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EU Aion Elite Crucible Challenge Event

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As posted on the official Gameforge Aion site, Gameforge will be running an event from 30/7/2012 until 2/8/2012 between 18:45 and 19:45 CEST where waves of monsters will spawn in the Empyrean Crucible. The rewards are by faction and could add up to a total of 20 plat/gold medals for finishing 10 stages and reaching a certain limit as well as 100% XP and AP boost for a full week (the week of the 7th of August). It is unclear what is received if the 10 stage limit isn't achieved.

The full details have been copied below, including the server timetable for the event.

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You think you are tough? They don’t think so!

During the event, waves of bosses and monsters will be spawned similar to the Empyrean Crucible – Just more challenging for you. Of course, you are no challenge for them! Chosen badass bosses and monsters known from various dungeons, challenges and world bosses will appear and tear your armor apart and chew on your bones to prevent you reaching the next stage.

Each stage will increase in difficulty and all bosses and monsters from your current stage need to be eliminated to start the next wave. Yes, eliminate them. Send them back to the deeper parts of time and space where no sun shines and no moon rises!

Each stage has no time limit. However, the whole event will take one hour in total and your faction needs to reach as far as possible in stages to increase the amount of reward given.

The rewards will be given out when all events on all servers have been finished.

The monsters and bosses are in anger and await your presence. Finish them off before they slaughter you and your friends. You have no idea what nightmare you have unleashed!


Rules in a nutshell and Tips


* Sabotage the event by pulling bosses to cities or resetting them will lead to an exclusion from the event

* You can use your own tactics to survive the waves and are permitted to use either insane zombie rush techniques or the environment to hide from the bosses. A real Daeva of course doesn’t hide from bosses!

* After the max time limit of 1 hour, the monsters will be despawned and the event will be finished.

* We highly recommend using kisks (Alliance kisks e.g.) around the area to bind you in case of death. Prepare yourself well. You are fighting against several waves of bosses!

Rewards

For each stage managed to be finished, the whole faction will receive 1 medal split up as follows:

* LvL 40-50 receive 1 Gold Medal per finished stage

In addition, we will activate an AP and EXP event depending on your overall results for all servers and all factions. A detailed calculation will be announced in the forums.

If all servers reach a certain calculated limit, the amount of medals will be doubled!

In total, you gain up to:

* 20 Platinum/Gold Medals for finishing 10 stages and reaching a certain limit

* 100% Exp and AP boost for a whole week

Rewards and the Exp/AP boost will be given out with the maintenance on August 7th.
Locations

Elyos

Area: Eltnen – Eastern Eracus Desert, near the Mystic Spring of Anathe

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Asmodian

Area: Morheim – Salintus Desert, near Fortress of Sorrow

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NA Aion Black Cloud Enchantment Boxes

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As reported on the NA Aion official site in a news post with many, many fine exclamation points, make your gear the best it can be with Black Cloud Enchantment Boxes. The stones in the boxes are a random stone between the levels of 85 and 93.

Black Cloud Enchantment Boxes are available in x1, x5, and x10 box packs (with two enchantment stones per box); as an added bonus, the Black Cloud Enchantment Box x10 pack comes with a free level 100 enchantment stone. Black Cloud Enchantment Boxes are only available until August 1, so make sure to get yours today.

EU Aion 3.0 Displayed at Gamescon

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Gameforge just made two announcements that suggest the 3.0 release will be coming out in Europe very shortly. The first announcement was for maintenance and explicitly stated that the crafting and drop event will be extended until the release of 3.0. The second announcement is an official news announcement that Gameforge will be at Gamescon in Cologne displaying the 3.0 patch.

The text of the Gamescon announcement is included below for convenience.

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Meet us in Cologne from August 15th – 19th !

Greetings Daeva!

Between August 15th – 19th, we will introduce our great Content Update 3.0 altogether with our new MMOG RaiderZ at Gamescom. Gaming stations offering a playable 3.0 Update will be provided.

Visit our 320m² booth B011 in Hall 6!

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We will offer an exciting stage program and regular presentations. Participate in our daily main raffle to get your hands on fan merchandise and dress up with provided fantasy weapons to pose infront of our Photo Box to take a snapshot of you in AION environment.

For all players who cannot visit us, we will provide a live stream to let you watch all activities at our booth live. The link to the live stream will be available in a couple of days on www.gameforge.com.

We will announce more details about our exhibition program on our website and the Gameforge Portal.

