Aion New Costumes from Korean Test Server

We are familiar with Eastern countries' traditional costumes in Aion 1.5. The good news is that NCsoft is creating new western countries' traidtional costumes and they have already come out in Aion Korean test server. Let's take a first look at them.

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Kaftan / Sarapan
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Russian traditional costume.


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Himation / Kiton
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European traditional costume.(lol they call this European..)

Aion Online: Grinding Guide and Tips

Aion Online is an MMO of not only quests but definitely grinding. There really isn’t too much of a way around it. There are a ton of quests but to be honest sometimes its worth just grinding out that extra two or three boxes to level. So this post should help gamers with grinding and some general leveling tips.
General Tips
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- The trick is to get levels in 3’s so you only have to hit the main city once and a while.
- Always sell when heading back from quests. The “Sell All Misc” button is your best friend.
- Bandages, Odella Powder and potions are a great to stop downtime.
- Power shards can help give you that extra damage when grinding to kill mobs faster.
Grinding Tips
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- Find a spot to grind that has 2 or 3 gathering nodes that way when you are waiting for the mobs to respawn you can gather and gain some Kinah.
- Ideal grinding spots are where you have a bunch of low level mobs where you can use some AoE skills if you class has any.
- If you have no AoE skills than a good grinding spot is where there are higher level mobs, maybe a level or two above your level which are spaced out to reduce adds, but will give extra xp. Make sure you have a decent Accuracy or Magical Accuracy so you can hit the mobs.
- In a group? Find a spot which has elite mobs, more Kinah and better item drops. Otherwise group grinding is actually not helping you because the xp is being split among the group.
Grinding Guide in Asmodian Areas
Grinding Guide for lvl 10-12
Altgard: Altgard Ice Lake (all kinds of animals)
Grinding Guide for lvl 12-14
Altgard: MuMu Farmland (mumu mobs)
Grinding Guide for lvl 14-15
Altgard: Area doesn’t have name but mobs at the coast north from MuMu Farmland (various mobs, because MuMu farmland gets too low)
Grinding Guide for lvl 15-17
Altgard: MuMu Village (mumu mobs)
Grinding Guide for lvl 16-18
Altgard: Gribade Crater Lake (various mobs, can go at 16 if you get bored of MuMu Village)
Grinding Guide for lvl 17-19
Altgard: path from Trader’s Berth to Urutemheim (birds)
Grinding Guide for lvl 18-21
Altgard: Impetusium (ghost mobs all around, can go at 18 and can leave at 20 too…)
Grinding Guide for lvl 17-20
Altgard: Blackclaw Village/Blackclaw Outpost (requires group!!)
Grinding Guide for lvl 20-22
Morheim: Morheim Snowfield (all kinds of animals here)
or if it’s crowded:
Grinding Guide for lvl 20-22
Brusthonin: Southern Polluted Area (all kinds of bugs and stuff here)
Grinding Guide for lvl 22-24
Morheim: Patamor Thicket/Patamor Ridge Path (shrooms, if it’s crowded go uphill north to earth elementals it’s usually empty there)
Grinding Guide for lvl 24-26
Brusthonin: Havenjark Farm/Havenjark Public Cemetary (all kinds of zombies)
Brusthonin: Vigrid Western Plain (elyos mobs)
Grinding Guide for lvl 23-27
Morheim: Taran’s Cavern (requires group!!)
Grinding Guide for lvl 26-29
Morheim: Fortress of Sorrow (ghosts)
Here’s a gap.. I don’t know good 29 grinding spot so I went to abyss and did all quests available to hit 30… you can stick to fortress or move to 30 grindspot I guess.
Grinding Guide for lvl 30-32
Beluslan: Beluslan Fortress (animals all around)
Grinding Guide for lvl 32-34
Beluslan: Mosbear Snowfield (mosbears, sadly they do annoying debuff that makes grinding as cleric hard if you can’t kill them fast enough)
so, you might want to
Beluslan: around Mahisha’s Nest (animals and some amethyst imps)
Grinding Guide for lvl 34-35
Beluslan: Besfer Ghost Village,Mosbear Snowfield / Morheim: The Crash Site, Alsig Village Area / Upper Abyss
Grinding Guide in Abyss Areas (Both Factions)
Grinding Guide for lvl 25-26
Memory Reaper – level 25 – Abyss – Quest for them on lower layer south eastern outposts
Grinding Guide for lvl 27-28
Sulfur Oculazen – level 27 – Abyss – north west of Sulfur Fortress, the floating eyes
Grinding Guide for lvl 27-29
Sulphur killing the plagued tree things that are level 28, mixed in with those ranged worms.
Grinding Guide for lvl 29-30
Upper abyss drakes or immortal plumas, if you don’t suck
Grinding Guide for lvl 30-32
Upper abyss drakes or immortal plumas ( Drakes are on the left side of upper abyss at the ruins. Called Garchicans or something.)
Grinding Guide for lvl 30-31
Mirrorglass Waterworm – level 30 – Abyss – upper layer Lake Asteria
Kill Ghosts at Ruins of Roach. They are squishy
Upper Abyss – The two lager islands due west of Lake Asteria
= Top Island – Balaur level 33-34
= Bottom Island – Undead level 34-35**Both Elyos and Asmos can grind here. Beware, both do, and often. This seems to be a highly publicized spot, and ganking will happen…FREQUENTLY.
Grinding Guide for lvl 34-35
Upper abyss Undead/balaur or Heiron grind near observatory

Aion sells over 970K copies across NA and Europe

NCSoft has revealed during its financial report for Q3 of its fiscal year that Aion has sold more than 500,000 units in North America and 470,000 in Europe.

The Korean publisher’s financials are up 112 percent to KRW166 billion ($142 million) with net income for the July-September period at KRW46.9 billion ($40 million), which is a 836 percent year-over-year increase, with Aion contributing to 52 percent of those figures.

MMOs Lineage contributed 16 percent, City of Heroes/Villains 4 percent and Guild Wars 3 percent.

Revenues from Korea accounted for 48 percent with North America, Japan, Europe, and Taiwan following in that order