The world of Atlantica Online MMORPG features real world locations in an alternate world where they are blended with mythological and fantasy elements. But don’t take it literally as the cities are often geographically out of place and heavily altered apparently to makes the game more interesting.  The important thing is you can feel at home in one of those countries you live in or relate with other countries you have been before.  From time to time, we’ll be featuring different countries with its towns, cities, dungeons, and interesting stuffs we can find in them.

My Atlantica guild master “Jaanus”, from France in real life, has shared these photos taken from lush tropical country of the Philippines. Check out the breathtaking screenshots from Manila and Davao after the jump.

Manila: The capital city

Most of the civilizations represented are in different time periods. Southeast Asia resembles ancient Indian kingdoms before Western colonization and Islamic influence, so you won’t expect Spanish influenced structures in the town of Manila. But those on stilt wooded houses floating on the water are common in shanty town side of Manila and a common structures in Bajau village located at Muslim Mindanao region.

Davao: The crown jewel city

Oh wait, do I see dead skulls? Am I in Davao city or in Skull Island? I’m wondering what monsters lurks outside the town, King Kong?

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Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. If you have already read our tips on “How to Use Market to Make Gold” and “How to use Trade Post to Make Money“, you are not yet half-way of the the knowledge in the complex world of Atlantica. There are other more alternative quest and hidden side-quest that will help you save money and be rich in a short period, as well as these quests are very enjoyable and rewarding while accomplishing it. This good to know tips is created by Xhaiden for My Atlantica Online Forums. Read on the “Good to know tips” article after the jump.

This guide is based on the experiences of Xhaiden and you have to respect whatever suggestion or opinion he has. You have a freedom to follow the step by step guide or create your own trade implementation. The choice is yours! If you find anything offensive or mistake in his guide, you can contact him directly via this link.

Table of contents:

*Chapter I: The Grand Father of all Knowledge* (lvl 20 -> lvl 120)

*Chapter II: Treasure Hunt* (lvl 20 -> lvl 120)

*Chapter 3: Special Rings and Quest Resetting * (lvl 20 -> lvl 120)

********************Introduction********************

With this guide, I’d like to share some tips, that nobody shared with me yet they are essential and could make your AO experience more enjoyable. Ok – “more” is just a small therm, cause honestly “IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE (Especially for the F2P users)“. Why for F2P users (you might ask)? Cause, if your real life budget is unlimited (hardcore spender), or you stoled your mommy’s Credit Card – then Item Mall is your friend. And basically, you don’t need a guide regarding in game money tips, you just get some stuff from Item Mall and sell it at insane prices (similar to rarest lvl 100+ Drops like Stormbringer or Shotgun). You can even pay somebody to play in your place and take all the glory in the end. Well, there’s an old saying: money makes the world go round – but this guide is not about that. So let’s do this… I mean, I’ll do this and you just sit back and enjoy your reading, I’ll even trow in some Pictures/Screenshots to make it more interesting and easy to understand…

*******Chapter I: The Grand Father of all Knowledge******

AO is a very complex game, but has a nice and well put together “in game tutorial”, so I’ll skip the basics. Normally, you could start your financial evolution at lvl 20, that’s when you have the option to “Go to Rome (teleport)“. And that option is free, cause the rest cost money, especially Teleportation License – so “DON’T WASTE the free samples you get at the beginning of the game“. Might be more useful later in the game, when teleporting from town to town is the only cheap alternative.

<- Click on Image to enlarge and “Follow the finger!”

As mentioned before, you could – but It’s not recommended. At that lvl you should learn more about the game, have some fun with your first quests and don’t waste your money on junk, cause you need money to make money. And with the profit you get from those, you can get better junk and have a lot to spare for making more.

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You’ll understand this later…

When you get to the first 500.000 you should be ready. The next step needs a few hours but, will save you days if not weeks and it’s essential for many things. So you’ll have to do it and it’s better early in the game then later. Basically all you have to do, is – “TRAVEL TO ALL TOWNS“. Whenever you enter a town, it will be added to your Travel Agency: Town list. So, next time you need to get to a place near a town, just “teleport” using Travel Agency.

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I know this is part of the basics, but you need to do it faster and it’s very important for next step. Which is “Goncourt” … Who is Goncourt (you might ask)? Well, he’s the Grand Father of all Knowledge. A NPC that can exchange your 5k worth book, with one that costs 50 millions. It’s true that those are pretty rare (like War Cry [ADV] – a Spartan skill/class B mercenary) and that’s why they’re so expensive, but who knows – the next lucky guy, could be “YOU”.

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=This books are so special, cause they’re MERCENARY SKILL BOOKS=
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You don’t need to set your hopes to high, cause from a limit of 300 -> 400 Boxes/Books per day (the number of boxes you can open and books to exchange is limited but resets every 24 hours), you have a pretty high chance to find some that might worth 100k -> 50 mil. It costs 1k to exchange a book, so that’s why I said you’ll need some money at first. And don’t worry – unless you’re the most unluckiest man alive… so unlucky that can even find 1 million worth books, from all those exchanges (which never happened to me – and I don’t consider myself a lucky guy).

Ok, let’s get back to town teleportation and why do you need it. Well, Goncourt as most NPC’s that can teach you some crafting “IS ALWAYS ON THE MOVE” – as the game puts it. He travels from town to town, but traveling so much gets him pretty tired, so he has to rest in some (10 seconds to 6 hours or something like that). But if his traveling all the time, how do you know in which town you can find him (you might ask)? Well there’s another NPC called Livingstone which can tell you the location of every wondering NPC. And don’t worry, this one is not going anywhere:

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Near Bucharest – just follow the finger! or Go to Bucharest and check Game info -> Livingstone -> Auto -Move!

Now that I know he’s in Amsterdam, I’ll just get to the nearest city and teleport there with Travel Agency (that’s why you need to travel to all cities as mentioned above). Now let’s go beyond – I’m sure you got the idea by now, so next, I’ll share with you the fastest way to exchange books. But this is recommended for advanced users only. By advanced, I mean you have to know the prices of all books, cause if you don’t, you might exchange a good one (you can learn their prices by checking them, on town Market in same place as Travel Agency). This might take some time at first, but you’ll get used to it no time.

So here is what I do… First i clear the inventory of one mercenary, cause that’s where I’ll be changing my books… Oh… darn… wile I was writing this, Goncourt started his traveling for next town, which is not that far from Amsterdam so I’ll wait him there (just teleported there). Since this happened, I guess it would be nice to advise you, to exchange books only wile his in town, cause that way you can check their prices on the spot. Advanced users, the so called disciples of Goncourt, exchange their books wile traveling. But that takes more time and always get interrupted when his to far from you (cause you STOP wile exchanging but he keeps going like the Bunny from the Duracell commercial).

And I’m on him as I type the next line. So presuming you cleared the space from one mercenary. You’ll need to buy 10 books (5k ones) and put it in that place. Then click on Goncourt and start exchanging from HIS MENU. After exchanging the first book you’ll have a Book Box (i’ll tell you more about that after this). So right click on that box to open it, then wile it starts the random book cycle, click on next books to exchange it. So basically you’ll do two things, almost in the same time (Open -> Exchange -> Open -> Exchange). Presuming you already know their prices, you’ll stop just when you spot a good one.

