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Just found this video a little bit ago and I thought it was a really great example of Templar PVP.
The level 36 Templar in this video takes on a level 36 Ranger, a 37 ranger, and a level 37 Assassin. He would have beat them also if they had not brought their level 50 healbot with them.
Even still, this Templar is able to last for 7mins against 3 other players.

Can’t find the elusive Tutty? Ready to give up on that cube? Well here is the video just for you.

It can be annoying to try to locate some of the wandering NPCs in Aion.

We all know that to locate someone you type: /where Name

Did you know that you can get the path of a wandering NPC with equal ease?

For instance, if you want to locate Gulux (Asmodian) or Paksigue (Elyos) type:

/pathfinding Gulux

or

/pathfinding Paksigue

This will note the current location of the beastie with a purple X on your map and mini map. The purple X then moves as the creature moves along its path.

Pretty neat, huh?

You’ve probably seen our post on Paksigue aka Crab Norris, the level 13 Elite that roams about Verteron Citadel cutting short the lives of unwary low level players.
Well, the Asmodian equivalent is Gulux, a level 13 Elite Demi-humanoid ice creature that follows a path in the Altgard Ice Lake around Altgard. Like Paksigue, Gulux has a 7 meter aggro range and pre-emptive attack.

Gulux of Altgard Ice Lake

Here’s a shot of Gulux as he crosses the path into Altgard Fortress. Right after I took this shot he practically one-shotted some poor guy, who then ran into the fortress taking Gulux with him. The NPC guards took out Gulux.

For whatever reason, Gulux does not seem to have developed the same reputation, notoriety, and fame as our buddy Crab Norris. Can it be that he is less attractive, less colorful, or less interesting? Is he easier to kill? He doesn’t seem to follow quite as eccentric a path as Paksigue, so it just may be that it is easier to avoid him.

Let us know your experience with either or both of these guys.

Whether you are gathering for a quest or just to level up your skill for future high level items, gathering everything from Rubis to Aether can be frustrating if you are having difficulty locating the item you have to gather.

There are a couple of items available to help with gathering once you have ascended (from level 10 on up.) You can spend some of your hard-earned Kinah (Q) and buy a vitality or aether gathering hat, called a Gatherer Hat or Aether Gatherer Hat.

The Gatherer Hat comes in Novice (Q 5,687) – Experienced (Q 25,289) – Veteran (Q 148,648) and Advanced (Q 962,797) versions. As they increase in price, they also increase in skill level and character level requirements.

Gatherer Hats are available from the Vitality Extraction and Aether Extraction item vendors in the Vitality and Aether Extraction areas of the Artisan’s Hall in Sanctum for Elyos, or the Aether and Vitality Extraction Training area for Asmodians in Pandemonium.

With so many expenses competing for your attention a Gatherer Hat may seem too costly. After all, you still have to expand your cube and warehouse space, pick up some new armor or weapons, and pay to level up your crafting skill.

If you feel that you just can’t afford a Gatherer Hat, there’s hope. Here’s a free alternative: macros.

You can set up macros to help locate, target, and extract vitality and aether. Macros work extremely well for items that may be difficult to see, such as fish in the water. (Think Miraju Holy Ground or the waters around Eltnen Fortress.)

Go to U to open Macros, then Create New Macro, and type in, for example:

/Select Ruko
/Attack

(Make this two separate lines, just as shown, capitalizing the words and adding / at the start of each line.)

A Gatherer Hat, it is true, goes one step further than a macro and tells you what gatherables are available in any given area, but it may be cost prohibitive for lower level characters.  It is also amusing when using macros to put your character on autorun, periodically click your macro, and find your character suddenly veering off to one side and running head-long into a barrier in an attempt to reach the item the macro is set to gather.

So, if you’re feeling the pinch from a lack of Q (kinah,) give the macro solution a try. It is very simple, yet very effective.

This quest lets you upgrade the Fire Sword to the Flame Sword at level 25. There is then another quest obtained at level 32 to upgrade the sword even further to get Inferno.  This is a great sword for Templars, Assassins, and Gladiators.

First what you will need to do is get the sword to drop or… buy it from the broker, but that can be a little expensive.
The Fire Sword drops from Dried Gnarls　and Mottled Basilisks. Here is a picture with their general location.

The first part of this quest chain is obtained at level 25 from “Garperos, Daeva of Flame”. He is located at “Sataloca’s Grave” on the right side of the path standing in the middle of a huge jaw bone.

After that you will have to kill some Flame Spirits and collect their Flame Essence x3.

When you finish with that, just go back and talk to Garperos to get your new sword.

If you are interested in a detailed class guide for your character with tons of information, I highly recommend the Killer Guides Class Guides. They make leveling up so you can get swords like these, easier and more fun. Check them out here: Killer Guides Class Guides.

If you haven’t met him yet, Paksigue is an Elite Level 13, a giant crab that roams the sands surrounding Verteron Citadel striking fear into the hearts of low level players. He has been dubbed Crab Norris for obvious reasons.

Just because he is only level 13, don’t think that you can take him on when you’re level 14 or 15. An Elite is the equivalent of a mob many levels higher. Elites have more defenses and  hit harder than other mobs of the same level. Depending on your class and your skills, Crab Norris may be too tough for a level 18 or 19 to solo.

The more unwary players there are roaming the dunes around Verteron Citadel, the higher the hourly kill count for Crab Norris. He usually kills the unsuspecting or preoccupied player in one or two hits.

Here’s a picture of Paksigue next to a regular sized mud potcrab, just so you can get an idea of his size. You’ll note that I took this pic of the backside of the big guy as he was moving away from me. This is the safest view of Paksigue when your character is only level 15.

