Asmo takes a FORT!!! What???

So yeah yesterday I wrote that I wasnt sure what was going on with the Asmo on my server... Someone must of lit a fire under their asses because last night we had 2 Forts come up to take. The Sulfur fort went to Balur but not without Asmo trying like hell to take it as well. We had all the artifacts but the one on the ground and Elyos couldnt take them back. We had them well defended but the numbers on the Elyos side when we got down to the fort was insane. Balur beat us in the fort and to the Diety. I am not sure how they can get in without beating down the door but whatever hehe.

We Moved to the Western Siel Fort since it was next up. Did the same thing there took all the artifacts... this time we beat the door down and made it in before Balur even showed up. We cleared Elyos and had the Diety down to about a 1/4 of his health when all hell broke loose and he started AOEing like crazy with all the Elyos up top firing down. So we regrouped and went back in ... Wiped Elyos and killed the Diety. Now Asmo owns it's first fort on my server. We had so much fun. WE only had a 4 man group from my legion. Me, Tingting, Arithion and Stoyadoll. 3 Rangers and 1 Chanter lol!!! 200+ Elyos kills plus a fort.. VERY NICE... GRATZ Asmo and thanks guys I had a blast last night.

Game Time

So we have been out gathering, crafting, leveling and just enjoying the game. Last night we were out in Alsig/Fire Temple area doing a few quests and ran into some very unexpected Elyos. Fights ensued and about 15 mins later there were umm a good 10to 15 Elyos bodies laying around. Now we didn't kill them all some of them ran into our guards and died but had an epic fight with a Cleric and Templar. 2 Rangers vs Templar and Cleric. At first we just slept the cleric and went after the Templar. He seemed to be a little harder to kill than we were expecting so we said screw it completely ignored the Temp and took out the cleric. 2 rangers with back to back Silences = dead Cleric. After the Cleric was down didn't take us long to take out the Temp. Much fun :D

We also went to a Fort fight last night as we have a few nights now. I am really wondering somethings about Asmos on my server. I wonder are we just really that unorganized or are we that outnumbered? We can take Artifacts but that is about all I have seen the Asmo's beable to do so far. BTW GZ BD on taking 3 of the 4 Artifacts. Was really cool seeing our name pop up on the screen like that and our logo on the artifacts. All I could see last night was a sea of red, and omg the LAG.. the lag isn't really that bad like it doesn't make me choppy or anything but I don't render shit fast enough. I have it rendered but then all of a sudden it isn't in my range to attack. So where it isn't a visible lag like being choppy ie fps it is really laggy as in rendering people on my screen.

Both Infuse and I are rank 5 in the abyss and up to lvl 35 now. Still having alot of fun and enjoying the game alot. I swear to you Rangers without healers should not be able to pull off some of the things we pull off, just goes to show you again it is really great when you know the person you are playing with and can almost predict what they are going to do. Like las night us finishing off The Missing Father Quest. We did the whole thing solo up until killing the elite overseer which we actually had help from a healer on. Then the healer logged off and Infuse and I had to find the door and go in. We got there and made it inside. Dodging in and out of lvl 36+ elites. Epic! <3 <3 Clyde ;)

Also wanted to welcome Ari and friends to Black Death. As well as some old faces from Warhammer have joined us Bits and BK.. Welcome guys.

Before I go today though I wanted to give another thank you to Legal and Daefire (Ylindra) When ever we need a tank and healer for our group quests or Fire Temple or even just messing around in the Abyss these two always come and help out. So thank you guys very much for allowing us to call on you to help and for taking us along on the things you guys are doing and need done as well :) <3 <3

So level 30 and counting.....

Infuse and I have been leveling like mad people. Rangers Duoing is a little funny to watch at times. Although I think now that we have our detaunt he keeps things detaunted so I am generally tanking things. It is rather interesting having two Rangers with completely different builds. I mean yeah we use the same bows and armor but that is about it. He likes +attack and I like +crit and we both use the HP. I love the system him and I have set up. We can pretty much kill non stop without even talking to each other. Pulling the same mob, sleeping back to back etc.. Granted we both have our oh shit moments but those are few and far between and funny as hell.

