Side Note NCSoft Customer Support....

I did want to make a mention of NCSoft's customer support though... I had an issue in OBT that I didnt have in any of the CBT's nor in C-Aion. I kept getting BSOD... So I have Infuse help me, I tell him what it is doing and he tells me where to go and look for the error messages and walks me through a couple of solutions, that winded up not working at all for me. Bless his heart he spent alot of time trying to help me figure it out so I could stay in game longer lol... Anyway I sent in a tech support ticket to NCSoft with all the BSOD error messages and a couple of more things that was causing warnings. Within 24 hours of my original ticket, they had responded to me already, sending me a Diagnostic tool to run and give them a report. As soon as they had the report I was given 2 different solutions. By this time the OBT was over with so I couldn't run the solutions and do what they asked me to do so I called the phone number provided in the email. I talked to a gentleman named Hayden who walked me through some stuff and told me what to do etc, he explained the last email I got in a little more Bel friendly English (computer software for dummies anyone?) Anyway I really cant run the solutions and the game until the game is back up, however he told me to create my characters today and to leave the game open to see if it causes the error again or if the solutions given to me worked. If they didn't work to call them back and hopefully we would have a solution that would work before Sunday. So Kudo's to the NCSoft Tech Support team for putting in that extra effort to make sure we all enjoy our game and if we have problems answering us as soon as possible.

The support team that has been a big part of Aionsource.com has always been very prompt in answering questions that they are able and finding the answers if they aren't. So I just really wanted to say from a customers prospective that is used to the non-existent Customer support in other games KUDOS and DOUBLE KUDOS to NCSoft and all of the Tech/Customer Support people you have in place!! Thank you guys :)

3 days and counting...

So 3 days until early release and counting. I really haven't had much of a blog to write lately. I have been hanging out with Infuse in C-Aion a bit and doing other stuff here and there. Trying to get with the guild and pick the best server for everyone. Trying to get with old friends from other games and getting them the proper information so they can join us in Aion.

So have a long discussion over several days our guild finally decided on a server. West Coast server to optimize every one's gaming time. I think it will be a great fit for all of us ...

So today I will make 2 toons. My ranger as my main, Lildevil, I am almost positive that will be her name. My Glad.. I don't know what I am going to name her. I liked her old name but that wont work for release so... I will just have to come up with one. Anyway I will make my toons and then I guess I will sit here and wait until Sunday to actually play. We are planning to only be sub 30 for about a week ... I have my Mountain Dew ready.I think Infuse has our leveling plan all mapped out for us already <3 Hrm.. I wonder if it would be bad to had my daughter some money and just have her order pizza every night?? Nah just joking wouldn't do that :)

I am excited to see that Game Guard will be gone at the release of Aion. I was all for GG. I don't like 3rd party bots, I don't like 3rd party cheats, and I am not a big fan of addons. I think all this stuff takes away from the game the way it was meant to be played. So hopefully they will get the kinks worked out or either jackasses wont try to mess this game up like every other MMO but that is pretty doubtfull.

Anyway I have another Blog to write for the day, yes I know I haven't written many in the last week or so and going to put out 2 today. Sowwies :)

Open beta comes to an end...

Let me just say this beta I enjoyed myself immensely. As I said Infuse and I rolled Glad/Cleric. Can I just say ... Cleric's OP much? hehehe... out of about 30 duels with him I beat him 3 times. I just couldn't keep him from healing. I would get him down and he would heal almost to full every time. Last night before the end of beta him and I went into the arena. Both of us lvl 25. We went in because a guild mate of ours was in there getting his ass kicked by lvl 18-27's. He was level 14, so we went in to help and get a little ummm pay back/vengence. There was about 10 or so people in the Arena. We came in and literally kicked everyone out of the arena. SO MUCH FUN. Watching a lvl 27 assassin try to gank me and fail miserably at it cracks me up.

