Anyone else following this game? I was in closed beta 5 last weekend, another one next weekend. I'm REALLY looking forward to this game.
its a MMO that is PvPvE. Basically what warcraft should have been... well, what warcraft was in vanilla WoW. Remember the days of questing in redridge mountains and you got the message in GlobalDefense channel "UNDEAD ROGUE!!!" and you grouped up in partys to hunt this guy down, then his gang took out the flight masters so there was no escape... now in warcraft, you share the same fucking city with the other faction... fuck that. I want my hatred for the other faction back.
Enter Aion Phenomenal melee combat system , see the youtube vid below to see what i mean - there is a combo system instead of waiting for cooldowns and global cooldowns - also note the killer spell effects for the sorcerers commet at 0:24 seconds in.
This game is balancing pvp and pve so even the tank classes can do great damage - all damage against players is decreased by 40% so you wont be 1 shotted by any one, battles will last a long time.
Worried about the game just being about pvp? No worries there, check out the vid below (WARNING, TURN DOWN THE MUSIC IT IS SHIT!) - that is a 6 man group (partys are 6 man groups instead of the traditional 5) , look at the size of that effing boss!!! Also this game is supposed to have TONS of world bosses!
I'll also add the character customization is SICK. Better than ANY other game i've ever played. Christ I made myself in this game... (albeit the scar is much larger on the in game version than it is in real life, i just have a small one under my eye haha)
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Final selling point - at level 10, you get wings
I'd sum this up as Devil May Cry meets Final Fantasy