This is now my third +20 lvl ranger. To those nah sayers out there that don't like the Ranger because the first 25 or so levels are slow... Well take those first 25 levels and learn how to play a ranger, so you aren't having to kite every single mob. I love the fact that even if we pull two separate mobs at the same time we have them dead before they even get to us.

I went handicrafting again as well. I am lvl 3 in crafting now. I didn't even try for the damn bow that I could never get to crit for Infuse in C-Aion. We actually found a quest item off of some spirts did the quest and got a blue bow that is the equivalent of it. I have made our rings and necklaces without much trouble. Which is great and I have actually been able to make a little money as well. That is one thing I have noticed in NA that I didn't really notice in C-Aion, it takes an ass load of in game money to play this game. Anyway going good so far.

Our Guild rolled on Vaizel, Black Death same as Warhammer. Our podcast as well as my blog have been on hold for a while. I have just been playing the game and started a new job the same week of release so I have been rather busy and spending most of my spare time in game. Our main host Inergy on the podcast has been even more busy than I have in real life and as soon as it settles down we will be back to recording.

Anyway I wanted to give a big thank you to Infuse for being my partner and not yelling at me when I do something silly and get one of us killed. I have really enjoyed all the time from C-Aion to now that we have played together. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. :D <3 <3 <3 Clyde!!!

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 :)

Busy Busy Busy...

I have been extrememly busy in game crafting and more crafting. I love the way that it is so involved but at the same time dispise it. I mean I got almost an entire level just from crafting. I have been tryin unsucessfully I might add to crit a bow for Infuse. It has become the bane of my existance.

In the meantime of my crafting I have spent alot of time talking to Ari of Aion's World. Just shooting the breeze with her etc... The community for the most part that I have met are very cool and I wanted to give a shout out to her and her Blog + PodCast. Thank you for all the help Ari, I really appreciate it and the conversation as well :)

Also I have been following a thread on Aionsource.com LondonRain has to be one of the most talented graphical artist that I have seen. She does really great work. As her list for requesting sigs is actually closed and she isnt taking anymore request I still wanted to mention her and maybe point a few people over to show off her work. Great Job London.

Ok that is it from me for now. Our new podcast should be out soon. So keep a look out for it :)

Not so OPEN, Open Beta + Beta Client Download info

Pulled directly from the official site.

Open beta client now available for download!


August 27, 2009 4:55 PM



Following our recent announcement regarding the commencement of Aion's open beta, we have taken steps to ensure a smooth setup and preparation process for all participants. While our Launcher will incrementally update your client, the new and patched Aion open beta client has been distributed to a select few partners around the web to prepare for our open beta test. To get your hands on it, you may visit FilePlanet or download it from GamersHell (available later this week).



We have also added a new option that the Aion community has long anticipated: downloading the full open beta client via our BitTorrent tracker. We have even arranged for a totorrent patch for those of you who already have the closed beta client installed but want to get prepared for open beta!



As added extra spice, FilePlanet will--in addition to distributing the client--be giving away a load of open beta keys starting on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. Get on the starting line if you do not have an eligible Aion account already! Eligible accounts include any previous closed beta participants and those who have preordered or prepurchased Aion.


All the links should be useable if not please let me know.

Open Beta info...

Finally we get the official press release from NCSoft :) I have links to Aiononline.com official website and the press release over at massively.com. But it all boils down to ...


Open Beta Sept 6-13th.
Pre-select Sept 18th
Early Access Sept 20th both NA and Euro
Release NA Sept 22nd
Release Euro Sept 25th.

It is saying people that have not had the chance to experience it yet will now have the opportunity to. So I will assume for argument's sake that you will be able to download the game client somewhere if you have not been in any of the prior betas nor have preordered. Looking for more info on that.

To do or not to do...

Crafting...