I am going to miss the cleric/glad combo. but it will be Ranger / Ranger. I will roll a glad once I get to see the end game on my ranger.

I am trying to think of some stuff to share after open beta and I can not really think of anything. Other than the fact there are about a ton more quests to do than there was. We didn't really hit a lull spot. So now I will go back to C-Aion and patiently await launch.

C-Aion vs OBT vs Launch

I do not want to be a negative Nancy here so I am going to stay away from the topic of lag, gameguard etc... I am not writing about how unplayable the game has been the last 2 days, Since I was in C-Aion I know very very well that NCSoft can handle these issues and I feel sure by the time launch swings this way it will be golden.

SO I will talk about the good stuff so far. I rolled Elyos with my guild this go around not the side we will play at launch and I have no idea what server we will be playing on, however so far in the last 2 days I have gotten to lvl 16 3/4. This time around I am leveling with Infuse, he made a Cleric to be my heal bot on the Gladitor. Cleric/Glad much better than Glad/Ranger combo. Chanter/Ranger combo isnt bad either and Ranger/Ranger just owns. Anyway we have pretty much just been flying through levels. I am also finding it erm I dont know if I would say easier but easier to skill up my crafting as well as gathering ... with the exception of Aether. I really wish that while flying to get the Aether you didnt have a chance to fail at gathering it. Maybe it isnt easier but I didnt spend much time in C-Aion gathering mats, I just bought the stuff I needed or it was morphed for me to get as high up as I am with it.

Anyway I am working on what my 5th time rerolling now... and I am still enjoying the lower levels. I will say though that I do miss alot about C-Aion and closed Beta's. I want the faces back, sure keep the ones that were added but give us the option to use the ones we are used to as well. The voiceovers/sounds... ummm can we have those back to, I am not so sure I like the english version of it at all. I miss play Asmo cause well Elyos dont have that little flip when they jump in the air... Also whats up with the laying on the cloud to sleep, Asmo's get a magic carpet that they sit on lol... Cheesy...

Anyway loving it still and dont think I will be burnt out on this game for a while. Have fun in OBT guys...


For the record I am I will be rolling a Ranger as a main come Launch just checking out the Glad which I love btw...

High Gear???

So yeah I kicked it into high gear, with a little pushing and prodding (thanks Clyde <3)and got to the Abyss just in time for OBT I know but so far I love it.

I logged into game this morning and was up in the Abyss where I logged out the night before. Well not really the night before as I had one of my sleep all day/night days lol.. but anyway when I logged in and walked out of our main hall all I saw was a sea of red.

I got my ass kicked of course because well I am what lvl 25 1/2 this morning. Those were some tough guys up there. One thing I am finding that I do not like in the Abyss or anywhere for that matter is when you target an enemy player for their level you just get ?? Hrm.. I want to see what level they are, I want to know if I am getting my ass handed to me by a lvl 50 or someone around my level etc... Makes for a very frustrated Bel...

Also today I went through a rift in Mor to get some Infiltration quests done and Infuse didn't make it in with me because he was to high level (he is 31 now) Anyway I am in there and I find that I can make it to where I need to go by myself, and I get all my quest sorted out there having a good time getting stuff done. A Ranger poked his head out and attacked me... he barely took any of my hp away so I am going to assume he wasn't that close to my level because I turned around and popped of 2 skills and he was pretty much dead (he had 1/4 of his health). Although he did put me to sleep so he had to of been at least lvl 22 ... He slept me and ran away :*( Sad Bel didn't get her first solo kill. The next Elyos was an assassin... Yeah he got away from me to at 1/4.. I need to always have running scrolls on or something... I was finally killed by a sorc that I didn't see while I had 2 mobs on me ... NERF Sorcs!! LMAO nah I am just kidding. Anyway I had alot of fun today and I am now at 26 and a half..


