AION PTS 2.0 Thoughts!

Well what do you guys think of aion 2.0 so far? The Aion PTS servers went back online about 12 hours ago with aion 2.0 brought in. As for me, I think it looks beautiful. The new login screens give it a diversity (thought I'll miss the original one) and makes it very exciting considering there's 5 different scenes you can be greeted by when you open your game. Always fun to open your game of Aion and have a chance to see a giant dragon roaring at you while waiting for you to log in.. (HE'S GONNA EAT YOU!)

I also happen to think that the new character select screen is very nicely done. YAY NO MORE SITTING AT THE BEACH OR FROZEN WASTELAND! We all get our own cozy spots =p
Once again.. really beautifully designed (think we should get NCSoft Korea to design my house)

Lols.. Furthermore the music has changed in a few places. For one you can notice it right away if you have music on and log in. The login screen no longer use the tower of eternity as its opening theme and instead uses a new theme called Annales of Atreia. Also a selection of music from the vision trailer makes its appearance in the game. So yeah.. you might be hearing new sounds while exploring a place you thought you knew so well.. After all, they called in the orchestra to create a new soundtrack just for this expansion! AION PTS 2.0!

In the credits it appears that originally the expansion was titled Advancing into Balaurea.. hmm.. might wanna remember to change that to "Assault on Balaurea" though NCSoft.. lols xD

Anyways.. Kinda sad that the credits song for Assault on Balaurea is just Daeva's Oratorio. Would have been better if Forgotten Sorrows was kept. Oh wells, not complaining since you can still hear it by looking at the Tower of Eternity credits..

Anyways.. I didn't do much but I noticed the map change where it actually just tells you straight off the bat where npcs are will give you quests. That's a rather nice feature. As you can see from the picture, I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTS AHEAD LOL.. If anyone ever says there's not enough quests in Aion, I think these arrows were added exactly to prove them WRONG!

Another useful feature is there's now bulletin boards that has a list of npcs in town and you can just find their name there to have their location marked on the map. A very useful feature for those diving in and even returning players for Atreia is always changing and even veteran players might find this feature as a nice guide to help them quickly find the npc they're looking for.

Of course a cute feature everyone's had their eyes on is pets! These little critters are just jumping around in Sanctum market at the pet shop hoping you'd stop by and buy one. There's many types of pets and each one begins with an egg. The eggs can range from 150k - a few mill so save on money if you want to collect them all =D
In the future there's other ways to get these adorable fellas like events and quests so keep your hopes up if you're always broke

Well as of only level 10 this is already quite some interesting stuff added. Of course this is just the beginning. People noticed that the new hair designs didn't make it in yet and Community Manager, Tamat, has confirmed that they will be adding more in the next week before release so keep your eyes wide open and explore the new world of Atreia. I'll explore more myself later on after I get my gladiator to level 50 and see what else fun stuff I can talk about but anyways.. enough about me.. WHAT ABOUT YOU GUYS? Find anything interesting in aion 2.0? Here For More.