Greetings, Daevas!
We’ve heard your feedback that the experience curve can be steep in certain levels of Aion, and over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been evaluating how we want to address this issue to provide for smoother character progression. While we’re committed to providing a permanent solution, our long-term plans require development time. As part of that process, we are implementing a temporary enhancement so that you can feel immediate benefits that we’re excited to be rolling out this weekend.
To aid you in your travels we will be implementing double experience weekends over the next three weeks. These bonus weekends will affect characters levels 1–35. This includes crafting and gathering experience as well. After the upcoming three weekends, we plan on hosting bonus experience weekends once or twice a month. We want to make it easier for you to experience what Aion has to offer for your characters after level 35.
We are also adding a few permanent benefits with this week’s patch. Soul Healing will be less expensive for characters of all levels, and we’re increasing the experience bonus that Energy of Repose bestows for levels 20–44.
While the above is an interim solution, we will be addressing the character progression experience curve with a sizeable patch next year. We look forward to hearing your comments, and we hope you have fun during these bonus weekends. Make sure to tell your friends —the more the merrier!
UPDATE: This and all the upcoming double experience weekends will begin on Friday at 8:00pm CST and will subsequently end on Monday at 8:00am CST. While these times are subject to change, we don't anticipate any such changes.
ANOTHER UPDATE: The first double experience weekend will begin in North America on Friday evening at 8pm CST. After careful review of the feedback and a closer look at the player character data, we’re pleased to inform you that we’ve lifted the previously announced double experience level restriction of 1-35. This will allow everyone to enjoy the double experience weekend starting tonight and continuing until Monday morning at 8am CST.
We appreciate all of your passionate feedback related to the double experience weekend as well as other hot topics that you’ve been involved in over the last week. It’s been valuable in the decision process, but ultimately this decision boils down to what’s best for the game.
-The Aion Community Team
| Posted on Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:07 pm by Webmaster | Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:07 pm Aion ( Reads: ) |