I did mentioned something about boxes above. Well, Goncourt won’t exchange your Book for another in similar state. It will give you a Book Box, which spawn a random book when opened. And there are 3 types of boxes, in 3 different colors (Blue, Brown and Grey). Each color represents the book/skill lvl as shown in next screenshots:

= lvl 1 -> lvl 20 Random skill [BEG]

= Lvl 21 -> lvl 40 Random skill [INT]

= lvl 41 -> lvl 60 Random skill [ADV]

Of course the most expensive books can be found in the Grey boxes. But that doesn’t mean you should neglect the Blue Boxes, cause even they hold some rare books like War Cry which costs about 8 millions on market. Maybe I should show you one, so you don’t exchange it by accident (it happened to once in my early days..):

- HOLD ON TO THIS ONE CAUSE IT’S A KEEEPPEERRR! (at least until you sell it…) And that’s the [BEG] one, the next([INT]) looks the same, as in similar design but has a heavier look. Even the [ADV] model has a similar design, but it’s so heavy that they had to put a lock on it:

- this one will suck all the luck out of you. So when or if you find it, do the Mambo dance and don’t try anything that’s based on luck that day, cause your luck tank is on empty.

What else can I say about Goncourt… Well, I’m lvl 98 and I still use him as a source of profit, among others available at my lvl. So yeah, he’s that good, both for late and earlier game. You’ll see even top players like 110+ doing Goncourt. When he enters a town, that place gets full in no time, even that should say something. And this is what I got wile making this guide:

- I always sell them at lowest price, so the above cost about 20 millions. All this in 30 minutes and “NO Risk Involved“. It’s not always like this, sometimes I get books that cost only 2 mill (all of them). But for a low level even those help, and maybe next day will be more lucky.

Anyway I hope you got the Idea: “Travel to All towns ->Bucharest/Livingstone -> Find Goncourt -> Travel to that town -> Exchange as described above…”

***************Chapter II: Treasure Hunt**************

“Old McDonald had a farm… Ee i ee i o… – most of you know this song, if you don’t just click on that link. But what you don’t know, is that Old McDonald got tired of his farm, so he sold it and became a pirate. And he was so good, that he manage to keep his identity secret, yet he plundered more treasures then all the pirates put together. Maybe you know him by his alias which is Davy Jones – yep, he was so scary that he became a myth.

But he did have a heart in the end and left his legacy (the location of all his treasures) to his children. But there was a catch, he wanted to be sure that his children won’t become pirates like him… So, to inherit his legacy they had to fallow his old dream, which was his animal farm. So they did… in a way… But as you all know “McDonald’s” they got more wicked then Davy Jones itself and the worst part – they’re not a myth. They turned that farm in a slaughter factory, the biggest one on our planet…

But lets go beyond those wicked minds and back to his treasures. In current time you can see McDonald’s huge line of restaurants on those locations (on the place he buried his treasure) but back then in AO times, there was nothing constructed on those spots. And that brings us to the next part of our story. As mentioned before, his children had to follow his old dream regarding his animal farm, to inherit his legacy. But one of them, a girl named “Anne Bonny”, felled in love with the sea and the pirate life so she fallowed her own dreams. She also had the mind of a fox, so she made copies of all those treasure maps and that brings us back to our guide regarding “Treasure hunt“…

You can find this “Treasure Maps” on “Market” and they come in 3 flavors:

Old Treasure Map – lowest drops but their price is low as well. Teleportation License [MID] is the best you’ll get from those, which costs about 800k, followed by “2x Cultural Box” which can give you an historical item tradeable with a NPC called “Howard“. This one is traveling, just like Goncourt – so you’ll have to find him with “Livingstone” – as explained above. It-s true that this boxes can give you an cultural item that’s worth 20 mil. But there is a catch with this Items – sometimes Howard appraises them as FAKE – which worth nothing. So far, an statue worth 4 mill is best and the only expensive item I found. The thing is I did find other items that should cost millions, but they where all appraised as “Fakes” and that’s why I hate Howard the most. Most you’ll get is 200k – 300k worth items. But beware, this items can be traded only with Howard and they have expiration time of 24 hours.

Ornate Treasure Map – If you’re low level, then this is the one you should get. On Argos they cost about 8k – 10k but the items you find inside worth 50k -> 8 millions. Even here, Teleportation License (for 1 Day) is the best deal, but this license has no lvl limit so even lvl 120 players can use it. So might look very expensive for low levels but for the ones buying them, it’s a insignificant amount. I hear they added even better drops with some of the new patches, but I didn’t try them lately.

Ancient Golden City’s Treasure Map – this ones, might worth with some drops, but most times they don’t. They cost 4 mill and you could get 2 x Freezing Boxes, which come at a similar price, maybe even Divine or Phoenix. But so far I got 2 x Conquer Boxes from most, which cost 2 mil to get from market (both) or 5 x Volcano Valley Equipment Box which cost about 170k (each). So this is not a sure win or an affordable one…

Presuming, you got the maps let’s move to next step, or steps to be more precise. And this brings us back to my earlier advice about traveling to all towns. The things is – only the Old Treasure Map spawns in a nearby location. The others two (Ornate Treasure Map and Ancient Golden City’s Treasure Map) spawn in a RANDOM LOCATION. And there are two more things yo should know:

1 – The time is limited. The box will spawn in 5 minutes and will only stay there for 1 minute.

2- Other people can get your treasure when it spawn. But for them is an lucky strike, cause only you have the knowledge regarding the location and the time it spawns. So take this advice as a warning.

On the other hand if you have traveled to all towns, as advised above, you can teleport to a nearby town and just get to that exact spot and wait for your treasure to spawn. That’s how I do it and nobody stole a treasure from me – NEVER!

I did miss some treasures, but that can only happen in North America. The things is, this is a huge map with only two towns on it, each on the opposite side of the map (Vancouver, New York). Now comes the irony – the treasures sometimes spawn, somewhere in the middle. And it’s a bumpy ride… so yeah, it can happen.

To make things more interesting, I’ll show you the steps with some screenshots I made:

Open your Treasure Map…

Then Open the normal map and select the location displayed in first screenshot. In this case it’s Northeast Asia.

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Now that you opened the location, described in first screenshot, you can see your treasure location. just go to nearest town (in this case – Beijing). From there follow the road to your treasure. Then wait for it to spawn in the exact location as shown with axis (X/Y) in first screenshot.

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And here it is, just attack it as you do with normal mobs.

Attack…

Loot.. and that’s about all there is to it. Simple, right?

We should thank “Anne Bonny” for making this copies. You can do that personally, when you’re 100+. You can recruit her as a Mercenary in your group, but it’s not gonna be easy. Especially since you need daddy’s heart (and his a big Daddy like lvl 110 big) and powerful guild/nation to get it.

Chapter 3: Special Rings and Quest Resetting

In AO we have 2 types of special rings (so far). What’s so special about them? Well, they can only be use by your main character and have the best stats compared to the rest.

