Not many people want to level countless characters just so they can experience a different aspect of the game. Especially in Aion. God. Damn.
Healers are healers.
Tanks are tanks.
Dps is Dps.
Templars
Gladiators
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Assassins
Rangers
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Mages
Spiritmasters
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Clerics
Chanters
The 8 archetypes you'd normally see in an MMO in some of their purest forms without any deviation at all. What if I just don't want to tank anymore? What if I get bored healing people and want to do deal out some damage instead? Too bad, roll another class. :-/
I have never seen 'more options' as a negative aspect of a game.
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I really can't reiterate enough how much like Lineage 2 this game is. Casters get fucked unless they are flying AND they get the jump on someone. Shitty interrupt mechanics make sure of that. (Just like Lineage 2 you can have your casts interrupted just by being hit along with stuns, knockdowns, pulls, and ton of other status effects not to mention the actually abilities made to interrupt casting like kick and pummel). Assassins are pretty unpleasant to get jumped by: -Opener -> Stun -> Ton of Damage -> Lift Stun -> Ton of damage that gets a bonus because you're 'Airborn' -> dead. Alot like a well geared WoW Rogue jumping someone in Greens 'of stamina'. It might take a little longer, but the end result is all the same.
...and god damn the PvP system is the old 'Honor Grind' from the High Warlord/Grand Marshal days back in Vanilla WoW. It rewards time invested over skill. Period.
You have a ton of time and no life? Then Aion's PvP grind could be for you! The Abyss point system is a terrible ladder type system that rewards those who just have nothing else to do other than sit in their basements and grind mindlessly, not on other players, but on Guards.
Yeah, Guards. There's a certain point in the Abyss system where you risk way too many points in real pvp encounters so you just kill the opposing factions guards for 'Abyss Points' over and over again until you see a real player and then run like a woman for fear that your past several hours of killing NPCs would be lost if you die.
...and what's the reward for all this mind numbing grinding? Well you get to be fucking VOLTRON. You attain 'Guardian' rank and you get 1494190714941% more HP, MP, Damage, etc. You can run around and two-three shot people and it takes groups of players to take you down. That's EXACTLY how I want to reward skill-less guard grinders! wooooooo! yay Aion PvP!
...but you know what? Whatever, I've bought the game. I'll probably play it for a month or two and then it's off to the wayside and back to the normal games.
I feel that Aion will be as much of a drain on WoW as WAR and AoC were, but just like WAR and AoC, everyone that plays Aion will probably have a one night stand rather than a long term relationship.
