Greetings Daevas!

After the European Aion team attended gamescom 2010 two weeks ago in Cologne, Germany, the turn has now come to the North American team, attending PAX this weekend in Seattle along with a few guests from Europe. This week you can taste the release of Aion: Assault on Balaurea as it’s just started to download via the NCsoft Launcher. Don’t panic if it stops at unexpected percentages along the way. It’s an incremental patch and will be finished before the servers go live. 

We hope you are as impatient as we are to expand your wings and finally glide into Balaurea! With only a few more days remaining, how will you prepare for the release of Aion: Assault on Balaurea? What are the first things you will do on Tuesday? Tell us all about it over in the official forums.

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Question of the Week

Cerafina of Perento asks:

“With the launch of 2.0 in a few days, will my current XP be reset to 0% of level 50? Also what happens to my current soul debt?”

Hey Cerafina.

When Aion: Assault on Balaurea goes live on the 7^th September, as was the case with the release on the Korean servers, you’ll find that your current experience will still be 100% of level 50 – obviously only if it was that before. This means that once you’re in game all you’ll need to do is kill one monster or complete one quest to tip yourself into level 51. In regard to your soul debt, the soul healers of Atreia aren’t of the understanding kind, and you will still owe the same amount you did before the expansion. This means that you’ll be able to pay it off in full and gain a slight advantage when it comes to gaining experience points to level. I hope this answer quells the rumour that experience points will be reset to the beginning of the level when you first log in after Aion: Assault on Balaurea goes live!

With the expansion so close to going live, we wanted to remind you about the patch notes, the exclusive pets that are available from certain retailers and the levelling guides in our PowerWiki to help you get off to a bang:

Asmodian Leveling Guides: 51-52 and 53-55

Elyos Leveling Guides: 51-52 and 53-55

For those of you lucky enough to have made the trip to Seattle for PAX; look out for the exclusive Tutty N’ Beans swag packs and the Aion: Assault on Balaurea Launch Party with a special concert from the Wonder Girls. For the rest of us, you can always follow the action on the NA NCsoft Events page.

Do you want the Aion team to answer your question or discuss a topic of your choice? Send an email to email@address.hidden with your character name, server, and question!

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In Other News

Let’s take a look at what’s been going on in the Aion community.

Five Brave Elyseans vs. Tahabata

Rheeza from Vaizel sent us this video, showcasing a 5-man effort to take down Tahabata (without a plate class). After successfully doing so, they were lucky enough to see a Tahabata Tome drop.

“No Point” AMV by Nill

We posted a link to Nill’s music video called “Behind Enemy Lines”. This is a previous work of Nill, but quite impressive and worth having a look at!

Aion Insanity - the lighter side of Aion

Qaz posted this neat video over in our forums. It’s a bit like switching between TV channels.

(Swedish) Collation of Aion 2.0 Information

Our Swedish fansite is preparing for the coming Aion: Assault on Balaurea with a forum section dedicated to the rich expansion. Check it out if you know the language!

Don’t forget to send us your Eye on Community creations or contributions to email@address.hidden!

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This article series is a way for us to highlight current, interesting, wacky, passionate, intriguing, dramatic, or just plain awesome things going on in the community. Please send your submissions to email@address.hidden.

—The Aion Community Team