Hey everyone-

Users Veles & dammitmanxl have stumbled upon a couple articles related to the future of Aion and reading through, they seem legit enough (as legit as a rumor can be) to repost for you all.



From www.mmosite.com

In 2009, Aion caught nearly every player's eyes with its launch in West, and we know NCsoft will keep on heating this game in 2010 with two expansion - Aion 2.0 & Aion 3.0. Suppose both two updates can achieve success in world wide, Aion would be another long-live MMOG of NCsoft after Lineage and Lineage II.


According to Aion Korea site, V2.0 will come out in February, 2010. We can already see V2.0 becomes the major topic on Korean Aion forum. However we have not get any English news about Aion 2.0 yet. So this update may probably come to Korea test server at first as usual.


Early today Ben posted a piece of unofficial message which reveals the content of Aion 2.0 on our forum. It said that Aion 2.0 will raise the level cap to level 55, add new dungeons and items and improve the game graphic.

(Here is that message

Are you expecting the new expansion of Aion? Recently in Taiwan, someone just revealed some latest update contents about Aion 2.0 (Now we are playing Aion 1.5)

The following are the details (they seems reasonable and possible to come in the next expansion)

Level Cap will be lvl 55;
Talent System (New): From lvl50, players can get one point per level;
New weapons and corresponding skills, each class will have about 3 new skills;
New Guild Skill for Guild Leader only;
New Maps for Elyos and Asmodians;
New Abyss map on the ground;
New lvl 60 Manastone;
New Instance: Alatr in the Water(Translated from Chinese)
New 24 people Guild Raid



So what do you think? The good? The bad?

Personally, I am most excited about the promise of legion activities. A Brigade General only skill (Perhaps a summon legion type skill to call for immediate reinforcements?), 24-man legion raids- all good things, in my opinion. Hopefully the legion menu/options get a bit of a vamp as well. Heck, maybe we'll actually be able to acquire the legion rewards that are already in the game.



I'm not sure how I feel about a level cap increase, but I do suppose that a sense of progression must always be kept. Hopefully with these new zones and instances come many, many new quests to aid the 50-55 progression.

The Talent system could be interesting, though one has to wonder how it would differ from the Stigma system, which is essentially Aion's "Talent" system to begin with.

Adding higher manastones has been in the works since the manastone level changes a while back. You can look at any high-level weapon in the game and notice that the level of stone you can socket does not end at 50, though the current manastones in-game do. But with that, what can we expect to see? Attack +6? Crit +18?

Lots to discuss here, so don't let my ramblings hold you up!

Hey everyone,

I feel that it's important to point out that this information was not officially released by NCsoft and is at this point nothing more than a series of rumors. We've made it clear that we're working on a series of updates that will bring new content to Aion in the short and long term; however, we haven't announced the specifics of these updates.

Once again, this information was not released by NCsoft (of course this includes NCWest). These are rumors, and I'd hate for anyone to see them as anything else. Will we be releasing information about upcoming content updates soon? Yes. Did we do so in the last week? No.

Please, be patient for just a little while longer. We know you want more information and you will get what you desire soon!

Hello everyone,

I have a quick update for you! We are diligently working with our Korean counterparts on an Aion update featuring relevant content scheduled to release on the Western servers the first half of the year. We will share the details of the update once the update is finalized. From what we’ve seen so far, your going to be very excited.

We have not announced timing for the update as we want ensure it delivers the same level of polish as Aion did at launch.

Stay tuned!