Our latest coverage of Aion.
Aion Classic update 1.5: Balaur Incursion is officially live and with it comes a whole host of new content including new instances, PvP content, quests, and more. Aion Classic is free to play but has an optional subscription. Subscribing gives players increased XP gain, the ability to acquire Abyss points, and access to gathering skills. While free to play users [...]
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Both Aion and Aion Classic are getting major updates over the next couple of weeks which will introduce new areas, new instances, and new challenges to both the original client and the newly-opened classic progression server. First up is Aion’s Update 8.0 which will be dropping on September 29th with the new Apsaranta zone and Heart of Apsaranta end-game instance. [...]
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Aion has just turned 12 years old in the west and is celebrating the occasion with the month-and-a-half-long 12 Gifts for Daeva event. “As a small part of our Anniversary celebrations, this year we will begin by giving away gifts to Daevas everywhere in exchange for the completion of simple tasks. Each week, we will be giving away at least [...]
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Aion from NCSoft is joining the classic server nostalgia train and launching its own classic server later this month on June 23. The game had a classic server overseas for some time already but as of yesterday the Western Classic Server for Aion has officially been confirmed. This classic version of Aion is launching in 'the Americas' which presumably means [...]
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NC is giving Aion players a chance to skip the daily grind and automatically level up a newly-created character to level 80 for a limited time. The promotion is aimed at giving every player a chance to participate in the ongoing Dungeon Boost Event and will be available from now until April 7. The Character Jump option is only available [...]
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Vandals will be making their way to Aion when the “Mark of the Vandal” update comes out on August 21st. The new Vandal class is capable of dealing massive damage from afar using their Chromablasters and look good while doing it. “With the world ravaged by Ereshkigal’s wrath, the long-forgotten Vandals, only remembered as an obscure legend, are emerging from [...]
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The Gameforge version of Aion (EU) will be getting the 7.0 update for Aion on July 10th which introduces the new Painter class, the Dumaha Region, tons of new quests, a new dungeon, and more. The painter is described as: Colourful action with the new Artist specialisation Irunin, the first Painter in Atreia, created the Aether Colours a long time [...]
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Aion just released its latest update today titled 'Ereshkigal's Wrath' which introduced 3 new instances to the game, made class and skill changes, and introduced the new Pandora Agency. Aion: Ereshkigal’s Wrath Official TrailerWatch this video on YouTube New Instances: The Velenthrone – 18-Player, Level 80 required – The final piece Ereshkigal needs to become an unstoppable power lies within [...]
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NCSoft announced a rather interesting class for their fantasy MMORPG Aion this week. While we only have the official Korean name of 채화성 so far, English sources have unofficially translated the class name as 'Graffiti Artist'. It's certainly a fitting name based on the trailers! The new class is modeled after the Bard template so will be a powerful support [...]
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NCSoft has just dropped a number of major announcements at a press event in South Korea one week ahead of the annual G-Star convention. These announcements probably won’t come as a surprise to fans of the studio and their games, especially for Aion and Blade and Soul fans who’ve probably guessed that sequels to their beloved games were in the [...]
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