The first one is available at lvl 50, By now you should be aware by the basic functions of this game, like finding NPC’s (Game info -> NPCs). So, use that function and look for Shah Jahan. From him you can get that special quest, with a special prize. And here’s what you need for this quest:

-30 Multi-Hued Crystal Shards
-10 friends in your list
-a party (cause this are not normal mobs)
-Answer: Taj Mahal

As for the rings, that box acts as Asura’s Equipment Box which means you can pick a ring at your choice from 7 rings. My recommendations go with:

For second one, you need to be lvl 80. Same as before, use NPC search function and find Menelaus. His requirements are even cheaper:

-5 Multi-Hued Jewel Shard
-10 friends in your list
-a party (cause this are not normal mobs)
Answer: Obelisk

Yet the items or even better, but guess that was expected since it’s higher lvl. But this time you might have two options:

Everyone’s favorite…

An alternative for Range – or you could combine it with the Spearmaster’s Ring. And that brings us to the next part: Quest Reset.

You can do that with Licenses, that or normally crafted by different users and can be found on Market -> License (unless you raised your License Crafting level high enough to craft them yourself). And this is what it looks like:

– The thing is, it can be opened as a normal book. To activate it, you’ll have to look for NPC Hui Chao. And since his a traveling NPC, only Livingstone can show his location (or a friend is he saw him by accident ). Since I need to do it my self, I’ll show you:

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There, by resetting that quest now you can do it again and wear two powerful rings as the ones above. Quest Resetting, is also a good way to raise your income. Especially with the second ring (the lvl 80 ones) which has a price of 16 mil + wile you only spend 2.5 – 3.2 mils on 5 Multi-Hued Jewel Shard and Secret of times: Necropolis (License). And trust me, they sell… especially by hardcore Item Mal spenders, who just got 1 billion from a mount they sold and feel like spending some. Then we have 110+ level users, which can make 20 mil real easy in a dungeon and don’t like to bother with a quest like Necropolis which takes more time, that they could spend better on other things.

Quest Resetting has two purposes:

-Raise Income
-Raise Experience/lvl

Either that, or you can buy some item mall cheats like Scroll of Judgment. But doesn’t come cheap and you can only raise the experience of one individual. Usually used on Monks/Oracle and Archers – cause they can’t grow as fast as others, the normal way.

Beyond lvl 98 ID (Individual Dungeons) and Guilds Dungeons are the way to go. But I’m now getting ahead of myself…

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As the last closed beta event ended last August 17, all eager hands are set for the game’s full release in September. The game enjoyed a major positive reaction from MMO players, switchers or newbies alike. If you  haven’t played in any of the past six beta events, then you don’t have that much idea about what Aion really is. Allow me to give you a quick rundown of the game’s major highlights and give you an idea what to expect from the game. (Arranged in no particular order). Read on the top 10 reasons why you should play Aion Online after the jump.

Background
Aion is an MMORPG developed by Korean company NCSoft. The game was first released in South Korea November last year, then followed by China on April of this year. It is set to be released in September to cater  European and North American audiences. Due to the success of NCSoft’s previous titles Lineage I and II, Aion has become the most anticipated game in South Korea ever since its announcement. At the end of 2008, it was  chosen as the “Best Korean Game of the Year” for its “epic scale, immersive story, and stunning graphics and sound design”. Now, it has become one of the most anticipated MMO titles for this year.

Story
The game’s story is set in the planet Atreia that was split in two due to the cataclysmic events involving the Tower of Eternity. Long ago, the god Aion, ruler of Atreia created the powerful dragonic Draken race to protect  the humans. Time passed and the Draken started to rebel against him, prompting him to create 12 Empyrean Lords. These powerful protectors erected a barrier to protect the humans from the Draken, which are later known as the Balaur. Humans later learned how to harness the power of aether, which enabled them to become Daevas – winged beings under the leadership of the Empyrean lords. Ten of these lords gathered an army of  Daevas against the Balaur while the other two remained to serve as guardians of the Tower of Eternity – the embodiment of the god Aion.

After a failed attempted peace talk initiated by the Tower Guardians, the Balaur invited inside the tower launched an attack, prompting the guardians to sacrifice themselves – severing the world into two. Then born the two selectable races in the game. The Elyos, pure angelic beings resided in the lower half of the world. The abundance of light gave birth to lustrous vegetation and majestic landscapes. Asmodians reside in the harsher yet alluring upper part of the world. Exposed to the tower fragments and the dark, freezing world, Asmodians evolved talons as feet, darker complexion and red eyes t adapt their unfriendly environment.

1.  Engaging atmosphere, beautiful imaginative environment.
Aion features a sublime, ethereal fantasy world, blending Eastern and Western cultures. It is as if you’re in a breathing, living concept art. As you traverse the vast world of the game, you’re sure to find eye-catching
landscapes, exotic flora and fauna, interesting landmarks and beautifully rendered locations. The weather and time of the day changes realistically, immersing players in the world. Players may also change perspectives at a roll of their mouse scrollers. You can zoom out for a full, third-person view of your character or zoom in for a full first person view of your surroundings. You can even view NPCs, enemies and other objects up close in full  detail.  The game is built with CryEngine, and NCSoft sure know how to fully utilize its power and bring the very detailed, high quality world to life – without requiring high-end PC components. Players using mid-range cards  should be able to appreciate the wonderful world of Aion even in medium-low settings.

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2. Enhanced Character Customization
It is every player’s dream to create a unique character worthy of calling their own. Aion offers a powerful character customization tool that players can use to directly modify almost every aspect of their character. Aside from the presets, players can modify smaller details including the daunting yet rewarding task of facial reconstruction. Players can also define their characters’ heights – so don’t be surprised to see armored kids
running around with massive weapons strapped on their backs.

3. Partying Up Encouraged
You won’t be able to go far in Aion as a lone wolf, since some of the missions will require you to team up with other players, simply because the common mobs are just too powerful (even if they’re at the same level as you) or you’ll need to defeat insanely difficult bosses that requires several characters to take down. The party system of Aion is very effective and player-friendly that partying up with others never seemed to be a hassle. For example, players can share objectives and loot. If one quest requires them to kill a boss, it doesn’t matter who in the group kills lands the finishing blow to it; as long as all party members have the same objective, it will be completed or updated for everybody. Experience, kinah (game’s currency) and items are evenly distributed. Rare items are put up in an automatic dice roll, with the highest number declared the victor and the owner of the item. Besides, “elite” enemies drop high amounts of exp and loot, making party grinding a mutual benefit for everybody in a group. And with the variety of classes in the game, players will learn to take up their roles in the team and cooperate to win battles.

4. Characters have wings
Unlike in other games, wings in Aion are not just for display but for practical use as well. Though players can only fly on selected areas of the map, just find a slope or an elevated area and “glide” with your wings. This
provides an easier way of escape or faster way to travel. Later in the game, you’ll be introduced to aerial combat, where you need to fight other players and enemies while airborne. Flying (and gliding) in Aion is not long-lasting however as it consumes “Flight Time” (default is 60 seconds). It is replenished while on the ground. There are also some areas in the game where you need to fly to meet up certain NPCs and gatherables. Also later in the game, players can access more spectacular wings to attach to their characters, adding more eye candy to your beloved character.

