Aion

This post was written a week ago! I was didn’t get around to posting it.

Pre-ordered this game on Sunday. Not really paid much attention to this or other upcoming MMO’s but with the untimely death of Elysium and some friends who had been doing the beta’s for this game I decided to try it out. Official UK launch isn’t till Friday but due to pre-ordering I’m in on a head start code.

Made my first character on the server we had decided on and played around for a couple of hours on Monday night, and the early levels are pretty much average MMO faire. 

The Tuesday after work I logged in and discovered a 7hour 20mins queue to log in! This prompted me to make another char on a different server. Which I took through to level 10 (got my wings). 

Skilling up crafting skills is interesting. You get work orders to make items that get handed in, most of the materials for which are supplied to you. Crafting doesn’t seem to be a fast process but you aren’t dumped with tonnes of junk items no-one needs. We will see how this progresses.

Tonight after work if there is no queue on the first server that’s where I’ll go! If on the other hand there isn’t I’ll start a new char on the second server. The reason is I don’t want to commit too much time to a char until I know where we will be settling for the long haul!

Wisp