Aion Reawakening

Aion was great. PvP waas mostly done through "rifting system" where there was a random rifts spawning from both Elysea and Asmodea to and from. I know Asmodians also had a quest that took them to Elysea from the citadel in Eltnen.

Had quite some fun in that game.

I remember the PVP was pretty cool and it was one of the first games to have "flying" via gliding. It also made my gaming laptop nearly explode every time I played it.

It had some cool PVPVE where two teams zoned into a zone and there was a PVE target and you both went for it for rare spell runes and you could kill each other and stuff. Kind of neat face off type BG.

I briefly had the best ranger gear in the world because the one week lockout dungeon had a like 3% chance to drop any classes armor on boss kills and I happened to get 3 pieces and an extended bow (built in haste) out of sheer luck. Pretty sure they made it less RNG fairly quickly, but in the first few weeks it was pretty fucking bad.

The mass PVP was good but about 0.25% of the player bases computers could handle 150 people flying through the air spamming skills and shit on each other. I'm sure it'd do much better in a modern iteration.

Aion was great for a while, at launch the small scale PvP was excellent, rifting into levelling areas and causing mayhem with my small group. Much like warhammer online once there were a bulk of players at high levels and most pvp was 30+ vs 30+ it turned to shit.

Game came out when I was pretty busy IRL, but I do recall the assassin class being pretty slick to play. I also recall having serious envy of the tank class once they had good gear as they did crazy damage and were unkillable. IIRC the game had some sort of system where a specific player or set of players could be elected or something and get a title and a buff that made them super powered in PVP? I can't recall the details.

I just remember there was BLATANT botting. It was on a different level.

It was a generic MMO. The gliding was cool at the time.

Had some old school slow xp grinding, and multiple mobs could mean a wipe, if I recall correctly. Maybe some of the pantheon crowd would like tbis