5. Enhanced PvPvE (Player vs Player vs Environment)
Players can fight against other players in localized duels or even in larger scales of legions (the game’s version of guilds) against legions. Players can fight each other in massive battles taking place in the Abyss, the core of the broken world to capture fortress and take control of territories. Players can earn Abyss Points by killing players from another faction, killing the Balaur and other abyss NPCs, or doing some quests. These points accumulate and define the player’s Abyss Rank which unlocks more goodies and privileges – and of course, the boasting factor. These points can be also used for purchasing exclusive Abyss equipment to make your character even more menacing and powerful.

The presence of a third, CPU-controlled faction in the game, the Balaur will surely make things a lot more interesting and unpredictable as they can choose to aid any of the two player-controlled factions or better yet,
join the fray and fight both of them at the same time. Besides, fighting ground and aerial battles above floating rocks against an eerie, bottomless backdrop should be mighty interesting.

6. Ability to do business as you please
Gone were the days where you grind enemies, collect their loot and selling them to NPC merchants to earn much needed money to get those equipment you want or to at least have enough fare to travel to your
destination. In Aion, aside from being able to earn money the traditional way (selling drops, doing quests) you can also set up your own private store anywhere you please! You can sell anything and you can even set your own prices! For example, should you obtain a gear your character can’t use, you can opt to sell them yourself as they won’t sell that much from in-game merchants. You can even create your own items through the game’s extensive crafting / item creation system and make money out of them!

7. Extensive item creation system
The ability to craft your own items for personal or business use adds more depth in the already extensive game. There are six available crafts in the game (armorsmithing, cooking, handicrafting, tailoring, weaponsmithing and alchemy), each will benefit various character classes in the game. Like your character’s experience point system, each crafting skill starts at level 1 and will increase in level as you continue creating items through that “profession”. Increasing your profession/crafting level will also give you access to high level recipes and items, which can be sold at a much higher price. The crafting menus, mechanics and interface are user-friendly so expect to be an efficient crafter in no time!

8. Lots of story driven quests and worthwhile sidequests
Aside from the usual campaign quests, there are tons of sidequests worthy of investing time and effort to. Not only that they yield fair amounts of experience and item rewards, they also give you more chance to explore the areas that you won’t normally venture into otherwise. The campaign quests also includes full voice-acting short movies that will give you more ideas about your objectives and the world’s current conditions. As mentioned earlier, there are also quests that will require you to team up with other players to work on mutual interests and reap mutual benefits. Quests are categorized per recommended level and will also provide much of the necessary details to be completed. You can even locate key NPCs or areas in your map with just a few clicks. How helpful is that?

9. A good selection of character classes
Aion offers a very versatile set of playable character classes. Players start off with any of the four main classes. Once they’ve completed their “Ascension” quests in becoming a Daeva, they can then choose any of the eight subclasses available, two for each main class. Each class has their own strengths and weaknesses, as well as their own unique skill sets. This variety alone should cater the needs of all kinds players should they want to play as tanks, dps, nukers, healers and support casters.

10. More surprises that you should discover yourself!
I know that this is not a very logical reason but the first 9 features and their associated screenshots should give you more than enough idea on what Aion really is. The game’s main strong point probably is that it has all the basic features an MMO should have and even better. Aion is a unique league on its own, combining eastern and western cultures to spur the interest of the international market. The best of all? Aion’s party-based quests, legion management and strong PvP/ PvE content promotes one major aspect that is sometimes forgotten or ignored in online gaming: social interaction.

MMOs are terribly guilty of robbing people of their social lives in order to grind on their own and build their ultimate character. I won’t say Aion is free of such charges but getting involved with other people, even in your secondary, online “life” is one small yet effective step in maintaining your contact in the human world. Your adventures in Aion begin in North America on September 22, 2009 and will have its official launching in Europe starting September 25, 2009. So place your pre-orders now to enjoy some new pre-release events and privileges at http://www.aiononline.com.

References and image sources:
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Story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=5937742#Story
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2b: http://www.aionfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/aion-face-creation-sliders-600×375.jpg
4b: http://matteomazzali.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/aion-wings-front.jpg
5a: http://files.getdropbox.com/u/794129/Aion/linki/Aion0377.jpg
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Since the exciting information about the third expansion of World of Warcraft has been leaked out online, everybody has been religiously seeking for new details surrounding the events in Cataclysm. And the big question is how would the new world of Azeroth be look like after the “Great Sundering”. Thanks Hothgor of MMO-Champion for sharing a few photos that gives you clues on how the Azeroth were split up into different continents as well as a hidden easter egg in WOW game that will show you a rough sketch of the post-Azeroth. Find it out after a few break.

With the imminent announcement of World of Warcraft – Catacylsm, it only seems fitting that some attention is paid to the ‘clues’ already placed in the game.  Perhaps the most glaring example of what Azeroth will look like can be found in HoL and Ulduar.

This is the Eastern Kingdoms.  This area of the world does not seem to be affected very much by the events to come.

This is Kalimdor.  Notice how the entire central area of the continent has been devastated, presumably by the Cataclysm.  You can pick out Azshara fairly easily, as well as Winterspring, Teldrassil and the Azure/Bloodmyst Isles.  What is missing, however, seems to be The Barrens, Stonetalon Peaks, and PARTS of Dustwallow Marsh.  The big island on the right seems to be located approximately where Theramore is now, so perhaps Jania is safe…for now…

Of course, none of this is probably new to most of you guys, but in Ulduar, there is a ‘hidden’ easter egg/treat:

This is Azeroth.  No really, it is!  Take a look.  Its in the hallway leading to Algalon’s room.  You can see Azshara, Dun Morogh, Lake Lordamere and other important land marks.  Want a better view?

Once again you can clearly see ‘northern’ Azeroth.  Winterspring and Azshara are clearly visible from Kalimdor, Quel’Danas and Eversong Woods can also be seen, and Lake Lordamere is clearly visible.  In Northrend, you can clearly see Icecrown Glacier, and careful examination reveals the Caldera and Grizzly Hills.  Now from the other side…

You can easily see Ungoro, Tanaris, 1k Needles, and the Isle of Dread.  You can also barely make out the last portion of Durotar, and across the ocean you can see the edge of Dun Morogh and Stranglethorn Vale.