See you in Cologne!
Your AION Team


Any guesses on the exact date of the 3.0 patch? We should be placing bets...

NA Aion New Sales and CUBE bonuses in the marketplace

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NA Aion has announced that new discounts and CUBE bonuses are available in the Black Cloud Marketplace until August 15th, 2012.

The following items are now 50% off in the Black Cloud Marketplace:

  • Berdin's 100 Percent XP Amulet II (x10), and Berdin's 100 Percent XP Amulet III (x10): Double your XP gain from hunting, gathering, and crafting with these amulets!
  • Sharptooth Barbtail (30 Days)
  • Ride in style on this sleek hoverbike!
  • Revival Stone (x5): Self-resurrect! Does not share a cooldown with other resurrection items!
  • Theobomos Lab Time Scroll (x2): A pair of scrolls to reset the entry cooldown for Theobomos Lab!
  • Adma Stronghold Time Scroll (x2): A pair of scrolls to reset the cooldown for Adma Stronghold!


In addition to these sales, the Expand Warehouse Bundle (Lvl 1+2) is on sale for 30% off. Expand your inventory with these two tickets.

Purchase a Large or Medium CUBE and receive an Alluring Box bonus. Each Alluring Box contains a random valuable item:

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Large CUBEs contain 5 Alluring Boxes, and Medium CUBEs include 1 Alluring Box. Head to the Black Cloud Marketplace and take advantage of these great limited-time sales.

EU Aion Launches 3.0 15th of August, 2012

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Gameforge, who runs EU Aion is finally launching 3.0 the 15th of August, 2012. In case you've forgotten, the 3.0 patch features:

  • An increase in the level cap to level 60
  • 2 new territories to explor
  • Player housing
  • 6 new instances
  • 5 additional fortresses and 11 artefacts
  • 4 mounts
  • 10 pairs of new wings
  • Lots of new armours and items
  • New skills


Aion Mace Skin Stolen for Dota 2

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On August 9th, 2012 a Steam Workshop announcement about Respecting Intellectual Property was posted. The article links to the stolen item that caused the issue, which turns out to be Marchutan's Blessed Mace from Aion. It's also discussed by the community on reddit where the mace is shown to be changed from the original in that it's green.

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The Mace was being used as a community-created weapon within Dota 2 called Timebreaker and 24,603 people bought keys and got the mace through opening Sithil’s Summer Chest. All users that bought the weapon have now had it replaced with an alternative weapon and the user who made the mace is now banned and will lose out on any money he could have made from those sales.

It's a shame this happened. If the user that stole the mace wanted to see it again, he could have just played Aion.

EU Aion 3.0 Launch Details

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So 3.0 is launching in Europe very soon and Gameforge has an official news schedule for the launch. Maintenance for 3.0 will start:

Tuesday, 14th August at 9:00 am CEST.

This maintenance is expected to be finished during the course of the evening. This means that it could finish at any point that night. Patch services will be available during the afternoon and if all goes well then the patch will be live one day earlier than expected.

All changes in the schedule will be posted via Facebook and Twitter, so stay tuned. The Gameforge 3.0 patch notes are available as a pdf file. Let's hope that Black Velvet doesn't slip further into a coma with her stuff or we could lose them.

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I'll be crossing my fingers in hopes that things will go well and that EU players will be able to experience what NA players have been playing for the last couple of months. If not, then I suppose everybody can take a night off of Aion and thank their lucky stars that they never had to play with the green version of Marchutan's Blessed Mace in Dota 2 while it lasted (is it me or is the green mace just ugly?).

Cheers,

Nobody

NA Aion Restful Summer Event

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Do you like the extra boost you get with Energy of Repose for taking a break from the game? For two weeks starting Wednesday August 15, 2012, each hour you are logged into game, a Tea of Repose will be given to you. Taking the Tea will help to refill your repose energy. In addition, certain monsters throughout Atreia's dungeons will drop even stronger potions of Tea of Repose. Short on time? Pick up some extra Tea of Repose potions in the Black Cloud Marketplace.

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Since it's summer, there will be swimsuits, beach hats, sunglasses, and other summer gear on the Marketplace. Please note that these are the older summer outfits from previous events and not the new 3.5 outfits. The Marketplace is also be selling the "Flirt" and "Forbidden Dance" emotes. Talk about some "hot" summer nights!

For those with their eyes on gearing up for 3.5, Greater Supplements and Felicitous Manastone Bundles will be also be debuting in the store.

