Karolyne Of Aion: September 2012

Monday, September 24, 2012

Aion's 3rd Anniversary

This September marks the 3rd anniversary of Aion's launch, and to celebrate the occasion, there's an anniversary event! There's a huge birthday cake in the capital city of each faction, and deavas are invited to light a candle, which will endow them with the blessings of Aion. The message: get out there and start grinding mobs! You'll need to in order to get an Aether Flame, which is the event item that's exchanged by the NPCs in Sanctum and Pandamonium for a candle. The Aether Flames
are somewhat of a rare drop during this event. I haven't gotten one yet, but my cleric alt did from an Earth Spirit in Heiron while on the Fast Track server. If you haven't gotten one yet, its not a problem, because the effects of the candle buffs extend to a large radius (100 meters) around the daeva who lights the candle. In other words, just stand around the cake for a while and you'll receive the buffs from the candle just lit by the lucky deava who did get an Aether Flame!
There are 3 kinds of candles (buffs) to choose from:

Blazing, which triples the leveling speed,
Magical, which triples the drop rate, and
Spiritual, which recovers 2000 DP, increases attack speed by 10% and reduces cast time by 10%

These buffs last for 4 hours. Good luck on getting those Aether Flames, but if you don't have the time to grind for them, they can be bought from the Black Cloud Marketplace. They're on sale
until Oct. 10th.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Tiamaranta Puzzle Quests: Picking Up The Pieces

There's something new in Aion 3.1. Its something that I've discovered only recently, in the last month or so.
I was out grinding mobs one day a while back in Tiamaranta. It was a typical day in Aion, nothing new, but when I stooped over to loot a mob I just killed I noticed something unusual. An item called "Bead Piece 1"was part of the loot. It dropped from a Huge Desert Scolopen in the Adora area not too far from the fort.
It looked like a cracked piece of a marble. A week or so later I was in the Calcified Tundra area. I was grinding Quartzite Hormuses for a quest. To my surprise one of them dropped "Bead Piece 3". It also looked like a piece of a marble, but a different part of one. All I needed was Bead Piece 2 in order to assemble the marble back to its original form. I've heard that Bead Piece 2 is a very rare drop, and after trying for quite awhile to get it, I gave up and threw the other pieces out. I know that was bad (lol), but I really needed the inventory space! The other reason I threw them out was because I got these new puzzle pieces while grinding in Avad Village... Take a look:

Mirror Pieces #1 & #3 in my inventory

It says: "You can make Cracked Mirror by assembling Mirror Piece 1, Mirror Piece 2, Mirror Piece 3".

So far I've made 2 observations about these quests:
1). In both puzzle piece quests it seems that piece #2 is the difficult piece to obtain, and
2). These quests are only a part of Tiamaranta.

I've never gotten any drops like these in Sarpan. At first I wondered if the puzzle piece quests
were a part of both regions but I've concluded that they aren't. Sarpan has extra quests that
can be picked up while killing mobs, but they're engravings that can be clicked to start a quest.
Its not the same thing.

I'll keep searching and posting my findings on these mystery pieces. Until then, Happy Hunting
in Tiamaranta!

Update 9/21/12:

There's an article on Aion forums that talks about these quests. Here's the forum page with some info .
These quests are completable, all the needed pieces can be found and combined to open a quest.
My good friend Raxu found all 3 Bead Pieces and all 3 Mirror Pieces.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Arcanus' Wing Feather Achieved!

I finally obtained all the Tiamat Legion Epaulets (150) to complete the quest "Their Deaths Are Legion" mentioned in my last post. Here's a couple of pics of the quest turn in: