These fail-proof Fabled and Eternal Felicitous Socketing supplements will be on sale beginning Wednesday, September 28, in the NCsoft store. They’re only available from September 28 through October 11, and will be removed from the store during billing maintenance on October 12. On September 28th, players will have a choice of two Fabled or two Eternal Felicitous Socketing Supplements in an in-game survey.

 

Prices:

• 3 Fabled Felicitous Socketing Supplements for $9.99
• 1 Fabled Felicitous Socketing Supplement for $3.99
• 3 Eternal Felicitous Socketing Supplements for $11.99
• 1 Eternal Felicitous Socketing Supplement for $4.99

To celebrate the anniversary of Aion’s launch in North America and Europe, the Aion Production Team has come up with a host of events to commemorate the occasion from September 22nd, 2011 to October 1st, 2011! A 10 day Reactivation Celebration, beginning at 8:00 AM PDT on Thursday, September 22, 2011 and running until 8:00 AM PDT on Sunday, October 2nd, 2011.

 

During the Reactivation Celebration players will also enjoy:

• The ‘For War and Glory’ AP Event, which increases the amount of AP gained from defeating monsters in the Abyss and Silentera Canyon, and reduces the amount of AP lost from dying in Player versus Player combat in the Abyss and Silentera Canyon (9/21 – 9/28)!
• The ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ Rifting Event, which removes the defensive buffs in Heiron and Beluslan (9/28 – 10/5)!
• The ‘Increased XP Event’, which increases the amount of experience players gain from slaying monsters (9/21 – 10/5)!
• The ‘Increased Drop Rates Event’, which increases the drop rates of loot from all monsters, including Boss Monsters and Named Monsters (9/21 – 10/5)!
• The ‘Picking Up the Past’ Community Event! Researchers from Elysea and Asmodae have undertaken a bold new project—cataloguing Atreia’s history in a new Natural History Museum! Collect Fossils by defeating monsters and bosses, and trade those Fossils in for clothing, medals, and gift boxes (9/7 – 10/5)!
• The ‘Ascension Festival’ Anniversary Event! During this time each year, all of Atreia gathers to remember the ascension of the first human Daevas, and to praise Aion’s blessings. Collect Ascension Energy while adventuring throughout Atreia, and trade it in for costumes, hats, and gift boxes (9/21 – 10/26)!

 

Item Giveaways:

 

Date	Day	Item Reward(s)
September 22nd, 2011	Thursday	Inquin Pet x1
September 23rd, 2011	Friday	Ascension Energy x50
September 24th, 2011	Saturday	15-Day Recovery Serum x1
September 25th, 2011	Sunday	Enchantment Stone Box x3
September 26th, 2011	Monday	Major Ancient Crown x3
September 27th, 2011	Tuesday	[Mystery Item] !
September 28th, 2011	Wednesday	Felicitous Socketing x2
September 29th, 2011	Thursday	Manastone Bundle x3
September 30th, 2011	Friday	[Emotion Card] Hug Me
October 1st, 2011	Saturday	30-Day Title (4% Attack Speed, 4% Cast Speed, 4% Speed)
October 2nd, 2011	Sunday	Major Ancient Crown x3 Enchantment Stone Box x1 Choose One: –          Platinum Medal x5 –          Gold Medal x10 –          Silver Medal x10

 
For more information about these events visit the Aion 2nd Anniversary page on the Game Guide.

Aion team will be bringing the Aion servers down on 14/09/2011 at 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST for maintenance. The maintenance is estimated to take no longer than 3 hours.
 

There are many exciting events taking place over the next few weeks:

• September 07 – October 05: Picking up the Past Event
• September 14 – September 21: “Behind Enemy Lines” Recurring Rifting Event!
• September 14 – September 21: Atreian Artisan Expo! Crafting Event

 
The Aion website will also be serviced and therefore remain inaccessible during the maintenance.

 
There is an interesting article on Aion Source discussing the effects of the cash shop on the game that already has a subscription like Aion does. This has been a hot topic ever since the cash shop was announced. As long as items you can purchase in the shop will not give a clear advantage over other players (ie. the items bought are of cosmetic nature or there are similar items available in-game) people were pretty much OK with it. Recently more and more items are appearing in the shop, auto looting warg pet being the latest.
 
It appears now that the next item that will appear in the shop is a socketing supplement that will help you socket a manastone with 100% chance of success. As most of you know the manastone system is very unnerving with its chance of failure. Those that are willing to give some real life cash will be spared the suffering of a failed manastone socketing attempt. You can read Aion Nyx’s announcement of this on Aion Source forums. Here’s a snippet:

Yes, it is true that we will be running a promotion in late September to sell the supplements. These items are already sold in Korea on their store, and I believe there may be some other territories already selling them as well. They were designed by Korea specifically to be a cash item.

They will be offered on a limited time basis, and then we will evaluate whether they are items that we want to offer permanently based on player feedback and sales. Since we are having a positive, happy thread currently let’s not start the discussion of whether these are appropriate to be sold in this thread. If you want to express opinions either for or against that, I request that you not use the vet rewards thread for that debate.