I actually rather enjoy the big guy. He’s a nice touch. He adds a random element to the game that makes it more entertaining and realistic. He also performs a valuable function by alerting players to the necessity to watch the mini map for red dots that move rapidly and randomly; these fast, erratic red dots signal danger.

When you get to Eltnen, those randomly moving dots will be noticeably larger than the NPC mob dots and will represent players of the opposing faction who have stolen into your area bent on mayhem. You will be even less able to predict their presence or location than with Paksique.

Paksigue doesn’t seem to roam into the water or in close to the walls of the Citadel, so if you want to go afk on the Verteron sands make sure you are standing knee deep in water or high up on the dunes right next to the Citadel. Keep an eye on your mini map while you are questing about the dunes and you should be able to avoid Crab Norris.

If you’re looking for in-depth help in getting the most out of your Aion gaming, you couldn’t do better than Killer Guides. Their Aion Guide offers strategies for rapid leveling and for earning Kinah faster than you thought possible, as well as advice on each profession. They also offer individual guides for each class to help you get the most out of your precious gaming hours. If you can’t decide which class you like the most, your best bet is to get the Aion Complete Guide Package, which contains every guide they make- that’s 10 guides for the price of 3.

I’ve been playing my Ranger a lot recently and I keep seeing the same questions over and over again in the Ranger class chat. So I figured it would be helpful for all the new Rangers out there if I gave you some tips.
These 3 tips I think are the most important for any new Ranger.

#1 – Just because you are a Ranger does not mean you can’t melee.

I often see many new rangers just standing in front a monster getting beat on and slowly shooting arrows into it’s face. This is not how you play a ranger correctly. At low level you only have one ranged skill so you can’t keep the monster away from you. What you want to do is, first use your ranged attack, then switch to you melee weapons and kill it with melee skills. This will speed up your low levels considerably.

#2 – Physical Critical Manastones are your friends.

For awhile there was some confusion in the Ranger class chat about what manastones are the best. Some people were saying that they heard you want magic boost manastones… This is totally wrong and those people must be crazy.

The order of manastone importance goes something like this:
Critical > Attack > HP > Evasion

Basically, you want to kill things before they can even touch you.

#3 – Learn to kite things! (Also learn to “Jumpshot”)

If you can kite correctly you will never take damage. Thanks to kiting I was able to kill Trandilla at level 12, taking no damage. I also was able to solo Bubblegut at level 14 when everyone else was trying to find teams to kill him.

Here is an excellent video guide on how to jumpshot correctly.

One last thing I would really recommend is this Ranger Class Guide by killer guides. It has tons of useful information about action bar setup, pvp, stigmas to use, and leveling. It has been a great help to me so far.

To learn a Crafting skill visit a trainer of your craft choice (Cooking, Handicraft, Armorsmithing, Weaponsmithing, Alchemy, or Tailoring) and pay 3,630 Kinah to learn the craft. The trainer will also offer you a Quest to do a project with items you gather, but this is for XP only and is not required to level up the skill.

You level the skill with Work Orders you obtain from the trainer. If you want to save some Kinah when making these Work Orders, make only the exact number of items required.

Two reasons to make only the exact number of items required: 1) You save Kinah; 2) You increase your chances of receiving recipes as rewards.

The Work Order gives you extra materials, just in case of failure. For example, you receive eight (8) caprauna to make 6 caprauna juice. If you make all eight Work Orders successfully and turn in the completed Work Order, you do not save any extra created items towards the next Work Order, and you do not gain any additional Skill. Oops! This last part is incorrect, as a commenter pointed out. You do get skill increase from making the extra items. (Sorry, I was getting confused after too many late nights gaming.)

What I meant to say was that another reason that you might want to only make the minimum items necessary to turn in the Work Order is: by doing this way you increase the number of times you turn in Work Orders as you level up your skill, and thus you increase your chances of receiving some good recipes as rewards for completing the Work Orders. (I knew there was another reason.)

Save your Kinah; don’t buy more mats than you need to. I find the failure rate is fairly low, at least from Skill levels1 to 100, and by turning in more Work Orders I received a fair number of interesting recipes as rewards, which is much better than buying them off the Broker. You still have that option if you don’t get what you want as a reward from the Cooking Trainer.

If you are purchasing mats for one Work Order at a time, purchase enough mats to make seven, but resist the temptation to click the “Make All” button; make only 6. If you succeed you are done! If you fail on any of your attempts and you  need to make more, then do so.

For each 10 Skill levels (1 to 10, 11 to 20, etc.) you make the same Work Order over and over, so I usually buy enough materials to make sixty-five (65) to seventy (70) items for all 10 Work Orders at one time. This doesn’t save any Kinah, but it saves running back and forth to the Vendor table. (Even though it is not that far to go, it can be annoying.)

Here’s another Kinah-saving Crafting Tip:

The first Work Order is free, requiring no extra mats. In Cooking, for example, Gritty Inina does not require you to purchase extra mats. Making this can get you up to Skill Level 10, right? Well, if you are feeling really hard up for Kinah, try making the same first Work Order to level up further.  Reliable sources have confirmed that you can level up to the mid-30’s or even 40 using the same first Work Order. It does kind of s-l-o-w d-o-w-n your leveling, but it is free.

Try this same trick at other skill levels, too. Some of the higher level Work Orders require fewer, less expensive mats than those at lower levels. When you find an inexpensive Work Order, keep making it as long as you continue to gain skill level.

Let me know how this works for you.

Happy leveling!