The way i see it- when you are gathering a node that is at least 10 points lower than your skill, you gather it instanly with 100% success rate and now waiting for pass/fail. If your skill is less than 10 over the node, then you have the pass/fail bars and you have to wait.

I patent this, if NC uses it, i want 1% if their annual income from Aion

Try writing about something that matters.

“6. Added description “A hidden effect(s) is activated when you equip the complete set” at the bottom of the tooltip of the item that has a hidden set effect.”

means. Does it mean there are equipment like I had in FFXI, with unseen bonus stats? Take in example the Lv.35+ (I think that was when you could start those grind quests in MMV) Silver Mane ’set’. It has no bonuses but the NPC refers to it as a set. The typical sets has bonuses that you get from having more pieces visible at the bottom, greyed out – I don’t see those as hidden. But then again, this could be a bad translation from the Korean patch notes. It will be interesting to see what happens once the patch is live here for us and out of testing over in Korea – I am guessing by then I should have the full set and can look for attributes being boosted.

I also see the time I invested doing gathering and ultimately crafting what I gathered, as rewarding – since once I sell or craft the materials, I get results from my labor. And well, I don’t find it so boring personally, but that is a matter of opinion anyways.

But before I get totally off track again, there is one fundamental problem that we all face: You can’t please everyone. I might love that I have to work for things and put more effort into it, others might hate it. In the end, you will please some, and others will dislike it. The patch that are incoming (http://powerwiki.uk.aiononline.com/aion/Patch+Notes+1.5.1.0) should help making us meet on the middle though. There will be increases to kinah earned from quests as well as XP. The penalty fees are supposed to be lowered a bit, there’s supposed to be increase in drop rates for certain things (skill books in Alquimia for one, wich is a good thing). They lower a little difficulty for some bosses (like the last one in Steel Rake wich is in fact a decent challenge (but I like challenges )).

Overall, with this patch, I feel they take steps in meeting us halfway from both sides. The grind should be lessened slightly with XP boosts from crafting/gathering and quests. But at the same time, it will require an effort since skill raises at the same rates (for crafting that is perfectly fine in my eyes, and in all honesty, I find it ok for gathering as well). Kinah should be a bit easier to get since quests reward some more kinah. And so on forth. My main ‘beef’ with Aion at the moment that can potentially ruin things for me, is that Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, get the Cry*.dll crash when larger sieges occur. Like when capturing and defending fortresses. With that being a major part of the game, it is game breaking that we are basically expecting to crash. They fixed the queues (at least on Spatalos) and they have taken decent measures in lowering the gold spamming (and it works at least for me on Spatalos, as I tend to get 3-5 messages a day). I have no doubt that they are listening to the players and taking all we say into account. Overall, I see improvement already and I am enjoying the ride to Lv.50 (Currently at Lv.41 (10% to 42), so not reached cap yet and I have more to experience, witness and learn).

So no, no tea bag emote. Not now, not two weeks from now, not 2 Expansions from now. =)