Aion Group Roles

So I've been playing Aion for quite a bit this holiday and currently lvl 37. Im at a stage where there are many instances and group quests to do. After experiencing many of these group activities, I found that not many people are clear on what their class role is so Im just gonna mention some simple advices.

Templar



Your role is to tank. That is it. It may sound simple but there are so many tanks who fails to do this. The purpose of tanking is to let the mob attack you, yes you, not anyone else. It should be on you during the entire fight. Naturally the mob tends to go for healers or major dps class. This means you gotta constant taunt and use aggro skills, do not try to use your dps skills instead of an aggro skill, that is not your job. I've seen many tanks who did their dps skill which made the mob switch aggro to the healer and the result is entire party dead... If somehow the mob resist all your aggro skill and is running towards someone else, physically pull it back or stun it! Do not let the monsters touch anyone but you.

Sorcerer



Your role is to cc (crowd control). Again this sounds simple yet a lot of parties die due to sorc not doing it's job. CC does not mean sleep the mob beside the one the group is attacking at the start... it means that mob should be CONSTANTLY slept/rooted/treed (lol treed XD) until the other mob dies and the tank can now tank this one. The group will be happy if you just stood there and not do any dmg but kept the other mob under control. Many sorcs just wants to dps their heart out and forgets to cc, the result will be the other mob goes to attack the healer and the healer dies.

Cleric



Your role is to heal. Most who plays this class understands their role perfectly in a group. Just watch the hp bars on the side of the screen and click heal if someone's hp drops. However there are still some who thinks they're sorcs and nukes at the mobs... then when the tank hp is left with 1/4 they start healing it up. Well unless you know exactly when the mob will crit or do a magic skill that might finish the tank off, I dont recommend you doing this... If you really wanna help in dps, then summon your Holy Servant, he's your servant, let him do the nuking.

Chanter



Im a chanter myself, since chanter is the official supporting class in Aion, we have several roles. First is mantras, look at who is in your group, if you got like 2 rangers obviously it would be beneficial if you put up attack or crit mantras. If you got 2 sorcs then magic mantra would be the choice here. Do not put up mantras that you would use normally when you are soloing since you are neither the best dps nor the best healer therefore you should always think how can i make my GROUP better. You can always adjust your mantras in different occasions, if the sorc and cleric wants to rest then put up the mana mantra, helps them recover faster, time is $$. If the tank died and we should all run away, put up the speed mantra. Our second role would be healing, if you are the only healer in your group then you should be constantly healing, never dps and heal at the same time. Since we only got one major heal (which requires casting time) and hot(healing over time), it is hard to recover the tank's hp if it is too low. One heal is almost equal to one hit from the mobs in these group required areas. Even if you have a cleric in your group, it is still wise to watch for everyone's hp just incase the cleric lagged or is getting attacked, do not always rely on the cleric. Last role would be dps, just wack and spam skills and hope for knockdowns lol.

Malaysia 4

Malaysia 3

The world's tallet flag pole

Chocolate castle :D

Malaysia 2

Malaysia 1

Ok so last week I went to Malaysia for 6 days since I did too much stuff there I wont be writing everything, just gonna show pictures, a picture is worth 1000 words XD


Our hotel


We lived on houses above the beach


The local fruit store


Had to wear a robe to enter a temple because I was wearing shorts


Some significant place


Outside the temple, girls had to wear the robe at all cost due to religion factor


The temple again

Avatar

Few days before I went to Malaysia, I went up to Taipei, there I went to watch Avatar 3D. The 3d glasses that we receieved werent those cheap paper ones but actual glasses. They were quite heavy, I had to hold mine up with my hand during the entire movie.

The words to describe Avatar are visually stunning. Not because I had the 3d glasses on, I tried taking it off for a while and watched it. To be honest, Im not sure if the 3d was worth it. During the entire movie, the only thing 3d was the chinese subtitles in my opinion lol... Anyway the computer render made the characters looked real, I dont mean it looked like they were people in costumes. Avatar's graphics is smooth, natural and defined. The amount of details in the 3d rendering was amazing. I hope that one day Aion can achieve that kind of graphics ^-^ But seriously, when it was night time in the movie, it kept reminding of Asmodian land in Aion.



The plot was kind of predictable which disappointed me a little bit. It was a classic case of white people invading native land and it's people for resources then they start having a battle. I was watching a Taiwan political channel on tv 2 days ago and their topic of debate was Avatar. I was like how is Avatar related to politics?? So I watched a little bit. They talked about how advanced the Avatar graphics was and how Taiwan can compete with it. They suggested that Taiwan and China should join together and produce something with Avatar's standards but better storyline to compete in the global movie industry. I thought that point was nicely made then the rest they said was just bs so I stopped watching. A thing about tw is that anything can be turned into politics, it's crazy lol...
Nevertheless Avatar is a film which made a breakthrough in 3d render movies. Which means that in the future we can hope to see better and realistic 3d movies.

Clannad Review

There will be many updates coming due to my long absence. At the moment I am trying to finish what I started 2 weeks ago hence the big article time gap but connecting story.

Anyway moving on, I finished watching the entire Clannad anime. My rating for it is 9/10 . Highly recommended and it has moved up to be one of my favourite anime. There are two main reasons why I like this anime. First, the story, Clannad's story is nothing fancy, just things which happens in school and everyday life. Yet the stories for each character have so much meanings within them. Since the stories are something we can relate to easily, like looking after siblings or helping friends at school, they are really easy to understand and enjoyable to watch. The second reason is emotion, as I mentioned last time. This anime is very emotional, laughter, tears, embarrassment, disgusted, its all in there.



The music for this anime is good overall. The background music corresponds with the story well and the openings and endings are nice. Just depends if you like them or not, I quite like them, except for the dango song lol, a bit plain. The graphics and drawings are really nicely done, I really like how they draw the settings, looks realistic for an anime. I find the scenes are colourful, nice to watch. The only thing I have against Clannad is the characters are too cute but then again if they werent that cute, they probably wouldnt be able to pull off some of the cute stuff they did.


My favourite character, the blonde guy Sunohara Youhei!

I liked season 1 better than season 2, simply because it was funnier not because season 2 was boring or anything. I enjoy comedy above all else. I dont like writing plots I give reviews because I dont like to accidently spoil it for some people. Like saying during this bit, I felt sad, during that part, it sucked. That is why my reviews might seem a bit short.