Now yes, I know the world is on its ’side’, but perhaps that is simply part of the story line.  Conspicuously absent is the Maelstrom…perhaps its ‘vanishing’ is a direct cause of the Cataclysm.  We will find out next week, hopefully!  In the meantime, I present to you the ‘corrected’ new world of Azeroth from WoW-Cataclysm:

Source: www.mmo-champion.com

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They said World of Warcraft is still the best looking MMORPG out there and the most notorious of throwing up surprises. After everyone were impressed with the second expansion Wrath of the Lich King, embrace yourself for the third expansion called “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm”.  If you are familiar with Warcraft history, Cataclysm refers to an epic event known as “the Great Sundering”, which split up the game world of Azeroth into several continents approximately 10,000 years ago at the end of the War of the Ancients. According to Boubouille of MMO-Champion, the leaked information hasn’t yet been officially announced by Blizzard however he assures everybody that the details he has gathered were not made up by mere fanboys but actually came from few reliable sources. Check out the brand new classes, races, and contents expected in the upcoming expansion after the jump.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the next expansion for World of Warcraft. Dark and forgotten threats that have long stayed out of sight have finally arrived on our shores, unleashing a cataclysmic event upon Azeroth and now preparing more nefarius plans to take it back.

Level Cap

The level cap in the next expansion will be slightly lower than expected this time around; 85.

This suggests Blizzard wants more room for expansions before hitting the level 100 cap. With less leveling to do (along with the revamped leveling listed below likely to increase the speed and ease of leveling), leveling a new race remains appealing for new and existing players alike.

Leveling from 80-85 should be a much bigger deal, the idea is to make sure that gaining a level really means something and doesn’t make you feel like you just have 4 more levels to go.

New Classes

Cataclysm doesn’t introduce any new classes to the game. Instead, Blizzard have offered more race and classes combinations to players. The Some of these have alreadly been datamined from the 3.2.2 Test Realms. The An Injured Colleague quest and it’s new Night Elf counter-part help to introduce the lore for these new race and class combinations, so we can probably expect to see more of these for some of the less traditional ones.

• Human Hunter
• Orc Mage
• Night Elf Mage
• Dwarf Mage
• Blood Elf Warrior
• Dwarf Shaman
• Undead Hunter
• Tauren Paladin
• Tauren Priest
• Gnome Priest
• Troll Druid

New Races
The events of the cataclysm has caused two new races to seek new allies. The Goblins for the Horde and the Worgen for the Alliance.

Goblins
Deathwing once again sought the services of the goblins, as slaves. Unable to refuse such an offer, the goblins were enslaved by him. A large group have resisted however. With their previous homes devastated by the cataclysm, they escaping to an island off the coast of The Barrens. As they strive to recover, they come across an Orc captured on an Alliance ship and rescue him. The Orc turns out to be none other than Thrall himself, and in return offers the Goblins a place within the Horde. These events are carried out in a quest line, allowing players to experience first-hand the reasons behind the Goblins’ shift from neutrality.

Worgen
The cataclysm has cracked open the Greymane Wall, finally revealing what has happened to the kingdom of Gilneas and its citizens. With the Worgen curse taken hold, they have found a partial cure, allowing thme to retain their Human minds even when transformed. Venturing forth from Gilneas and seeking help from the Alliance, they have decided to join them, to combat the new threats of Cataclysm.

Gilneas will make extensive use of the phasing system (much like the Death Knight starting area), to show what happened while the kingdom was cut off from the rest of the world and lead up to present day.

Worgens will have two forms, a Worgen form and a Human form. Players will be able to customise the look of both forms.

New Content
Cataclysm will be the first expansion not to introduce a new continent, instead making use of previously unreleased zones and revamping existing ones.

Classic Azeroth Revamp
A cataclysmic event caused by Deathwing and Azshara will change the face of Azeroth as we know it. Most of the new content for Cataclysm will take the form of a revamped Azeroth, taking advantage of newer additions to WoW such as phasing and daily quests. Most of the quests and mobs in the classic zones will also be redesigned to make leveling less painful. With the revamp, a greater narritive and sense progression will be offered to players. Some zones and dungeons will change drastically to fit this, e.g.,

• The Barrens will be split into two separate zones of two different level bands.
• Azshara will become a low level (~10-20) zone.
• Some of the zones like the Thousand Needles will be flooded.
• Durotar is wrecked and apparently Orgrimmar could be destroyed. A new Orc city is rebuilt over the course of the expansion.
• Gnomeregan will be part of the expansion as well and gnomes might be able to reclaim their capital. (The last part is still unconfirmed)
• Wailing Caverns will be become a lush tropical area as a result of the druid’s magic.
• The Blackrock Spire will erupt and a new version of Blackrock Mountains will be available, apparently Ragnaros will be back too.

In the aftermath of the cataclysm, and the new conflicts on the horizon relief efforts can be found in many zones and new open PvP areas similar to Lake Wintergrasp.

Flying in Azeroth
Part of the redesign of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor is the introduction of flying to the two continents, allowing access to many new areas and quicker travelling across the large continents.

Classic Dungeon Revamp
Redesigning Onyxia’s Lair in Patch 3.2.2 was just the first step. As most of the leveling will take place in revamped areas of Azeroth, so too will the dungeons, allowing players to use them to level from 80 to 85.

Unreleased Zones & Dungeons
With the addition of flying mounts to Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and the redesign of many zones, most of the previously unreachable or incomplete zones will now be made available to players. This is where most of the new content from 80 to 85 will take place. Some of these are,

• Hyjal (present)
• Gilneas – The Worgen starting Zone.
• Uldum

It is unclear if the old Goblin locations such as Kezan and Undermine will be included in Cataclyms with the revelation of the goblins’ plight, but several new islands have also been risen from the seas by the events of Cataclysm, some on the backs of giant sea turtles and whales, with the addition of several underwater zones.

Characters and Events

Deathwing
Deathwing the Destroyer / Neltharion the Earth-Warder will play a major role in Cataclysm. Having been driven mad by Old God whisperings and turning against his own kind only to be fail in his attempts, Deathwing has sunk into the shadows. While the Horde and the Alliance were busy fighting back the Burning Legion only to then be beset with the Scourge, he has been lurking and moving things into place. After Lady Sinestra’s failed attempts to create a Twilight Dragonflight, he again retreated to Grim Batol and succeeded where she failed. With his results seen in the Obsidian Sanctum, he has finally created the supreme Dragonflight he sought and plans to unleash it upon the world. But what of the Old Gods’ sway over him?

Azshara
Queen Azshara will also play a major part in Cataclysm. Unknown to many mortal races, long forgotten by others, and believe to be dead by her own kind, she has not been dormant in depths of the Maelstrom. Having those around her transformed by the Old Gods into Naga after her failure in the War of the Ancients, she has become far more powerful and a greater threat than she once was. Not content with just Nazjatar and the depths of the sea, Azshara seeks to reclaim power and reign once again. With the true plan behind Lady Vashj’s support of Illidan remaining a mystery we do not know what hand Azshara has yet played. The big question remains, is she now serving her “saviors”, the Old Gods?

The Cataclysm
I’m still not sure who is the true end boss of Cataclysm is, but the cataclysm appears to have been caused by attempts to incantation to summon extremely powerful beings using an ancient incantation by Deathwing and Azshara. They’re both very powerful, but the cataclysm itself suggests something more powerful is behind it, perhaps their shared past of Old God influence?

The Guardian of Tirisfal
Malfurion Stormrage will be returning to Azeroth to aid in the creation of the new Guardian of Tirisfal – Thrall! Med’an’s role in these events is currently unknown.

