Well, aside from one of the most pain in the ass installs I've ever dealt with, I got to play in the Beta Weekend for Aion today (and some of Monday).
I downloaded the first patch segment, which was the majority of the game, and it turned out to be corrupt and poofed every time I tried to unpack it. So I had to download it again. All of that plus the additional patches took about all of Friday and all of Saturday. When I woke up today, I could finally install it and around 3:00 I started making my characters.
My friend Zeke is also doing the beta. He ran around on his Chanter-to-be with me, Elyos side, and we got to just after the Daeva Ascension missions. I was trying out the Spiritmaster since he is so big on the Elyos side, and I guess it's alright. I haven't got to play with the actual class much yet.
After he went to bed, I flopped over to my Asmodean Assassin-to-be. The quest lines are similar enough to go at about the same rate EXP wise, but different enough to not be annoying. Zeke had been telling me Scouts were squishy, but after a couple of levels, once I had Swift Edge, Focused Evasion, Counterslash and Surprise Attack...things have been awesome. ^.^
The biggest bitch I have is in all the Abyssal flashback/future sight scenes...even if you're a girl, they all use the title of "Lord" for you. There's something preventing it from checking gender, and selecting the appropriate title in English, or they just haven't added that yet. There are apparently a number of thigns turned off in this round of beta still.
Really wish I'd gotten more time with it. The weekends are only every other weekend right now, so it'll be two weeks before I get to play again. >.<
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