Cursed Giveaway: NA Aion Green Diabol Pet

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Ever feel cursed or just green with envy? Well, you have a chance to display those feelings through a cute little devilish pet. This Sunday (September 2, 2012) we'll be giving out Green Diabol pets. This giveaway is for NA Aion only and will be done through the official Curse giveaway site:

http://www.curse.com/digital-giveaways


There are a limited number of the pets, so it's a first come, first serve sort of thing. I'd like to thank Nyx especially for helping to set this giveaway up and also the people who've been supporting this site for our ability to actually do a giveaway of this magnitude. There should be plenty of pets for our regular users plus quite a few more, so make sure to watch the Curse giveaway site on Sunday to get a pet.

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Cheers,

Nobody

NA Aion Mega Kinah Millions Event

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This is an 8 week long event that started on the 12th and basically it works like a lottery. Any Daevas 30+ can claim one Free Fortune ticket per character each week from Fortunerk in Atreian cities and outposts. Tickets may also be obtained as a bonus item from buying the Large CUBE in the Black Cloud Marketplace. You have to use the ticket upon getting it as they apparently only last for 5 minutes in your inventory.

On Saturday at 7pm CDT, the winning tickets are drawn. You may then talk with Fortunerk to find out if you're a winner. You can win once per week and can obtain one of the following prizes:

  • 1st Place Winners: 300,000,000 Kinah
  • 2nd Place Winners: 30,000,000 Kinah
  • 3rd Place Winners: 30,000 Kinah


Good luck to all the Daevas out there to get first place. Hopefully, it's more likely than a real lottery.

Cheers,

Nobody

NA Aion Yearly Anniversary and New 4.0 Classes

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The NA Aion Online site has released some images for the new classes in Aion 4.0. We currently have no information on what the classes are, but the silhouettes indicate one is a Gunner, one is a Bard, and the third is being called the Rider. The Rider looks rather mech-like.

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I'm currently excited about creating the smallest and most child-like Rider possible.

In other news, NA Aion is celebrating their third year of running Aion for the North American region with a month long series of events starting out with the Daeva's Day Prelude. The third year anniversary of the game in North America will be on September 22, 2012.

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Decorate the birthday cake!

There’s a giant cake in Sanctum and Pandaemonium, stacked high with chocolate, strawberries, sprinkles and frosting! All it needs are…candles! Help put the finishing touches on the cake by collecting Aether Flames from mobs in New Heiron Gate and Ingisson Illusion Fortress as Elyos; and Beluslan Fortress and Gelkmaros Fortress as Asmodian. Both factions can also collect Aether Flames from Sarpan, Tiamaranta, and the Abyss! Additionally, you can purchase Aether Flames on the Black Cloud Marketplace!

Speak with Hapolia in Sanctum or Berdinea in Pandaemonium to trade Aether Flames for different candles to light the Daeva’s Day birthday cake!

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A rewarding display!

Aether Flames can be traded exchanged for Blazing Candles, Magical Candles, or Spiritual Candles:

  • Blazing Candles triple the leveling speed for you and all nearby Daevas!
  • Magical Candles triple the drop rate for you and all nearby Daevas!
  • Spiritual Candles immediately recover 2,000 DP for you and all nearby Daevas, increase attack speed by 10%, and reduce cast time by 10% for the duration of the buff!


Players can purchase one of each type of candle every few hours—your candle purchase record resets at 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm Central Time. Each buff lasts 4 hours, and affects all Daevas within 100 meters!

Kick off Aion’s 3rd Birthday celebrations with a sparkling cake and get rewards for you and your fellow Daevas!

Curse Flash Bogel Giveaway for NA Aion and NA Patch 3.5

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Curse Flash Bogel Giveaway for NA Aion

Curse is celebrating the arrival of patch 3.5 through giving away some NA Aion pet codes for the lovely and colorful Flash Bogel. The Bogel is shown flying above with Nyx, whom has been kind enough to model it for us along with the Tiamat Chain, Mace, and Shield. This giveaway is for NA Aion only and will be done through the official Curse giveaway site:

http://www.curse.com/digital-giveaways/aion-3-5-pet

There are a limited number of the pets, so it's a first come, first serve sort of thing. Please remember that this code WILL NOT work on Gameforge Aion and that the codes also do not work for those that go through the "Level Up" service in South America for the game.

