Also as part of Lol’s Season 2 this year Riot Games has just included a new map scenario called Dominion in the open beta phase.  While i have to admit that I’m quite a fan boy of the Dota genre, this map is filled with some pretty fast paced action.  Check out the following Dominion trailer to get a little insight into the game.

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The videos pretty much explain the map, but for those of you who didn’t watch them here’s the recap.  League of Legends – Dominion is a capture and hold type of game.  Teams start on opposite sides of a mirror map, and vie for 5 different contestable points.  Instead of the standard level 1 hero to begin with, a 5 man team will start at level 3 with about 1300 gold for gear.  Also with the new map there’s 2 new summoner skills, and a bunch of new items that come along specifically for the map, and balancing.

Currently there’s no need for farming or getting exp in this mode.  As soon as the game clock starts, your character starts receiving quite a bit gold, and exp per second so you never really fall behind in gear.  The way to points score the game can easily turn around if you’re team overextends etc.  Teams usually split up in two directions to take the two closest nodes, and sometimes a 3rd one if you have a fast moving character like Rammus to start with.  This will go on until of of the teams score (or take away) 500 points, which can be fairly fast at about 10 minutes or so for a 1 sided game. So far on opening day of open beta the game is pretty fun, however I feel like it will be very short lived.  The high pace map almost feels like there is little to no strategy at the moment when everyone just rushes nodes or defends nodes ala ‘Arathi Basin’ style.

For those of you who haven’t yet played the game, don’t worry, its completely free to play.  You just need to signup for an account here and download the program here.

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Don’t get me wrong browser based games have come a long way from before.  1-up has even posted a list made up of 101 of 2010’s best browser games, many of which are very impressive.  Here’s two that really caught my eye so far that I’ve been playing quite diligently:

Elements the Game

This one had a feel of the collectible card game Magic the Gathering.  It was very addicting though at the start it was somewhat difficult.  The ability to play against random people online, with decks that you’ve built up is pretty nice.  Though some of the player vs player decks don’t work well against the god decks the computer runs with.  The different types of cards and abilities made it fun, and the fact that you could ‘improve’ your cards to be better made the game addicting since perfectionists try play the game, to raise enough cash, to upgrade their whole deck.

Heroes of Might and Magic Online

This one is a spin off of the old Might and Magic series that I remember playing as a kid back in the 90s.  The Creature types, and the way your cities need to be upgraded are similar, however the game is no longer turn based.  Its real time and similar to other online strategy games like Travian or Evony.  My friends, and I, are doing pretty well on the 3rd us server called “Zombie Assembly”.  The only downside to it is that the worlds are relatively small (400×400 grid), and new players are only allowed to join newer servers due to space limitations.  I hope that they increase the capacity at a later time.  It would be really nice to be able to play or bring on more people to an older server.  The goal is the collect ‘Tears’ after you’ve reached a certain rank to dominate the rest of the world.  After which the world resets, and you’ll gain a slight advantage the next time around.  I hear it takes roughly 6 months for the game to come to fruition.

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In the guild that I’ve been a part of for a while now, we’ve been using Ventrilo for the last few years.  It was really good for organizing those 40 man raids in World of Warcraft back in the day.  At one point we probably had upwards of 150+ people when we were zerging fighting the destro back in the days of Warhammer Online.  Aside from having to mute everyone, but the leader the server handled pretty well with that many people.

There was one really annoying thing about having that many people online though.  It was the fact that everyone was speaking at different volumes depending on how they had their microphone was setup.  Well we figured out a way to fix that so that everyone sounds roughly the same volume all the time regardless of what they have their outbound microphone volume setup as. Its called Ventrilo Normalization, and its a really great tip for using Ventrilo Voice Chat.

The steps are pretty easy, and you can tweak it yourself to suit your needs.  There’s a really good post about it here:

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This list doesn’t need to be applied to just Rangers, but can be done by anyone who can kite, or find a partner to duo with.  Here’s the link to the forum post, and happy hunting!

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Its really the same concept as the Leatherworking tip I posted a few years back for World of Warcraft.  Its a common sense know how much you can sell your product for, and know how much it costs to create the product.  Also include how much time it takes for you to create it to see if its worthwhile.

I will use Tailoring’s  Strong Durable Leather Jerkin as an example.  Please note that this is a generic vendor recipe.  The materials for this recipe is relatively cheap since no one wants white quality gear at level 38, so take advantage of that fact to net you some quick money.  Even the Critical version of this recipe is outdone  by its level 33 equivalent making it relatively worthless for players.  Or is it?  Let’s take a deeper look into it.