On our podcast we got into a little bit about the intensive crafting in this game. Well playing C-Aion I have actually gotten to do a bit more of the crafting than I was able to do in Closed Beta. I have a few minor concerns with the crafting. I went Handicrafting since I am playing a Ranger I wanted a viable craft for my class. YAY home made bows. Anyway ... As I am crafting and doing the craft request to get my skill up (which I love btw no wasted collected mats) The first design I am actually able to make is a skill lvl of 60...wow yeah to get to 60 lol. Anyway no problems, I spit out 3 bows and 2 of the 3 crit so me and Infuse now have new shining bows for our Rangers and Byrnes as a non crit version for his Gladiator.

Infuse finds this design for some Rose Quartz earrings.. I think ok this will be a cinch no problem right? Well I get to the crafting station, not only does my skill have to be 90 to make it but I have to first make and CRIT on Silver earrings. Ok no problem on making the silver earrings, but my issue here is this. I have to first crit on the silver earrings using all the mats for the silver earrings the main mat that is not all that easy to obtain is the lesser or minor accessory stones. Each earring recipe takes a certain number of these stones and then the Rose Quartz takes a certain number of them too. Plus I am not getting the crits I want off the silver earrings nor the Rose Quartz ones. I made 8 pair of Silver Earrings and got 5 crits out of those I was able to only crit 1 pair of the Rose Quartz. Not to mention I need 11 Aether per silver earring I want to make and 16 per Rose Quartz one.


So my issue I guess is that yes the crafting system is extensive, yes I have never seen a crafting system like it in any other game, but the amount of dropped items needed to craft vs the amount of gathered items needed to craft vs having to crit on 1 recipe to even get a non crit version of another recipe vs the time sink.. I am not so sure that it is actually worth it until you have lvled up because you spend so much time gathering materials and crafting that it seems like everyone else is just leaving you standing still. I am not sure if 1.5 has made any changes to the crafting system or not so we will have to see. No I am not going to give up on it just yet but I will be honest and say I have never really been a big crafter at all. In Lotro I was lvl 50 before I even started crafting and had to go back and master the crafts I wanted. Same in WAR, I was lvl 40 before I even started the crafting there. So... we will see. Just my thoughts on the crafting system now that I have gotten a bit more into it. I am currently sitting at 95/99 of lesser handicrafting and I will continue to move forward in it while play C-Aion.

Happy thoughts...

Unlike Rer I have no problems playing C-Aion. I am not afraid of burning myself out on the first 20 levels or so. Actually if anything playing C-Aion these last few days has just confirmed my main class choice, as well as taught me a few things I didnt know in closed beta. I am looking forward to release and hell even open beta and I am not even upset about playing the same zone over and over until such time as release :) I am playing the game and enjoying it with friends, not much more I could want atm. I just wished weeks were full of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday's lol.

As this week progresses and we learn more about the crafting system, classes, gear and questing we will have a whole new mess of stuff to discuss in the podcast that I currently Co-host with Rer, Daefire and Inergy from Black Death, Black Wings of Atreia. Comments, suggestions and things you would want to hear on the podcast are always welcome on our website.

Classes, Classes and more Classes

I again rolled a priest. The last priest I rolled I converted into a Chanter. I leveled her to 15 so I guess I didn't really get to see the class at it's strength. So this time I rolled a Cleric. I pretty much soloed all the way up to 10 on her and I will leave her at 10 until my leveling partner gets in game. Granted our guild Black Death will need healers while we are playing C-Aion but we have a few others that are currently playing Cleric/Chanter so I think we are ok for me to take a day off from leveling mine.

In every game I have ever played I have always been a main healer. I do not know what it is about Aion but I am just not feeling the healing class all that much. You would think that I would like the fact that they can carry shields and wear chain and aren't the softest target in the group like normal. I just really have issues with the targeting in the game, it throws me off badly. I can not keep my offensive target and have a defensive target and I am not sure why that messes me up so badly but it does. I really think it has something to do with the fact that if I can only target one at a time my mind locks onto that and wants to complete it before moving on. What I mean by that is if I have something targeted to kill and I am seeing it's health meter I am thinking about killing it and not paying attention to other peoples HP for heals.

