up to speed ASAP.

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It’s the AionViking

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Mikro

I saw this a few days ago while browsing for news. Can’t resist sharing it, despite it being 6+ months old.

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Aionsource is safe

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Mikro

I just wanted to followup on the article we wrote a few days ago when Aion Source got some security issues.

Several popular Aion fansites, technology and gaming blogs, and places we all visit have been under attack lately from hackers. The most recent attempts ranging from the massive tech website TechCrunch, to right here at home on your favorite Aion fansites may have left sensitive data on your PC vulnerable.

AionSource was targeted along with these other sites beginning at 5pm on January 24th and was completely cleared up by 5:20pm. 6 hours later after we cleared the site of the breach, Google flagged AionSource as an “attack site” due to the small window where the breach took place. We appealed and were removed from this “attack site” list shortly after once Google verified we were clear.

You can read the complete announcement here.

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Aion Maintenance brings a small patch

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Mikro

Aion servers are going down for maintenance today at 3:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. GMT). A small number of fixes will be applied and the game version will change to 1.5.1.10. The fixes are:

Abyss

  • Divine Fortress timer has been changed from 120 minutes to 110 minutes to fix a bug where medals were distributed twice

General

  • Fixed – Expansion issue with Greater Stigma Slot
  • Fixed – Regional issue with the Mail System that prevented some users mail from reaching the recipient
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Community Manager day – gief hugz

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Mikro

Browsing Twitter for news can provide unexpected results sometimes. Apparently, today is Community Manager day according to sera_brennan@Twitter (Massively.com editor) and these articles 1 and 2.

Whether this is just another one of those made up days or not I would like to give a shout out to Aion’s community team. Whether you’re a fanboy or a hater the guys work their best and deserve a hug. Make sure to send one out on Twitter to:

Ayase (UK Community Manager)
Tamat (NA Community Manager)
Amboss (DE Community Manager)
Arathaur (FR Community Manager)

Funny Pictures

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Aion Source having a bit of trouble

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Mikro

If you play Aion you surely know of AionSource.com, home of the biggest English speaking Aion community. Today they seem to have been having some trouble with their servers and it even seems that Google and Firefox flagged Aionsource.com as a possible threat to security.

Not to worry though, AS people started working on it right away and the threat was removed right away. Google is also not reporting the site as being dangerous anymore, which confirms the site is safe yet again.

We’ll try and get more details about the whole thing from Aion Source staff but for now I leave you with what Cynic, AionSource main guy, posted several hours ago:

Sorry about the slow reply, our guys were looking into it.

Long story short someone managed to sneak a malicious little file onto our servers that started popping iframes everywhere, obviously related to (removed for safety).

It’s been dealt with accordingly…

Source

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Double XP weekend – wooooo!

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Mikro

If you are reading this post – you are doing it wrong! You should be in-game leveling your little hearts out. I personally brought along my bad ass lvl 36 gladiator wife to Eracus Temple and got two blues, several greens and loads of kinah and a level within a couple of hours. The leveling feels almost too fast. Maybe permanent 3/4 increase of XP? I bet the guys at NCSoft can calculate what would be ideal XP curve to see all the content and not skip any areas.

In any case, since you are reading this article you may as well go over to the official site and read the Eye on community article featuring some Aion related artwork. I just wanted to add to this by linking the image below. Enjoy your Double XP weekend!


OOC – About Long Hair by *canadian-rainwater on deviantART

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