Having trouble soaring through Aion, the new fantasy MMORPG from NCsoft? If you'd like to gain an edge over your adversaries in this online PC game - which pits two groups of winged beings in an epic war against one another - Game Hunters tapped the producers on Aion to reveal 10 helpful tips, regardless of your skill level. Make the most of your time. Buy scrolls for all the major towns and cities. This way you can recall back immediately to turn in quests or meet groups. The cost of these is not so much different than the teleporters so it is well worth the money. Set yourself up for success. Invest in Alchemy at an early stage. You can make health and mana potions at very little cost to you in both kinah and time. Since Aion allows you to take all professions at the beginning, this is a huge help to not only keep you from dying but also to regenerate your HP and MP between fights.

Hunt in groups for fun and gain. Hunting in groups helps leveling go by faster by killing mobs and finishing quests. Make sure to use the LFG chat channel if you feel you're leveling slowly and find someone else who's on the same quests/area you are. Abyss points! If you think you're grinding on mobs and not making any headway, switch it up and go PvP in either the Abyss or the other faction's zone. It's exciting, fast paced, and you earn XP and Abyss points (which you can use to buy things) at the same time. In terms of gameplay, I'd say that nothing has changed from the beta version in the first couple of zones. However, one big difference was the in-game community. I have to assume that it was mostly serious die-hard fans or us jaded journalists who were inhabiting the beta servers, because I can honestly say that I rarely saw a single person speak in the general chat channel during the beta, let alone speak to me or invite me to join a group. Oh how things have changed. I'll use a term most of you will be familiar with; Barrens Chat.