AionLife is reporting that the v4.0 update to Aion will include three brand new classes: A gun-wielder (ranger?), a musician (bard?) and another that will be described at a later point.

Read the full report at AionLife.

new classes? cool!....gus/ranger, bard? lame....

what about a shape shifting class? or a engeneer class (mabybe the ranger with guns?).....

hopefully their 3rd choice is incredibly more innovative then those 2. still new stuff is always good, especially for a B2P game.

by the way Marz.at.play i have to agree. Aion is currently the best F2P (or B2P if you will) game right now. kind of weird how the only other competitor for the B2P category will be one other NCsoft game come the end of this month.

i gues GW2 is a lot more Western minded without all the glitzy Asian cuteness.

Originally posted by Jakdstripper

by the way Marz.at.play i have to agree. Aion is currently the best F2P (or B2P if you will) game right now. kind of weird how the only other competitor for the B2P category will be one other NCsoft game come the end of this month.

i gues GW2 is a lot more Western minded without all the glitzy Asian cuteness.

Look at how much Aion made vs GW for NCSoft. There is no competition.

Originally posted by Jakdstripper

new classes? cool!....gus/ranger, bard? lame....

what about a shape shifting class? or a engeneer class (mabybe the ranger with guns?).....

hopefully their 3rd choice is incredibly more innovative then those 2. still new stuff is always good, especially for a B2P game.

it is a gun wielding class.

As far as the bard, that is very intriguing for me as I love the bard in Forsaken World. And also my degree is in music so being able to create spells with music seems neat.

I wish Aion had Tera's combat. Oh well, i"m trying to balance the both so we'll see.

Originally posted by marz.at.play
Exciting news. Aion is the #1 (IMO) F2P game with only fluff items in the cash shop.

Not even close!  Weak game with good graphics, hardly that good a game and new classes won't fix it's problems.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by marz.at.play
Exciting news. Aion is the #1 (IMO) F2P game with only fluff items in the cash shop.

Not even close!  Weak game with good graphics, hardly that good a game and new classes won't fix it's problems.

I would think it more of a good game with weak graphics - I played Aion for ages and always really enjoyed it.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by marz.at.play
Exciting news. Aion is the #1 (IMO) F2P game with only fluff items in the cash shop.

Not even close!  Weak game with good graphics, hardly that good a game and new classes won't fix it's problems.

Pretty sure it is the #1 best Free to play game, feel free to throw out one you think is better Ozmo

AND its shop is entirely cosmetic.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by marz.at.play
Exciting news. Aion is the #1 (IMO) F2P game with only fluff items in the cash shop.

Not even close!  Weak game with good graphics, hardly that good a game and new classes won't fix it's problems.

Name me a better one that wasnt made by the same publisher. I will respond with laughter at your horrible taste.

As for the new classes. Im betting on:

-musketeer/marksman

-melee monk

-well a bard

Originally posted by Sukiyaki

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by marz.at.play
Exciting news. Aion is the #1 (IMO) F2P game with only fluff items in the cash shop.

Not even close!  Weak game with good graphics, hardly that good a game and new classes won't fix it's problems.

Name me a better one that wasnt made by the same publisher. I will respond with laughter at your horrible taste.

 

As for the new classes. Im betting on:

-musketeer/marksman

-melee monk

-well a bard

 

 

Monk seems unlikely, not that I'd mind it. They made an effort to keep the amount of classes per armor type balanced, and I'd bet bard is cloth and gunner is leather. That would leave chain and plate, and neither of those sound monk-ish. Though, they could surprise me and do something completely unexpected with the armor and class playstyle. That could be fun, too.

Originally posted by Sukiyaki

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by marz.at.play
 

Not even close!  Weak game with good graphics, hardly that good a game and new classes won't fix it's problems.

Name me a better one that wasnt made by the same publisher. I will respond with laughter at your horrible taste.

 

 

i see what you did there..... so GW2 doesnt count? lol

Originally posted by SirFubar
LOL @ people saying that the Aion cash shop is only cosmetic stuff. You guys have no idea what you're talking about. Just look at this http://store.aiononline.com/store/index?categoryPath=1_46¤tPage=1 and tell me its only cosmetic stuff. A "title" that gives you 2% additional attack speed, +8 accuracy and +3 evasion for 30 days is not what I call cosmetic.

There's like at least 100 titles you can earn in-game without spending a dime that provide those stats or better.  Most of the earned in-game end game titles are better.  If you actually played the game instead of just cherry picking user posts to shoot down you'd know that.

 You also can't have more than one title equipped at any given time.  It's not like they can stack the CS title with an in-game one.  So if they want to rent a title from the Cash Shop for 30 days rather than just getting it in-game more power to them.  It doesn't give them any advantage at all.

Back OT: 3 new classes is awesome news as I never foresaw the addition of new classes to the game.  Aion is great for a F2P title, restrictive in some ways, but not excessively so.  Sadly PvP will be forever broken simply based on design decisions made during the creation of the game.  This is especially sad since so much of the early marketing focused on PvP and it's hybrid PvPvE in the Abyss and through Rifting.  So it will never be more than a passing diversion for me.