The New (New) Horde
Thrall will hand over the leadership of the Horde to Garrosh Hellscream, while he serves as a coordinator for both the Horde and Alliance forces in and effort to combat the new threat of the Naga and Black Dragonflight. Without Thrall to keep Garrosh in check, he declares open war on the Alliance. In the political upheaval Cairne Bloodhoof is implicated as a traitor to the Horde and murdered by Garrosh. Cairne’s son Baine takes over as the new Tauren chieftan. This could explain why Baine was removed from the game in Patch 3.2.2, you can find more information about this in Ahmo Thunderhorn – replacement for Baine Bloodhoof?

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The highly-anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) is coming to MAC this Fall 2009. The WAR is widely known with its next generation unique Realm vs. Real (RvR) gameplay and rich end game content. If you want to immerse yourself in the ongoing epic war laced with dark humor and a lot of orc talk, just follow the step by step download and installation instruction guide after the jump.

1.  Go to Warhammer Online Website and click Downloads. Check your minimum and recommended requirements below:

• Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
• Intel Core Duo Processor
• 2 Gigabyte RAM
• ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM
• At least 15 GB of hard drive space for installation.
• This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).
• Supported Video Cards
  • ATI Radeon(TM) series
  • X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600, 3870
  • ATI/AMD: HD 4850, HD 4870
  • NVIDIA GeForce series
  • 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800
  • NVidia: 9400, 9600, GT120, GT130
  • This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

2. When you think your MAC specs has passed the needed requirements, you can start downloading by clicking the Full Client Download or Trial Client Download as shown below.

You can also download the

• http://www.warhammeronline.com/mac/

3. After downloading the WarhammerOnline.app.zip, double-click the zip file. The Mac will expand it, give you a folder named “Warhammer Online” for the application.

4. Go to Applications, then click Warhammer Online icon to launch the Mythic Patcher as shown below

5. You must create an account first before you can proceed to download the required patch. If you have an existing WAR account for PC version and would like to play the Mac version, just enter your login and password to directly install the patch. Click on the Create Account to sign-up for a new account. Once the WAR sign-up page is loaded, enter the security text from the image to continue.

6. Enter your desired master account name, password, and your secret word hint, press continue to proceed

7. When you are done creating your account, you’ll be automatically logged in to your account management.

8. Go back to Mythic Patcher and enter your username and password to begin the patch process. Any patches needed will be automatically made through the launcher. Just make sure your have 7-10 gigabytes of space on your hard drive as the actual application size when I downloaded the full app +

9. Once updates has been downloaded and patch is completed. Press the big PLAY button to start the game. Congratulations, the WAR has begun!

WAR F.A.Q.s

A. Is there a mirror anywhere that’ll allow people to download the entire package? The patcher is going extremely slow.

I don’t know of a mirror, but I do know a way to shorten the download if you have a PC Warhammer install.

First off, I take no responsibility if this breaks something.

1. Download and install the Mac Warhammer Client
2. Run Warhammer long enough that it starts patching, then cancel.
3. Right click Warhammer Online, and choose “Show Package Contents”
4. Navigate to Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Warhammer Online
5. Copy the .myp files from your PC install to the folder you opened in step 4.  If your PC install is on your bootcamp partition, you should be able to copy the files normally.  If your PC is a separate machine, you will need to transfer them to the Mac via network file sharing, or via a USB drive.
6. Close the folder, then rerun the game.

If step 5 is problematic, you can also use the game DVDs.   The .myp files will be under the “data1″ or “data2″ folders on the discs.

For me, I have a fairly old install from February that I found on my Vista partition.  I copied it over, and now only have 1217MB worth of patching to complete on my home machine.

B. Is there anyway to get mods to work with the Mac Beta version?

1. Download your mode from, say, curse.com. You end up with a zip file. For example, StateOfRealmv5.1.zip, if you get the current version of State of the Realm.
2. Double-click the zip file. The Mac will expand it, give you a folder named for the add-on. For example, for SoR, the folder is named StateOfRealm.
3. Go to the directory containing your Warhammer client, right click on the client, and select “Show Package Contents”. That will open up a Finder window on the contents of the Warhammer client package. (Mac apps are actually stored as directories, not single files like Windows applications, but the Finder makes them look like single files to you. “Show Package Contents” basically lets you view the app as a directory).
4. In the package, navigate to Contents -> Resources -> transgamig -> c_drive -> Program Files -> Warhammer Online. That is the directory that corresponds to the Warhammer directory on a Windows installation of Warhammer. Under this you will find an “interface” directory, and in there an “AddOns” directory. Simply drag your add on folder (e.g., the “StateOfRealm” folder if you are installing SoR) into “AddOns”.

C. How to install add ons via Terminal window?

1. Open up a Terminal window.
2. Type this in the terminal window (without the quotes): “ln -s “. Do not hit return, and make sure you don’t miss that space after the s.
3. In a Finder window, open the Warhammer package, and navigate to the “Warhammer Online” folder.
4. Drag that folder and drop it on the terminal window. That will enter the full Unix path to the “Warhammer Online” folder in the terminal. The terminal Window will now look something like this, with the exact appearance depending on where you are keeping the Warhammer application. Mine’s in /Applications:  ln -s /Applications/Warhammer\ Online.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program\ Files/Warhammer\ Online
5. Type a space and some convenient name, that is not currently used for a file in your home directory, such as “war”, so the command you are about to enter looks something like this: ln -s /Applications/Warhammer\ Online.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program\ Files/Warhammer\ Online war
6. Hit enter. This will make a “symbolic link” named “war” in your home directory, that links to the Warhammer Online folder inside the package.

When you now want to add an add on, or copy in interface settings from Windows, you won’t have to monkey around opening the Warhammer application package and navigating deep down. Instead, just open your home folder, and then go to your “war” folder. You can put your add ons in the appropriate place in there. Same for copying in interface settings, or for getting out log files.

D.   How do I keep playing the Beta Trial after level 10?

To upgrade your trial account to the full version of the game by purchasing a copy of WAR from a retail partner, follow these simple steps:

1. Purchase a retail version of the game from any of our partners listed below.
2. Visit the Account Center, choose “Activate a Key”, and enter your retail Product Registration Code. A valid credit card or prepaid Game Time card is required.
3. Run the WAR trial client to automatically patch to the full version of the game.

The benefits of upgrading from a trial account to the full version of the game include:

• Full, unrestricted access to all content in the game.
• Full use of the Auction House and in-game mail.
• Access to all game servers, and free trial character transfers to another server.

Source: http://forums.warhammeronline.com

Once updates has been downloaded and patch is completed. Press the big START button then press OK button to exit the prompted window.

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Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. Just like in real life, money makes the world go round in Atlantica Market. Here’s a quick guide to easy gold from buy and sell of boxes, undercut pricing alternative, effective enchanting, and advance shaping the market. This comprehensive guide is created by Renderer for My Atlantica Online Forums. Read on the “Making A Comfortable Living In Atlantica Online” article after the jump.

This guide is based on the experiences of Renderer and you have to respect whatever suggestion or opinion he has. You have a freedom to follow the step by step guide or create your own trade implementation. The choice is yours! If you find anything offensive or mistake in his guide, you can contact him directly via this link.