BTW 2 Rangers grouped together... No tank no healer.. kind of owns... Most mobs are dead before they can get to either one of us, regardless if they are my lvl or his lol... Much Fun!!!

Rangers...

So I am a little confused. I have been playing the class. I love the class and I am enjoying it very much. But I am confused, why is it almost every post on the Ranger boards is QQing?

I have had absolutely no issues playing the class, killing a mob before it gets to me or even taking a step or two back. Now am I saying I don't die? No, not at all. I make silly mistakes, pull to many mobs or just think ok I will run through this it cant be that bad...well it can be that bad lol. But hey who wants a class or game for that matter that is simple and easy to do? I don't, I love the challenge of playing a ranger either solo or grouped. Making sure you time those slows, sleeps and stuns right. This isn't a class where you just pick up a bow and shoot and everything dies you have to have some strat to it.

All I am saying is while playing C-Aion I have managed to teach myself how to kite, not because I had to for PVE but because I will need it in PVP ... A ranger is a RANGED class and should really and honestly not be able to stand toe to toe with a melee mob/player. You have to know how to move around and get things done without adding more mobs to your group of mobs lol..

My secrets if you want to call them that ... Lay a trap, start with Entangling Arrow, move to Snipe and what ever chain move you plain to use, depending on how far from the mob you were when you started the mob should be hitting the trap about now, and Entangling should be back up, Auto attack (actually make sure you are continuously auto attacking, I have noticed with my ranger that she will just stop so I put the auto attack button on my hot bar in the 1st slot.) Stun ... mob should be dead. Heal pots are your FRIEND!!!!! Now everyone is going to use their skill set differently but I just really don't understand the thought process that is going on on the forums I am reading lately.

ok rant off now... but can anyone explain to me the issue with Rangers? I know that lvl 10-20 can be a little slow and rough but the only skill you don't have for those levels is the actually Stun Arrow. However high crit chance, Crits can proc a stun or knock back.... I do tend to crit alot. Maybe that is the difference I don't know.

New things.... And a little off topic.

Thank you Infuse for working on the new banner for me. 2 Blogs with pretty much the same banner just didn't sit well with me, Appreciate it a lot :)

Another new thing for me personally this week is I have been pretty much a stay at home mom for the last several years, decided it is time to go back to work. So I went on a job interview on Tuesday and I got a call back already yesterday so it looks like Bel will now be employed. I am looking forward to it and I hope that it will not interfere with my gaming time to much. I do not think I have much to worry about in that department but we shall see. I will still be here as well as doing the Podcast Black Wings of Atreia with my guild mates from Black Death.


Anyway that is what I have for this morning off to pass my drug test. I will write more about the game in a bit.

I CONQUERED FINALLY

So yeah, I have been working really hard in C-Aion on a couple of things, 1 has been the crafting actually mostly the crafting and 2 I have really been trying to teach myself to play with my keyboard and not be so mouse dependent.

Well I have finally gotten up into lvl 3 on the crafting YAY! and FINALLY crit Infuse's bow. Come to find out I had been working on and failing on over and over is not the one he wanted at the time. He found the one he wanted on the AH and bought it, so I have been just working on getting him a crit bow for when he hits 30. I finally got the crit on it this morning. I tried and failed at this bow about 20 times before I got it to crit alot of mats etc... alot of time consumption. I am starting to finally like the crafting and getting excited when I crit on something.

I also crit some earrings for Black that lol were the wrong ones but we got that straightened out now. The good thing is I sold the wrong ones on the AH for like 950k.

And now I will move on to the 2nd thing I have been working on, I am learning to kite and actually doing really well with it. Always on the healer I would run around and wait until a) it was taunted off me or b) the player was killed and just kept right on healing, not so easily done in Aion since well you cant move and attack with the exception of a few skills. But it is going well and I will keep working on it until open beta in C-Aion.

Our podcast is up so go have a listen and enjoy :) Black Wings of Arteia Also you can find us on Itunes Store :)