Get Ready for NA Aion Patch 3.5


Patch 3.5 will be launching on the 10th of October, 2012 for NA Aion and it will feature several changes that make PvP more reminiscent of older open world PvP. Here is a pdf of the patch notes for the full English version that can be compared to the Korean patch notes for 3.5. Differences are likely due to the localization of names as well as any minor patches that may be included when the NA patch for 3.5 is launched.

The new patch features Tiamat's Stronghold, a 6 person instance.

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The PvP oriented patch will feature a new type of rift, dubbed the "Dimensional Vortex" rift. These rifts are more rare than previous rifts and will go to Theobomos and Brusthonin. The Korean patch included making all rifts available to those level 60 and below, but the NA patch notes don't mention this at all. We have been given to understand that this is in the patch however, so make sure to go to the leveling server if you'd like to PvE in peace without an element of danger in your experience.

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As expected, the patch highlights new housing, mounts, and legion levels. It also has information about a new level 60 Daevanion weapon quest obtainable from the NPC Kahrun and called "Siel's True Spear".

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NA Aion Premieres Ninja Gear for Cash Shop in 3.5

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Armory should soon be updated for 3.5, but it contained something that wasn't in any of the current 3.5 notes. Ninja armor! And it turns out that the armor is new and exclusive to NA only.

With the 3.5 patch, NA Aion is also announcing something never before done in Aion - exclusive NA content. Designed specifically for the NA market (i.e. they're not available in Korea at all), on October 17th, 2013 get ready for ninja themed gear. The gear includes both outfit skins as well as weapons.

Always wanted your SM orb to look like a shuriken? Well, now you can with the new weapon skins that will be sold on the Black Cloud Marketplace. If you're liking this custom content, then be sure to stop over and buy a bit, so that we will hopefully see more in the future.

And while we wait for the 17th to hit, we can check out how the weapons and skins look.

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NA Aion 3.5 Tiamat Events

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Three new 3.5 events have begun with the introduction of patch 3.5 for NA Aion:

  • Tiamat's Treasure Hunter: Collect and combine 5 elemental fragments to earn Tiamat Treasure Chests that can contain valuable rewards such as Consumables, Eternal Weapons, Ancient Spirit's Wings, Treasure Box Keys and more! In addition, Instances and various places around the world will spawn Treasure Boxes containing AP relics!

  • Tiamat's Slayer: Be the first alliance to defeat Tiamat to win an exclusive prestige title! Share your alliance's battle tactics with the community to win another exclusive title, or even your choice of an Eternal Tiamat weapon!

  • Power of the Rings: For four weeks, we're giving away a set of two special Eternal Rings on every 30th [Elite Enchantment Stone Bundle] purchase! Don't like your 1:30 odds? Purchase 3 bundles within the same week and get a set automatically! *Note: the same week means maintenance to maintenance. The rewards will be distributed via email within 7-14 days after purchase. Please make sure to check your spam box if you do not receive it within the expected period.

EU Gameforge Aion Announces 3.1 and athe Tank and Spank Event

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Gameforge Aion has announced the arrival of patch 3.1 to be the 14th of November. Unlike NA Aion, this patch will not introduce the leveling server to the game. It is unknown when the leveling server will be introduced in Gameforge Aion.

Tank & Spank Event

As announced on the official web site, Lock and load your weapons.

It is time to upgrade your forces against your enemies! An epic fight is about to take place in Atreia, so join your army and get a tank for the battle. This week you will have the chance to crush your enemies with a heavy rolling tank! Come to the spawn location where your support GM will wait for you to handle out one of these destruction machines, get yours and have some fun!

Details about the event:


This event doesn’t have any specific objective, it’s only there for you to have fun with some epic tanks and do some awesome PvP! There are no objectives and no rewards.

The event will run between October 15th and October 18th, taking place on 3 servers each day.

Between 18:45 and 19:45 CEST in the specified servers, the GMs will be at the spawning locations spawning tanks for the players who join.

Everything will take place in the Lower Abyss, in the Isle of Roots in Sulfur Archipelago.

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The Asmodians can pick up their tanks in the right area of the Isle, while the Elyos will do it in the left side. Watch out! The GMs will protect the spawning locations from the enemy faction.

The middle area will be your battleground, crush those tanks!

Servers’ distribution each day:
15.10: Balder [DE] – Spatalos [EN] – Suthran [FR]
16.10: Thor [DE] – Perento [EN] – Urtem [FR]
17.10: Kromede [DE] – Telemachus [EN] – Calindi [FR]
18.10:Vehalla [DE] – Nexus [EN] – Anuhart [EN]

Of course, your faction can be prepared beforehand. Taking some fortresses and artifacts may help you during the fight!