To make one you’ll need:

• 11 Strong Leather Pads
• 16 Strong Leather Cords
• 4 Fine Armor Flux
• 28 Aether Gem

Now go check the Auction house for these items, and see what the prices are.  I’ll use my server’s prices to demonstrate my point, also I’ll include the reagent price(vendor) for Greater Leather Hardeners.

• Strong Leather Pads – 1k-2k
• Strong Leather Cords – N/A
• Fine Armor Flux – 1k-2k
• Aether Gem – 500-1k
• Strong Leather – N/A
• Strong Rawhide – 100-500
• Greater Leather Hardener – 478

Also note that it takes exactly 38 Strong Leathers(76 Strong Rawhide) to make the pads/cords.  If you’re familiar with Aion’s crafting system for Tailors you’ll know that the Strong Leather Pads have a chance to ‘Crit’ into Strong Luxury Leather Pads, and Strong Finest Leather Pads, so you’ll need to make a few extra.

So lets total up the cost of these materials here:

• 11x Strong Leather Pads – 10156 Kinah (22 Greater Leather Hardeners x 478 Kinah)
• 16x Strong Leather Cords – 7648 Kinah (16 Greater Leather Hardeners x 478 Kinah)
• 4x Fine Armor Flux – 8,000 Kinah ( 4 Fine Armor Flux x 2000 Kinah)
• 28x Aether Gem – 28000 (28 Aether Gem x 1000 Kinah)
• 76x Strong Rawhide – 38000 (76 Strong Rawhide x 500 Kinah)

This totals up to 91804 Kinah in materials OUCH!.  Easy enough right?  Now you are probably wondering why you’ve gone a created a rather crappy looking piece of leather that noone on the Trade Broker is even going to buy.  Well since you’re at the tradeskill vendor why don’t you just dump the newly made jerkin off there, and find out that that nice npc who sold you all the reagents, is willing to buy this crappy item from you for a whopping 114,000 Kinah.  Netting you an extra 22k Kinah profit guaranteed.

Now don’t forget about critical craft chances.  One in five of these Jerkins will Crit into a Strong Noble Durable Jerkin and these vendor for a whopping 142k Kinah.  That’s a nice 50k profit.

Now the only thing stopping me from mass-producing this is the fact that other people have already caught on to it, and I often find the trade broker on my server devoid of leather/fluxes.  It still doesn’t stop me from tailoring 5-10 of these a day.  The most time consuming part is making the Strong Rawhide into Strong Leather, which I usually do in bulk before I go to bed as it takes a few hours when you do a large quantity.

That about wraps up this tip for making some easy Kinah, but to be honest, the best way to make alot of Kinah is to just level up.  At level 41 as a ranger class I can make roughly 150-250k an hour soloing the elites in Lepharist Citadel in Eltenen, but that’s another story for a later time.

I haven’t quite caught up to 8 Million Kinah like the guy posting the Kinah Guide here, nor have I bought one of these guides yet.  Anyone know if its even worth it when making gold in Aion is soo easy?

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This one is easy enough to do, and starts in Heiron with the quest ‘Suspicious Shugo‘, which sends you on a quest to find a Shugo by the name of Roikinerk.  This Shugo though wanders around quite a bit, and throughout Heiron so tracking him down is probably the hardest part since he literally travels throughout the whole zone (Basically the Rexxar of Aion).

Once you do find him, Roikinerk gives you a quest called ‘Price of Goodwill‘.  He then stuffs your head in a bag, and you wake up aboard the Steel Rake in a prison cell.  Getting out is pretty easy, as you just talk to the npc next to you, and grab the port scroll that’s in his bag.  The teleport scroll conveniently places you onto the Black Cloud Island in the upper abyss to talk to an npc, who then sends you over to the Sanctum Outer Dock area to finish the quest.  Once that’s done, and completed, you’re now able to get onto the Steel Rake.

The Steel Rake instance entrance is the NPC right next to the shugo ship after you complete the quest on the Outer Dock of Sanctum.

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Daevonian Quests
At level 30 I recommend you do this quest as you basically get a piece of the set of blue gear for 97k Kinah.

Note:You need 5 level 30 alts to make the full set which then opens up the quest to make the blue weapon. Its not worth it unless you really like making alts.

