server maintenance? say it ain't so!

Alas, it seems Wednesday 11.30pm is when Aion servers come down for maintenance. I was unfortunately afk to witness the apparent 1 minute notice before server shutdown notice, but I hear from many sources that many lulz were to be had.

(and of course by lulz I mean mass QQing)

Today I have some general advice and observations for our readers, take heed! Unfortunately, Elyos-only. I promise I will play an Asmo one day, when the servers are not full of them. But for now...

Deadly fence in Tolbas Village


As the caption in the image says, stay away from that fence in Tolbas Village. Getting stuck in it will put your character in a constant state of movement, rendering you unable to use Return or the unstuck option. Your next option once you get stuck is to either put in a petition and wait 9 hours, or the following failsafe method.

1. Have someone duel you and bring you down to low health.
   
2. Have that same person drag a random mob down to the fence, into your melee range. Try to get the mob on the opposite side of the fence to where the guard is standing, as the guard will try to kill the mob if it's near them. They will then have to stop attacking that mob.
   
3. You will then have to melee it hard enough so that it will attack you, and kill you. (Templars and Gladiators have this easy as they can just taunt)
   
4. You can then safely release and get out of the fence. Hey, you pay the Soul Healer fee, but better than waiting in there stuck for 9 hours, right?

Gold spammers
I'm sure most of you would have experienced this by now - the dreaded gold spammer. In our session today, I got at least 5 whispers from 5 different spammers. The right-click dialog is a bit limited too - in order to block that person, you have to type /block (name). Most gold spammers will have random keymashings for names, so doing that each time you get a spam message may get a bit old eventually.

Instead, you can stop yourself from showing up on /who lists. Simply type in /anon.

I really hope NCSoft patches in a better gold spammer report system.

/hiphop