Aion Riftshade

Hello guys,

I started  playing aion when the update was 2.5 and then I quitted after 3.5 and now I find myself in a hard situation.

Can someone help me remember the flow of the game and how things work on this server. I want to know about:

1. Which are the best PvP item sets, weapons and accessories and how can I get them?

2. How do you get consumables(potions, scrolls, food, etc). Can you craft them by levelling up alchemy, essence and aether tapping or is it not worth?

3. What items are there for enhancing items , weapons etc. I remember about manastone socketing, levelling up items using enhancement stones , godstones. Are there others? And how can I get supplements to get a better success rate (like enhancing items as example)

4. Stigma skills. I saw I can buy some from the Npc, but they are expensive as f**k. Is that the only way to obtain them ? And do the Npcs sell all the stigmas? 

5. What are the new things added to aion after the 3.0 update? I know about mounts, but that's pretty much it:)). 

6. And the last question. I won't mind to buy eurocoins for helping me , but I'd like to play a bit like the old ways on official server by grinding and crafting all the shit I need. Is this a pay to win server or you can do w/e you want by spending a lot of time ? 

Thanks in advance for anyone who will answer me. 

Sharky,

Former army commander assassin on gamezaion private server, for elyos. 

 

1. Best PvP set here is the star 2 officer gear that you buy with AP and Ceranium Medals (also requires having abyss rank of star 2 officer at least ofc). There is other sets like rank 1 but not worth it and doesn't have set effect. There's general gear too. But don't bother with these, start off by getting your starter gear by farming Blood Marks from Katalam/Danaria camps, then go to sieges, arenas, PvP instances etc... There is even some PvE instances like Steel Wall Bastion requires 24 coordinated people, and some others like a solo instance look up any source of AP and Cera Medals. (There is also key farming in the Eye of Tia for AP) *There's some camps that sell the gear a bit cheaper in AP I think, I don't remember well, and which camps or which gear ask people or research.

2. You can level up Alchemy to craft them if you have the will and time and kinah. Also leveling up you Gather stuff so you gather yourself you components. I think the end game highest levels crafting scrolls for best consumables are only a drop or buy from broker people that dropped it I'm not sure. Me I don't bother with all of this, I just farm a bit kinah and buy my consumables from broker more convenient and comfortable for me

3. There's manastones (and composite manastones for double stats), but remember that if you fail socket, every previous manastone socketed gets destroyed and basically it's a reset. You have enchant stones that you either drop in bags or by disenchant some gear, you can look up in forum I think they posted somewhere about how the rates kinda work but it's still RNG like everything else. Godstones that you get either as rewards from bags or PvP quests and drop from any mobs, the ones from quest are not tradeable but quests are repeatable. 100% supplements for manastones are in shop so either you buy them yourself like that or from broker, if not in broker you can ask in chat for people selling them. Normal supplements for both manastones and enchant, I don't know about them a lot, for mythical ones you can trade Blood Marks for them (or Ancient Coins for a very good starting PvE gear), I don't know where you get eternals. There is a new item called plume that's new in this patch, very rare drop or very expensive to buy, you upgrade it with Tempering Solution/Serums (that are also super rare to drop usually on bosses of late game instances and sell for a lot of kinah also used to enchant accessories for more PvP stats). when you upgrade them they give good stats (HP+Attack or HP+Magic boost) but the catch is the more you upgrade the more chance of fails and it destroys the plume. TL;DR don't bother with this until very late like the last thing you bother with, but if you loot any of those 2 items leave them or start trying your luck or you can even sell them.

4. You can drop stigma as general loot from anything, always try to look for them on broker for cheaper first, then if it's really an important skill I just buy from NPC, but usually I just keep checking broker if someone is selling what I need. I think yes the NPC do sell all of them for every level, There's also Superior Stigmas that you start getting after level 45 you buy them with AP, and you need some quests to open their special slots (once slot is open you can put a normal stigma in it not necessary a superior one, but generally every class has a stigma tree that requires some so depending on your class and build). Superior Stigmas you can buy lower levels then upgrade it to next when you can for cheap, don't buy the next level superior stigma from scratch just upgrade the previous level to next in the upgrade NPC (the total first stigma + the upgrade cost to max level is same amount of AP if you buy the max level one directly). There's some camps in Danaria ( 81 and 89 ) that sells max level stigmas for cheaper price than normal NPCs.

5. Gotta be specific also I think I answered some in previous posts. But in general It's new content for PvE and PvP, with new maps and other stuff.

6. I don't think the server is pay to win, since they don't sell gear directly or temperings solutions for enchant plumes and accessories, you can check the shop yourself, there's only cosmetics and boosts and mounts etc... what is a bit bothersome is the 100% manastone supplement for socketing but it's not really that big of a problem and you can buy them from people selling them with kinah so you can basically play the game without paying like I do cause I can't spend real money. A real pay to win server is like official and some private that do pay to win events and sell the temperings directly in shop that just break the PvP balance cause you have whales with all +5 accessories and plumes and you can do nothing to them if you are a f2p player. So no issue in that regard.

1) The best PvP gear in the game at the moment is 2 star officer AP gear from Katalam. You can buy it in Danuar Spire/ Kaisinels Beacon in Katalam for AP and Ceramium Medals. These are mostly obtained in The Eternal Bastion, Krotan, Miren and Kysis fortress instances and Ophidan Bridge (you can however also get them from other places, just not as many)

2) You can craft potions and scrolls with Alchemy. Food is made by Cooking. You can gather the materials for the recipes with Essencetapping, or level Aethertapping and morph aether into the materials you need with Morph recipes.

3) Manastones, enchantment stones, godstones and idians. Idians are basicaly temporary enhancements for your weapon that add a few points of certain stats. There are various types of Idians in the game. You can get supplements from some NPC merchants and certain camps in Katalam and Danaria.

4) Normal Stigmas can be bought from NPCs, Trade Broker or dropped from mobs. Greater Stigmas must be bought for AP from NPCs.

5) 4.0 adds 3 new classes, gunner, bard and aethertech. There are also magical Plumes, a kind of accessory that adds HP and attack or magic boost. There are obviously new dungeons and zones, and there is also the Tempering system for accessories (increasing PvP % by using Tempering Solutions on your accessories)

6) It's a pay to skip server. Meaning that you can either pay, or you can grind your way to ultimate gear. You can definitely do whatever you want without dropping a single € on the shop.

Thanks guys, you are awesome. 
A few last questions tho: 
1. What's the easiest way to get lots of kinah?

2. I don't mind leveling up my alchemy (by picking up vortexes and gathering herbs and shit like that). I just want to be able to craft my own : Greater scroll of running, of atk speed, Greater healing potion. And i think that's pretty much it. But i don't remember exactly how am i supposed to do them. like are there recipes that i need to buy from some npc? and can i go to gather or buy the needed materials?  Or the recipes for this particularly 3 items can only be obtained via drops at sieges or things like that?

Edited March 18, 2020 by sharky47

1) There is no real answer to that. I would personally suggest farming Ancient Coins, doing the Sillus fortress instance for Composite manastones (as well as Kysis/Krotan/Miren) and grinding Strange Ide Crystals in idian Depths
2) You can buy the recipes for all of those from the Wrights of Dawn / Shapers of Dusk faction which you can join once you reach lvl 400 in crafting.

I talked a bit here about sources of AC farming that I know of, might help you if you plan on farming them :