A Practical and personal Guide to making serious gold.

I have a main that is around mid-80s level and an alt that is lower. I am a casual player and work full time, meaning I do not have countless hours to play each day. All together in my month and a half of playing I have made more than 7 billion (if not more). This guide will explain how I did it, and how you can replicate my success in fairly short time.

I am still low level because I am a casual player and do not care to race to the top in levels. I enjoy FL and going through all the quests solo. If you do race upwards fairly fast, this guide is not for you as it is very easy to make money at the high levels by just selling the loot.

To start with – I dislike the usual buy low and sell high explanations and “guides”. A lot of that involves huge amounts of time scouring the market for the deals, and dying of boredom in the meantime. That is not to say that I do not do that but that’s just a simple gift that is given to us and does not require much thought.

Alright, so, when I first started, I looked at the Market to see the most obvious ways to make money and equip my mercs in the best stuff for their level.

I – Boxes

It is quite clear from a cursory examination that many of the items from boxes sell for more than the cost of the box. I saved up some money (by selling loot) and bought a bunch of insect boxes at few k per. I saw that some of the items went for above 10k and resold those. Then I examined the next few tiers of boxes (bran, dark night, babylon) and by looking at the market prices found the tier that was profitable and one that wasn’t. Those box profitabilities change somewhat from time to time but bran and babylon were just fine to use.

After a week or so I graduated to the higher level boxes and examined Pyramid, Osiris, and Shogun. At that time Shogun was great but I was not making money all that fast until I hit on Volcano Valley. Think about it – I was buying those VV boxes for an average of 270k and over 75% of the items from them sold for higher, with a few items going for as high as a million. At this point my profit started hitting the multi-million mark.

Here is the problem that unfortunately stops many people from continuing. As we all know, the stuff coming from the boxes is random. What happens when you spend your hard earned 3 million gold on 12 Volcano Valley boxes and you get 5 spears, 4 cannons, and 3 swords all of which could at any particular time go for 200k or less? A lot of people throw their hands in the air and say – this crap is gambling and it’s not worth it – I give up.

DO NOT spend YOUR LAST MONEY on a few boxes. Yes 12 is still a few. To have decent odds at making profit your safety is in numbers. And make sure you leave some cash just in case. And also make sure you can afford some momentary setbacks without breaking down. Be patient. I do not consider myself lucky in any way whatsoever, but by buying 20-30-50 boxes at a time I made loads of money in a few days.

II – Selling

You might ask – how did you manage to sell all those items quick enough to get rid of all the boxes and progress to the next tier? The answer is I undercut others. Simple enough? Yes but not really. There is a way to undercut that works and that’s not going 1 or 10 gold under someone else. Perhaps it does work to some degree, but it pisses off enough people (since it happens to most of us) that many just buy the item of the person that is being undercut by that 1 or 10 gold. Don’t be cheap. Drop a decent amount. Maybe that is 2% for the high end items and 5-10% for the lower end. 1-10-100 gold undercutting is cheap and people get pissed off. I bought items that were being undercut by that amount myself and I can’t be the only one.

At the same time, do not undercut too much. It is stupid on multiple levels. First you are losing that much more potential profit, but second you are potentially devaluing the item for other people, and many others might further undercut you without realizing that the item is already low. When this happens, the item category becomes ripe for a takeover (See section V) and I might swoop in and just buy your stuff to resell for a tidy profit.

Some might say – by undercutting you are missing out on higher profit. That every time you take your item off the market to undercut someone who undercut you, you are wasting money. Also some might say that if you leave the item on the market long enough it will sell in a vast majority of cases (either through natural attrition of the price or through people needing large quantities of said item). That is true. But I will submit to you that time is a very important component of making profit.

The faster you can get rid of all your items for somewhat smaller profit (but not ridiculously low profit or loss, unless the item just sucks and then it is a justifiable loss), the faster you can put a new batch of items to sell for that same somewhat smaller profit. The sum of those slightly smaller profits will dwarf your larger time consuming profits.

III – Using Alts

By the time I got to Volcano boxes, I realized that the few item spots we get on the market are just too few and sell too slow no matter how much you undercut. Some weekdays especially. I created 2 alts, leveled them up to level 3, popped them into a Japanese city with a 1% market/bank rate (very important – don’t waste too much money on those fees), and sent 50 Volcano boxes to each of them. I then opened them all up and put them for sale.

Obviously you do not want to waste time constantly logging on to them to check on the items and undercut others, but once or twice a day check and reset can be plenty to add loads of extra income. If you have the time and are not too bored doing that, utilize your other character slots

IV – Enchanting

I will not get into enhancing in this guide. I don’t do it. Well maybe, but on a very small scale on equipment for my alt, when it is financially feasible and worthwhile to gamble on low level equipment. Instead I want to focus on enchanting as a great way of making money.

By the time I got to Conqueror’s and Frozen boxes, I realized that +2/+3 items are quite valued for FL purposes, sell quickly (much quicker than higher +), and maximize both your time and profit. We are talking about [Adv] enchanting. I do not recommend it for the [Int] stage for the Market – might be a waste of time.

Enchanting always works and there is a slight chance of actually getting a higher + enchant than the sum of the parts.

When you enchant items at the [Adv] level, they are quite often sold for the straight out multiplier of the cost of the parts. So if a Conqueror’s Heavy Armor is currently going for 2mil, then +2 Heavy Armor (composed of 4 +0 armors) often goes for 8mil. Why waste time selling these armors 1 by 1 when you can just enchant (200k cost or so) – and sell it quicker. Remember that somewhat smaller profit is better than the slow higher profit.

You would not believe the amount of +2/+3 Conqueror’s and Freezing armors and weapons that I’ve sold. Yes, I lost money on some of them, but on a majority the profit was in the millions. Especially the freezing/conq stuff like Boots, Gauntlets, Heavy Armors, Orbs, Swords, Shields, Axes, Staffs, and Helms.

And it’s very nice to once in a while to get that +2/+3 out of 2 +0 items. Others will envy you

V – Shaping the Market (advanced)

So you got loads of money by following my advice and are thinking of ways of making money even quicker. In the course of following the guide and selling all those items you will often be frustrated at frequent devaluation of the non-Heavy Melee items. For example you created a Light Freezing Armor +2 after buying the boxes at 2.2m, with enchant stones costing you about 9m, and after seeing most +0 LFMs going currently at 3m, you put your +2 Armor on the market for 12m. Nice and tidy potential profit of 3m. Ten hours later you glance at the market and notice that there are a bunch of +0 LFMs now on the market for 2m and a few +2s for 8m… They have severely undercut you and put your item into the loss category.

I am only using Light Freezing Armor as an example and not as an advice to do the following on, as item dynamics vary and various approaches work better depending on various variables – including not doing anything and just taking the loss in MOST CASES. You will make money on other items so don’t worry.