A Meeting With A Sage Walkthrough

1. Talk to Heimdall Pandemonium
2. Talk to Utgar in  Morheim
3. Talk to Brakan in Pandemonium
4. Buy a Divine Lamp - (97,000 Kinah) from Olda or Gerad in Pandemonium
5. Talk to Kanensa in Pandemonium
6. Get 4000 DP (full bar)
7. Talk to Kanensa in Pandemonium Again
8. Select one of the 5 items for your class to choose from
   • Wise Cloth
   • Mercy Chain
   • Flash Leather
   • Courage Plate

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The attunement quest for Elyos players is fairly simple, all you need is an item drop called Fire Temple Key.  Sound simple enough?  Well it is, unless you are really unlucky with item drops.  Basically you head down to Kyola Temple in Eltenen (Around Here on Map), and start grinding on certain mobs.  At night the Raging Obscura drop the Fire Temple Key, and during the day time you can head into the Kyola Temple to kill Shadow Obscura, and Chaotic Temptress, all of which drop the key.  Please note that these mobs are 33-35, and do link so I would recommend a partner if you have trouble killing them by yourself. (note:you need to be level 30 to accept the quest, but you can be below level 30 to get the key)

Basically after much farming (if you’re unlucky), and you finally get a hold of one of these keys.  Right click the key in your inventory to start The Fire Temple Key quest.  Which sounds soo very generic, and non-epic sounding, which is exactly what the quest is.  You walk a whole 100 meters to the npc standing right outside of Kyola Temple, and turn it in.  Pretty simple, and now you are ready for the level 30-38 grind fest in the temple to hopefully get one of those orange drops off of Kromede.  I wouldn’t get too excited though, the game isn’t like WoW in which it always drops loot.  Most times you’ll drop just Kinah, or sometimes nothing at all.

The main boss of the instance is called Kromede, and she has two forms that she can appear in.  The normal one is Kromede the Corrupt, and the second rarer variant is The Vile Judge Kromede. (the later seems to have a slightly higher drop rate on orange quality gear).

Other than the main boss, the instance has up to 6 other bosses at a random spawn rate.

There are:

Silver-Bladed Rotan (purple path is always up)

Tough Sipus (Right Teal dot) (Drops Sipus’s Shield)

Broken Wing (Left Teal dot)

Flame Branch Levi (Left Yellow Dot)

Name ghost miniboss (Right Yellow Dot)

Lava Gatneri (Right Red Dot)

Malgolem (Left Red Dot)

The Green Dot on the Bottom of the map is the quest NPC for Hannet’s Quest ([Spy] Finding Denlavis). Which will eventually give you a Blue level 32 weapon via the quest (Hannet’s Vengeance). Its worth doing this quest as early as possible as even at level 38 my ranger still uses Hannet’s Longbow, which is one of the quest rewards you can get from it.

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Level 30 is a pretty big deal in Aion, especially if you picked up the collector’s edition Aion package.  However its also one of the first levels that gives you access to your first piece of quested blue gear with little to no effort.  However to get the full set of this you’ll have to put in quite a bit of game time, however the set bonuses are pretty wicked.  The particular quest I’m talking about is the Daeva Armor quest, the first of which starts at level 30 in Aion. Its pretty simple, but here’s a quick walkthrough on how to get your Daeva armor.

This is for the Elyos version, I made an Asmodian Level 30 Daeva Armor quest walkthrough since there wasn’t too much info regarding it posted anywhere.

Daevonian Quests
At level 30 I recommend you do this quest as you basically get a piece of the set of blue gear for 97k Kinah.

Note:You need 5 level 30 alts to make the full set which then opens up the quest to make the weapon. Its not worth it unless you really like making alts.

A Meeting With A Sage Walkthrough

1. Talk to Leah Sanctum
2. Talk to Tumblusen Eltenen Observatory
3. Talk to Paorunerk in Sanctum Outer Docks
4. Buy a Divine Lamp - (97,000 Kinah) from Ophenes in Sanctum
5. Talk to Fermina in Sanctum
6. Meet your Class Preceptors(Trainer) in Sanctum
7. Talk to Fermina in Sanctum again
8. Get 4000 DP (full bar)
9. Select one of the 5 items for your class to choose from
   • Wise Cloth
   • Mercy Chain
   • Flash Leather
   • Courage Plate

Once this is done a new quest appears, but this one can only be done if you hold 5 pieces of Daeva armor. (ie: done the quest on 5 different characters on one account).

http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/aion/A+Sage%E2%80%B2s+Gift

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