So today I am going to roll my Ranger. I am almost 100% positive that I will have a Ranger as a main in NA release. I keep waffling between it and a healer because that is just what I am used to. Although I have to admit that a Gladiator just looks bad ass and I have contemplated playing one of those as well.

One last thing... My Ranger will be SHORT.. I love the fact that I can make her tiny as hell and no they don't look like little children Rer.. that is just your preception of them, and that honestly makes me worry about you a little bit!!!! ;)

Back in the game...

Aion... I am not sitting here drumming my fingers on my desk anymore. I am currently playing C-Aion as my good friend Rer said today "I caved" I am a bit over the top obsessed with the game. I am OCD ofc so I have to finish all the quests, I have to collect every resource I see as I am running through the game. I love that even though I am not playing on American Servers I am still getting very minimal lag. Every now and then I get a rubberband back to a spot. I have only actually crashed the game twice and not exactly sure what caused those crashes but given that I am playing on a server thousands of miles away from me it is acceptable in my book. If I could just figure out why in the hell my Wireless adapter losing my internet connection from time to time even when my router light is green I would be golden.

Ok going back to playing. I will write more on the game tonight or in the morning when I get my fill of the game :)

(yay Bel and her ability to spell the right word the wrong way lol... thank you Rer for correcting me :D )

School's In...

And I find myself bored out of my mind. My children went back to school on the 17th. So here I sit looking for something to do...

I was playing Warhammer everyday for 10+ hours until I decided that I didn't want to pay the bill when it renewed last week. Lildevil Rank 40 Zealot almost to RR 70 (about 12% or so away when my account canceled) on Volkmar. I had been playing since about January in closed beta and went through the remainder of closed/open and early release. A game that had/has so much potential that really has turned into a zerg vs zerg. I went through the begining of the game where the population was so high on both sides we were in ques of 300+ and they had to make a duplicate server for us (Magnus). The server balanced out and there was never want for a fight could always find one on even ground. Order pushed forts went to IC... Destro pushed forts and went to Aldorf. One side did not over populate the other we were pretty even. Then as the game progressed and people stopped playing as people will do. Some of the servers got merged. With the first server merge we got Sylviana and Azazeal (I know I am not spelling either of those right sorry) All of a sudden we are Order heavy... My guild at the time stayed strong and rearranged things and joined a new alliance full of great people. (Black Death my new home and the DPS Alliance) We were finally getting some footing on the server again and going to Aldorf etc... Then all of a sudden we get 2 more servers merged into us that were both order heavy and all of a sudden we are back to square 1 again. I just can not do it again. I can not go through those growing pains again. Being outnumbered 2:1 or 3:1 is doable but not 10:1. Then yesterday I am reading the Herald cause I actually still read up on the game and talk to my guildies etc... they are making it even easier for the zerging faction to capture keeps and forts etc... So not my idea of a fun game where there is no challenge, where it is we have the numbers and it doesnt matter how many you bring to the party we will just run you over anyway.

Ok ok ok ... I need to get off the Warhammer topic. I really do not like to complain and I will stop on that for now :) On to brighter better things to come. Such as Aion.

I have been playing the closed beta for Aion for a while now. I have had the pleasure of playing a very polished and smooth game. Granted it is Beta and the servers probably are not full etc.. But Sunday night we are out there pvping open field (rifts) and it was easily 20 on 20 if not more sitting at full graphics and I did not drop below 60fps. The spell graphics going off all over the place and I did not die one time to a lag spike like I did so many times in WAR. The game is beautiful. There is enough challenge to make it intresting. To know that the things that I have seen in the game up to this point isnt even half of what is coming in release makes me so excited that I am literally sitting here tapping my fingers waiting on Open Beta and release. Sept can not get here fast enough for me.