However, you notice that there are just 5 +0 LFMs on the market with costs ranging from 2m to 3.2m, then there are 2 +1 LFMs at 4.5m, and 2 +2 LFMs at 8m with your pathetic +2 LFM sitting out there at 12m, not looking likely to be sold. Doesn’t it just frustrate you? But you got a few 100mil in the banks and a profit-minded attitude

What can you do? Well, buy everything up and set your own prices! Control that market. There might be a few other +3 LFMs hanging out there with low prices – you can buy them too. Or if they are priced well, leave them there. Buy all the +0, +1, and +2s – the ones that are very undervalued. Take your own crap off the market. Enchant the +0s and +1s, put your +2 back on the market for 14-15m (not too crazy, some other items like Swords, Shields, Gauntlets, Boots can go for 20 at times), put one or two +0s on the market for 4m to justify the +2 price, save 1 or 2 +2 for when your item sells, and if you have too many of those, create 1 or 2 +3/+4 and put it up at a nice profit as well.

Now the entire category is controlled by you. I’ve bought out a 200+mil worth category of Freezing Heavy Armors and made 50-100mil after my +4/+6 and a few +2s sold at higher prices that I set.

Sometimes you won’t make much money with some tactics. And sometimes you might even lose a bit and it might take a while to sell (still use that undercutting even with the million gold costs). But those are high value items, and the majority of the time you will make a profit especially since you do the market shapping when those items are already almost at the BOTTOM. Which means that even if they don’t sell until they drop to the bottom, you will not lose much money at all.

ONLY USE THIS TACTIC after familiarizing yourself with the Server Market dynamics for those particular items. Don’t just buy out random categories Those categories might be overpriced or sell especially slowly.

In my experience Melee items sell faster than Ranged and Magic.

Well that’s it for now. These strategies have worked for me, and if you read through, you can see that they are very simplistic. So why isn’t everyone else rich? Many people do not have the patience to follow through. But if you do, you will not lack for money at lower levels again even if you don’t have that much time to spend on the game. Good luck!

Renderer [Macedon]

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Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. Just like in real life, money makes the world go round in Atlantica Market. Here’s a quick guide to easy gold from how to utilize the marketplace, box opening management , and quest rewards that are worth your time and effort. This comprehensive guide is created by Renderer for My Atlantica Online Forums. Read on the “Making A Comfortable Living In Atlantica Online” article after the jump.

This guide is based on the experiences of Renderer and you have to respect whatever suggestion or opinion he has. You have a freedom to follow the step by step guide or create your own trade implementation. The choice is yours! If you find anything offensive or mistake in his guide, you can contact him directly via this link.

Making A Comfortable Living In Atlantica Online

Part One – Levels 1 – 20

Preface

Atlantica Online offers many opportunities to make money, but sadly, more opportunities spend it. This guide will not make you rich, but you’ll easily be able to afford the basics and some of the luxuries. Much of you money making efforts later will be based of skills you develop early on, such as understanding the markets, box opening management, and knowledge of what quest rewards are most worth getting.

1. Levels 1 – 20

At this level, you don’t need money for equipment, but you need to start developing your capital as leverage to increase your earning power. There are two methods that you can use to do so.

Method 1 – Growth Vials

During your first several levels, you’ll notice that you’re picking up an item called Commodity Box [low]

These boxes have useful skill books inside, but much more importantly they also have Growth Vials.

While it may seem random whether you get Skill Books or Growth Vials, it isn’t. If you have your skills maxed out and at least 1 bonus point left on 1 character, you will only get growth vials… So how does that help us? It doesn’t, but when we look in the market we find something interesting:

The quick thinkers among you just rubbed their greedy little hands together and went and bought a bunch of Commodity Boxes, opened them, and dropped the vials on the market for 8999 Gold per vial, but let’s slow down and introduce the other concept before we totally destroy the markets for Growth Vials.

Method 2 – Market Manipulation

Ok, we bought some boxes and let’s say we got 200 of them. Now if we drop them on the market for 8,999 gold each, somebody else will just put theirs on for less. What we want to avoid is having our product sit on the shelves because we are less expensive.

How? Well, we buy anything lower than a set price and add it to our stock. Notice those 299 Growth vials for 9,999? Chances are high that someone bought all the Growth Vials for less than 9,999 gold and relisted them all for 9.999 gold. This way, that person gets the maximum profit from his own growth vials, and a few gold for each vials he bought below that price and resold. But most importantly, he cornered the market and ensured that if people need vials, they buy from him.

Now, I can hear you saying “Then how do I get in on this if that jerk is already working vials?” My answer is this, look for times when the market doesn’t have a glut of Growth Vials to do this, and when it IS over-stocked, look for other items which you can buy low and sell high. I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but what stops most people is figuring out WHAT to buy lo and sell high… It’s basically a process of figuring out what people want.

For instance:

Gilgamesh does not come from a box…

People like to craft thing which offer excellent stats and are rare…

Gilgamesh offers excellent stats for its level and since it doesn’t come in a box… it’s rare!!!

(Don’t buy Gilgamesh, that’s not the point) DO buy things needed to make Gilgamesh that IS the point

Here’s what’s needed to make Gilgamesh armor:

Let’s look at the market and see what we might be able to corner

Hmmm… this looks promising. You can’t see it but the fixed price for Silver ingots is 1,500 gold. So if we buy everything up to 1,499and relist it all for 1,499, we can make a tidy little profit.

That is, if two things are true:

1. Do people buy it regularly?

1. Do we have the gold to maintain dominance in this market?

The first question is answered easily, by watching the market. Do you regularly see fluctuations in quantity and prices? Do you regularly see the items which can be made from it on the market? Is it used to make several items which you think people might want or need?

If so, this is a good candidate for asking the next question. Can I afford to corner this item? To corner the item you don’t just buy up a bunch and then relist it, you have to keep going back and making sure nobody is undercutting your price, and if they are you need to purchase their product to avoid your product just sitting on the shelf. This means that to comfortably corner a market you ought to have at least 4 times the amount of gold you expect the initial purchase to cost you. In this case, the majority of the money will go to one seller, about 4.5 million, and if you estimate what the rest will cost you then you come up with about 5.5 million total initial outlays. So that times 4 comes to just about 20-22 million to comfortably corner this market.

Keep in mind that every dime for this money is at risk, so you should so some things to increase your safety. First, never use more than 50% of your money to manipulate the market, you need liquid funds for items in game. Second, instead of manipulating on high cost product, find several low cost products to work with. Third, research the product thoroughly! Fourth, look for products with a 30% – 50% total profit margin, less than that and you end up inefficient, more than that and you take too much risk, Fifth, look for products with a lot of small quantities going slowly up in price at rates which look like someone chose them, products with weird rates are often sitting on the market for awhile and the game lowers the price automatically.

Final tips:

Growth Vials are constantly being sold, even if a lot of people know the trick I told you, you can still make money and save money on buying them.

Don’t try to corner the market just before the weekend, prices virtually always drop on the weekend.

If you can’t check your product one an hour, you don’t have the time to corner a market effectively.

Work your way up. You won’t handle products which require tens of millions at first, but you can work with products which can make you hundreds of thousands early on.

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Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. Just like in real life, money makes the world go round in

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