Daevas driving tanks? Well, why not?

Voluntary NA Aion Account Migration Begins

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Voluntary NC Account migration begins October 17, but for many it would be extremely unwise to migrate until they are forced to. Players that have been long standing supporters of the game will lose their collector's edition perks as well as any unapplied or account wide codes for the game. All perks will go away when the account migration happens. One can only hope that it isn't forced upon the player population for a while.

As reported on the official Aion site, beginning Wednesday, October 17, players can opt to migrate their current NCSOFT Master Account for Aion and Lineage II to a NC Account. The new account will use your email address rather than a static account name and will not be attached to your master account. Unfortunately, a different email is needed for each account, so beware of this when migrating more than one Aion account from a master account. The FAQ for the migration explains some of the rationale behind the change.

I have to admit that I'm a little skeptical as an original player of the game who expects to lose all their account wide items for any character created after the migration. And yes, this does matter with new character types becoming available in Aion 4.0. NCsoft - why must you take away my Tutty costumes!?

KR Aion 4.0 and the Gunner Class

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If you're looking forward to the 3 new classes (Mech, Gunner, and Bard) featured in Aion 4.0, Korean Aion has slowly been releasing information about the new Gunner class. It looks slightly western and appears to use duel pistols or a two handed gun. They've released some screenshots, started a contest for the guns, and now there's a video showing gameplay for the Gunner. All information is available from the official Korean 4.0 preview site and is shown below for your convenience. Keep your eyes peeled as new information is revealed there.

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Images from the Gunner Weapon Contest

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NA Aion Online and Harvest Revel Event

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From October 24th to November 7th, the official online NA Aion site introduces the Harvest Revel event. Details are included below for your convenience.

A chill is settling on the Atreian countryside. Sensible Daevas are indoors, warming themselves with a pint of pumpkin ale, but Octobrunerk has been working hard to get everything ready for the first annual Harvest Revel Beer Festival--or he had been, until all the barley disappeared! Octobrunerk has three master brewers standing by to compete for the title of best beer-brewer in Atreia, but they need that barley!

Once per day from October 24 to November 7, players can help Octobrunerk keep the festival on track by hunting mobs and retrieving Fresh Barley from them. Exchange the Fresh Barley with Octobrunerk in Pandaemonium or Sanctum for Dried Barley. (And an additional reward of some Lite Beer!) Cast your vote on which brewmaster you think will win the competition by giving them your Dried Barley; they'll exchange it for a ticket specific to that brewmaster. You can receive a total of 14 tickets, so the more you back a brewer, the more tickets you can stockpile!

Ranking for each brewmaster will be determined after November 7; players will be able to trade in their tickets with each brewmaster for rewards until November 21! Enjoy the month-long Harvest Revel!

Third Party Ad Security Issue Found by Curse

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Earlier today, Curse was notified by Google that there was a script known to be malicious being served though some of our sites. Upon further inspection, Curse has determined the script was being served through ad placements from a 3rd party. These ads were being served as they normally would; however, due to a security breach at the 3rd party, a malicious script in JavaScript was being served that was put in their passback system.

We have managed to identify the 3rd party, whom is well known to be trusted, as the source of the script. They have been contacted about the compromise and have removed the malicious script being served to not only Curse, but possibly everyone with whom they work. They are still investigating the breech.

Curse takes security extremely seriously and has removed all 3rd party ad partners until the investigation is complete. We will keep you informed of the outcome of this investigation. In the meantime, we recommend you run a malware scan on your computer. You can run a free scan at http://www.malwarebytes.org/. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.

KR Aion 4.0 and the Troubadour (Bard) Class

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If you're looking forward to the 3 new classes (Mech, Gunner, and Troubadour) featured in Aion 4.0, Korean Aion has finally released enough information to post about the Troubadour class. The character starts out by looking very dainty and pink in the trailer below until a gigantic falling treble clef falls on an enemy.

KR Aion has now released screenshots, started a contest for weapons, and posted a video of the gameplay. All information is available from the official Korean 4.0 preview site and is shown below for your convenience. Keep your eyes peeled as new information is revealed there. Strangely, no examples of a male Troubadour yet exist. One can only wonder how this class translates to the male version or if its female only.

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Image from the Troubadour Weapon Contest

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